[Garowe] For the better part of Wednesday, heavy fighting was reported in Masaajid Cali Gaduud town after the Al-Shabaab attack, with the ambush coming at the time President Hassan Sheikh was visiting soldiers in the frontlines in the Middle Shabelle region.
Through its website, the Al-Shabaab group claimed capturing the town but there has been no independent confirmation. A local official on the other hand said government forces are not far from the city.
On Tuesday, President Hassan Sheikh spent the night at Adale, at least 40 kilometres south of Masaajid Cali Gaduud. The attack comes at the time the Somali National Army (SNA) is fighting the group in central and southern regions.
Masaajid Cali Gaduud is one of the towns that have expanded within the last 20 years. Government forces and local fighters recovered the town in October 2022 following the offensive, officials said, while noting the importance of the town in the fight against the group.
The government is promising a major offensive against al-Shabaab in Middle Shabelle. At Adale, Hassan Sheikh addressed both the SNA officials in the group, promising to support their actions with the ultimate aim being defeating the militants.
Al-Shabaab is reported to have seized control of Masaajid Cali Gaduud following explosions and direct combat but the number of casualties on either side is not yet known. Al-Shabaab is fighting to topple the fragile UN-backed federal government of Somalia.
On Wednesday, hours after the Al-Shabaab capture of the area, the president left for Mogadishu and today, he travelled to Turkey on an official visit at the invitation of Erdogan.
The US Africa Command and the African Union Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM) have been assisting local forces with the US army often using aerial bombardments to contain the threat by the militants who are predominant in central and southern regions.
Although Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has increased the budget for security forces, the local troops are yet to conduct as many operations against the group without assistance from foreign forces, whose stay in Somalia is almost coming to an end.
[HodhodYemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... News] The American aggression launched a series of hostile Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s targeting the capital, Sanaa, and the provinces of Saada, Hodeidah, Jawf, and Amran.
In the capital, Sana’a, security sources reported that the American aggression targeted Sanaa International Airport with two airstrikes.
Meanwhile,
...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter wished he had thought to pack sun block... another American airstrike hit the al-Qiyadah area in al-Tahrir District, in the heart of the capital, causing damage to citizens’ homes, commercial shops.
The American aggression continues its airstrikes across Yemen, targeting various provinces and causing casualties, extensive damage to infrastructure.
In Sana’a province, security sources reported that the American aggression launched four airstrikes on the Jarban area in Sanhan District.
Additionally, a civilian was injured after an American airstrike targeted the Sarf area in Bani Hashish District.
In Saada, the al-Asaid area in Kitaf District was hit by five American airstrikes, while two additional strikes targeted al-Salem District in the same province.
In Hodeida, security sources confirmed that three American airstrikes hit al-Luhayyah District.
In al-Jawf, the al-Humaydah District was targeted by three airstrikes.
Meanwhile,
...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter wished he had thought to pack sun block... in Amran, sources reported that the al-Aswad Mountain in Harf Sufyan District was hit by eight airstrikes.
Additionally, the American aggression launched five airstrikes on the telecommunications network in al-Aswad Mountain, causing complete disruption of services.
Furthermore, 19 additional airstrikes targeted multiple areas, including Lubda, al-Amshiya, Hubasha, al-Aadi, al-Abla, and al-Aswad Mountain, resulting in widespread destruction.
The extent of the damage and possible casualties wasn’t immediately clear, though the number of strikes appeared particularly intense compared to other days in the campaign that began on March 15.
Other areas hit included mountainous terrain north of Sanaa in Amran, where military camps and other installations are believed to be. The Houthis’ al-Masirah satellite news network described communication networks going down after the attacks, which included at least 19 strikes there alone.
The US military’s Central Command, which now has authority from the White House to strike offensively in Yemen without pre-approval, did not immediately acknowledge conducting any strikes. The command, which under Biden offered details on individual strikes, has not provided that information in this campaign.
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[KavkazUzel] A citizen of the Russian Federation and Abkhazia was detained in Sochi after publishing content that created glorified images of members of Chechen illegal armed groups, in particular, Shamil Basayev.
A citizen of Russia and the Republic of Abkhazia, born in 1988, involved in the distribution of terrorist materials on the Internet, has been detained, security forces reported.
According to the FSB, the detainee published materials on his Telegram channel justifying and promoting terrorist activity "by creating a glorified image of the leaders of illegal armed groups on the territory of the Chechen Republic from 1991 to 2006, in particular, the terrorist Shamil Basayev." A case has been opened against the detainee under Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (public calls for terrorist activity, public justification of terrorism or propaganda of terrorism). The penalty under this article provides for up to seven years of imprisonment, Interfax writes, citing the FSB Public Relations Center.
On August 7, 1999, more than a thousand armed fighters under the leadership of Shamil Basayev and Jordanian Amir Khattab entered Dagestan from Chechnya. Fighting continued in the republic for more than a month, including on September 5, when about 2,000 fighters again crossed the Chechen-Dagestan border and occupied villages and heights in the Novolaksky District.
At the time they called themselves the Republic of Ichkeria, which morphed into the Al Qaeda-linked Caucasus Emirate, which eventually swore allegiance to the Islamic State, changing its name to Vilyat Kavkaz. I suppose for our purposes current members should be filed under ISIS…
Only on September 15, 1999, the Minister of Defense announced that Dagestan had been completely liberated, according to the " Kavkazsky Knot " report " Militant Invasion of Dagestan (1999)."
Investigators regularly report detentions and arrests of alleged former members of Basayev and Khattab's group. In December, the court remanded in custody Khamidulla Yapov and Minkail Magamadov, accused of involvement in attacks by Basayev and Khattab's militants on servicemen in Chechnya.
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[KavkazUzel] The sentences handed down by the Oktyabrsky and Kirovsky district courts of Stavropol to two groups of people convicted of participating in the riots at the Makhachkala airport have entered into legal force.
As reported by the "Caucasian Knot", the Kirov District Court in Stavropol Krai sentenced Maksud Shcheikhgasanov, Ismail Ibakov, Shamil Mirzabekov, Magomed Khalilbegov and Rabadan Rabadanov, accused of involvement in the riots at the Makhachkala airport, to terms ranging from eight years to nine years and four months. At the end of January, the Oktyabrsky Court sentenced Gamzat Isakov, Makhmud Dzhavatkhanov and Abdulbasir Atavov to lengthy terms.
The sentences of two groups of those convicted in the "airport case" have come into force, lawyer Bashir Abdurakhmanov, who defended the participants in the trials in the Oktyabrsky District Court of Stavropol and the Kirovsky District Court of Stavropol Krai, told a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent on March 28.
"When considering the appeal in the Oktyabrsky District Court, the convicts were given two months of imprisonment each, and the sentence was upheld. As for the Kirovsky District Court, the convicts decided not to file an appeal. Thus, both sentences came into force," Abdurakhmanov said.
Mass riots at Makhachkala airport occurred on October 29, 2023, due to a report of the arrival of a plane with passengers from Israel. More than 20 people were injured in the riots, including nine police officers. 1,200 people were brought to administrative responsibility. What happened at Uytash airport
…in full, the Makhachkala Uytash Airport is a civil airport located near Makhachkala. That October the locals were exercised about Israel daring to fight back against fellow Moslems, so a crowd went to the airport to beat up a rumoured airplane full of Jews coming in from Israel. It turned out there were no Jews on the plane, and as the small local Jewish population was keeping itself carefully out of sight, the crowd turned to riot and mayhem at the airport, causing extensive and expensive damage while the world watched. The government was mortified; it has proceeded to share its pain with the entire mob as each man is identified and caught…
and how the investigation is proceeding is described in the "Caucasian Knot" report "Case of the pogrom at Makhachkala airport."
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[Regnum] Journalist Nadezhda Kevorkova (an individual included in the list of terrorists and extremists of Rosfinmonitoring) must pay a fine of 600,000 rubles
…about US $7,100…
in a criminal case on the justification of terrorism. The court verdict has entered into legal force, said the lawyer of the convicted woman, Kaloy Akhilgov.
“The verdict against Nadezhda Kevorkova has not been appealed by the parties and has entered into legal force,” TASS quoted the human rights activist as saying.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on May 6, 2024, searches were conducted in Kevorkova’s apartment, during which posters were found with the inscriptions “they are not terrorists” and “a rally is better.”
According to media reports, Kevorkova maintained ties with terrorists, including Abu Umar Sasitlinsky
…a preacher from Dagestan who with several others formed a foundation that raised more than 38 million rubles, ostensibly to build mosques and help poor Moslems, but actually they donated the funds to ISIS and Al Nusra (Hayat Tahrir al Sham). Looking at the current situation in Syria, no doubt all involved think they got a good return on their investment…
(real name Israil Akhmednabiyev, included in the list of terrorists and extremists by Rosfinmonitoring). She shares a radical Islamic ideology and has published materials justifying the activities of terrorists. Her social networks contained materials justifying the attack on Nalchik in 2005 and the actions of the Taliban movement (under UN sanctions for terrorist activity).
On May 7, the court granted the request of the investigative authorities and arrested the journalist.
The Second Western District Military Court handed down the sentence to the journalist on March 12 of this year. She was fined 600,000 rubles and released from custody right in the courtroom. Initially, the fine was 700,000 rubles, but taking into account the time spent in pretrial detention, the amount was reduced.
During the court debate, the prosecutor requested six years in prison and a fine of 500,000 rubles for the journalist. Kevorkova did not admit her guilt.
The recording shows Russian service officers detaining a Russian citizen who, on orders from Ukrainian special services, was planning to set off an explosion in a crowded place in Moscow.
Merely political, not a jihadi.
In addition, the footage shows FSB officers working with a confiscated improvised explosive device (IED). The detainee also confessed, explaining that he contacted Ukrainian special services via messengers and, for a fee of 10,000 dollars, agreed to deliver the item to the specified coordinates and carry out all further instructions from his handlers.
Even more from regnum.ru FSB Detains Smolensk Region Resident for Calls for Genocide of Russians
The Federal Security Service (FSB) of the Russian Federation detained a resident of Desnogorsk, Smolensk region, who spoke out against the SVO and publicly called for the mass murder of Russian families, including children and the elderly.
"The attacker openly supported statements regarding the use of violence against the Russian people. In particular, he proposed exterminating Russians as families, starting with children and ending with the elderly," the department said in a statement.
It is specified that the detained Russian insisted on the need to deal with Russians and called on other users in pro-Ukrainian and emigrant communities in one of the messengers to do so. He explained his actions by hatred of the Russian people.
A criminal case was opened against the man for public calls for extremism. Now he faces up to five years in prison.
[IsraelTimes] Istanbul’s jailed mayor Ekrem Imamoglu says in a social media post that his lawyer has been detained and demands his immediate release.
“My lawyer Mehmet Pehlivan was detained on fictitious grounds,” Imamoglu says in a post on X published via his legal team. “As if the coup against democracy was not enough, they cannot tolerate the victims defending themselves,” he writes, adding: “Release my lawyer immediately.”
[IsraelTimes] Nobel-winning author says events represent ‘Erdogan’s strong-fisted, autocratic rule at a level we have not seen before’
Two journalists were detained in dawn raids in Istanbul early Friday as part of a crackdown on media workers covering The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... ’s largest protests in more than a decade, their outlets reported.
Elif Bayburt, who works for the Etkin News Agency, and Nisa Suda Demirel, from the Evrensel news website, were the latest to be arrested in early morning sweeps that have targeted political activists and trade unionists as well as journalists.
"Our news hound, Nisa Sude Demirel, was detained by the police who came to her house at around 6 a.m. this morning," Evrensel said in a statement. "Demirel, who was following the (Istanbul City Hall) protests and the boycotts at the universities, was taken to the Istanbul Police Department’s Counter-Terrorism Branch office."
The demonstrations began last week following the arrest of Istanbul’s opposition Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, a key rival to President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... . Imamoglu was tossed in the slammer Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! pending trial on corruption charges that many see as politically motivated. The government insists the judiciary is independent and free of political interference.
Reporters Without Borders condemned the journalists’ arrests. "There is no end to the detentions of journalists," its Turkey representative Erol Onderoglu said.
The Ottoman Turkish Journalists’ Union called for the news media to be allowed to do their work and for an "end to these unlawful detentions."
Earlier this week, 11 journalists were detained in morning raids. Although initially tossed in the slammer Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! pending trial, they were freed Thursday but still face charges of "taking part in illegal rallies and marches."
Turkey’s broadcasting authority issued a 10-day airwave ban on Sozcu TV on Thursday, as well as fines and program suspensions to other opposition channels. A news hound from the UK’s BBC was also deported Thursday.
The editor-in-chief of Swedish newspaper Dagens ETC said Friday that its news hound had gone missing. Joakim Medin has not been heard from since he wrote that he was being taken for questioning after arriving in Istanbul on Thursday to cover the protests, Andreas Gustavsson wrote on the paper’s website.
’CHILDREN BEING TREATED LIKE TERRORISTS’
Courthouses across Turkey are dealing with a spike in cases as a result of the protests. Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said Thursday that nearly 1,900 people had been arrested since March 19.
Anxious families have been gathering outside court buildings to await the fate of their loved ones, whom police can hold for four days.
"The youth we call Generation Z are more likely to participate in these protests. They sense that something is wrong," Savas Ozbek, whose daughter was detained Sunday, told ANKA News Agency outside Ankara Courthouse late Thursday.
Zeynep Ulger, who was waiting for news of her friend, said they were protesting for a "free, democratic country," adding: "The only thing we have achieved in the face of this is being beaten by the police on the streets and being detained."
Istanbul-based lawyer Arif Anil Ozturk, who represents many detained protesters, gave his insight into court proceedings.
"It is an unlawful process from beginning to end," he told the Cumhuriyet newspaper. "There is no evidence, no footage. Children... are being treated like terrorists."
Nightly Istanbul rallies organized by Imamoglu’s Republican People’s Party, or CHP, ended Tuesday. In other cities, and in Istanbul since the end of the CHP gatherings, largely peaceful protests have been more organic.
Police, however, have used tear gas, water cannon and plastic pellets to suppress demonstrations that have been banned in Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir.
LAWYERS DETAINED
At the Middle East Technical University campus on the outskirts of the capital Ankara, nine students were detained early Friday, opposition politicians who visited the site said.
"Young people have set up tents inside (the campus). Officious administrators have evaluated this situation as a ’threat’ and invited the police to the university to conduct an operation," CHP Provincial Chairperson Umit Erkol said on social media.
Aylin Yaman, a CHP member of parliament, said students were sitting on the grass and singing when police stormed the area at 2 a.m. "We object to the police entering here as if it were a dawn operation and creating an atmosphere of fear," she said.
The Istanbul Bar Association announced that three lawyers had been among some 100 people arrested at a Thursday demonstration in the city’s Sisli district. Lawyers also said they had been kept waiting for hours outside police headquarters to gain access to detainees.
Following the overnight arrest of Imamoglu’s lawyer Mehmet Pehlivan, it was revealed Friday that he is accused of money laundering. Imamoglu, in a social media post, said Pehlivan had been "detained on fictitious grounds." He was later released on condition of judicial control.
RUBIO: "WE ARE CONCERNED"
Turkey’s Nobel-winning author Orhan Pamuk, writing in several European newspapers, said events over the past 10 days represented "Erdogan’s strong-fisted, autocratic rule (at) a level we have not seen before."
Following a meeting with Turkey’s foreign minister earlier in the week, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio ...The diminutive 13-year-old Republican U.S. Senator from Florida, Secretary of State in the second Trump administration... described events in Turkey as "disturbing." Speaking on a return flight from Suriname late Thursday, he said: "We are concerned. We don’t like to see the direction that’s going... Anytime you have instability on the ground you don’t like to see it."
A group of European politicians arrived in Istanbul to show support for Imamoglu and meet opposition figures. Led by former Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven, the delegation from the Party of European Socialists also included European Parliament Vice President Katarina Barley.
"This is not just about one person. This is about democracy, and we are here to stand up for democratic values," Lofven said. "These politically motivated accusations are a threat to democracy in Turkey."
In a TV interview Friday, the co-leader of the pro-Kurdish DEM Party appeared to offer qualified support for the protests. "We are not the CHP’s activist group. We support them, but we will not take to the streets for this," Tuncer Bakirhan said.
Commentators have suggested that the recent peace initiative offered to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, is a bid by Erdogan to lure the DEM Party, which is the third-largest in parliament, into supporting an extension of his presidency beyond his current term.
Imamoglu faces charges stemming from two investigations into the opposition-controlled Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality — a corruption case and one alleging support for terrorism.
The mayor has been confirmed as the CHP’s presidential candidate in an election currently scheduled for 2028 but which is likely to take place earlier. He has performed well in recent polls against Erdogan, and his election as mayor of Turkey’s largest city in 2019 was a major blow to the president.
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And his dog, too.
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To be fair, the dog was a known Gulenist and was prone to late night barking.
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I simply adore you all. I’m trying to use up the flour and bread before Passover, which starts Tuesday evening, so extra pumpkin bread muffins all around!
[KhaamaPress] In the wake of widespread protests following the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, Ottoman Turkish authorities have detained approximately 1,879 individuals, with 260 subsequently imprisoned pending trial.
These demonstrations erupted after Imamoglu, a prominent opposition figure and potential presidential candidate, was arrested on charges of corruption, an action widely perceived as politically motivated.
Justice Minister Yilmaz Tunc addressed international concerns, asserting that Ankara had urged European partners to exercise "common sense." He emphasized that the severity of the allegations against Imamoglu necessitated his arrest, stating, "We don’t want the arrest of any politician, but if there is evidence of a violation then it can happen."
The protests, marking the most significant anti-government unrest in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... in a decade, have, according to Rooters, led to injuries among at least 150 coppers. Despite government warnings, opposition parties, including Imamoglu’s Republican People’s Party (CHP), continue to call for demonstrations, organizing rallies in Istanbul and other cities.
In response to the unrest, authorities have extended the ban on public gatherings, aiming to curb the spread of protests. President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... has dismissed the demonstrations as a "show" and warned of legal consequences for participants.
International reactions have been critical, with Germany labeling Imamoglu’s arrest as a "sign of democratic backsliding" in Turkey. The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... has postponed a scheduled meeting with Ankara, reflecting concerns over the country’s commitment to democratic principles.
The situation remains fluid, with ongoing protests and a heightened security presence across Turkey. The international community continues to monitor developments, advocating for restraint and the protection of democratic freedoms.
As tensions persist, the potential for further unrest looms, underscoring the need for dialogue and resolution to address the underlying political grievances fueling the protests.
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[KhaamaPress] An explosion in Quetta, Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... , on March 27th killed two and injured 11, with no group claiming responsibility yet.
An explosion occurred on Thursday, March 27, 2025, in the Barach market of Quetta, the capital of Pakistain’s Balochistan province, resulting in at least two fatalities and 11 injuries.
The blast targeted a police vehicle, leading to the deaths of two individuals and injuries to 17 others, including four coppers.
Emergency responders transported the maimed to nearby hospitals, where medical staff reported that among the injured were several children.
No group has grabbed credit for the attack. In the past, separatist groups in Balochistan have been known to carry out similar assaults.
The incident occurred as public gatherings increased ahead of the upcoming Eid al-Fitr celebrations, raising concerns about potential security threats during this period.
Pak authorities have condemned the attack, with President Asif Ali Ten Percent Zardari
...former president of Pakistain, husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, who has been singularly lacking in curiosity about who done her in... labeling the perpetrators as "terrorists" and emphasizing the need to address such acts, especially during the holy month of Ramadan.
As far as I can tell, Palestinian attacks are so common that nobody bothers to report them, only the less common Israeli response.
[IsraelTimes] At least 6 Palestinians said wounded; no Israelis detained for attack on Jinba, which police say came after 2 Jews in the area were assaulted
Twenty-two residents of the southern West Bank Paleostinian village of Jinba were arrested by the IDF on Friday morning, a resident of the hamlet told The Times of Israel, with the military saying it detained people involved in a violent mostly peaceful confrontation with Israeli settlers — none of whom were arrested.
Footage from the scene shortly before the Israel Defense Forces arrived showed dozens of settlers raiding the village, attacking residents and property. At least six Paleostinians were maimed in the assault, four of whom were taken to a hospital, the Haaretz daily reported, citing residents. The IDF said an Israeli was also injured during the violence.
Residents of Jinba, in the southern West Bank’s Masafer Yatta area, accused the IDF of using excessive force, saying soldiers hurled stun grenades inside homes. Haaretz cited Masafer Yatta council head Nidal Younis as saying that settlers also threw stun grenades. Younis was among the Paleostinians detained at Jinba, according to the newspaper.
The settler attack on Jinba followed reports of violence against Jews, according to police and the military.
Police said officers were dispatched to the area after two Jewish shepherds were assaulted south of Susiya, one of the Masafer Yatta villages.
The IDF said it had received a report that an Israeli citizen was attacked near the southern West Bank’s Mitzpeh Yair outpost. Troops dispatched to the scene along with coppers "began a chase after the terrorists," the IDF said, without clarifying how forces knew whom to pursue.
"Shortly thereafter, a violent mostly peaceful confrontation developed between several Israeli citizens and several Paleostinians, during which an Israeli civilian was injured and evacuated for medical treatment," the IDF said. "A report was received regarding several Paleostinians who were maimed and received treatment from medical personnel."
"IDF troops worked to disperse the violent mostly peaceful confrontation and arrested several Paleostinian suspects near the location. The suspects were transferred for further interrogation," the army added.
The West Bank has seen a spike in violence since October 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... -led holy warriors 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... In the West Bank, the military has undertaken large-scale counterterrorism operations that have killed hundreds of people — the vast majority of them combatants, according to the IDF — and displaced tens of thousands.
Masafer Yatta, in the West Bank’s South Hebron Hills, has faced frequent raids by settlers and soldiers. It is the subject of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land" about Israel’s demolitions in the area, which the military has designated a live-fire training zone.
Israeli forces on Monday night arrested the film’s co-director, Hamdan Ballal, a resident of Masafer Yatta, after he was reportedly injured during festivities between settlers and Paleostinians in the southern West Bank village of Susya. He was released the next day. Two other Paleostinians and an Israeli were also detained.
Arrests of Israelis in incidents of settler violence are extremely rare. The head of the police’s West Bank division is currently under investigation for allegedly refusing to crack down on the phenomenon to curry favor in the eyes of far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir.
Israel’s failure to prosecute near-daily incidents of settler violence led the previous White House and multiple European governments to begin sanctioning violent mostly peaceful settlers last year. US President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... scrapped his predecessor’s sanctions shortly after taking office in January.
The Israeli settlers’ raid came shortly after reports that an Israeli shepherd from the area was assaulted. That incident appears to be connected to the assault of a pair of Palestinian shepherds by settlers. Settlers subsequently stormed Jinba apparently in order to avenge the attack on the Israeli shepherd.
[IsraelTimes] The IDF and police say they foiled an attempt to smuggle nine assault rifles into Israel from Egypt last night, using a drone.
The drone had been identified crossing the border into Israel before it was downed by troops and police officers deployed to the area.
The drone and guns were handed over to the police for further investigation.
Earlier in the day yesterday, IDF troops caught another drone ferrying 10 kilograms of drugs.
In recent months, there have been frequent attempts to bring weapons and drugs over the Egyptian border using drones. There have also been attempts to smuggle similar contraband from Israel into Gaza using drones.
[IsraelTimes] Israeli forces arrested overnight a Palestinian in Tulkarem who opened fire on an IDF vehicle in November 2023 and then fled the scene, the Israel Police say in a joint statement with the IDF and Shin Bet
According to the statement, the 35-year-old suspect fired on the vehicle over a year ago “with the intention of harming soldiers and police officers and to commit suicide immediately afterwards,” but instead fled the scene after injuring a soldier.
The suspect has spent the last year hiding from Israeli troops, the joint statement says, but was located in Tulkarem and detained, whereupon he confessed to carrying out the attack.
Following the investigation, an indictment has been filed against the suspect for possessing and carrying a weapon and intent to murder, police add.
[IsraelTimes] At least 41 dead in past day, according to Hamas health ministry; after World Central Kitchen says volunteer killed in airstrike, military vows to probe incident
The IDF said it carried out 25 strikes across 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... on Friday, targeting operatives and infrastructure of Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... and other terror groups, as United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... agencies accused Israel of atrocities and forced displacement in the Strip.
The Strip’s Hamas-run health ministry said at least 41 people had been killed over the past 24 hours. It alleged Israel had killed 896 Paleostinians since resuming hostilities on March 18, and over 50,000 since the war was triggered by the Hamas onslaught of October 7, 2023.
The figures cannot be independently confirmed and don’t distinguish between civilians and combatants. Israel says it seeks to avoid targeting civilians and accuses Hamas of embedding itself among them.
The Paleostinian Authority’s official news agency WAFA reported several deaths on Friday in Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on homes in Gaza City, Rafah and Khan Younis, as well as a tent sheltering displaced people in the Jabalia camp and a vehicle west of Khan Younis. WAFA also reported gunfire by Israeli military vehicles in Jabalia and Beit Lahiya, artillery fire in Gaza City and demolition of buildings in Rafah by Israeli forces.
Meanwhile,
...back at the abandoned silver mine, there was another explosion... amid aid agencies’ warnings of a food shortage in Gaza, the World Central Kitchen charity said Israel had struck one of its food distribution sites in Gaza on Thursday, killing a local volunteer identified as Jalal and wounding six others. The IDF said it was probing the incident and in touch with WCK.
In a statement Friday, WCK said it would continue to "operate our field kitchens where possible, based on daily assessments." The statement didn’t give the precise location of the strike.
Since the resumption of hostilities in Gaza, the IDF has issued what the UN described as 10 mandatory evacuation orders, covering large areas across Gaza. Most recently, the IDF on Wednesday called on residents to evacuate the Gaza City area from which rockets were launched at southern Israel that evening.
Israel’s mission to the UN in Geneva did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
"Israel is not taking any measures to provide accommodation for the evacuated population, nor ensure that these evacuations are conducted in satisfactory conditions of hygiene, health, safety and nutrition," said al-Kheetan.
Over half of northern Gaza appears to be under such orders, he said, while those who have been newly displaced from the south of the enclave in the Rafah area and forced to go to coastal Al Mawasi were not guaranteed safety there.
"We are deeply concerned about the shrinking space for civilians in Gaza who are being forcibly displaced by the Israeli army from large swaths of territory," the statement added.
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To ask the question is to answer it, Beans. :-( And don’t forget that one living and two dead Thai farmworkers, about whom the UN most certainly can’t be bothered.
[AnNahar] An Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... on Friday targeted the Beirut southern suburb of al-Jamous, destroying two buildings, following an Israeli evacuation warning, the first such raid since a November ceasefire largely halted hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah.
TV footage showed heavy black smoke billowing from the area, which is densely populated and home to residential buildings and schools.
The Israeli warning for evacuating a building sparked panic in the area, with parents rushing to pick up their children from schools that quickly shut.
Heavy traffic clogged roads around the southern suburbs as many residents of the area, which Israel heavily bombed during two months of war with Hezbollah from September last year, tried to flee.
Education Minister Rima Karami had ordered all schools and universities in Hadath to close for the day. In some parts of the southern suburbs, shooting could be heard warning people to leave their homes and many residents were seen fleeing the area in cars and on foot.
Israel’s military had warned people in a post on X in Arabic to evacuate buildings in the area.
"You are located near facilities affiliated with Hezbollah," it said alongside a map with a building marked in red.
After the strike, Israel’s army said it attacked a Hezbollah drone storage facility, accusing Hezbollah of using civilians as human shields and saying it issued advanced warning for people to leave.
It added that the rockets fired at Israel from Leb ...home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade.... earlier in the morning were a "blatant violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon." It also pledged to continue operations "in order to remove any threat to the civilians of the State of Israel."
Chaos engulfed the southern suburbs of Beirut as Lebanese tried to flee the area, and a large smoke cloud rose over the city following the strike.
The area struck is a residential and commercial area and is in close proximity to at least two schools, which sustained material damage.
Hezbollah denied firing the rockets at northern Israel, and accused Israel of seeking a pretext to continue attacking Lebanon.
Israel's army said it earlier struck "Hezbollah targets" in southern Lebanon after the rocket fire. Israel's Defense Minister said Friday that if there was no peace in Israel's northern communities there would be no peace in Beirut either.
Israeli strikes in other parts of Lebanon on Friday killed three people and maimed 18, including children and women, in the southern village of Kfar Tibnit, said Lebanon's health ministry.
Speaking from Gay Paree, President Joseph Aoun said the strike on a Beirut suburb was a continuation "of Israel’s violations of the agreement" that was sponsored by La Belle France and the U.S.
Two rockets were fired at northern Israel from Lebanon on Friday morning, leading the military to carry out strikes first in southern Lebanon and later in the capital, Beirut, a first since the November ceasefire went into effect.
According to the military, one of the rockets was intercepted and the other fell short inside Lebanese territory, as rocket sirens sounded in the city of Kiryat Shmona and the nearby communities of Tel Hai, Margaliot, and Misgav Am.
It was the second attack within the past week, after three rockets were fired at Metula on March 22, the first such incident since the November 27 ceasefire ended over a year of fighting with the Hezbollah terror group.
Following the attack, the IDF said Friday morning it was carrying out a wave of strikes on Hezbollah targets in the south of the country, and later that afternoon brought down a building it claimed was used by the terror group’s drone unit in southern Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold known as Dahiyeh.
According to the IDF, the building struck in Beriut was used by Hezbollah as a drone storage facility. It belonged to Hezbollah’s aerial forces, known as Unit 127, the military said. The unit is responsible for explosive-laden drone attacks on Israel and flying surveillance drones to collect intelligence.
“Hezbollah has placed its terror infrastructure in the heart of the civilian population. This is another example of the Hezbollah terror organization’s cynical use of Lebanese citizens as human shields,” an IDF statement said.
The IDF issued an evacuation warning for the building and the surrounding area before the strike and also reportedly carried out several warning shots in the area before dropping larger munitions that brought down the building.
It marked the first time that the IDF issued warnings ahead of strikes in Beirut since November 27, when it last struck Hezbollah sites in the Lebanese capital, hours before a ceasefire took effect.
According to Hezbollah’s Al-Manar news outlet, targeted areas in southern Lebanon included the outskirts of Qaaqaait al-Jisr and the town of Khiam in the Nabatieh area.
Earlier this week, a Lebanese official said Lebanese leaders have been in intensive contact with Washington and Paris to prevent Israel from bombing Beirut after the rocket fire on March 22.
Israel has continued to carry out strikes on Hezbollah operatives and members of affiliated terror groups since a ceasefire in November, following two months of open war aimed at ending rocket attacks from the Iran-backed group that plagued the north for nearly a year.
U.S. envoy to Lebanon, Ortagus, tells Al Arabiya:
"This morning the ceasefire agreement was violated by Lebanon... we don't care if it's Hezbollah or Hamas... what's interesting is that the missiles were launched from Lebanon, which is a violation of the agreement. Israel has the right to respond to this violation."
The Lebanese army says it found a rocket launcher used in this morning’s attack on Kiryat Shmona, during which two projectiles were fired.
In a statement, the Lebanese Armed Forces says its troops found the rocket launcher in the Qaaqaait al-Jisr area, near Nabatieh, and has begun an investigation into which group was behind the fire
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...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
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..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
...home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade....
