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When Bessie descends once again --
Central Park or in Beverly Glen --
Her still seems eternal,
And spring ever-vernal...
"Hey, you! Mountain dew? Where've you been?"
[a Burger: "Whew! Ten out of ten."]
- $24,400,000,000 to Ukraine.
- $11,300,000,000 to Israel.
- $1,950,000,000 to Ethiopia.
- $1,600,000,000 to Jordan.
- $1,400,000,000 to Egypt.
- $1,100,000,000 to Afghanistan.
- $1,100,000,000 to Somalia.
- $1,000,000,000 to Yemen.
- $987,000,000 to Congo.
- $896,000,000 to Syria.
- $9,000 per illegal immigrant that has entered the U.S.
And Americans who have lost everything to Hurricane Helene will be getting $750, courtesy of FEMA
and
$16,000,000,000 to Iran
p.s. IMO, you should subtract the prices your gov offered for the heads of all the Hezbollah & IRGC operatives that Israel killed in the last 11 months from the sum for Israel.
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A budget is just a list of priorities. I appreciate knowing where I stand.
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Rex Mundi, a federal budget is more than a list of priorities. Under the Federal Acquisition Regulations and the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations, agency budgets as passed by Congress control how/where $$$ can be spent, although the non-DOD agencies have a lot more flexibility than DOD re: that.
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#5
I had the displeasure of sitting through TV commercials when a Harris ad came on.
Some old black dude walking around saying the lines, with the hook, "I'm voting for Harris, because I'm not rich as hell."
Well, dude - here's your fucking money and where it went.
And Harris estimated ie disclosed net worth is some $8million and $6million retirement. I'm feeling fucking rich as hell if I can have decent groceries after bills are paid, so don't yell at me bro I'm just trying to watch a game.
#6
And when we needed help, the internet flooding with government shills, "drrrr drrrr you don't like federal government so you shouldn't get anything drrr drrr."
Know what motherfuckers. We were forced to pay for something, or else, and whatever its time to perform that end of the promise. Do that well, and humbly, maybe people go "You know maybe there is a place for a coordinated federal emergency response."
And what have all these people who have paid into the federal government or else getting? Ridicule, penny pinching, and inefficiency.
But Elenskyyy, he and Boeing getting theirs, bet you taxpayer bought those paint pens for $100 each so they could be taken home as souvenirs. Suck your dirty drinking water.
Lo, ye Bishop of Nottingham spake,
"Sho', 'tis just from the rich shall I take,
Yo, and do only good,
So forsake Robin Hood!"
...
"One ten-thousandth of venison steak?"
"Don't be gauche. Mo' brioche oaten cake?"
And the raucous counterpoint of unipartying persons played on.
#9
You know why this is. Your country is run by corporations now
That money goes to those countries in “aid” that must be spent on weapons and products produced by certain corporations
That money goes to lockheed martin, northrop grumman, general dynamics, boeing and a zillion military contractors idk the names of
If you want your taxes spent on Hurricane Helene victims who lost everything (and some their lives) then you know what you are going to have to do
Break up the corporations
It is the only way
Only when they are made into hundreds of smaller businesses with no more than 5000 employees and a limited product line, then they won’t be large and centralised enough to run your country as they see fit.
You are going to have to break all the largest corporations into smaller businesses. Dow, Visa, McKinsey, Bain, Pfizer, Meta, Amazon, all of them
[Daily Mail where America gets its news] Terrified tourists were forced indoors at their luxury five-star resort in Cancun after assassins stormed the nearby sunlit sand to execute a hit.
The victim, identified only as a 30-year-old Mexican national, was gunned down by four armed men who fired multiple fatal shots on Wednesday morning outside Hotel Riu.
The group then fled the scene, with two leaving on awaiting jet skis and two running away on foot.
Guests ran for cover as the men carried out the targeted attack before attempting to evade police, Turquesa News reported.
The outlet reported the victim was allegedly in charge of the jet skis the suspects used to flee.
Footage from the aftermath shows concerned guests wandering around the $1000-a-night lobby awaiting instruction from officials.
Others were seen on camera inside the resort in panic, with some calling loved ones, screaming and rushing to get inside with their beach gear.
Law enforcement are exploring the possibility that this homicide could be related to drug trafficking and cartel-related crimes.
Hotel Riu released a statement that the dead man was not a guest or employee at their hotel, Riviera Maya News reported.
Increased levels of cartel-related violence have resulted in territorial disputes and targeted killings, injuring or killing innocent bystanders.'
Police have not identified the deceased man, but paramedics confirmed he was dead at the scene.
One of the four gunmen took off after shots were fired and ran through the beach area of the hotel's neighboring Dreams Hotel.
Witnesses said the suspect was wearing dark Bermuda shorts and a black shirt.
The US State Department lists Mexico at a tier two advisory level - meaning tourists should exercise increased caution when travelling.
'While Mexican authorities endeavor to safeguard the country’s major resort areas and tourist destinations, those areas have not been immune to the types of violence and crime experienced elsewhere in Mexico.
'In some areas of Mexico, response time of local police is often slow. In addition, filing police reports can be time consuming.
Increased levels of cartel-related violence have resulted in territorial disputes and targeted killings, injuring or killing innocent bystanders.'
This shooting happened two months after a 12-year-old boy was shot and killed after gunmen riding jet skis opened fire on a rival drug dealers on a beach in Cancún, Mexico.
[GEO.TV] Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday lauded eminent scholar Dr Zakir Naik’s exceptional efforts in spreading the true teachings of the Holy Quran and Hadith, besides promoting Islamic values worldwide.
The prime minister warmly welcomed Dr Naik, expressing his admiration for his scholarly work.
He said the entire Ummah was proud of him for projecting the real image of Islam across the world. It was heartening to note that a vast majority of youth listened to his lectures.
PM Shehbaz said that he had personally benefited from the eminent scholar's lectures, enriching himself with the valuable teachings of Islam.
He said that the people of Pakistan fully admired Dr Naik's great personality and were happy about his presence in the country.
The premier noted that Dr Naik was in good health and added that he was happy to know that his (the scholar) son was also following his footsteps and serving Islam.
He also recalled his past meeting with Dr Zakir in 2006.
The scholar, in his remarks, said that Pakistan was the only country in the world which was founded on Islamic principles.
He said that Islam was the religion which offered comprehensive guidance to the entire humanity encompassing every aspect of their lives.
He reiterated his commitment to continuing efforts to spread the message of Islam globally, saying: “The success lies in following the Islamic teachings”.
Recalling that he had last visited Pakistan in 1991, he said he still had fond memories of that tour. He added that he would also visit Karachi and Lahore.
Prior to his meeting with premier, the Islamic scholar met National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq at the Parliament House and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman at his residence in Islamabad a day ago.
The renowned religious scholar along with his son Shaikh Fariq Naik had arrived in Pakistan at the invitation of the government two days ago and will hold public gatherings in multiple cities.
As per the schedule shared by Dr Naik, he will address public talks in Karachi on October 5 and 6, followed by those in Lahore set to take place on October 12 and 13.
Meanwhile, the scholar will address public gatherings in Islamabad on October 19 and 20.
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Israel certainly needs to ignore the Biden administration and do something dramatic and effective to the government and military of Iran. I look forward to discovering what it will be.
Happy news. May this be a good omen for the 10/7 hostages, too.
[IsraelTimes] A Yazidi woman who was kidnapped by ISIS from Iraq in 2014 at the age of 11 and transferred to the Gaza Strip has finally been rescued and reunited with her family.
Unverified posts on social media say that Israeli security forces carried out the rescue operation.
In a statement, the Iraqi Foreign Ministry says that the woman, Fawzia Amin Sido, was released through joint efforts “in high coordination” with the US embassies in Baghdad and Amman along with Jordanian authorities.
Jewish philanthropist Steve Maman, dubbed by some as the “Jewish Schindler,” shares a video of her reuniting with her family last night.
“I made a promise to Fawzia the Yazidi who was hostage of Hamas in Gaza that I would bring her back home to her mother in Sinjar,” Maman writes on X. “To her, it seemed surreal and impossible but not to me, my only enemy was time. Our team reunited her moments ago with her mother and family in Sinjar.”
Fawzia, a Yazidi girl kidnapped by ISIS from Iraq and brought to Gaza at just 11 years old, has finally been rescued by the Israeli security forces.
For years, she was held captive by a Palestinian Hamas-ISIS member.
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Here is how Rudaw — our Kurdish news source based in Iraq — reports the story today. Note that there is no mention whatsoever of the Jewish Canadian philanthropist or Israel:
Fawzia Amin Sido “was released through joint efforts between the Foreign Ministry and the National Intelligence Service,” a statement from Iraq’s foreign ministry said, adding that she is from al-Qahtaniya in Nineveh’s Baaj district.
The area near Shingal (Sinjar) was taken over in August 2014 by the ISIS group. Sido was transferred to several countries “before her liberation,” the statement added.
“Fawzia was with an ISIS militant who is from the Gaza Strip in Palestine. The militant has been killed. It has been four years since the mother of the killed militant has taken Fawzia to the Gaza Strip with herself,” Sarab Elias, director general for Survivors Affairs at the Iraqi Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, told Rudaw.
Elias said that after obtaining “important information” they determined her location in the Gaza Strip, and repatriated her from Jordan.
An advisor to the Iraqi prime minister said that information obtained from Rudaw was key.
"We first got information through Rudaw about the kidnapped Yazidi girl in the Gaza Strip when she appeared on Rudaw and talked about her being Yazidi and being in Gaza," Khalaf Shingali, PM Mohammed Shia al-Sudani's advisor for Yazidi affairs, told Rudaw on Thursday.
Shingali said that when they saw the woman, they immediately began efforts to rescue her by establishing communication channels and identifying her location. They remained in contact with her until she was brought to Jordan and then back to her Iraq.
Her rescue was carried out in coordination with Iraq’s foreign ministry, the National Intelligence Agency, the American embassy in Jordan, and Jordanian officials, according to Shingali.
Intelligence and foreign ministry officials were “in high coordination with the U.S. embassies in Baghdad and Amman, and the Jordanian authorities, after efforts and follow-up that lasted for more than four months,” the foreign ministry’s statement said.
As of Wednesday, Sido was returned to her family and is in Shingal, according to Elias.
[IsraelTimes] Offices, maintenance areas damaged, but not any aircraft or critical infrastructure; military says Iran didn’t fire hypersonic missiles as claimed.
[IsraelTimes] Citing Hamas-run health ministry, Palestinian media reports 20 killed in strikes; IDF said to carry out early morning raids in Khan Younis neighborhoods
Israeli Air Force fighter jets struck Hamas command centers embedded in disused schools in the Gaza Strip in the early hours of Wednesday morning, the IDF said, as Palestinian media reported that some 20 people were killed and dozens more were injured in the strikes.
The military said that two of the command centers were located in schools in the northern part of the Palestinian enclave, while a third was embedded in a compound in central Gaza that had previously served as the Nuseirat Girls’ School.
Accusing Hamas of using the schools as a base to plan and carry out “terror attacks against IDF soldiers and the State of Israel,” the military said that the strikes had been guided by pinpoint intelligence.
It said that it had taken steps to mitigate civilian harm in the strikes, and accused Hamas of “systematically” using civilian sites for terror.
In the aftermath of the strikes, Palestinian media cited Hamas-run health authorities to report that 17 people had been killed at a former school in Gaza City, and three in the school in Nuseirat.
The IDF did not immediately comment on reports of civilian casualties.
The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza has said that more than 40,000 people have been killed in the Strip throughout the last year of war between Israel and Hamas, although the toll cannot be verified and does not differentiate between civilians and fighters.
As of August, Israel said it had killed some 17,000 combatants in battle in Gaza, and another 1,000 terrorists inside Israel during Hamas’s massacre on October 7, 2023, which sparked the war.
Also on Wednesday, Israeli tanks were said to have advanced in areas of Khan Younis, in the south of the enclave. Palestinian media reported that the tanks carried out a raid on several areas in the east and center of the city, before partially retreating.
The Hamas-run health ministry said that some 51 people had been killed in the raids, and at least 82 were said to have been injured. The IDF did not immediately comment on the reports.
Residents in the Khan Younis area reported that heavy airstrikes had accompanied the raids into three neighborhoods in the city.
Meanwhile, the United Nations said on Wednesday that it was making preparations to start in mid-October a second round of polio vaccinations for some 640,000 children in the Gaza Strip.
UN Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said in the announcement that vitamin supplements would also be distributed during the vaccination campaign.
The second round of vaccines is scheduled to begin following the successful first round back in August, which the World Health Organization said in September had seen more than 90 percent of children in the Strip receive a first dose of the vaccine.
[GEO.TV] Hamas' armed al-Qassam Brigades claimed responsibility for a shooting in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv that killed at least seven people, the group said in a statement on Wednesday.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Lev Kraitman saved 20 people from the Nova massacre before serving in Gaza.
The hero who gunned down one of the Jaffa terrorists has told how he chased them in his sandals before shooting them with his pistol.
Lev Kraitman was eating schnitzel in the old port area of Tel Aviv when he heard gunshots. Without hesitating, he dashed to the light railway station where they were on a rampage knifing and shooting anyone they came across.
Lev, who saved 20 people from the Nova massacre last year before serving in Gaza, pulled out his weapon and confronted the attackers – shooting one of them dead. Incredible footage shows him running after them in his sandals as he fires forcing the other to flee.
Lev tended to the wounded before emergency services arrived and the second terrorist was eliminated shortly afterwards.
Authorities later confirmed seven people died and 11 were injured in the attack which came just minutes before Iran's terrifying 180 missile strike on Israel.
Speaking exclusively to the Daily Mail, Lev said: 'I live right above the light rail station in Jaffa, and I had just finished work and was hungry as I didn't have anything in.
'I went downstairs to the schnitzel restaurant and that is when I heard gunfire.
'I have been serving in Gaza for the last six months, doing reconnaissance, looking for tunnels, and we lost a dear brother from our platoon so I instantly recognised the noise. It's unmistakable.
'I saw the next tram approaching and tried to stop it but it didn't stop, when it moved away that is when I saw dead people on the ground of the station.
'That is also the moment when I saw two terrorists. One started to run in my direction. At this point I was mobbing behind trash cans, hiding in alleyways but kept sight of him.
'I shot at him - I shot a lot of rounds as I had a pistol and was at a distance, one hit him and then he ran and then fell down.
'I immediately ran to the wounded but I knew they had already died. The local people came and made sure the terrorist was dead.
'At that point I was with the wounded in the station trying to see who was dead and who was alive.
'I was full of adrenaline so didn't register, I checked if they were alive but they were not. I saw three dead in the street of the station. A fourth was a person who we thought was dead but started moving, I wish I knew his name and I hope he survived. He did look seriously injured.'
Chilling footage shows the two terrorists stalking victims at the station on their deadly rampage just a day before the Jewish New Year. Video shows a gunman and another suspect dressed in all black prowling along a light rail station before opening fire. A volley of shots was unleashed before anguished screams were heard and more shots rang out. The suspects then turned around and began advancing along the other side of the platform where bodies were later seen piling up in a separate clip.
According to local police, the two armed men were 'neutralized' by security forces.
Last night was not the first time Lev has been a hero after he saved 20 people from death at the Nova festival on October 7.
'I was besides Nova, I work for Midburn which is the Israeli version of Burning Man,' he said. 'On October 7 I was with volunteers for Midburn two miles from nova, it was a production weekend, it wasn't at Nova.
'On the morning on October 7 we all hid, and waited for the army. We rescued people from nova, we were in the same situation as them stuck in the field because we didn't know what was going on outside with terrorists all around.
'We stayed there as we knew terrorists were driving back and forth. At around 5pm we decided that we would line up our cars, put the gas to the floor and go, taking 15-20 youngsters with us in the back of our car.'
After what he has witnessed these past 12 months, Lev is never without his gun.
'I carry a weapon in Israel because the reality is something is always going to happen and I am on reserve duty,' he said. 'The fact I had come out from Gaza put me on alert anyway.'
Asked if he was a hero, Lev told the Mail: 'I wish I had done better. I wish I could have taken the other one out.
'It's very flattering, but it feels weird. I don't feel like a hero.'
Remarking on his footwear, which has gone viral in Israel, Lev said: 'I always wear these sandals.'
Asked what he was doing now, he said: 'The whole world is trying to call me – it's a lot. I think I'll just go to bed. I want to figure out my holiday schedule.'
May you and yours be written in the Book of Life for health and happiness, Mr. Kraitman.
I guess the original explanation that it was criminal in-fighting was wrong.
[IsraelTimes] Hamas claims attack; Ben Gvir suggests nearby mosque involved, should be destroyed; in fact, terrorists threatened worshippers there before carrying out the attack, congregants say
Authorities on Wednesday named six of the seven people killed in Tuesday night’s terror attack at a light rail station in Jaffa, as new details emerged on the two terrorists who carried it out, and the Israeli military imposed a closure on their hometown of Hebron in the West Bank.
Hamas took responsibility for the attack Wednesday, saying its perpetrators, Mohammad Mesek and Ahmed Himouni, were members of the terror group.
Seven people were killed and 16 others wounded in the attack on the Tel Aviv light rail and a nearby road in Jaffa, in one of the deadliest terror attacks in recent memory.
The terrorists, meanwhile, were named as Mohammad Mesek, 19, who was killed at the scene, and Ahmed Himouni, 25, who was seriously injured. Both men are Palestinians from the West Bank city of Hebron who were in Israel proper without a permit.
Diana Svertzov, an Israeli rhythmic gymnast who won a silver medal at the Paris Olympics, was at the light rail station at the time of the attack, and told Channel 12 that the terrorists did not seem suspicious, and one of them was wearing a pin representing solidarity with Israelis held hostage in Gaza by the Hamas terror group.
“One of them looked at my Olympics necklace and smiled at me. They didn’t look like terrorists. One of them had an M16 rifle, and the other one was in a polo shirt, with a hostage pin. There was no reason to be suspicious. It never crossed my mind, what was about to happen,” she said.
Reservists in Israel are often seen carrying rifles while wearing their civilian clothes.
The Israel Defense Forces has imposed a closure on Hebron, the terrorists’ hometown, and on Wednesday, the IDF said it had detained and questioned several people on suspicion of aiding the terrorists in purchasing the assault rifle used in the attack and infiltrating Israel.
It was also revealed on Wednesday that before carrying out the attack, the terrorists entered the Al-Nuzha Mosque, stashed their bags in the mosque’s bathroom, and threatened worshippers not to leave.
One of the terrorists “opened the door, with an M16 in his hand,” Ali, a member of the congregation, told the Ynet news site. He noted that the terrorist had entered the mosque through the women’s entrance.
“He just peeked his head in, and said, ‘Nobody go outside! Anyone who goes out is a dead man,’ and he left. The second one waited outside. They closed the doors, we called the police, and we heard shooting,” Ali said.
Another congregant, identified only by his first Hebrew initial Dalet, told Ynet that the men initially entered the mosque with large backpacks, which they left in the bathroom and from which they took their weapons.
The relation between the two accounts was not immediately clear.
The events at the mosque were spotlighted after National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir declared at the scene of the attack on Tuesday that if the terrorists were revealed to have used the mosque for carrying out the attack, the house of worship must be destroyed — comments that sparked immediate backlash.
Tensions in Israel and the West Bank have soared since October 7. Since then, 40 Israelis, including security personnel, have been killed in Palestinian terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank — including in Tuesday’s attack. Another five members of the security forces were killed in clashes with terror operatives in the West Bank.
[IsraelTimes] Over 100 rockets, drones fired at Israel after multiple strikes in terror group’s Beirut stronghold overnight; IDF sends 36th Division into Lebanon, joining 98th Division
The IDF announced the first fatalities of Israel’s ground operation in Lebanon on Wednesday after eight soldiers were killed during battles against Hezbollah operatives in the south of the country.
The slain troops were named as:
Cpt. Eitan Itzhak Oster, 22, a team commander in the Egoz Commando Unit, from Modi’in.
Cpt. Harel Etinger, 23, a team commander in the Egoz Commando Unit, from Eli.
Cpt. Itai Ariel Giat, 23, of the Yahalom Combat Engineering Unit, from Shoham.
Sgt. First Class Noam Barzilay, 22, of the Egoz Commando Unit, from Kohav Yair.
Sgt. First Class Or Mantzur, 21, of the Egoz Commando Unit, from Beit Aryeh.
Sgt. First Class Nazar Itkin, 21, of the Egoz Commando Unit, from Kiryat Ata.
Staff Sgt. Almken Terefe, 21, of the Golani Brigade’s reconnaissance unit, from Jerusalem.
Staff Sgt. Ido Broyer, 21, of the Golani Brigade’s reconnaissance unit, from Nes Tziona.
The six Egoz commandos were all killed during a gun battle with Hezbollah operatives in a southern Lebanon village. Another officer and four soldiers were seriously wounded in the same incident. During the extraction of the casualties following the gun battle in a building, Hezbollah operatives fired mortars at the soldiers, wounding further troops.
The two soldiers of the Golani recon unit were killed in a separate incident, in which another soldier was seriously wounded.
In a third incident, a combat medic with the Golani Brigade’s 51st Battalion was seriously wounded.
An IDF probe into the deadly battle in which the six Egoz commandos were killed found that they began an offensive against a village near the border early this morning, where Hezbollah had infrastructure that the army was seeking to dismantle. The troops had entered a building in the village, where they then encountered a group of Hezbollah operatives and exchanged fire with them. Moments later, a series of other encounters began in the surrounding area, with dozens of Hezbollah operatives opening fire, firing anti-tank missiles, and launching mortars at the soldiers.
An Israeli Air Force drone carried out strikes and tanks shelled sites in the area amid the incident, and the wounded troops were all extracted and taken for medical treatment. In all, six Egoz soldiers were killed and another five were seriously wounded. Several others were also taken to hospitals for more minor injuries.
The IDF assessed that the troops, airstrikes, and tank shelling, killed more than 20 Hezbollah operatives in the area. Following the extraction of the wounded and at the end of the battle, the military said it gained control over the area where the fighting took place.
The IDF has been operating inside Lebanon since Monday night, when the 98th Division crossed over the border to demolish the terror group’s infrastructure with the aim of safely returning the tens of thousands of displaced Israelis to their homes in the north of the country.
Officially, anyway. Yesterday we saw reports that IDF soecial forces had been roaming the southern half of Lebanon since shortly after the 10/7 massacre, shaping the future battlefield in all sorts of quietly interesting ways.
It said on Wednesday that the 36th Division was also being deployed to Lebanon to assist the 98th with the “limited, localized and targeted raids” against Hezbollah targets and infrastructure, and shared footage of its entry into Lebanon overnight.
The IDF has said that it intends for the operations to end as quickly as possible and reiterated on Wednesday that any house used by the Lebanese terror group for military purposes would be a target. To that end, the military called for Lebanese civilians in two dozen villages in the south of the country to evacuate immediately, warning that it was preparing to act against Hezbollah in those areas.
“For your safety, you must evacuate your homes immediately. Anyone who is near Hezbollah operatives, their facilities or their weapons, puts themselves at risk,” Col. Avichay Adraee, the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesman, said in a statement on X. He warned civilians to head north and said that they would be updated when they can return.
The military issued similar orders the previous day to 28 other villages in southern Lebanon and has also warned against any movement of vehicles from the north of the Litani River to the south of it.
Sharing new footage of the 98th Division’s operations on Wednesday, the IDF said that the division had been engaged in close-quarters combat with Hezbollah operatives, and had been directing airstrikes on gunmen and the terror group’s positions. In one recent operation, the military said, the division’s Egoz commando unity destroyed a Hezbollah position, including a rocket launcher and a cache of explosives.
More than 150 Hezbollah sites have been hit so far by the Israeli Air Force, the military added.
In a statement of its own, Hezbollah said its fighters had been clashing with Israeli forces entering the border town of Maroun Al-Ras, and later asserted that it had “destroyed three Merkava tanks with rockets as they advanced towards the village.”
It also claimed that it had confronted Israeli forces “infiltrating” the Lebanese town of Odaisseh in the early hours of Wednesday, and forced them to retreat. Hezbollah operatives confronted “an Israeli enemy infantry force that tried to infiltrate into the village of Odaisseh… and clashed with them,” the statement claimed, adding separately that Hezbollah also targeted three different points across the border with rockets and artillery.
There was no immediate comment from the IDF on the claim.
The Iran-backed terror group said it had also targeted an Israeli unit with an explosive device near a southern border village, as it clashed with forces entering Lebanon.
“As the Israeli enemy army tried to sneak around the village of Yaroun… [Hezbollah] fighters surprised them by detonating an explosive device,” the terror group said, reporting Israeli casualties.
The IDF’s ground offensive began some two weeks into intensified fighting with Hezbollah, and after Operation Northern Arrows was launched earlier in September to meet the recently declared war goal of bringing residents of the north back to their homes following their evacuation last October under heavy rocket fire from the Lebanese terror group.
Alongside the ground operations, Hezbollah and Israel continued to exchange fire across the border on Wednesday, and sirens continued to blare periodically across northern Israel as the IDF said some 100 rockets were launched from Lebanon throughout Wednesday morning.
Some 40 rockets were launched from Lebanon at the Safed area, and 10 more were fired toward the Western Galilee and Haifa Bay area. In addition, the military said several drones launched at the Western Galilee were shot down by air defenses, and another drone impacted in the Upper Galilee. There were no reports of injuries in the attacks, although the municipality of Metula, which has been largely evacuated, said around 10 homes were damaged in one of the barrages.
Even as ground operations continued, the IDF’s Home Front Command announced that it was easing some restrictions in the north of the country. Other restrictions, including in other areas of the country, remained unchanged.
Strikes on Hezbollah targets in Lebanon have also continued, both in Beirut and in the south of the country.
The Lebanese army said on Wednesday that one of its soldiers had been injured in an Israeli drone strike as a unit worked to open a road at the entrance to the southern town of Kawkaba. In the hours leading up to Israel’s ground incursion on Monday night, Lebanese troops had pulled back about five kilometers from their positions along the border, apparently opting to stay on the sidelines, as they have done historically in major conflicts with Israel.
Strikes were also carried out overnight in Beirut’s southern suburbs — a Hezbollah stronghold known as Dahiyeh — after the IDF called for civilians surrounding three buildings to clear the area ahead of imminent strikes. An unnamed Lebanese security source told AFP early on Wednesday morning that “at least five Israeli strikes targeted Beirut’s southern suburbs.” Correspondents told AFP that they had heard multiple explosions and saw smoke rising in one area while a fire appeared to burn.
The military said on Wednesday that it had carried out several strikes in recent days against Hezbollah infrastructure situated throughout Beirut, and released footage of one such strike. It said that its fighter jets operated based on precise intelligence to strike “weapons production sites” and other terror infrastructure in and around Beirut.
It again stressed that it was taking steps to prevent harm to uninvolved civilians, including issuing advanced warnings to the population.
“The Hezbollah terror organization places its production sites and its weaponry under residential buildings in the heart of Beirut and endangers the population in the area,” the IDF said.
The strikes were separate from a number of targeted assassinations that Israel has carried out in the Dahiyeh suburb over the last two weeks against Hezbollah officials.
EVACUATION OF FOREIGN NATIONALS
Amid the escalating cross-border violence and the developing ground incursion, several countries have said that they are working to evacuate their citizens from Lebanon.
Both Spain and South Korea announced plans on Wednesday to evacuate their citizens from Lebanon, while Seoul said it was also working to bring those in Israel home. Spanish Defense Minister Margarita Robles said that Spain would be sending two military aircraft to evacuate as many as 350 citizens who wished to return to Spain as early as Thursday. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said that he had ordered military aircraft to be deployed immediately to evacuate its citizens from Israel and other parts of the Middle East, while the country’s foreign ministry urged citizens in both Israel and Lebanon to leave immediately by any means available. Government data for 2023 showed there were 572 South Koreans in Israel including permanent residents and Israeli passport holders and 214 in Lebanon.
The UK said on Wednesday that a charter flight taking British citizens out of Lebanon had departed and that more flights were planned for the coming days.
Slovakia also announced that it was preparing to evacuate citizens and other EU nationals from Lebanon and said it had approved the use of a military plane to deliver humanitarian aid. Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Croatia and Poland asked for cooperation in the evacuation of their citizens within the plan, the Slovak foreign ministry said.
Since October 8, Hezbollah-led forces have attacked Israeli communities and military posts along the border on a near-daily basis.
So far, the skirmishes have resulted in 26 civilian deaths on the Israeli side, and — excluding the soldiers killed in the ground operation — the deaths of 22 IDF soldiers and reservists. There have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries.
Hezbollah had named 516 members killed by Israel during the skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon but some also in Syria. Another 92 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and dozens of civilians have also been killed. These numbers have not been consistently updated since Israel began its new offensive against Hezbollah in September.
Lebanon’s Health Ministry says more than 1,000 Lebanese have been killed and 6,000 wounded in the past two weeks, without specifying how many were civilians. Israel has said that many Hezbollah operatives are among the dead. The government says that one million people — a fifth of the population — have fled their homes.
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A Silver Platter
By Natan Alterman
And the land grows still, the red eye of the sky slowly dimming over smoking
frontiers
As the nation arises,
Torn at heart but breathing,
To receive its miracle, the only miracle
As the ceremony draws near,
It will rise, standing erect in the moonlight in terror and joy
When across from it will step out a youth and a lass and slowly march toward
the nation
Dressed in battle gear, dirty,
Shoes heavy with grime, they ascend the path quietly
To change garb, to wipe their brow
They have not yet found time.
Still bone weary from days and from nights in the field
Full of endless fatigue and unrested,
Yet the dew of their youth.
Is still seen on their head
Thus they stand at attention, giving no sign of life or death
Then a nation in tears and amazement will ask: "Who are you?"
And they will answer quietly,
"We Are the silver platter on which the Jewish state was given."
Thus they will say and fall back in shadows
And the rest will be told
In the chronicles of Israel
#3
Thank you, Grom. I should have read that when we were doing modern Israeli literature in my very Zionist Hebrew school in the later 1970s, but I have no memory of it.
#4
The blood of these brave you men is on the hands of Washington Politicians. This Iran bullshit should have been handled decades ago.
Cpt. Eitan Itzhak Oster, 22, a team commander in the Egoz Commando Unit, from Modi’in.
Cpt. Harel Etinger, 23, a team commander in the Egoz Commando Unit, from Eli.
Cpt. Itai Ariel Giat, 23, of the Yahalom Combat Engineering Unit, from Shoham.
Sgt. First Class Noam Barzilay, 22, of the Egoz Commando Unit, from Kohav Yair.
Sgt. First Class Or Mantzur, 21, of the Egoz Commando Unit, from Beit Aryeh.
Sgt. First Class Nazar Itkin, 21, of the Egoz Commando Unit, from Kiryat Ata.
Staff Sgt. Almken Terefe, 21, of the Golani Brigade’s reconnaissance unit, from Jerusalem.
Staff Sgt. Ido Broyer, 21, of the Golani Brigade’s reconnaissance unit, from Nes Tziona.
[IsraelTimes] Israel also reportedly hits sites in Hezbollah stronghold of Dahiyeh where military issued evacuation orders; brother of slain Hezbollah commander said killed in Damascus strike
At least six people were killed in an Israeli airstrike in central Beirut early Thursday, Lebanese health officials said, after the Israel Defense Forces announced it was carrying out a “targeted” attack in Lebanon’s capital.
Reports said the target was an apartment building in Beirut’s Bashoura neighborhood, close to parliament, the nearest Israeli strikes have come to Lebanon’s seat of government. The attack also marked the second time Israel has struck central Beirut this week.
Images from the scene showed a heavily damaged building with a fire on one the lower floors.
In addition to the six fatalities, seven people were wounded in the strike, according to Lebanese health officials.
Multiple strikes were also reported in Beirut’s southern suburbs — a Hezbollah stronghold known as Dahiyeh — in areas issued evacuation warnings by the Israeli army. The area struck in central Beirut was not covered in those warnings.
An IDF statement confirming the military was striking in Beirut said further details would be released later.
The strikes in Beirut came hours after Syria’s state-run SANA news agency reported three people were killed and three others were wounded in an alleged Israeli strike on Damascus Wednesday afternoon.
SANA did not identify the dead, describing them as “civilians,” though reports later named one of them as Hassan Qassir — the brother of a senior Hezbollah commander killed by Israel on Tuesday.
Qassir’s brother, Muhammad Ja’far, had headed Hezbollah’s Unit 4400, which is tasked with delivering weapons from Iran and its proxies to Lebanon. He was killed in a strike in Beirut alongside the commander of the Imam Hossein Division, an Iranian militia which operates alongside Hezbollah.
According to various Arab media outlets, Hassan Qassir was also the son-in-law of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who Israel killed in Dahiyeh last week.
Along with the aerial campaign against Hezbollah, Israel launched a ground campaign in southern Lebanon on Monday, when the 98th Division crossed over the border to demolish the terror group’s infrastructure with the aim of safely returning the tens of thousands of displaced Israelis to their homes in the north of the country.
The IDF has said that it intends for the operations to end as quickly as possible and reiterated on Wednesday that any house used by the Lebanese terror group for military purposes would be a target.
The IDF’s ground offensive began some two weeks into intensified fighting with Hezbollah, and after Operation Northern Arrows was launched earlier in September to meet the recently declared war goal of bringing residents of the north back to their homes following their evacuation last October under heavy rocket fire from the Lebanese terror group.
So far, the nearly yearlong skirmishes have resulted in 26 civilian deaths on the Israeli side, and — excluding eight soldiers killed Wednesday in the ground operation — the deaths of 22 IDF soldiers and reservists. There have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries.
Hezbollah had named 516 members killed by Israel during the skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon but some also in Syria. Another 92 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and dozens of civilians have also been killed. These numbers have not been consistently updated since Israel began its new offensive against Hezbollah in September.
Lebanon’s Health Ministry says more than 1,000 Lebanese have been killed and 6,000 wounded in the past two weeks, without specifying how many were civilians. Israel has said that many Hezbollah operatives are among the dead. The government says that one million people — a fifth of the population — have fled their homes.
[GEO.TV] Iran's President Pezeshkian said that his country ''is not looking for war but looking forward to peace and calm''.
He added that ''Israel is forcing us to react''.
Pezeshkian, in a joint news conference in Doha with Qatar's emir, said that Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated by Israel in Tehran and Iran was asked to remain calm, as per Al Jazeera.
''If [Israel] acts, we will react more fiercely and harshly. The ominous goals of the Zionist entity are all aimed at destabilising the region. We should work together to steer the region away from all this,'' he added.
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#1
When we finish with you - you'll think that Timur Lang was a social worker.
[GEO.TV] The son-in-law of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed last week in a massive Israeli strike in Beirut, was also killed in an Israeli raid in Damascus Wednesday, an NGO said.
"Hassan Jaafar al-Qasir, the son-in-law of Hassan Nasrallah, was among two Lebanese victims of the Israeli raid which targeted an apartment in a residential building in the Mazze district of Damascus," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a claim a source close to Hezbollah confirmed to AFP.
[GEO.TV] The Israeli military issued orders in the early hours of Thursday telling people to leave multiple areas of densely-populated southern Beirut, where it says it will hit Hezbollah sites.
"You are located near facilities and interests belonging to Hezbollah, which the army will act against in the near future," Israeli military spokesman Avichay Adraee said in a post on social media site X, naming the Haret Hreik, Burj al-Barajneh and Hadath Gharb areas.
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