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I might be in the minority, but when you see what she looks like in that pic, then what she looked like before she became famous, you just have to be sad.
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[JustTheNews] Thirty-three members of violent gangs were arrested as part of a multi-agency operation targeting transnational and organized crime in the border town of Uvalde, Texas, and surrounding area in Uvalde County.
“Gang violence has no place here in Texas, we will bring the full force of justice down on these famous criminals,” Gov. Greg Abbott said when directing Texas Department of Public Safety to surge resources there to root out organized crime in September 2022.
Nearly two years ago, a multi-agency operation began, made possible through additional state funding and criminal investigative oversight from DPS targeting an extensive organized crime network operating at the Texas-Mexico border. The investigation focused on the selling and distribution of narcotics, weapons, extortion, aggravated assaults and organized criminal activity of multiple gangs associated with transnational criminal organizations, including Mexican cartels.
DPS deployed special agents to target gang activity in the Uvalde area with a priority of focusing on Tango affiliated gangs and the Latin King gang, which are classified by DPS as Tier 1 and Tier 2 gangs, respectively.
After an extensive investigation, 33 gang members were arrested, including from the Latin Kings, West Texas Tango, Tango Blast, Tango Orejon, Tango Aguilon, Texas Syndicate, Paisa, Texas Mexican Mafia, Maniac Latin Disciples, and San Antonio Walked Down Gang, according to a statement from the Uvalde County Sheriff’s Office. So this could be just the 'hook', 'runner' and 'bank' teams from 10 different blocks. No remarks about quantities seized or big names, or date of arrests.
The 38th Judicial District handed down 68 state indictments related to narcotics trafficking and engaging in organized criminal activity. The U.S. Western District, Del Rio Division, handed 17 federal indictments related to racketeering and conspiracy.
Texas DPS criminal investigators have identified gang activity “as a growing and serious problem in Uvalde and the surrounding area.”
Joining them in the investigation were investigators with the Uvalde County Sheriff's Office, Uvalde Police Department, and U.S. Department of Homeland Security Investigations. The 38th District Attorney’s Border Prosecution Unit and the U.S. Attorney’s office are prosecuting the case.
The investigation targeted the Uvalde area nearly 10 years after a joint operation in 2015 vanquished major gang operations there resulting in the Latin Kings being disbanded, the sheriff’s office said. Since that time, gang activity increased with the “most recent gang activity involve[ing] some of the children of those former incarcerated gang members.”
The investigation was a collaborative effort “to identify and combat violent crime from the southern border of the United States,” the sheriff said.
“We will not tolerate this criminal activity in our community,” District Attorney Christina Mitchell said. “We will uncover anyone who participates, collaborates or permits this cancer in our town.”
She also said she anticipated more indictments and arrests coming from the investigation.
The indictments and arrests were issued after 33 Latin King members and associates were convicted in October 2020 on federal racketeering charges.
Formally known as the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation, the Latin King gang has tens of thousands of members operating in chapters in different states, law enforcement officials have explained to The Center Square. In 2020, 33 members of the Austin, San Antonio and Uvalde chapters of the Latin King’s Central Region of Texas, were sentenced to between 45 and 288 months in federal prison. They were convicted for their role in operating a criminal enterprise in Central Texas for ten years beginning in 2005, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Western District of Texas.
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Has anybody tried shooting them from drones? Some tailor made recognition software, a semi automatic with a vertical shot, could spook them less than a chopper… could work.
[SUDANTRIBUNE] The Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... ese Health Ministry reported on Friday that seven people were killed and 25 others maimed in artillery shelling by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on several areas in north and west Omdurman.
The ministry said the RSF targeted areas in the Karari locality from their positions in Khartoum Bahri and southwest Omdurman, extending the bombardment to include the northern countryside of Omdurman and the city's northwestern areas.
A statement from the ministry confirmed that the shelling hit civilian-populated areas in Karari and other parts of Omdurman. The attack included the Bir Hammad market west of Umm Badda locality, the only market in the area and often crowded with civilians. The shelling also impacted the Bant market in Omdurman, the Chinese hospital, and the al-Thawra suburb.
''The shelling resulted in the deaths of seven civilians, including three women and a child, and injured 25 others, most of them with limb amputations,'' the statement said. It detailed that al-Naw Hospital received 17 casualties from Bir Hammad, three from al-Huda Prison Housing, two unidentified individuals, and one each from neighbourhoods 14 and 31 in al-Thawra.
The Military Medical Corps Hospital also reported receiving 10 casualties, including three fatalities.
Earlier on Friday, the Sudanese army conducted a concentrated artillery bombardment from its positions north of Omdurman, targeting RSF gatherings in Khartoum, Khartoum Bahri, and west and south Omdurman, where RSF forces remain stationed in the Umm Badda locality and the Salha suburb.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS] The city of Aden experienced violent mostly peaceful explosions on Friday evening, causing massive fires and widespread panic among residents, local sources reported.
According to local sources, the first explosion occurred at a gas filling station in the Hashid neighborhood on 90th Street in the Mansoura district.
This was followed by a more powerful explosion of a nearby gas tanker, resulting in a large fireball.
The initial explosion has resulted in the deaths of five people and injuries to 13 others. Several vehicles were burned at the site.
The sources explained that the delay of fire trucks to control the fire helped in the expansion of the fire, which threatens to explode the main tank of the station and cause a disaster for the residents.
[HODHODYEMENNEWS] Gunmen of the UAE-funded ''Al-Amaliqa'' factions kidnapped on Saturday one of the most prominent religious sheikhs in the Bayhan district of Shabwah province, which is under the control of the factions.
The sources added that the faction leaders accused Sheikh Jabr of teaching people magic in order to enchant one of the Salafist sheikhs loyal to them called ''Waddah al-Mathah.
Local sources in the district said, ''Armed men on board six military vehicles belonging to the al-Amaliqa factions stormed the house of Sheikh Abdulqadir Ateq Jabr and kidnapped him from his family after surrounding his house.'' Sheikh Khabar was threatened with death and forced to write his last will to his sons, with weapons over his head.
The sources added that the faction leaders accused Sheikh Jabr of teaching people magic in order to enchant one of the Salafist sheikhs loyal to them called ''Waddah al-Mathah.''
Some local notables in Bayhan intervened and pressed on the al-Amaliqa leaders to release Sheikh Jabr, according to the sources.
[GEOTV] The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) group has received a report of a missile strike near a vessel off the coast of Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... ''A vessel reports two missiles exploding in close proximity to the vessel,'' the group said in a social media post, stating that the incident took place off the coast east of Aden. ''The Master reports all crew are safe and proceeding to next port of call.''
The incident takes place as Yemen's Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... rebel group continues to enforce what it says is a blockade against ships associated with Israel en route to Israeli ports.
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[KavkazUzel] In Adygea, a man has been detained whom security forces suspect of participating in a terrorist organization and recruiting residents of Maikop.
Security forces have detained a Russian citizen suspected of recruiting members for a terrorist organization, the FSB reported on its website today.
"The detainee, being a follower of the ideology of an international terrorist organization banned in Russia, established contact with its foreign emissaries and swore allegiance to the leader of the ITO. On their instructions, he persuaded residents of the city of Maikop in the Republic of Adygea to commit attacks on employees of law enforcement agencies of the Russian Federation and then travel to ITO camps in the territory of one of the Central Asian countries," the investigation's version is cited in the department's publication.
The detainee was found to have correspondence with members of a terrorist organization and a "video recording of his oath of allegiance to the terrorist organization." "The Investigative Department of the UFSB of Russia for the Republic of Adygea has opened a criminal case under Part 2 of Article 205.5 "Organization of the activities of a terrorist organization and participation in such an organization" of the Criminal Code of Russia," the report says.
Part 2 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation provides for 10 to 20 years of imprisonment.
The video of the man's detention and interrogation was published today by Kommersant. The footage shows that the man was detained in an apartment building. The detainee's face is retouched in the video. Answering questions from one of the security officers, the man said that he planned to go to Turkey "with an Afghan" to meet with a representative of a terrorist organization.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] German authorities have issued an urgent warning as parcels rigged with alleged incendiary devices' which exploded into flames while being shipped around Europe sparked sabotage plot fears.
The parcels were sent from European locations to other locations on the continent via freight service providers and caught fire on the way, German news agency dpa reports, citing a message sent to airlines and logistics companies.
The security notice was reportedly issued by the domestic intelligence service BfV and federal crime agency BKA to aviation and logistics companies.
A connection with Russian sabotage has not been not ruled out in security circles, with sources saying the warning is linked to an incident at the DHL logistics centre in Leipzig, in the German state of Saxony, outlet Der Spiegel reports.
In the Leipzig centre, which serves as DHL's global depot, a package containing an incendiary device caught fire in July.
It was sent from the Baltic states and set fire to an entire freight container.
Expelled Vanderbilt anti-Israel protester who previously met with Kamala Harris now faces possible yearlong jail sentence
[CampusReform] An anti-Israel protester at Vanderbilt University faces almost a year in jail after he participated in a sit-in demonstration in the chancellor's office. Jack Petocz, who was expelled from Vanderbilt University, faces charges relating to an alleged assault against Chief of Staff Dawn Turton and security guard Tony Brown during a March 26 sit-in protest of Chancellor Daniel Diermeier’s office to WPLN.
In February, Within Our Lifetime, the prominent hardline anti-Israel group, announced that it was banned from Instagram. A spokesperson for Meta told the New York Jewish Week at the time that the group’s accounts had been removed because they violated the platform’s community guidelines, including its “Dangerous Organizations & Individuals policy.”
This week, the NYU administration similarly issued new hate speech guidelines saying that the use of “Zionists” is banned if employed to target Jews or Israelis.
Colleges, caught flat-footed by a groundswell of protests last year that frequently created a hostile climate for Jewish students, are trying to get ahead of the problem this fall. Meanwhile, various Jewish groups, including those with a focus on college students, are announcing initiatives of their own after venting their frustrations with what they say is inadequate action by the colleges.
Facing lawsuits, Congressional hearings, donor pressure, Title VI complaints and the occasional high-profile resignation of a campus president, many schools are still improvising what exactly protecting Jewish students will look like this year. Universities have issued revised policies around the acceptable time, place and manner of student protests.
Some, such as Indiana University and the University of Denver, have banned all tents, late-night rallies and writing on campus walls. George Washington University preemptively suspended student groups, including the anti-Zionist Jewish Voice for Peace, before classes began. Others, such as the small liberal arts school Ohio Wesleyan University, are trying the approach that gained renown for Dartmouth College last year by launching new civic dialogue initiatives.
Yet the campus protest movement, like the Israel-Hamas war itself, is still casting a long shadow. New-student orientations at other schools this summer, including the University of New Mexico and the University of Michigan, have also been disrupted by anti-Israel activists. Young Democratic Socialists of America, which has chapters on more than 100 campuses, is encouraging a “national student strike for Palestine.”
And this week the American Association of University Professors, a major national faculty organization, changed its longstanding policy discouraging boycotts to say they can now be “legitimate tactical responses” — clearing the way for faculty to argue in favor of boycotting Israeli universities, a longtime rallying cry of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. Pro-Palestinian faculty encouraged or even participated in many of the most disruptive student protests last year.
Jewish groups are taking more aggressive action for students, without waiting for the schools to improve their policies. The Community Security Service, saying it had heard from Jewish students who “fear for their life,” recently announced new self-defense training for students.
Hillel International and the Secure Community Network, which organizes security for Jewish spaces, are partnering on “Operation SecureOurCampuses,” their own training initiative for Jewish students and staff. The new venture includes what the groups describe as “full-time intelligence analysts to monitor campus security incidents and provide real-time support.” Some individual Hillels are also taking their own steps: Penn State University’s is reinstating a full-time Israel educator to its staff.
The school’s club fair was disrupted almost immediately by a sit-in of a few dozen anti-Israel demonstrators chanting “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” — a slogan that implies the state of Israel must be eliminated. The anti-Israel protestors, who did not have a permit to demonstrate, passed out fliers listing their demands that the school divest from “Israeli apartheid and genocide,” establish a “People’s Audit,” boycott Israeli academic institutions, and abolish campus policing.
A group of pro-Israel counter-protesters also quickly gathered, holding American and Israeli flags.
Last spring, anti-Israel activists at U-Michigan running under the banner of the “Shut It Down” party won control of the student government. Since then, they’ve withheld funding from clubs on campus, demanding that the University divest from companies that support Israel.
In a March press release, university regents made clear they won’t buckle under political pressure to divest.
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I think Ululating Platypus comments to another article are relevant
#2 Has anybody tried shooting them from drones? Some tailor made recognition software, a semi automatic with a vertical shot, could spook them less than a chopper… could work.
[NYPost] Two Jewish students were attacked on the University of Pittsburgh campus late Friday by a man wearing a Paleostinian scarf and wielding a bottle.
Campus police arrested Jarrett Buba, 52, in the assault, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette reported. University officials said he had no known affiliation with the school.
Buba, who lives in the Oakland neighborhood where the school is located and was wearing a keffiyeh, the checkered scarf associated with Paleostinians, had been sitting at a table across a main street from where the students were walking on the final day of the first week of classes.
The students, who were both wearing yarmulkes, told cops they made eye contact with Buba but kept walking.
He then ran across the street and attacked them from behind about 6 p.m., the criminal complaint said, according to the Post Gazette.
They fought back, bringing Buba to the ground while they waited for campus cops to arrive.
Surveillance footage backs up the students’ account, the report said. The students, who were not named, were maimed in the "appalling" attack, which occurred near the university’s famed Cathedral of Learning, according to a university statement released Friday.
The police report said one of the students had cuts on his face and the other was bleeding from cuts on his neck, the Post Gazette said. One was taken to a local hospital and later released.
"While there is not believed to be any ongoing threat to the public stemming from this incident, we recognize that incidents like these are unsettling to our Pitt community," the statement read.
The area where the attack took place was the scene of pro-Paleostinian protests during spring semester calling for the university to divest from Israel in response to the war in 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... Buba was hit with two counts of aggravated assault, resisting arrest and harassment, among other charges, the Post Gazette reported. Agents from the FBI’s Pittsburgh field office are looking at the attack as a possible hate crime
Pitt leaders reached out to the Hillel University Center and Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh in the wake of the attack, which took place less than two miles from the Tree of Life Synagogue, where in 2018, mass shooter Robert Bowers killed 11 in the deadliest antisemitic attack in US history.
Counseling services were made available to the university community, and officials said there was no threat to the public.
"To be clear: Neither acts of violence nor antisemitism will be tolerated," the statement read. "Local and federal partners are supporting Pitt Police in this ongoing investigation."
One of the students tackled Buba and detained him until officers arrived, the complaint said.
Buba was wearing a red sweatshirt and a keffiyeh, a garment commonly associated with support for Palestine, the complaint said.
Officers arrested Buba after a brief struggle, the complaint said. Police said Buba also gave authorities a series of false names before properly identifying himself.
Buba was charged with two felony counts of aggravated assault, two misdemeanor accounts of simple assault and reckless endangerment, TribLive reported. He also faces charges of resisting arrest and two summary charges of harassment.
The FBI’s Pittsburgh office also is investigating the possibility charging Buba with a hate crime. He was denied bail and is being held in the Allegheny County Jail.
[NYPOST] An upstate imam urged student activists to ''take out'' an outspoken, pro-Israel Columbia University professor who's returning to the embattled Ivy this fall after a year of antisemitic hate.
Vassar-educated, Utica-based imam Tom Facchine made the plea about business school professor Shai Davidai during an Aug. 20 webinar called ''Islamic Political Activism'' with various Columbia student groups which promoted and broadcast it.
''That Shai Davidai guy: How do we get him in trouble? How do we create a situation in which he's in jeopardy?'' Facchine, 35, asked. ''If you're able to take out somebody like that and make an example, that might shut up a hundred more.''
The Jersey-born Facchine left Christianity to become atheist, found Marx in college and converted to Islam in 2010.
Davidai alerted Columbia honchos about the imam's screed and the university launched a probe using outside security experts who concluded that the rhetoric ''did not create conditions that require enhanced security measures,'' according to an email from VP of public safety Gerald Lewis to Davidai and shared with The Post.
[NYPOST] At least 17 Texas National Guard members have died securing the US southern border — with one drowning in the Rio Grande while trying to save migrants colonists.
The corpse count was revealed during an Aug. 20 meeting of Texas' state House Committee on Defense and Veterans' Affairs.
Shelia Bailey Taylor, the Texas Military Department director of state administration, was discussing a new state law that provides $500,000 to families of fallen service members deployed under Gov. Greg Abbott ... governor of Texas. Abbott is a Republican. His 2014 Dem opponent, state senatrix Wendy Davis, thought the absolute, most pressing, most important issue facing the state was abortion. Abbott beat the pantyhose off her. His 2018 opponent, Lupe Valdez didn't dwell too heavily on abortion, but she lost too... 's Operation Lone Star border mission.
The legislation was inspired by the death of Guardsman Bishop Evans, who drowned in April 2022 after jumping into the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass and saving a pair of migrants colonists who were trying to enter the country illegally.
Many of the deaths of other Guard members' assigned to the border were not directly related to the migrant mission.
[GEOTV] The former senator and member of Jamaat-e-Islami, Mushtaq Ahmed Khan has been taken into custody by police from D Chowk in Islamabad during a solidarity march taken out for Gaza.
The police have also arrested other protesters from the march, saying that the former senator has been taken into custody for violating Article 144.
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[GEOTV] A lieutenant colonel and his three relatives, who were reportedly abducted earlier this week, have been ''secured due to role played by tribal elders and local notables,'' the military's media wing said on Saturday night.
According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), Lt Colonel Khalid Ameer and three of his relatives have been secured ''unconditionally'' and returned home safely.
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[IsraelTimes] Sport’s global governing body says it has received legal assessment from independent third party but does not share details; meeting to be held on matter in October.
Hoping that the war will end before they have to make a decision that will either be unsportsmanlike or popular?
[Townhall] According to U.S. Central Command officials, the United States and Iraqi forces conducted a joint raid that killed at least 15 people and left seven American troops injured. It is unclear if the mission resulted in civilian casualties. US troops injured or maybe dead, according to the first paragraph at the link, which was attributed to Journalistic Confusion. The officials said that ISIS militants had "numerous weapons, grenades, and explosive ’suicide’ belts."
"This operation targeted ISIS leaders to disrupt and degrade ISIS’ ability to plan, organize, and conduct attacks against Iraqi civilians, as well as U.S. citizens, allies, and partners throughout the region and beyond," Central Command continued. "Iraqi Security Forces continue to further exploit the locations raided."
The Iraqi military also released a statement, saying "airstrikes targeted the hideouts, followed by an airborne operation. Among the dead were key ISIS leaders. All hideouts, weapons, and logistical support were destroyed, explosive belts were safely detonated, and important documents, identification papers, and communication devices were seized."
Iraq did not initially acknowledge that the U.S. took part in the raid, and it took nearly two days for the U.S. to announce its involvement. The raid comes as the U.S. debates whether to have American troops on the ground in the country. Currently, there are 2,500 U.S. troops in Iraq and 900 in Syria.
The threat of ISIS attacks has increased over the last three years. Last month, ISIS-affiliated actors threatened to attack a Taylor Swift concert in Austria, and this month, a terrorist-affiliated actor went on a stabbing spree in Germany. The U.S. military revealed that the number of attacks claimed by ISIS in Syria and Iraq was on track to double this year. New math estimate.
[BBC] Israel says its forces have recovered the bodies of six hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
In a statement, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said the bodies were located on Saturday in an underground tunnel in the Rafah area of southern Gaza.
The IDF named the hostages as Carmel Gat, Eden Yerushalmi, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Alexander Lobanov, Almog Sarusi and Master Sgt Ori Danino.
Spokesman Rear Adm Daniel Hagari said an initial assessment was they were "brutally murdered by Hamas terrorists shortly before we reached them".
A senior Hamas official, Izzat al-Rishq, insisted Israel was responsible for their deaths, as it has refused to sign a ceasefire deal.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would not rest until those responsible for their killing are brought to justice.
In a statement, he also said his government was committed to achieving a deal to release those remaining in captivity and protects the country's security.
"Whoever murders hostages - does not want a deal," he added.
A group representing the families of those held hostage in Gaza has demanded that Mr Netanyahu "address the nation and take responsibility for abandoning the hostages".
The Hostages Families Forum said that all six held captive were "murdered in the last few days, after surviving almost 11 months of abuse, torture, and starvation in Hamas captivity".
[IsraelTimes] Medo Halimy’s friends say he found salve in channeling his grief and anxiety into deadpan humor as he filmed his ‘Tent Life’ series, showing life in a humanitarian safe zone
Bad luck.
It was another day of war in 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... , another day of what 19-year-old Paleostinian TikTok star Medo Halimy called his "Tent Life."
As he often did in videos documenting life’s mundane absurdities in the enclave, Halimy on Monday walked to his local internet cafe — rather, a tent with Wi-Fi where displaced Paleostinians can connect to the outside world — to meet his friend and collaborator Talal Murad.
They snapped a selfie — "Finally Reunited" Halimy captioned it on Instagram — and started catching up.
Then came a flash of light, 18-year-old Murad said, a kaboom of white heat and sprayed earth. Murad felt pain in his neck. Halimy was bleeding from his head. A car on the coastal road in front of them was engulfed in flames, the apparent center of the earth-shattering kaboom Paleostinians said was caused by an Israeli strike. It took 10 minutes for an ambulance to arrive. Hours later doctors pronounced Halimy dead.
"He represented a message," Murad said on Friday, still recovering from his shrapnel wounds and reeling from the apparent Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... that killed his friend. "He represented hope and strength."
The Israeli military said it was not aware of the alleged strike that killed Halimy.
Lede buried. Headline should read: Really Nice Guy Killed By Hamas Rocket That Missed Israel, Learns Whether Paradise Is Also For Accidental Martyrs.
Tributes to Halimy kept pouring in Friday from friends as far afield as Harker Heights, Texas, where he spent a year in 2021 as part of an exchange program sponsored by the State Department.
"Medo was the life of the hangout... humor and kindness and wit, all things that can never be forgotten," said Heba al-Saidi, alumni coordinator for the Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study program. "He was bound for greatness, but he was taken too soon."
His death also catalyzed an outpouring of grief on social media, where his followers expressed shock and sadness as if they, too, had lost a close friend.
More about what sounds likes a charming blog at the link.
[IRNA] Paleostinian resistance fighters based in the occupied West Bank are using rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) for the first time during their battles with Israeli occupation forces.
Paleostinian news agencies, citing Israeli media, reported on Saturday that these weapons are being used by resistance fighters in Jenin, a city in the northern West Bank that has been the scene of fierce festivities in recent days.
Jenin has been a flashpoint area for months now. However,
alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... tensions have been escalating since Wednesday (August 28) when Israeli forces launched a large-scale military operation that has also targeted other parts of the West Bank, including the city of Nablus.
Nearly two dozen Paleostinians have been killed since then, most of them in Jenin.
Israeli media have described the ongoing operation in the West Bank as the biggest by the regime in the occupied Paleostinian territories over the past 22 years.
In the meantime, the Central Command of the Israel Occupation Forces, which is responsible for the units and brigades located in the West Bank, al-Quds, the Sharon, Gush Dan and the Shephelah, has warned that the situation in the West Bank is about to explode.
The Central Command has also warned that the expansion of the conflict in the West Bank would impose extra burden on Israeli forces.
The warning comes as the Israeli regime is continuing its war in the besieged 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... Strip where nearly 40,700 Paleostinians have been killed since the start of the war in early October 2023.
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[NY Post] Several bodies that could be those of kidnapped Israeli hostages were found in underground areas in Gaza, according to reports.
"At this stage, the forces are still operating in the area and carrying out a process to extract and identify the bodies, which will last several hours," the military said in a statement obtained by the Times of Israel.
Although the IDF shared few details about the recovery, it told the Jerusalem Post that the bodies could not have been killed by any recent fight with Hamas in the area because the military did not use force nearby.
Also, the exact number of remains was not disclosed.
The Jerusalem Post also said that the identity of the bodies could not be confirmed until the remains were returned to Israel.
Hamas released 105 civilians during a weeklong truce in late November, and four hostages were released before that.
Eight hostages have been rescued by troops alive, and the bodies of 37 hostages have also been recovered, including three mistakenly killed by the military as they tried to escape their captors.
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.
“According to an initial assessment… they were brutally murdered by Hamas terrorists a short while before we reached them. They were abducted alive on the morning of October 7 by the Hamas terror group. Their bodies were found during the fighting in Rafah, in a tunnel, about a kilometer away from the tunnel from which we rescued Farhan al-Qadi a few days ago,” he says in a press conference.
“Since Farhan was found, troops were given an emphasis on operating carefully even more than usual, because of the understanding that additional hostages may be in the area. We did not have information on the exact location of the hostages,” Hagari says.
He also says troops battled Hamas terror operatives above ground in the area where the tunnel was located.
Harris extends her condolences to Goldberg-Polin’s parents Jon and Rachel, and declares, “I have no higher priority than the safety of American citizens, wherever they are in the world. President Biden and I will never waver in our commitment to free the Americans and all those held hostage in Gaza.”
“Hamas is an evil terrorist organization. With these murders, Hamas has even more American blood on its hands. I strongly condemn Hamas’ continued brutality, and so must the entire world. From its massacre of 1,200 people to sexual violence, taking of hostages, and these murders, Hamas’ depravity is evident and horrifying,” she says.
38min ago IDF announces bodies of 6 hostages murdered by Hamas found in Rafah tunnel
Overnight, the IDF recovered the bodies of six Israeli hostages from a Hamas tunnel in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, who according to the military were murdered by their captors not long before they were found.
The hostages are Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, Eden Yerushalmi, 24, Ori Danino, 25, Alex Lubnov, 32, Carmel Gat, 40, and Almog Sarusi, 25.
According to the IDF, the six were murdered by Hamas a short while, possibly around a day or two, before troops found them.
The IDF did not have the exact location of the hostages but had indications of a general area where the six could be held. The military says it operated carefully in the area, due to the possibility that hostages were being held there.
Troops began to search a tunnel complex yesterday until they found the hostages dead in the afternoon. Overnight their bodies were extracted from Gaza and brought to Israel for identification.
The IDF says there were no clashes with Hamas terrorists inside the tunnel, and the guards who likely murdered the six fled the area.
The tunnel in which the slain hostages were found, in Rafah, is about a kilometer away from where soldiers found hostage Farhan al-Qadi earlier this week.
Goldberg-Polin, Yerushalmi, Danino, Lubnov, and Sarusi were abducted from the Nova music festival near Kibbutz Re’im by Hamas terrorists on October 7, while Gat was taken from Kibbutz Be’eri.
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Here is the "President" working "tirelessly" like the absentee landlord/grifter-in-chief he actually is! His 3-week VACA is a demonstration of how phony his administration has actually been, and Kamala is utterly complicit in it.
Responding to this story from yesterday, the NGO is still trying to pretend to hold the moral high ground.
[GEOTV] An Israeli air strike on an aid convoy carrying food and fuel to a Gaza hospital killed four Palestinians on Thursday, US-based aid group said as Israel claimed they were "armed assailants," which the group American Near East Refugee Aid (Anera) denied.
The four Palestinians were in the lead vehicle of an Anera aid convoy bound for the Emirati Red Crescent Hospital in Rafah in southern Gaza, the aid group said in a statement on Friday.
Soon after the convoy left the Israel-controlled Kerem Shalom crossing into Gaza, four Palestinians from the community "took control of the leading vehicle, citing concern that the route was unsafe and at risk of being looted," Anera said.
"Israeli authorities allege that the lead car was carrying numerous weapons. Every initial report from those at the scene indicate that no weapons were present," the organisation said.
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Soon after the convoy left the Israel-controlled Kerem Shalom crossing into Gaza, four Palestinians from the community "took control of the leading vehicle
[GEOTV] The death toll from a three-day Israeli raid on the occupied West Bank rose to 20 on Friday, Israel and the Palestinian health ministry said, while violence raged on in the Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian fighter group Hamas issued a statement hailing a "heroic operation" in the south of the West Bank, saying it came at "a sensitive time" with Israeli forces pressing on with raids in the north of the territory.
An Israeli soldier was killed and three others were maimed during fierce festivities with Hamas ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... button men in the West Bank city of Jenin on Saturday morning, the Israel Defense Forces said.
The IDF has been carrying out a major raid in the northern West Bank since early Wednesday. The action was now largely focusing on the Jenin area, after raids in Tulkarem and the Far’a camp near Tubas concluded.
The slain soldier was named as Staff Sgt. Elkana Navon, 20, a squad commander in the Bislamach Brigade’s 906th Battalion, from Petah Tikva.
According to an initial IDF probe, troops carrying out a raid in Jenin encountered two button men, considered to be prominent members of the Hamas terror group. The soldiers exchange fire with the two terror operatives from close range, killing both of them.
Four soldiers were hit by the button men, including Navon who later died. One of the maimed troops, an officer, was listed at death's door.
During the raid on the Jenin refugee camp on Saturday, the IDF said troops neutralized dozens of bombs that were planted along the roads.
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi held an assessment in Jenin on Saturday amid the operation. He was joined by the head of the Central Command, Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth, the commander of the West Bank division, Brig. Gen. Yaki Dolf, and the commander of the Menashe Regional Brigade, Col. Ayub Kayuf.
"We are dismantling the terrorism that comes from the refugee camps in Judea and Samaria," Halevi was quoted by the IDF as saying.
"We are cut off from the world," Taher al-Saadi, a Jenin resident, told AFP.
"The water is cut off. The electricity is cut off, the sewage system is no longer working. All the infrastructure is destroyed, we no longer have any services that work.
"The bakeries are at a standstill. We can’t find milk for the children." "Our ammo is running low" he wailed
"I think it’s the worst day since the start of the raid," Wisam Bakr, director of Jenin Government Hospital, told AFP of the IDF’s operations on Saturday. "We hear from time to time festivities and sometimes there is big bombing."
"It’s very hard, for the children and for everyone. We are afraid, we are terrified, look at all the damage," Jenin resident Faiza Abu Jaafar told AFP as she stood amid piles of rubble. "We are living in dark days."
Jenin Governor Kamal Abu al-Rub told AFP that he does not know exactly what is happening inside the camp, where the latest fighting appeared to be concentrated.
"The Israelis are besieging the hospitals and cutting off the city from the refugee camp, which has become a military zone with no access," he alleged.
"Neither the civil defense, nor the ambulances, nor the journalists can go and see what is happening there."
Israel has long said the camp is a hotbed of terror activity, and has moved in to make arrests and dismantle terror infrastructure from time to time.
The IDF has denied cutting off access to hospitals, saying it has positioned its forces to prevent turbans from gathering in them while allowing ambulances to come and go.
So far amid the major operation launched earlier this week, the IDF says troops have killed at least 26 button men and detained another 30 wanted Paleostinians. The terror groups Hamas and 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... have claimed 13 of those killed as their members, according to AFP.
The situation in the West Bank was further escalated late Friday night when two boom-mobiles went kaboom! in the Gush Etzion area south of Jerusalem. Three Israelis were hurt.
The IDF said it killed two turbans in the attacks. Hamas and PIJ praised the attacks but did not claim direct responsibility for them. Police said the bombings appeared to have been coordinated. Two Paleostinian turbans — Muhammad Marqa and Zahdi Afifa, from Hebron — were killed at the scene of the earth-shattering kaboom by Israeli forces, and six other Paleostinians were detained on suspicion of assisting them.
Since October 7, troops have arrested some 5,000 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 2,000 affiliated with Hamas.
According to the Paleostinian Authority health ministry, more than 670 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed in that time. The IDF says the vast majority of them were button men killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops or turbans carrying out attacks.
During the same period, 27 people, including Israeli security personnel, have been killed in terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank. Another Six members of the security forces were killed in festivities with terror operatives in the West Bank — including in Saturday’s incident.
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[GEOTV] Israeli strikes on Saturday killed at least 48 people in 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 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... Strip, Paleostinian health authorities said, as festivities took place in central and southern areas of the enclave ahead of the planned start of a polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain... vaccination campaign.
The United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... is due to start vaccinating some 640,000 children in the territory against polio, relying on daily eight-hour pauses in fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... in specific areas of the besieged enclave.
Yusef Abu al-Reesh, Gaza's deputy minister of health, said vaccination teams would try to get to as many areas as possible to ensure wide coverage but he said only a comprehensive ceasefire could guarantee enough children are reached.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[BBC] Israel says its forces have recovered the bodies of six hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
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