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Good Morning



Biden Trump-proofs $74bn in climate
funding but $20bn remains vulnerable
Thursday 01/16/2025

From our continuing series Women Who Bathe 11
Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Netanyahu thanks Trump for securing hostages deal
Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Islamic Jihad vows to guarantee
full implementation of Gaza deal
Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Minister sees ceasefire deal
as 'bad and dangerous' for Israel
Arabia
Yemen's Houthis welcome Gaza deal, vow to stand by Gaza
Home Front: WoT
NYC judge puts baby-faced Tren de Aragua ''asylum seeker'' in his place as 3 gun runners charged in month-long caper
Arabia
Saudi occupation in Mahrah offering large
sums of money for those who join mercenary units
Global health agency on chopping
block as Republicans threaten to cut off funds

Posted by: Fred || 01/16/2025 01:14 || Comments || Link || [11137 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A Tale 9f a Hail

"Ahoy, there, in full press of sail
Or wearing bare poles for a gale,
Are ye bound for the beach
Or some peaceable reach
Or--"
She breaches. He screeches.
She summons the leeches...
"To Bedlam!" A tumbril, a wail.
Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452 || 01/16/2025 18:36 Comments || Top||

#2  *happy sigh*
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/16/2025 20:08 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Yemeni security forces successfully eliminated ISIS presence in Hanka al-Masoud
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The 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...
i Ministry of the Interior announced that a security campaign in the Hanka al-Masoud area of the al-Qurayshiyah district successfully cleared the region of ISIS criminal elements who had gathered there.

In a statement, the ministry confirmed that the operation led to the arrest of dozens of ISIS members and the death of several, including their leader, Faisal al-Khobzi, also known as ''Hizoum al-Khobzi.''

Some ISIS members detonated themselves during the raid, according to the statement.

The Ministry clarified that the security campaign followed the refusal of the criminal elements to surrender to the law and justice, despite their repeated attacks and rejection of any tribal mediation from prominent figures in the region.

The statement explained that these criminal elements had previously carried out repeated attacks, including: the killing of Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah al-Rabea for opposing their turban ideology; attacking citizens' properties by throwing hand grenades at their homes and farms; shooting at their homes late at night; assaulting the local health unit; and inciting violence against security forces.

''The criminal elements also launched attacks on security personnel while they were carrying out their duties, starting with an assault on a central security patrol at 11:00 AM on Saturday, January 4, 2025 (4th of Rajab, 1446 AH), which resulted in the injury of two patrol members and a civilian nearby. They also launched another attack on a security point, leading to the martyrdom of several individuals, the injury of others, and the burning of police vehicles,'' the statement read.

The ministry emphasized that these actions were part of a broader US-Israeli plot to destabilize Yemen and weaken its stance on Paleostine and 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...
. However,
today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday...
this plan was thwarted by the security forces.

The Ministry also praised the cooperation and awareness of the people of Hanka al-Masoud, al-Qurayshiyah, and the entire al-Bayda Governorate, urging further cooperation to thwart any conspiratorial or destructive plots against Yemen for its support of Paleostine and Gaza.
Posted by: Fred || 01/16/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11132 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State

#1 
Posted by: Brennan M || 01/16/2025 16:35 Comments || Top||

#2  ^ ACA JOE under another totally traceless nym
Posted by: Frank G || 01/16/2025 18:38 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
NYC judge puts baby-faced Tren de Aragua ''asylum seeker'' in his place as 3 gun runners charged in month-long caper
[NYPOST] Three Venezuelan migrants — including a baby-faced Tren de Aragua leader — brazenly peddled illegal pistols, shotguns, rifles and ghost guns across New York City, prosecutors alleged.

The accused ringleader Stefano Pachon, 21, and his two confederates shuffled into a Manhattan courtroom Wednesday to face gun trafficking conspiracy charges outlined in a 31-count indictment.

Pachon, who racked up a long rap sheet since he arrived in the Big Apple from Venezuela in late 2023, sold nine different loaded guns during the months-long caper, prosecutors said.
"We need more anti-gun laws!"
''The defendant has access to a seemingly endless supply of loaded guns,'' said Assistant District Attorney Yuval Simchi-Levi. ''This defendant sold the guns while out on a bench warrant.''
Posted by: Fred || 01/16/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11138 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  Judge personally shot him?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 01/16/2025 1:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Baby face, really? Maybe some style points, discussion about floral patterns?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/16/2025 12:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Coulda been Obama's son!
Posted by: Bobby || 01/16/2025 16:10 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Palestinians report overnight settler attacks in Huwara, in the West Bank
Too late. The new team doesn’t care about this kind of thing.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli settlers broke into the Palestinian West Bank town of Huwara overnight and attacked its residents, according to Palestinian reports.

Video footage purportedly captured during the incident shows the settlers roaming the streets of the Nablus-area town, before fleeing down the road as residents fling stones at them.

According to reports, the settlers attempted to attack the town’s homes, and a Palestinian child was said to have been injured in the violence.

The residents of Huwara have endured heavy violence at the hands of extremist Israeli settlers in the past. In early 2023, dozens of settlers rampaged through the town, setting fire to homes and cars and killing a Palestinian man in response to a deadly terror shooting in the area.

Related: Trump’s pick for secretary of state, Marco Rubio tells Senate confirmation hearing that sanctions on violent settlers to be lifted
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/16/2025 2025-01-16 01:08 || Comments || Link || [11130 views] Top|| File under:


Israel, Hamas ceasefire accord followed by airstrikes on Gaza, 7 Gazooks toes up
[GEO.TV] Israel intensified strikes on Gaza hours after a ceasefire and hostage release deal was announced, residents and authorities in the Palestinian enclave said, and mediators sought to quell fighting ahead of the truce's start on Sunday.

The complex ceasefire accord between Israel and Hamas, which controls Gaza, emerged on Wednesday after months of mediation by Qatar, Egypt and the US and 15 months of bloodshed that devastated the coastal territory and inflamed the Middle East.

The Times of Israel adds:
The Hamas-run civil defense agency in Gaza says that at least seven people were killed in fresh strikes overnight, hours before Israel’s cabinet is set to vote on a hostage-ceasefire deal with the Hamas terror group.

“Our crew retrieved 5 dead and more than 10 injured from under the rubble of a house… that was bombed by the Israeli army in the Al-Rimal area west of Gaza City,” the agency says in a statement.

It adds it had retrieved the bodies of two more people killed in a strike at “the Al-Sha’biya intersection in the center of Gaza City.”

Posted by: Fred || 01/16/2025 00:03 || Comments || Link || [11142 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Six Palestinians said killed in fresh IDF airstrike in West Bank’s Jenin
[IsraelTimes] Attack comes a day after another 6 Palestinians, including at least 4 Hamas gunmen, were killed in strike on the city; overnight, three troops hurt by roadside bomb

Six Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the West Bank city of Jenin on Wednesday evening, Palestinian medical officials said.

The strike came a day after another strike in Jenin left six other Palestinians dead.

The Israel Defense Forces said it had carried out the strike on Wednesday in a joint operation with the Shin Bet security agency. It said further details would be provided later.

The Palestinian Authority Health Ministry named the six Palestinians killed on Wednesday as Muhammad Araarawi, 33, Ahmad Araarawi, 37, Mahmoud Fayyad, 22, Osama Abu Droubi, 26, Mustafa Fayyad, 26, and Awad Abu Zaid, 27.

Images posted to social media appeared to show Mustafa Fayyad brandishing firearms, indicating he was a member of a terror group in Jenin.

There was no immediate comment from Hamas or the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Both terror groups have a significant presence in Jenin.

On Tuesday evening, the IDF carried out a drone strike in Jenin that killed another six Palestinians, four of whom were later claimed by Hamas as members of the terror group.

The strikes come amid a campaign by the PA to clamp down on terror factions in the northern West Bank city.

In a separate incident overnight, three IDF soldiers were injured, two seriously and one lightly, by a roadside bomb in the West Bank city of Qabatiya, close to Jenin, the military said on Wednesday morning. The soldiers were in a light armored vehicle when it was hit by a bomb planted in the area by Palestinian gunmen. The soldiers, of the Kfir Brigade and Menashe Regional Brigade, were taken to a hospital for treatment.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/16/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11131 views] Top|| File under:


Thousands of Palestinians are out on the streets of Gaza chanting ''Allahu Akbar!''
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

‘I feel joy despite everything we’ve lost’: Palestinians cheer Gaza ceasefire deal
[IsraelTimes] Some Hamas gunmen are seen openly strolling Strip’s streets as crowds gather to celebrate; US anti-Israel groups hail ceasefire as ‘victory’ for Palestinian ‘resistance’

Thousands of Gazooks gathered to celebrate as news spread that a ceasefire deal had been reached between Israel and Hamas
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
on Wednesday night.

The deal is aimed at releasing the Israeli hostages held by the terror group in exchange for an expected 1,000-plus Paleostinian security prisoners, and potentially ending more than 15 months of war in the Paleostinian enclave sparked by the devastating Hamas-led onslaught in southern Israel on October 7, 2023.

AFP journalists
…who no doubt are double dipping as Hamasniks for their day job…
in central 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 Deir el-Balah and other areas witnessed people gathering in groups, hugging and taking photos with their mobile phones to mark the announcement.

"I can’t believe that this nightmare of more than a year is finally coming to an end. We have lost so many people, we’ve lost everything," said Randa Sameeh, a 45-year-old displaced from Gaza City to the Nuseirat Camp in the center of the territory.

"We need a lot of rest. As soon as the truce begins, I will go to the cemetery to visit my brother and family members. We buried them in Deir el-Balah cemetery without proper graves. We will build them new graves and write their names on them."

Outside Deir al-Balah’s al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, hundreds of Paleostinians gathered to chant, sing and wave flags.

At one point, a member of the crowd and a journalist in body armor were raised on people’s shoulders to conduct an interview above the mass of elated Gazooks.

As an ambulance squeezed through the crowd to reach the hospital, smiling men and women alike chanted "Allahu Akbar," or "God is greatest" in Arabic, and waved the Paleostinian flag.

Young children, some looking confused by the commotion, gathered outside the hospital, too, milling between adults and watching as they gave interviews to the waiting media.

A gaggle of young boys in the center of the crowd led a popular pro-resistance chant as adults filmed the moment on their phones.

Armed Hamas button men were also seen parading the streets in uniform, celebrating the ceasefire.

In Gaza City, 27-year-old Abdul Karim said: "I feel joy despite everything we’ve lost."

"I can’t believe I will finally see my wife and two children again," he added. "They left for the south almost a year ago. I hope they allow the displaced to return quickly."

Large crowds also gathered in Khan Yunis, in southern Gaza, with young men surfing through the crowd on the shoulders of others beating drums and cheering, an AFP photographer saw.

In Jordan’s capital Amman, revelers were seen parading through the streets with Paleostinian flags, chanting slogans praising Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, the criminal mastermind of the October 7, 2023 massacre who was killed in October by Israeli forces in southern Gaza.

"Raise your voices like the flame — Ya Sinwar, Gaza has won," chanted some Jordanian demonstrators.

’RESISTANCE HAS WON’
In the US, American anti-Israel groups hailed the Gaza ceasefire as a victory for the Paleostinian "resistance."

Within Our Lifetime, a hardline anti-Israel group in New York that has repeatedly denounced the Israeli offensive against Hamas as "genocide," declared "Resistance® has won."

"Imperialism and Zionism has lost, the Democratic party has lost, the future of the Zionist state continues to be eroded," group leader Nerdeen Kiswani said in a statement.

The Paleostinian Youth Movement in New York announced a rally in Times Square tomorrow. "Paleostinians in Gaza have not only survived, but shown the world that they will continue to rise until liberation," it said.

National Students for Justice in Paleostine called the agreement "a step forward on the long, arduous path to Paleostine’s inevitable victory."

"The people of Gaza chose to resist," NSJP said.

Columbia University’s coalition of anti-Israel groups posted a message saying, "Glory to our deaders, glory to our people, glory to our fighters."

"This victory is Gaza’s alone, we must fight and escalate," the group said.

The People’s Forum, a socialist anti-Israel group in New York, hailed "a victory for the Paleostinian people and the global struggle for liberation."

"The struggle against imperialism and Zionism has advanced," the group said. "A new phase in the struggle begins now."

Hamas leader touts ceasefire as a defeat for Israel while hailing Oct. 7 atrocities
[IsraelTimes] Khalil al-Hayya praises deadliest massacre of Jews since Holocaust as ‘a source of pride for our people’; Islamic Jihad calls deal ‘an honorable agreement to stop the aggression’

[X]


Posted by: Fred || 01/16/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11143 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Time to reload.
As there will never be peace with
those that seek genocide.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 01/16/2025 3:24 Comments || Top||

#2  The real enemy are Globalists - Muslims are just pests to be controlled.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 01/16/2025 11:54 Comments || Top||

#3  There might be a silent majority in Gaza that is anti Hamas. However, by and large those people are afraid to be too loud.

In any event, Hamas has lost a lot of its leaders, a lot of its weapon inventory, a lot of its physical infrastructure (probably 80%-90% of each). Furthermore a lot of their mideast allies are not happy campers. Iran is broke and the Arab States are not willing to give blank checks. They can celebrate all they want.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 01/16/2025 15:40 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ "Allahu Akhbar! Does this candy taste like an abundance of Red Dye #3?"
"Shut up and dive in!"
Posted by: Frank G || 01/16/2025 17:57 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
IDF confirms strike in southern Syria, said it targeted weapons convoy near buffer zone
[IsraelTimes] The IDF confirms carrying out an airstrike in southern Syria earlier today, after saying it identified a convoy of vehicles with weapons on them near a buffer zone where Israeli troops are deployed.

According to the military, the drone strike was launched near the vehicles as a warning shot, and they dispersed shortly after.

According to Syrian media, the strike killed the mayor of Ghadir al-Bustan, the village where the strike took place, along with several military officers from the new Syrian government.

The military officers had been in the area to remove weapons from positions belonging to the former Assad regime’s army, according to the Syrian media reports.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/16/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11158 views] Top|| File under: Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (al-Nusra)



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