[Garowe] Tunisian authorities have recovered the bodies of 17 migrants colonists after four boats trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea heading for Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... capsized, a court official said on Sunday.
"The makeshift boats were in a bad condition" and had set sail overnight Friday to Saturday from the Mediterranean port city of Sfax, said Mourad Turki, front man for the court there.
The victims included a woman and "at least one baby", he said, adding that he feared the corpse count could rise.
Survivors have said "there were between 30 and 32 people onboard each boat", said Turki.
The majority of those who attempted the latest deadly crossing were sub-Saharan Africans, including citizens of Ivory Coast, Mali, and Somalia, he added.
Tunisia and neighboring Libya are key departure points for migrants colonists seeking to reach European shores, often in vessels that are barely seaworthy.
The Italian island of Lampedusa is only about 130 kilometers (80 miles) from Tunisia's coast.
Libyan authorities on Sunday arrested 542 would-be migrants colonists preparing to depart for Europe in inflatable boats, a security source said.
An AFP photographer said most were originally from Bangladesh.
The International Organization for Migration has said that nearly 2,000 migrants colonists drowned or went missing in the Mediterranean in 2021, compared to 1,401 the previous year.
It is the world's deadliest migration route, but people hoping to build a better life in Europe increasingly risk it.
On Saturday, an overloaded migrant boat capsized off north Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years. It produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. That's three statements. Only the first is subjective.... with a least six people dead, including a little girl.
The boat carried nearly 60 people and Lebanese naval forces were able to rescue 48 of them, the military has said.
Lebanon is in the grips of an unprecedented financial crisis, with the currency losing more than 90 percent of its value and the majority of the population living below the poverty line.
[AlAhram] Fifteen people, including nine soldiers, died Sunday in two separate attacks on military units in northern Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... , the country's army said.
"Terrorist attacks" killed nine people in Gaskinde and six in nearby Pobe Mengao near the Malian border on Sunday morning as assailants targeted military bases and civilians, the army said in a statement.
Five soldiers and four civilians died in Gaskinde, while the Pobe Mengao attack left four soldiers and two civilian auxiliaries dead. Around 30 people were maimed, the statement added.
"The situation in these two areas is now under control," the army said.
Security and local sources had earlier told AFP of around 10 deaths in Gaskinde and significant material damage.
Jihadist groups affiliated with al-Qaeda and the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group have regularly carried out attacks in northern and eastern Burkina Faso since 2015, killing more than 2,000 people and displacing almost two million.
Unrest linked to jihadist groups also plagues Burkina Faso's West African neighbours Mali and Niger.
Also on Sunday, a jihadist group claimed three separate attacks on army bases in central Mali that killed six and injured 20.
The latest attack in Burkina Faso comes after an incident where 12 soldiers and four civilian auxiliaries were killed on April 8.
Anger at the government's perceived mishandling of the insurgency was used by the army as a justification for a military coup that ousted former president Roch Marc Christian Kabore in January.
New leader Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba has said Burkina Faso's security situation is his priority, but attacks in recent weeks have killed more than 100 people.
The new head of state earlier this month announced the creation of local committees made up of religious leaders and traditional chiefs to initiate dialogue with jihadist groups in a bid to stem the violence.
But the state does not negotiate directly with the fighters and continues its military operations against them.
[Rudaw] Several rockets on Sunday targeted military base housing Ottoman Turkish troops in northern Iraq amid The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... ’s ongoing offensive against a Kurdish gang stationed in the Kurdistan Region’s mountains.
Around five rockets hit Zilkan base at around 7:50 pm, Mohammed Amin Gharib, the mayor of Zilkan told Rudaw.
The Kurdistan Region’s counter terrorism directorate confirmed the attack, saying at least six rockets targeted the base with "three of the rockets landing nearby the base."
An anonymous source from within the base initially told Rudaw that at least six rockets had targeted the facility.
No casualties have been reported.
Home to Ottoman Turkish personnel in Zilkan, the base is located 10 kilometers away from the town of Bashiqa in Nineveh province.
The base has been a target of at least four rocket attacks since the start of the year.
Turkey-Iraq relations were strained in the wake of the deployment of some 150 Ottoman Turkish soldiers to Iraq in December 2015. Ottoman Turkish troops were deployed to the area on the pretext of training Iraqi and Kurdish forces in their fight against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS).
The troops are still present in the area despite calls from Iraqi officials for them to leave.
The recent offense coincides with Ankara’s fresh military operation targeting suspected Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) bases in northern Duhok province.
[IsraelTimes] Cousin of Ra’ad Hazem, the terrorist who carried out a deadly shooting attack in Tel Aviv earlier this month, among those reportedly nabbed by Israeli security forces
Israeli forces arrested 12 people across the West Bank over the weekend in connection with a spate of deadly attacks inside Israel, the military announced on Sunday.
Israel’s army and the Shin Bet domestic security agency said they had conducted "joint counterterrorism activities" in several West Bank locations, including the flashpoint districts of Hebron and Jenin.
"The forces apprehended a total of 12 individuals suspected of involvement in terror activities over the weekend," they said.
Paleostinian media reports claimed that the cousin of the terrorist who carried out the deadly shooting attack in Tel Aviv earlier this month was among those arrested.
He was arrested in a raid carried out in a village on the outskirts of Jenin in the northern West Bank, the reports said, identifying the man as Ahmad A-Sa’ad, a cousin of Ra’ad Hazem, who killed three people when he opened fire on a busy Tel Aviv bar on April 7.
There was no immediate confirmation from the IDF, which has made several attempts to arrest Hazem’s family members, including opening fire on a car in which his brothers were traveling.
Tensions have risen sharply between Israel and the Paleostinians in recent weeks against the backdrop of repeated terror attacks in Israeli cities that left 14 dead. Some have been carried out by assailants linked to or inspired by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group.
Over the same period, 24 Paleostinians have been killed across the West Bank, many of whom were carrying out or attempting to carry out attacks, as Israel has stepped up operations in response to the terror incidents.
Tensions have further spiraled in recent days following violent mostly peacefulfestivities between Paleostinian rioters and police on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, leading to the injury of dozens of Paleostinians and several coppers.
There has also been rocket fire from the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip, including two rockets fired Friday.
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Okay, there's still time to salvage this from becoming some kind of blue state catch-and-release snafu. Maybe they can all try to escape and get shot? Maybe some Arab isis faction tries to rescue them by blowing up the holding cell, and ends up bringing it down on them? Hell, how 'bout the transport van is attacked with RPG? Thank Yawheh the driver and guards got away just in time but the paleos didn't make it. Start an investigation into how a-rab vermin got such weapons. And conclude it with some bureaucratic chazerei.
[IsraelTimes] Khalil Abd al-Khaliq Dweikat, from the village of Rujeeb in the northern West Bank, was convicted of stabbing Ohayon to death on a Petah Tikva street
The Lod District Court on Sunday sentenced a Paleostinian man to life in prison for the murder of Rabbi Shai Ohayon in the central city of Petah Tikva in 2020.
Khalil Abd al-Khaliq Dweikat, from the village of Rujeeb in the northern West Bank, was convicted last year of murder under aggravated circumstances and of "unlawful possession of a knife in the circumstances of an act of terrorism" for stabbing Ohayon on a street in the city.
The court on Sunday also ordered him to pay NIS 258,000 ($79,000) in compensation to the family.
The indictment against Dweikat said he worked at a construction site in the city and had a valid permit to be in Israel.
"The defendant considered and arrived at a decision to kill a Jewish Israeli citizen or soldier with a knife... for Paleostine, the Paleostinian people, al-Aqsa Mosque and Allah," prosecutors wrote.
Court papers showed that Dweikat confessed the crime to Sherlocks. Throughout his investigation the defendant did not "show any empathy, remorse, or regret for the victim or his family," prosecutors noted.
Ohayon, a 39-year-old father of four, was a member of Petah Tikva’s ultra-Orthodox community and studied full time at a religious institution known as a kollel in the nearby town of Kfar Saba, according to ultra-Orthodox news outlets.
Taking a knife from the kitchen at the building site on August 26, Dweikat went looking for a victim. After an hour, at around 1:15 p.m., he saw Ohayon, whom he identified by his appearance as an ultra-Orthodox Jew.
"The defendant pulled out the knife from his pocket and stabbed the dear departed with three deep cuts," prosecutors wrote.
Ohayon called out for help and a passerby, noticing what was happening, threw an object at Dweikat in an effort to help the defendant.
"Only then did the defendant leave the dear departed, who was already at death's door, put the blood-covered knife in his pants pocket, and start to walk away," according to the indictment.
According to Sherlocks, at that point, Dweikat considered finding other people to stab, but was arrested shortly afterward.
Camera footage from the scene showed Dweikat calmly crossing an intersection alongside civilians shortly before police closed in on him.
Dweikat, a father of six, had no history of terrorist activities, the Shin Bet said shortly after the attack.
[IsraelTimes] Military says rocket landed in open area near Kibbutz Matsuba, close to border, without causing damage or injuries; no warning sirens sounded and army says alert levels ’normal’
The Israel Defense Forces said early Monday that its forces attacked targets in Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...In 2006 unknown persons blew up Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the car he was traveling in, the road he was traveling on, and a few innocent bystanders of no account whatsoever. The person or persons unknow weren't Hezbollah, you can bet on that. Really. Even though there was an international tribunal that said it was them... after a rocket was fired into Israel earlier in the night.
"IDF artillery is now attacking targets in Lebanon and firing at the launch area in retaliation for the rocket fired into Israeli territory," the IDF said in a statement.
Earlier, a rocket was fired into Israel from Lebanon landing in an open area near Kibbutz Matsuba, close to the border, without causing damage or injuries.
Hezbollah-linked media in Lebanon also reported that a rocket had been fired toward Israel.
No rocket warning sirens sounded in Israel as the rocket landed in an open area, and the military said that alert levels in the area remain "normal."
"We reacted in a quick, deadly and effective way," said Captain Yotam Zeituni, the commander of the artillery battery that responded to the rocket fire.
The United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... peacekeeping force along the border, UNIFIL, urged restraint.
"A rocket was launched from Lebanon toward Israel early this morning. Israel Defense Forces are returning fire with dozens of shells. UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander @aroldo_lazaro urges calm and restraint in this volatile and ongoing situation," UNIFIL tweeted.
There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage in Lebanon and no claims of responsibility.
There have been several instances of rocket fire from Lebanon into Israel in recent years with most blamed on Paleostinian factions in the country, not the Hezbollah terror group.
However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... it is unlikely that bandidosLions of Islam in southern Lebanon would be able to fire rockets without at least the tacit approval of the Iran-backed militia, which maintains a tight degree of control over southern Lebanon.
A Katyusha rocket was fired Sunday night towards northern Israel from the southern Lebanese area of Ras al-Ain south of the city of Tyre, Lebanese media reports said.
[Rudaw] Internal security forces (Asayish) raided the infamous al-Hol camp in northeast Syria (Rojava) and searched the area for weapons, a conflict monitor reported on Sunday amid a surge of crimes in the camp.
With the recent increase of liquidations in the squalid camp and a destabilizing security situation, security forces on Saturday scouted "all sectors" of the camp in Syria's Hasaka province in an attempt to seize weapons, the UK-based Syrian Observatory of Human Rights (SOHR) said.
The success of the raids is currently unclear, as the outcome has yet to be reported.
Iraqis and Syrians make up the majority of the camp's residents, where ISIS sleeper cells remain active. Multiple deaths have been reported at the camp over the past months.
SOHR reported that a displaced Syrian woman was rubbed out by ISIS cells in the camp on Thursday. Two days prior, unidentified bodies of two women were found in one of the camp's sectors, and a day before the discovery of the bodies, an Iraqi refugee was rubbed out in the camp.
The body of another Iraqi man killed by a silenced weapon was found by security forces in the camp earlier in the month.
The UK repatriated two orphans from the camp on April 5, with Russia taking back over 10 ISIS-affiliated children shortly after.
Around 450 Iraqi families returned to Iraq from the camp, an official told Rudaw earlier in April, despite the country being one of the world's top executioners.
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Energy Minister Walid Fayyad was physically assaulted by activists outside a restaurant on Sunday night.An online video shows an activist saying "this is a message from all the Lebanese people" before violent mostly peacefully pushing Fayyad to a wall. You need to "wake up," he tells the minister.
Another man is meanwhile seen telling Fayyad that his mother "has no electricity" and that "a massacre happened in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... " whereas he was "having a drink."
A female activist meanwhile tells the minister that she was interrogated at a State Security center along with other female activists due to his "corruption."
This is not the first time Fayyad has been intercepted by activists at a restaurant since he was appointed as minister. He is often seen at public places without bodyguards.
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