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Now for something completely different, from Ace of Spades yesterday-watch the video to the end-truly heartwarming display:
"The Hershey Bears have once again established a new hockey record, collecting 102,343 stuffed toys during Sunday’s annual Teddy Bear Toss.
This surpasses the club’s previous hockey world record of 74,599 collected in 2024.
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As part of the club’s Hershey Bears Cares initiative, which showcases the philanthropic activities and volunteer efforts of Bears players and staff members throughout the community, teddy bears and stuffed animals are collected and donated to more than 35 local and regional organizations. Additionally, the Sweigart Family Foundation has pledged to donate a sum to the Children’s Miracle Network that will match the number of stuffed animals thrown on the ice.
Hershey’s annual Teddy Bear Toss has collected more than 566,000 stuffed toys since its inception in 2001."
Pacific Palisades under mandatory evacuation order but the roads are impassable so it's either shelter-in-place or walk out and the smoke is making it hard for people to breath. Big, expensive homes are burning. Life in southern California.
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100 mph winds are nothing to smirk about. Embers catch miles away. Powerlines are shut down to stop fires. If you think that's funny you can fuck right off
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"On Broadway in your elite cityDiddie Wa Diddie,
The feets on the street are all pretty
With hardly a bunion,
The kids can quote Runyon,
And Steven and Jimmy are witty!"
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100 mph winds are nothing to smirk about. Embers catch miles away. Powerlines are shut down to stop fires. If you think that's funny you can fuck right off
No it isn't funny. We get 50mph with 80+gusts regularly, during the Summer especially. Whatever moisture is in the air disappears, downwind turns into a kiln, houses turn into billows, thermals throw burning branches into the air then get blown downwind behind any entrenchments, fire vortex 'tornadoes' throwing burning heavy objects way up in the air to be carried. I watched a cut wheat field catch so fast I couldn't see the flames, just the the discoloration like a demon shadow racing at open highway speeds...then our engine choked out. Another time one of our team got caught and had to drive the road using their phone map; that particular we lost 300 THOUSEND acres in 24 hours - the State of Delaware is like 160,000 acres. Cattle Country, very gross, smelling it as I type. People ducking into cow water tanks popping up for air and getting burned.
[FoxNews] 'It’s outrageous that this individual took advantage of our shelter system to engage in criminal activity,' Massachusetts Democratic Gov. Maura Healey said "That's what our State Capitol is for!"
A blue state governor who pledged to fight Trump administration deportation efforts expressed outrage Monday after a migrant was allegedly caught with nearly $1 million worth of drugs and an AR-15 rifle at a hotel that is being temporarily used as a shelter.
"It’s outrageous that this individual took advantage of our shelter system to engage in criminal activity," Massachusetts Democratic Gov. Maura Healey said in a statement.
Healey was responding to news of Leonardo Andujar Sanchez, a native of the Dominican Republic, facing firearm and drug trafficking charges while using the state's shelter system. The suspect, 28, was found at a Quality Inn in Revere, Massachusetts, which currently serves as a shelter.
Sanchez was allegedly caught possessing ammunition, large-capacity magazines, fentanyl, and cocaine with "an estimated street value of at least $750,000," Boston 25 News reported.
Sanchez is reportedly being held without bail due to a Chelsea District Court judge deeming the suspect dangerous. Another local outlet reported Sanchez entered the U.S. illegally last year and acquired an ID from the New York shelter system.
The Massachusetts governor ordered shelter inspections after the incident.
"I’ve ordered an inspection of all shelter units, beginning with the Revere site, and a full review of our intake processes to determine any additional steps that we can take to prevent criminal activity in shelters," Healey said. "This further underscores our broken federal immigration system and the urgent need for Congress and the White House to act on a border security bill to prevent criminals from entering our communities."
"The people of Massachusetts should not continue to have to deal with the impacts of federal inaction," she added.
In 2023, Healey said of her state, migrants are "drawn here because we are and proudly have been a beacon to those in need."
This one needs customers for his drugs, current and future, and a safe and comfortable home base. The honourable governor can be pleased that her state provides both.
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"It’s outrageous that this individual took advantage of our shelter system to engage in criminal activity,"
Entering the country without prior approval is criminal activity. Flaunting the 'law' is their very first act. The gov aiding and abetting the process.
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"Hey, suckers!" [José] "Can't you see
All us alien criminals, free,
Many bearing the prints
Of your Lazaran mints?"
[hand indelibly stamped with a "D"
shoots el dedo at Francis Scott Key]
[ShabelleMedia] In an ongoing effort to combat terrorism, Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... security forces are heavily engaged in operations against ISISfaceless myrmidons in the mountainous terrain of Somalia’s Bari region, particularly around the Barak Ise area near Dharjale.
The officials reported on Saturday that the military actions, including ground and air assaults, are aimed at flushing out ISIS fighters entrenched in the rugged landscape.
According to Puntland officials, the operations have led to significant casualties among the ISIS ranks, with several faceless myrmidons confirmed killed in recent days. The Puntland forces have also made strategic gains by dismantling key positions that ISIS had fortified in the region. This includes the destruction of makeshift camps and the seizure of weaponry that had been in the hands of the hard boys.
The intensity of the conflict escalated last week when ISIS launched an attack on a Puntland army camp located in the Dharjale area. This assault not only resulted in casualties on both sides but also marked a turning point, prompting a more aggressive counteroffensive from Puntland forces. The attack was noted for its use of both jacket wallahs and direct combat, showcasing ISIS’s attempt to reassert control or disrupt Puntland’s security operations.
The Bari region, with its complex and hilly topography, has long been a strategic area for terrorist groups due to its remoteness and the cover it provides. ISIS, which has been operating in Somalia since 2015, has found these mountains to be an advantageous hideout, complicating efforts by local forces to completely eradicate the group’s presence.
Puntland’s response to these threats has been multifaceted, involving not just military tactics but also intelligence operations to preempt attacks and disrupt ISIS’s logistical and recruitment networks. The regional government has pledged to continue its operations until ISIS is completely removed from its territory, highlighting the importance of this campaign for both local security and regional stability.
[Garowe] Somali National Army (SNA) units, bolstered by U.S. Air Force precision strikes, neutralized at least 10 al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... members in a coordinated offensive in the Berhani area, roughly 35 kilometers northwest of Kismayo ...a port city in the southern Lower Juba province of Somalia, at the extreme southern end of the country (always assuming Somalia can be called a country). It is the commercial capital of the autonomous Jubaland region.... , security sources said on Sunday.
The joint operation was aimed at preempting a planned attack by al-Shabaab, sources said. The strike targeted a known al-Shabaab outpost where intelligence suggested the forces of Evil were organizing their next move against Somali military targets.
"This operation was a clear message to al-Shabaab that their terror will not go unchecked," a senior Somali military official told Garowe Online, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered... due to the sensitivity of the matter.
The involvement of U.S. forces underscores the ongoing international cooperation aimed at dismantling al-Shabaab's networks. The United States has been actively supporting Somalia in its fight against al-Shabaab and ISIS, which has plagued the country for over three decades.
The latest military action is part of a wider strategy to weaken al-Shabaab's grip in southern Somalia, where the group has been launching attacks to oust the government. The Somali government, alongside its international partners, has intensified operations against the bully boys, focusing on both direct combat and initiatives to cut off their financial and logistical support.
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[Regnum] Rebels from the Shiite movement Ansar Allah (Houthis) attacked the American aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman in the Red Sea with drones and missiles. This statement was made on January 6 by the representative of the Yemeni movement, Yahya Saria.
"The operation, carried out using two cruise missiles and four drones, disrupted the United States' preparations for a large-scale air strike on Yemen," Al Masirah TV quoted the movement's representative as saying.
In addition, the Houthis carried out two more drone strikes later in the evening, targeting a military facility in the Israeli port city of Jaffa and a “vital Israeli facility” in Ashkelon, Yahya Sari said. He added that the drones successfully reached their targets.
Betcha none of the weapons hit their targets this time, dear Reader, just like almost all Houthi attacks previously.
As reported by Regnum, the day before, Saria said that the Houthis had launched a rocket attack on the Orot Rabin power plant near the northern Israeli city of Haifa. The movement's military spokesman clarified that the strike was carried out in support of the Gaza Strip. He also added that the Houthis' military capabilities were "constantly evolving."
On January 3, the Ansar Allah movement also reported a missile strike on a power plant. The attack targeted a facility east of the Israeli city of Tel Aviv. In addition, the Houthis reported using drones to strike a "military target" located in the said settlement.
On January 1, the Ansar Allah movement reported the destruction of a US-made MQ-9 Reaper drone over Yemen. According to Yahya Sariyya, the drone was in the airspace of Marib province.
[IsraelTimes] The 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... s in 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... claim to have launched four drones at Israel today.
In a statement, the Iran-backed terror group says it targeted a "military target" in the Tel Aviv area with two drones and a "vital target" near Ashkelon this afternoon, as well as another target near Tel Aviv this evening.
The IDF is unaware of any drones reaching Israel from Yemen today, and there have been no reports of impacts.
The Houthis also claim to have targeted the American aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman with several missiles in drones in the Red Sea.
[IsraelTimes] Several hundred rally to highlight ‘destruction’ of Gaza’s healthcare system; Israel supporter retorts: ‘You guys are protesting at a hospital. What the f**k is wrong with you?’ Pungent, succinct, and true. What’s not to like?
Pro-Hamas anarchist Nerdeen Kiswani from 'Within Our Lifetime' is calling on healthcare workers to participate in a sick-out, which would deny patients medical attention at NYU Langone. https://t.co/vDCkfd9dsdpic.twitter.com/ufoVz5ZEv8
Several hundred anti-Israel protesters demonstrated on Monday outside the NYU Langone Health Center in New York City.
The protest was organized by Within Our Lifetime, a hardline group that echoes Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... rhetoric, endorsed the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, and calls for Israel’s destruction. Dozens of activist groups in the city endorsed the protest, including student, socialist and pro-Paleostinian organizations.
Organizers said they were targeting the hospital to "bring accountability for the destruction" of 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... ’s healthcare system.
The protesters chanted "Say it loud say it clear, we don’t want no Zionists here" and "Resistance® is justified when people are colonized."
Banners in the crowd included Paleostinian, transgender, anarchist and Lebanese flags.
Idiots.
Protesters carried signs that said "Abolish Israel" and "Right of return." Some held flyers with photos of Gaza healthcare workers.
"There is only one solution — intifada, revolution," they chanted.
Two more weeks. After that it should get interesting
The crowd gathered in the frigid cold on the sidewalk across the street from the main entrance of the medical center’s Tisch Hospital. Dozens of police stood outside the hospital’s doors and patients exiting the building stopped to gawk at the protest. One protester scrawled "Gaza" alongside an inverted triangle, a pro-Hamas symbol, in snow plastered to a car windshield.
Around a dozen pro-Israel counter-protesters waved US flags. The two sides traded insults across a metal barricade, with the pro-Paleostinian activists calling the pro-Israel crowd "baby killers," "fascist ...anybody you disagree with, damn them... s" and "fucking Zionists." The pro-Israel group called the protesters "terrorists" and derided them for concealing their identities with face masks.
"You guys are protesting at a hospital. What the fuck is wrong with you?" one Israel supporter shouted.
Police officers were stationed between the two groups and hospital officials stood on the sidelines.
"Get your best insults in, just stand three feet apart. You can scream at each other all you want," a police officer said.
One protester wearing a Hamas headband mocked Israeli hostages held in Gaza, telling the counter-protesters, "Where are your hostages? Where are they? Go look for them."
The focus on healthcare comes after the IDF launched a raid on Kamal Adwan Hospital in north Gaza late last month. The IDF said Hamas turbans had been operating out of the hospital and that Israeli forces sought to evacuate civilians and mitigate damage.
Hamas has fought from within hospitals throughout the war and periodically hid some of the Israeli hostages inside them. International law prohibits targeting hospitals during wartime, but hospitals can lose this protection if they are being used for military purposes.
Last year, Within Our Lifetime demonstrated outside the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center on the Upper East Side.
It wasn’t clear why the protesters targeted the Tisch Hospital specifically, and Within Our Lifetime refuses to speak to "Zionist media." The hospital is one of several facilities affiliated with New York University’s Langone Health Center and is named for a prominent Jewish philanthropic family. Family member Jessica Tisch was appointed NYPD commissioner last month.
Other pro-Paleostinian advocates have sought to make the medical field a battleground. The United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... special rapporteur for the Paleostinians, La Belle Francesca Albanese, called for healthcare professionals to sever ties with Israeli institutions last week. Albanese has a history of antisemitism and murderous Moslem rhetoric against Israel.
Jewish healthcare providers have reported widespread antisemitism in the field since October 7.
The American Jewish Medical Association called Monday’s protest "an outrage."
"The lies must stop. The politicization of healthcare must stop," Yael Halaas, the group’s founder and president, said in a statement. "It’s no coincidence that this outrageous event is being planned for NYU — a hospital frequented by Jewish patients. It is a fact: Antisemitism in healthcare affects everyone’s healthcare."
Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine, a Jewish democrat, called the protest "clear antisemitism."
Anti-Israel protests started in New York City the day after the October 7 attack and hundreds of rallies have been held since, targeting transportation hubs, museums, colleges and holiday events.
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] Nothing new, but now we know what he looks like.
Jack Danaher Molloy, a total idiot from Pennsylvania, converted to Islam last year and then tried to join Hezbollah so that he could kill Jews. He got caught and is now facing up to 28 years in prison.https://t.co/DJJRwSja2z
[Rudaw] A personnel from the US-led global coalition against 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.... (ISIS) was killed and two others were maimed during a recent operation against the group in Iraq, announced the US Central Command (CENTCOM) late Monday.
CENTCOM, which oversees US troops in the Middle East, said they and Iraqi forces from December 30 to Monday "conducted multiple strikes in the Hamrin mountains of Iraq, targeting known ISIS locations," adding that "the operations served to disrupt and degrade ISIS’ ability to plan, organize, and conduct attacks against civilians in the region, as well as U.S. citizens, allies, and partners throughout the region and beyond."
It also said that "ISIS fighters engaged Coalition forces on several occasions, resulting in the employment of Coalition air strikes, using F-16s, F-15s, and A-10s. The A-10s tasked to support ground forces in the area were successful in eliminating the ISIS fighters within a cave."
The festivities resulted in casualties among coalition forces.
"One Coalition member was killed and two were maimed from two different nations," CENTCOM said, adding that no US personnel was injured.
The US forces also provided support to the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) last week in anti-ISIS operations in eastern Syria, resulting in the arrest of an ISIS leader, according to CENTCOM.
[Rudaw] Iraq and Kurdish security forces have detained four suspected Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) members, according to a government statement issued on Saturday.
"A joint security coordination between the Counter-Terrorism Cell of our agency and the General Directorate of Operations of the Asayish in the Kurdistan Region resulted in the arrest of four terrorists" who were wanted under the law, the Iraqi National Security Service stated on X.
One of those arrested is a "specialist in manufacturing ISIS weapons," the statement said.
Two of the suspects "worked in what is known as the ’Development and Military Manufacturing Authority’ affiliated with the ISIS terrorist gangs" in Anbar province, the statement said.
"As for the other two suspects, it was revealed that they belonged to what was formerly referred to as the Nineveh and Dijla provinces" and had directed attacks against security forces in the past, the security service added.
The investigation revealed that the suspects used forged identity documents to evade security and move around freely.
ISIS seized control of vast swathes of Iraqi territory in 2014. It was declared territorially defeated in 2017, but Kurdish and Iraqi security forces continue to carry out frequent operations against remnants of the group.
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[IsraelTimes] Missile slams into yard of rabbi’s home, the third time the same property has been hit by projectiles fired from Palestinian enclave; woman, 68, injured running to bomb shelter
Gazooks fired three rockets into southern Israel Monday morning, lightly damaging the home of a local religious leader and marking the latest attack amid a return to near-daily launches terrorizing southern residents.
One of the three rockets shot from 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 landed in the city of Sderot, the military said. A second projectile was intercepted, and a third apparently landed in an uninhabited area.
There were no casualties in the attack, though a 68-year-old woman required hospitalization for light injuries sustained while rushing to find shelter as air raid sirens sounded in the city and other communities bordering the Gaza Strip, the Magen David Adom emergency service reported.
Residents of the area have mere seconds to take cover when rocket warnings sound and injuries stemming from panic are not uncommon.
According to the Ynet news outlet, the rocket that hit Sderot slammed into the yard of the home of local Chabad emissaries Rabbi Hananel and Tzviah Pizam.
The rocket broke a fence and damaged a walkway, while sending debris flying. According to the report, shrapnel also hit a gas tank, causing a temporary leak but no explosion.
The Pizams said the attack was the third time the home had been a hit by a rocket from Gaza. The home had not yet been repaired from the last time it was damaged.
"It is terrible — not the first time, not the second," Tzviah Pizam told Ynet. "We thought that it was over, and it hit the gas canister."
Pinhas Cohen, who has an office in the street where the rocket landed, told the Kan public broadcaster that "we flew out of our seats from the shockwave; it was an especially large explosion."
The attack ended a short-lived period of calm on Sunday, which followed nine consecutive days of rocket attacks since December 27.
Over 20 rockets were launched in that time, mostly from the Strip’s far north town of Beit Hanoun, where the IDF is currently carrying out a major offensive against Hamas ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... Rocket attacks from Gaza had largely stopped since the spring of 2024, which was attributed to Israeli military gains against the Hamas terror group and its formerly massive arsenal in Gaza. Most of the rocket strikes in recent days have been launched from northern Gaza, where fighting has intensified since October amid Israeli attempts to keep Hamas from regrouping there.
The Paleostinian terror group has previously fired rockets from areas where the IDF is advancing, to prevent the military from capturing them.
The war has caused immense damage to Gaza’s infrastructure and some 1.9 million Paleostinians of the 2.3 million population are residing in the Israeli-designated "humanitarian zone," according to IDF assessments in July.
As winter sets in, the harsh weather is creating further problems for an already major humanitarian crisis in which aid deliveries are struggling to reach some areas of Gaza, particularly the north. Israel says that Hamas and other gangs are looting many of those that do arrive.
The Paleostinian Authority official news agency WAFA reported that an infant died Monday from the cold. Yusef Ahmed Anwar Kalloub had lived for just 35 days, according to the report. His death brought to eight the number of fatalities due to the weather, WAFA said, of whom seven were children. Similar to other statistics from Gaza, the figures could not be verified.
[IsraelTimes] The Israel Police and the Shin Bet security agency arrested four minors on suspicion of terrorism and filed indictments against them today, says a police spokesperson.
After joint investigations into two separate incidents over the past few weeks, the Central District Police’s intelligence and investigations unit reports arresting three of the minors, residents of the predominantly Arab Triangle region of Israel, for their alleged involvement in attacks against Israeli security forces in the West Bank. Police suspect that one of the minors was involved in arms dealing with a West Bank resident.
Police say the three suspects were affiliated with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group and had been in regular contact with “terrorist operatives active in the Nur Shams refugee camp.”
The second joint investigation led to the arrest of another minor, also a resident of the Triangle, on the suspicion that he intended to “carry out terrorist activity inspired by ISIS.”
The minor reportedly consumed ISIS-related content online, attempted to make contact with a member and swore allegiance to the group, but later regretted it. Police say the minor also purchased a gun illegally, and later sold it.
Regretted and got rid of the gun? Well done, lad!
The Central District Attorney’s Office filed indictments against the four minors today.
[IsraelTimes] Attackers open fire on two cars and bus on major road used by settlers and Palestinians, then flee, authorities say; army surrounds Nablus as leaders vow to capture killers
Two elderly women and an off-duty cop were killed and at least eight other Israelis were maimed when Paleostinian gunnies opened fire on vehicles in the northern West Bank on Monday morning, the military and medics said.
The shooting attack, which targeted a bus and two cars, occurred inside the Paleostinian village of al-Funduq, which straddles a major artery used by thousands of Israelis and Paleostinian drivers daily. The army said it launched a manhunt for the button men.
The fatalities were identified as Master Sgt. Elad Yaakov Winkelstein, a police officer, and Rachel Cohen and Aliza Raiz.
Three Paleostinian gunnies from the Jenin area in the northern West Bank opened fire on two Israeli cars and a bus traveling along the highway as they passed through the village, according to the military.
According to an initial Israel Defense Forces probe, the terrorists, armed with assault rifles, first shot up a civilian car from a close range, killing Cohen and Raiz. Their deaths were declared at the scene by Magen David Adom medics.
Then, the button men fired at a bus further away, injuring eight people, including the driver, 63, who MDA said was rushed to a hospital at death's door. Two women on the bus were in moderate condition, and at least five others were lightly hurt.
As the gunnies were shooting at the bus, the military said an armed civilian opened fire with a handgun at the button men, causing them to get back in their car and flee. The shots hit the car but apparently did not injure any of the terrorists, the military probe found.
While the gunnies were fleeing, they opened fire on another car around 150 meters (490 feet) away, killing Winkelstein, the police officer, according to the IDF’s investigation.
The military said two of the button men were known to the defense establishment and were already wanted for involvement in terror activity, while the third was still unidentified.
Winkelstein, 35, a father of two from the northern town of Ein HaNatziv, was an investigator at the Ariel cop shoppe. He was off-duty at the time of the attack. One of Winkelstein’s sons was in the car when he came under fire, but was unharmed physically, according to Hebrew-language media reports.
Cohen, 73, and Raiz, 70, educators from the settlement of Kdumim, were driving together when they came under attack.
The IDF said that it had dispatched a large number of troops, as well as an Israeli Air Force helicopter, to search for the terrorists.
The attack occurred along Route 55, an east-west highway traversing the West Bank and linking areas northwest of Tel Aviv to the outskirts of Nablus, passing near or through a number of Israeli settlements and Paleostinian towns.
Surveillance video published by Israel’s Kan public broadcaster showed a man emerge from the passenger side of a white sedan stopped on the road and aim a weapon at a passing bus. The man appears to continue shooting for several seconds before getting back in the car, which then peels away from the scene.
The army said it set up roadblocks near the attack site, and placed cordons around the city of Nablus and several other nearby villages.
Separately, the Paleostinian Health Ministry in the West Bank said a 17-year-old boy was killed by Israeli gunfire in the Askar refugee camp in Nablus. The military said individuals hurled explosives at soldiers operating in the area, who then opened fire and hit one of them.
There have been numerous attacks on Israelis using Route 55 over the years, including in al-Funduq. Most attacks have involved stone-throwing, though there have been shootings as well, including an April attack on a bus and another vehicle that injured two.
Plans to pave a bypass road around al-Funduq for Israelis were recently approved; construction is set to begin next month.
Violence in the West Bank has mounted since October 7, 2023, when Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... assaulted southern Israel, sparking war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... and unrest across the region. Since then, 46 people, including Israeli security personnel, have been killed in Paleostinian terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank, including some carried out by Israeli citizens.
Another six members of the security forces were killed in festivities with terror operatives in the West Bank. Much of the violence has been concentrated near Nablus, Jenin and other Paleostinian cities in the northern West Bank where PA control has steadily weakened over the years.
According to the PA health ministry, more than 835 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed since October 7, 2023. The IDF says the vast majority of them were button men killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops or gunnies carrying out attacks.
During the same period, troops have arrested some 6,000 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 2,350 affiliated with Hamas.
[IsraelTimes] Settlers rampaged through several Palestinian villages throughout the West Bank after a deadly shooting attack that killed three Israelis on Monday morning, the Yesh Din rights groups reports.
Targeted Palestinian towns included al-Funduq — where the suspects in the shooting attack were from — Hajja, Turmusaya and Immatain, Yesh Din says.
Footage from several of those towns shows cars doused by settlers going up in flames.
“Once again, the army is doing nothing to prevent settler violence. This time, too, the writing was on the wall, and notices calling for riots in the villages were distributed publicly among settlers. This is what the Wild West looks like,” says Yesh Din.
[IsraelTimes] Cpt. Eitan Israel Shiknazi, 24, and another unnamed soldier killed in battle in Beit Hanoun; IDF says orders ‘sharpened’ after troops shoot at WFP aid convoy
Two IDF soldiers were killed and two others were seriously maimed in 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.
One of the slain soldiers was named as Cpt. Eitan Israel Shiknazi, 24, a deputy company commander in the Nahal Brigade’s 932nd Battalion, from Eli.
The name of the second slain soldier was to be released later, the military said.
The IDF added that two other soldiers of the 932nd Battalion were seriously maimed in the same incident in northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoun.
The two deaths brings Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip to 397.
Two other soldiers with the Nahal Brigade’s reconnaissance unit were seriously maimed in fighting in northern Gaza earlier in the day. They were evacuated to Israel for treatment.
Also earlier Monday, the IDF said its instructions for soldiers have been "sharpened" after troops opened fire on a UN World Food Programme convoy in the central Gaza Strip Sunday.
The WFP said the convoy of three vehicles with eight staff members came under fire by Israeli soldiers "despite having received all of the necessary clearances from Israeli authorities.
"This unacceptable event is just the latest example of the complex and dangerous working environment that WFP and other agencies are operating in today," WFP said, calling for improvements in security conditions to allow aid to continue.
At least 16 bullets struck the convoy, and none of the staff were maimed, according to WFP.
The convoy was traveling from southern Gaza to the Strip’s north and returned south following the incident.
In response to a query by The Times of Israel, the IDF said that "the incident was investigated, instructions were sharpened, and lessons will be drawn from the investigation.
"The IDF continues to act in a targeted manner against terror organizations in the Gaza Strip and does everything in its power to prevent harm to uninvolved [civilians], and through COGAT will continue to work to enable and facilitate humanitarian assistance to residents of the Gaza Strip," the military added.
The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said on Monday that 49 people were killed in the Paleostinian territory in the past 24 hours, taking the overall corpse count of the war to 45,854. The number could not be verified and does not distinguish between fighters and civilians.
Nothing about this in yesterday’s Israel Times, so we’ll see.
[Rudaw] Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar gave "positive guarantees" to Syrian Kurds in northeast Syria (Rojava) during a phone call with a Rojava official, which media affiliated with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) confirmed on Saturday.
Saar and Elham Ahmad, foreign relations co-chair for the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, discussed the situation in Syria and Ottoman Turkish-backed attacks on Rojava, according to SDF-affiliated Ronahi TV.
"Israel gave positive guarantees to the rights of Kurds and other components," Ronahi TV said, citing an informed source.
Both officials "discussed the situation in Syria, the developments in the region, preserving Syrian illusory sovereignty, and Ottoman Turkish attacks on north and east Syria," it added.
Saar and Ahmad also stressed the need for a "lasting ceasefire" in Syria.
In late December, Saar expressed "moral and diplomatic" support for Kurds in Syria and urged the international community to do the same. He noted the sacrifices that Kurds made in the fight against 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.... (ISIS) and warned against dismantling their autonomy.
During Syria’s 13-year civil war, Kurds carved out an autonomous region in the northeast, establishing their own governance system and an armed force, the SDF that is partnered with the global coalition against ISIS. The SDF lost an estimated 11,000 fighters in the war against the jihadists.
"The Kurds are a pro-Western and friendly group, and we must stand by them," Sa’ar said at the time, underscoring Israel’s moral and diplomatic support for the Kurds.
The Kurds now face an uncertain future in the new Syria.
Kurdish forces are currently trying to stop an offensive by Ottoman Turkish-backed militias who are attacking a key dam on the Euphrates River and threatening the town of Kobane.
Ankara considers the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) - the backbone of the SDF - as the Syrian front for the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a designated terrorist organization by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor... .
[Rudaw] The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Saturday night said it continued thwarting attacks by Syrian National Army (SNA) turbans on the crucial Tishreen Dam on the Euphrates River, with attacks in northern Syria threatening key Kurdish-held territories.
"Our forces thwarted all attacks by the Ottoman Turkish occupation and its mercenaries, supported by Ottoman Turkish warplanes and drones, on areas east and south of Manbij and north of Tishreen Dam, inflicting dozens of deaths and injuries," said SDF spokesperson Farhad Shami on X.
Kurdish forces in northern Syria are under intensified attacks by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... member, but not the most reliable... and Ottoman Turkish-backed SNA bully boys, who have taken the strategic towns of Tal Rifaat and Manbij since late November.
Clashes are ongoing, especially near Tishreen Dam and Qere Qozaq bridge on the Euphrates River that leads to the symbolic Kurdish city of Kobane on the Ottoman Turkish border. The SDF has claimed to have repelled dozens of SNA attacks, saying in a Friday statement that it killed over 70 turbans and injured numerous others.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britannia-based war monitor, said on Sunday that the ongoing "violent mostly peaceful" festivities have killed 15 SNA members.
Four SDF members were also killed in a Ottoman Turkishdronezap near the dam, according to the Observatory.
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