[IsraelTimes] Yemen rebels claim they fired multiple ballistic missiles at Liberian-flagged Olympic Spirit; one projectile hits ship, causing some damage, as at least three more fall into water
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... ’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... rebels attacked a Liberian-flagged chemical tanker on Thursday in the Red Sea, authorities said.
The attack comes as the rebels continue to threaten ships moving through the Red Sea, a waterway that once saw $1 trillion in goods move through it a year, over the ongoing conflicts in the Mideast stemming from the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty 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... war, which began when Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... attacked Israel on October 7, 2023.
The Olympic Spirit tanker in the Red Sea had been skirting the coast of East Africa when it found itself struck first by a projectile that damaged the vessel, but sparked no fire and caused no injuries, the British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center said.
At least three more projectiles later fell in the waters around the vessel, which was a distance away from Hodeida, the Houthi-controlled port from which many of the rebels’ attacks have been launched.
Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree, a Houthi military front man, claimed the attack on the Olympic Spirit in a prerecorded video message aired Thursday night. He claimed the rebels launched multiple ballistic missiles targeting the tanker.
In Thursday’s attack, the private security firm Ambrey said it “assessed the vessel to have a strong affiliation with the Houthi targeting profile,” without elaborating.
Yemen’s Houthis say they targeted two vessels in Red Sea and Indian Ocean
[IsraelTimes] The Houthi rebels in Yemen say they have targeted a ship it identified as the Olympic Spirit in the Red Sea and St. John vessel in the Indian Ocean, as they launch attacks on global shipping over Israel’s war in Gaza.
[KronenZeitung] A previously unknown man who tried to set fire to a cinema in the German city of Krefeld (North Rhine-Westphalia) on Thursday evening was shot and injured by police.
The dramatic scenes took place shortly before 8pm. Guns were fired in front of the moviegoers. Shortly beforehand, the suspect is said to have set fires in three other places. According to the police, these included a vehicle and a house near the train station.
Wie unordentlich.
38-YEAR-OLD WANTED TO SET FIRE IN THE FOYER OF THE CINEMA
The 38-year-old had tried to start a fire in the foyer of the cinema. However, the police officers who were alerted were able to prevent this with their intervention. The man who was shot was taken to hospital, where he is still receiving medical treatment. According to the police, the suspect is a man from Krefeld with Iraqi nationality.
Iraqi? What odds his final appeal for asylum was just rejected, so he decided to go Sudden Jihad Syndrome?
The motive for the crime is still under investigation. According to investigators, however, there are no indications of a terrorist background so far. According to the information available so far, no other people have been injured.
The incident occurred after the man had reportedly set three fires in the Cracau district of the city, police said.
Authorities cordoned off the cinema, which is located inside Krefeld's main train station, and said they do not believe there is any further danger to the public.
Details as to the identity or motive of the man, who investigators say was acting alone, remain unclear.
Local police said they will issue an update on Friday morning.
TRAIL OF DAMAGE
Officers were first alerted at 7:50 p.m. local time after an incendiary device was thrown into the local employment office, about 700 meters away from the cinema and station.
Close by, a white minibus belonging to a local drug outreach charity had two smashed windows and was slightly blackened with soot.
Also nearby, police had cordoned off a building in which a top-floor flat was reported to have been on fire.
From there, the suspect made his way to the station where he was shot by police in the cinema foyer.
And a good time was had by all. Breitbart had this, published two days ago:
A police spokesman said on Friday morning that the suspect was a 38-year-old from Krefeld. The motive is still unclear. In the meantime, however, there are indications of a possible mental illness of the man.
This was also confirmed by NRW Interior Minister Herbert Reul (CDU) on Friday. "He was known to the police, he was conspicuous and he was in our program area, which deals with the mentally ill." According to information from the "Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger", the alleged arsonist was already in prison in the past. According to this, he was sentenced to four and a half years by the Krefeld Regional Court in July 2021 for dangerous bodily injury in two cases, resistance to enforcement officers, attempted rape, threat and damage to property.
The first emergency call was received by the police at 7:50 p.m.: Gradually, the officers learned of three different fire sites in the Krefeld district of Cracau. According to the current state of the investigation, the suspect first smashed the window of a car on Schwertstraße and lit it. He then set fire to his apartment, which is also located on Schwertstraße. From there he went to an office building on Philadelphia Street, where he broke a window pane and ignited a fire fire.
The alleged perpetrator with Iranian nationality
…all the other articles thus far say Iraqi, so either that is a typo or updated information…
is currently under medical treatment. At the request of dpa, the NRW Ministry of Refugees in Düsseldorf announced that the 38-year-old had entered Germany for the first time in 2002 "and has a tolerance". According to current knowledge, the Essen police, who took over the investigation, assumes that he is a single perpetrator. A terrorist background is so far excluded.
A cinema employee praised the rapid intervention of the police to a dpa reporter. "Otherwise, this would have been a disaster here," he said. According to his information, about 150 people were in the cinema complex at the time of the crime, spread over several cinema halls. Reul made similar comments on Friday, saying that the situation could have ended "really dramatically". No one was injured in the fires.
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Just so there is no doubt. Not a single one of them thinks that terrorism and jihad are wrong. The decision is "Should I personally commit a deed." Kinda like we and road rage.
[IsraelTimes] No injuries reported after gunshots heard near local unit of Elbit Defense Systems; suspect, reportedly a young teen, detained amid police probe of attempted murder, weapons crime
An office of Israeli military technology firm Elbit Systems in Gothenburg was the target of a shooting Thursday, according to media, with Swedish police saying there were no injuries, in the latest in a series of attacks on Israeli targets in Scandinavia in recent weeks.
Police told AFP that they had responded to a shooting "against an Israeli object in Kalleback" in Gothenburg, a coastal city in southwestern Sweden.
They added that no injuries had been reported and that a young suspect had been arrested. Newspaper Aftonbladet said the suspect was under the age of 15.
An investigation has been opened into "attempted murder" and an "aggravated weapons crime," police front man Fredrik Svedemyr said.
Svedemyr said police had sent several patrols and a helicopter to the scene. Elbit Systems said in an email to AFP that it "currently had no comment."
In early June, police said they had found a "suspected explosive object" outside the offices of the military technology firm, known for its unmanned aerial systems.
Throughout 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 a rusty 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... war, pro-Paleostinian and anti-Israel protesters have assailed the firm. On Tuesday, protesters splashed red paint on the London offices of German financial firm Allianz over its ties to Elbit. The protesters described Allianz as "investors and insurers of Israel’s biggest weapons firm."
The reported shooting at Elbit’s Swedish office comes after an alleged shooting near Israel’s embassy in Stockholm on October 1, followed hours later by the detonation of two hand grenades near the embassy in Denmark, for which Danish police detained three Swedish nationals.
Swedish intelligence named Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... as a possible culprit in both attacks, neither of which resulted in any known injuries.
Another blast, which also did not cause any known injuries, was heard near the Copenhagen embassy on Monday, exactly one year after thousands of Hamas ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... -led Lions of Islam stormed southern Israel to kill nearly 1,200 people and take 251 hostages, sparking the war in Gaza.
The war has seen a sharp uptick in attacks on Scandinavia’s 25,000-strong Jewish community. The increased threat to Jewish and Israeli targets led police in neighboring Norway on Tuesday to up their terrorism threat assessment to the second-highest level.
[IsraelTimes] Footage shows Democratic Majority for Israel’s Todd Richman unfurling Israeli flag in front of protesters, who then hit him, leaving him with bloody nose.
— Democratic Majority for Israel (@DemMaj4Israel) October 7, 2024
The NYPD Hate Crime Task Force is investigating the alleged
…because legally it has been yet to be proved, it seems…
assault of a prominent Israel advocate at a pro-Paleostinian, anti-Israel protest in New York on October 7.
That day, the one-year anniversary of Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... ’s invasion of Israel, footage spread online of Todd Richman unfurling an Israeli flag in the middle of the city’s main pro-Paleostinian, anti-Israel protest. Protesters then attempted to grab the flag and, following a brief profanity-filled argument and altercation, hit Richman multiple times. He emerged with a bloody nose.
Richman, chairman of the political advocacy group Democratic Majority for Israel, was also wearing a shirt reading "Bring Them Home Now," a call for the release of hostages held by Hamas. The video was first posted by a news hound for The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative outlet, and has more than a million views as of Thursday afternoon.
Police told The New York Jewish Week on Thursday that they are investigating the incident, which took place in the afternoon at Union Square, as a hate crime.
"During the struggle, an unidentified male wearing a white T-shirt and black jeans struck the victim in the face with a flagpole," the NYPD said in a statement. "Additionally, an unidentified female, dressed in a black hat, black sweater, red sweat pants, and red sunglasses struck him in the face with a tambourine."
Both alleged perpetrators fled on foot, the statement said. "There are no arrests at this time and the investigation remains ongoing by the NYPD Hate Crime Task Force," it added. Police also sent photos depicting four alleged perpetrators, three men and one woman, and asked for tips.
Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine condemned the attack.
"Todd Richman is a decent, caring man, an important leader for the Jewish community... and my friend," he tweeted. "This assault is absolutely appalling. There must be accountability for this."
Shortly after the incident, Richman, 54, briefly answered questions from news hounds with blood streaming down his face, according to an AM New York video. The next day, he said in a statement that he had recovered.
"Thank you to everyone who has reached out to check on me. Rest assured — I am fine," Richman said in the statement released by DMFI, which he helped found in 2019. "As Americans, we have the right to protest, but yesterday, on the one-year anniversary of the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust, pro-Hamas agitators in New York City crossed a line."
Richman declined to comment on actions he planned to take in response to the attack. In a statement on X, he remained defiant.
"My resolve is stronger than ever," he said Wednesday in a post including photos of the incident. "Am Yisrael Chai!"
The incident came on a day filled with demonstrations in support of and against Israel and is the latest in a string of physical altercations during the past year to happen at or near rallies over the Israel-Hamas war. The Anti-Defamation League condemned the incident and said it was part of a surge in attacks on Jews. It also warned people in the vicinity of protests to "exercise vigilance."
"There’s no doubt that in the current climate, pro-Israel activists and other bystanders increasingly face threats to their physical safety," an ADL front man said. "ADL has documented more than 150 assaults in the year since October 7, with at least a dozen taking place at anti-Israel protests that turned violent mostly peaceful. We urge anyone in the vicinity of a protest area to exercise vigilance and immediately report any threats or physical violence directly to law enforcement."
On Wednesday, Ofir Akunis, the Israeli consul general in New York, met with Richman. In a post online, Akunis’ office shared a photo of the two men and linked the incident to spikes in antisemitic violence.
"The surge in antisemitic violence is unacceptable," the consulate said. "We stand united against all forms of hate."
[AllIsrael] Eiland Plan calls for complete isolation and siege of northern Gaza.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) aim to exert greater control over the northern Gaza Strip through a large-scale ground maneuver in the town of Jabaliya.
The IDF Southern Command has been planning the broad operation of the 162nd Division in the northern Strip, with a focus on increasing its operational control of the territory, both to prevent Hamas from re-establishing itself there and to stop any attacks on Israeli territory from being launched from there.
According to Walla News, the operation could result in the movement of a large portion of the population, from the northern Gaza Strip to the humanitarian shelters in southern Gaza.
The IDF plans to focus on eliminating Hamas terrorists without having to be concerned for the well-being of civilians, who have been used as human shields by the terror group.
Walla quoted a military source who stated, "If there's anything that freaks Hamas out, it's the IDF's total control on the ground.”
"The operation carried out by the 162nd Division will undoubtedly increase control. Palestinians move south. Control of the area will also make it possible to prevent rocket launches and attempts to reach the [security] fence.”
If this increase in control is part of the IDF’s overall strategy, the maneuver in the northern Gaza Strip is expected to expand from Jabaliya. In addition, residents of nearby Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya may be evacuated south to the humanitarian zone of al-Mawasi.
On Wednesday afternoon, IDF Arabic Spokesman Lt.-Col. Avichay Adraee called on civilian residents of Jabaliya to evacuate and move to the humanitarian zone of al-Mawasi. He told them it would be their "final opportunity." To enable the safe evacuation of the residents, Adraee also announced a temporary cessation of military operations in the city.
"We reiterate our call to you in Jabaliya camp to evacuate your homes and shelters immediately," Adraee said in the video message. "This is a dangerous combat zone. We have temporarily stopped working but the fire will resume again soon."
"This is your chance. Move now without delay from the shelters and homes to the southern Gaza Strip. Do not believe the lies of Hamas through its men or media who tell you to stay there."
The operation seemingly mirrors portions of the “Eiland Plan” (also called the “Generals' Plan”), first proposed by retired General Giora Eiland soon after Oct. 7, calling for IDF control of the Netzarim Corridor separating the northern and southern parts of the Gaza Strip.
Eiland proposed imposing a blockade of the northern part, the cessation of humanitarian aid to areas where Hamas is active, the evacuation of civilians from northern Gaza to the south through evacuation zones, and the total elimination of the remaining terrorists in the northern half.
The most recent version of this plan discussed among Israeli Security Cabinet members reportedly called for the IDF to assume greater responsibility for humanitarian aid distribution to prevent its falling into the hands of Hamas.
IDF control of humanitarian aid has been opposed by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, who argue that Israel should not provide its enemies with aid.
The Eiland Plan is not favored by the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden, as it would entail continued fighting in the Gaza Strip and more destruction of homes and infrastructure. However, reports in Hebrew media say the plan is popular among IDF leadership.
Security officials believe the use of siege would be legal if Palestinian civilians in Gaza were evacuated from northern Gaza ahead of the operation.
During the fighting in Jabaliya in recent days, troops eliminated dozens of terrorists in close-quarter combat and aerial strikes, located weapons and destroyed numerous terror infrastructure sites and rocket launchers.
Meanwhile, Israeli troops continued raiding and destroying Hamas targets across the Gaza Strip.
In Rafah, 162nd Division troops located and destroyed more rocket launchers, weapons and tunnel shafts.
In the central Strip, 252nd Division soldiers eliminated terrorists, located weapons and destroyed military infrastructure.
Israeli Air Force fighter jets and aircraft have also struck more than 70 terror targets in the Gaza Strip over the past couple of days, in addition to their ongoing operations against Hezbollah across Lebanon.
[IsraelTimes] Israel says it killed the head of 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 in the Nur Shams refugee camp in the central West Bank in an Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... yesterday.
Muhammad Abdullah was made the head of the Iran-backed terror group in the Tulkarem-area camp after his predecessor Muhhamad Jabber was killed in a gunbattle in late August, the Israel Defense Forces says.
The IDF says Abdullah was killed in a strike from the air alongside a second terrorist, without naming the second person.
Possibly hit his Number 2, who never had a chance to be #1.
The army says Abdullah was responsible for organizing the group’s activities, including "many attacks." It accuses him of deploying explosives against Israeli troops.
The army says troops on the ground seized semi-automatic rifles and flack-jackets found on the pair, the IDF says.
Official Paleostinian Authority news outlet Wafa says troops also seized the bodies of the two, naming the second fatality as Awad Omar from the nearby town of Bal’a.
Continuing to degrade Hamas’s present and future ability to attack Israel, destroying weapons, tunnels, above-ground strongpoints, and manpower.
[IsraelTimes] Palestinian Red Crescent reports 28 killed in strike on Hamas command post at former school; military says Hamas commanders who took part in Oct. 7 targeted in Wednesday airstrike
The Israel Defense Forces said Thursday that three reserve soldiers were killed amid fighting in the northern 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 a rusty 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 the military launched a fresh ground offensive this week to prevent Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... from reestablishing itself in the area.
The three, all soldiers in the 5460th support unit of the 460th Brigade, were named as:
Master Sgt. (res.) Ori Moshe Borenstein, 32, from Moreshet.
Maj. (res.) Netanel Hershkovitz, 37, from Jerusalem.
Master Sgt. (res.) Tzvi Matityahu Marantz, 32, from Bnei Adam.
Their deaths bring the number of Israeli troops killed in the ground offensive in Gaza to 353.
The announcement came as the IDF said troops were pressing ahead with the operation in northern Gaza’s Jabaliya, where according to a military statement they killed dozens of terror operatives over the previous 24 hours. The statement said troops captured weapons including rifles, RPG launchers, and ammunition.
On Thursday, the military struck another alleged Hamas command post at a school-turned-shelter in central Gaza’s Deir al-Balah. The Paleostinian Red Islamic Thingy said the strike on the Rufaida school complex killed 28 people and maimed 54 others, without differentiating between civilians and combatants.
"Prior to the strike, numerous steps were taken to mitigate the risk of harming civilians, including the use of precise munitions, aerial surveillance, and additional intelligence," the military said in a statement.
Israel also noted that Hamas and other terror groups have routinely used schools, shelters and other protected facilities for their operations, with the civilians there serving as human shields. The IDF vowed to continue striking terror operatives wherever they are, while making efforts to minimize harm to nearby civilians.
Witnesses quoted by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named said the strike occurred while school managers were meeting with representatives of an aid group in a room normally used by Hamas-run police who provide security. They said there were no police in the room at the time.
And in the rest of the building? How many Hamasnik casualties were there in the school complex, pray tell?
The Paleostinian branch of Terre des Hommes, a Swiss aid group, said in a statement that members of one of its children’s health teams were killed in the strike, though it did not specify how many.
Let us look serious while we ponder how many Hamasniks were also members of the Terre des Hommes children’s health team, because it always turns out that these people were double dipping. Often also dipping their wicks in the local wimmin’n’kiddies, though nice people refuse to notice their friends and colleagues partaking until their noses are rubbed in it by those horrid gentlemen of the gutter press.
According to the military, troops eliminated numerous button men, uncovered weapons and demolished military infrastructure in ground operations in central Gaza on Thursday. In southern Gaza’s Rafah, forces located and destroyed rocket launchers, weaponry, and underground tunnel shafts used by terror operatives, the IDF said.
Also Thursday, a small drone was launched from the Gaza Strip toward Israel and downed by the IDF as it crossed the border, the military said. No one was hurt in the incident.
Along with the ground operations, the Israeli Air Force hit around 30 Hamas targets in Gaza over the past day, according to the military, which said the strikes targeted terror cells, weapon stockpiles, launchers, buildings, underground infrastructure and other assets of terror groups.
Meanwhile,
...back at the cheese factory, there was only one thought in the mouse's mind: I can do this! I can do this! Then the trap sprung... the UN children’s agency announced Thursday that Israel had agreed to "humanitarian pauses" in specific areas of Gaza to facilitate a second round of 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... vaccinations for some 590,000 children under the age of 10. Israel has yet to comment on the announcement.
[IsraelTimes] Oddly enough, no crowd estimate was given, and the sole photo of the marchers was taken with some kind of extreme fisheye lens that makes it impossible for the viewer to make out any details.
[IsraelTimes] Police and Shin Bet announce monthlong clandestine investigation culminating in arrests of Taybeh-based cell tied to fanatical terror group
The Israel Police and the Shin Bet security service recently thwarted a plot by five Arab Israeli citizens to carry out a car-bombing attack at Tel Aviv’s Azrieli Mall under the banner of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... terror group, according to a joint statement Thursday.
The five residents of Taybeh
…a majority-Christian Palestinian village near Ramallah…
in central Israel formed a terror cell allied to ISIS, the fanatical terror group that originated in Iraq and Syria.
The five were arrested after a month-long clandestine investigation in collaboration with the Lahav 433 serious crime unit and were set to face charges in the coming days. The cell’s leaders were named as Mahmoud Azam and Ibrahim Sheik Yusef.
They recruited three others — Sajed Masarwa, Abdullah Baransi and Abdel Kareem Baransi.
Police and the Shin Bet said that the five had studied footage of terror attacks in Syria and discussed the amount of explosives needed to bring down Tel Aviv’s iconic Azrieli towers.
Azam and Yusef were in contact with foreign ISIS agents and planned to travel abroad to meet with operatives from the terror group, the statement added, noting that the plan was uncovered with the help of "precise and effective intelligence operations," and had been halted in its preliminary stages.
The statement said that the arrests "prevented a major disaster and saved lives" and vowed that the police and Shin Bet would continue to "use all means at their disposal to thwart plots to harm the security of the State of Israel and its citizens."
When Nasrallah was eliminated by IDF forces, Hezbollah was humiliated. What many don’t know is that Hezbollah was also financially decimated. Hezbollah headquarters had $1.5 billion in cash that was incinerated and 2,000lbs of gold which was melted into the earth. #IDF 🇮🇱🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/hJNikyFavs
⚡️⚡️⚡️Some really good news as we head into Yom Kippur:
Most of Hezbollah’s cash and gold reserves were destroyed in Israel’s recent strike that eliminated the Hezbollah leader at their headquarters. An estimated $1.5 billion in cash was incinerated, and 2,000 pounds of gold… pic.twitter.com/WeHLLvCOOE
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I would think they also had enormous cryto cash accounts but those probably are gone too because only the owners knew the codes and the owners are dead.
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24 hour rule? (Modern terrorists keep their money in Swiss accounts).
Not sure but I think most Swiss Accounts are double or triple password protected so if the owners die the bank account is dead unless
- they told someone else the passwords
- they have a will in which the ownership of the account is clearly stated and the bequest of the ownership is also clearly stated
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^I'm sure any accounts Hezbollah has are accessible by Iran.
#7
Hezbollah Took Advantage of Crisis in Lebanon to Build Gold Reserve, Popularity in Preparation for War with Israel
Good find, Skidmark. Useful insights that raise probably silly questions… Can a shadow bank system be hacked? Or perhaps: how much fun could the clever have once they’d booby trapped laptops, cell phones, and other devices, and were listening anyway?
[IsraelTimes] Sgt. Maj. (res.) Ronny Ganizate, 36, killed in ground op; IDF says two Hezbollah commanders responsible for firing on Kiryat Shmona killed in south Lebanon airstrike
The Israel Defense Forces on Thursday morning announced that Sgt. Maj. (res.) Ronny Ganizate, of the Alon Brigade’s 5030th Battalion, was killed fighting Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, as the military continued to battle the Iran-backed terror group on multiple fronts including Syria.
Another reserve soldier from the 5030th Battalion was seriously wounded in the same incident and taken to a hospital, the military added.
Ganizate, 36, of Givat Shmuel, was the 12th Israeli soldier killed in the ground offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon and during operations on the border. Israel launched an offensive on September 23 aimed at removing the terror group from southern Lebanon following a year of near-daily cross-border attacks.
Also Thursday morning, the IDF said that air force jets struck and killed two Hezbollah commanders in south Lebanon.
One was named as Ahmad Mustaga Alhaj Ali, responsible for the firing of hundreds of rockets and anti-tank missiles at the border city of Kiryat Shmona. The other was Muhammad Ali Hamdan, commander of Hezbollah’s anti-tank corps in Meiss Ej Jabal, across the border from Kiryat Shmona, who the IDF said was also behind many attacks on northern communities.
The airstrikes came after two civilians, Revital Yehud, 45, and Dvir Sharvit, 43, were killed in a rocket attack on Kiryat Shmona Wednesday, as Hezbollah fired dozens of rockets into northern Israel and military forces aimed heavy air and ground fire at the Lebanese terror group.
The pair of fatalities, the first civilians to be killed since fighting between Israel and Lebanon intensified late last month, came on a day that also saw five people injured in a large rocket barrage on Haifa.
The IDF statement on Thursday morning said that it had struck weapons caches in south Lebanon and Beirut overnight, noting that steps were taken ahead of the strikes to minimize harm to civilians, including warnings to evacuate.
Also Wednesday, the IDF said in a statement that it killed Adham Jahout, a Hezbollah operative in the Quneitra area of southern Syria just across the border from the Golan Heights earlier in the day.
Jahout “passed information from Syrian regime officials to the Hezbollah organization,” as well as other information it gathered along the border to target the Golan Heights, the IDF said, in a rare Israeli confirmation of operations in Syria.
Hezbollah has lobbed over 3,000 rockets at Israel’s north — and in some cases beyond — since Israel launched its offensive on September 23. Israel says it is seeking to make it safe for some 60,000 people displaced by the ongoing Hezbollah attacks since October 2023 to return home, including by eliminating the threat of a Hamas-style cross-border rampage it alleges Hezbollah had planned to unleash on northern towns.
The Israeli military said it has dismantled Hezbollah infrastructure along the border and killed hundreds of Hezbollah fighters. It has also carried out airstrikes deeper inside Lebanon, including an attack on a coastal town near Sidon that Lebanon said killed four people on Wednesday. It did not say if the four were civilians or combatants.
The attacks on northern Israel over the last year have resulted in the deaths of 28 civilians. In addition, 34 IDF soldiers and reservists have died in cross-border skirmishes and in the ensuing ground operation launched in southern Lebanon in late September.
Two soldiers have been killed in a drone attack from Iraq, and there have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries.
Hezbollah has named 516 members who have been killed by Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon but some also in Syria. Another 94 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 a new offensive against Hezbollah in September, including the ground operation, in which the military says at least 450 Hezbollah operatives have been killed.
[Rudaw] Israeli airstrikes early Thursday targeted the central Syrian provinces of Homs and Hama, state media reported, as regional tensions continue to rise against the backdrop of the Israel-Gaza war.
“At approximately 1:00 am today, the Israeli enemy launched an air aggression from the direction of northern Lebanon, targeting a car assembly plant in the industrial zone in Hasiya in the Homs countryside and a military site in Hama,” Syria’s state-run SANA news agency reported, citing a military source.
Iran attempting to smuggle weapons to Hezbollah to replace that which Israel has destroyed.
The strikes caused material damage but no casualties, according to SANA.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, reported the strikes targeted an “Iranian car factory” in Homs as trucks loaded with Iraqi aid bound for Lebanon were being prepared, injuring four people.
Correction: Iran’s Iraqi catspaws attempting to provide cover while Iran attempts to smuggle. etc.
Israel has recently intensified its strikes in Syria, targeting warehouses of the Syrian army and Iran-backed militia positions.
Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes on regime-controlled areas of Syria throughout its over a decade-long civil war, often claiming to target pro-Iran militias, such as Lebanon’s Hezbollah group which supports the Syrian army.
The strikes have increased since October 7 of last year, when Palestinian Hamas militants launched an unprecedented, large-scale attack on Israeli territory that has prompted significant retaliation.
Israel rarely confirms strikes attributed to it in Syria but has repeatedly warned that it would not tolerate its arch-rival Iran gaining a foothold there.
On Sunday, the Observatory reported an Israeli airstrike targeted another car factory in Homs containing trucks loaded with Iraqi food and medical supplies for Lebanon.
[IsraelTimes] IDF says it told interim force to enter protected spaces before tank fire that injured two Blue Helmets at Naqoura headquarters in southern Lebanon, sparking wide condemnation
Two peacekeepers were injured by Israeli fire, the UN said Thursday, sparking condemnation from the international community and focusing attention on the force’s role along the conflict-strewn border.
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, which has some 10,000 peacekeepers charged with keeping arms and militias out of southern Lebanon, said Israel Defense Forces troops opened fire at three positions held by UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon on Thursday.
“This morning, two peacekeepers were injured after an IDF Merkava tank fired its weapon toward an observation tower at UNIFIL’s headquarters in Naqura, directly hitting it and causing them to fall,” the mission said, using an acronym for the Israeli military.
The two peacekeepers were from Indonesia’s contingent and were in good condition after being treated for light injuries, Indonesia Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi said in a statement.
Israel acknowledged its forces had been operating in the area. It says fighters from the Hezbollah terror group it is battling have been operating near UN posts. It said it instructed the UN forces in the area to shelter in protected spaces before opening fire.
UNIFIL also accused the IDF of firing on UN position 1-31 in Labbouneh over the past two days. It said Israel had “deliberately fired at” perimeter cameras on Wednesday, and on Thursday had hit “a bunker where peacekeepers were sheltering.”
Various national spokespersons condemning or deploring snipped.
At a UN Security Council meeting, the head of UN peacekeeping Jean-Pierre Lacroix said peacekeepers were at “serious risk.” He noted that 300 Blue Helmets had temporarily relocated to larger bases “with the movement of another 200 planned.”
Good idea.
“The safety and security of peacekeepers is now increasingly in jeopardy,” Lacroix said, adding that UNIFIL peacekeepers are confined to their bases, and that one UNIFIL contractor had already been killed.
UN Ambassador Danny Danon urged peacekeepers to move north Thursday.
”You won’t lead, you won’t follow, and you won’t do your damned job. So please get out of the way, because we will do it for you.”
“Our recommendation is that UNIFIL relocate 5 km (3 miles) north to avoid danger as fighting intensifies and while the situation along the Blue Line remains volatile as a result of Hezbollah’s aggression,” Danon said in a statement.
A spokesperson for UNIFIL told the Walla news site that the multinational force had rejected an Israeli request to evacuate posts along the Israeli-Lebanon border.
”Nyah nyah nya-nyah nyah!”
“We are there because the Security Council has asked us to be there. So we are staying until the situation becomes impossible for us to operate,” UNIFIL spokesperson Andrea Tenenti told Reuters.
Hint: it’s already impossible.
UNIFIL was created to oversee the withdrawal of Israeli troops from southern Lebanon after the end of the 1978 conflict between the two nations. The UN expanded its mission under Resolution 1701 following the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah,
…which occurred because UNIFIL had failed to keep Hezbollah out of the area, and they were acting out…
allowing peacekeepers to deploy along the Israeli border to help the Lebanese military extend its authority into the country’s south for the first time in decades.
Resolution 1701 calls for southern Lebanon to be free of armed groups aside from the Lebanese Armed Forces. Israel charges that both have been ineffective at keeping Hezbollah from building up arms and other infrastructure in southern Lebanon.
Danon told the Security Council that resolution 1701 must be enforced, along with resolution 1559, which was adopted in 2004, and “calls for the disbanding and disarmament of all Lebanese and non-Lebanese militias.”
Hopefully third time’s the charm.
“We are fulfilling our obligations to ensure this, and the council must support us in our efforts,” he said.
In a letter recent letter to the UN Security Council, Foreign Minister Israel Katz accused UNIFIL of failing to do its job, and included a map illustrating the short distance between a Hezbollah tunnel uncovered by Israeli forces and a UN base some 150 meters away, according to a Channel 12 news report.
“Israel has the right to take all necessary measures to protect itself and its citizens from ongoing hostilities by Hezbollah,” Katz wrote in the letter acquired by the Hebrew language media outlet. “While Israel does not seek full-scale war, it will take all necessary actions to restore security along its northern border and to ensure the safe return of its citizens to their homes and communities.”
Lacroix said it was up to Israel and Lebanon to ensure the resolution is upheld.
“UNIFIL is mandated to support the implementation of resolution 1701, but we must insist that it is for the parties themselves to implement the provisions of this resolution,” he told the Security Council.
In the year before the IDF ground invasion into Lebanon, UNIFIL facilities or vehicles were hit by shelling or gunfire on several occasions. In August, UNIFIL said three peacekeepers were on patrol and were lightly injured when an explosion occurred near their vehicle.
[IsraelTimes] Lebanon says 22 others killed in attack on areas of Lebanese capital previously unscathed by conflict; IDF eases some restrictions in north even as rocket fire persists
Large blasts shook Beirut on Thursday evening as Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s targeted at least one senior Hezbollah member in a previously untouched neighborhood in the Lebanese capital. The strike came as troops continued to raid villages in southern Leb ...an Iranian satrapy until recently 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... and as Hezbollah launched dozens of rockets across the border into Israeli cities and towns.
Wafiq Safa, Hezbollah’s Liason and Coordination Unit chief, was thought to be the target of one of the strikes, but managed to elude the attack on a third-floor apartment near central Beirut, three security sources told Rooters.
The sources did not provide any further information.
At least 22 other people were killed and more than 100 were maimed in the strikes, Lebanon’s health ministry said, although Lebanese medical source estimated that the toll was likely to rise as search and rescue operations continued.
The IDF did not immediately comment on the strikes, which appeared to mark deadliest attacks in the center of the capital since Israel escalated its campaign against Hezbollah last month.
Shortly after nightfall, Lebanese media reported that an apartment in an eight-story building on the edge of the Al Nuwairi and Ras el-Nabaa neighborhoods had been targeted in an Israeli airstrike.
A second building located in the nearby Basta neighborhood was also said to have been targeted minutes later.
Neither of the locations had previously been targeted in Israeli airstrikes, and they were well removed from the southern suburbs of Beirut, where Hezbollah’s headquarters are located.
It was the third time that such a strike had taken place beyond Beirut’s southern suburbs, though there have also been Israeli strikes on Hezbollah assets across southern Lebanon and in the eastern Beqaa Valley.
Rooters witnesses said at least one strike hit near a gas station and a thick column of smoke was visible. A large fire blazed in the background as rescue workers used torches to search the rubble for survivors, according to video broadcast by Hezbollah’s al-Manar television.
The attempt to kill Safa, whose role merges security and political affairs, marked a widening of targeting of Hezbollah officials by Israel, which had so far focused on the group’s military commanders and top leaders.
Safa, whom Middle East media reports said was born in 1960, oversaw negotiations that led to a 2008 deal in which Hezbollah exchanged the bodies of Israeli soldiers captured in 2006 for Lebanese prisoners in Israel. Hezbollah’s deadly 2006 raid into northern Israel triggered a 34-day war with Israel.
In 2021, Rooters reported that Safa warned the judge investigating Beirut’s catastrophic 2020 port explosion, who sought to question several politicians allied with Hezbollah, that Hezbollah would remove him from the probe .
He was sanctioned in 2019 by the US Treasury Department, which described him as Hezbollah’s interlocutor to the Lebanese security forces.
"As the head of Hezbollah’s security apparatus, which is directly linked to Secretary General His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The late, lamented satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...> , Safa has exploited Lebanon’s ports and border crossings to smuggle contraband and facilitate travel on behalf of Hezbollah, undermining the security and safety of the Lebanese people, while also draining valuable import duties and revenue away from the Lebanese government," the Treasury Department wrote at the time.
At the same time as details of the strikes in central Beirut continued to emerge, the IDF’s Arabic language front man Col. Avichay Adraee called on Lebanese civilians near two buildings in the southern suburb, a Hezbollah stronghold known as Dahiyeh, to evacuate immediately ahead of airstrikes.
"You are in the vicinity of facilities belonging to Hezbollah," Adraee warned, calling on civilians to distance themselves at least 500 meters from the targeted buildings, which were highlighted in two maps published alongside the statement.
The IDF also warned civilians in southern Lebanon not to return to their homes, to avoid being harmed by ongoing fighting, which injured two peacekeepers near a UNIFIL base in the coastal Naqoura area earlier in the day.
Despite the incident, the UN peacekeeping force again rejected Israel’s request that it evacuate its posts along the border due to concerns the fighting could harm Blue Helmets stationed there.
The peacekeeping force is deployed along the border to enforce the 2006 UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which bars Hezbollah from maintaining a military presence south of the Litani River.
However,
the way to a man's heart remains through his stomach... the terror group has blatantly violated the resolution for much of its existence, and the UN has failed to stop it from doing so, Israel charges.
Israel’s Channel 12 news reported Thursday evening that Foreign Minister Israel Katz had written to the UN Security Council lambasting the international body for its failure to enforce Resolution 1701.
Israel launched its ground operation in southern Lebanon on September 30, aiming to demolish Hezbollah infrastructure near the Israeli border to enable the safe return of Israeli residents to their homes in the north of the country, after a year of near-daily cross-border attacks.
Israel has ordered the evacuation of dozens of Lebanese localities amid the fighting, which the UN said has caused 600,000 people to become internally displaced.
In a video statement distributed to foreign press Thursday, IDF front man Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said troops in an evacuated village "built by Hezbollah" were "raiding every house, seizing all equipment, and dismantling Hezbollah’s ability" to carry out a plan similar to last year’s October 7 Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... terror onslaught in southern Israel.
"This is a terror base," he said, "every house here is ready for a raid against Israel."
Follow IDF spokesperson RAdm. Daniel Hagari inside a Hezbollah terrorist stronghold in southern Lebanon. pic.twitter.com/cckNIAdr8Y
The rear admiral is clearly the real thing, not a polished PR flack.
The IDF revealed what it said was evidence of the Iran-backed terror group’s plans last week, presenting images and maps from the foiled mass invasion plot. The army says that numerous Hezbollah positions and tunnels, as well as thousands of weapons, have since been destroyed by troops.
Hezbollah rockets continued to rain down on northern Israel on Thursday, even as the IDF’s Home Front Command announced that it was easing restrictions on gathering in certain areas to allow for communal High Holiday prayers. A barrage of some 50 rockets triggered sirens in multiple communities in the afternoon, including in Acre and Nahariya. No injuries were caused as a result, although several impacts were identified.
Shortly after, the Israeli Air Force said it had intercepted a “hostile aircraft” over the Western Galilee, followed by a drone that crossed into the Upper Galilee from Lebanon. Sirens were triggered in the area due to concerns that the interception would lead to falling fragments, but the IDF said that there had been no report of injuries.
Despite the rocket fire, educational activities will be able to resume in the central Galilee under new guidelines issued by the army Thursday, so long as they take place near shelters. In the Upper Galilee, meanwhile, they will be able to resume only from within shelters.
In the southern Golan Heights, Lower Galilee, the Carmel and Wadi Ara areas, the Home Front Command said gatherings would be allowed to take place outdoors with 100 people or less, and indoors with 350 or less.
Once upon a time, back in 2011, the Free Syrian Army was the big tent opposition to the Bashar al Assad Baathist Syrian government, and Amar al-Wawi, a former government intelligence officer, moved freely across the border between Turkey and Syria as their public relations man. Then ISIS and Al Nusra broke away, the Muslim Brotherhooder types set themselves up as the Islamic Front, and the non-religious rump withered away, leaving an empty name to be used by Turkey for its mixture of Turkic paramilitaries and ISIS remnants stationed on the Syrian side of Turkey’s border to guard it and harass the Kurdish and Syrian natives. Amar al-Wawi seems to have kept his footing, though, clearly continuing to make himself as useful to the Turkish paymasters in the current setup as he was to them in the heady days of the Arab Spring.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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