[KRQE] HSI promises to find those responsible for ‘sophisticated’ tunnel
Special agents with Homeland Security Investigations, along with U.S. Border Patrol, uncovered what they are calling a “sophisticated cross-border tunnel” connecting El Paso to Ciudad Juarez on Friday, Jan. 10.
HSI El Paso says it is leading the investigation to prosecute those responsible behind the tunnel.
Border Patrol officials earlier called the tunnel an “historic” discovery.
HSI said that upon excavation of the “smuggling tunnel,” they determined that it extends under the U.S.-Mexico border into the Boone Street storm drain in South-Central El Paso and it is approximately 4 feet across and 6 feet in height.
HSI also said the tunnel is held up by wood beams and is equipped with electricity, a ventilation system and appears to have been constructed in the past year.
Border Patrol initially said their Confined Space Entry Team discovered the tunnel early Friday morning and that it crosses from Juarez into the El Paso storm drain system.
The tunnel includes lighting, a ventilation system and is braced with wood beams throughout, Border Patrol added.
HSI has been working closely with their counterparts in Juarez to make sure that the man-made tunnel from El Paso into Ciudad Juarez is secured.
“The uncovering of this tunnel showcases the success of our combined investigative efforts,” HSI El Paso Special Agent in Charge Jason T. Stevens said. “Transnational criminal organizations mistakenly think they can avoid detection by moving people and contraband underground. This recent discovery is a significant blow to their operations as it highlights our capability to disrupt their sophisticated smuggling networks.
“The discovery of this tunnel and the follow-up investigation highlight the strong collaboration and dedication of our valued law enforcement partners — I want to express my gratitude to the federal, state and local departments supporting this case for their unwavering commitment to enhancing public safety,” Stevens added.
As of Friday, no arrests have been made, HSI said.
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Nothing new. In 1994 our active-duty CA National Guard Counterdrug Task Force assisted the Customs and Border Patrol in the discovery, examination and closure of a drug tunnel from the Tiajuana Airport Complex to an American trucking company warehouse next to the Otay Mesa Truck Inspection location. It had an elevator lift, lights, ventilation and a railed push card to move the loads. The airport has a long history of repeated tunneling to the warehouses on the US side. More cent examples in the BBC article link below.
[ToloNews] The Islamic Emirate has condemned last night’s rocket attack by Pak forces on Sarkano District in Kunar Province ...one of the four N2KL provinces (Nangarhar, Nuristan, Kunar and Laghman). N2KL is the designation used by US and Coalition Forces for the rugged and very violent region opposite Pakistain's Federally Administered Tribal Areas and Northwest Frontier Province. Kunar is the center of the N2KL region. Its population is 95% Pashtun. It is adjacent to Bajaur Agency.. and has called for the cessation of such attacks by Pakistain.
Zabihullah Mujahid, the spokesperson of the Islamic Emirate, told TOLOnews that such attacks by Pakistain on Afghanistan are not in the interest of either side and harm the relations between the two countries.
Mujahid stated: "In Kunar Province, rockets hit certain areas causing casualties. Livestock, in particular, have been killed. We condemn these rocket attacks by Pakistain and demand the cessation of such actions."
Pak forces targeted Sarkano District in Kunar with rocket attacks around 1:30 AM last night.
These rockets struck residential homes, resulting in the death of 10 livestock and forcing residents to leave their homes.
Meanwhile,
...back at the precinct house, Sergeant Maloney wasn't buying it. It was just too pat. The whole thing smelled phony, kind of like a dead mackeral but without the scales... some residents of Kunar Province say that such attacks by Pakistain cause severe problems for Afghan citizens.
They have urged the Islamic Emirate officials to prevent such attacks.
Mahzabullah Mahzab, a resident of Kunar, said: "Sometimes, the Pak government carries out attacks that victimize ordinary people."
Parwiz Ghorzang, another resident of Kunar, said: "Pakistain carried out an attack late at night, causing significant difficulties for the people. We urge the government to prevent such attacks."
This comes after Pakistain conducted Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on parts of Barmal District in Paktika ...which coincidentally borders North Wazoo and Kurram Agency... Province on December 25, 2024, resulting in the deaths of over fifty local residents, including women and kiddies.
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[Regnum] The strike on the American aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman, which was in the Red Sea, was carried out by Yemeni Houthis from the Ansar Allah movement. This was reported on January 11 by the representative of the armed forces formed by the Houthis, Yahya Saria, his statement was broadcast by the Al Masirah TV channel. They shoot off as claimed, but only rarely do their missiles/drones actually hit anything. That’s because the choice of whether to hit is Allah’s, and he clearly prefers the targets.
"Yemeni missile forces and unmanned systems forces carried out a joint military operation within 24 hours, attacking the American aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman and several warships in the northern part of the Red Sea using cruise missiles and drones," Saria said.
A representative of the movement indicated that after the Houthi attack, the aircraft carrier was forced to redeploy to the “extreme northern part of the Red Sea.”
Earlier, Regnum News Agency reported that on January 6, Yemeni Houthis announced an attack on the American aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman in the Red Sea. As the movement's representative Yahya Saria specified, the ship was attacked by drones and missiles. In addition, according to Saria, on the same evening, the Houthis carried out two more operations to strike using drones at a military facility in the Israeli port city of Jaffa, as well as at a "vital Israeli facility" in Ashkelon.
A day earlier, Saria said 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 said the strike was in support of the Gaza Strip, adding 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.
[DHAKATRIBUNE] Members of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) have detained 58 Rohingyas, including women, children, and elderly individuals, during an illegal entry attempt through the Buchitong border in Alikadam Upazila's Nayapara Union, Bandarban.
The operation was conducted by the Alikadam Battalion in the early hours of Saturday.
According to police and local sources, the detentions were made following a tip-off about Rohingyas fleeing Myanmar with assistance from several Bangladeshi nationals.
Acting on the information, BGB personnel launched a raid in the border area and held the group at around 4am.
They were intercepted while being transported on a truck, a private car, and several cycle of violences.
Besides, five people accused of facilitating the illegal crossing were also detained during the operation.
Legal proceedings against them are underway, and cases are being prepared at Alikadam Police Station.
The Rohingyas, meanwhile, are expected to be pushed back to Myanmar as part of the authorities' ongoing efforts to prevent illegal crossings.
Alikadam Police Station's officer-in-charge, Mirza Zahid Uddin, confirmed receiving information about the detainees but said that no case had yet been filed. ''Appropriate measures will be taken once the case is lodged,'' he added.
The attempted crossings come amidst a protracted conflict in Myanmar, where disputes between the government and rebel groups have intensified, forcing many Rohingyas to flee the region in search of safety.
Bangladeshi authorities have been vigilant in monitoring the border checking the influx of refugees and maintaining security.
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[IsraelTimes] Palestine Solidarity Campaign rejects police request, as dozens of British lawmakers warn ‘that many Jewish families have been intimidated’ by the weekly marches
A planned pro-Paleostinian march in London is rebuffing police orders to move its starting point after complaints that it will disrupt a nearby synagogue’s Shabbat services.
The rally by the Paleostine Solidarity Campaign is due to begin at the headquarters of the BBC on Saturday, January 18, at noon, and then move toward Whitehall, the British government district. The gathering point is around the corner from the Central Synagogue, an Orthodox congregation founded more than 150 years ago.
Leading up to the march, dozens of British politicians, including Jewish officials, wrote a letter to police protesting the route of the rally and saying frequent pro-Paleostinian marches on Saturdays interfered with Jewish religious practice.
"Members of the congregation at Central and other London synagogues have suffered massive disruption to their Shabbat services from marches taking place on Saturdays for more than a year," the letter said, according to The Times. "The effect has been that many Jewish families have been intimidated by large protests and stayed away.״
Claudia Mendoza, who heads the Jewish Leadership Council, an umbrella group of British Jewish nonprofits, echoed that concern, saying that the group wasn’t calling for the protest to be banned, but "We just want it to start away from the synagogue."
On Thursday, nine days ahead of the march, London’s Metropolitan Police issued a statement saying it would use its powers to "prevent the Paleostine Solidarity Campaign forming up in the vicinity of a synagogue ahead of its planned protest." The statement said the decision had been made prior to the politicians’ letter.
Commander Adam Slonecki said in a statement that pro-Paleostinian demonstrations in the city often take place on Saturdays, and that "this has been a cause of increased concern for many Jewish Londoners who have altered their plans, avoided parts of central London and reduced attendance at religious services."
He added, "On Tuesday, I wrote to the PSC to inform them that we have reached the view that a protest forming up so close to a synagogue on a Saturday — the Jewish holy day — when congregants will be attending Shabbat services, risks causing serious disruption."
But the Paleostine Solidarity Campaign said in its own statement that it rejects the police order, and that it had agreed on the route with the police in November. The group said the synagogue itself was not on the route of the march and pointed to "thousands" of Jewish participants in its rallies as a sign that they aren’t antisemitic. It said discussions with the police remain ongoing.
"We have already announced our intention to assemble outside the BBC to protest against the pro-Israel bias of its coverage," the statement said, adding later, "We firmly reject any attempt to suppress our right to campaign for an end to Israel’s genocidal violence and decades long violations of the rights of the Paleostinian people."
The BBC has also drawn allegations of anti-Israel bias from Jewish groups. The Board of Deputies of British Jews, a leading group, met with BBC leadership in August to decry the "unacceptable state of affairs, both in terms of content and coverage."
[IsraelTimes] Punishment said to be harshest yet in connection to riot at Makhachkala Int’l Airport after the arrival of a plane carrying ‘unclean’ passengers from Tel Aviv, 3 weeks after Oct. 7
Russian prosecutors announced Friday that four people had been sentenced to a decade each in a penal colony for their part in an antisemitic riot at a Dagestan ...a formerly inoffensive Caucasus republic currently bedevilled by low-level Islamic insurgency, occasional outbreaks of separatism, ethnic tensions and terrorism, primarily due to its proximity to Chechnya. There are several dozen ethnic groups, most of which speak either Caucasian, Turkic, or Iranian languages. Largest among these ethnic groups are the Avar, Dargin, Kumyk, Lezgin, and Laks. While Russers form less than five percent of the population, Russian remains the primary official language and the lingua franca... airport on October 29, 2023.
Hebrew media said it was the harshest sentence yet in connection with the attack, which saw hundreds of anti-Israel protesters storm the Makhachkala International Airport after a plane arrived from Tel Aviv, in a spate of unrest over the 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... , which had been sparked three weeks earlier when Hamas ..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,... attacked Israel.
Russian prosecutors said the three people who incited the violence on Instagram were still wanted by authorities.
Video footage from the riot showed the protesters, mostly young men, waving Paleostinian flags, breaking down glass doors and running through the airport shouting "Allahu Akbar" (God is greatest). The airport closed for a week after being stormed, but no passengers were hurt.
Regional prosecutors in Russia’s southwestern district of Stavropol said on Telegram that the region’s Georgievsk City Court had found Marat Rabadanov, Radzhab Radzhabov, Magomed Ramazanov and Zaurbeg Khalikov culpable in the violence "on the grounds of ethnic and religious hatred and enmity toward citizens of Israel."
The Kan public broadcaster said the sentence was the fourth, and the harshest, punishment meted out by the Stavropol court against members of the Dagestani mob in recent months.
The earliest convictions, in June, saw five men incarcerated Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! for six to nine years each. Last month, another 10 people were sentenced to over eight years in prison, according to Russian media.
Kan said the trials have been moved from Dagestan to neighboring Stavropol due to concern that a Dagestani court would not hold a fair trial.
It was unclear if this meant that courts in Dagestan, a predominantly Moslem region, were thought to be overly or insufficiently stringent.
According to the Stavropol prosecutors, the Dagestani mob had disrupted the Makhachkala airport’s operations, caused 24 million rubles ($233,000) worth of property damage, and committed "unlawful acts against 30 representatives of the authorities," 23 of whom "suffered bodily injuries of varying severity."
The mob was incited by a Telegram channel urging Dagestanis "to organize and participate in mass riots" against Israeli citizens, according to a statement by Russia’s Investigative Committee, the country’s top prosecutorial body which is known by its Russian initials SRK.
The channel, which was later banned by Telegram, did not use the word "Jew," but referred to "unclean" passengers arriving on the plane from Tel Aviv.
SRK said the channel’s operators, whom the agency named as Ilya Ponomarev, Abakar Abakarov and Israil Akhmednabiyev, were still wanted by authorities, along with four other people who took part in the mob.
In all, SRK said it had completed preliminary investigations into 135 people involved in the attack and forwarded 28 criminal cases to the court. A total of 38 people have been found guilty in seven of the cases, the agency said.
Dagestan’s small, ancient Jewish community — known as Juhuri, which is also the name of their Hebrew- and Aramaic-inflected dialect — has been targeted by Islamist gunnies for years before October 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas-led gunnies stormed southern Israel to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages, sparking the war in Gaza and precipitating a worldwide surge in antisemitism.
In June, the community’s 110-year-old Derbent Synagogue was burnt down amid a large-scale Islamist attack on non-Moslems in the area.
[IsraelTimes] Home in city also daubed with antisemitic graffiti, police say they’re probing offensive comments on street poster; Australian PM: Graffiti ‘abhorrent and needs to stop immediately’
In the latest incident, police said they were notified of graffiti on the synagogue, in the inner suburb of Newtown, early Saturday. Vandals had spray painted red swastikas outside the entrance.
A house in Sydney’s east, a hub of the city’s Jewish community, was also daubed with antisemitic graffiti, police said, adding they are also probing offensive comments on a street poster in the suburb of Marrickville.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese condemned the antisemitic graffiti, asserting that those responsible "should face the full force of the law."
Jewish leaders say prejudice against their community has reached unprecedented levels, with most incidents reported in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia’s largest cities, where 85 percent of the nation’s Jewish population live.
A report from the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) found that Australian Jews experienced more than 2,000 anti-Jewish incidents over the past year, more than quadruple the number from the previous year.
A total of 2,062 incidents were recorded between October 2023 and September 2024, far more than the 495 incidents noted a year earlier. The total did not include antisemitic statements made on social media.
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The NSW Police have now reported that arson was also attempted during the attack on the Newtown Synagogue.
The Counter Terrorism Command is investigating.
The Inner West stands in solidarity with the Jewish community and against the extremists carrying out these attacks. 1/2 pic.twitter.com/R5y4CIvGHq
Islamists in France are vocal about conquering all of Europe:
"We are not here to kill people, but we are ready, because given how we are oppressed, we never know. Islam is everywhere now, it will conquer all of Europe.”
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The true nature of Islam always emerges when they gain sufficient power. Above all Islam is a world-view about conquest and control. "Dar al-Islam is an Arabic phrase that translates to "the house of Islam" or "the abode of Islam". It refers to the areas where Muslims are the majority and Islamic law is practiced. The term is used to distinguish Muslim spaces from non-Muslim spaces, which are known as Dar al-Harb, or "the abode of war". (Wiki cite)"
"Islam is not simply a belief about God. Islam is a word that means submission. Islam is a set of rules that define a social hierarchy in which Muslims submit to Allah, women submit to men and all non-Muslims submit to Islamic rule. "
A selection of stories I happened across as I wandered the internet, this list is most certainly not anywhere close to complete.
Columbia University law professor retires as probe finds she discriminated against Israelis
Katherine Franke leaves school after investigation says she violated university discrimination policy when saying Israeli students harass Palestinians on campus. Franke is a longtime pro-Palestinian activist and supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement targeting Israel. She has described herself as an “activist academic” focused on issues including queer theory, gender justice, racial justice and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Protests surrounding the Israel-Hamas conflict plunged Columbia University into turmoil last year, culminating in an unsanctioned protest encampment on campus property, protesters’ forcible takeover of a campus building and dozens of arrests. Israeli and Jewish students have said the protests and rhetoric, including from faculty, created a hostile and unsafe environment for them on campus.
The university administration struggled to tamp down tensions and implemented some counter-measures, including a task force on antisemitism.
Protests have not been as disruptive this year, although student activists have escalated their rhetoric, including by issuing open calls for violence, which the university has condemned.
in Gaza, accusing it of intentionally destroying the Palestinian enclave’s education system amid the 15-month war against Hamas.The resolution, which was approved 428-88 at the AHA’s annual conference, said Israel’s campaign “has effectively obliterated Gaza’s education system.” It will now go to the AHA Council, which will need to decide whether to approve it, veto it or declare nonconcurrence.
Some of the AHA leadership expressed opposition to the resolution, including its president-elect Suzanne Marchand.
The professor, Imam Nader Taha, delivered a sermon at the Islamic Society of Akron and Kent (ISAK) on December 13, 2024, where he made inflammatory and antisemitic statements about Israel and Jewish people. The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) reported on the remarks on January 2, 2025. During his sermon, Imam Taha referred to the October 7 attack—what he called the “Al-Aqsa Flood”—in which Hamas killed over 1,200 Israelis and kidnapped over 250 civilians. Taha praised the assault, calling it a “miracle” and a victory for Palestinians.
In response to the controversy, Kent State University issued a statement condemning Taha’s remarks. The statement also called for unity in the face of violence.
Despite widespread outrage over the remarks, Imam Taha remains employed at Kent State and is scheduled to teach four mathematics courses in Spring 2025: Pre-Algebra, Basic Algebra I, Basic Algebra II, and Modeling Algebra. A total of 31 students are enrolled in these classes, which begin on January 13.
Imam Taha remains an active religious leader at ISAK, where he delivers weekly sermons and leads prayers. ISAK confirmed in an interview that he continues to preach regularly, including sharing his views regarding Jewish people and the October 7 attack.
US settles with Johns Hopkins over rise in antisemitic, anti-Arab incidents
The US Education Department notes concerns about discrimination against people of Jewish and Arab ancestry at Johns Hopkins University and reaches a settlement with the institution to resolve the complaints. The university has agreed to review its anti-harassment policies and to provide training to staff and students on addressing discrimination and harassment based on ancestry and ethnicity, according to the settlement posted online by the Education Department.
Seen on Facebook on the Mothers Against College Antisemitism (M.A.C.A.) page:
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Consider just one fact: throughout the dozens of hours of recordings of these events, CAMERA could not find a single mention of the Israeli civilians, including children, taken hostage by Palestinian terrorists on October 7, 2023. Given that the plight of the hostages is the single most important factor preventing an end to the current war, it defies any reasonable, non-ideological explanation for that aspect of the conflict to be outright omitted from the conversations.
[Rudaw] Iraqi F-16 warplanes targeted an 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) hideout in Kirkuk province on Friday, killing six hard boyz including a big shot, the Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) announced.
The Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... destroyed the hideout in the Hamrin Mountains and thwarted an attempted attack on Iraqi forces, CTS said in a statement, adding that the dead included "the leader, the deputy of the so-called governor of Kirkuk."
The operation was conducted in coordination with the army’s Joint Operations Command.
"The successive operations of our heroes continue to eradicate the remnants of the ISIS terrorist gangs," CTS stated.
[IsraelTimes] Over 30 rockets fired from Strip at Israel in past month; military releases footage of drone strike on cell of terror operatives during operations in northern Gaza’s Jabalia
A rocket was fired from 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... toward the Kerem Shalom area on Saturday morning, which the Israel Defense Forces said was intercepted by air defenses.
Sirens had sounded in the border community of Kerem Shalom amid the attack. There were no reports of injuries or damage.
Over 30 rockets have been fired from Gaza at Israel in the past month, over a year after the start of the war in the Strip sparked by the Hamas ..always the voice of sweet reason... terror group’s devastating attack on October 7, 2023.
Meanwhile,
...back at the barn, Bossy's udder had begun to ache... the IDF released footage showing a dronezap on terror operatives during operations in northern Gaza’s Jabalia.
According to the military, troops of the Givati Brigade operating a drone spotted three button men approaching the forces and hiding in a building. In the clip published by the IDF, one of the button men can be seen in the building. All three operatives were killed in a dronezap and gunfire by the troops, according to the military.
The IDF said that when soldiers entered the building they found a tunnel shaft that had been used by the operatives.
The rocket fire and dronezap came at the end of a deadly week for Israeli troops fighting in Gaza.
On Wednesday, three soldiers were killed in northern Gaza. According to an initial IDF probe, the troops were hit by a large bomb that exploded against a tank during operations in Beit Hanoun. That incident came after three other troops were killed and several more maimed in separate incidents the previous two days, and brought Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in the Strip and in military operations along the border with the enclave to 398. The toll includes a police officer killed in a hostage rescue mission and a Defense Ministry civilian contractor.
Tit for tat violence with provocations from the Arab side going back years before the locals stopped leaving the response to Israeli police and IDF units. Because while the official response resulted in arrests and convictions, it did not stop the attacks.
[IsraelTimes] Several reported injured as Israelis accused of attacking West Bank villages near Nablus, Ramallah and Bethelehem amid spate of alleged revenge raids following terror attack
Paleostinian authorities said a man was shot in the foot and several others were maimed as settlers carried out attacks in three Paleostinian towns Saturday, the latest in a rash of alleged Dire Revenge actions following a terror attack last week.
The Israeli military confirmed that it had responded to violence in two of the incidents while declining to assign blame for what I described as a "disturbance" and "confrontation."
According to official Paleostinian Authority news agency Wafa, citing the mayor of Yatma, the man was shot by an Israeli soldier as Paleostinians from the village attempted to fend off an attack on homesteads by settlers.
Unverified footage posted to social media appeared to show settlers and Paleostinian youths throwing rocks at each other in Yatma.
The IDF also said that after receiving reports of "a violent mostly peaceful confrontation" in Yatma, "IDF and Border Police forces arrived at the village within minutes" and broke up the disturbance.
The military also said it was aware of the report that a Paleostinian was injured by gunfire at the scene, and said that "the details of the incident are under investigation."
Wafa also reported several injuries to Paleostinians during a clash with settlers and Paleostinian civilians in the town of Turmus Ayya, near Ramallah.
The military said that the clash in Turmus Ayya involved "mutual stone-throwing."
"IDF and Border Police forces arrived at the village within minutes of receiving the report, used crowd-dispersal measures, and dispersed the violent mostly peaceful disturbance," the IDF said.
On Saturday night, the local Fatah party chief for the village of Kisan reported that some 30 settlers attacked sheepherders near the village, burning tents and damaging equipment for livestock.
The attacks were the latest in a string of incidents that have seen settlers allegedly attack Paleostinians in Dire Revenge for a shooting last week in which Paleostinian bandidossnuffies opened fire on Israeli vehicles passing through the West Bank village of al-Funduq, killing two elderly women and an off-duty cop and maimed at least eight others.
Several Paleostinian villages throughout the West Bank have been attacked in recent days, including al-Funduq, Hajja, Turmusaya and Immatain, according to the Yesh Din organization, which tracks such incidents.
Overnight Thursday, settlers were reported to have raided the village of Khirbet Abu Falah northeast of Ramallah.
Footage showed a building used by farmers on the outskirts of the village going up in flames.
The words "Revenge" and "Funduq" were graffitied in Hebrew on the outer wall of the building with a Star of David, apparently referencing the area where the deadly shooting took place this week.
Other footage from recent attacks have shown cars allegedly doused by settlers going up in flames.
No arrests have been made in connection with any of the alleged settler attacks.
Settler violence against Paleostinians has soared since the October 7, 2023, Hamas ..always the voice of sweet reason... massacre, and security forces have been accused of turning a blind eye to the attacks.
Prosecution in such cases is exceedingly rare, leading several Western countries to begin sanctioning Israeli faceless myrmidons in the West Bank last year.
The Department for Internal Police Investigations (DIPI) announced late last month that it is investigating a police brass hat on the suspicion that he deliberately refused to investigate incidents of suspected Jewish nationalist attacks in the West Bank, ostensibly to advance his position in the police force.
Meanwhile,
...back at the abandoned silver mine, the water was up to Jack's neck and still rising. And then he smelled the smoke... High Court justices on Monday impatiently demanded answers for the police’s failure to curb settler violence in the southern West Bank.
Israel has long struggled to deal with settler violence successfully but observers say the problem has intensified since far-right politician Itamar Ben Gvir became minister in charge of the police two years ago.
Before entering politics, Ben Gvir dismissed settler violence and defended Israelis allegedly involved in such attacks.
Selfish, vicious idiots, willing to sacrifice the children of other parents to get theirs out, even though it’s clear that Hamas has continually refused to bargain in good faith, being convinced that 1) without Israeli human shields the IDF would go through them like [your favourite colourful metaphor here], and 2) Hamas has said bluntly they don’t know where all the hostages are held or whether the ones they gave to others to hold are still alive. Given these facts, railing at Prime Minister Netanyahu and his government just because you loathe his politics is actually counterproductive; doing so week after week after week, not just since Hamas burst out of the Gaza Strip on 10/7/2023 in the start of what they thought was to be the conquest of Israel, but whenever a conservative government was in power since 2001 or so, is just plain stupid.
[IsraelTimes] Activists accuse government of avoiding agreement after grim discovery of Youssef and Hamza Ziyadne; foreign envoys join ceasefire calls; protest clown briefly held in Jerusalem
Israelis rallied in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem for a deal releasing hostages held in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Saturday night, urging the government to push talks past the nearing finish line days after the army recovered the bodies of a father and son it said were taken alive on October 7, 2023, and killed while in captivity.
One person in Tel Aviv was detained while protesting the government, police said, and in Jerusalem the brief detention of a clown who has become a central figure in anti-government demonstrations sparked anger by crowds protesting outside the home of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Youssef and Hamza Ziyadne "survived the depths of hell and were murdered because you didn’t make the right decision in time," Shiri Albag said during a weekly rally at Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, addressing Netanyahu and and Defense Minister Israel Katz.
Her appearance came a week after Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... published a video of her daughter Liri Albag, a 19-year-old soldier who was among the 251 people kidnapped during the October 7 massacre.
Albag said the clip was a "living testament to [Netanyahu’s and Katz’s] ongoing failure."
"Look at her eyes," she said. "Eyes we know so well. Eyes that scream from inside: ’Get me out of hell. Don’t forget me.'"
In a sign that talks were advancing Saturday evening, Netanyahu’s office announced that he had decided to send a high-level delegation to 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... to join efforts to seal a hostage-ceasefire deal with the Hamas terror group.
The team departing Saturday night includes Mosssd ...... chief David Barnea, Shin Bet director Ronen Bar, IDF hostage point man Maj. Gen. (res.) Nitzan Alon, and Netanyahu’s political adviser Ophir Falk.
The decision was made after Netanyahu held a situation assessment on the ongoing hostage talks with Katz, Israeli security chiefs, and officials from US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier... ’s outgoing administration and from US President-elect Donald Trump ...The cad! Twice caught beating wimmin!... ’s incoming administration.
Netanyahu met with Trump’s incoming US Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff in Jerusalem earlier in the day, and Witkoff was set to return to Qatar to participate in the negotiations along with the senior Israeli delegation, a source familiar with the matter told The Times of Israel.
Trump has repeatedly threatened of "hell to pay" if a deal is not inked by the time he enters office on January 20, and his tough talk has been credited with helping nudge negotiations ahead.
Speaking to the crowd in English, outgoing US Ambassador to Israel Jack Lew said the US was pushing for the talks to succeed, noting that US citizens were among those held hostage.
"The United States demands the release of seven of our hostages, four of whom we know to be dead — now!" Lew declared, saying the last word in Hebrew to applause.
"There could a ceasefire tomorrow, and an end to the suffering of Gazooks, if Hamas releases the hostages," added Lew.
Other international envoys also spoke, with some using the platform to speak out on behalf of Gazooks suffering through a humanitarian crisis due to the war sparked by Hamas’s attack, in which some 1,200 people were killed.
"I know this is not a popular thing to say, but these tragedies are linked," German Ambassador Steffen Seibert said, calling in Hebrew for an end to the "indescribable suffering of hundreds of thousands of Gazooks," as well as the release of the hostages.
British Ambassador Simon Walters also spoke in Hebrew, drawing on his childhood in war-torn northern Ireland as an example of the sacrifices needed to make peace.
"Every step toward peace was very painful, but that is the only way," he said. "Hamas is fully responsible for these crimes, but practically, we know the only way to bring the hostages home is through negotiations."
At a presser ahead of the rally, relatives of hostages angrily accused the government of being unwilling to make the needed sacrifices for a deal. They spoke days after some 1,000 parents of soldiers fighting in Gaza sent a letter to Netanyahu accusing him of using their children as "cannon fodder."
"Instead of the hostages returning alive, we are receiving the captives in body bags. Only in Israel is total failure sold as ’a heroic operation,'" said Ayala Metzger the daughter-in-law of slain hostage Yoram Metzger. "We don’t want you to send more soldiers who lose their lives while extracting bodies. We don’t want more soldiers to fall in a pointless war."
At a nearby anti-government protest in Tel Aviv demonstrators railed against newly proposed changes to the judiciary, which legal scholar Barak Medina told the crowd would "destroy the judiciary as an independent branch of government."
The reforms unveiled by Justice Minister Yariv Levin and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar Thursday appeared to represent a softened version of an overhaul previously pushed by the government which sparked massive nationwide protests in 2023. Critics said the new proposal, which gives opposition politicians a greater voice on choosing judges, still preserves moves that will increase political control over the judicial system while curbing its ability to act as a check on the government or Knesset.
Medina, a former Hebrew University rector now representing 112 hostage relatives in a petition to the High Court accusing the government of denying the captives’ basic rights by failing to secure their release, said politicians should focus on freeing the hostages and ending the war rather than overhauling the judiciary.
Demonstrators were joined by some families of hostages at an ensuing protest in front of IDF headquarters. Police said most demonstrators dispersed peacefully, but some remained to light a fire, fighting with officers.
"Officers were caught in festivities with protesters, who blocked the way and prevented the fire from being extinguished, shoved and refused to clear out," police said in a statement. "Subsequently, officers were forced to use force to put out the bonfire."
Authorities said one person as arrested for disturbing public order.
At Jerusalem’s Gay Paree Square, officers detained clown Hashoteret Az-Oolay, a mainstay of the city’s protest scene, outside the prime minister’s residence.
[GEO.TV] Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip has killed at least 46,537 Palestinians and wounded 109,571 since October 7, 2023, the Palestinian enclave's health ministry said on Saturday.
The ministry said 32 Palestinians were killed over the past 48 hours.
[IsraelTimes] Troops fall in military’s renewed offensive in Beit Hanoun; initial IDF probe indicates gunmen set off explosive device and fired at soldiers
Four soldiers were killed and six were maimed 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 Saturday, the Israel Defense Forces announced, bringing Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... to 402.
The slain troops were named Sgt. Maj. (res.) Alexander Fedorenko, 37, from Bat Yam; Staff Sgt. Danila Diakov, 21, from Maale Adumim; Sgt. Yahav Maayan, 19, from Modiin; and Sgt. Eliav Astuker, 19, from Ashdod.
Among the six maimed troops, two were listed at death's door.
According to an initial IDF probe, the soldiers in northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoun were hit by an bomb set off by button men, who also shot up them.
The IDF has recently intensified its offensive against Hamas in the far north of the Gaza Strip, an operation that has been ongoing since last October. The offensive is now focusing on the Beit Hanoun area after raids in Jabalia and Beit Lahiya.
The ongoing operation has led to the deaths of 48 soldiers.
On Wednesday three soldiers were killed in northern Gaza. According to an initial IDF probe, the troops were hit by a large bomb that exploded against a tank during operations in Beit Hanoun. That incident came after three other troops were killed and several more maimed in separate incidents on the previous two days.
Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip now stands at 402.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu eulogized the soldiers on X, writing: "They fell protecting the homeland in battles in the northern Gaza Strip, in a war for our existence and security. Their heroism and bravery will be etched in our hearts forever."
HAMAS TERRORISTS KILLED IN SCHOOL
In Jabalia on Saturday, the IDF said it carried out a dronezap against a group of Hamas operatives using the Halawa School to plan and carry out attacks against troops in Gaza and against Israel.
Paleostinian media said the complex was serving as a shelter for displaced Gazooks, and the strike killed at least eight people, including two children, and maimed over 30 others.
The IDF said it took numerous steps to mitigate civilian harm in the strike, using a precision munition, aerial surveillance, and other intelligence.
[GEO.TV] According to Al Jazeera Arabic, a body has been recovered from the the town of Khuza'a, east of Khan Younis following Israel's attack.
The civil defence said that a number of bodies had disappeared as a result of melting due to the extensive amount of explosives fired by the occupation forces.
It’s that eeeeevil Jooooo-magic that makes Palestinian bodies disappear as if they’d never been.
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[IsraelTimes] The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claims to have arrested a cell of spies on suspicion of gathering intelligence on sensitive sites for one of the Persian Gulf countries, according to a statement cited by Iranian media.
Tehran regularly announces arrests of individuals suspected of serving as operatives collaborating with Israel, the US, and sometimes Gulf states including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, but the veracity of such claims is unclear. A den of Spy Squirrels™?
[NEWARAB] Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... has ordered schools and public buildings in a third of the country's provinces, including Tehran, to close on Saturday, as several power plants remain shut down by fuel shortages.
Despite Iran's huge oil and gas reserves, the country hit by years of international sanctions has been forced to ration electricity in recent months as sub-zero temperatures have prompted a surge in demand that its ageing power stations have been unable to meet.
The closures ordered on Friday include the capital Tehran as well as the Shia Moslem shrine city of Qom, Kurdistan in the west and Mazandaran and Ardabil on the Caspian coast.
The decision was taken "because of the cold and to manage electricity consumption," the official IRNA news agency said.
Iran already ordered similar closures late last year after rolling blackouts plunged homes and businesses into darkness in November.
Government offices in Tehran were closed for four straight days in December and school children ordered to stay home across more than half of the country.
The crisis in Iran comes as the country prepares for a second Trump presidency which could see the new economic sanctions and military pressure against the country over its nuclear programme, dubbed 'maximum pressure 2.0'.
Such a campaign has seen some speculate that the end of the Iran's Islamic Theocratic Republic is near, including former Secretary of State under Trump Mike Pompeo.
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[NEWARAB] Syria's Intelligence Directorate foiled an attack by 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.... group on the Sayeda Zeinab shrine in a Damascus suburb, a site of mass pilgrimage for Shias, state news agency Sana reported on Saturday.
It said members of the cell were arrested before they could detonate a kaboom inside the shrine.
The foiled attack will stoke fears that Islamic State is hoping to stage a comeback in Syria following the fall last month of President Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... Some Syrians and foreign powers have worried that the country's new leaders, who are from the Sunni Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... (HTS) group that forced Assad out on 8 December, may impose strict Islamic governance on a country with numerous minority groups such as Druze, Kurds, Christians and Shias.
But the announcement by Syria's transitional government that it thwarted an attack targeting Shia Moslems comes amid reassurances it will protect religious minorities.
"The General Intelligence Directorate is utilizing all its resources to confront all attempts to target the Syrian people in all their diversity," an intelligence official told Sana.
Islamic State, the Sunni Moslem Death Eater group, has claimed previous attacks in and around the shrine, including last year and a bombing in 2017 that killed at least 40 people.
[GEO.TV] Israeli forces carried out an operation to ''blow up a number of houses in the town of Aita al-Shaab'' in Lebanon's Bint Jbeil district, according to the country's state-run National News Agency (NNA).
That’s what happens when you let Hezbollah pay rent to store their missiles and munitions there for years, guys.
IDF says drone strike targeted 3 suspects in Lebanon near the border
[IsraelTimes] Earlier this evening, the IDF says it carried out a drone strike against three suspects who were spotted on the Lebanese side of Mount Dov, close to the Israeli border. The three were apparently killed in the strike. It is unclear if the suspects were armed, or what their intentions were.
IDF says drone strike ‘removed threat’ from Hezbollah operatives in southern Lebanon
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says it carried out a drone strike earlier today in southern Lebanon after spotting several Hezbollah operatives leaving a building known to be used by the terror group. The strike hit the operatives “to remove a threat,” the military says.
According to Lebanese media, the strike was carried out in the village of Kounine. Lebanon’s health ministry reports two wounded in the strike.
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[KRQE] HSI promises to find those responsible for ‘sophisticated’ tunnel
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Earlier, Regnum News Agency reported that on January 6, Yemeni Houthis announced an attack on the American aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman in the Red Sea. As the movement's representative Yahya Saria specified, the ship was attacked by drones and missiles. In addition, according to Saria, on the same evening, the Houthis carried out two more operations to strike using drones at a military facility in the Israeli port city of Jaffa, as well as at a "vital Israeli facility" in Ashkelon.
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[GEO.TV] Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip has killed at least 46,537 Palestinians and wounded 109,571 since October 7, 2023, the Palestinian enclave's health ministry said on Saturday.
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
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