[AFRICANEWS] A military air strike on a mosque in Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... 's central city of Wad Madani killed 31 people, according to local activists.
The attack took place on Sunday evening, after prayers, in the city, which is the capital of al-Jazira state, located just south of Khartoum.
The Wad Madani Resistance® Committee, one of many volunteer groups providing aid across the war-torn country, shared the details in a statement on Tuesday.
The committee accused the army of using "barrel bombs" in the attack. They also reported that more than half of the victims have yet to be identified, as rescue teams continue to search through the remains of "dozens of charred and mutilated bodies."
Since April 2023, Sudan has been devastated by conflict between the Sudanese military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The fighting has led to tens of thousands of deaths and created one of the world's worst displacement and humanitarian crises.
The two sides are battling for control of al-Jazira state, a key agricultural area, which has been under RSF control since late last year. Both forces have been accused of war crimes, including attacking civilians and looting aid supplies.
The RSF has also faced allegations of widespread looting, besieging villages, and committing sexual violence in al-Jazira and other regions of Sudan.
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[AFRICANEWS] The day after M23 rebels seized the eastern townof Kalembe, the Congolese army announced they had taken it back.
However,
ars longa, vita brevis... the rebels claimed that they still have control over Kalembe.
The M23's incursion into the town broke an Angola-mediated ceasefire agreed upon in August
Kalembe is located in North Kivu province, which has been particularly hard hit since the M23 group launched a renewed insurgency in the country's east 2 years ago.
Congo and the UN accuse neighbouring Rwanda of supporting the group - allegations that Kigali strongly denies.
Rwanda deems the Hutu Death Eater group FDLR in eastern DRC a to be a danger to its frontiers.
The M23 rebels, mainly composed of Tutsi fighters, haven swathes of territory in eastern DRC after their offensive began 3 years ago.
Millions have been forced from their homes as a result of the fighting, which has also exacerbated a humanitarian crisis in North Kivu.
[FoxNews] Turkish authorities say 5 people, including security and civilians, were killed in the attack
Authorities in Turkey say that a deadly explosion at an aerospace facility on Wednesday was a terrorist attack.
The TUSAS site is in Kahramankazan district, Ankara province, about 40km from the capital.
Authorities say five people were killed and more than a dozen injured. Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya confirmed that the explosion was a "terrorist attack" in a statement on X, formerly Twitter. He added that the victims were both civilians and security personnel.
Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz condemned the attack in a statement on social media. He added that security forces responded to the explosion immediately.
"The treacherous terrorist attack targeted Turkey's achievements in defence industry," he wrote, adding that the country's "fight against terrorism will continue."
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte also acknowledged the attack in a statement, condemning "terrorism in all its forms."
Turkey's defense sector is a major exporter for the country, focusing mainly on military drones built at facilities like the one attacked on Wednesday.
No group has taken responsibility for the attack as of Wednesday afternoon.
Turkey has played a divisive role in the ongoing tensions in the Middle East throughout the year. While the country is a member of NATO, it has also expressed solidarity with terrorist groups like Hamas.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ordered the nation's flag to half staff in after the death of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in August. Israeli officials condemned the move when the Turkish Embassy in Israel complied with Erdogan's order.
Four people were killed and 14 others wounded in an attack at the Turkish Aerospace Industries’ headquarters on Wednesday, the government said, and witnesses said they heard gunfire and a loud explosion at the site near Ankara.
Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said two attackers were killed in what he called a terrorist attack, adding three of the injured were at death's door. TV broadcasters earlier showed footage of armed assailants entering the TUSAS building.
Ottoman Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, alongside Russia’s Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... at a BRICS conference in the Russian city of Kazan, also called it a terrorist attack.
The cause and perpetrators of the blast and subsequent gunfire remained unclear. No group had grabbed credit. Prosecutors have launched an investigation, state-run Anadolu Agency reported.
Some media reports claimed a suicide kaboom had occurred and that there were hostages inside the building, though officials have not confirmed this.
Witnesses told Rooters that employees inside the building were taken by authorities to shelters and no one was permitted to leave for a few hours. They said the blasts they heard may have taken place at different exits as employees were leaving work for the day.
According to Rudaw, a broadcast ban was imposed by the government, as they usually do in such situations.
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Terrorist attack in Ankara. 2 people were seen carrying the attack, one of the blew himself up and the other clashed with security forces. Gunfire ongoing pic.twitter.com/nIRmbwG8Ko
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A teenager has been arrested for allegedly plotting an ISIS-inspired drone terror attack on Phoenix's Pride events.
Marvin Aneer Jalo, 17, of Peoria, just outside of Phoenix, was arrested on October 18 and charged with felony counts of terrorism and conspiracy to commit terrorism.
Jalo is accused of having an instructional video on his phone that depicted an ISIS fighter making the explosive Triacetone Triperoxide (TATP), according to AZ Family. He is said to have been communicating with extremists who recruited him in a chatroom in 2023.
…real extremists or is he another one whose BFFs turned out to be the usual FBI informants?
He is said to have posted that he could 'bomb a 2024 Pride Parade and take over USA'
…the lad had an unrealistic estimate of his impact…
and that he had supplies to make explosive shipped to him, according to the outlet. Police believe, based on his messages, that the teen planned on making a 'bomb drone' using a remote-controlled vehicle.
'He definitely took steps in the process of putting together something that would act as an explosive,' Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell told AZ Family.
Mitchell said the boy had 'very radical ideas' and that he was 'homophobic.'
The criminal complaint, viewed by AZ Family, said that Jalo had searched the Phoenix Pride parade event prior to the celebrations last weekend.
The case is being investigating by the Attorney's Office, the FBI, and two police departments.
'These are serious charges. They do come with mandatory prison sentences,' Mitchell said.
Jalo is currently being held on a $1million cash-only bond, according to Mitchell.
The Attorney's Office said Jalo had 'intentionally or knowingly [provided] advice, assistance, direction or management of an act of terrorism'. They added that the intention of this had been 'to further the goals, desires, aims, public pronouncements, manifestos or political objectives' of ISIS.
The teenager is accused of participating in chatrooms between November 1, 2023 and May 31, 2024, where he is said to have discussed the 'supplies necessary to make an improvised explosive device.'
The Pride celebrations carried on without incident and saw Governor Katie Hobbs and Former UN Ambassador Susan Rice attend.
Earlier this year, ahead of Pride Month in June, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security warned that a foreign terrorist organization and their supporters might attack venues and events.
Major cities, like New York City, strengthen security at its events in June.
Phoneix's Pride events are held in October, which is LGBT History Month, instead of June due to the high summer temperatures in the city.
[Rudaw] Two American military personnel were maimed while assisting Iraqi forces in an operation that killed several top Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) leaders earlier this week, the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) announced on Wednesday.
"During the Iraqi-led operation, two U.S. military personnel were maimed while assisting Iraqi forces with site exploitation. They are in stable, pH balanced condition," CENTCOM said in a statement on Wednesday.
The operation targeted ISIS hideouts in the Hamrin Mountains of central Iraq. Nine senior ISIS figures were killed, including the group’s top leader in Iraq, known by ISIS as the wali (governor).
The American statement said the US-led global coalition against ISIS "provided technical support and intelligence that enables the missions, which will disrupt and degrade ISIS attack networks in Iraq."
In his statement announcing the operation, Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans... i praised Iraqi forces on their "exceptional mission," but did not mention the role of any foreign forces.
The Hamrin Mountains are a hotbed of jihadist activity as it is located in areas disputed between the federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) where the majority of Iraq’s anti-ISIS campaigns take place.
ISIS seized control of vast swathes of northern and central Iraq in 2014. The group was declared territorially defeated in the country in 2017 but it continues to carry out attacks on Iraqi and Kurdish forces.
"U.S. Central Command, alongside our coalition and Iraqi partners, will aggressively pursue ISIS and other gunnies that pose a threat to US forces, allies, partners, and security in the region," said CENTCOM commander Michael Erik Kurilla.
The coalition mission in Iraq will conclude in September 2025.
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[IsraelTimes] Islamic Resistance in Iraq, whose attack earlier this month killed 2 IDF soldiers, says it fired on ‘vital targets’ in Israel after army says it intercepted UAVs fired ‘from east’
[IsraelTimes] Channel 12 reports that the IDF has ordered its troops along the Gaza border to be on high alert amid indications that Hamas will try to fire rockets or carry out an attack on the Hebrew calendar anniversary of its October 7 onslaught, which it launched on the Simhat Torah holiday last year. Israel began marking the holiday this evening.
[IsraelTimes] Palestinians say 42 killed in past day, as airstrike hits former school in Gaza City used as Hamas command post; second round of polio vaccine drive completed
The military said Wednesday that some 20,000 Paleostinians had evacuated the Jabaliya area 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 amid its ongoing offensive, as it detained and killed terror operatives in the area.
Medics and residents said Israeli strikes across Gaza killed 42 people throughout the day.
According to the military, in that timeframe, troops killed numerous button men and seized weapons. It added that some 150 terror operatives were tossed into the calaboose by troops.
The IDF said in a statement that it was "breaking the Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... siege on Jabaliya" by "allowing civilians to evacuate, for their safety, in a safe manner and through organized routes.
"The breaking of the Hamas siege on Jabaliya is manifested in tens of thousands of civilians evacuating from the area since yesterday morning, despite the efforts by Hamas to prevent it," the IDF said.
The IDF statement added that the military and COGAT, the Defense Ministry body overseeing civilian matters in the West Bank and Gaza, are in contact with the international community and health authorities in Gaza to "maintain the ongoing functioning of the emergency systems of the hospitals, through the transfer of medical equipment and the supply of fuel subject to the operational situation, along with the evacuation of staff [and] patients."
The only medical facility still partially functioning in the targeted area has "no medicine or medical supplies," warned Hossam Abu Safia, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya
"People are being killed in the streets, and we can’t help them. Bodies are lying on the streets."
Earlier this month, the IDF ordered the evacuation of Jabaliya and surrounding towns in northern Gaza, where several hundred thousand Paleostinians are believed to still reside. The IDF has been operating to prevent Hamas from regrouping in northern Gaza. Many Paleostinians have remained in Jabaliya since the start of the war, despite repeated Israeli urgings to depart, either because they are unwilling or unable to evacuate. Some have claimed that the IDF has targeted those trying to flee — a charge the army denies.
The US has expressed concern that Israel is implementing the so-called General’s Plan, aimed at evacuating civilians and then laying siege to northern Gaza, in order to snuff out remaining Hamas fighters. The IDF has denied that this is the case and has begun allowing some aid into the area after two weeks of blocking assistance at the beginning of the month.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken ...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm... urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting Tuesday to publicly clarify that Israel is not implementing the plan, but the premier balked at the idea, according to a US official familiar with the matter.
Also on Wednesday, the IDF and Shin Bet said in a joint statement that the Israeli Air Force had carried out a strike on a Hamas command center located in a Gaza City compound that used to house the al-Zahra school. The IDF said measures were taken ahead of time to minimize the risk of civilian casualties.
POLIO VACCINE DRIVE IN SOUTH
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... vaccines was completed Tuesday in southern Gaza, according to Israel. COGAT said that 266,273 children under the age of 10 were vaccinated in the area, representing 91 percent of the target population in southern Gaza.
It said the vaccine campaign in northern Gaza "will begin in the coming days, after a joint assessment and at the request of WHO and UNICEF." The World Health Organization said earlier Wednesday that it was forced to delay the vaccine rollout in northern Gaza due to escalating violence in the area.
Amid the violence, UNRWA, the UN agency for Paleostinian refugees, said another of its workers had been killed in Gaza after a strike hit one of its vehicles. An AFP photographer reported a strike in the southern city of Khan Younis, leaving a mangled aid truck and mourners gathered around two bodies.
The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 42,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far, though the toll cannot be verified and does not differentiate between civilians and fighters. Israel says it has killed some 17,000 combatants in battle as of August and another 1,000 turbans inside Israel on October 7.
Israel has said it seeks to minimize civilian fatalities and stresses that Hamas uses Gaza’s civilians as human shields, fighting from civilian areas including homes, hospitals, schools, and mosques.
Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip stands at 358.
The IDF says forces are pushing ahead with an offensive in the Jabaliya area of northern Gaza with troops killing dozens of Hamas operatives and arresting more than 200 suspected terrorists.
The Karaj nuclear facility west of Tehran is on fire. Which is unusual because nuclear facilities aren't supposed to be on fire. pic.twitter.com/XTlR39CyXE
— The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome (@TheMossadIL) October 24, 2024
More attempted deliveries of Iranian weapons heading toward Hezbollah, no doubt.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli strikes on the Syrian capital Damascus and a military site near the western city of Homs early on Thursday killed one soldier and injured seven, the Syrian defense ministry says.
The attacks targeted the central Damascus neighborhood of Kafr Sousa and a military site in the Homs countryside, the ministry says in a statement, adding the strikes caused "material damage" without elaborating.
Earlier, Syrian state media said explosions were heard in Damascus after Israel struck a residential building in Kafr Sousa.
Israel has recently intensified its strikes in Syria, targeting warehouses of the Syrian army and Iran-backed militia positions.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said the strike in Damascus killed an “unidentified person” and injured three others, adding that Syrian air defense systems failed to activate against the missiles.
Israel has carried out 121 strikes on Syrian territory since the beginning of the year, killing 261 combatants and wounding 188 more, according to the Observatory that relies on a network of on-the-ground sources in the country.
[IsraelTimes] State media reports six buildings leveled in strikes on Lebanese capital; Hezbollah-linked broadcaster says it vacated office that was targeted without evacuation warning
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... state media reported 17 Israeli strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, with six buildings leveled and the vacated offices of a Hezbollah-linked broadcaster hit on Wednesday, after the Lebanese terror group fired rockets at central Israel as the country began marking the Simhat Torah holiday.
AFPTV footage showed a massive explosion followed by smaller blasts in the southern suburbs following an Israeli army evacuation warning for the area, where Hezbollah holds sway.
The official National News Agency (NNA) reported at least 17 Israeli raids, marking one of the most intensive nights of strikes targeting the area in the past month. Six buildings were destroyed around the suburb of Laylaki, NNA said, calling the raids "the most violent mostly peaceful in the area since the beginning of the war." The strikes came shortly after the Israel Defense Forces’ Arabic-language front man, Avichay Adraee, issued evacuation warnings on social media platform X.
There was no warning, however, for a strike that hit the Jnah neighborhood in southern Beirut that targeted an office the pro-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... TV channel al-Mayadeen said it vacated.
"Al-Mayadeen holds the Israeli occupation accountable for the attack on a known media office for a known media outlet," said the pan-Arab broadcaster, which is aligned with Hezbollah. The strike killed one person and maimed five others, according to Lebanon’s health ministry. The name of the person killed was unknown.
The office was hit by two rockets and "completely destroyed" in the strike, which sparked a blaze inside, NNA reported.
Al-Mayadeen’s office is located near the former premises of the Iranian embassy in Beirut and close to a Lebanese army checkpoint.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that Israel uncovered a plot by Hezbollah to attack via underground tunnels involving jeeps and missiles, telling French broadcasters CNews and Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... 1 that had the plan succeeded, such an assault would be been more damaging than the October 7, 2023, Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... onslaught.
"A hundred meters, two hundred meters from the border we found tunnels, tunnels that were preparing an invasion of Israel, an attack even greater than on October 7," Netanyahu said, according to a simultaneous translation provided by the networks.
"With jeeps, with cycle of violences, with rockets, with missiles. They were planning an invasion."
Netanyahu had told French daily Le Figaro earlier this month that the Israeli army found Russian cutting-edge military hardware in Hezbollah arms caches.
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.COM.LB] The Israeli enemy continued its barbaric Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on 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... for the 31st consecutive day, targeting civilians, their homes, and livelihoods across multiple regions, particularly in the south, Bekaa, West Bekaa, and Beirut's southern suburb (Dahiyeh).
In the latest assaults, Israeli occupation warplanes struck the towns of Bazouriyeh and Mahmoudiyah, along with the outskirts of Kfar Roumman and Blat. Areas in Khiyam, Arabsalim, Taybeh, and Baflay were also targeted, including the orchards surrounding Qasmiyeh.
Reports confirmed that two deaders were killed in an airstrike on Mayfadoun, which also destroyed the women's Husayniyya (religious assembly hall) in the town.
HYSTERIC ATTACK ON TYRE, SOUTH LEBANON
The Israeli occupation launched a barrage of intense airstrikes on the southern city of Tyre, hitting several key locations, including the al-Shaheed Foundation, al-Afak Institute, al-Qard al-Hassan Association, the Islamic Health Organization, the old municipal building, Azhar al-Salam Street, and al-Diniyah Street.
ISRAELI AGGRESSION ON BEKAA
In the Bekaa Valley, Israeli aircraft carried out an airstrike on the town of Shmestar, struck Nabi Sheet, targeted a house in Taraya, and executed another airstrike on the town of Zaboud.
In West Bekaa, enemy warplanes struck Abu Rashed Mountain, located between West Bekaa and the Jezzine area, and carried out two airstrikes on the town of Labaya.
The Lebanese Ministry of Health announced that 19 individuals were martyred and 35 others were maimed in evening airstrikes across the Nabatiyeh, South Lebanon, and Baalbek-Hermel governorates.
As of yesterday, the total number of deaders from the Israeli aggression on Lebanon reached 2,546, while the number of injured surpassed 11,862, according to statistics from the Lebanese Ministry of Health.
Israel launched strikes earlier Wednesday in the ancient coastal city of Tyre, which according to NNA caused “massive destruction and serious damage to homes, infrastructure, buildings, shops and cars.”
The Lebanese health ministry said 16 people were wounded in the strikes on Tyre, while AFP footage showed entire neighborhoods buried under rubble.
“The whole city shook,” Rana, a resident who asked to only use her first name over security concerns, told AFP after fleeing to the seafront following an Israeli military warning for people to evacuate much of Tyre’s center in the morning.
The IDF strikes targeted “command and control complexes of various Hezbollah units,” according to a social media post by Adraee.
Adraee described Tyre as an “important” Hezbollah stronghold, although Amal, an ally of the Iran-backed group, was believed to hold more sway there.
Before the Israel-Hezbollah border skirmishes began last year, at least 50,000 people lived in Tyre, a vibrant city home to both Christians and Muslims. The city was emptied of most of its population when Israel’s escalated its offensive against Hezbollah last month.
Only 14,500 remained there on Tuesday, said Bilal Kashmar of Tyre’s disaster management unit. But the city saw a fresh exodus on Wednesday as people began to escape immediately after the Israeli army issued an evacuation warning for four neighborhoods at 8:00 a.m.
Emergency teams drove around the city, urging people to evacuate over megaphones, a video journalist collaborating with AFP said. An AFP photographer in the city of Sidon, further north, saw dozens of cars on the coastal highway filled with families carrying mattresses, suitcases and clothes.
Tyre is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. It is home to important archaeological sites, mainly from Roman times. Kashmar said there has yet to be a damage assessment for heritage sites. However, “damage is possible,” he said, explaining that one strike hit less than 50 meters away from one of the city’s ruins. UNESCO said it was “closely following the impact of the ongoing conflict on the World Heritage site of Tyre” using remote sensing tools and satellite imagery.
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How they must loathe Hamas right now. Were it not for Hamas jumping the gun again, that pincer thing would have worked for sure… when they finally got around to executing the thing.
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...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm....jpg "polio")
POLIO VACCINE DRIVE IN SOUTH
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
...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...
