[IsraelTimes] Police made 40 arrests at a tense soccer match between La Belle France and Israel in Gay Paree but the city’s police chief says on Friday that the huge security operation had "worked very well."
The Nations League game at the Stade deLa Belle France on Thursday took place under intense security after fans of Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv were attacked in Amsterdam last week.
Around 4,000 police and members of the French security forces patrolled inside and outside the stadium, assisted by 1,600 civilian security personnel.
Stewards had to intervene at one point to stop fans of both nations from clashing in the stands, an AFP news hound saw.
Videos posted on the X social media platform showed fans, some with Israeli flags, running along the rows of seats at the stadium while other supporters whistled and booed before members of the security team separated them.
"A fight broke out which was immediately contained by the stewards," Gay Paree police chief Laurent Nunez told La Belle France 2 television.
"The match went very well from a security point of view." "The beach at Anzio was very pleasant that year, except for the invasion."
[KhaamaPress] Pak media reported that four people, including a tribal elder, were killed and several others injured in an attack by unidentified button men in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... ’s Wadh area.
The tribal elder and his guards were traveling from Quetta to Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... when the incident occurred.
According to a report by Pakistain’s Dawn newspaper on Friday, November 15, police in Khuzdar stated that festivities between the tribal elder’s guards and the armed attackers were ongoing, leading to the closure of the Quetta-Karachi highway to traffic.
No individual or group has grabbed credit for the attack yet. However,
nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... similar incidents in the region are often attributed to Baloch separatist bully boyz targeting security forces and pro-government figures.
In a separate development, Pakistain’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson strongly urged the Taliban ...Arabic for students... to take immediate and serious action against members of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) operating from hideouts in Afghanistan.
The spokesperson warned the Taliban not to "test the patience of the Pak people," emphasizing that Pakistain’s repeated concerns must be addressed to avoid further strain in bilateral relations.
[KhaamaPress] The police in Charsadda, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, stated that the suicide kaboomer was on a cycle of violence and attempted to strike a vehicle carrying security personnel. According to police, the attack resulted in no casualties.
Information provided by the police indicated that the jacket wallah detonated his explosives after the police vehicle had passed by, resulting in only his own death.
So far, no group has grabbed credit for the attack.
The escalating violence in regions like Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... , driven by bad boy groups including the Tehrik-e-Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... Pakistain (TTP) and Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), reflects a deepening security crisis.
[IsraelTimes] Security council to consider resolution calling for permanent ceasefire, release of all hostages; Israel sent formal response to US letter on Gaza aid issue
GAZA FIGHTING CONTINUES
Amid the ongoing fighting in the enclave, a recent Israeli airstrike in Gaza City killed several Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror operatives, the IDF said Friday. According to the military and Shin Bet, the airstrike killed Alkaman Abd as-Salam Khalil Anbar, who was responsible for Islamic Jihad’s rocket firing array in Gaza City. The IDF said Anbar was responsible for rocket attacks on Israel from Gaza City, as well as being a “significant figure” in the terror group’s weapons manufacturing processes.
Other Islamic Jihad members, involved in rocket fire on Israel and troops in Gaza, were killed in the strike, according to the military.
Meanwhile, the IDF said it was continuing to battle Hamas operatives during an operation in the Strip’s northern towns of Jabalia, Beit Lahiya, and Beit Hanoun. Troops with the 162nd Division also located numerous weapons during the operation, the military said.
In southern Gaza’s Rafah, troops with 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... Division directed dronezaps against several button men who were trying to attack the forces, the IDF added.
The war in Gaza began on October 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... -led turbans invaded southern Israel from the enclave, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking 251 hostages, amid acts of brutality and sexual assault.
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 18,000 combatants in battle as of November 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 375.
It is believed that 97 of the 251 hostages kidnapped by Hamas on October 7 remain in Gaza, including the bodies of at least 34 confirmed dead by the IDF.
A senior Hamas official said Friday that the terror group is "ready for a ceasefire" in Gaza and urged US President-elect Donald Trump ...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down... to "pressure" Israel to "end the aggression."
An amusing thought.
The comment came the same day Hamas ally Palestinian Islamic Jihad released a propaganda video of Israeli hostage Sasha Trufanov, and as the UN Security Council prepared to consider a resolution calling for a total ceasefire and the release of all hostages.
Speaking to AFP, Hamas political bureau member Bassem Naim said, “Hamas is ready to reach a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip if a ceasefire proposal is presented and on the condition that it is respected” by Israel.
He added, “We call on the US administration and Trump to pressure the Israeli government to end the aggression.”
Are you sure you want to get President Trump involved? He tends to speak bluntly…
The Gaza terror group has said it will not accept any ceasefire deal that does not entail a complete and permanent Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and has previously rejected several ceasefire proposals that it deemed insufficient in that regard.
Yes, President Trump will definitely have thoughts on the subject. Ah well, y’all can think of it as a learning experience.
HOSTAGE VIDEO Meanwhile,
...back at the revival hall, the pastor had finally been wrestled from the pulpit. Y'got the wrong guy! he yelled just before Sergeant Malone's billy club landed... 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 published another video of hostage Sasha Trufanov, two days after it released a different clip of him. The clip was the fourth video that the terror group has released of Trufanov. It is unclear when the video was made. In the clip, Trufanov says that he is aged 28; however, he turned 29 earlier this week, his second birthday in captivity.
In the nearly two-minute-long video, Trufanov — in a statement almost certainly dictated by his captors in the Gazoo Strip — asks Shas chairman Aryeh Deri to convince the government to agree to a deal for the hostages’ release, reminding him of the Jewish obligation to free all captives.
Terror groups have previously issued similar videos of hostages in what Israel says is deplorable psychological warfare. Most Israeli media did not carry the video clips.
Trufanov was taken hostage along with three members of his family — grandmother Irena Tati, mother Yelena (Lena) Trufanova and his girlfriend Sapir Cohen — from Kibbutz Nir Oz during the October 7 Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... massacre in the Gaza border town. Trufanova and Tati were released by Hamas on November 29 at the request of Russian President 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... . Cohen was released on November 30 as part of a temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
Negotiations to free the hostages and reach a Gaza ceasefire have been at a virtual standstill for several months with no apparent horizon for a real resumption of talks.
UN TO CALL FOR CEASEFIRE
Nevertheless, the UN Security Council’s 10 elected members circulated another draft resolution demanding "an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire" in Gaza along with the "immediate and unconditional release of all hostages."
The Council’s 10 elected members — Ecuador, Japan, Malta, Mozambique, Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... , Algeria, Guyana, South Korea, Sierra Leone and Slovenia — circulated the draft after reaching the agreement. The United States, Israel’s closest ally, holds the key to whether the Security Council adopts the resolution. The four other permanent members — Russia, China, Britannia and La Belle France — are expected to support it or abstain.
In an interview with The Times of Israel last week, Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon criticized an earlier draft that has since been lightly edited in a bid to gain American support. The earlier draft split the two demands for a ceasefire and hostage release into separate paragraphs, which were merged into one in the updated version. That was enough to convince the US to abstain on a similar resolution adopted by the Security Council in March, which called for an immediate ceasefire during Ramadan.
In June, the Council adopted another resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire based on the parameters that were being negotiated by the US, Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... and Egypt, which envisioned a three-staged hostage release deal that would bring an end to the conflict between Israel and Hamas. But talks on this framework have all but fallen apart since then. The US and Egypt are still working to negotiate a hostage deal, and Washington is hoping that Qatar’s decision to ask Hamas officials to leave Doha will spark a breakthrough in negotiations. So far, though, none has come to fruition.
Accordingly, Security Council members are once again working on their own ceasefire resolution. Such initiatives have not made an impact on the ground in the past, but members hope that they will add pressure on the warring parties to end the conflict.
Danon told The Times of Israel last week that his office opposed the draft resolution because it doesn’t explicitly condition ending the war on the release of the hostages. The US argued in March that merging the two demands into the same sentence was enough for it to interpret the text as a conditional relationship between the ceasefire and the hostage release.
The draft also demands immediate access for Gaza’s civilian population to humanitarian aid and services essential for their survival. Additionally, it "underscores" that UNRWA, the UN agency helping Paleostinian refugees, "remains the backbone of the humanitarian response in Gaza."
The Knesset passed two laws last month effectively banning UNRWA’s operations in Israel and the Paleostinian territories, which take effect in 90 days. Jerusalem’s anger at the UN body has peaked since Hamas’s October 7 onslaught, in which dozens of UNRWA staffers were found to have participated, including kidnapping and killing Israelis. In February, the IDF revealed the existence of a subterranean Hamas data center directly beneath UNRWA’s Gaza Strip headquarters. The IDF has also repeatedly targeted Hamas command centers and button men hiding out in UNRWA schools.
The issue of humanitarian aid more broadly has been a frequent source of strain between Israel and the US. In a Thursday call between 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... and new Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, Blinken asserted a need to expand aid into the enclave, after the US announced earlier this week that Israel made enough progress on the issue to remain in compliance with US law. Last month, the US gave Israel 30 days to take a series of steps to alleviate the Gaza humanitarian crisis in order to avoid violating US law, which bars the US from transferring offensive weapons to countries that block aid from civilians.
While Israel failed to meet several of the demands listed in the letter, the US appeared to give Jerusalem a pass after the administration saw its leverage dissipate due to Donald Trump ...The cad! Twice caught beating wimmin!... ’s election victory, given that the president-elect would have surely reversed any move to withhold weapons from Israel upon returning to the White House.
US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan
…who will soon be unemployed…
revealed Friday that Israel has submitted a formal response to the letter. The response, which ostensibly laid out the steps Israel has taken and plans to take to address the issue, will likely be used by the Biden administration to adjudicate Israel’s compliance with US law moving forward.
#2
You want a cease fire? Easy peasy. Take all your guns and ammunition and put it in one of your tunnels. Then put a bulls eye target on the tunnel. Then call in the IDF with your hands up. Await developments.
[IsraelTimes] Several 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 operatives were killed, including a senior commander, in a recent Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... 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... City, the IDF says.
According to the military and Shin Bet, the airstrike killed Alkaman Abd as-Salam Khalil Anbar, who was responsible for Islamic Jihad’s rocket firing array in Gaza City.
The IDF says Anbar was responsible for rocket attacks on Israel from Gaza City, as well as being a "significant figure" in the terror group’s weapons manufacturing processes.
Other Islamic Jihad members, involved in rocket fire on Israel and troops in Gaza, were killed in the strike, according to the military.
Meanwhile,
...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth ordered the entire 614th quadrant searched. The Green Lensman must be found!... the IDF says it is continuing to battle Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... operatives during an operation in the Strip’s northern towns of Jabalia, Beit Lahiya, and Beit Hanoun. Troops with the 162nd Division also located numerous weapons during the operation, the military says.
In southern Gaza’s Rafah, troops with the Gaza Division directed dronezaps against several button men who were trying to attack the forces, the IDF adds.
[IsraelTimes] Syria’s state-run SANA news agency reports an Israeli airstrike in the upscale Mezzeh district of the capital Damascus.
No further details are given.
From Grom’s comment, to make it searchable in the Rantburg archives:
Two senior officials from the Islamic Jihad terror group were eliminated in an Israeli strike in Damascus, Syria, on Thursday, the terror group confirmed.
Rasmi Abu Issa served as head of Islamic Jihad's foreign relations team, and Abdul Aziz al-Minawi was part of the terror group's political bureau.
"IAF fighter planes, guided by the Northern Command, attacked a number of military buildings and command centers belonging to Islamic Jihad in Syria," the IDF confirmed Thursday.
"Islamic Jihad, led by its leaders who sit outside of the Gaza Strip, carried out the October 7 massacre alongside Hamas, and has continued to carry out terror attacks against the State of Israel ever since."
A statement by Syria's Defense Ministry said, "Israel attacked at around 3:20 p.m. a number of residential buildings in Al Mazzeh and in the Qudesia area in the suburbal area of Damascus. Fifteen people were killed and sixteen were injured, among them women and children."
[IsraelTimes] 3 foreign workers lightly hurt in rocket barrage on Haifa area; AP photographs Israeli bomb hitting building in Beirut, after IDF issues evacuation order citing Hezbollah activity
Israeli strikes repeatedly targeted Hezbollah positions in Beirut on Friday as 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... signaled it would support any ceasefire deal with Jerusalem agreed on by 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 the Tehran-backed terror group.
Strikes were seen hitting sites on several occasions in Beirut’s southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold known as Dahiyeh after evacuation warnings were issued about half an hour before the attacks.
The IDF has carried out dozens of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in Beirut in recent days.
During a strike on Friday in the Tayouneh area several miles from central Beirut, an News Agency that Dare Not be Named photographer captured images of what appeared to be an Israeli bomb heading toward an 11-story residential building just before the subsequent explosion. There were no immediate reports of casualties but the bomb hit a lower level of the building, turning much of it to rubble, after the IDF issued an evacuation order for the vicinity of the building, saying it was used by Hezbollah.
The IDF also continued to hit Hezbollah sites in southern Lebanon. Overnight, the IDF struck several buildings and command centers belonging to Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force in southern Lebanon’s Nabatieh, the military said.
According to the IDF, the overnight strikes followed a day that saw 120 Hezbollah sites targeted in Lebanon, including weapon depots, command centers, cells of operatives and numerous rocket launchers. Some of the rocket launchers were used in an attack on Haifa on Thursday.
The strikes came as the IDF’s 36th, 91st and 146th divisions began operating in new areas of southern Lebanon. The military said the ground forces located Hezbollah rocket launchers and other weapons, as well as demolishing a tunnel during recent operations.
Separately, Israeli fighter jets hit several land crossing roads in Syria on Thursday night, which the IDF says were being used by Hezbollah to smuggle weapons into Lebanon from Iran. Several routes and border crossings between Lebanon and Syria have been struck by the IDF in recent weeks, amid efforts to counter Hezbollah’s weapon smuggling attempts.
HEZBOLLAH TARGETS HAIFA AREA
The Lebanese terror group kept up its rocket fire at Israel.
Of course. They’re deep into use it or lose it territory now.
A barrage of five rockets fired Friday by Hezbollah lightly maimed three foreign workers in their 40s in the Haifa area. Several of the rockets were intercepted, however, one fell at the construction site where they were working. The Magen David Adom ambulance service said all three were conscious and aware of their surroundings and were taken to Rambam Medical Center for treatment.
Earlier, rocket sirens were activated overnight in the northern coastal city of Nahariya and several nearby communities. There were no reports of injuries. Two rockets fired at the Haifa Bay area at around 7 a.m. were successfully intercepted, the IDF said. No injuries were reported in that attack.
CEASEFIRE TALKS Meanwhile,
...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio wondered: Where the hell was Chumbaloni? And where was his $600?... Iran, Hezbollah’s main backer, said Friday it would support any decision taken by the Lebanese government and Lebanon’s "resistance" in current talks on a ceasefire. The commitment was made by Ali Larijani, senior adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...> , during his meeting with Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati and parliament speaker Nabih Knobby Berri
...perennial Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, head of the Amal Shiite party aligned with Hezbollah, a not very subtle sock puppet of the Medes and Persians... "We are not looking to sabotage anything. We are after a solution to the problems," Larijani said after the meeting, adding that Iran will support Hezbollah and its other proxies under all circumstances.
The Shiites spent a large chunk of Moslem history being oppressed, whether by successive Sunni governments or by unbelieving foreigners. They know how to bow down and lie through their teeth.
In a post on X posted Friday, Mikati wrote the Lebanese government prioritizes the implementation of United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... Security Council Resolution 1701 in its entirety without any amendments.
The amendment that matters in this case being Israel’s insistence on being the ones to enforce Hezbollah’s continued peacefulness and disarmament, given that neither the Lebanese government nor UNIFIL have proved willing and capable of doing so.
The resolution ended the last round of conflict between Hezbollah and Israel in 2006 and stipulates that southern Lebanon must be free of arms that do not belong to the Lebanese state.
"Calls are ongoing to reach an understanding," Mikati wrote.
Until y'all understand that Israel has beaten you and is not interested in allowing a rematch, the current uncomfortable situation — the one where Israel degrades Hezbollah and Hezbollah accomplishes nothing significant in response — will continue.
His comments come a day after it was reported that the US ambassador to Lebanon had submitted a draft for a proposed truce in Lebanon to Parliament Speaker Berri. US ambassador Lisa Johnson met with Berri, a Hezbollah ally and the typical conduit for diplomacy with the group, on Thursday to submit Washington’s first written proposal in at least several weeks, two senior Lebanese political sources told Rooters.
Since October 8, 2023, Hezbollah-led forces have attacked Israeli communities and military posts along the border on a near-daily basis, with the group saying it is doing so to support 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... amid the war there.
Some 60,000 residents were evacuated from northern towns on the Lebanon border shortly after fellow terror group Hamas ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... ’s October 7, 2023, onslaught, amid fears Hezbollah would carry out a similar attack, and increasing rocket fire by the terror group.
The attacks on northern Israel have resulted in the deaths of 43 civilians. In addition, 69 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.
The IDF estimates that some 3,000 Hezbollah operatives have been killed in the conflict. Around 100 members of other terror groups, along with hundreds of civilians, have also been reported killed in Lebanon. Hezbollah has named 516 members who have been killed by Israel amid the fighting, mostly in Lebanon but some also in Syria. These numbers have not been consistently updated since Israel began a new offensive against Hezbollah in September.
#2
When you're having your butt kicked is generally a good time to ask for a ceasefire.
Euphemism alert: about those three "lightly maimed" workers, glad to hear that there's a sliding scale.
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[Jpost] The Israel Air Force allegedly struck one of Iran's secret nuclear research facilities as part of an operation that took place at the end of October, according to a Friday Axios report that cited former and current US and Israeli officials.
According to the report, the attack caused significant damage to the site in the Parchin military complex, about 20 kilometers southeast of Tehran.
The strike dealt a severe blow to Iran’s nuclear development efforts, the officials cited in the report claimed.
The facility was allegedly part of the Iranian Amad nuclear weapons program until 2003. It was then used for testing explosives needed to set off a nuclear device, the report added, citing the Institute for Science and International Security.
IRAN DECLINES TO COMMENT
Axios also noted that a former Israeli official briefed on the strike said Israel destroyed sophisticated equipment that was required and necessary for the nuclear devices.
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[IsraelTimes] Police made 40 arrests at a tense soccer match between 
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[KhaamaPress] The police in 
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
