[Garowe] More than a dozen members of 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, including senior figures, were killed in a coordinated assault by UAE Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in Somalia's Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... region, local military sources reported Sunday.
The initial strike hit the Xankookib caves near Dhasan, obliterating an ISIS weapons stockpile and multiple vehicles, resulting in several krazed killer deaths, the Puntland Counterterrorism Unit confirmed. This operation was executed in cooperation with Puntland's security forces by the United Arab Emirates.
A subsequent attack targeted ISIS fighters in the Darar-Madoobe area of the Calmiskaad mountains, where additional transport vehicles and weapons were destroyed.
This series of strikes follows US airstrikes earlier this month on February 1, which took out 14 ISIS operatives, among them Ahmed Maeleninine, known for his roles in recruitment, financing, and planning attacks abroad.
The airstrikes underscore the persistent campaign against ISIS in Puntland, with the UAE and U.S. providing air support to local forces maintaining their efforts to dismantle the group's presence in the area.
[ShabelleMedia] A joint military operation between the Federal Government of Somalia and the U.S. Africa Command (US AFRICOM) was carried out earlier today in the mountainous areas of Calmiskaad in the Bari region of Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... , targeting ISIS (ISIS) holy warriors.
The operation was strategically planned and is part of ongoing efforts to combat the hard boy group, with the Puntland Darawish forces playing a key role in eliminating ISIS from the region.
The operation is still ongoing, and an assessment of the casualties inflicted on ISIS forces is underway. Authorities have stated that a full report with detailed information on the operation will be released once it concludes.
The Somali Federal Government, in collaboration with its U.S. partners, has reaffirmed its commitment to strengthening efforts against the terrorist groups al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... and ISIS, focusing on ensuring national security and stability.
This operation highlights the continued military efforts in Somalia to eradicate hard boy groups that pose a significant threat to the country and the broader Horn of Africa region.
A crowd of civilians celebrated the arrival of M23 rebels in Bukavu's city centre with chants and cheers.
It is the second regional capital city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... that the rebels have taken since early January, when they launched a lightning-speed offensive on Goma in neighbouring North Kivu.
M23 marched south into Bukavu on Saturday, although conflicting reports initially made it difficult to confirm the extent of its advance.
They seemingly encountered little to no resistance.
Congolese soldiers and allied troops from Burundi had reportedly retreated from Bukavu's military bases on Friday, the same day that M23 took control of a regional airport around 30 kilometres outside of Bukavu.
Reports emerged of sporadic gunfire and the looting of a World Food Programme depot and supermarkets in Bukavu.
Despite the chaotic scenes, most streets of the city were actually deserted for hours as residents hid in their homes from looters and the rebels.
Faced with the growing risk of a regional war, the international community has stepped up its calls for deescalation and a ceasefire.
António Guterres ...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years... , Secretary-General of the UN, reiterated during an African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... summit on Saturday to " avoid a regional escalation at all costs."
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[OneIndia] Pak forces faced significant losses on Wednesday after the Indian Army responded strongly to unprovoked firing across the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district, Jammu and Kashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... . This incident followed a ceasefire breach by Pakistain in the Krishna Ghati sector, occurring a day after two Indian soldiers, including a Captain, were killed by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) near the LoC in Akhnoor sector, Jammu district.
The ceasefire breach involved Pak troops initiating unprovoked gunfire on a forward post in the Tarkundi area along the LoC. This prompted a robust response from the Indian Army, leading to heavy casualties for the opposing forces. However,
we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... exact figures were not disclosed, and the Indian Army neither confirmed nor denied these reports.
INCREASED TENSIONS ALONG THE LOC
The situation along the LoC has become tense due to increased hostile activities from across the border over the past week. This was the first ceasefire violation of the year and marked the fourth cross-border incident within five days. On Monday, a soldier was shot while manning a forward post in Kalal area of Nowshera sector, Rajouri district.
In another incident on February 8, an Army patrol came under terrorist fire from a forest across the LoC in Rajouri's Keri sector. The murderous Moslems appeared to be waiting for an opportunity to infiltrate into Indian territory. Earlier, during the night of February 4 and 5, a landmine explosion reportedly caused casualties among murderous Moslems attempting to cross into India from across the LoC in Krishna Ghati sector.
SECURITY MEASURES AND MILITARY RESPONSE
A Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) of the Indian Army sustained minor injuries after accidentally stepping on a landmine in the same sector. The JCO, hailing from Mendhar, was part of a patrol monitoring the LoC to prevent terrorist infiltration. The injured officer was promptly evacuated to a military hospital for treatment.
[IsraelTimes] Military says it fired on men approaching troops east of Rafah, again warns Gazans to stay away from soldiers still deployed as per truce deal; 2nd strike was warning to car near soldiers
The Israel Defense Forces said it carried out a pair of dronezaps in 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 on Sunday — one targeting a group of button men who were approaching Israeli forces in one area and the other as a warning when a car drove near soldiers in another.
Paleostinian media reported that the first dronezap killed three Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... coppers east of the city of Rafah in the southern Strip, which the terror group called "a serious violation" of the ceasefire in effect since January 19.
"The IDF continues to call on Gazooks to obey the IDF instructions and not approach the forces deployed to the area," the Israeli military said.
The Hamas-controlled interior ministry in Gaza said it "condemns this crime and calls upon the mediators and the international community to compel the occupation to stop targeting the police force, which is a civil apparatus."
It claimed the coppers were deployed in the area to secure the entry of aid trucks into Gaza.
Hamas, in its own response, said "The treacherous firing carried out by a Zionist drone this morning east of Rafah city, targeting police elements tasked with securing the entry of aid... is considered a serious violation of the ceasefire agreement."
Later in the day, the IDF confirmed carrying out another dronezap that had been reported in Paleostinian media, saying it was a warning after suspects in a vehicle tried to drive to the Strip’s north via an unapproved route, in violation of the ceasefire.
There were no immediate reports of injuries.
Separately, the IDF said it fired warning shots in several areas of Gaza when Paleostinian suspects approached areas where troops were deployed.
Amid the ongoing ceasefire, the military has carried out several dronezaps as warnings after Paleostinians have attempted to drive to the Strip’s north via unapproved routes. Northbound vehicular traffic is only permitted on the Salah a-Din road, where a private security company is inspecting cars heading to northern Gaza to ensure Hamas, the terror group that rules the Strip, is not using the vehicles to move weapons and fighters.
Meanwhile,
...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout Montefiore's foot was still stuck and the hound had completely soaked his uniform with slobber... the IDF said it foiled an attempt to smuggle an assault rifle into Israel from Egypt using a drone.
Again? How dull.
The drone had been identified as crossing the border from Egypt into Israel, and troops dispatched to the scene shot it down. The soldiers found that the drone was ferrying a rifle and ammunition, according to the IDF.
In recent months there have been frequent attempts to bring weapons over the Egypt border using drones.
The incidents came amid a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas reached in January after some 15 months of fighting sparked by the terror group’s October 7, 2023, invasion of southern Israel, when Death Eaters killed some 1,200 people and took 251 hostages.
Israeli troops have so far withdrawn from much of the Strip, including the Netzarim Corridor, which separates the north and south of the enclave. The IDF is still stationed along the so-called Philadelphi Corridor, along the Gaza-Egypt border.
The deal does not require Israel to begin withdrawing from that area until the end of the ceasefire’s ongoing first phase.
Hamas and its ally 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... on Saturday released three hostages, and Israel released hundreds of Paleostinian security prisoners, in accordance with the deal.
Hamas had said last Monday it would delay the release, prompting US President Donald Trump ...Never got invited to a P.Diddy party... to suggest Israel issue an ultimatum and demand the release of all hostages.
The terror group accused Israel of violating the truce, including by not allowing mobile homes and earthmoving equipment into the rubble-strewn Strip.
Despite images of those materials lined up outside the Rafah Border Crossing into southern Gaza late last week, Hebrew media reported Sunday morning that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not approved the entry of the materials into the Paleostinian enclave.
Netanyahu has thus far refused to allow Israel’s negotiators to engage in talks on the agreement’s second phase, which would see the release of the remaining hostages in exchange for a permanent end to the war.
[IsraelTimes] Muhammad Zalbani convicted of aggravated murder for fatal stabbing, at age 13, of Staff Sgt. Asil Sawaed, who died from blood loss en route to hospital after Jerusalem attack
The Jerusalem District Court on Sunday sentenced a Paleostinian minor to 18 years in prison for the killing of a Border Police officer in 2023.
The presiding judges found Muhammad Zalbani,
…more fully Muhammad Bassel Fathi Zalbani of the Shuafat Refugee Camp…
who fatally stabbed Staff Sgt. Asil Sawaed during an East Jerusalem checkpoint inspection two years ago, guilty of aggravated murder. The assailant was 13 years old at the time.
According to the verdict, Zalbani found a knife in his aunt’s house in the Shuafat camp and took it with him on a bus that passes through the nearby checkpoint.
The teen sat at the back of the bus, with the knife near his leg to be able to draw it quickly, and waited for security forces to board for a routine inspection of the passengers.
As Sawaed approached the back of the bus, Zalbani got up from his seat and began to stab Sawaed repeatedly in the neck and head, per the verdict.
A civilian security officer who boarded the bus with Sawaed shot up Zalbani, but accidentally hit the maimed border cop in the thigh.
Sawaed died on the way to the hospital due to excessive bleeding.
"There is no doubt that the defendant’s actions brought about, in an indirect manner, the shooting of the dear departed by the security guard," the court said in its ruling.
Sawaed, 22, grew up in the northern Bedouin village of Hussniyya and was one of seven siblings. He was serving as a noncommissioned officer in the Border Police after completing his mandatory service.
[AFRICANEWS] Thailand's military announced that 260 individuals, believed to have been trafficked and forced to work in online scam centers, will be repatriated after being rescued from Myanmar. This operation is part of a renewed crackdown on scam centers operating across Southeast Asia.
A video from the Thai army showed a boat carrying the rescued individuals arriving in Tak province, located on Thailand's border with Myanmar, on Thursday. Thai media reports indicated that the Democratic Karen Benevolent Army, a Myanmar ethnic militia controlling the area where the workers were held, played a key role in their liberation and transport to the border.
Myanmar, Cambodia, and Laos—countries sharing borders with Thailand—have become notorious for harboring criminal syndicates. These groups are believed to have forced hundreds of thousands of people into participating in various online scams, including fake romantic schemes, fraudulent investment opportunities, and illegal gambling operations.
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Update from the Times of Israel at 12:50 p.m. ET: Hamas confirms that Mohammed Shaheen, Hamas chief of operations in Lebanon was killed in the drone strike, adding:
The terror group called him a commander.
Hamas has a significant presence in Lebanon and is allied with the Lebanese Hezbollah terror group. Both are backed by Iran.
[Rudaw] The United States military announced early Monday that its forces killed a bigwig of an al-Qaeda affiliated group in a precision Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in northwest Syria.
"On Feb. 15, US Central Command (CENTCOM) Forces conducted a precision airstrike in Northwest Syria targeting and killing a senior finance and logistics officer in the terrorist organization Hurras al-Din (HaD), an al-Qaeda affiliate," CENTCOM said in a statement, but did not identify the target.
Hurras al-Din, or Guardians of Religion, broke away from Hay’at 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) in 2018. HTS led the Syrian rebel coalition that toppled Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... ’s regime and established a transitional government.
The two groups have vied for influence and territory, with HTS periodically arresting Hurras al-Din members, particularly in 2020. Efforts have been made to reconcile their differences.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britannia-based war monitor, said the strike killed two Hurras al-Din leaders — Abdulrahman al-Libi and Fadl al-Libi.
Libyans? They’re a bit far from home, but not much is happening back in the Oulde Sod.
According to the Observatory, the strike targeted a car in the village of Urum al-Jawz in Idlib province.
CENTCOM, which oversees American troops in the Middle East, has carried out several strikes against Hurras al-Din members and leaders, viewing the group as a threat to its allies and American presence in the region.
CENTCOM said the strike was part of an ongoing effort "to disrupt and degrade efforts by holy warriors to plan, organize, and conduct attacks" against American personnel and allies.
"We will continue to relentlessly pursue holy warriors in order to defend our homeland, and U.S., allied, and partner personnel in the region," said CENTCOM commander General Michael Erik Kurilla.
In late January, an American strike killed another senior Hurras al-Din operative in northwest Syria, identified as Muhammad Salah al-Za’bir.
[IsraelTimes] Lebanese state media says Israeli fire kills woman near border, military says troops opened fire to disperse approaching suspects; source says IDF ‘unaware’ woman was killed
The Israel Defense Forces confirmed Sunday it had carried out Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s deep in Leb ...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration.... , saying it targeted Hezbollah facilities where activity by the terror group was identified.
The Hezbollah targets included rocket launchers and other weapons, according to the military.
"The activity of terror operatives at these sites is a violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon," the IDF said.
Lebanon’s state media said Israeli aircraft carried out three strikes in the Beqaa Valley in the country’s east.
It came two days ahead of a deadline in a fragile ceasefire that ended the war in Lebanon for Israeli forces to pull out of the country’s south — a deadline Israel has indicated it will not fully meet.
"Enemy warplanes carried out two strikes on the outskirts of the town of Harbata and a third strike on the town of Halbata," in the north of the Bekaa Valley, the official National News Agency said.
Harbata is located some 100 kilometers from the border with Israel.
Lebanese media also reported that a woman was killed and several others were maimed by Israeli gunfire in the south Lebanon town of Houla, close to the border with Israel.
The IDF said it identified dozens of suspects gathering in Houla, several of whom breached a Lebanese army barrier and approached Israeli soldiers.
The troops opened fire to disperse the suspects, and after some refused to do so, the IDF said it began an "arrest procedure," which normally includes firing toward a suspect’s legs.
Several suspects were also detained amid the incident and were being questioned, the military added.
A military source told The Times of Israel that the IDF was unaware of claims that a civilian woman was killed in the area.
Lebanon’s official news agency reported that the IDF detained three civilians in the town.
The IDF has repeatedly warned Lebanese citizens not to approach areas where troops are still deployed in southern Lebanon amid the ongoing ceasefire.
The military is set to withdraw from most areas in south Lebanon where troops are still deployed on February 18, while reportedly remaining in five strategic positions.
Under the deal, Lebanon’s military is to deploy in the south alongside United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... peacekeepers as the Israeli army withdraws. Israel has said the Lebanese army has not effectively deployed in south Lebanon, as the terms of the ceasefire said it would, and is not preventing Hezbollah from reorganizing.
Hezbollah is supposed to pull back north of the Litani River — about 20 miles from the border — and dismantle any remaining terrorist infrastructure in the south.
Hezbollah’s chief said Sunday it was the Lebanese government’s responsibility to ensure the Israeli army withdraws from the country in accordance with the agreement.
"Israel must fully withdraw on February 18, it has no excuse," Hezbollah’s Naim Qassem ... the Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies... said in a televised address.
"It is the responsibility of the Lebanese state" to exert every effort "to make Israel withdraw," he added.
The terror group began to carry out near-daily attacks on Israel, unprovoked, on October 8, 2023 — a day after fellow Iran-backed group Hamas ..always the voice of sweet reason... stormed southern Israel to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages, sparking 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... Israel sent forces into Lebanon in September, in a bid to end the terror group’s persistent rocket fire, which had displaced some 60,000 northerners. The two-month ground and air campaign ended with the November ceasefire, after much of Hezbollah’s leadership had been killed and its capabilities curtailed.
[IsraelTimes] Peacekeeping force’s deputy chief said wounded in pro-Hezbollah riot after Lebanon’s refusal to let planes land, which official says followed US warning that Israel would down them
Hezbollah on Sunday condemned a Friday attack on a UNIFIL convoy in Beirut that the international peacekeeping force said had maimed its outgoing deputy commander en route to the Beirut airport.
Assailing Israel’s alleged interference, the Tehran-backed terror group also demanded Leb ...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects.... reverse its decision to stop Iranian flights from landing at the Rafik Hariri International Airport. A Lebanese security source said the ban had followed a private warning from the White House that Israel would target the airport should the plane land.
Lebanon’s decision, which 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... responded to in kind, followed Israel’s public warning on Thursday that Tehran was using civilian planes to smuggle cash for Hezbollah to rebuild itself, in violation of the November 27 ceasefire agreement between Israel and the terror group. Throughout nearly 14 months of war until the ceasefire, Israel had repeatedly accused Hezbollah of using Lebanon’s only airport to smuggle in supplies from Iran.
The refusal to let Iranian planes land in Beirut sparked pro-Hezbollah riots, during which the UNIFIL general’s car was torched. Lebanese authorities have detained more than 25 people as part of an investigation into the attack, which the US State Department said was carried out "reportedly by a group of Hezbollah supporters."
In a statement Sunday, Hezbollah condemned the incident and said it "affirms its firm rejection of any targeting of [UNIFIL] as well as any harm to public and private property."
The condemnation came at the end of a message assailing the Lebanese military for attacking what Hezbollah described as "a peaceful movement and a civilized expression of popular opposition to unjustified submission to foreign dictates."
"The protesters were surprised when some Lebanese army personnel launched tear gas canisters toward them," said the terror group, adding that it "calls on the army leadership to open an urgent investigation into this condemned attack."
Hezbollah urged Lebanon’s government to "assume its responsibility in protecting the peaceful protesters."
The terror group also demanded the government "reverse its decision to prevent Iranian planes from landing at Beirut Airport, and take serious measures to prevent the Israeli enemy from imposing its dictates and violating national illusory sovereignty."
On Sunday, a Lebanese security source told AFP Washington had warned Beirut that Israel could shoot down two Iranian flights to Lebanon, one on Thursday and another on Friday.
Under the ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah, Israel is entitled to carry out attacks against imminent threats by the terror group.
The source who spoke to AFP said that Israel conveyed to Lebanon on Thursday, via the US, that "it would target the airport if the Iranian plane landed in Lebanon."
"The American side told the Lebanese side that Israel was serious about its threat," said the source, adding that Lebanon’s public works and transport ministry then refused clearance for the flight after consulting the prime minister and president.
The message was passed on to Iran before the flight took off, said the source.
Another flight was also barred from taking off from Iran on Friday, which prompted the Hezbollah supporters to block the road to Lebanon’s only airport.
Lebanon’s new Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, whose government includes Hezbollah as a minor member, said Saturday that "the security of Beirut airport takes precedence over any other consideration."
"And the safety of travelers as well as the safety of Lebanese citizens are elements on which we will not compromise," he said.
Salam, a former top judge at the International Court of Justice, was tapped for premier by Lebanese President Joseph Aoun last month. His election, with the backing of Gay Paree, Riyadh and Washington, ended a two-year impasse.
Previously the commander of Lebanon’s military, Aoun has vowed to maintain a state monopoly on arms — a thinly veiled threat against Hezbollah’s extensive arsenal. The terror group was the only Lebanese militia not to surrender its arms to the state when the country’s 15-year civil war ended in 1990.
Hezbollah is required under the ceasefire agreement with Israel to vacate southern Lebanon. Israel was given 60 days, until January 26, to withdraw from the area. The withdrawal deadline was extended, with Beirut’s approval, to February 18. Israel is reportedly seeking to stay longer in some areas of south Lebanon.
Israel invaded Lebanon in September, in a bid to end the terror group’s persistent rocket fire, which had displaced some 60,000 northerners. The terror group’s near-daily attacks began, unprovoked, on October 8, 2023 — a day after fellow Iran-backed group Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... stormed southern Israel to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages, sparking 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...
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