[NYPOST] Little Jocelyn Nungaray had been sexually assaulted before she was allegedly killed by two illegal immigrants, who dumped her body into a Houston bayou, according to a report Monday.
Jocelyn, 12, was assaulted for two hours before she was strangled to death. She was found naked from the waist down with her hands bound behind her back on on June 17.
The Houston Forensic Science Center confirmed that Jocelyn was sexually assaulted during the attack, KTRK reported on Monday.
They were waiting for that result before adding it as a final charge against recently arrived illegals Franklin Jose Pena Ramos, 26, and Johan Jose Rangel Martinez, 21.
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Odd note in another article on this. It said until the rape charge, the death penalty was off the table "because of the victim's age".??? It seems to me her age should have required capital punishment.
Anyone know the particulars?
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I believe the law sez ten years and younger. I think I read that it's being adjusted now.
My opinion? Scrap the age part entirely. I have a daughter, pushing fifty. I love her just as much as Jocelyn's parents loved her. I also have granddaughters, one of them hers. I have three great granddaughters. Having this happen to any of them, oldest to youngest, would take a beast, not a man. Just give them a quick trial to establish the facts, let them take a last bath, and toss a toaster in with them.
Speedy trial, as is anyone's right. Then they can be beyond all cares and woe, shoveling coal in hell.
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Taking stuff to Goodwill for the boss. I though I saw a toaster. Who can I FedEx it to Fred ?
[CHANNELSTV] The Borno State Government has expressed shock over the multiple bombings in the Gwoza area of the state which led to several deaths and injuries.
"It is not an intelligence failure. It is an error that we did not see coming," the Borno State Commissioner for Information and Internal Security Usman Tar said on Monday’s edition of Channels Television’s breakfast show Sunrise Daily, days after the multiple explosions.
Scores of persons died in the string of bombings one of which happened during a wedding celebration in the North-Eastern state. Several others were also maimed in the Saturday attacks, emergency authorities said.
According to the commissioner, the attackers may have exploited the state’s mostly non-existent borders to carry out the bombings.
"If forces of Evil want to attack and they use a particular route that you don’t know, what can you do? As you know our boundaries are porous that is internationally. Even our local boundaries are porous," Usman said.
"If forces of Evil want to attack, they do it using the frontlines. That was what probably happened."
’BLACK SATURDAY’
But a community leader in Borno Ayuba Bassa has faulted the government and security authorities for not doing much to tackle insurgency. He said there were signs of such attacks coming but nothing was done to avert it.
He now wants the authorities to depart from rhetorics and said about 30 women to carry out the multiple bombings.
"We cannot trust the Army, we cannot trust the civilian JTF or anybody who stands in the name of politics that is willing to fight for these people anymore.
"It was really a black Saturday. It has affected Gwoza to the blood. What happened was the infiltration of trained women including a teenager as jacket wallahs. They were able to come and carry out the mission. We have learned that they were above 30 who were trained to do that but a few of them succeeded," Bassa who is the National Coordinator of the Gwoza Christian Community Association said.
"If the IDP camps are not dismissed, they will continue to be breeding grounds for moreBoko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... [terrorists]."
[CHANNELSTV] Seventy Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... /ISWAP gunnies have been killed by troops on the Multinational Joint Taskforce in the ongoing Operation Lake Sanity 2 in the Lake Chad Basin.
According to a statement by the chief spokesperson of the MNJTF, Lt. Col. Abubakar Abdullahi, the aerial operations also successfully obliterated terrorist camps situated on islets across the Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... ian and Nigerian territories of Lake Chad.
The statement added that the operation also resulted in the destruction of 8 vehicle-borne Improvised Explosive Devices (VBIEDs) in Arinna ciki and 2 ammunition bunkers northeast of Malam Fatori.
It read, "The Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) announces the significant achievements of Operation Lake Sanity 2 in combating terrorism within the Lake Chad Basin.
"Recent aerial operations have successfully obliterated terrorist camps situated on islets across the Cameroonian and Nigerian territories of Lake Chad, killing many gunnies and causing others to flee into Chad. The operation also resulted in the destruction of 8 vehicle-borne Improvised Explosive Devices (VBIEDs) in Arinna ciki and 2 ammunition bunkers northeast of Malam Fatori.
"In a swift and decisive response, the Chadian Rapid Intervention Force, delivered a devastating blow to the retreating terrorists. This action neutralized 70 gunnies and dismantled 5 camps, highlighting the efficacy of MNJTF’s operational strategies and the robust collaboration with the Chadian Armed Forces.
"The MNJTF extends its appreciation to the Chadian Armed Forces for their invaluable cooperation and support in the fight against terrorism. We also acknowledge the vital contributions from other troop-contributing countries, including Operation Emergence 4 Cameroon, Operation Hadin Kai Nigeria, and Sector 4 Niger, which were instrumental in the success of Operation Lake Sanity 2.
"The MNJTF remains committed to its mandate of eradicating terrorism and restoring peace to the Lake Chad Basin. We will continue to work tirelessly with our partners to achieve and sustain this critical goal."
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[Regnum] Houthis from the rebel movement Ansar Allah in Yemen attacked four ships that they believe are linked to the United States, Britain and Israel, the movement's military spokesman Yahya Saria told TV.
The container ship MSC Unific, the liquid chemical tankers Delonix and Lucky Sailor, and the support vessel Anvil Point were attacked at sea.
The ships were attacked with cruise missiles. At the time of the attack, the container ship MSC Unific was in the Arabian Sea, the tanker Delonix was in the Red Sea, the tanker Lucky Sailor was in the Mediterranean Sea, and the ship Anvil Point was in the Indian Ocean.
Saria added that Delonix was hit for the second time in the past week.
As reported by Regnum news agency, on June 28, the Houthis also attacked four commercial vessels in the Red and Mediterranean Seas.
On June 26, Yahya Saria said that the Houthis had attacked the Israeli ship MSC SARAH V in the Arabian Sea with a hypersonic missile for the first time.
The following day, the Houthis attacked the Israeli city of Haifa and the Seajoy ship in the Red Sea using drones, missiles and an unmanned boat.
[IsraelTimes] In cosmopolitan Rotterdam, Jews say they feel unsafe on campus, where they endure explicit calls for their people’s ethnic cleansing alongside intimidation and antisemitic violence
An anti-Israel protester approached this news hound while narrowly avoiding the guidelines of the 20-odd tents that dotted Erasmus University campus’s main square. Wearing a keffiyeh over her face, she asked about the purpose of my visit. About 30 of her comrades watched while eating dinner: a rice and lentil dish served from a large pot atop a portable gas stove.
"It’s a Zionist," she called out, upon learning the name of this publication, prompting the group to cover their faces with their keffiyehs and surgical masks. They encircled, screaming, "Intifada!" as they placed a Paleostinian flag over the camera to prevent any filming of the events taking place at one of Europe’s most prestigious institutions of higher learning. The protesters had a tray with red paint at the ready, which they use during blockages. Only those students or faculty who agree to dip a palm in the paint to show solidarity with Paleostinians are let through to various campus facilities.
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Y'don't suppose that sort of nonsense might be why they won?
[NYPOST] The streets of Gay Paree became a war zone overnight Sunday as tens of thousands of left-wing rioters erupted into the streets in fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... opposition to the historic election victory by the country’s right-wing National Rally (NR).
Rioters smashed storefront windows, vandalized monuments and set massive bonfires in public squares after the election results revealed the party, headed by nationalist Marine Le Pen, took 33% of the vote in the decisive first round of La Belle France’s legislative elections.
Stunning video spread widely online showed mass groups of demonstrators clashing with cops, launching fireworks that at times bathed city streets in an eerie blood-red glow. Could have been a PRIDE parade.
Plumes of tear gas smoke wafted throughout the crowds as they battled it out in the streets with riot-gear clad coppers, the wild melee punctuated by the sounds of coughing and shattering glass.
A united bloc of left-leaning parties called the New Popular Front coalition nabbed 28% of the vote for a second-place finish, while incumbent President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist party scraped together just 20% of the vote.
The dead-last finish marked a stinging defeat for Macron, who called for the snap runoff election the day after his party was defeated by NR in June’s parliamentary elections as a Hail Mary attempt to thwart the NR’s continued rise.
But the ascent of right-of-center party in a free and fair election proved too much for many Gay Paree youths to bear, who directed their anger toward vandalizing their own city’s landmarks and businesses.
Much like the US, La Belle France has been beset by an overwhelming influx of migrants colonists in recent years. Le Pen’s promise to crack down on illegal immigration as a major campaign platform has clearly resonated with a wide swath of the nation’s electorate.
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[NEWARAB] Turkish police detained at least 15 protesters in Istanbul on Sunday for participating at a banned LGBT Pride rally, after searching the streets having arrived at the scene after participants had dispersed, according to witnesses.
Police declined to comment.
The Istanbul Governor's Office said earlier on Sunday that the Pride March would not be permitted.
Turkish police blocked central Istanbul to prevent the march from taking place, shutting down metro stations and blocking traffic on the main streets.
President Tayyip Erdogan's Islamic-rooted AK Party has toughened its rhetoric against the LGBT community over the past decade and banned pride marches since 2015, citing "security reasons".
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A lesbian couple was beaten by group of men who they accuse of first making rude comments about their sexuality while they were out celebrating their birthdays.
Terrifying scenes captured on video show the couple surrounded by nearly a dozen men, with one woman lying on the floor while another appears to be held back by one of the alleged attackers.
The assault came after one of the men allegedly made a rude comment about Emma MacLean as she was walking in downtown Halifax, Canada, with her girlfriend Tori Hogan after visiting a few bars to celebrate Emma's birthday on June 22.
McClean described the men as 'Middle Eastern', and said they are 'believed to be from Syria'.
Refugeesmigrants colonists.
Tori, upset about the slur, stood up for Emma and said: 'Hey, watch your mouth, that's my girlfriend,' as she followed the men to confront them, Saltwire reports.
But then the group of about 10 men allegedly started beating Tori around 1.30am.
'All at once they all just swarmed her and started punching and kicking her in the ribs. Then I kind of got into my fight or flight,' Emma told Saltwire.
She explained that she tried to protect Tori, saying she 'basically jumped on one of their backs and put them in a chokehold - trying to restrain them.'
But video shows some of the men in the group kicking at one of the women, who was lying on the ground - while the other struggled to break free from another man's clutches.
Eventually, a bystander alerted police patrolling the area nearby - but by the time the officers arrived, the fight had already ended, according to Emma.
Officers then spoke with one of the men involved in the alleged assault, who reportedly blamed the fight on the two women.
While he gave his ID, the other men involved refused to cooperate with police and identify themselves, according to Emma.
Police told CTV News they are still investigating the incident, and no charges have been brought against the assailants, who Emma and Tori believe to be between the ages of 18 and 24.
Emma said police told her they are hoping to get CCTV footage of the incident, but she said the existing videos taken by witnesses already show the men 'beating up two girls'.
Both Emma and Tori are rugby players and Emma grew up learning mixed martial arts in her father's gym.
Despite her training, Emma said she surprised herself by not throwing a single punch and instead opting to try and restrain one of the attackers.
'I put them in a choke hold,' she said, remembering that both her and the man fell to the ground before she let go after 'being manhandled'.
[NEWARAB] A United Nations agency said it has discovered five bombs in a wall of Mosul's iconic Al-Nuri mosque, planted years ago by Islamic State group jihadists, during restoration work in the northern Iraqi city.
Five "large-scale explosive devices, designed to trigger a massive destruction of the site," were found in the southern wall of the prayer hall on Tuesday by the UNESCO team working at the site, a representative for the agency told AFP late Friday.
Mosul's Al-Nuri mosque and the adjacent leaning minaret nicknamed Al-Hadba or the "hunchback", which dates from the 12th century, were destroyed during the battle to retake the city from IS.
Iraq's army accused IS, which occupied Mosul for three years, of planting explosives at the site and blowing it up.
UNESCO, the UN cultural agency, has been working to restore the mosque and other architectural heritage sites in the city, much of it reduced to rubble in the battle to retake it in 2017.
"The Iraqi armed forces immediately secured the area and the situation is now fully under control," UNESCO added.
One bomb was removed, but four other 1.5-kilogram (3.3-pound) devices "remain connected to each other" and are expected to be cleared in the coming days, it said.
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[Jpost] The Commando Division brigade teams, Brigade 401, and the Yahalom Unit, under the command of Division 162, raided a Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) outpost and an underground production site in the Tel-Sultan neighborhood of Rafah, directed by the Intelligence Directorate, the IDF announced Monday evening.
The IDF teams located the largest underground site in the Gaza Strip for the production of rocket parts and long-range rockets by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
During the raid, Commando fighters and the Yahalom Unit fought both above and below ground simultaneously, eliminating terrorists using drones and precision missiles.
Hundreds of rockets have been produced at the site
The destruction of the outpost and the underground lathes (a machine tool) has impaired the terrorist organization's ability to produce rockets designated for attacking Israel.
[IsraelTimes] Two Palestinians killed during attempt to extract troops from refugee camp near Tulkarem, including woman reportedly hit by shrapnel when gunmen set off unexploded missile
An Israeli soldier was killed and another was seriously maimed by a roadside kaboom during a counterterrorism raid in the West Bank on Monday morning, the military said.
The slain soldier was named by the Israel Defense Forces as Sgt. First Class (res.) Yehuda Geto, 22, from Pardes Hanna-Karkur. Two Paleostinians were also killed during attempts to evacuate the two from the Nur Shams refugee camp near Tulkarem.
The two soldiers were inside a Panther armored personnel carrier when the bomb went kaboom!. Geto was the driver, and the seriously maimed soldier is a commander in the Duvdevan commando unit.
According to an initial IDF probe, the vehicle was waiting in an area of Nur Shams where bombs were not believed by the army to have been planted. Other Duvdevan troops had disembarked from the APC to carry out operations on foot.
Armed groups in the West Bank frequently plant improvised bombs under roads to attack Israeli forces carrying out arrest raids. The military regularly rips up roads with armored bulldozers as a precautionary measure before entering with lighter-armed vehicles.
In this case, the army did not rip up the road where the APC was waiting.
The bomb was believed by the IDF to have been improvised, using dozens of kilograms of kaboom. The APC was disabled by the large blast, and later towed out of Nur Shams.
The Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... terror group grabbed credit for the attack.
While trying to extract the two soldiers, the IDF attempted to carry out a dronezap against a group of button men in the area, though the missile did not explode, the probe found.
Later, several button men attempted to tamper with the missile, setting it off. The explosion killed a Paleostinian woman who was standing nearby, according to the military probe.
Separately, Duvdevan troops rubbed out a Paleostinian gunman who tried to open fire on the forces, the IDF said.
The Paleostinian Authority health ministry confirmed that a woman and a teenager had been killed. Wafa, the official Paleostinian news agency, named the slain Paleostinians as Nisreen Khaled Damiri, 47, and Muhammad Ali Sarhan, 15.
Wafa reported that the woman was hit by shrapnel from the drone missile, and the teenager was shot in the head.
The incident came days after a similar attack in the Jenin area, in which a soldier was killed and 16 others were hurt when Islamic Jihad operatives detonated bombs against army vehicles during a raid.
Since October 7, troops have arrested some 4,200 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 1,750 affiliated with Hamas ..always the voice of sweet reason... According to the Paleostinian Authority health ministry, more than 540 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed in that time. The IDF says the vast majority of them were button men killed during raids or Death Eaters carrying out attacks.
During the same period, 21 Israelis, including security personnel, have been killed in Paleostinian terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank. Another five members of the security forces were killed in festivities with terror operatives in the West Bank, including in Monday’s incident.
[NEWARAB] Israel released the director of 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 Hamas with 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... 's main hospital on Monday, seven months after the military raided the facility over allegations it was being used as a Hamas ..always the voice of sweet reason... command centre. When has a Paleostinian ever lied to us?
The release of Mohammed Abu Selmia without charge or trial raised further questions about Israel's allegations regarding al-Shifa Hospital, which its forces have raided on two occasions since the start of its nearly nine-month war on Gaza.
Abu Selmia said he and other prisoners had been tortured and held under harsh conditions, allegations that could not be independently confirmed but matched other accounts of Paleostinian detainees who have been released back into Gaza.
"Our detainees have been subjected to all kinds of torture behind bars," he said. "There was almost daily torture. Cells are broken into, and prisoners are beaten." He said guards broke his finger and caused his head to bleed during beatings, in which they used batons and dogs. "They turned me into a newt!"
"I got better"
He said the medical staff at different facilities where he was held had also taken part in the abuse "in violation of all laws." He said some detainees had limbs amputated because of poor medical care.
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So in other words, he alleges that he was treated like the Israeli hostages.
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[NEWARAB] For the fifth day in a row, the Israeli army continues its extensive military operation in the Shujaiya neighbourhood east of Gaza City, with Palestinian fighters putting up a stiff resistance. "It was terrible! We're all dead now! The rigor mortis is so painful!"
Black smoke billows into the sky of the neighbourhood as a result of indiscriminate Israeli attacks on hundreds of remaining Palestinian homes in Shujaiya, according to locals in the territory.
Speaking to The New Arab, residents in the area spoke of how the Israeli army "insists on destroying" what remains of their neighbourhood, is not achieving its so-called goal (of destroying Hamas), and rather is seeking "to end what remains of life in the area and to prevent Palestinians from returning and living there." "My hovel and connected tunnel were destroyed!"
On 27 June 2024, the Israeli army launched a surprise ground military attack on Shujaiya despite Israeli forces withdrawing from northern Gaza in January after having claimed to have "dismantled" Hamas's command structure.
The new operation is the third since the beginning Israel's war on the besieged coastal enclave. The Israel army claims it is eliminating tunnels "that were missed during the first time through". It also admitted that Hamas is regrouping.
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[NEWARAB] The Israeli army has detained at least two pregnant women in Damoun prison since 7 October — according to The Paleostinian Commission for the Affairs of Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners. So the headline sez Israel is rounding up pregnant Paleostinian females and tossing them into the slammer. The very first paragraph sez there are two entire pregnant women since October 7th, which by my count is ten months, or a month longer than term. Two entire pregnant women in ten months doesn't suggest much of a pattern to me, though admittedly I only got a B in my last statistics course, which was in 1985.
Writing on Telegram, the group stated that the two women, Jihad Nakhlah and Aysha Ghidan, are among seven detainees currently under investigation by Israeli forces.
Overall, there are currently 78 female detainees held in Damoun prison, including three from the Gazoo
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The group also revealed that the women are subject to abuses including starvation and isolation. Yeah, enforced late term diet and neonatal care is hell.
"They have been completely isolated from the outside world, and deprived of their simplest rights such as clothes Nobody likes hospital gowns and medical care in spite of the seriousness of health conditions for those who have chronic diseases," The Paleostinian Commission for the Affairs of Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners said in its statement.
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Like the hospital director who claims he was tortured, they are claiming that they were treated like the Israeli hostages.
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[IsraelTimes] Signaling fresh offensive, army publishes list of areas in southern Gaza city whose residents should leave for their safety; troops find, destroy major Islamic Jihad rocket factory
The Israeli military on Monday called on Paleostinians in eastern neighborhoods of Khan Younis to evacuate the area and head toward the designated "humanitarian zone," likely preceding a renewed ground offensive in the southern 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 Hamas with 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... city.
The Israel Defense Forces pulled out of Khan Younis in April after operating there for four months, similar to its withdrawal from the northern Gaza Strip earlier in the campaign against Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... . The IDF has since returned to those areas to carry out smaller, localized operations, and looks set to repeat this in the southern city.
Col. Avichay Adraee, the IDF’s Arabic-language front man, published a list of the zones that need to be evacuated alongside the announcement, including the Khan Younis suburbs of al-Qarara and Bani Suheila, the Abasan neighborhoods, the town of Khuza’a, and several other areas.
The move came after the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... terror group fired a barrage of at least 20 rockets from the Khan Younis area at Israeli border communities, in the largest volley in at least seven months.
"Fear and extreme anxiety have gripped people after the evacuation order," said Bani Suhaila resident Ahmad Najjar. "There is a large displacement of residents."
UN Secretary-General António Guterres ...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years... ’s front man said "it just shows yet again, that no place is safe in Gaza, more efforts need to be made to protect civilians."
Further south in the city of Rafah, Islamic Jihad’s largest rocket manufacturing site found to date was located and demolished, the military said.
The IDF said troops of the Commando Brigade, 401st Armored Brigade, and elite Yahalom combat engineering unit raided an Islamic Jihad compound and underground site in Rafah’s northwestern Tel Sultan neighborhood, where they found a subterranean facility used by the Hamas ally to manufacture rocket parts and long-range rockets. According to the IDF, the facility was used to build hundreds of projectiles in recent years. During the raid on the site, the IDF said the commandos and elite combat engineers battled button men above and below ground, killing several operatives using drones and guided missiles.
In central Gaza, the military said troops recently located and destroyed a kilometer-long tunnel in the Netzarim Corridor area where the IDF controls an East-West strip that divides the territory in two. The IDF said the tunnel — located by troops serving under the 99th Division — included several branching paths that were used by terror operatives to move around the area. The tunnel was blown up by troops of the elite Yahalom combat engineering unit.
Also in the Netzarim Corridor, the 99th Division’s forces — the Alexandroni Reserve Infantry Brigade and 8th Reserve Armored Brigade — killed dozens of button men and destroyed more than 100 sites belonging to terror groups in the past two months — since being deployed there — according to the military. The IDF said the sites included weapon depots, observation posts, rocket launching sites and tunnels.
The army also said a recent Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... was carried out against a mosque that was used by button men as a staging ground, and that it identified secondary blasts following the attack, indicating the site was used to store weapons.
The Netzarim Corridor, built around a road south of Gaza City, enables the IDF to carry out raids in northern and central Gaza while allowing Israel to control access to the north for Paleostinians seeking to return after fleeing south. It also enables Israel to coordinate deliveries of humanitarian aid directly to northern Gaza.
’A YES, BUT’
As mediators attempt to jumpstart talks for a hostage deal, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken ...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm... said Monday that Hamas’s June response to the latest Israeli ceasefire proposal can "most charitably be described as ’a yes, but,’" with the terror group "trying to impose new conditions, moving the line, actually coming back on positions that it had already agreed to and trying to get more."
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meanwhile asserted Monday that Israel was "progressing toward the end of the phase of eliminating Hamas’s terror army."
"There will be a continuation in order to strike the remnants," Netanyahu told students from the National Defense College, pledging that Israel will achieve all its war aims.
The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says close to 38,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far, though the toll cannot be verified and does not differentiate between civilians and fighters. Israel says it has killed some 15,000 combatants in battle and some 1,000 murderous Moslems inside Israel during the October 7 attack.
Despite all the reports about IDF kill counts, the official number hasn’t changed in ages, in contrast to Hamas’s ever-increasing official toll of imaginary deaths.
319 troops have been killed during the ground offensive against Hamas and amid operations along the Gaza border. The toll includes a police officer killed in a hostage rescue mission. A civilian Defense Ministry contractor has also been killed in the Strip.
It is believed that 116 hostages kidnapped by Hamas on October 7 remain in Gaza — not all of them alive — after 105 civilians were released from Hamas captivity during a weeklong truce in late November, and four hostages were released prior to that. Seven hostages have been rescued by troops alive, and the bodies of 19 hostages have also been recovered, including three mistakenly killed by the military.
The IDF has confirmed the deaths of 42 of those still held by Hamas, citing new intelligence and findings obtained by troops operating in Gaza.
One more person is listed as missing since October 7, and their fate is still unknown.
Hamas is also holding two Israeli civilians who entered the Strip in 2014 and 2015, as well as the bodies of two IDF soldiers who were killed in 2014.
[IsraelTimes] Projectile hits home in largely evacuated border town
Several rockets fired from Leb ...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... landed in Israel on Monday, setting off sirens in the north of the country and causing damage, but no injuries.
Amid the continued Hezbollah attacks that have pushed the two countries to the brink of war, the Israel Defense Forces carried out numerous strikes in Lebanon, with the Iran-backed terror group later announcing the death of one of its members.
Former war cabinet member Benny Gantz meanwhile warned European ambassadors that if the government in Beirut doesn’t restrain Hezbollah, all of Lebanon would soon pay.
Since October 8, Hezbollah-led forces have attacked Israeli communities and military posts along the border on a near-daily basis, with the group saying it is doing so to support 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 Hamas with 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... during the Israel-Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... war there.
After several hours of calm Monday morning, aside from a false alarm overnight, a number of rockets hit Israel in the afternoon. One struck the northern border town of Metula, the military said.
There were no reports of injuries, with Metula having largely been evacuated. According to Hebrew media reports, the rocket hit an unoccupied home, with no sirens activated to warn of the attack.
Rocket sirens were also heard in the town of Kiryat Shmona and at least seven rockets hit areas in the north during the afternoon. Five rockets were fired at the northern community of Maayan Baruch, setting off sirens. The IDF said the rockets struck open areas, causing no injuries.
Earlier, one rocket was fired at Dovev, setting off a siren there and another was fired at Ramot Naftali, setting off sirens. According to the IDF, both rockets struck open areas, causing no injuries.
The IDF announced a series of strikes in southern Lebanon throughout the day, including on buildings in Aitaroun and Ayta ash-Shab where Hezbollah operatives were gathered. Fighter jets also bombed additional buildings the army said was used by the terror group and other Hezbollah infrastructure in Markaba, Houla and Kafr Kila.
In the morning, the IDF said it carried out an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... against a group of Hezbollah operatives spotted entering a building used by the terror group in southern Lebanon’s Blida.
The Hezbollah members were identified by artillery forces of the 91st "Galilee" Regional Division, and a short while later, a fighter jet struck the building, the IDF said.
In missions overnight, the IDF said it struck other Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon. The targets included buildings used by the terror group in Kafr Kila and other infrastructure in Houla, Biyyada, and Rab al-Thalathine, according to the military.
In a statement Monday evening, Hezbollah declared the death of a member killed "on the road to Jerusalem," its term for operatives killed in Israeli strikes. He was named as Hamza Shour, from the coastal city of Tyre.
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...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm...
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
