[NY Post] An illegal migrant who failed to appear at his immigration hearing after being cut loose at the border has been arrested for allegedly raping a 5-year-old girl on Long Island, police said.
Wilson Castillo Diaz, 26, is accused of attacking the little girl on Oct. 16, according to Nassau County cops.
Details of the alleged rape — including Diaz’s relationship with the girl and where it occurred — weren’t immediately available. "She was dressed provocatively!"
The child was taken to a local hospital for a medical evaluation after the alleged attack, police said.
Diaz, who was living in Westbury, had illegally crossed into the US near Rio Grande, Texas, in April 2014, according to cops.
He was taken into custody by US border agents but later cut loose after being served with a notice to appear before an immigration judge.
Diaz failed to appear at his immigration court hearing, according to cops.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has already been notified of his recent arrest, police said, without saying which country the suspect was originally from.
Diaz was arraigned last Wednesday on a slew of charges, including rape, attempted rape and endangering the welfare of a child.
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Put him in general population where the girl will get far more justice than a system that far more sympathetic to the perp.
At least a dozen people were arrested as Los Angeles descended into chaos Wednesday night after the Dodgers beat the Yankees in the World Series — with belligerent baseball fans setting fire to a bus while others clashed with cops and looters ran amok.
Six people were arrested for commercial burglary, four for receiving stolen property, and two for failure to disperse, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
The LAPD shared footage of a mob of looters running in and out of a boarded-up Nike store carrying merchandise and throwing it into cars parked outside the store about four miles from Dodger Stadium just after 11 p.m.
Elsewhere, footage from the wild chaos captured a man covered in blue paint on his hands and knees frantically scrawling a message on a sidewalk ahead of an advancing crowd of police. That blue guy scurried away, but another man was caught up in the brigade of cops and dragged by his backpack for a block as officers in riot-gear dispersed the mayhem, according to the footage captured by journalist Sean Beckner-Carmitchel.
The LAPD said it was “aware of the looting” and has made arrests but did not disclose how many suspects were taken into custody.
The department also shared that “several businesses” were looted and multiple properties were “vandalized” during the “violent celebrations” across the city.
Aerial footage from ABC 7 Los Angeles shows dozens of looters calmly walking into and leaving a Nike store with boxes of goods without police interference. As looters ransacked businesses, other areas of downtown Los Angeles were plunged into madness.
The LAPD said a “hostile crowd” — estimated at between 200 and 300 people — lit an MTA bus on fire about a mile from Dodger Stadium around 12:35 a.m. local time. Footage posted to Citizen captured the moment a massive crowd — the majority of whom were wearing Dodgers jerseys and apparel — surrounded and sat atop the graffiti-laced bus. Members of the crowd were caught on video entering the bus, while others were seen holding up Dodgers flags and taking pictures.
Emergency responders arrived at about 12:45 a.m. local time, monitored the bus fire, and protected nearby structures from potential spread.
A video posted by @FilmThePoliceLA shows fireworks being set off inside the bus as the crowd shouts in excitement. Another showed the bus fully engulfed in flames and spewing out thick, black smoke while police in riot gear set up a perimeter to keep back the crowd.
“Let’s go, Dodgers!” the crowd shouted over the sounds of helicopters and police sirens.
The bus then appeared to explode and shot flames into the air.
The LAPD also reported that officers trying to disperse the rowdy crowd were being pelted with rocks, bottles and fireworks from a malicious crowd around where the looting was taking place.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass warned citizens that “violence will not be tolerated” as the city celebrates the Dodgers besting the Yankees during Game 5 in New York, according to Fox 11 Los Angeles.
Courtesy of Skidmark, the Daily Mail has video and more photos here.
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Actually the riot was already ongoing before the Dodgers won. The win was just another excuse.
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[MSN-DW] German police are looking for a man who left a bag of explosives at Berlin's Neukölln train station. A police search is underway on Thursday in the German capital, Berlin, after a man left a bag of explosives at a Berlin train station on Wednesday evening.
A police officer told the daily Berliner Zeitung that "it seems as if an attack has been prevented," as an explosion caused by the contents of the bag would have had "dramatic consequences" if it occurred near a group of people.
The man ran away after he was subjected to a check by police officers.
The bag was reportedly destroyed at a nearby car park in a controlled explosion.
A man fled a police stop on the Berlin mass transit rail, dropping a bag as he fled containing over 17 ounces of a terrorist-favoured home made explosive.
Bomb squad officers discovered a drinks bottle wrapped in wire containing 500g (17½ ounces) of TATP explosives, along with a further quantity of cables and a believed stolen-in-2022 Polish citizen identity card.
Oh? So he could be a jihadi or a criminal. Let’s leave the story on Page 1: War on Terror until we have more information.
TATP is highly unstable and prone to exploding if handled roughly, suggesting the suspect in this case fleeing on foot and dropping a bag containing the explosive without it setting off was a lucky escape for pursuing officers and the wider public. What was said to be an attempted terror attack by a Ukrainian krazed killer in La Belle France earlier this year was averted, apparently at the last moment, after the would-be alleged perpetrator accidentally went kaboom! in an airport hotel room, it was reported at the time.
We know it here as Mother of Satan, which can be mixed up in the bathtub of your mother
The explosive has been used in terrorist attacks and in planned terror attacks again and again, but it is also known to be in use with robbery gangs blowing up cash machines.
Berlin’s Neukölln district has developed something of a reputation for crime. As previously reported of the neighbourhood:
well known for being both heavily migrant-settled and as being a centre of strength for German left-wing hard boys, who call themselves Antifa ...the armed wing of the Democratic Party...
Or he might be Antifa. So many exciting possibilities to ponder.
In some cases... violence in Neukölln manifests itself on strictly religious lines, and in others as cultural difference.
The area has become infamous to a certain degree recently, however, as migrant riots took place on New Year’s Eve into 2023, with widespread damage across the area. The way Germany responded to these events became a scandal itself, as broadcasters were accused of trying to cover up the violence, with the immigration background to the riots subject played down in reports.
[IsraelTimes] The Iran-backed Islamic Resistance of Iraq issues a statement claiming responsibility for a drone attack targeting southern Israel, after the military said it intercepted a pair of UAVs over the Red Sea.
[IsraelTimes] Nervously watching Israel’s destructive campaigns in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with 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... and 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... , Iraq is working to avoid being drawn into the growing regional conflict as Iran-backed gangs launch attacks on Israel from Iraqi soil, sources familiar with the matter say.
Two decades after the US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, Iraq is experiencing relative stability with high revenue from oil sales funding a service-based agenda that has turned much of the country into a construction site.
Iraq does not have diplomatic relations with Israel and 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’s government is wary of regional conflicts that could affect its delicate balancing act between Washington and Tehran, both states it is allied with.
Spillover from regional conflict resulted in months of tit-for-tat attacks between Iran-backed gangs and US forces stationed in Iraq and the region that only subsided after 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... intervened in February.
But Sudani’s government has not been successful in a push to convince the Islamic Resistance® in Iraq — a coalition of Iran-backed gangs — to stop firing rockets and drones at Israel, according to four sources in Iran-backed gangs and two government advisors.
Two visits to Iran by Iraq’s top security officials in the past two months, seeking Tehran’s help to rein in its allied Iraqi factions, failed, the sources say.
"The Iraqi delegation received a cold reception in Tehran... The answer was: those groups have their own decision and it is their call to decide how to support their brothers in Lebanon and Gaza," said a senior Iraqi security official briefed on the visits.
Baghdad turned to Washington, asking US officials to intervene with Israel to prevent retaliation for the attacks, including one that killed two Israeli soldiers and maimed more than 20 on October 4, the sources say, the first time such an attack has been reported to cause fatalities.
"Washington was understanding of the repercussions of possible Israeli strikes in Iraq and pledged to help," says an Iraqi foreign ministry official.
[IsraelTimes] The IDF issues a statement denying responsibility for damaging UNRWA’s office in the West Bank camp of Nur Shams, saying the damage was caused by Palestinian terror operatives.
Perhaps someone over there is miffed at Hamas.
“The claim that the UNRWA offices in Nur Shams were destroyed by IDF soldiers is false,” the statement reads.
“Terrorists planted explosives in the proximity of the UNRWA offices that were then detonated in an attempt to harm IDF soldiers.
Or perhaps it was Hamas/UNRWA turbans wanting to stay close to home, as it were.
The explosives likely caused damage to the structure,” the IDF statement adds.
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Watchdog: ‘UNRWA’s existence violates UN charter’ “UNRWA keeps Palestinians in perpetual refugeehood, giving them this dream that they have a right of return to sovereign Israeli territory,” Rovner concluded. “We know what that looks like. We saw it on October 7.”
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UNRWA keeps Palestinians in perpetual refugeehood
If the Paleostinian Problem ever gets solved, UNRWA is out of business. Gone. All those good-paying jobs, the fancy offices, cocktail parties with the donors, all gone. Tragic, from an NGO point of view.
This is not an unusual dynamic. You see it with teacher's unions. As long as the kids cannot read or write, the school system needs more money. And we need to pay teachers more to attract qualified people. The fact that more money didn't fix anything is a sign we need more money.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli and four Thai nationals killed in Metula orchard; pair, reportedly mother and son, killed in olive grove near Haifa
Hezbollah rocket attacks on northern Israel killed seven people in agricultural fields near Metula and Haifa Thursday, marking what appeared to be the deadliest day in months for civilians inside Israel.
The deaths, which raised the number of civilians killed in the last year of cross-border attacks on northern Israel to 39, were likely to loom large in meetings between Israeli officials and US mediators hoping to end over a month of fighting, as the military continued to expand its strikes on Hezbollah sites deep inside 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... Authorities said five people working in an apple orchard near the border town of Metula were killed when a rocket fired from Lebanon struck them late Thursday morning.
Another person was seriously maimed in the attack.
The victims were all agricultural laborers who had been working in the orchard at the time of the strike. One was an Israeli citizen, while the others were foreign nationals.
The Israeli was named by Kibbutz Dafna as Omer Weinstein, a member of the community.
Early Friday, Thailand’s foreign minister identified the foreign nationals killed in the attack as Thai citizens.
The Israel Defense Forces confirmed in a short statement that two rockets had been fired from Lebanon at the Metula area, and said the details of the incident were being examined.
Hours later, two more people were killed while in an olive grove outside the Haifa suburb of Kiryat Ata as Hezbollah fired dozens of rockets at the area, authorities said. The two, described as a woman in her 60s and a man in his 30s, were killed by falling shrapnel, according to the Magen David Adom rescue service. Hebrew media reports described the two as a mother and son who had been harvesting olives when the rocket hit. They were named in reports as Mina Hasson, 60, and Karmi Hasson, 21, from the Arab-majority city of Shfaram. Rescuers found the pair in a field near Gilam junction, along with a man in his 70s, who was hospitalized with light injuries.
Buses and cars at the busy intersection were strafed by shrapnel, but no other major injuries were reported.
According to the IDF, Hezbollah fired some 25 rockets at the Haifa region and other parts of the north in the attack. "Some were shot down and some fell in the area," the IDF said.
The corpse count for a single day of cross-border fire was among the highest since Hezbollah began lobbing rockets and drones into northern Israel on October 8, 2023.
It appeared to mark the deadliest day for northern Israel since fighting intensified last month and since a July 27 Hezbollah rocket attack that killed 12 children at a park in the Druze town of Majdal Shams.
It wasn’t long before rocket warning sirens blared once more, this time in Karmiel and other communities across the Galilee region, as Hezbollah launched a barrage of some 30 rockets toward northern Israel. No casualties were reported in that attack.
According to the military, some 60 rockets and drones were fired at northern Israel as of Thursday afternoon.
Some of the projectiles were intercepted by air defenses, the IDF said, while others struck open areas.
[IsraelTimes] In new espionage cases, prosecutors say pair tracked woman at top security think tank, while man spied on nuclear scientist for potential assassination
A couple from Lod were indicted Thursday on suspicion of spying for Iran. Officials said the two gathered intelligence on key national infrastructure sites and followed an academic figure at a security think tank that 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... allegedly intended to harm physically.
In permitting for publication the arrest of Lod residents Rafael and Lala Guliyev, both aged around 32, the Shin Bet and Israel Police noted in a joint statement that their case was the latest in a number of incidents of alleged espionage for Tehran that were made public in recent weeks.
Hours later, prosecutors also revealed that another man, Asher Binyamin Weiss of Bnei Brak, was indicted last week on suspicion of activities that involved tracking a nuclear scientist, who was the target of an alleged Iranian liquidation plot uncovered when another suspected Iranian cell was caught.
Both the recent cases saw the suspects allegedly following security figures, photographing and filming their homes and cars and then sending the material to Iranian handlers who were seeking to recruit assassins, according to prosecutors.
In their statement, the Shin Bet and police said the Guliyevs were recruited as part of an Iranian network focusing on immigrants colonists to Israel from the Caucasus region. They said the two were approached by an Israeli of Azerbaijani origin named in the statement as Elshan (Elchanan) Agyeiv, 56.
According to officials, Rafael Guliyev carried out surveillance tasks on security sites in Israel, including Mossad headquarters near Tel Aviv, and collected information on an academic working at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). Iran had singled out the woman to be targeted for physical harm, the statement said, without giving details or naming her.
Officials said Rafael Guliyev was also tasked with finding an assassin on behalf of his Iranian handlers and was assisted by his wife on a number of missions.
A Shin Bet official said the investigation revealed "once again the efforts of the Iranian intelligence agencies to recruit and exploit Israeli citizens in order to promote espionage and terrorist activity in Israel."
An indictment was filed against the pair at the Lod District Court, revealing more details of the allegations against them.
Asking that the suspects be held until the end of proceedings, prosecutors noted that they "committed security offenses at a time when Israel is fighting one of the most difficult wars it has ever known, on many fronts, including Iran. They were aware of being agents of entities hostile to Israel and nonetheless continued to cooperate with them."
Prosecutors said that Guliyev had been in contact with two Iranian agents since 2021. Over the years he also allegedly made his own suggestions of activities that the agents could find beneficial.
He received $600 for each day he spent following the INSS woman, and spent hours filming and photographing her home and car, according to the indictment.
Guliyev’s Iranian handlers told him to purchase equipment such as a dedicated phone, high-quality cameras and a laptop computer on which he installed encryption software. Communications were made via the Telegram app and encrypted applications, prosecutors said, with the Iranians urging Guliyev to be careful that the messages were not discovered.
The couple are also accused of photographing and videoing the Moldovan consulate in Tel Aviv, Israel Electric Coroporation sites, the Haifa Port, a water pumping state in Hadera, public bomb shelters in Tel Aviv and graves of victims of Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... ’s October 7 massacre. They were also said to have photographed posters of hostages held in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with 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... that were posted near the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv.
In total, the pair received $26,000 from the Iranians, according to the charge sheet.
A senior Shin Bet official said in the statement that the spate of recent incidents showed "the efforts by Iranian intelligence to draft and take advantage of Israeli citizens for the purpose of spying and terror acts in Israel."
A police source said the force will work relentlessly "against those conscienceless criminals who cooperate with the enemy and endanger the Israeli public."
The INSS, in a statement, thanked the Shin Bet for foiling the plot. Institute chief Tamir Hayman said it was "not surprising that INSS people are a target for Iran and its proxies" as the think tank plays a leading role in security research.
Hayman said he was in constant contact with relevant security services and acting according to their instructions.
Hours later, the State Attorney’s Office reported it had filed an indictment against Weiss, the Bnei Brak resident, on suspicion that he acted on behalf of Iran by tracking an Israeli nuclear scientist whom the Iranian regime sought to assassinate.
Weiss was indicted on charges of contact with a foreign agent, passing information to the enemy, and obstruction of justice.
According to the indictment, Weiss used a GoPro camera to video the scientist’s house and car. The Iranian agent sent the video footage to a young man from East Jerusalem who was tasked with assassinating the scientist. Seven East Jerusalem residents were arrested last month in connection with that case, which saw officials bust another alleged Iranian spy ring.
Weiss also allegedly carried out acts of sabotage such as setting cars on fire and spraying graffiti. He is also accused of posting hundreds of posters in Tel Aviv and Ramat Gan calling for civil revolt.
For his work, he was paid thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency, prosecutors said. In order to prove he had carried out instructions, he sent photos of his actions to his handlers, they said.
The seven suspects from last week, all men aged 19 to 23 from the Beit Safafa neighborhood in East Jerusalem without previous criminal or security-related records, were pursuing the liquidation of an Israeli nuclear scientist as well as the mayor of a large city in central Israel, the authorities said in a statement at the time.
Six of those suspects are Israeli citizens, and the other is a permanent resident.
The suspects carried out various missions for their Iranian contacts, including posting graffiti demanding the release of Israeli hostages, vandalizing sites in Jerusalem, and photographing various locations, the authorities said. Then, upping the severity, the leader of the ring, a 23-year-old named Rami Alian, was asked to hurl a hand grenade at a security serviceman, though the attack never went ahead.
Alian was ultimately given a photo and address of a nuclear scientist whom the Islamic Theocratic Republic wanted him to assassinate, and was told he would be paid NIS 200,000 ($53,000) if he succeeded, authorities said.
He allegedly began preparations, gathering information about the target, including his daily habits, whereabouts, and other personal information, but the cell was arrested before it could move forward.
The Shin Bet in recent months has announced a series of alleged Iranian plots, in which Tehran had tried to trick Israelis online into carrying out missions.
In September, seven Jewish Israelis were arrested on suspicion of spying on security figures and IDF bases for Iran.
They were accused of collecting information for their Iranian contacts about several Israeli citizens, including a senior security figure — whom authorities have not publicly identified — and may have been part of a plot to ultimately assassinate the figure. It was not immediately clear if that was the nuclear scientist believed targeted in the other case.
The suspects allegedly followed this figure, including taking pictures at his door, and also surveilled his children.
In September, a man from the southern city of Ashkelon was arrested on allegations that he was smuggled into Iran twice and received payment to carry out missions on behalf of Tehran, and was recruited to assassinate either Israel’s prime minister, defense minister, or the head of the Shin Bet.
Then, on October 14, a man and his 18-year-old partner, both from Ramat Gan, were arrested on charges they carried out various acts of sabotage and vandalism on behalf of an Iranian agent.
On October 16, the Israel Police and State Attorney’s Office announced the arrest of a man from central Israel, who allegedly acquired a weapon in order to kill an Israeli scientist on instructions from an Iranian agent, after performing several smaller tasks on the agent’s behalf.
Those recent cases came after authorities in January uncovered a scheme involving Israelis who were allegedly recruited to gather intelligence on high-profile figures.
[IsraelTimes] Military publishes video of former UNRWA employee telling interrogator Hamas looted refugee aid agency; COGAT figures said to show drop in aid entering Strip for October
Israeli forces struck a 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... hospital where it said "dozens of terrorists" had been found hiding out Thursday, as the military pushed an offensive in the north of the Strip, claiming regrouped terror cells in the city of Jabalia were falling apart.
There were no reports of any casualties at Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya after an IDF strike hit the third floor of the building, though Hamas ..always the voice of sweet reason... -run health authorities in Gaza reported that at least 30 Paleostinians were killed in other attacks throughout the Strip, without clarifying how many were combatants.
The Israel Defense Forces said it was continuing to strike targets in Jabalia and elsewhere, releasing what it said was testimony from a United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... worker testifying that Hamas members had raided aid supplies and used UN vehicles to move around.
Northern Gaza, where Israel said in January it had dismantled the terror group’s command structure, is currently the main focus of the IDF’s operations in the Paleostinian enclave. Earlier this month, it sent tanks into Jabalia, Beit Hanoun, and Beit Lahiya to flush out terror operatives it said had regrouped in the area.
Eid Sabbah, director of nursing at Kamal Adwan, told Rooters some staff had suffered minor burns from the strike on the hospital.
The IDF said in a statement following Thursday’s strike that "during the operation, it was found that dozens of bandidosbandidos bully boys were hiding in the hospital, with some even posing as hospital staff."
Israeli forces who raided the hospital last week captured around 100 suspected Hamas operatives, the IDF said at the time.
Medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said on Thursday that one of its doctors at the hospital, Mohammed Obeid, were tossed into the calaboose last Saturday by Israeli forces. It called for the protection of him and all medical staff who "are facing horrific violence as they try to provide care."
How many of MSF’s precious medical staffers are double dipping on the Hamas payroll?
Israel maintains that its military campaign takes pains to avoid casualties among civilians and aid workers, blaming the Hamas terror group for using innocent Gazooks and international aid organizations as cover, putting them in the line of fire.
In a video published by the army’s public affairs arm Thursday, a Jabalia man described as a former security guard for UNRWA, the UN agency for Paleostinian refugees, tells an Israeli interrogator that following the outbreak of the war on October 7, 2023, Hamas members came into an UNRWA facility and "took everything" by force.
The man said that Hamas members brazenly looted trucks loaded with "supplies," and then commandeered the UNRWA vehicles as well, using them as a shield.
"It’s a form of defense for them, so they can move around easily, transport and get things et cetera," the man said, according to a translation provided by the military.
When we say Hamas is embedded in @UNRWA this is what we mean.
WATCH a testimony of an UNRWA employee in northern Gaza, in which he explains how Hamas exploits UNRWA facilities and vehicles: pic.twitter.com/9K7u6hJlfn
The army said Thursday that its raids in Jabalia had netted arrests of hundreds of suspected terrorists, including some accused of taking part in the October 7 massacre.
Good.
It added that dozens of civilians evacuating south out of Jabalia had testified that they had been pressured and even threatened by Hamas to stay in the area, which the army claimed harbors a "high concentration of bandidosbandidos bully boys from Hamas and other terror organizations."
"The surrender of bandidosbandidos bully boys and their attempts to move south as a result of military pressure testifies to the breaking of the terror stronghold of Jabalia," the IDF said.
The army announced Thursday that a soldier with the Givati Brigade’s Rotem Battalion was seriously maimed during operations in northern Gaza. He was taken to a hospital in Israel for treatment.
In central Gaza, meanwhile, the military said on Thursday that troops destroyed a site used for the production of munitions.
AID REPORTED DOWN
Given that so many tens of thousands have moved south, thee are considerably fewer mouths to feed.
US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller
…who clearly wants it understood that he does not approve of that shitty little country, Israel…
said on Wednesday that since the US sent a letter to Israel on October 13 warning that continued security assistance was at risk if it didn’t take significant steps to improve the humanitarian crisis in Gaza within 30 days, the measures Jerusalem has taken have been minor and insufficient.
While there has been some improvement in the number of delivery routes to aid, the uptick has been minor and the humanitarian "situation still remains at a level that we don’t find acceptable," Miller said.
He said there continue to be breakdowns in communications between the IDF and aid agencies and issues in which approvals aren’t granted by the IDF for aid workers to operate throughout Gaza, or issues where authorizations are given but they aren’t transmitted to officers on the ground. There are also still Paleostinian armed gangs that have been looting some of the aid coming into Gaza, Miller said.
Citing figures from COGAT, the Israeli military body responsible for facilitating the delivery of aid into Gaza, Haaretz revealed Thursday that the amount of aid in tons that entered the Strip during the month of October was the least this year.
[IsraelTime] Ireland’s military says a base for Irish peacekeeping troops in southern Lebanon has been hit by a rocket fired toward Israel. No one was injured.
Lt. Gen. Sean Clancy, chief of staff of Ireland’s defense forces, says the Katyusha rocket landed in an unoccupied area of Camp Shamrock yesterday, causing “minimal damage.”
He says the rocket was traveling toward Israel, and it is unclear whether it fell or was taken down by Israel’s Iron Dome defense system.
About 350 Irish soldiers are currently deployed as peacekeepers with the United Nations mission in Lebanon known as UNIFIL.
Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris describes the incident as “extremely serious” and says not enough is being done to protect peacekeeping troops amid the Israel-Hezbollah conflict.
Note how he carefully is not blaming the actual perpetrator, dear Reader.
“I really reiterate my call in relation to the need for people to respect international law and respect the specific protections that are provided to peacekeepers in relation to that,” he says.
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"These Semites seem keen to embarrass
The green."
"Sure, and President Harris!"
"Desist from your tricks,"
Hissed the pacifist Micks,
"Lest we send in our Fenian paras."
Earlier today, an Israeli airstrike hit a van transporting missiles for Hezbollah on a road in Mount Lebanon, leaving missile shrapnel scattered near the vehicle. pic.twitter.com/7Gn5DIhEsc
IDF hits Hezbollah sites in Syria, warns Baalbek
[IsraelTimes] The IDF issued warnings for a second day running to residents of northeast 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... ’s Baalbek and surrounding suburbs to evacuate immediately ahead of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on Hezbollah sites.
"You are in a combat zone where the IDF intends to attack and target Hezbollah infrastructure, assets, installations and weapons, and does not intend to harm you," Col. Avichay Adraee said on X, attaching a map of the areas that will be targeted.
Dozens of cars could be seen speeding out of the area after Thursday’s warning, with wafts of black smoke still visible emanating from the town of Douris, where an Israeli strike the previous day destroyed Hezbollah fuel stocks, according to the Israeli military and a Lebanese security source.
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported a strike on a cycle of violence rider in the Beqaa Valley, where Baalbek is located. A Lebanese security source told AFP that one person was killed by an Israeli dronezap on the Araya-Kahhale road, which links the capital Beirut to the eastern Beqaa Valley. The dronezap targeted a car, killing the driver, the source said, without identifying the victim.
Thousands fleeing the violence in Baalbek have sought shelter in the nearby Christian-majority town of Deir al-Ahmar, where local official Jean Fakhry said authorities were struggling to cover even a fraction of their needs and some people had to spend the night in their cars.
"We cannot continue this way," Fakhry said.
The killing of six Lebanese health workers and wounding of four others in three separate strikes across south Lebanon on Thursday brought the total toll of health workers killed and maimed in over a year of Israeli strikes to 178 and 279 respectively, the Lebanese health ministry said.
Are we quite, quite sure that none of the Lebanese health workers were not also on the Hezbollah payroll… or just catching a ride in an ambulance, like Hamas is wont to do?
The army also announced strikes on sites belonged to Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force and the terror group’s armament unit in Syria’s al-Qusayr region, near Lebanon’s northern border. The armament unit is responsible for storing weapons in Lebanon, and according to the IDF, it recently expanded its activities to Syria, where it stored weapons in al-Qusayr.
Elsewhere in Lebanon, an Israeli dronezap hit a cycle of violence near the coastal town of Naqoura, NNA reported.
The IDF said on Thursday that the commander of a Hezbollah anti-tank guided missile unit had been killed in a recent airstrike. According to the IDF, a strike carried out by fighter jets this week in the southern Lebanon village of Burj Qallawiyah killed Muhammad Khalil Alian. Alian was the commander of Hezbollah’s anti-tank array in the Hajjar regional unit, which is responsible for attacks on northern Israel’s Ramim Ridge region.
Meanwhile,
...back at the railroad tracks, Little Nell tried to kick her bound feet and scream post the snotty handkerchief Scarface Al had stuff into her mouth... the IDF said a Wednesday dronezap in Mazraat al-Yahoudiyeh, just north of Tyre, killed a cell of Hezbollah members who launched a missile at an Israeli Air Force unmanned aerial vehicle, adding that the UAV was not harmed in the incident.
“Missed me! Missed me! Now ya gotta kiss me!”
The IAF released footage of the dronezap.
The strikes were carried out in tandem with the ongoing ground campaign in southern Lebanon, where the IDF’s 91st and 146th divisions are continuing to operate against Hezbollah.
Israeli attacks kill 45 in Lebanon in last 24 hours, health ministry says
[IsraelTimes] Israeli attacks killed 45 people in Lebanon in the past 24 hours, bringing the total death toll to 2,865 since October 2023, the Lebanese health ministry says, without differentiating between civilians and combatants.
AFPTV footage shows explosions followed by clouds of smoke that rang out in the city’s suburbs after the Israeli army ordered several buildings in Hezbollah’s stronghold to evacuate.
“The raids left massive destruction in the targeted areas, as dozens of buildings were leveled to the ground, in addition to the outbreak of fires,” the National News Agency (NNA) says.
Israeli warplanes carried out 10 raids targeting the suburban areas of Ghobeiry and Al-Kafaat, the Sayyed Hadi Highway, the vicinity of the Al-Mujtaba Complex, and the old airport road, it adds.
🚨 Breaking: Hezbollah terrorist killed by Lebanese Christians
Hezbollah terrorists tried to use the Christian village of Qlayaa in south Lebanon to fire rockets on Israel. The residents killed one Hezbollah terrorist, burned the vehicles of others, and expelled the terrorists. pic.twitter.com/8aBckHm15c
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The LAPD said a “hostile crowd” — estimated at between 200 and 300 people — lit an MTA bus on fire about a mile from Dodger Stadium around 12:35 a.m. local time. Footage posted to Citizen captured the moment a massive crowd — the majority of whom were wearing Dodgers jerseys and apparel — surrounded and sat atop the graffiti-laced bus. Members of the crowd were caught on video entering the bus, while others were seen holding up Dodgers flags and taking pictures.
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...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...
...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...
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
..always the voice of sweet reason...
...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...
