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I recognize that indifferent lack of enthusiasm in the bedroom
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"Where's the ham?" Such a tiresome procession
Of men who all asked the same question
And claimed they were robbed!
"Sir, the artist has daubed
Very clearly, there, 'Serving suggestion.'"
[NYPOST] An MS-13 gangbanger who was on the lam after allegedly killing his roommate was caught by ICE agents who were sweeping the area as part of deportation raids in the notorious migrant town of Colony Ridge, Texas.
Cops say Luis Miguel Perez, 34, murdered his roommate Monday on a nearby rural road, ran into the woods and then knocked on a neighbor's door and asked for a drink and a ride out of town, according to ABC13.
The neighbor then called 911, alerting cops who had already been searching the area for hours.
[ToloNews] The Ministry of Interior has confirmed to TOLOnews that three foreign nationals and their Afghan interpreter have been arrested in the country.
Abdul Mateen Qane, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Interior, told TOLOnews that the detainees include two British citizens who hold Afghan identification documents, an American of Chinese origin, and their translator.
According to Abdul Mateen Qane, these individuals were arrested for "specific reasons," and efforts are ongoing to resolve their cases.
The spokesperson further stated: "Regarding the arrest of foreign nationals, two of them are British citizens with Afghan ID cards and passports, one is an American of Chinese origin, and a translator has also been detained for certain considerations."
Some experts believe that host countries have the right to detain foreign individuals if they violate local laws.
Zalmai Afghan Yar, a military affairs analyst, told TOLOnews: "Any foreign citizen traveling to Afghanistan who acts against governance policies will naturally be detained. I hope countries will not engage in confrontation over the enforcement of policies and will resolve these matters diplomatically. If they are guilty, they should be punished, and if not, they should be released."
Previously, a former Canadian soldier accused of violating Afghanistan’s law was arrested who was then released following 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... 's mediation.
[ShabelleMedia] Somali National Army (SNA) forces, alongside local militia fighters, delivered a significant blow to Al-Shabaab militants today, repelling several attempted attacks in the Hirshabelle state of Somalia.
The militants had launched suicide bombings targeting various locations, but their efforts were foiled by the combined resistance of national forces and local clan militia, according to a statement issued by the Somali Ministry of Information.
More than 70 Al-Shabaab fighters were killed in preemptive counterattacks carried out by the SNA and local militia in the areas of Caddow-Guray in the Hiiraan region, Ceel Cali Axmed, and the town of Alkowsar in the Middle Shabelle region.
The Somali National Army, armed with intelligence about the militants’ planned suicide bombings, successfully disrupted each attack as planned, leaving the battlefield littered with the bodies of militants, including key commanders.
During the operations, a large amount of weaponry was seized, and several military vehicles used by Al-Shabaab were destroyed.
The Somali government is still assessing the full scale of the damage inflicted on the enemy, which will be shared with the Somali people in an official update shortly.
[Garowe] An underground bunker believed to have been the main operation center for ISIS top leadership was discovered by 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... forces on Monday, military officials confirmed, releasing footage of the hideout, which has since been abandoned by the bad boys.
The hideout, officials say, probably housed the ISIS leaders in Sheebaab, a town that has since fallen to local troops, who took firm control, Monday. To conceal the bunker, vegetables were planted above it, making it an ideal organizational hub for leadership. Vegetable Leadership: It's not just the Biden Regime
A Puntland soldier filmed the site, and the footage has gone viral on social media. The cave is well connected with electrical power and has beddings, a confirmation that it was recently abandoned following a series of Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in the region.
The discovery was made after the forces seized Sheebaab in Togga-Jeceel as the operation entered the third phase — and probably the most consequential part of this timely but challenging campaign.
According to officials, the captured base in Sheebaab was ISIS’s largest command center in Somalia, housing leadership, a court, training camps, and operational coordination. Images show it functioned as the de facto headquarters of ISIS’s self-declared "Wilaya of Somalia".
The hideout had air ventilation pipes and was camouflaged with vegetation to resemble a farm, officials say. The forces seized fuel, weapons, and medical supplies left behind at a hospital used by ISIS bad boys.
Two mass graves were discovered in Sheebaab, according to the Puntland counterterrorism operation report. The graves are believed to be linked to past airstrikes targeting bad boy positions, reportedly carried out by the US and the UAE in the last few months.
Puntland's top military commander, Gen. Aadan Abdi Hashi, led the operations against bad boys, standing at ISIS’s largest command center in Sheebaab, where he lauded the forces for their commitment to eradicate terrorism in the state.
A fortified ISIS hideout cave, resistant to airstrikes, has also been discovered. Early this month, the US Africa Command confirmed the death of Ahmed Maeleninine, a senior ISIS operative who is believed to be a close associate of Abdulkadir Mumin, the global leader of ISIS bad boys.
[ShabelleMedia] Somalia’s National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA), with support from international partners, conducted Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s targeting an al-Shabaab ... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa... convoy in the Middle Shabelle region, the government said on Wednesday.
The precision operation struck bully boy vehicles in Sigato and Labi Aw-Hasan, areas between Ruun-Nirgood and al-Kawther districts, destroying several vehicles carrying heavy explosives and killing the forces of Evil on board, according to a statement from Somalia’s Ministry of Information.
One vehicle, a Toyota Prado was reportedly destined for an attack on a mosque in al-Kawther, the ministry said. al-Shabaab, an al-Qaeda-linked group, has a history of targeting religious sites, including mosques in El Ali Ahmed, Daru-Nimca, Buuloburde, Bahdo, and Qayib.
[FoxNews] Police made an arrest after a call by an activist group for nationwide protests against Tesla CEO Elon Musk
A 40-year-old woman was arrested after police say they found a number of explosives at a Colorado Tesla dealership, the latest incident in a string of apparent protests against Tesla CEO and DOGE leader Elon Musk.
Lucy Grace Nelson was charged with explosives or incendiary devices use, felony criminal mischief and criminal attempt to commit felonies, according to a news release from the Loveland Police Department.
An "extensive investigation" was initiated Jan. 29 after the dealership was vandalized several times, with incendiary devices found at the business, according to authorities.
Police and jail records list Nelson as a female, though the department noted an alias of "Justin Thomas Nelson."
The photo at the link shows pink-streaked hair framing a male-pattern receding hairline and what appears to be a small patch of a beard on the tip of a masculine chin. That could be the result of taking hormones, I suppose
After the alleged initial incident Jan. 29, there were subsequent incidents Feb. 2 and Feb. 7, progressively becoming more severe.
Loveland Police Department Public Information Officer Chris Padgett told Fox News Digital in incidents prior to Nelson's arrest, there were "very offensive messages, derogatory in nature" left at the dealership.
During police surveillance, Nelson was allegedly spotted Monday night with additional incendiary devices, along with materials attributed to vandalism, according to Padgett.
She was arrested without incident, Padgett said.
After being booked into jail, Nelson was issued a $10,000 cash surety bond.
"The Loveland Police Department continues to work closely with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' Denver Field Division with Federal charges likely to follow," according to Loveland Police.
Padgett said the department is not sure if others are involved, but there is no threat to the community.
Indivisible, an organization founded by former Democratic congressional staffers, has been urging liberals to stage demonstrations against Musk, Fox News Digital previously reported.
So we have violent trangender, a Democratic activist group… sounds like Antifa/Black Bloc to me.
eThe activist group published a "tool kit" with protest recommendations, including a section about how to "take the fight to Elon."
It specifically includes steps for planning and executing a demonstration at Tesla dealerships, showrooms and factories.
"Members of the House of Representatives will be back on your home turf from Friday, February 14th, through Sunday, February 23rd, and it’s our opportunity to remind them who they work for," according to the group's website. "Fighting back against the Trump-Musk coup is going to take all of us."
The protests come after the Department of Government Efficiency began slashing spending at various federal agencies at the direction of President Donald Trump,
[NYPOST] Several dozen keffiyeh-clad anti-Israel protesters took over a building on the Barnard College campus early Wednesday evening to protest the expulsions of two students who stormed a Columbia University class in January and threw around flyers loaded with hateful rhetoric.
Videos circulating online, posted by Columbia Students for Justice in Paleostine on X, show the masked students lining a hallway in Milbank Hall, the oldest building on campus, beating drums and loudly chanting through megaphones.
One of the X posts made by the group — which proclaims "long live the student intifada" in its bio — includes a list of demands, among them a reversal of the expulsions, amnesty for students punished during last year’s anti-Israel campus protests and a public meeting with Dean Leslie Grinage and Barnard President Laura Rosenbury.
The group’s demands also include "abolition of the corrupt Barnard disciplinary process and complete transparency for current, past, and future disciplinary proceedings."
The pro-Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... student group claimed in a follow-up post that Barnard public safety has "harassed and shoved" several students, and knocked at least one to the ground. "Who are they really protecting?" the manic social media post read in all-caps.
The campus coalition Columbia University Apartheid Divest, led by Columbia’s branches of Students for Justice in Palestine and the anti-Zionist Jewish Voice for Peace, says in a statement that students are staging an “emergency sit-in” outside the dean’s office. The protest group tells participants to wear a mask and avoid swiping their university ID.
Jewish students post online that they have been blocked from entering the building and attending classes.
BREAKING: 50+ COLUMBIA STUDENTS FLOOD ADMIN OFFICE OF BARNARD COLLEGE DEMANDING
1. Immediate reversal of the two Barnard students’ expulsions. 2. Amnesty for all students disciplined for pro-Palestine action or thought. Drop all the charges now! 3. A public meeting with Dean… pic.twitter.com/QKSBQ6jIUg
— Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine (@ColumbiaSJP) February 26, 2025
The protesters left Milbank Hall in the night “without further incident,” Barnard President Laura Rosenbury says in a statement.
“But let us be clear: Their disregard for the safety of our community remains completely unacceptable,” she says.
The school had warned that if the students were not gone by 9:30 p.m. officials could be forced to take “additional, necessary measures to protect our campus.”
The student group Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine said on the social platform X that protesters dispersed after the administration agreed to meet with them this afternoon.
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Time To Send A Clear Message To Future Idiots.
As we know, HAMAS is funded by IRAN and many of these Protests and/or the Leaders are being funded by them.
* So announce, since the protesters are supporting a Federally Listed Terrorist Group.
As such, they will be arrested and indited as supporters of HAMAS, a known Terrorism Group. USC aiding and abetting Terrorist Groups
* Students, for criminally seizing control of a College Campus Bldg. and disrupting the Educational process of the student body. They will be expelled from the College. Their transcript will clearly state why. Plus. They will be banned from acquiring Federally (FDIC Bank) issued Student loans for 5 years.
* If they are interlopers and not registered Students. Then the state will issue Criminal FELONY Trespass charges and full payment of all damages and loss of income.
The Fed's will do a $$$$ audit of all involved for possible Terrorist funding and protest related expenses.
* If the College Board refuses to take steps to halt the Terrorist supporting illegal activity. Then Federal shall take steps to freeze current and halt all future federal funding.
* Any Facility supporting the students shall have their Teaching Certifications suspended for 3 to 5 years.
* All persons involved will be added to the US Terrorist Watch List and have their travel and Passports suspended until court proceeding have been completed.
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Barnard College, officially titled as Barnard College, Columbia University, is a private women's liberal arts college in the borough of Manhattan in New York City.
[NYPOST] A machine gun fanatic living in the country illegally was charged Wednesday with supporting ISIS — after his ex-wife ratted him out for getting a ''sham'' green-card marriage to a Bronx stripper, The Post has learned.
Mansuri Manuchekhri, a Tajikstan-born truck driver living in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, funneled $70,000 to ''ISIS-affiliated individuals'' between December 2021 and April 2023 — believing that the money was going to the families of slain ISIS fighters, the feds charged.
He also allegedly boasted to his terror-sympathizer buddies overseas about his firearms prowess.
''Thank God, I am ready, brother,'' Manuchekhri, 34, texted a Turkish contact alongside a 17-second video of him firing an assault rifle at a target at a New Jersey shooting range, according to a federal complaint.
''I go for training at least once or twice a week,'' he boasted to the same man alongside a similar video, court papers allege.
Federal agents uncovered a photo on Manuchekhri's iCloud of him proudly pointing two AK-47 rifles into the air, court papers show.
The alleged terror sympathizer entered the country from Tajikistan in June 2016 on a non-immigrant tourist visa and remained in the country after it expired that December, authorities said.
He then married a Bronx stripper in a ''sham marriage'' in March 2017, yet his efforts to obtain legal status in the country failed because he failed to provide supporting documents, according to the complaint.
One of the men that Manuchekhri schemed to funnel the cash to was arrested by Turkish authorities for a terrorism attack car bombing on the Jan.28, 2024 Roman Catholic Church in Istanbul, the feds said.
Manuchekhri also told his ex-wife that he admired Sayfullo Saipov, the Uzbek national who committed an infamous terror attack in New York City in 2017, the complaint alleges.
Manuchekhri faces up to 45 years in prison on charges of conspiring to provide material support to ISIS, possessing firearms while unlawfully in the United States, and immigration fraud.
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That assumes the bodies were indeed hostages from Israel. Israel started the testing overnight.
[NYPOST] Hamas released the bodies of four dead Israeli hostages Wednesday night local time without the ghoulish public ceremonies it has been holding during the exchanges.
The bodies of hostages Tsahi Idan, Ohad Yahalomi, Itzik Elgarat and Shlomo Mantzur were handed over to the Red Cross after midnight, local time, Arab and Israeli media outlets reported.
The exchange came after Hamas' military wing agreed to hold the scheduled release without touting the victims' coffins as props in their propaganda parades in Gaza.
Egypt will be their first destination until some other countries may welcome them.
Israel said to return body of Gazan woman that Hamas sent instead of Shiri Bibas
[IsraelTimes] Palestinian medics quoted by Reuters say that Israel has sent the body of an unidentified Gazan woman that Hamas handed over in place of slain hostage Shiri Bibas to a hospital in the Gaza Strip, following the return of Bibas’s remains over the weekend.
Israel starts releasing over 600 prisoners who were slated to be freed Saturday, but source says they won’t all be released until the bodies are ID’d, in what may be last handover of first stage
In exchange for the remains of the four slain hostages, Israel agreed to free hundreds of Paleostinian prisoners whose releases had been held up by anger in Jerusalem over Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... ’s handling of previous handovers, though statements from Israeli and Paleostinian officials left unclear whether all the detainees would be released simultaneously as sought by Hamas.
The transfer, the last of the multi-phased ceasefire’s initial stage, began late Wednesday night, when the Red Thingy headed to the handover site 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. After receiving the coffins, the Red Thingy transferred them to the Israel Defense Forces, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said early Thursday morning.
The bodies were handed over at the Kerem Shalom Crossing with "Egyptian mediation," according to the Prime Minister’s Office.
Israel then began carrying out its initial forensic investigation. The families of the four hostages were being updated constantly and were supposed to receive official notifications once identifications were made.
The remains to be returned Wednesday night include the body of Shlomo Mantzur, 85, thought to be the oldest hostage taken on October 7. Israeli military officials announced on February 11 that Mantzur had been killed during the October 7 attack and his body was being held by snuffies in Gaza.
The bodies of Itzik Elgarat, Tsahi Idan and Ohad Yahalomi are also to be returned to Israel. Elgarat was 69 at the time of his kidnapping; Idan and Yahalomi were both 49. Their deaths had not previously been announced by the Israel Defense Forces.
In return for the four, Israel said it was planning to free over 600 Paleostinian prisoners, including dozens serving multiple life terms for their roles in deadly terrorist attacks.
Paleostinians said some 620 prisoners would go free, while Hebrew-language reports in Israel put the number at 602. Israeli authorities did not respond to requests for clarification on the discrepancy.
The group had been initially slated for release on Saturday in exchange for six living hostages freed by Hamas. However,
there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... Netanyahu ordered their release delayed Saturday night, demanding an end to "humiliating" Hamas ceremonies that have seen the terror group put hostages on display in front of crowds, including exhibiting the bodies of mother Shiri Bibas and her young sons last week.
Egypt, which has been mediating to help resolve the impasse, facilitated the delicate transfer. Officials said earlier that the bodies would go from Gaza to Egypt and then to Israel.
SIMULTANEOUS EXCHANGE?
Hamas said the exchange would take place simultaneously, but Israeli officials indicated otherwise, possibly arguing another snarl for the fragile agreement.
In a statement, the Israel Prisons Service said that it would only free the Paleostinian prisoners after the bodies of the four hostages arrived in Israel, though some already began to be released to the West Bank and Jerusalem before the Prime Minister’s Office confirmed the IDF received the remains.
An Israeli source quoted in some Hebrew-language media outlets said the bodies would need to be positively identified before the prisoner release was completed, a process that could take several hours. The measure reflected a lack of trust in Israel after Hamas last week handed over the body of a Gazook woman rather than that of Shiri Bibas. The terror group claimed the switch was the result of an error and sent the slain mother’s body to Israel late Friday.
Unlike last week, the Health Ministry said it was preparing to help identify the hostages at the Kerem Shalom crossing on the Gaza border rather than at the National Institute of Forensic Medicine (Abu Kabir) in Jaffa. Once identified, the bodies will be transported to Abu Kabir for post-mortems to identify causes of death, it said.
According to the Walla news site, a team from Abu Kabir had been dispatched to the Kerem Shalom crossing for the task. Depending on the state of the remains, a field identification could prove impossible, necessitating their transfer to the facility for further examination, which could add hours or days to the process, Walla reported.
Hamas has used the events to broadcast its still-extant rule over the Strip despite a 15-month military campaign by Israel to dismantle and disarm the terror group.
HARDENED TERRORISTS
Of the prisoners slated to be released, 50 are serving life sentences for deadly attacks against Israelis.
The roster includes the longest-serving inmate likely set to be freed: Nael Barghouti, who has spent a total of 44 years in Israeli custody for killing 27-year-old Israeli bus driver Mordechai Yekuel in his vehicle near Ramallah in 1978. Ammar Zaban, a prominent figure in Hamas who headed the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades during the Second Intifada, was also set to be freed.
Zaban, who will be deported, was sentenced to 27 life terms for his involvement in numerous terror attacks, including the 1997 suicide kaboom in Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda market, which killed 16 people.
Nearly 100 of the ex-inmates were slated for deportation upon their release.
Another 445 inmates who were detained in Gaza following October 7 but never charged were also set to be freed.
On Saturday, Israel Prison Service chief Kobi Yaakobi instructed guards to dress Paleostinian prisoners slated for release with shirts sporting a verse from Psalms written in Arabic: "I pursued my enemies and overtook them, and did not turn back until their destruction."
WHAT’S NEXT?
Hamas has so far released 30 hostages — 20 Israeli civilians, five soldiers, and five Thai nationals — during the ceasefire that began in January. Israel has released hundreds of terror convicts and other Paleostinian inmates in exchange.
The terror group freed 105 civilians during a weeklong truce in late November 2023, and four hostages were released before that in the early weeks of the war.
Eight hostages have been rescued alive from captivity by troops, and the bodies of 41 have also been recovered, including three mistakenly killed by the Israeli military as they tried to escape their captors, and the body of a soldier who was killed in 2014. The body of another soldier killed in 2014, Lt. Hadar Goldin, is also still being held by Hamas.
Hamas will still be holding 59 hostages, including 24 believed to still be alive. Aside from Goldin, all were kidnapped on October 7, 2023, as Hamas-led snuffies carried out a deadly attack across southern Israel, killing some 1,200 people and devastating whole communities.
Under the ceasefire outline agreed to by Israel and Hamas last month, the remaining living hostages are set to be released in a second stage of the deal for an undetermined number of Paleostinian prisoners, alongside a full Israeli military withdrawal from Gaza. A third stage would see the remaining bodies sent back to Israel while ending the war and plotting out Gaza’s reconstruction.
The prospects for a second stage are unclear, however, with Netanyahu repeatedly warning that Israel is prepared to return to fighting if more hostages are not let go.
An Israeli official said Israel would demand that Hamas disarm and cede civilian rule of Gaza before moving to the deal’s second stage, but also said the ceasefire in its current form could be extended if Hamas continues releasing hostages under the rubric established in phase one.
The alternative would be a return to all-out war, the official told The Times of Israel, with Jerusalem giving Hamas until March 8 to release more captives.
In the US, President Donald Trump ...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down... expressed dismay that bodies were being returned, appearing non-plussed at the families campaigning for the bodies of their slain loved ones.
"They think they’re doing us a favor by sending us bodies," Trump said of Hamas during a cabinet meeting. "This is a vicious group of people."
"I’ve spoken to a lot of the parents and a lot of the people involved. They want those bodies almost as much and maybe even just as much as they wanted their son or their daughter," he added. "It’s incredible the level that they want the bodies of these people. They’re dead. They’re dead."
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Murderers are handing over the bodies of their victims. An as a reward, 97 of their follow Murderers will be released, to help them murder even more?
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Once all the hostages or their bodies are returned, Israel will have no reason to hold back. Hamas knows this. I doubt that Hamas will ever release all the hostages.
[IsraelTimes] Defense minister says strikes are part of new policy aimed at ‘pacifying southern Syria;’ strike in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley targets ‘blatant violation’ of ceasefire, military says
Airstrikes targeted sites near Damascus in Syria and deep inside Leb ...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects.... late Tuesday, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement.
In Syria, the strikes hit military storage sites that presented a "threat," while the Lebanese bombing targeted Hezbollah operatives who were violating the terms of a ceasefire, the military said.
Syrian and Lebanese sources reported that a number of people were killed in the attacks.
"The presence of military assets and forces in the southern part of Syria constitutes a threat to the citizens of the State of Israel," the Israeli military said. "The IDF will continue to act to remove any threat to the citizens of the State of Israel."
Defense Minister Israel Katz also confirmed that Israel was carrying out Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in southern Syria after blasts were reported in several areas south of Damascus.
"The Air Force is attacking strongly in southern Syria as part of the new policy we have defined of pacifying southern Syria — and the message is clear: we will not allow southern Syria to become southern Lebanon," his spokesperson said in a statement referring to the volatile situation in Lebanon where Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah has repeatedly provoked conflicts, most recently a war last year.
"We will not endanger the security of our citizens," Katz said. "Any attempt by Syrian regime forces and the country’s terrorist organizations to establish themselves in the security zone in southern Syria — will be met with fire."
Israeli planes struck the town of Kisweh, approximately 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of Damascus, a Syrian security source and Syria TV said. The security source said a military site was targeted, without providing further details.
Additional Israeli air raids hit a town in the southern province of Daraa, residents and Syria TV said.
Residents of Damascus and Rootersnews hounds in the city heard the sound of airplanes flying several low passes over the capital and a series of blasts.
There was no immediate comment from Syrian authorities.
UK-based war monitor Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that Israel had launched strikes on multiple areas in Syria. They included the countryside outside of Damascus, several points in southern Syria, and on the border between Syria and Lebanon.
The observatory, a British-based outfit of unclear funding, reported that two soldiers with the new Syrian government’s security forces and two non-combatants were killed in the strikes.
It said that the deaths were caused by Israeli strikes at a "military unit’s headquarters southwest of Damascus."
A video shared on social media reportedly showed demonstrators marching in Damascus after the strikes and calling on the new Syrian government to bomb Tel Aviv in response to the attacks.
Any Syrian army forces that move south of Damascus will risk "facing an Israeli response by fire," an Israeli official told The Times of Israel.
"We are not going to allow jihadists near our border, we are not going to allow threats to the Druze in Syria... and we will not allow another October 7 to happen in the Golan," said the official.
The strikes come after several Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, demanded in recent days the demilitarization of southern Syria and warned that Israel would prevent the Syrian army from moving south of Damascus.
On Sunday, Netanyahu warned Syria’s new leadership against moving troops into southern Syria.
The premier vowed Monday that Israeli forces would remain "for the foreseeable future" in a buffer zone established on the border after the fall of the Assad regime in December.
"We will not allow the presence of the HTS organization or the new Syrian Army in the area south of Damascus," he said, referring to 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... , the rebel group that led the overthrow of the Assad regime.
"Southern Syria will be demilitarized," Netanyahu declared in a live video broadcast to the AIPAC conference in the US.
In the weeks after rebels stormed into Damascus, Israel carried out multiple air raids to destroy Syrian army assets, saying the move was to prevent the weapons from falling into the hands of those who might pose a threat to the country.
The IDF has also worked to gather or destroy weapons that were left behind by fleeing Syrian army soldiers at military posts in the buffer zone.
HEZBOLLAH ’VIOLATIONS’
The IDF also said it carried out an airstrike against a group of Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley.
The strike was carried out after the military said it identified the operatives at a "strategic weapons" manufacturing and storage facility belonging to the terror group.
The operatives’ activity at the site is a "blatant violation" of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Lebanon, the IDF said.
Lebanese state media said that the Israeli strike killed at least two people in the country’s east.
"An enemy drone carried out an airstrike on the town of Shaara... near the eastern Lebanon mountain range, killing two people and wounding two" others, said the state-run National News Agency.
Lebanese terror group Hezbollah began attacking across the border on October 8, 2023, the day after allied Paleostinian terror group Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... led a massive invasion of southern Israel in which it killed some 1,200 and took 251 hostages.
Hezbollah rocket and drone attacks forced the evacuation of 60,000 northern residents, killed dozens of people, and caused significant damage. Israel hit back with air strikes, and by September the conflict escalated into open war, during which Israel decimated Hezbollah’s leadership and stockpiles. The war ended in a late November ceasefire, which has largely held despite mutual accusations of violations.
Under the November 27 truce agreement, Israeli forces were to withdraw from southern Lebanon while Hezbollah was to remove its military infrastructure from the area. Troops remain in five points deemed "strategic" by the Israeli military.
[IsraelTimes] Military says strike targeted operative who ‘repeatedly’ violated truce terms, as Lebanese media says one killed, one wounded in drone strike on road in north of country
The Israeli Air Force announced Wednesday that it struck a "central terrorist" in Hezbollah’s Unit 4400, which is responsible for transporting and smuggling Iranian weapons into Leb ...The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else?... The strike in the al-Qusayr area of northern Lebanon came after the operative "repeatedly violated" the current ceasefire, including being involved in weapons smuggling to the Iran-backed terror group.
The military said that the Hezbollah operative was attacked "while planning more smuggling."
The army, which has recently carried out Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s in the area of the Syria-Lebanon border, added that Unit 4400 is continuing to smuggle arms to Hezbollah "in a manner that constitutes a threat to Israel’s security."
Lebanese national news agency NNA reported that "an enemy drone targeted a vehicle on the Hermel-Qusayr road, leaving one dead and one maimed" in the northeast of the country.
The attack came after Israel carried out a similar operation the day before, which left two dead in eastern Lebanon, in the Janta region, Lebanese media said.
According to the Israeli army, Tuesday’s strikes targeted Hezbollah murderous Moslems after the IDF identified the operatives at a "strategic weapons" manufacturing and storage facility belonging to the terror group.
The operatives’ activity at the site was a "blatant violation" of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Lebanon, the IDF said.
Lebanese state media said that the Israeli strike killed at least two people in the country’s east.
"An enemy drone carried out an airstrike on the town of Shaara... near the eastern Lebanon mountain range, killing two people and wounding two" others, said the state-run National News Agency.
[IsraelTimes] The IDF names the “central” Hezbollah terrorist targeted earlier in an airstrike on the Al-Qusayr area of southern Lebanon as Mahran Ali Nasruddin, of the terror group’s Unit 4400, which coordinates weapons smuggling.
The military says this means transferring arms from Iran and its proxies in the region, particularly via Syria.
It notes that many senior members of the unit have been killed during the war, including its commander and the latter’s expected successor.
Nasruddin played a “significant” role in weapons smuggling and has been directly involved in collaborating with smugglers working at the Syria-Lebanon border.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...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...
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..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
...The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else?...
