🚨🇭🇹 HORROR IN HAITI: GANG MASSACRE CLAIMS 110 LIVES IN CITE SOLEIL
Over 110 elderly residents were slaughtered in Haiti’s Cite Soleil slum after gang leader Monel "Mikano" Felix accused them of witchcraft linked to his child’s illness.
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It seems to be a place where Satan’s minions hold sway. Many good people have gone there to help and fight against the evil, but seemingly to no avail as yet. And while I have known some beautiful people from Haiti, many seem to be tainted by this evil. It is difficult to establish an appropriate response.
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And somehow the Duvaliers kept these folks mostly restrained.
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My guess would be that sooner or later someone with ruthlessness and cunning equal to the Duvaliers will gain control of Haiti. Until then the chaos will continue.
If the French had any decency they would annex it and do whatever they need to do to restore order. They created the problem. They should fix it. The US should stay out of it and keep those people away from our shores.
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At least no cats were harmed in the process.
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[IsraelTimes] Move gives authorities more resources to manage probe into Friday blaze that gutted Melbourne house of worship; government sets up special taskforce to deal with antisemitic attacks
Australian police said Monday they were hunting for three suspects over an arson attack on a Melbourne synagogue, and designated it a terrorist act in a decision that increases resources available to the investigation.
Authorities also announced the formation of a federal taskforce to crack down on antisemitism, which the country’s leader warned was on the rise.
Several mask-wearing attackers set the Adass Israel Synagogue ablaze before dawn on Friday, police said, gutting much of the building.
A congregant inside the single-story building suffered minor injuries and the incident has strained relations between Australia and its ally Israel, as well as between Australian authorities and the local Jewish community.
Police have “three suspects in that matter, who we are pursuing,” Victorian police chief commissioner Shane Patton told a news conference Monday.
Patton said investigators had made “significant progress,” but declined to detail that progress.
Witnesses reported seeing two masked men spreading a liquid accelerant in the synagogue before the fire. Police have not revealed what role the third suspect played. Police have also not revealed if they know the identity of any suspect.
The synagogue fire was the first declared terrorist incident in Australia since April, when a 16-year-old boy allegedly stabbed a bishop and priest in a Sydney Assyrian church while a service was being streamed online.
Arson squad detectives have been investigating the blaze, but the investigation was taken over on Monday by the Joint Counter-Terrorism Team, which involves Victoria State Police and Australian Federal Police as well as the Australian Security Intelligence Organization, the nation’s main domestic spy agency.
“The decision… to transition the Adass Israel Synagogue fire attack to the Victorian Joint Counter-Terrorism Team is a crucial turning point in this investigation,” Australian Federal Police Deputy Commissioner Krissy Barrett told reporters.
“I want to thank Victoria Police investigators for the significant information they have gathered so far, which has helped lead us to believe that this is likely to be a politically motivated attack. This is now a terrorism investigation,” Barrett added.
The declaration gives investigators more resources, information and legal powers to pursue the three suspects, police said.
“We have the best resources, best-skilled investigators, people who are expert in this field, and we will throw everything we can at this investigation to resolve it,” Patton said.
Authorities did not specify what issue motivated the attack, which is widely suspected to be tied to anger around Israel’s military campaigns in Gaza and Lebanon against terrorist groups attacking the country. In a statement, police said the fire was not thought to have been linked “to further matters” and that investigators were treating it as an isolated incident.
Mike Burgess, director-general of the Australian Security and Intelligence Organization, said there was no information to suggest further attacks were likely, with Australia keeping its terror threat assessment at “probable.”
Patton said police were nonetheless stepping up patrols of Jewish areas in Melbourne in order to reassure the community there.
Under Australian law, a terrorist act is one that causes death, injury or serious property damage to advance a political, religious or ideological cause and is aimed at intimidating the public or a government.
Some lawmakers had been calling for the arsonists to be charged with terrorism offenses so that they could potentially face longer prison sentences.
The blaze appeared to be an escalation in targeted attacks in Australia since Hamas’s October 7, 2023, massacre in Israel. Cars and buildings have been vandalized and torched around Australia in protests against Israel that have often targeted the Jewish community.
In a separate initiative, Australian Federal Police announced on Monday the formation of Special Operation Avalite to target antisemitism around the country.
The investigators were brought together in response to the synagogue blaze and arson attacks on Jewish lawmaker Josh Burns’s Melbourne office in June and on a car in a Sydney street last month that was related to antisemitic vandalism.
“Special Operation Avalite will be an agile and experienced squad of counter-terrorism investigators who will focus on threats, violence, and hatred towards the Australian Jewish community and parliamentarians,” Australian Federal Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw said. “In essence, they will be a flying squad to deploy nationally to incidents.”
The taskforce will be made up of federal police to be deployed across the country as needed, officials said. They will focus on threats, violence and hatred toward the Jewish community and parliamentarians.
Announcing the taskforce, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who has denounced the synagogue attack as an “outrage,” said antisemitism was a “major threat” that is on the rise.
Attorney General Mark Dreyfus, who is Jewish, said his government was striving to make the Jewish community “feel safe.”
“We’ve experienced in Australia, in the last year, the highest level of antisemitism that I’ve experienced in my lifetime. That’s a common reaction from members of the Australian Jewish community,” Dreyfus said.
The Victorian government on Friday offered 100,000 Australian dollars ($64,300) to help repair the synagogue and said there would be an increased police presence in the area.
On Sunday, the federal government offered the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, an umbrella body representing more than 200 Jewish organizations, AU$32.5 million ($20.8 million) to enhance security at community sites including synagogues and schools.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized Australia on Saturday, saying the attack could not be separated from the “anti-Israel sentiment” of Canberra’s policies, including support of a recent UN motion backing a Palestinian state.
“This heinous act cannot be separated from the anti-Israel sentiment emanating from the Australian Labor government,” he said after the attack. “Anti-Israel sentiment is antisemitism.”
Dreyfus rejected Netanyahu’s accusations on Monday.
“He’s absolutely wrong. I respectfully disagree with Mr. Netanyahu,” Dreyfus told national broadcaster ABC. “Australia remains a close friend of Israel, as we have been since the Labor government recognized the State of Israel when it was created by the United Nations. Now that remains the position.”
[IsraelTimes] Supporters of the Syrian rebels that ousted President Bashar al-Assad entered the Syrian embassy in Athens on Sunday and hoisted the rebel flag from the rooftop, police and a Reuters reporter say.
Police entered the embassy compound and detained four people, but left the flag flying, says a Reuters reporter at the scene.
Later in the day, at Athens’ central Syntagma Square, dozens of jubilant Syrian opposition supporters wave rebel flags, dance, and hug each other.
A small group of people celebrate outside the embassy compound in Athens.
“Our joy is indescribable, 55 years of horrible dictatorship has finally ended and … the dictator escaped and left the people,” says Alompeint Marouf, 59.
Greek media reports that protesters also tore down Assad’s portrait in the embassy, but a senior Greek police official cannot confirm this.
[IsraelTimes] IDF probe finds drone not continuously detected after entering Israeli airspace in south; no sirens sound; incident marks third successive day of attacks by Iran-backed Houthis
A drone launched from Yemen smashed into a residential building in the city of Yavne, between Tel Aviv and Ashdod, on Monday morning, the Israel Defense Forces said.
The drone went largely undetected before it impacted, and no warning sirens were activated.
According to an initial IDF probe of the incident, the drone had flown into Israeli airspace from the direction of the Mediterranean Sea after making a long detour apparently over Egypt.
It crossed into Israeli territory near the southern cities of Sderot and Ashdod, close to the Gaza Strip, and headed north along the coast toward Yavne, the probe found.
The military said it detected the drone at several locations after it entered Israeli airspace, though it was not a continuous detection. Because of this, the military was unable to predict the drone’s route and set off warning sirens.
A fighter jet was scrambled to shoot down the drone, but it did not have enough time and ultimately the drone struck the balcony of a penthouse apartment in Yavne, causing a fire and damage.
Medics said there were no injuries.
Footage posted to social media from the moments before the impact showed the drone flying over the city.
The Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen did not immediately take responsibility for the attack, though the group is believed by Israel to be behind it.
The incident marked the third day in a row in which projectiles were launched at Israel from Yemen.
On Saturday and Sunday, the Houthis fired ballistic missiles at Israel, which the military said were intercepted by air defenses before reaching the country.
The rebels, part of Iran’s “Axis of Resistance” against Israel and the United States, have fired hundreds of ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and drones at Israel since the outbreak of the Gaza war. That ongoing conflict began on October 7, 2023, when Hamas led a massive cross-border attack on Israel that killed 1,200 people and saw 251 taken hostage.
Israel has twice bombed Houthi targets in retaliation for its ballistic missile and drone attacks, one of which killed a man in Tel Aviv.
According to a report by the Kan public broadcaster on Sunday, Israel was considering launching “a significant attack” on Yemen in response to the recent strikes.
Tossing ‘em back — they’re too small to keep after they sang like canaries.
[GEO.TV] 18 Palestinians held captive by Israeli forces were immediately taken to the European Hospital in southern Gaza upon release.
Recently, the Israeli military has released dozens of detainees in sporadic batches, many of them were in poor health conditions as detainees have been subject to torture and other kinds of mistreatment in captivity of the occupying forces, according to Al Jazeera.
They aren’t being held as hostages/used as human shields in cages in airless, lightless tunnels, or worse, so a little gratitude might be in order here.
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[GEO.TV] Sources within Paleostinian groups 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... said Sunday that Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... had told them to compile information on the hostages they hold in preparation for a ceasefire and hostage-release deal with Israel.
Hamas told factions including 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... , the Popular Front and the Popular Resistance® Committees to prepare information such as whether their hostages were alive or dead, the sources told AFP.
[IsraelTimes] The Hamas terror group has submitted a list of hostages it proposes to free in the first stage of a ceasefire deal with Israel in addition to a list of Palestinian security prisoners held by Israel that it wants released, the London-based pan-Arab news site Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reports.
The report, citing a source close to the talks, says Israel is evaluating the list and could send a delegation to Cairo later today.
Reports have said that the sides are working on a partial deal under which hostages in the “humanitarian” category would be freed in return for an extended ceasefire and the release of Palestinian prisoners.
The humanitarian category includes elderly, children, women, ill and badly wounded hostages. The number of living hostages in these groups is today understood to be fewer than the 33 that was previously discussed in talks over past months.
The report also says that Hamas is proposing to release four hostages with US citizenship, some of whom do not not fall under the humanitarian category, in an apparent gesture to incoming US President Donald Trump, who has threatened to punish those responsible if the hostages aren’t released before his inauguration.
For more than a year, waves of negotiations have stalled and failed to reach another agreement to return the hostages still held in Gaza, after 105 of them were released in a weeklong truce in late November 2023. Israel believes that 96 of the 251 hostages kidnapped on October 7 are still in Gaza, including the bodies of at least 34 confirmed dead by the IDF. Over the past 14 months, IDF troops have rescued eight hostages and recovered the bodies of 38.
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Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists bombed a hospital last night, in Jenin (West Bank) using IEDs, during clashes with Palestinian Authority forces.
One of the emergency rooms was completely destroyed by fire.
[IsraelTimes] Netanyahu speaks to mother of captive Matan Zangauker, a leading anti-government voice, after terror group releases tape of her son urging deal; protests held in Tel Aviv, elsewhere
Thousands of anti-government demonstrators rallied for a hostage deal 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... in Tel Aviv and other locations Saturday night, energized by fresh momentum toward an internationally mediated agreement and a video showing a captive whose mother has become a leading voice within the protest movement.
With on-and-off negotiations with the Hamas ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... terror group poised to restart following the successful brokering of a ceasefire in 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 pressure from US President-elect Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... , Einav Zangauker implored Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to strike a deal with the terror group to ensure the release of her son Matan Zangauker and the rest of the remaining hostages.
The propaganda video released by Hamas Saturday was the first sign of life from the 25-year-old Zangauker since he was kidnapped from his home in Kibbutz Nir Oz during Hamas’s southern Israel onslaught on October 7 last year.
The three-and-a-half-minute-long video is not dated, though Zangauker states that he has been held for over 420 days, indicating it was filmed recently.
In the clip, Zangauker identifies himself and calls on the Israeli public to continue protests in support of a deal with Hamas.
Hamas has previously issued similar videos of hostages the terror group is holding, in what Israel says is a form of psychological warfare.
Addressing her son at a protest in Tel Aviv, Zangauker called out Netanyahu’s far-right coalition allies, who have sought to block a hostage deal that includes a ceasefire in Gaza. "I won’t let anyone deprive me of your embrace — not the prime minister, not [National Security Minister Itamar] Ben Gvir and not [Finance Minister Bezalel] Smotrich," she said.
A former Likud supporter, Zangauker has transformed into one of the government’s most potent critics, accusing Netanyahu and others of refusing to agree to a deal for political reasons as her son wastes away in Gaza.
Netanyahu’s office said in a statement Saturday night that the prime minister had spoken with Zangauker and told her that he "fully understands the severe suffering that Matan and all the hostages and their families are going through."
The prime minister told Zangauker that Israel is working to "take advantage of every opportunity that arises to advance negotiations" and vowed to do everything to bring Matan and the rest of the hostages home, his office said.
Matan’s girlfriend, Ilana Gritzewsky, who was kidnapped with him but released during a weeklong ceasefire-hostage deal with Hamas in November 2023, told the anti-government rally in Tel Aviv that seeing the video brought back memories of her own abduction.
"When I see the video of Matan, I don’t just see him captive — I experience my own captivity again. I know what he’s going through, every moment, every minute. I know how it feels when you’re so far from the world, from family, from light. It’s being trapped in a nightmare that never ends," Gritzewsky said.
The rally was one of the several held in central Tel Aviv Saturday night, including a second anti-government protest and a non-partisan demonstration for the hostages. Rallies for the hostages and against the government had been taking place weekly, but were put on hold for some two months due to restrictions on public gatherings, amid escalated fighting with Hezbollah which drew to a close late last month.
Police said five people were arrested during the protests for attacking an officer, breaking through police barriers, blocking Begin Road and attempting to enter the Ayalon Highway.
Three minors were also detained but later released, said attorney and former Meretz MK Gabi Lasky, who is representing the protesters.
At so-called "Democracy Square," at the intersection of Begin Road and Kaplan Street, what appeared to be over a thousand protesters, many carrying Israeli flags, crammed into an area cordoned off with trucks by police.
Police had approved a "Democracy March" to the intersection from Habima Square, but did not approve the protests at Democracy Square itself, saying turnout had been too low a week earlier to justify sealing off the junction.
A block north, another weekly protest drew hundreds outside the Israel Defense Forces headquarters, led by relatives of hostages opposed to the government and bolstered by left-wing activists. On the ground, large white cardboard letters spelled out: "Thou shalt not kill."
In between the two protests, a group urging "civil rebellion" set up a "conscription booth" to enlist people willing to engage in nonviolent mostly peaceful civil disobedience. For the second week running, the group held an explanatory session on disobedience tactics.
Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch shot Black Bart's other gun out of his other hand...... in so-called Hostages Square, the central weekly rally led by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum drew some thousand protesters.
Later in the night, police used water cannons on some anti-government protesters who blocked traffic near the Savidor Center train station.
In addition to the demonstrations in Tel Aviv, protests were also held in Jerusalem, Beersheba and Haifa, as well as in smaller communities and junctions across the country.
On Saturday, 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... i Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani confirmed his country would resume its role as a mediator in negotiations for a truce-hostage deal, citing "encouragement" from the incoming Trump administration.
A source close to Hamas negotiators told AFP Saturday that a new round of talks could "most likely" begin in the coming week in Cairo.
Netanyahu’s aides have broadcast increasing optimism about a new hostage deal proposal that they say Egypt crafted, according to Hebrew media reports.
It is believed that 96 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.
[IsraelTimes] Cpt. Avraham Ben Pinchas, 24, is killed during combat in Rafah; COGAT says over 3,270 tons of flour on 218 trucks delivered to Strip in past week
An officer of the Israel Defense Forces was killed during fighting in the southern 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, the military said Saturday evening.
The slain soldier was named as Cpt. Avraham Ben Pinchas, 24, a platoon commander in the 401st Armored Brigade’s 46th Battalion, from Harasha, a settlement outpost in the West Bank.
According to an initial IDF probe, Ben Pinchas’s tank was hit by Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... anti-tank fire amid operations in Rafah, fatally wounding him.
His death brought Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip to 383. The toll includes a police officer killed in a hostage rescue mission and a Defense Ministry civilian contractor.
Also on Saturday, COGAT, the Defense Ministry body that oversees coordination in the West Bank and Gaza, announced that more than 3,270 tons of flour on 218 trucks were delivered to Gaza in the past week via Israel.
The flour was delivered to the UN’s World Food Programme operations in Gaza via two crossings from Israel, Gate 96 in the south of the Strip and the Erez West Crossing in the north, "following stringent security inspections," said COGAT in a statement.
The statement also said that "a large-scale refueling operation was carried out this week, supplying fuel to the WFP’s bakeries using a fuel tanker," without elaborating on the origin and transport of the fuel.
Large parts of northern Gaza have been largely been cut off from aid as the IDF operates in those areas against Hamas insurgencies. Most of the civilians there have evacuated but thousands remain under dire conditions. Israel accuses aid organizations of failing to deliver aid, saying it is allowing it to enter but that much of it is then left uncollected.
Several mortar shells were fired at troops from an area adjacent to the “humanitarian corridor.”
Following the attack, the IDF says the area was considered an active combat zone and the route was closed, as troops worked to eliminate the threat. As a result, aid deliveries were temporarily delayed, the military says.
The IDF says that the operatives behind the mortar fire were killed, and the route was reopened a short while later for the delivery of aid to Gaza.
The operation to demolish the tunnel was carried out by the Gaza Division’s combat engineering unit and the elite Yahalom unit.
During the operation, dozens of booby-trapped tunnel shafts and numerous explosive devices in the area were destroyed, the military says.
According to the IDF, the several-hundred-meter-long tunnel was used by Hamas operatives to attack troops in Gaza. The military says troops found RPGs hidden inside the tunnel, which also featured blast doors and several rooms to reside in.
The IDF says the troops also encountered Hamas operatives who emerged from the tunnel and fired anti-tank projectiles during the operation. The operatives were eliminated in an airstrike and from fire from the ground, the IDF adds.
[IsraelTimes] A civilian is lightly injured in crossfire near Al Fawwar; separately, IDF troops shoot a Palestinian wearing an ISIS shirt who launched flare at checkpoint
An Israeli soldier was seriously maimed in a car-ramming attack in the southern West Bank on Saturday evening, the military said.
According to the Israel Defense Forces, the assailant rammed his vehicle into a reservist soldier at a junction outside the Al Fawwar refugee camp near Hebron, before fleeing the scene. Later in the evening, the suspected rammer turned himself into security forces, the IDF said.
The Magen David Adom ambulance service said the 30-year-old soldier was taken to Soroka Hospital in Beersheba at death's door.
During the incident, the IDF said troops shot up the car used in the attack. The army was investigating if the gunfire also mistakenly hit a civilian car driving in the area, lightly wounding one of the occupants.
MDA said that a 45-year-old man in the civilian car was lightly maimed by shrapnel. The man drove from the scene to the nearby Otniel junction where he met up with medics.
Two others in the car, a man and a young boy, were treated for acute anxiety, MDA added.
The IDF said a large number of forces were chasing after the assailant, and the army had imposed a closure on Hebron amid the pursuit. The manhunt ended when the alleged attacker turned himself in.
Earlier on Saturday, police said a Paleostinian was shot and "neutralized" by a civilian security guard at the West Bank Qalandiya checkpoint after launching a flare at security forces.
There were no other injuries in the incident.
Police said that the assailant was also armed with a knife, and was wearing a shirt emblazoned with the symbol for the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... terror group.
[Gateway] The Israeli Air Force (IAF) conducted widespread airstrikes across Syria on Sunday, targeting critical military sites and weaponry deemed a direct threat to Israel’s security.
That’s the oddest thing — as if the Israelis already knew exactly where everything was, and needed just to each out their hand and destroy it all. Whose else’s stashes did they happen to locate long ago?
Israel claimed that these strategic strikes aimed to neutralize the potential transfer of advanced weaponry into the hands of terrorist factions and hostile entities.
According to reports from The Times of Israel, the Israeli strikes hit ammunition and weapons depots at the Khalkhalah airbase in Suwayda, military positions in the Daraa Governorate, and the Mezzeh airbase in Damascus.
Later in the day, additional strikes targeted the Mezzeh airbase—a hub of Syria’s security infrastructure located in the Kafr Sousa suburb of Damascus—along with the Scientific Studies and Research Center, suspected of facilitating weapons development, and a central square in Damascus housing intelligence and customs offices.
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[IsraelTimes] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... -backed Syrian forces have taken control of some 80% of northern Syria’s Manbij area and are close to victory against Kurdish forces there, a Ottoman Turkish security source claims.
"The fight against the YPG/PKK is very close to victory. Both air and land interventions are ongoing to take Manbij from the hands of the YPG/PKK," the source says, referring to the Kurdish militia which has long been in control of Manbij.
[IsraelTimes] Syrian rebels say they have started an attack on Kurdish-led forces in the northern Syrian town of Manbij, according to a statement posted today — but dated yesterday — on X by the Defense Ministry of the Syrian Interim Government.
The Islamist rebels collaborated with the Kurds to overthrow the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, but now appear to have rapidly turned on each other.
More than 900 people including 138 civilians have been killed since #Syrian opposition forces launched a major offensive 11 days ago, culminating in their control of #Damascus, a war monitor says.https://t.co/pW7xDey7iv
Syria: Major General Ali Mahmoud found shot dead in his home in Damascus countryside. He was the deputy commander to Bashar's younger brother Major General Maher Assad in the 4th Armored Division, responsible for chemical weapons war crimes against the Syrian people. pic.twitter.com/LtImbXBnWu
#BREAKING Iran's FM Araghchi in televised interview on Assad's fall: "Everything was clear, and the analyses had predicted this event. Iranian and Syrian intelligence systems were fully aware of the movements in Idlib, and this information had been conveyed to the Syrian… pic.twitter.com/rg80ekXWPE
… to the Syrian government. What was surprising, however, was the inability of the Syrian army and the unexpected speed of developments. In a meeting we had with Bashar al-Assad, he himself was surprised by the army's performance. The Syrian army was affected by psychological and media operations."
5th gen warfare, badanov commented yesterday.
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HTS Leader: Hezbollah is next
Leader of HTS and presumptive interim leader of Syria, Abu Mohammad al-Jolani: "We are open to friendship with everyone in the region, including Israel. We have no enemies except the Assad regime, Hezbollah and Iran. What Israel did against… pic.twitter.com/ZGgOAG3GLs
The Ukrainian GUR confirms that Russian Mediterranean Flotilla ships are fleeing their Syrian port of Tartus.
The Russian Navy frigate Admiral Grigorovich escorted a cargo ship out of port this morning. Additionally, the GUR reports that Russian forces are departing Latakia. pic.twitter.com/QeCbXhcHgg
Russia begins to withdraw forces from Syria
By Dylan Malyasov
[DefenceBlog] Influential Russian media outlets and military-affiliated voices are reporting claims of a withdrawal of Russian forces from Syria.
The announcements follow the perceived collapse of the Assad regime, raising questions about Moscow’s future military and geopolitical presence in the region.
The Voennyy Osvedomytel Telegram channel, which is closely associated with Russian military insiders, stated, “Reports indicate that we are indeed leaving Syria. It is hard to believe, but if true, this represents a colossal geopolitical defeat and the loss of our military presence in the Middle East, for which we have fought for the past nine years.” The channel attributed much of the blame to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, criticizing his “short-sightedness and stubbornness,” while also pointing to Russian officials who allegedly ignored warning signs of the regime’s potential collapse.
The channel also highlighted the strategic importance of Russia’s military bases in Syria, which served not only as a foothold in the Middle East but also facilitated military operations on the African continent. “How these issues will now be addressed remains unclear,” the post concluded. Read the rest at the link
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. Armed Syrian oppositionists approach bases in Tartus and Khmeimim
[Regnum] Supporters of the Syrian armed opposition have taken control of the city of Jebla, located near the Khmeimim airbase of the Russian Aerospace Forces. This was reported on Sunday, December 8, by TASS, citing eyewitnesses.
Russian military personnel are at the base, and there have been no shootouts with members of the armed opposition, the agency's source said.
“[Representatives of the armed opposition] were already in the city center during the day, at first there was shooting in the air, now everything is calm,” the journalists’ interlocutor said.
Al Jazeera TV channel, in turn, reported that representatives of the armed opposition of Syria entered the city of Tartus on the Mediterranean coast, where a Russian military base is also located.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on December 8, the Syrian military left the center of Damascus. The armed opposition seized the headquarters of state television. Damascus International Airport stopped working, and all prisoners were released from the Seidnaya prison. Syrian Prime Minister Mohammed Ghazi al-Jalali announced his readiness to transfer power. The issue of Russia's military presence in Syria will be decided by the new authorities of this country, he said.
The Russian Foreign Ministry reported that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had decided to leave his post and left the country, giving instructions to peacefully transfer power. Moscow is in contact with all Syrian opposition groups and calls on all parties to resolve issues through political means, the statement noted.
The Russian Federation is taking all necessary measures to ensure the safety of Russian citizens in Syria, and Russian military bases in that country are on high alert, the Foreign Ministry also stated.
For several years, Russia has supported the Syrian government led by Bashar al-Assad in their fight against terrorist forces. The country has pledged to provide support as long as the Syrian government itself is conducting military operations, Russian President Vladimir Putin noted earlier. At the same time, back in 2015, the head of state indicated that “we are not going to be more Syrian than the Syrians themselves,” since this problem is an internal matter for Damascus.
Nevertheless, Moscow has always advocated for the normalization of dialogue between political and religious Syrian forces and organizations, stating the need to conduct the most fruitful negotiations under the auspices of the United Nations in Geneva.
At present, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are focused on successfully achieving the goals set during the special ohttps://www.timesofisrael.com/peration in Ukraine. As the Russian leader has repeatedly stated, all the specified tasks will be accomplished.
“Syrian opposition formations entered the city of Tartus,” the media report states.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, on November 27, armed opposition forces in Syria launched an offensive against government army positions in the Aleppo region. They were able to capture 13 settlements. On November 29, the Syrian army launched a counteroffensive in Aleppo and Idlib.
On December 8, it was reported that Syrian troops had left the center of Damascus. In addition, the armed opposition of Syria captured the headquarters of state television. The Damascus International Airport also stopped operating.
In addition, it became known that the armed opposition of Syria stormed the Iranian embassy in Damascus. The media specified that this building was looted and vandalized.
In addition, journalists reported that the armed Syrian opposition announced the introduction of a curfew in Damascus. This regime will be in effect from 16:00 to 05:00 local time (coincides with Moscow time).
Even more from regnum.ru Russian military bases in Syria put on high alert
Russian forces at military bases in Syria have been put on high alert. This was reported on December 8 by the press service of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
“At the moment, there is no serious threat to their safety,” the department clarified on its Telegram channel.
The ministry also noted that it is closely monitoring the situation in Syria.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, on November 27, Syrian militants launched an offensive against the positions of the Syrian government army in the Aleppo province of this Arab republic. The terrorists were able to capture 13 settlements and the largest base of the republic's armed forces in the region. On November 29, information appeared that government troops had launched a counteroffensive in order to displace the terrorists from the occupied territories.
On December 7, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov emphasized that the Russian Armed Forces continue to provide military assistance to the Syrian army. The minister also added that the Russian side is doing everything possible to counter terrorist groups in Syria.
On December 8, the Russian Foreign Ministry reported that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had resigned and left the territory of the Arab Republic. He also gave instructions to peacefully transfer power. The head of the Syrian government, Mohammed Ghazi al-Jalali, declared his readiness to transfer power to ensure the functioning of state institutions in Syria.
Yet more from regnum.ru Syria talks about the future of Russian military bases
The issue of Russia's military presence in Syria will be decided by the new authorities of this country. This statement was made on Sunday, December 8, by the Prime Minister of Syria, Muhammad Ghazi al-Jalali.
"This issue is not within my competence. It will be decided by the new authorities at the next stage," the prime minister said in an interview with Al Arabiya TV.
Earlier, Ghazi al-Jalali said that he and several other ministers of the Syrian government remain in Damascus. The location of the country's President Bashar al-Assad and Defense Minister Ali Mahmoud Abbas is unknown to the Prime Minister. Ghazi al-Jalali also said that he had established contact with the leaders of the militants who captured Damascus.
As reported by Regnum news agency, earlier on December 8, Al Jazeera reported that the Syrian military had left the center of Damascus. Militants seized the headquarters of state television. Damascus International Airport stopped working, and all prisoners were released from Seidnaya prison.
Reuters previously suggested that Bashar al-Assad might have left the country. Citing two unnamed senior officers of the Syrian army, the agency reported that Assad had flown out of Damascus to an unknown destination. Ghazi al-Jalali, in turn, declared his readiness to transfer power to ensure the functioning of Syrian state institutions.
Israeli ground forces crossed the demilitarized zone on the Israel-Syria border, marking their first entry into Syrian territory since the 1973 October War.
Israeli forces invaded Mount Hermon on the Syrian side and other strategic locations. pic.twitter.com/iYObcC1Txv
Israeli Air Force fighter jets on Sunday struck dozens of targets across Syria, taking out weaponry that Israel feared could fall into the hands of hostile forces, in light of the dramatic fall of the Bashir al-Assad regime some two weeks into a lightning offensive by rebel groups.
Also on Sunday, the Israel Defense Forces seized control of a buffer zone between the Israel-Syria border in the Golan Heights, in what it described as a temporary defensive measure.
Dozens of IAF aircraft struck numerous targets, with a focus on destroying "strategic weapons," defense sources told The Times of Israel, describing the strikes as "very intensive."
The weapons hit by the warplanes included advanced missile storage sites, air defense systems, and weapon production facilities, according to the defense sources. Israel also struck a chemical weapons
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The Assad regime, which fell on Sunday after a lightning offensive by rebel forces, was an ally of the Iranian regime, and a part of its so-called Axis of Resistance® against Israel. For many years, Syria was used as a throughway for Iranian weapons, en route to terror groups including Hezbollah in 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... , with which Israel entered a shaky ceasefire last month.
Israel struck at least seven targets in southwest Syria on Sunday, two regional security sources told Rooters.
They included the Khalkhala air base north of Sweida city, which Syrian army troops withdrew from Saturday night. The regional sources said the army left behind a large stockpile of missiles, air defense batteries, and munitions, that were hit on Sunday.
Strikes at the Mezzeh airbase in Damascus targeted other ammunition depots, the sources told Rooters. Footage posted to social media purported to show the large Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s targeting the Mezzeh airbase. The videos showed heavy bombardment of the airbase.
Later, Israel conducted another wave of at least three airstrikes in the Syrian capital, targeting a security complex and a government research center, the sources told Rooters. Those strikes caused extensive damage to the main customs headquarters and buildings adjoining the military intelligence offices within the security complex, in the Kafr Sousa district of Damascus, the sources said, where Israel previously said Iranian scientists were developing missiles. The research facility was also damaged, a source said.
One of the regional sources said the strikes hit infrastructure used to store sensitive military data, equipment, and guided missile parts.
Strikes were also reported in the Daraa and Suwayda Governorates, in southern Syria, according to local media.
PROTECTING THE BORDER
The IDF, meanwhile, issued an "urgent warning" to residents of several Syrian villages close to the Israeli border, during operations in the buffer zone between Israel and Syria.
"The fighting in your area is forcing the IDF to act and we do not intend to harm you," Col. Avichay Adraee, the IDF’s Arabic-language front man said on X. "For your safety, you must stay at home and not go out until further notice."
The warning was issued to residents of Ofaniya, Quneitra, al-Hamidiyah, Samdaniya al-Gharbiyya, and al-Qahtaniyah, all close to the Israeli border.
The IDF on Sunday seized control of the buffer zone between Israel and Syria, stressing that it was a defensive and temporary measure, given the chaos in the country following the fall of the Assad regime. It marked the first time since the 1974 Agreement on Disengagement was signed following the Yom Kippur War that Israeli forces took up positions inside the buffer zone between Israel and Syria, though the IDF entered the zone briefly on several occasions in the past.
"We are acting first and foremost to protect our border," said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, visiting the Golan Heights. "This area has been controlled for nearly 50 years by a buffer zone, agreed upon in 1974, the Separation of Forces Agreement. This agreement has collapsed, the Syrian soldiers have abandoned their positions."
According to the military, Israeli troops were deployed to specific strategic positions in the buffer zone to prevent unidentified button men from being in the area.
Israel notified the US prior to taking control of the zone, Axios reported Sunday evening, telling the Biden administration it was a temporary move, to last only a few days or up to a few weeks.
The IDF said the deployment was carried out in coordination with the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF), which is tasked with the buffer zone. UNDOF members were, as of Sunday, staying in their positions.
The Kan public broadcaster reported Sunday that the government was considering deepening the area of IDF control further into the Golan Heights, "before someone else enters the vacuum that’s created," citing an unnamed source familiar with the subject.
Included in the existing movements in the zone, troops from the Israeli Air Force’s elite Shaldag Unit seized the Syrian side of Mount Hermon on Sunday — located some 10 kilometers from the border — facing no resistance during the operation. An image circulating on social media Sunday, and widely published in Hebrew media, appeared to show a group of IDF soldiers holding an Israeli flag on the mountain peak.
Unverified footage of the strikes posted to social media appears to show secondary explosions, indicating that weapons were stored in the buildings targeted.
Israeli Air Force fighter jets struck dozens of targets across Syria yesterday, taking out weaponry that Israel feared could fall into the hands of hostile forces, in light of the dramatic fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime.
The Israeli military also took up new positions in a buffer zone between Israel and Syria in the Golan Heights as it prepared for potential chaos.
Several dozen Hezbollah positions were also hit since the ceasefire took effect. Under the agreement, Hezbollah must withdraw from southern Lebanon.
The IDF is still deployed to southern Lebanon, and it has until late January to withdraw under the ceasefire deal. During that time, the Lebanese army will gradually take responsibility for southern Lebanon and an American-led committee that will adjudicate complaints regarding potential ceasefire violations will be established.
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[NAHARNET] The Lebanese Army said on Sunday it was reinforcing its presence on the border with neighboring Syria, after the government of longtime President Bashir al-Assad fell and rebels took the capital Damascus.
"In light of rapid developments and delicate circumstances that the region is going through... units tasked with monitoring and controlling the northern and eastern borders have been reinforced, in conjunction with tightening surveillance measures," the army said in a statement.
According to the IDF, the weapons depot and operatives “posed a threat… while violating the understandings between Israel and Lebanon.”
“These terrorists directed and carried out terror plots against IDF troops and Israeli civilians in recent months,” the military says.
The IDF says it carried out strikes in other areas of southern Lebanon today, targeting Hezbollah operatives. Under the ceasefire agreement, the operatives are meant to withdraw to north of the Litani River.
The IDF is still deployed to southern Lebanon, and it has until late January to withdraw under the ceasefire deal.
The IDF says soldiers of the 7th Armored Brigade stationed in the eastern sector of southern Lebanon have located a truck-mounted multiple rocket launcher.
The troops also found hundreds of anti-tank missiles, mortars, grenades and other weapons in several arms caches, according to the IDF. Several Hezbollah tunnels were also demolished amid the operations.
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[Regnum] On December 8, the US military struck 75 Islamic State (IS, a terrorist organization banned in Russia) targets in Syria. This was reported by the US Central Command (CENTCOM).
“The US military has carried out dozens of targeted airstrikes against… ISIS camps and fighters in central Syria… The strikes were carried out to disrupt the terrorist group’s ability to conduct external operations and to prevent the terrorist group from exploiting the current situation to rebuild in central Syria,” the statement said.
During the military operation, the US Armed Forces hit 75 militant targets.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, on December 8, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Daniel Shapiro said at the Manama Dialogue forum in Bahrain that US troops will remain in eastern Syria to continue the fight against the ISIS group. In the current circumstances, the US will continue close consultations with partners affected by the crisis in the region to help them ensure their security, he added.
In Syria, militant groups have been advancing on the positions of the government army, which was forced to retreat from Aleppo, Hama and Homs, since November 27. Various Syrian opposition forces are involved in the operation.
A senior Biden administration official told news hounds on Sunday that the US was working with Mideast allies to secure and destroy chemical weapons that belonged to the recently collapsed Assad regime.
"We are taking very prudent measures about this [and] doing everything we can to ensure that those materials are not available to anyone and are cared for... We want to make sure that chlorine or things that are far worse are destroyed or secured. There are several efforts in this regard with partners in the region," the senior US official said in a briefing.
The official didn’t specify which countries were involved in the effort.
More from regnum.ru Pentagon says US troops will remain in eastern Syria
The US military will remain in eastern Syria to continue the fight against the Islamic State group (a terrorist organization banned in Russia). This was stated by US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Daniel Shapiro on December 8 at the Manama Dialogue forum in Bahrain.
He noted that the situation in Syria, where the government has entered into negotiations with militant leaders, is rapidly developing. In these circumstances, the United States will continue close consultations with partners affected by the crisis in the region to help them ensure their security.
"Our commitment to them is stronger than ever. We will also maintain a presence in eastern Syria - solely for the purpose of the final defeat of ISIS, it has nothing to do with other aspects of the conflict," Shapiro said.
The Pentagon spokesman said the United States would continue to take steps to prevent ISIS from resurging in eastern Syria and would protect its forces and its partners in the region.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, on December 8, Syrian Prime Minister Mohammed Ghazi Al-Jalali said that the government was negotiating with the leaders of the Syrian militants who had entered Damascus in the morning. He added that he and some of the ministers remain in the country, while the whereabouts of President Bashar al-Assad and Defense Minister Ali Mahmoud Abbas are unknown.
In Syria, militant groups have been advancing on the positions of the government army since November 27, which was forced to retreat from Aleppo, Hama and Homs. Various Syrian opposition forces are involved in the operation, from Islamist groups to the moderate Free Syrian Army, which was previously supported by Turkey and the United States.
On December 8, Al Jazeera reported that the Syrian military was leaving central Damascus, and militants had reached the central Umayyad Square and seized the headquarters of Syrian state television. According to media reports, Damascus International Airport had ceased operations, and all prisoners had been released from Seidnaya Prison.
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