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Pentagon announces investigation
into leaks, which could include polygraph tests
Monday 03/24/2025

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Europe
Femem are a French Activist Group who've recently been protesting in Paris about their imaginary perceived rise of Fascism in America and Europe
Fifth Column
(4) Tesla Vandalism Spikes: Cameras Capture Acts / X
Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Footage shows bounced rubble after Israeli
attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp in Deir-al Balah
Africa Subsaharan
Congolese military asks its troops to observe a ceasefire in the ongoing conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
Europe
Pro-Palestine demonstrators gathered at Dam Square in Amsterdam to protest Israel's resumption of attacks on Gaza
Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syrian security forces seized various weapons and ammunition hidden in a well and a depot during operations in Homs and Latakia
UK orders investigation after Heathrow airport shutdown

Posted by: Fred || 03/24/2025 10:02 || Comments || Link || [11137 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Three Stooges analog.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/24/2025 9:08 Comments || Top||

#2  I watched this silent movie (Up In Mabel's Room) years ago. I remember it as pretty funny.

I think that it's still available on YouTube or some other platform somewhere.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 03/24/2025 12:00 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Congolese military asks its troops to observe a ceasefire in the ongoing conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 03/24/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11126 views] Top|| File under: MS13


Arabia
Yemeni civilians killed in US strike on residential building in Sanaa
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Civilians were killed as a result of a series of US air strikes on the Yemeni capital, Sana'a, which is under the control of the Houthis from the Ansar Allah movement. This was reported on March 23 by the Al Masirah TV channel, which belongs to the Houthi rebels.
Which Houthi officials also lived in that building, pray tell?
According to the TV channel, as a result of the bombing of a residential building by the US Air Force in western Sanaa, there are dead and wounded. The information is being clarified.

In turn, RIA Novosti reports that US Air Force fighters struck a military logistics base in the Asr region in western Sanaa.

Earlier, Regnum reported that fighters from the Yemeni rebel movement Ansar Allah (Houthis) launched a missile attack on Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv. According to Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saria, the Houthis used a Palestine-2 hypersonic ballistic missile for the attack.

On March 22, a US air strike on Hodeidah International Airport in western Yemen wounded Houthi naval commander Mansour al-Saadi. It was reported that at least seven other members of the movement were also injured.

The US military launched a large-scale operation against the Yemeni Houthis on March 15, striking western Yemen. Later, on March 16, the movement attacked the US Navy aircraft carrier Harry Truman in the Red Sea with drones and missiles. On March 17, 18 and 20, the Houthis also attacked the US aircraft carrier with missiles and drones.

More from regnum.ru
Houthis Claim Rocket Attack on Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport
Shooting off the rocket is their job. It actually hitting where they hoped is Allah’s, should that be his will. Once again it was not. In fact, I think this is the particular missile that only got as far as Saudi Arabia — fortunately the Magic Kingdom has been at war with them since 2015, as I recall, so they can’t become more angry about it.
Fighters from the Yemeni rebel movement Ansar Allah (Houthis) launched a missile attack on Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv. This was reported on March 23 by Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saria.

"The armed forces' missile forces <…> struck Ben Gurion Airport in the occupied Jaffa [Tel Aviv] area," he said on the Al Masirah TV channel.

According to Saria, the Houthis used a Palestine-2 hypersonic ballistic missile for the attack.

The movement's military spokesman added that Houthi fighters also carried out another attack on the US Navy's USS Harry Truman aircraft carrier group in the Red Sea, using missiles and drones.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, on March 22, during a missile strike by American aircraft on the international airport of Hodeidah in western Yemen, the commander of the Houthi navy, Mansur al-Saadi, was wounded. It was noted that at least seven more members of the movement were also injured.

Earlier, on March 20, the US Air Force carried out a series of airstrikes on Ansar Allah targets in the province of Al-Hodeidah in western Yemen. It was specified that at least four strikes were carried out.

Posted by: badanov || 03/24/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11127 views] Top|| File under: Houthis



Europe
Chief rabbi of Orléans assaulted in antisemitic hate crime, French authorities say
[IsraelTimes] Rabbi Arié Engelberg is attacked while walking with son, suffering head injury; teenage suspect is arrested; Macron condemns incident as example of the ‘poison’ of antisemitism

The chief rabbi of Orléans, La Belle France was attacked and assaulted in the city on Saturday evening, in what French President Emanuel Macron described as a shocking example of the "poison" of antisemitism.

Rabbi Arié Engelberg was physically attacked and subjected to antisemitic slurs by an assailant, while walking with his young son in the center of the French city on Saturday evening, according to local media reports. Engelberg was struck on the head and bitten on the shoulder during the attack, a source following the case told AFP.

French authorities are treating the incident as an antisemitic hate crime.

Hebrew media reported that the rabbi, who suffered head injuries, was taken to hospital for treatment. His condition was described as stable but serious.

The suspect was arrested shortly after the assault and transferred to a psychiatric facility, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin confirmed. "I condemn with the greatest firmness the antisemitic attack of the chief rabbi of Orléans," he posted on X. "He has all my support. The suspect was arrested and placed in a psychiatric facility."
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/24/2025 2025-03-24 01:07 || Comments || Link || [11126 views] Top|| File under:


Femem are a French Activist Group who’ve recently been protesting in Paris about their imaginary perceived rise of Fascism in America and Europe
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
But some of them do have nice tiddies, so they can't be all bad.
They do the Nazi salute startlingly well, and with great enthusiasm. Could it be that they are the fascists?

Related: 2024FEMEN's Objectives: - by strength of courage and personal example, to initiate global women's mob law over patriarchy as the historically first, and last, existing form of slavery.
Posted by: Fred || 03/24/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11132 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Harpies.
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 03/24/2025 3:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Basically a good reason that 'higher education' is a failure for spending all the time since 1945 to convince the masses to believe that the National Socialist Workers Party was anything other than the Left.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/24/2025 12:00 Comments || Top||

#3  In Western nations, misandry is taxpayer funded.
Posted by: no mo uro || 03/24/2025 14:31 Comments || Top||

#4  I'm so old I remember when French women were considered state of the art. Maybe de Gaulle was right - having 246 different kinds of cheese has driven them mad.
Posted by: SteveS || 03/24/2025 18:42 Comments || Top||

#5  Specken Ze Dutsch Fraulein?
Posted by: Hupoluth Dribble3876 || 03/24/2025 19:49 Comments || Top||

#6  Apparently some society's haven't remembered what it was to have starvation, loss of freedom, and bare subjugation, and want it back. Learn Arabic, bitches
Posted by: Frank G || 03/24/2025 20:23 Comments || Top||


Pro-Palestine demonstrators gathered at Dam Square in Amsterdam to protest Israel’s resumption of attacks on Gaza
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] Like so many of The Netherland’s Jews, Anne Frank and her family were turned in to the Nazis by their Dutch neighbours. All but Mr. Frank died in the concentration camps. They don’t seem to have changed much, three generations later.
Posted by: Fred || 03/24/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11128 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Fifth Column
(4) Tesla Vandalism Spikes: Cameras Capture Acts / X
[X] Recent incidents of Tesla vehicles being vandalized have been reported across several U.S. cities, including Chicago, San Diego, and San Bernardino County. While the reasons behind these acts vary, some of the vandalism includes drawing symbols like swastikas on the cars. Authorities have noted no evidence of these acts being part of a coordinated campaign, despite claims by some high-profile figures suggesting political motivations.
Posted by: Fred || 03/24/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11134 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM




Home Front: WoT
U.S. Army Special Operations Issues Threat Advisory Over Leftist Attacks On Tesla Owners, Vehicles
[Federalist] The U.S. Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) reportedly issued a "threat advisory" on Thursday warning of "possible threats" from radical left-wing activists against the command’s Tesla owners.

In screenshots of the alert obtained by Federalist contributor and retired Army ranger John A. Lucas, the USASOC informed service members of increased "concerns" regarding recent attacks against individuals who own Teslas and dealerships that carry the vehicle.

Within the past few months, extreme left-wing anarchists have been waging a rhetorical and physical war against the electric car company to protest its founder Elon Musk’s role in identifying waste, fraud, and abuse throughout the federal government. These acts of left-wing "resistance" have ranged from harassing Tesla owners to outright vandalizing and destroying Tesla vehicles and dealerships.

The Trump Justice Department and FBI have pledged to crack down on what Attorney General Pam Bondi has referred to as incidents of "domestic terrorism." Three individuals were indicted by the DOJ on Thursday for allegedly destroying Tesla properties.

The USASOC advisory noted that while there are currently "[n]o credible threats directed at USASOC personnel or assets ... there is potential as this is an emerging threat." The notice specifically highlighted a new website called "Dogequest," which "has allegedly published personal details of Tesla owners across the United States, sparking concerns over privacy and security."

"Dogequest is an anonymous website that claims to ’empower creative expressions of protest’ by exposing Tesla owners’ personal data. According to 404 Media, the site includes a searchable database of Tesla drivers along with the locations of Tesla dealerships and charging stations," the USASOC notice reads. "The site, which appears in the wake of anti-Elon Musk protests across the country, displays names, addresses, and phone numbers of Tesla owners on an interactive map and uses an image of a Molotov cocktail as its cursor."

Equally notable, however, is the USASOC alert about an allegedly upcoming "Tesla Takedown" day of action.

The warning noted that "[p]rotesters worldwide are preparing for their largest demonstration yet, 500 coordinated actions at Tesla showrooms on March 29 aimed at CEO Elon Musk’s controversial policies." The notice cited remarks from Alice Hu, named as executive director of the left-wing Planet Over Profit, who purportedly disclosed that such demonstrations will take place at the more than 275 Tesla showrooms across America and "hundreds more abroad."

The threat advisory concluded by encouraging USASOC members to "remain on high alert while in public areas, especially in presence of Tesla branded items" and "[c]ontact the proper authorities for threat-related events once you are in a safe location." It also advised "Tesla branded items owners [to] properly secure their property to prevent unwanted damage to their property" and all personnel to remain in a "safe location" on March 29.

Posted by: Besoeker || 03/24/2025 06:47 || Comments || Link || [11132 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Libs attempting to tag JSOC or SOCOM members / vets may encounter unanticipated consequences.
Posted by: Clem+Elmish4239 || 03/24/2025 8:11 Comments || Top||

#2  North Dakota Arsonists Left Gas Can at Scene of Tesla Terrorism
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/24/2025 9:59 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 03/24/2025 15:45 Comments || Top||

#4  It's Austin TX ... Incendiary devices located at Tesla dealership, Austin police say
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/24/2025 16:50 Comments || Top||

#5  may encounter unanticipated consequences.

Wasn’t it just last summer that a pair of illegals were casing the home of a Special Forces officer while working for a foreign-owned cable-mapping subcontractor company? The illegals ended up dead, the police he called brought in the feds, and the subcontractor suddenly evaporated, as I recall.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/24/2025 16:50 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Suspected terrorist fatally shot in Israel after stabbing soldier and opening fire on passing cars, killing driver
[NYPOST] A suspected terrorist was rubbed out by border police in Israel early Monday after he stabbed an Israeli soldier, stole his rifle and opened fire on passing cars, killing an elderly man.

The crazed killer, 25-year-old Karem Jabarin, crashed a car into a bus stop at the Tishbi Junction on Route 66 near the lower Galilee city of Yokne'am and stabbed a 20-year-old soldier stationed there, according to Israeli authorities.

He then grabbed the soldier's rifle and shot up passing cars as he ran down the highway, killing a 85-year-old man identified as Moshe Horan, of Kibbutz HaZore'a, who was driving by with his 51-year-old son, the Times of Israel reported.
Posted by: Fred || 03/24/2025 10:40 || Comments || Link || [11126 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies


Netivot man suspected of spying on nuclear research center, Haifa port for Iran
[IsraelTimes] A 65-year-old man was arrested last month on suspicion of spying for Iran, the police and Shin Bet say.

Prosecutors in the Southern District Attorney’s Office say they plan to indict Netivot resident Edward Yusupov tomorrow on charges of contact with agents from an enemy country.

Yusupov allegedly took photos of IDF bases, the Haifa Port, Israel’s nuclear research center in the Negev and other sensitive sites at the behest of an Azerbaijani national whom police suspect is an Iranian agent. He intended to transfer the pictures to his handler, officials allege.

The suspect went so far as to rent an apartment overlooking the Haifa Port for the agent’s “operational needs,” police add.

Police say he received tens of thousands of dollars for the tasks he carried out.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/24/2025 2025-03-24 02:49 || Comments || Link || [11128 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran Proxies



13 Paleos tied up in West Bank, IDF foils arms smugglers


IDF says it foiled arms smuggling attempt in the West Bank

[IsraelTimes] The IDF, along with Israel Police and the Shin Bet, have successfully foiled an arms smuggling attempt in the West Bank, the military says.

IDF surveillance soldiers identified suspects involved in smuggling two hunting rifles in the West Bank village of al-Ras, southeast of Tulkarem, the military says in a statement. Forces then quickly located and confiscated the weapons, transferring them for further investigation by the Shin Bet.

The IDF says its forces arrested 20 wanted individuals, interrogated suspects, and seized multiple weapons during a series of counterterrorism operations in the West Bank.

The IDF stresses that it will continue its efforts to combat terrorism and maintain the safety and security of Israeli citizens.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/24/2025 2025-03-24 02:38 || Comments || Link || [11143 views] Top|| File under:


Protesters clash with police in Jerusalem as thousands march against government
[IsraelTimes] As cabinet votes no confidence in Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, thousands march across the capital towards Netanyahu’s private house, where police arrest at least three

Police clashed with protesters near Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s private residence in Jerusalem on Sunday, as thousands marched across the capital to demonstrate against the government’s moves to fire Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar and Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara.

At least three protesters were arrested, according to police.

On Sunday afternoon, thousands of protesters streamed toward Jerusalem’s Azza Road from the direction of the Knesset, many of them carrying tents they planned to set up as part of an overnight protest encampment near Netanyahu’s private residence on the busy street.

Holding Israeli flags and bullhorns, demonstrators blew horns, rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud and held pictures of hostages, singing a familiar song from Hanukkah, "Though the night is cold and dark/ In our soul, there lies a spark."

Sunday’s protests took place as the cabinet voted no confidence against Baharav-Miara, unanimously. The vote was the first step in a process to dismiss her, as the government has said she has acted as an arm of the opposition and stands in the way of its policies.

Baharav-Miara, who did not attend the cabinet meeting, said in a letter to the cabinet earlier on Sunday that the effort to fire her was born of the government’s fundamental misunderstanding of her role, and insisted it was her job to tell the government when it was acting unlawfully.

According to Channel 12, police blocked off an additional section of road near Netanyahu’s house, and confiscated equipment from the encampment such as tents, mattresses and chairs.

Later in the afternoon, police clashed with the crowd in front of Netanyahu’s residence, as a number of protesters attempted to break through crowd control barricades.

Police and border coppers were filmed shoving demonstrators away from the two rows of barricades separating them from Netanyahu’s home.

Police said they arrested three protesters during the demonstrations in the capital, and brought the suspects in for questioning.

One demonstrator hit a Border Police officer in the head, according to a law enforcement front man. No serious injuries were reported.

Well over 100,000 people attended protests in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and dozens of other cities across Israel on Saturday night as anger mounted over both the planned removal of the country’s top gatekeepers and the resumption of 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...
in the absence of a hostage deal to release the 24 presumed-living, and 35 dead, captives held by terror groups there.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/24/2025 2025-03-24 01:18 || Comments || Link || [11127 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Thousands? Not "tens of thousands", "hundreds of thousands"?
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 03/24/2025 3:03 Comments || Top||

#2  They had their big protest yesterday — 100,000 claimed.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/24/2025 3:32 Comments || Top||

#3  Soros horcruxes.
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 03/24/2025 3:45 Comments || Top||


Gaza death toll tops 50,000 as Israel kills 41 more Palestinians in last 24 hours, Israel says 20,000 through January
[X] Prove it, O Hamas spokesman.

Army says dozens of terror operatives killed in Gaza over last few days
[IsraelTimes] The military says dozens of terror operatives have been killed during operations in the Gaza Strip in recent days.

In a statement, the IDF says that troops of the 252nd Reserve Division and Gaza Division have been operating in several areas of Gaza to expand Israel’s buffer zone along the border with the Strip.

Amid the operations, troops have killed dozens of operatives and destroyed terror infrastructure, including rocket launchers, the military says.

The IDF says Israeli Air Force fighter jets, drones and helicopters, as well as Navy vessels, carried out strikes on numerous targets in Gaza, including as support for the ground forces.

Hamas has said that nearly 700 people have been killed by Israel since the military resumed its military activity in Gaza last week. The figure has not been verified and does not differentiate between civilians and combatants.
More numbers from the Times of Israel:
Israel said it had killed some 20,000 combatants in battle as of January and another 1,600 terrorists inside Israel on October 7. Israel has said it seeks to minimize civilian fatalities and stresses that Hamas uses Gaza’s civilians as human shields, fighting from civilian areas including homes, hospitals, schools, and mosques.

Fighting in Gaza resumed last week with a shock Israeli aerial offensive following a two-month ceasefire.
Posted by: Fred || 03/24/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11150 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Israeli murdered, IDF soldier wounded in bus stop terror attack in North
The perp is "Israeli" Arab.
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 03/24/2025 7:18 Comments || Top||

#2  No babies or bunnies?
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/24/2025 16:18 Comments || Top||


Footage shows bounced rubble after Israeli attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp in Deir-al Balah
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]Next time don’t start a war Allah does not want you to win.

Posted by: Fred || 03/24/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11132 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Allan's Snackbar!!!!
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper || 03/24/2025 22:46 Comments || Top||


Israel shells Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, killed one - Hamas big turban - as IDF widens offensive
[X]

Senior Hamas official killed in targeted strike on Gaza hospital as IDF widens offensive
In Gaza hospitals are universally Hamas command & control locations, with rest and relaxation — and hostage storage — in the tunnels beneath. Non-Hamas staff and patients are inevitably fellow travellers and/or human shields. None there are unaware innocents.
[IsraelTimes] Terror group confirms death of Ismail Barhoum, whom Defense Minister Katz says was new ‘Hamas PM in Gaza’; army deploys third division to southern Israel to join ground operation

An Israeli Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
on a 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...
hospital killed a senior member of Hamas
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
’s political bureau Sunday night as the military moved to expand its renewed offensive across the Strip.

Israel said it used precision weaponry to target and kill Ismail Barhoum at Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis, referring to him as a "key Hamas terrorist," as the Paleostinian terror group confirmed his death and said he had been undergoing treatment for injuries sustained in a previous strike.

The strike was one of dozens reported across the territory Sunday and into the early morning hours of Monday, with a separate strike in the Khan Younis area reportedly killing a senior Hamas education official. The IDF also indicated it was preparing to expand ground operations, redeploying an armored division that had been stationed on the border with Leb
...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects....
Defense Minister Israel Katz confirmed the widening of the offensive in a statement hailing the killing of Barhoum.

He described the Hamas official, a member of the terror group’s political bureau previously involved in financing its activities, as "the new Hamas prime minister in Gaza, who replaced Issam Da’alis, the previous prime minister who was eliminated a few days ago."

He was at least the fourth member of Hamas’s political bureau killed since Tuesday, when Israel resumed airstrikes in the territory after an impasse over continuing a ceasefire. Earlier Sunday, an Israeli airstrike near Khan Younis killed Salah al-Bardawil, another senior member of its political bureau.

Out of the 20 members of Hamas’s political bureau elected in 2021, 11 have been assassinated during the war in Gaza. Seven are either certain or highly likely to be outside the Gaza Strip.

The Israel Defense Forces said the strike was carried out following "an extensive intelligence-gathering process," and that a "precision munition" was used to mitigate harm to civilians.

The attack was caught on camera by both Al Jazeera and BBC Arabic.

Footage from the scene following the blast showed that the hospital building was largely undamaged in the strike, except for fire blazing in one section off a stairwell.

Paleostinian health officials claimed the attack killed at least five people, and footage on social media appeared to show people extricating bodies and injured people from the rubble.

"The Hamas terrorist organization exploits civilian infrastructure while brutally endangering the Gazook population. The cynical use of an active hospital as a shelter for the planning and executing of murderous terrorist attacks is in direct violation of international law," the IDF statement read.

The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry said the strike hit the surgery department at the hospital, and a Hamas source told AFP that "Barhoum was receiving treatment after sustaining critical injuries in an airstrike targeting his home in Khan Younis at dawn last Tuesday."
Even in Gaza, sometimes a hospital is used like a hoapital.
Barhoum was a member of Hamas’s political wing and had been involved in financial activities for the terror group, according to the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
, which placed sanctions on him last year.

In a separate announcement on Sunday, the IDF and Shin Bet security agency said two senior Hamas military wing commanders had been killed in recent airstrikes in the Gaza Strip.

According to the army, Ahmad Salman ’Awj Shimali, the deputy commander of the Gaza City Brigade, and Jamil Omar Jamil Wadiya, the commander of the brigade’s Shejaiya Battalion, were killed in airstrikes in recent days. The military did not detail where or when they were killed.

According to the IDF, Shimali was "responsible for operations, planning the offensive strategy and building the brigade’s force in preparation for Hamas’s brutal massacre on October 7, [2023]," and during the war, he was responsible for the deployment of the brigade’s force.

Wadiya took over the Shejaiya Battalion after his predecessors were killed in December 2023, according to the army. On December 2, 2023, the IDF killed Shejaiya Battalion commander Wissam Farhat and, a week later, it killed his replacement Emad Qariqa.

"Wadiya was responsible for deploying the battalion’s forces against IDF troops and operated to restore and reorganize the battalion," the military said.

The statement added that Wadiya was also involved in a 2011 anti-tank missile attack on an Israeli school bus driving near the Gaza border. The attack killed 16-year-old Daniel Viflic.

On Monday morning, Gazook media sources reported that overnight strikes had also killed Manar Abu Khater, director of education at the eastern Khan Younis education directorate for the Strip’s Hamas government, among others. A deadly strike was also reported in the Nuseirat area of central Gaza.

MAJOR MOBILIZATION OF TROOPS TO GAZA
Following the killing of Barhoum, Katz said that the ongoing offensive against Hamas was "expanding," vowing that Israel would continue its strikes until the 59 hostages still held by forces of Evil in Gaza are released.

The IDF said Sunday that thousands of troops were preparing to join military operations in Gaza, ramping up the military’s renewed ground offensive against the terror group, which has thus far been carried out with relatively limited forces.

The army’s 36th Division, which spent months in the north and took part in a ground offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon, was redeployed to the Southern Command and had begun preparations for military operations in the Gaza Strip, the IDF said.

Currently, only the IDF’s Gaza Division and 252nd Reserve Division are carrying out operations inside the Gaza Strip. The move would add thousands of more troops to the offensive.

Israel has threatened to expand operations in the Strip as it seeks to pile pressure on Hamas to free hostages still being held in the Strip.

According to a report by Channel 12, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir was pushing to widen the military’s renewed offensive, citing Zamir as telling political officials in recent meetings that "Hamas is stalling for time, it’s a strategy, not a tactic."

"The IDF’s operation hurts [Hamas] and causes some movement, but it doesn’t lead it to release the hostages," Zamir reportedly said. "Therefore, there is no choice, the pressure must be increased."

Despite the resumption of military activity in the Gaza Strip, the IDF Home Front Command on Sunday said it was further easing restrictions on civilians in southern Israel.

Following an assessment, the Home Front Command said it has adjusted the activity scale permitted in the Gaza border communities from "partial activity" to "full activity," meaning there would be no restrictions on schools and workplaces. Over the past week, schools and workplaces were only allowed to open if an adequate bomb shelter could be reached in time.

Gatherings were still limited, however, to 2,000 people in several communities close to the Strip. Gatherings had been capped at 500 indoors and 100 outdoors over the past week.

There have been just two rocket attacks from Gaza since Israel resumed its military campaign. Hamas on Thursday launched three long-range rockets at central Israel, and on Friday it fired two rockets at the southern coastal city of Ashkelon.

NEW BODY FORMED TO ENABLE ’VOLUNTARY’ DEPARTURE OF GAZANS
On Saturday night, the security cabinet approved a suggestion by Katz to establish a new administration in the Defense Ministry tasked with enabling Paleostinians to "voluntarily" leave the Gaza Strip.

In a statement Sunday morning, Katz’s office said the new directorate would work to "prepare for and enable safe and controlled passage of Gaza residents for their voluntary departure to third countries, including securing their movement, establishing movement routes, checking pedestrians at designated crossings in the Gaza Strip, as well as coordinating the provision of infrastructure that will enable passage by land, sea and air to the destination countries."

The head of the directorate will be selected by Katz soon, his office said.

The statement added that the efforts to enable Gazooks who seek to migrate from the Strip to do so are being carried out "subject to Israeli and international law, and in accordance with the vision of US President Donald Trump
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"We are working with all means to implement the US president’s vision, and we will allow any Gaza resident who wants to move to a third state to do so," Katz said.

The military resumed fighting in Gaza last week at the instruction of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who vowed that all negotiations for a hostage deal moving forward would be held under fire after Hamas rejected proposals to extend phase one of the previous ceasefire.

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Syrian security forces seized various weapons and ammunition hidden in a well and a depot during operations in Homs and Latakia
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HTS clearing out, but who is rebelling in Homs and Latakia — is it former Assad regime supplies?
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Israel blasts Hezbollah in response to rocket attack from Lebanon
[NYPOST] Israel struck dozens of Hezbollah targets in Lebanon Saturday after the terror group fired a half dozen rockets at a border town in the Jewish state in a ''a blatant violation'' of a fragile November ceasefire.

The terror group blasted six rockets at Metula, a northern Israeli border town in the Galilee, on Saturday morning, the Israel Defense Forces said. Israel intercepted three and the other three reportedly fell short in Lebanon.

In response, Israeli forces struck dozens of Hezbollah rocket launchers and a command center, the IDF said on X. And in a second wave of airstrikes Saturday night, targeted Hezbollah headquarters, infrastructure, operatives and a weapons depot, it said.

Israeli drone strike reported on car in southern Lebanon
[IsrelTimes] Lebanese state media reports an Israeli drone strike on a car in a southern Lebanon town.

“An Israeli drone carried out an airstrike this morning, launching a guided missile targeting a car in the town of Aita al-Shaab” near the border with Israel, Lebanon’s official National News Agency says, reporting an unspecified number of casualties.

The report comes after a rocket attack on the northern Israel town of Metula yesterday that triggered the most intense escalation since the November ceasefire, with Israel launching two waves of airstrikes on dozens of Hezbollah sites in Lebanon.
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