The wrong-way driver who killed an off-duty Las Vegas officer had been deported from the U.S. twice before the crash, according to federal officials. https://t.co/vhfbkv4HqO
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) confirmed that Fernando Jimenez-Jimenez, 31, was a Mexican citizen. An ICE spokesperson said Jimenez entered the United States twice in 2019 “and was returned to Mexico on an order of expedited removal.”
The spokesperson also said Jimenez applied for admission to the U.S. on Jan. 24, 2020 in Brownsville, Texas but never appeared for his immigration hearing nearly two years later on Dec. 2, 2021. An immigration ordered him to be deported when he didn’t go to court.
It’s unknown where Jimenez was in the years after that hearing up until the deadly crash.
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[AFRICANEWS] The Alliance of Sahel States (AES) comprised of Mali Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president used to be Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and was chased out in 2014. Now it's the usual army officer type guy, Captain Ibrahim Traore, running things, who's just doing a bang-up job unless he's already been deposed... and Niger have rejected the timeline issues by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) claiming it is a scheme to destabilize their newfound entity.
At a summit held a week ago in Abuja, Nigeria, the regional organization announced a six-month withdrawal period to allow the three countries to reconsider their decision after their official departure date at the end of January 2025.
But according to the AES heads of state, this decision is ''nothing more than yet another attempt by the French and its auxiliaries to continue planning and carrying out destabilizing actions against the AES''.
Their communiqu adds that ''this unilateral decision is not binding on the ESA countries''. They had already indicated before the summit that their decision to leave the organization was ''irreversible''.
This will be a ''transition period'' lasting until ''July 29, 2025'' to ''keep the doors of Ecowas open'', according to the President of the Ecowas Commission.
The three countries accused the bloc of ''inhumane and irresponsible'' coup-related sanctions and of failing to help them solve their internal security crises.
The three coup-hit countries have largely rebuffed ECOWAS' efforts to reverse their withdrawal. They have started considering how to issue travel documents separately from ECOWAS and are forming their own alliance. The one-year notice for their departure is expected to be completed in January.
One major benefit of being an ECOWAS member is visa-free movement to member states, and it is not clear how that could change after the three countries leave the bloc.
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[AFRICANEWS] Moussa Idriss says he is ready to turn a new page. Once a Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... fighter, Idriss surrendered to the Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... ian army in 2017.
At a centre for disarmed and demobilized fighters in Cameroon's Far North region, Idriss and his colleagues will be taught new skills to help them lead productive lives.
"Today, I am ready to return home to my family. I am happy to reunite with my family, my brothers, and my father. I want to stay in the community,'' said the ex-combatant.
Since 2018, Cameroon has set up two deradicalization centres in Mora and Meri where more than 3,000 former fighters are being trained in various trades.
"Here in Meri, we have nearly 3,000 ex-fighters who have gone through training at the Meri transit centre. Today, 600 of them have been selected as part of the first wave to reintegrate into different communities," said Evariste Atangana Zoua, a regional administrator.
Officials overseeing the Disarmament, Demobilization, and Re-integration (DDR) efforts say the process will be cartefully monitored to ensure ex-combatants are fully reformed.
But it is not always smooth.
While the ex-fighters are free to choose where they settle to lead a civilian life, local communities sometimes reject them due to past trauma and fear that they have not fully renounced violence.
"If we cannot forgive and accept reconciliation with those who took up arms yesterday, we will not achieve the lasting peace that the Head of State has so greatly wished for," said Oumar Bichair, the head of disarmament program in the Far North region.
Some of the re-integrated individuals are Nigerian. They have decided to remain in Cameroon for fear of reprisal if they return to their home country.
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I wonder how long this will last before a lot of them return to their former ways.
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It depends on whether this is a winter quarters thing like the Taliban used to do, or if they really mean it.
🇩🇪 BREAKING NEWS: It is reported that more than 20,000 people have gathered in the city center of Magdeburg for the AfD rally. pic.twitter.com/syiXVC2rBC
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has yet to formulate an answer for how his government missed so many warnings about the Saudi Arabian who perpetrated Friday's unspeakable carnage.
After the deadly terror attack on a Christmas market in Magdeburg, the capital of the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, it has emerged that German officials received several warnings about the alleged perpetrator over the past few years but failed to act on them.
...Over the weekend it has become clear that Taleb A
…Dr Taleb Al-Abdulmohsen, a psychotherapist who settled in Bernburg near Magdeburg and practiced there since 2006. He was finally granted legal residency and asylum status in 2016. His name is Shiite, and he hails from Hofuf in the Shiite region of Saudi Arabia. While he paraded his anti-Islam stance and work to rescue women escaping to the West from Saudi Arabia, including in news interviews as recently as a few days ago, his statements about the necessity of killing lots of Germans to punish them for importing so many Moslems from Syria, and the act of driving a rented BMW into a Christmas market suggest, coupled with the accusation that he fled Saudi Arabia not because he was an apostate but to avoid prison for assaulting a woman, fit in with the idea that this was a Sudden Jihad Syndrome attack, long planned. And then there is the fact that he had taken drugs before commencing his attack, a common jihadi behaviour…
– a Saudi national who came to Germany as an asylum seeker in 2006 and worked as a psychiatrist – was well known in Germany as a supposed critic of Islam. His account on X had more than 10,000 followers.
In 2013, Taleb A had reportedly allegedly threatened to commit a terror attack in a communication with the Chamber of Physicians of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The police searched his apartment but found no indication of an imminent attack. He was later fined for “threatening to commit a crime”. Despite that, he was granted asylum in Germany in 2016.
After the incident in Magdeburg it was claimed by former colleagues that Taleb A had some time ago been banned from working at one hospital after he allegedly prescribed patients potentially lethal medication.
In August 2023, he reportedly posted on X: “A purely philosophical question: Would you resent me for indiscriminately killing twenty Germans because Germany is working against the Saudi opposition?”
Users on X who ran afoul of the terrorist reported his threatening conversations to the German Polizei, and for whatever reason, be it conversations in English or general disinterest, the German authorities never acted on any of the tips they received.
In fact, when prosecutors in Cologne received threats directly from Taleb A himself, the German police reacted with...a stern letter.
...After a threatening e-mail to the Prosecutor’s Office in Cologne in 2023, Taleb A received a letter from police telling him “to stop writing such letters”.
As much as it seems sentiment is united against Scholz, it is divided by the usual schism of left-leaners versus everyone else being 'far-right.'
There have been peaceful marches through the site of the market by tens of thousands of Germans, who called for deportations in the wake of the atrocity. They are, of course, being characterized as right-wing extremists and using the tragedy for political purposes.
Maybe they've seen enough to see through the calls to reject hate for what they are - calls to accept the current situation as their new normal. Accept this chaos and fear as the new Germany.
BREAKING: 🇩🇪🔥Just after Germany's horror Christmas market terror attack, a 17-year-old Syrian armed with a knife attacked and damaged numerous cars near a school in Singen in southern Germany.
When a German pensioner tried to stop him, the Syrian tried to stab the elderly man… pic.twitter.com/rOkOB8HN1t
… tried to stab the elderly man in the stomach, according to police
When police arrive on scene, they are confronted with the Syrian who keeps rushing at them with a knife, resulting in one officer firing a warning shot. Police then ram the suspect with their vehicle
A police woman also sustained an injury during the man's chaotic arrest.
New information is emerging about the attack on the Christmas market in Magdeburg last Friday, which claimed the lives of five people. It has been revealed that the German police had contacted the perpetrator a few weeks before the attack. Furthermore, according to Radio ZET, the attacker's will was found in his car.
In the attack on the Christmas market in Magdeburg on Friday, December 20, five people lost their lives, including a 9-year-old boy. Yesterday, the German media reported that the number of injured had risen to 235, with more injured people continuing to report to hospitals.
An investigation into the attack is ongoing. The perpetrator is a doctor of psychology, Taleb Abdul Jawad, a 50-year-old born in Saudi Arabia who has lived in Germany since 2006.
Jawad is currently in investigative custody, as he was apprehended immediately after the attack. Now, new information about him is coming to light. It turns out that the doctor had been attracting the attention of authorities for some time.
THE WILL IN TALEB A.'S CAR
The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Saxony-Anhalt, Tamara Zieschang, quoted the dpa agency as saying that the German police had contacted Jawad as early as September 2023. He was interrogated at one of the stations in the Salzland district (Saxony-Anhalt). The second interrogation took place a few weeks before the attack, in October 2023, this time at the perpetrator's workplace.
Weekly "Spiegel" reports that investigators found his will in the perpetrator's car (he rented a BMW over a week before the attack). In it, he wrote that after his death, his entire estate should go to the German Red Cross. According to the newspaper, the text contained no political messages.
Initially a work migrant who had a scholarship from the Saudi government to study medicine in Germany, it is claimed al-Abdulmohsen later became critical of his home nation and denounced Islam.
As now revealed by German newspaper Die Welt, even before al-Abdulmohsen was granted asylum status and given leave to remain in the country he exhibited erratic behaivour, and was convicted for disturbing the peace” over apparent terroristic threats made in 2013.
It is reported al-Abdulmohsen had been in the process of getting his certifications to practice medicine in Germany and was applying for professional examination at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Medical Association, but upon being told he needed to submit additional documents, he handed the organisation a deadline to comply with his demands and a threat. Court documents unearthed from his 2014 prosecution states he told the medical association that “something bad with international significance” would happen to them, adding: “Have you seen the pictures from Boston? Things like that happen here too”.
This apparent threat was made by al-Abdulmohsen just days after the Boston Marathon Bombing and, consequently, the police were called. In court, al-Abdulmohsen insisted he had been under a lot of pressure because of his situation with Saudi Arabia, and claimed he only meant to threaten negative newspaper stories about the organisation, not an actual terrorist attack.
Further, he accused the medical association staff of assuming he meant an actual terror attack because they were prejudiced against Arabs.
The judge rejected this and said, it was reported, al-Abdulmohsen had an “above-average command of the German language and had an extensive vocabulary” and consequently would well understand how his words would be taken by others. The then-trainee doctor rejected the finding of the court, refused to accept responsibility, and even tried to take the legal officials involved to court, it is stated.
Remarkably despite this run-in with the law, al-Abdulmohsen was later granted a licence to practice medicine as a psychiatrist in Germany, and was granted asylum status in 2016.
A growing catalogue of other signs to the authorities is now being established, including people encountering him professionally finding his work as a psychiatrist so slapdash they questioned whether he really had medical qualifications, dubbing him “Dr Google”.
An even clearer instance of failure by the German state to prevent the death of five last week was that while the Christmas market was secured against attacks, the single vehicle route into the area — maintained for the access of emergency vehicles — hadn’t been blocked by having a police truck parked across it, as intended.
Between 2011 and 2016, Abdulmohsen lived in Stralsund, in Germany’s northeast, where he studied medicine. In 2013, he clashed with the medical chamber in nearby Rostock concerning the recognition of qualifications earned outside Germany, Christian Pegel, state interior minister of Mecklenburg Vorpommern, told journalists on Sunday.
While on the phone with the chamber, “he threatened an act that, I quote, ‘people would remember and would attract international attention’,” Pegel said, adding that he had pointed to the 2013 Boston marathon bombing, an Islamist attack that had killed three people.
Police investigated Abdulmohsen as a result but concluded he wasn’t a threat because he didn’t show any sign of Islamist extremism, Pegel said. In late 2013, a court in Rostock fined him for disturbing the peace by threatening a crime.
The following year, he visited a local administration in Stralsund to request financial support and, when denied, warned an employee he would commit “an act that would draw international attention,” Pegel said. He also threatened to commit suicide. Given his existing conviction, he was interviewed by police, who warned him to stand down from future threats, Pegel said.
In 2015, he complained about his conviction in a letter to the state legal administration and in a call to the chancellery in Berlin, Pegel said. In his complaints, he insulted the judge who had pronounced his verdict, and threatened to acquire a gun, he said.
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..well, their PM ran for cover when some truckers showed up. The government will however send a SWAT team after Christian preacher who dare hold services when told not to.
NEW: ICE Boston says a Salvadoran illegal alien charged with sexually assaulting a child in MA was released from local custody with their detainer request ignored by the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department, which previously kicked ICE out of its jails. ICE tracked him down &… pic.twitter.com/l7oghFpSJv
[GEO.TV] Indian police said on Monday they had killed three Sikh separatists fighting for a separate homeland known as "Khalistan", the struggle for which sparked deadly violence in the 1980s and 1990s.
The campaign for Khalistan was at the heart of a diplomatic firestorm last year after Indian intelligence operatives were linked to the killing of a vocal Sikh leader in Canada and an attempted liquidation in the United States — claims New Delhi rejected.
In the latest incident, the Khalistani rebels were killed after a shootout in Pilibhit district in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.
The men were wanted for their alleged involvement in a grenade attack on a police outpost in Punjab ...1. Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2. A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3. A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots
.... state this month.
Pilibhit police superintendent Avinash Pandey said officers had surrounded the men after a tip-off, with the suspects launching "heavy fire".
"In the retaliatory action, all three were critically injured and later died in hospital," he said. Police recovered two assault rifles, two pistols and a large cache of ammunition.
The three men belonged to Khalistan Zindabad Force, a separatist group, Punjab police chief Gaurav Yadav said in a statement.
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[IsraelTimes] A Palestinian Authorities officer was killed during clashes with terrorists in the West Bank, the PA security forces announce, marking the second such death in as many days amid ongoing fighting in the Jenin area.
“The officer was killed after he was targeted by treacherous and cowardly gunfire from outlaws in the Jenin camp,” Anwar Rajab, spokesman for the PA’s security force says in a statement.
The incident comes amid a PA crackdown against terror groups in Jenin, which the PA says is to restore security and stability to the area and comes as Ramallah appears to be trying to signal that it could play a significant role in managing a postwar Gaza Strip.
Palestinian rivals of the Fatah party, which dominates the PA, have condemned the arrests and accused the security forces of aiding Israel.
In addition to the two security personnel, three people have been killed since the clashes began on December 5 — two civilians and a field commander of the Jenin armed battalion.
[IsraelTimes] Two suspects were arrested in November on suspicion of smuggling weapons across the border from Egypt via the Sinai Desert, Israel Police and the Shin Bet security agency announce in a statement.
The security forces name the suspects as Zaher Abu Rakeik, from the Bedouin town of Bir Hadaj in the Negev, and Imad Huashla, from nearby Qasr a-Sir, outside Dimona.
A joint Israel Police-Shin Bet operation found that Zaher and Emad were involved in smuggling eight pistols and cartridges across the border from Sinai on October 19 using a drone, according to the statement, among other incidents.
The two suspects were charged today, the statement adds.
[IsraelTimes] Official Palestinian news outlet Wafa reports that a man has been killed amid clashes with Israeli troops during a raid in the West Bank city of Tulkarem.
The man is named as Fathi Saeed Awda Salem. The report does not say if he was involved in fighting with troops.
There is no immediate comment from the Israeli military.
According to Wafa, heavy fighting broke out as Israeli troops entered the al-Hadaida neighborhood of Tulkarem overnight, using bulldozers to destroy roads, buildings and other infrastructure.
[IsraelTimes] Kfir Brigade’s Cpt. Ilay Gavriel Atedgi, 22, Staff Sgt. Netanel Pessach, 21, and Sgt. First Class (res.) Hillel Diener, 21, killed by explosion during operation in Beit Hanoun area
Three Israeli soldiers were killed during fighting in the northern Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip on Monday, the military announced, as operations to combat the Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... terror group’s regrouping efforts in the area continued.
The slain troops were named as: Cpt. Ilay Gavriel Atedgi, 22, from Kiryat Motzkin; Staff Sgt. Netanel Pessach, 21, from Elazar; and Sgt. First Class (res.) Hillel Diener, 21, from Talmon.
They all served in the Kfir Brigade’s Shimshon Battalion.
According to an initial Israel Defense Forces probe, the soldiers were killed by an bomb in the Beit Hanoun area.
Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip stands at 391. The toll includes a police officer killed in a hostage rescue mission and a Defense Ministry civilian contractor.
The Kfir Brigade had just wrapped up an operation against Hamas in nearby Beit Lahiya earlier this week.
Troops advanced to the Beit Hanoun area "following intelligence information about the presence of bully boyz and terror infrastructure in the area," the IDF said on Sunday.
The military and Shin Bet also announced Monday that a senior member of Hamas’s general security forces had been killed in a Sunday Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in Gaza City.
According to the military, the target of the strike, Tharwat Muhammad Ahmad al-Bayk, served as the head of the security directorate in Hamas’s General Security Service.
Al-Bayk was targeted while at a Hamas command center embedded within the Musa Ibn Nusayr school, in Gaza City’s Daraj neighborhood, the IDF said.
The school was serving as a shelter for displaced Gazooks, and Paleostinian media reported at least eight dead in the strike.
The IDF and Shin Bet said that the security directorate in the General Security Service is a Hamas body that is tasked with building an intelligence picture to help the terror group make decisions.
The unit is also responsible for the protection of Hamas’s brass hats, and has the job of providing shelters for the senior commanders and leaders to enable them to continue their military activity, the joint statement said.
"Al-Bayk was considered one of the main links in the mechanism, and a significant factor in [Hamas’s] decision-making," the statement continued.
The IDF said it took steps to mitigate civilian harm in the strike, including by using a precision munition and aerial surveillance.
Meanwhile,
...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment... organized looting is increasingly threatening aid delivery in war-torn Gaza, with gangs taking advantage of the chaos and lack of governance to steal basic items, The New York Times
...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reported Monday.
The paper said the phenomenon, which was once limited to desperate individuals, has now blossomed into systematic practices by gangs in the enclave.
The growing threat has led the UN and other aid groups to halt operations, contributing to rising hunger and leaving tens of thousands of people without critical supplies, the report said.
The report said the Israeli military has tried to find alternate routes for aid that will bypass looters, but success has been only partial.
It added that the IDF appears to increasingly be targeting armed looters with airstrikes to deter the practice.
Also on Monday, Channel 12 aired satellite footage from Hebrew University GIS specialist Adi Ben Nun that it said showed 100 percent of the 19,000 buildings in the northern Gaza city of Jabalia had been destroyed.
Similar footage from July — before the IDF launched its third counter-terrorism operation in the city since the start of the war — showed 54% of Jabalia’s buildings destroyed, the network said.
Israel says much of the destruction in Gaza is a result of Hamas using the Strip’s infrastructure for terror purposes, but the widespread destruction has fueled accusations of excessive force and collective punishment.
The satellite footage also indicated that the IDF has completed demolishing all 4,000 buildings in Gaza that were within one kilometer of the border with Israel. Channel 12 said the military believes it has completed its goal of creating a buffer zone in that border area.
The Netzarim Corridor bisecting northern and southern Gaza has also been flattened of almost every building that once existed there and has been expanded to nearly 32 square kilometers as the IDF has reportedly built dozens of military complexes there. There have been mounting reports that the IDF has turned the corridor into a de facto kill zone, shooting anyone who approaches it.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli official tells ToI gaps are narrowing in talks with terror group, but crucial issues — including length of ceasefire, Palestinian prisoners to be freed — still unresolved
Gaps between Israel and the Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... terror group over a possible 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... hostage release and ceasefire deal have narrowed, according to Israeli and Paleostinian officials’ remarks on Monday, though crucial differences have yet to be resolved, as fighting continues in the war-torn enclave.
Israel still has not received a list of living hostages from Hamas, an Israeli official with knowledge of the ongoing negotiations told The Times of Israel on Monday, saying, "We are waiting."
"It’s slow progress," the official said. "We would want to see it move quicker, the entire process, but there is absolutely progress."
The official pointed to divisions within Hamas.
"We understand that [Gaza-based bigwig] Mohammed Sinwar is no less of an murderous Moslem and zealot than [his brother, slain Hamas leader] Yahya Sinwar," the official continued, "and this is definitely causing delays."
Another factor slowing down talks is the time it takes for Hamas officials in Doha to communicate with those in Gaza, said the official.
The official also alleged that 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... , despite returning to its mediating role, was also getting in the way.
"Qatar doesn’t stop playing games and trying to carry out psychological warfare on Israeli society with all kinds of reports, half-truths, all kinds of things that they try to launch, experimental balloons, all kinds of things that don’t contribute to the negotiations," he said.
Which explains all the contradictory reports of the status of negotiations, I suppose.
The official explained that Israel is nevertheless willing to use Qatar as a mediator because it has excellent access to Hamas leaders.
CEASEFIRE TERMS UNRESOLVED
The official also insisted that Israel will not leave the Philadelphi Corridor as part of any partial deal or in a first phase of a deal.
"If we reach an end to the war, then maybe it will be possible," said the official. "We’ll see what arrangements we reach, but I also find it hard to believe that we will withdraw."
"We are ready to thin out our forces and redeploy our forces on the ground," the official conceded.
Meanwhile,
...back at the pie fight, Bella grabbed the cocoanut cream... a Paleostinian official familiar with the talks said that while some sticking points had been resolved, the identity of some of the Paleostinian prisoners to be released by Israel in return for hostages had yet to be agreed on, along with the precise deployment of Israeli troops in Gaza.
The remarks corresponded with comments by Israel’s Minister for Diaspora Affairs Amichai Chikli, who said both issues were still being negotiated. Nonetheless, he said, the sides were far closer to reaching agreement than they have been for months.
"This ceasefire can last six months or it can last 10 years, it depends on the dynamics that will form on the ground," Chikli told Israel’s Kan radio. Much hinged on what powers would be running and rehabilitating Gaza once fighting stopped, he said.
The duration of the ceasefire has been a fundamental sticking point throughout several rounds of failed negotiations. Hamas wants an end to the war, while Israel wants an end to Hamas’s rule of Gaza first.
"The issue of ending the war completely hasn’t yet been resolved," said the Paleostinian official.
Minister Ze’ev Elkin, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s security cabinet, told Israel’s Army Radio that the aim was to find an agreed-upon framework that would resolve that difference during a second stage of the ceasefire deal.
Chikli said the first stage would be a humanitarian phase that would last 42 days and include a hostage release.
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.
Hamas released 105 civilians during a weeklong truce in late November, and four hostages were released before that. Eight hostages have been rescued by troops alive, and the bodies of 38 hostages have also been recovered, including three mistakenly killed by the Israeli military as they tried to escape their captors.
The war started with the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel, in which Death Eaters killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took 251 people to Gaza as hostages.
OVERNIGHT STRIKES IN GAZA
Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on the Gaza Strip overnight and during the day on Monday killed at least 20 people, Hamas-controlled Paleostinian medics said.
One of the strikes hit a tent camp in the al-Mawasi area, an Israel-declared humanitarian zone, killing eight people, including two children, according to Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis, which received the bodies.
The Israeli military says it only strikes terror operatives, accusing them of hiding among civilians. It said late Sunday that it had targeted a Hamas operative in the humanitarian zone.
The strike was carried out in the Khan Younis area and the IDF said it took numerous steps to mitigate civilian harm in the strike.
One of Gaza’s few still partially functioning hospitals, on the Strip’s northern edge, an area under intense Israeli military pressure for nearly three months, sought urgent help on Monday after claiming to be hit by Israeli fire.
"We are facing a continuous daily threat," said Hussam Abu Safiya, director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital. "The bombing continues from all directions, affecting the building, the departments, and the staff."
An Israeli military front man denied that the hospital was being targeted. "I am unaware of any strikes on Kamal Adwan Hospital," he told AFP.
Safiyeh reported that the hospital, which is currently treating 91 patients, had been targeted on Monday by Israeli drones.
"This morning, drones dropped bombs in the hospital’s courtyards and on its roof," said Safiyeh in a statement. "The shelling, which also destroyed nearby houses and buildings, did not stop throughout the night."
The shelling and bombardment have caused extensive damage to the hospital, Safiyeh added.
"Bullets hit the intensive care unit, the maternity ward, and the specialized surgery department causing fear among patients," he said, adding that a generator was also targeted.
Paleostinians accuse Israel of seeking to permanently depopulate northern Gaza to create a buffer zone, which Israel denies.
The area has been the focus of an intense air and ground campaign by Israeli forces since October 6, aimed at preventing Hamas from regrouping.
Israel says its operation around the three communities on the northern edge of the Gaza Strip — Beit Lahiya, Beit Hanoun, and Jabalia — is targeting Hamas terror operatives and is aimed at preventing them from regrouping.
There are two functioning medical centers in the area, the Kamal Adwan and al-Awda hospitals.
Israeli officials have accused Hamas operatives of using the hospitals as command and control centers to plan attacks against the military.
On Monday, the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... aid chief, Tom Fletcher, said Israeli forces had hampered efforts to deliver much-needed aid in northern Gaza.
"North Gaza has been under a near-total siege for more than two months, raising the specter of famine," he said. "South Gaza is extremely overcrowded, creating horrific living conditions and even greater humanitarian needs as winter sets in."
PRE-CHRISTMAS MASS
Also Sunday, Latin Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa led a pre-Christmas Mass during a rare visit to Gaza that was coordinated with Israeli authorities.
Footage shared on social media showed the event.
His visit to Holy Family in Gaza City, the Paleostinian enclave’s only Catholic church, came a day after Pope Francis
...Argentine liberation theologist, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He was elected pope in 2013. Rather than setting up shop in Avignon, where he belongs, the first Jesuit Pope chose to reside in the Domus Sanctae Marthae guesthouse instead of the papal apartments. That was to show how humble he is. He is big on climate change, against consumerism, and in favor of throwing a blanket over homosexual activity within the clergy. He's not real sure about the Resurrection, about Christ's divinity, and a few other things that would have gotten him burned at the stake a few hundred years ago, but he's hot for a certain South American Earth Mother Goddess... issued a series of condemnations of Israeli strikes during the ongoing war against Hamas, and said the attacks had prevented Pizzaballa from entering the Strip the day before.
The pope’s comments prompted a sharp response from the Foreign Ministry, which said his comments were "particularly disappointing, as they are disconnected from the true and factual context of Israel’s fight against jihadist terrorism — a multi-front war that was forced upon it starting on October 7."
The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 45,000 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 Death Eaters inside Israel on October 7, 2023.
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 388. The toll includes a police officer killed in a hostage rescue mission and a Defense Ministry civilian contractor.
[IsraelTimes] No reports of injuries due to falling fragments, though woman in serious condition after tripping while running to shelter; Houthi official says attacks to continue until Gaza war ends
Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... ’s Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... rebels fired another ballistic missile at Israel early Tuesday morning, triggering sirens across the center of the country, as well as in southern Israel, for the third time in less than a week.
The Israel Defense Forces said it managed to intercept the missile before it entered Israeli airspace.
According to a military source, the projectile was shot down using the long-range Arrow air defense system, which is designed to take out ballistic missiles outside of the atmosphere.
Sirens were triggered across central Israel — between Herzliya and Ashdod — as well as in several towns east of Beersheba, as a precaution due to the potential for fragments following the interception to land inside Israeli territory, the military said.
The Magen David Adom emergency medical service said it did not receive any reports of injuries due to fallen missile or interceptor fragments.
However,
women are made to be loved, not understood... a 60-year-old woman fell while running to a shelter in Tel Aviv and was transferred to the city’s Ichilov Hospital at death's door, MDA said.
At least 25 people were treated for minor injuries after falling while running to the shelter or due to anxiety attacks caused by the missile sirens, MDA added.
Shortly after the launch, senior Houthi official Hezam al-Asad tweeted that such attacks would continue "until the aggression against our people 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... stops."
Hezbollah made similar pledges to continue its cross-border attacks against Israel until a ceasefire was reached in Gaza but caved last month after two months during which Israel significantly intensified its counter-attacks against the Lebanese terror group.
Hours earlier, the Houthis grabbed credit for launching drones at Israel on Monday afternoon.
The IDF said that the Air Force shot down one drone outside of Israeli airspace. The Houthis claimed to have launched two drones, at targets in Ashkelon and the Tel Aviv area. There were no reports of impacts in either city on Monday.
[IsraelTimes] The US military says it conducted an airstrike in Syria that killed two Islamic State operatives and wounded one.
The Islamic State operatives were moving a truckload of weapons in Dayr az Zawr Province, an area formerly controlled by the Syrian government and Russians, when they were targeted with the airstrike, US Central Command says in a statement on social media platform X.
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[IsraelTimes] Prime Minister Mikati urges US, France to push for accelerated IDF pull-out from southern Lebanon, even as Israel continues to find Hezbollah weapons in border area
United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... peacekeepers and Leb ...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?... ’s prime minister called on Monday for the Israel Defense Forces to speed up its withdrawal from the country, nearly a month into a fragile ceasefire between Israel and the Hezbollah terror group.
"UNIFIL strongly urges accelerated progress in the IDF’s withdrawal from and the LAF’s (Lebanese army) deployment in south Lebanon," the force said in a statement.
Why? What are you hiding? What are you protecting?
It called on "all actors to cease and refrain from violations of (Security Council) Resolution 1701 and any actions that could jeopardize the fragile stability that currently prevails," referring to the 2006 agreement that ended the Second Lebanon War and served as a basis for the more recent ceasefire deal in November.
The UNIFIL statement came after Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said the United States and La Belle France should put pressure on Israel to complete its withdrawal faster.
The United States and La Belle France, along with Lebanon, Israel and UNIFIL, make up the committee tasked with maintaining communication between the parties to the ceasefire and ensuring any violations are identified and dealt with.
As part of the truce agreement, the Lebanese army and peacekeepers will deploy in southern Lebanon, as the Israeli army pulls out over a period of 60 days.
The IDF under the ceasefire agreement has until late January to withdraw from southern Lebanon, and, in the meantime, it continues to operate against and destroy Hezbollah infrastructure.
"In order for the army to be able to fully accomplish its missions, the committee must... put pressure on the Israeli enemy to bring an end to all the violations" of the ceasefire, Prime Minister Najib Mikati said in the town of Khiam during a tour of the south.
"It is necessary to put pressure on the parties to the ceasefire agreement, namely the French and the Americans, to accelerate the process before the expiration of the 60-day period," he added, going on to accuse Israel of "dragging its feet."
On December 11, the Lebanese army reported that it had deployed around Khiam, five kilometers (3.1 miles) from the border, in coordination with UNIFIL, following the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the area.
ACCUSATIONS OF VIOLATIONS
Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reported on Monday that "the Israeli enemy continues its invasion and attacks on southern Lebanese territories," where it has "raised the Israeli flag" on a hill between the towns of Bayada and Naqura.
The NNA frequently reports instances of Israel dynamiting homes in border villages.
For its part, the Israeli army stated on Monday that it was continuing its defensive activities in the south "in accordance with the agreement," adding that it had "seized and dismantled various weapons and military equipment from a warehouse."
The truce in southern Lebanon went into force on November 27, after more than a year of cross-border hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah that began when the Iranian-backed terror group started attacking Israel with rockets and drones on October 8, 2023, a day after Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... bandidosturbans invaded Israel from 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... , starting the ongoing multi-front war.
Fearing a similar Hezbollah onslaught, Israel evacuated residents of border towns. Hezbollah’s persistent rocket fire prevented some 60,000 displaced northerners from returning home. In a bid to stop the rocket fire, Israel stepped up operations against Hezbollah in late September, all but decimating the terror group’s leadership.
Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas all seek to destroy Israel.
Mikati said that he wanted to resolve any questions over the Blue Line — the UN-demarcated boundary between Lebanon and Israel — "so there will be no justification for any Israeli occupation of our land."
He also said he was working with "the World Bank, the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... , Arab countries, and our international partners to create a trust fund" for reconstruction efforts.
The World Bank estimated in October that the fighting had caused physical damage amounting to "at least $3.4 billion" in Lebanon.
A Group of 8 Foreign Nationals have been arrested by Security Forces in the Northwestern Syrian City of Hama, for lighting a Christmas Tree in the City on Fire. Father Maher, the Priest of Hama Parish, states that the Tree will be restored and relit by Christmas. pic.twitter.com/xcdhjTQEQ3
[IsraelTimes] Hundreds of demonstrators have taken to the streets in Christian areas of Damascus to protest the burning of a Christmas tree near Hama in central Syria.
“We demand the rights of Christians,” protesters chant as they march through the Syrian capital toward the headquarters of the Orthodox Patriarchate in the Bab Sharqi neighborhood.
The protests come a little more than two weeks after an armed coalition led by Islamists toppled the government of Bashar al-Assad, who had cast himself as a protector of minorities in the Sunni-majority country.
A demonstrator who gives his name as Georges tells AFP he was protesting “injustice against Christians.”
“If we’re not allowed to live our Christian faith in our country, as we used to, then we don’t belong here anymore,” he says.
The protests erupted after a video spread on social media showing hooded fighters setting fire to a Christmas tree in the Christian-majority town of Suqaylabiyah, near Hama.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the fighters were foreigners from the Islamist group Ansar al-Tawhid.
In another video posted to social media, a religious leader from Syria’s victorious Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) addresses residents, claiming those who torched the tree were “not Syrian” and promising they would be punished.
“The tree will be restored and lit up by tomorrow morning,” he says.
The Islamist HTS movement, rooted in Al-Qaeda and supported by Turkey, has promised to protect minorities since its lightning offensive toppled Assad this month following years of stalemate.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president used to be Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and was chased out in 2014. Now it's the usual army officer type guy, Captain Ibrahim Traore, running things, who's just doing a bang-up job unless he's already been deposed...
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
...1. Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the 
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
