[FoxNews] 2,500 US service members were already stationed along southern border
The Pentagon is sending an additional 1,500 active-duty troops to the southern border by the end of the month, a U.S. official told Fox News on Wednesday.
A senior U.S. military official told reporters the 1,500 troops will consist of 1,000 Army personnel and 500 Marines.
"This represents a 60% increase in active-duty ground forces since President Trump was sworn-in Monday," acting Defense Secretary Robert Salesses said in a statement late Wednesday.
There are already 2,500 U.S. service members stationed at the southern border. The troops were ordered there in May 2023 during the Biden administration under title 10 authorities, were approved by former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and are planned to be in place until the end of FY2025, according to a U.S. Northern Command spokesperson.
The 1,500 additional service members will be deployed to El Paso and San Diego, and are expected to arrive by the end of the week. A "couple hundred" were already en route, though it was not immediately known if they had yet arrived at their destinations.
The added troops will work on the placement of physical barriers and other border missions, though it has been years since the troops have worked on building physical barriers.
"We will also be providing aerial support, rotary wing and airlift capability and deploying some intelligence analysts for enhanced detection and monitoring activities and potentially some intelligence assets as well," the senior U.S. military official said.
Some of the troops being deployed to the southern border were on call or actively working in support of the California wildfires, though they were released from that mission and are now being reassigned, the senior official added.
Unlike previous border missions, the 500 Marines being sent will be armed and have magazines in their weapons. The Marines are also treating this deployment like any other emergency contingency, a senior Marine official told Fox News.
"Our response will be immediate. We are going in ready to respond. If the cartels shoot at us, we will not stand by," the Marine official told Fox News Chief National Security correspondent Jennifer Griffin. "We will be taking whatever equipment we would send if a Marine Expeditionary Unit, or MEU, were deploying overseas."
The first wave of 1,000 Army soldiers and 500 Marines will not be engaged in law enforcement, but the rules of engagement will allow for self-defense.
The troops will also be taking airlift, helicopters and intelligence assets, though the first troops will likely assist with building barriers.
Additionally, there will be two C-17 and two C-130 airplanes to be used for deportation flights, the official said.
"The Department will provide military airlift to support DHS deportation flights of more than 5,000 illegal aliens from the San Diego, California, and El Paso, Texas sectors detained by Customs and Border Protection," Salesses said in the statement. "DHS will provide inflight law enforcement, and the State Department will obtain the requisite diplomatic clearances and provide host-nation notification."
The announcement will mark the third time that U.S. troops have been sent to the southern border in the last two years.
In May 2023, former President Joe Biden and Austin approved a request from former Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to send an additional 1,500 active-duty troops to the southern border for 90 days to assist with the influx of migrants after pandemic era health restrictions ended in May 2023.
In March 2024, Austin approved another DHS request for 2,500 service members, including national guardsmen under Title 10 duty status.
Unlike previous border missions, the 500 Marines being sent will be armed and have magazines in their weapons. The Marines are also treating this deployment like any other emergency contingency, a senior Marine official told Fox News.
"Our response will be immediate. We are going in ready to respond. If the cartels shoot at us, we will not stand by," the Marine official told Fox News Chief National Security correspondent Jennifer Griffin. "We will be taking whatever equipment we would send if a Marine Expeditionary Unit, or MEU, were deploying overseas."
The first wave of 1,000 Army soldiers and 500 Marines will not be engaged in law enforcement, but the rules of engagement will allow for self-defense.
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If the cartels are now classified as international terrorist organizations that does a couple of things -
1 - aiding and abetting touches the definition of aiding the enemy during time of war, thus treason.
2 - enforcement is no longer along the lines of domestic police work, opening operations outside the limits of Posse Commitatus.
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If the cartels shoot at us, we will not stand by
Yeah the Marines get annoyed when shot at. They'll certainly shot back, fairly accurately I might say, and they might even hunt the shooter(s) down just for fun.
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[PJMedia] Around 3:15 on Monday, just hours after President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... was sworn in for his second presidential term, Border Patrol Agent David "Chris" Maland was murdered during a traffic stop on Interstate 91 between Newport and Orleans, Vermont, about 20 miles from the Canadian border.
While it's not exactly clear what Maland was looking for, authorities say Maland and one of the stopped car's two passengers engaged in a shoot-out. Both Maland and the passenger were killed, while the third person was injured and is currently at a local hospital.
Vincent Illuzzi, who serves as the state's attorney in nearby Essex County, told the News Agency that Dare Not be Named that he saw what he believed to be the traffic stop and didn't think much about it. It appeared that the agent's white pickup truck had its red and blue lights flashing, and a small blue car was parked in front of it. The agent and another person were talking in front of the truck and behind the car.
Initially, some media outlets reported that the suspect was possibly an undocumented Democrat, but according to the FBI, he was actually a German national who appears to be in the United States with a current visa. The FBI's Albany field office told Fox News that it is currently investigating the incident: "FBI Albany has numerous resources in the area, to include our Evidence Response Team (ERT), Victim Services, Digital Forensics, and dozens of Special Agents."
According to Paul Perez, president of the National Border Control Council, Maland was a canine handler. Perez told Fox News that Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) was involved, and the agencies were working together based off some intel they received. He says it wasn't a "targeted" operation, but it wasn't random, and Maland suspected the person or people he was looking for might be inside the car. He added that there are less Border Patrol Agents at the Canadian border compared to Mexico, so it's not unusual for them to work independently. Perez couldn't confirm whether the situation involved border security in any way, but he also confirmed that the suspect was not a U.S. citizen.
Either way, the situation highlights the fact that our national security threat isn't limited to the Mexican border. Last month, I wrote about how the number of terror suspects who enter the country illegally through Canada has grown exponentially since Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. The man who made Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter look competent, if only by comparison.... took office. In the last fiscal year, 358 potential terror suspects were encountered at the Canadian border, compared to just 52 at the Mexican one. Compare that to 2021 when only 54 suspected terrorist came in from Canada, while 103 came in from Mexico
Maland was 44 years old and a veteran of the United States Air Force. He'd been with the U.S. Border Patrol for nearly a decade, and he had reportedly transferred from Texas to Vermont to cover the northern border.
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I’ve held Mr. Wife’s hand like that across a table, Anomalous Sources. Of more concern to me as an omen is that she didn’t bother to dress up for that big date — hair not done (lots of fancy things to do with corn rows that do not involve just covering it all with a cheap nylon do-rag), no make-up, ugly, inexpensive casual dress with practically no accessories… I can understand her copying the new fashion of going make-up free, but usually she is much more polished. Honestly, she looks like she’s suffering from clinical depression, though of course I am not a psychiatrist and one mustn’t diagnose from afar under any circumstances.
[PJMedia] The wheels of justice are turning again as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has resumed its enforcement of immigration laws with vigor.
Tom Homan, the former ICE acting director and now Trump’s border czar, told Fox News’ John Roberts on Tuesday that ICE raids have already begun.
"Based on your initial schedule that today, roundups of criminal, illegal aliens in the process of deporting them would begin," Roberts began. "It seems to have been put on hold for a little while. When can we expect that to happen? Where will it begin?"
"No, it started," Homan clarified. "All these teams are out there as of today. We gave them the direction to prioritize public safety threats that we're looking for. So we've been working on the target list."
Homan also appeared on CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... to talk about the efforts to deport illegals and told CNN’s Dana Bash that after years of being hamstrung, ICE officers are back to doing their job.
"ICE is out there enforcing the law today," Homan said. He emphasized that their primary focus is on public safety threats. "That will be our priority right out of the gate."
Homan made it clear that these operations are anything but random. "I wouldn’t call them raids," he said. "They’re targeted enforcement operations. They know exactly who they’re looking for... These are well-planned operations. They’re well-investigated."
While he didn’t reveal specific locations, citing officer safety concerns, he confirmed, "This happens throughout the nation."
When pressed on who ICE is targeting, Homan didn’t mince words: "It’s people in the country illegally who have a criminal conviction, that makes them a public safety threat—that’s our priority." ICE officers, he explained, rely on detailed investigative work. They track individuals on the non-detained docket — those who fail to show up in court, violate deportation orders, or have been involved in violent mostly peaceful crimes.
But Homan also highlighted a significant challenge that these sanctuary cities pose. In these jurisdictions, local jails refuse to cooperate with ICE, forcing officers to track down dangerous individuals in neighborhoods instead of the safer confines of a jail.
"It’s safer for the community, safer for the officers, and safer for the alien," Homan explained. "But when you release a public safety threat from a sanctuary jail and won’t give us access to them, that means we’ve got to go to the neighborhood to find them — and we will find them."
Of course, Homan didn’t shy away from addressing the reality that non-criminal illegals may get arrested and deported as well. "When we find them, they may be with others, others who don’t have a criminal conviction but are in the country illegally. They will be arrested too," he confirmed.
"ICE is going to enforce the immigration law," he said. "There’s nothing in the Immigration and Nationality Act that says you’ve got to be convicted of a serious crime to be removed from this country."
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…who told our cameras he “ain’t going back to Haiti” and “f**k Trump, Biden forever!”.
We also witnessed a “collateral” arrest, where ICE arrested an illegal alien who wasn’t their initial target - but was with a MS-13 gang member who had been released by a sanctuary jurisdiction yesterday with an ICE detainer not honored. These collateral arrests are something that border czar Tom Homan has warned would happen in sanctuary jurisdictions. At one point, a woman yelled out “thank you” to ICE as a violent illegal alien was being arrested in her neighborhood.
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I wonder if the ICE will pay a visit to those factories that have illegals bussed to work and back. Seems like it would be easy pickins, but it seems like it would be bad for business.
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ICE will pay a visit to those factories that have illegals bussed to work
I suspect many of them will join the long columns self-deporting to Mexico, because airports and bus stations already have law enforcement on site. From Mexico they can fly/ride to elsewhere.
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If ICE wants to pick up some Haitians there's a couple hundred camped out by the railroad tracks just east of Snyder Park in Springfield, Ohio. That won't make a dent in the 15,000 plus that have been dumped here in the past couple years but its a start
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[Regnum] In Stavropol Krai, a court found four defendants in the case of mass riots at the Makhachkala airport guilty. This was reported on January 22 by the press service of the regional prosecutor's office.
The Kochubeevsky District Court found Akhmed Magomedbekov, Murtazali Murtazaliev, Shamil Mugutdinov and Radzhab Mutayev guilty under articles on participation in mass riots accompanied by violence, pogroms, destruction of property, as well as armed resistance to government officials, and on failure to comply with safety requirements at transport infrastructure facilities by a group of persons by prior conspiracy.
The investigation established that the men participated in the riots at the Uytash airport
…formally Makhachkala Uytash Airport, Uytash Airport is a civilian facility near Makhachkala City, the capitol of Dagestan…
on the basis of national and religious hatred and hostility towards Israeli citizens and refused to comply with the demands of law enforcement officers.
“The unlawful actions of the rioters destroyed and damaged airport property worth more than 24 million rubles, and violated transport and aviation security requirements... Unlawful actions were committed against 30 government officials, 23 of whom suffered bodily injuries of varying severity,” the statement reads.
The court sentenced the accused to 8 to 10 years and 3 months in a general regime penal colony.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on the evening of October 29, 2023, over 1,200 people rioted at the Uytash airport, first breaking into the building and then onto the airfield. There they surrounded a bus with passengers from a plane arriving from Tel Aviv.
The riots occurred against the backdrop of the escalation of the Middle East conflict and the situation in the Gaza Strip. Security forces stopped the actions of the hooligans, and the passengers of the flight were not harmed.
On July 9, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan, Abdurashid Magomedov, reported that about 1,200 people from among the hooligans were brought to administrative responsibility and about 140 were taken into custody.
On October 30, 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the riots at Makhachkala airport were organized by Western intelligence agents. The head of state added that they were organized through social networks, including from Ukraine.
[NYPOST] Columbia University erupted in another round of anti-Israel protests Tuesday, with masked people disrupting classes and passing out flyers showing a boot stamping on a Star of David, witnesses told The Post.
Video shows the masked protesters bursting into a History of Modern Israel class on campus and handing out flyers showing an Israeli flag on fire and the words “Burn Zionism to the ground.”
The incident comes as Columbia was named the “national model” for anti-Israel protest — setting a template copied by others for coordinated protests across the country, according to a watchdog group.
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Some of the consequences of the (brilliant) idea that everyone should go to college.
In its report looking at protests on campus last year, the Canary Mission identified more than 300 Columbia faculty, students and others who were “influential in promoting Hamas ideology at Columbia” after the terror group’s October 7 attacks on Israel, which left 1,200 Israelis dead and saw 250 taken hostage.
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However, most of the people who took part in the protests were “outside agitators” and only 68 were Columbia students, according to the 53-page study “From Tehran to Columbia: Inside America’s Student Intifada.”
Current University President Katrina Armstrong later made a statement, saying: “We strongly condemn this disruption, as well as the fliers that included violent imagery that is unacceptable on our campus.
“Disrupting academic activities constitutes a violation of the Rules of University conduct … We will move quickly to investigate and address this act.
“Any act of antisemitism, or other form of discrimination, harassment, or intimidation against members of our community will not be tolerated.”
Elsewhere across Columbia Tuesday — despite a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war — protesters banged drums, chanted and distributed the clearly antisemitic propaganda.
Vowing to continue their protests in 2025, the groups Columbia University Apartheid Divest and Within Our Lifetime wrote “We will not stop” in a social media post calling on people to attend their rally.
Columbia students Aidan Parisi as well as Andrew Timberg, a student in the Department of Religion, have also been heavily involved in the protests. Timberg was the spokesman for Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), a coalition of 80 anti-Israel groups, the study says.
“SJP chapters on college campuses across the US serve as student arms of Iran’s terror proxy, Hamas,” the report says, adding that Columbia hosted the first national SJP conference, during which it adopted “points of unity,” which included the destruction of Israel.
A spokesperson for Columbia said the school “strongly condemns antisemitism.”
“We are resolute that calls for violence or harm have no place at our University,” the spokesperson said.
“Since assuming her role in August, Interim President [Katrina] Armstrong and her leadership team have taken decisive actions to reinforce Columbia’s academic mission, make our community safe, and strengthen and clarify our disciplinary processes.”
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I suspect New York City has anti-KKK laws about covered faces to hide identities while in public. They, like so many others, have just chosen not to enforce them for favoured groups.
[IsraelTimes] Palestinian workers, villagers targeted while plowing West Bank land in work coordinated with the IDF; 5 Palestinians, 2 Israelis injured in clashes
Ultra-nationalist Israeli extremists attacked Palestinian farmers and residents conducting agricultural work on Palestinian land in the South Hebron Hills region of the West Bank on Wednesday, injuring five Palestinians.
Settler activists claimed that two Israeli youths were also injured in the incident, accusing Palestinians and “left-wing anarchists” of attacking them while they were grazing sheep in the area.
The IDF said, however, that the incident took place on Palestinian land during agricultural work coordinated by Palestinian landowners with and approved by the military authorities.
The Palestinian landowners had sought to plow their land located between the settlement of Susya and the illegal settlement outpost of Mitzpe Yair, west of the Palestinian village of Qawawis.
Palestinian farmers frequently need to coordinate access to their land with the IDF, especially in cases where the land is close to a settlement or outpost, supposedly to protect the Palestinians from attacks by extremists settlers.
Coordination for the agricultural work scheduled for Wednesday was only approved after a year of legal wrangling, following a petition to the High Court of Justice filed by attorney Dr. Quamar Mishiriq-Assad of the Haqel human rights organization, who frequently represents Palestinian residents of the region in legal proceedings.
Israeli extremists vandalize a tractor belonging to Palestinian farmers during an attack against Palestinian laborers and villagers close to the village of Qawawis in the South Hebron Hills region of the West Bank, January 22, 2025. (Courtesy Haqel – In Defense of Human Rights)
But despite the presence of IDF soldiers on the land to ensure the coordinated agricultural work went ahead, Israeli extremists attacked the Palestinian laborers, and reportedly the military personnel at the scene.
The IDF stated that “violent friction occurred between Palestinians and Israeli citizens during land work that was pre-planned on Palestinian territory, close to Mitzpe Yair.”
The IDF said that the incident included “mutual rock throwing and the use of pepper spray,” and that when reports of the incident were made IDF and Border Police forces “hurried to the spot and dispersed the incident.”
The IDF said no arrests were made, although Mishiriq-Assad said that two Palestinians were detained by the police and held at the Kiryat Arba police station. They were released later on Wednesday night.
Video footage taken by Palestinian and civil rights activists shows Israelis, some with tzitzit, ritual fringes, vandalizing a tractor belonging to the Palestinian laborers.
Photos from the scene also show the laborers and village residents suffering from the effects of the pepper spray which was sprayed in their eyes.
According to Mishiriq-Assad and other civil rights activists, the Israeli assailants attacked the Palestinians with rocks and clubs, sprayed them with pepper spray, and punctured the tires of a tractor being used to plow the land.
Five of the Palestinians injured in the incident were taken by ambulance to the hospital for treatment, one of whom was still in the hospital late Wednesday night.
Commander of the IDF’s Yehuda Territorial Brigade Col. Shahar Barkai was reportedly at the scene and cancelled the agricultural work due to the violence, Mishiriq-Assad said.
But the Israeli assailants then made their way to Qawawis itself, attacking residents on the village’s land and vandalizing property, she added.
During the attack, Palestinian workers and villagers threw rocks at the Israelis, in an effort to fight them off activists said, causing head injuries to two of them. According to a statement by settler activists one of the injured Israelis was taken to the hospital, although Palestinian activists said they did not see Israeli ambulances arrive at the scene.
[IsraelTimes] Cop who shot two settlers amid attack on Palestinian towns reportedly tells investigators that the masked suspects maced him with pepper spray: ‘I was afraid they would lynch us’
[IsraelTimes] Yehud is thought to be held by Islamic Jihad, leading to apparent concern that Hamas could attempt to put off her release; IDF says troops killed gunman posing threat amid ceasefire
Israel has conveyed to Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... that it expects the terror group to free hostage Arbel Yehud in this weekend’s upcoming release of four hostages from the 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, under the ceasefire deal, according to multiple Hebrew media reports on Wednesday.
Yehud is among the civilian hostages held by Gaza terrorists, and, as a female civilian, should be in the next batch freed. However,
the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... she is thought to be held by the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... terror group and not Hamas, apparently leading to concern in Jerusalem that Hamas may attempt to put off her release.
Under the agreement, Hamas is expected to provide the names of the four female hostages to be freed by Friday, a day before their scheduled release.
Yehud, now 29, was taken hostage with her boyfriend, Ariel Cunio, from their Kibbutz Nir Oz home on October 7. Her brother, Dolev Yehud, was killed on October 7, while defending the kibbutz, and his remains were identified on June 3, 2024.
She is one one seven female hostages remaining from the original list of 33 to be released in the first phase of the hostage ceasefire deal. The others are Shiri Silberman Bibas, 33; Liri Albag, 19; Karina Ariev, 20; Agam Berger, 21; Danielle Gilboa, 20 and Naama Levy, 20.
Yehud and and Silberman Bibas are both civilians, while Albag, Ariev, Berger, Gilboa and Levy are soldiers. Bibas’s two young sons Ariel and Kfir, now aged 5 and 2, are also held and are on the list, as is her husband, Yarden Bibas.
For each of the female soldiers, Israel will release 50 Paleostinian prisoners, 30 of them convicted turbans who are serving life sentences. On Monday, Israel released 30 prisoners for each of the three civilian female hostages — Romi Gonen, Emily Damari, and Doron Steinbrecher — Hamas set free the previous afternoon.
TROOPS KILL ISLAMIC JIHAD GUNMAN IN GAZA
Earlier Wednesday, the Israel Defense Forces said troops deployed inside the enclave amid the ceasefire opened fire on several threats in the past day.
In one incident in southern Gaza, the military said troops identified several button men "who posed a threat." At least one of the button men, identified by the IDF as Paleostinian Islamic Jihad operative Akram Zanoun, was killed.
In other areas of Gaza, the IDF said troops fired warning shots, after identifying masked suspects approaching them.
"The IDF is determined to fully implement the terms of the agreement to return the hostages. The IDF is prepared for any scenario, and will continue to take all necessary actions to remove any immediate threat to IDF soldiers," the military said.
"The IDF once again calls on Paleostinian civilians to obey IDF instructions and not approach the forces deployed in the area," it added.
Separately, the IDF acknowledged that it did not kill the commander of Hamas’s Beit Hanoun battalion back in May, after footage published today showed the commander, Hussein Fiad, alive.
In a statement, the army said that, after Fiad was targeted in May, "it was determined with a high level of probability by the IDF and Shin Bet that he had been eliminated, following which an IDF spokesperson statement on the subject was issued.
"After further examination, it emerged that the intelligence findings upon which the Intelligence Directorate and Shin Bet relied were not accurate enough," the military said.
Also Wednesday, reports in Paleostinian media claimed that the Hamas operative who killed Border Police officer Staff Sgt. Barel Hadaria Shmueli during a riot on the Gaza border in August 2021 was killed during fighting in Jabalia.
The reports identified the operative as Muhammad Maher Abu Jasser, and said his body was recently found during the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
The military and Shin Bet did not confirm the details.
On August 21, 2021, Paleostinians in the Gaza Strip held a large demonstration along the Gaza border, near the defunct Karni Crossing. At one point during the demonstration, dozens of rioters rushed the border barrier, up to a hole in the concrete wall that was being used by Israeli snipers as a firing position.
One man, apparently Abu Jasser, armed with a gun, approached the hole in the wall, stuck his pistol through it, and fired three times. One of these shots struck Shmueli in the head, critically wounding him. He died of his injury days later.
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Fifty Hamas prisoners released per Israeli hostage? How many Israels will they kill later? How many IDF will die trying to recapture or kill them? And it eliminates any deterrence value of IDF efforts to date. Sorry, I am cruel-hearted, I know, but IMO the hostages should have been regarded as 'dead' as far as their impact on strategy or (mostly) tactics.
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There will be some murders by released terrorists, Glenmore, but the vast majority will have reason to be re-arrested in short order. And now their Shin Bet files are crammed full biometric information and the names of their friends, relations, and jihadi org. table of organization. So it’s not quite as bad as it might have been.
[NAHARNET] Hezbollah's official for the West Bekaa region, Sheikh Mohammad Hamadi, was assassinated Tuesday evening by unknown button men, the state-run National News Agency said.
The button men, who arrived in two cars, shot up Hamadi outside his house in the West Bekaa town of Mashghara, NNA added.
''Hamadi was rushed to a hospital in the region where he succumbed to his wounds,'' the agency said.
Citing preliminary reports, An-Nahar newspaper said "the killing of the holy man is part of a vendetta with another family that dates back to four years ago" and that "there are no political motives behind the issue."
Media reports said the button men were masked and arrived in tinted-glass cars. al-Jadeed TV said six gunshots were fired at Hamadi.
Hezbollah is yet to issue a statement on the incident.
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[IsraelTimes] Foreign Minister Sa’ar tells UN envoy to Lebanon no compromise on security; strategic affairs minister said to discuss with US security chief extending ceasefire grace period
Israel Defense Forces troops operating on the Lebanese side of Mount Dov in recent days captured numerous weapons, the military said Wednesday, as it swept the area for Hezbollah caches, ahead of a planned withdrawal under the terms of a November ceasefire that ended a war with the Iran-backed terror group.
Members of the 810th "Mountains" Regional Brigade located and seized anti-tank missiles and launchers, rocket launchers, machine guns, and other weapons, it said.
The IDF is still deployed to some areas of southern Leb ...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... , in accordance with the ceasefire agreement.
Israel has accused Hezbollah of violating the ceasefire hundreds of times with terror operatives moving ammunition, attempting to attack Israeli soldiers, and preparing to launch rockets toward northern Israel among other things.
As part of the truce agreement signed by Israel and the terror group on November 27, the IDF is required to cede all of its positions in southern Lebanon to the Lebanese army within 60 days. At the same time, Hezbollah is required to retreat north of the Litani River, some 30 kilometers (18 miles) from the border with Israel.
With the exit deadline approaching next week, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar told the visiting UN envoy to Lebanon that Israel is committed to upholding the agreement as long as its security is maintained.
"I emphasized that Israel is committed to implementing the ceasefire agreement, but will not compromise on its security," Sa’ar said of his meeting with UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon Jeanine Hennis. "There is an opportunity for Lebanon to break free from the Iranian occupation and build a better future!"
By January 26, Israeli troops are scheduled to fully withdraw from southern Lebanon to complete the ceasefire deal reached in November, with the Lebanese Army deploying in the area alongside international peacekeepers. Israel has warned that any violations of the deal by Hezbollah be answered in kind.
Under the ceasefire agreement, Israel is entitled to act against immediate threats posed by Hezbollah, but must forward complaints about longer-term threats to an oversight committee comprised of representatives from the US, La Belle France, Lebanon, and the international peacekeeping force UNIFIL.
Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer spoke on Tuesday with US National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, the Kan public broadcaster reported. A source familiar with the call said the two officials discussed lengthening the ceasefire grace period, an idea that has previously been floated.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to hold a meeting with security bigshots about the withdrawal date on Thursday, Kan said.
According to the network, IDF officials have repeatedly warned about Hezbollah violations including three weeks ago when IDF Northern Command, Maj. Gen. Ori Gordin told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee at a special session held in the north that Hezbollah has broken the terms of the ceasefire hundreds of times.
Gordin told the forum members that the Lebanese army, which is supposed to be enforcing the ceasefire by preventing Hezbollah’s presence along the border, is in some places instead helping the terror group. He reportedly said that is happening in areas where the Lebanese army commanders on the ground and their units are Shia Moslems, in line with the ideology of Hezbollah and its sponsor Iran.
According to the report, army representatives gave a similar update during a closed-door meeting of the committee that was held this week at the Knesset. Among the examples cited were that Hezbollah is manufacturing and storing weapons, as well as deploying forces in areas prohibited under the truce. Some of the violations are not being dealt with, even by Israel, the representatives said according to the report.
The army told MKS that, given the situation, it cannot withdraw from south Lebanon next week on the 60th day of the ceasefire as was agreed in the deal.
The IDF did not respond to the report, Kan said.
Speaking to The Times of Israel last month, a military source confirmed that the IDF was gearing up for the possibility that troops would stay beyond the 60-day period as the Lebanese army is currently deploying too slowly to the southern Lebanon area, allowing Hezbollah time to regroup.
In addition to slow deployment rates, the Lebanese army is failing to attack Hezbollah targets when the opportunity arises. Nevertheless, the source said that while extending the length of the IDF’s deployment would test the ceasefire agreement, it would not necessarily collapse.
Lebanon has accused Israel of repeatedly violating the ceasefire agreement and last month submitted a complaint to the UN Security Council alleging that Israel launched some 816 "ground and air attacks" between the start of the ceasefire and December 22, 2024.
The complaint said that the attacks have hindered the Lebanese army’s efforts to deploy in the south and uphold its end of the agreement, a claim that Israel disputes.
Israel has also complained to the UN Security Council about Lebanese violations.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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...46th president of the U.S. The man who made Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter look competent, if only by comparison....
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
