[ShabelleMedia] Reports from the eastern Galgaduud region in central Somalia indicate heightened military activity over the past several hours, as combined forces of local militias and the Somali National Army (SNA) have launched coordinated operations aimed at dislodging Al-Shabaab militants entrenched in several key areas.
The government-backed troops have received significant logistical support, including arms and equipment, to strengthen their capacity to reclaim territory under extremist control. These reinforcements are part of a broader push to regain control of eastern Galgaduud, where Al-Shabaab maintains a presence.
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Would it be wrong to call Egypt a racist apartheid anarchotyrannical third world sh**hole?
If so, why?
What would be the reaction if demonstrations were held in the US, where flag burning is protected speech, calling for death to Egypt and sanctions against Egypt, and for a Crusade against Egypt. where Egyptian flags would be stomped on and burned?
[IsraelTimes] The number of al-Qaeda members killed in strikes on southern Yemen blamed on the United States has increased to nine, a Yemeni security source tells AFP.
The official in Abyan province, which borders the seat of Yemen’s internationally recognized government in Aden, says the strikes killed nine members of the group, including a local leader.
The security official, who earlier said the attack had taken place on Friday evening in north Khabar Al-Maraqsha, adds that the strikes hit several locations in the mountainous area known to be used by Al-Qaeda.
“I saw five charred bodies at one of the targeted sites, as well as a burned-out car,” a local tribesman tells AFP, adding others killed in the strikes were at another location.
Earlier, a second security official, who confirmed an initial toll of five al-Qaeda members killed in the attack, also said that while the names of those killed were unknown, it was believed one of the group’s local leaders was among the dead.
[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] Two people were killed in a suspected US Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... that targeted a car in the Shamatit area of Ayn District, northwest of Shabwah province, which is under the control of UAE-backed factions in eastern Yemen.
A local source explained that the strike, carried out by a drone on Friday, hit a car carrying two individuals believed to be members of al-Qaeda, completely charring their bodies.
The source added that the identities of the two dead have not been identified, and the circumstances of the incident remain unclear, with no official comment from the local authorities loyal to the Saudi-led coalition.
The incident coincides with an escalation in US air operations in Shabwah, where several vehicles have been repeatedly targeted by airstrikes, including strikes inside the provincial city of Ataq, over the past few months.
[IsraelTimes] Peru has opened up a war crimes investigation into an Israeli citizen who served in the war against Hamas in Gaza, the Belgium-based Hind Rajab Foundation
…a project launched last October by the March 30 Movement, itself named in memory of the Palestinian general strike on that date in 1976 in the West Bank against the Israeli government, since referred to as Land Day. Both groups are lawfare boiler rooms generating endless lawsuits against Israelis and those who support Israel in Western Europe and elsewhere, and between times propagandizing against Israel using the currently fashionable far left shibboleths. March 30 is the hobby of lawyer Haroon Raza, appearing at the end of 2023, but at bottom it’s a Hezbollah front founded by Dyab Abou Jahjah (Dyab Abu Jahjah) …
says in a statement.
The foundation says the combat engineering soldier “is alleged to have played a direct role in the methodical and systematic destruction of civilian neighbourhoods in the Gaza Strip during the 2023–2024 military offensive.”
“Justice is not optional. Justice is imperative,” said foundation chairman Dyab Abou Jahjah. “This investigation marks a decisive step in the dismantling of Israeli impunity,” he added.
Launched in September 2024, the Hind Rajab Foundation has used social media posts by Israeli soldiers, officers and reservists in an attempt to have them arrested for alleged war crimes when they travel abroad.
War erupted in the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, when Hamas led over 5,000 attackers to invade southern Israel, killing 1,200 people — mostly civilians — and taking 251 as hostages to Gaza.
Israel responded with a military campaign to destroy the terror group, remove it from power in Gaza and save the hostages.
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.
#1
Time for a round of sanctions - or tariffs!
Cancel all visas of Peruvian government officials and all appointments at the US embassy. Let them know we mean business.
Antisemitism must be meet with all means at our disposal.
But with Traitor Trump in charge, who's going to take action? He keeps waffling on Iran. Take out Iran, and Hamas, Hezbollah, Russia and Syria all get fucked over and the US remakes the Middle East however it likes. We still have two aircraft carriers there, right? Or not, now. Good job there. Now it will be half a year before we can get force levels up again without compromising our encirclement of China and betraying ANOTHER ally, Taiwan.
Not specific to fostering Jew-hate, but related and eminently satisfying.
[CampusReform] Harvard University President Alan Garber asserted that the Trump administration is sidestepping private institutions’ constitutional freedoms. This comes after Education Secretary Linda McMahon said that the university will no longer receive federal grants.
Prof who called Jewish Temples “Synagogues of Satan” Has Been Fired.
[ToniAiraksinen] A professor at the prestigious Berklee College of Music — often compared to The Juilliard School in Manhattan — has been fired after years of antisemitic comments have surfaced, with the African American professor now surprisingly claiming that he himself is the victim of antisemitism.
Berklee College of Music has fired their Brass Department Chair, Nicholas Payton, only months after promoting him to the position. While the school says it cannot comment on “personnel matters” to explain any details, it did confirm that Payton had been terminated. Payton, 51, considers himself a “social activist” in music. His unique commentaries on Black music, such as arguing that “jazz” is a slur and referring to it as #BlackAfricanMusic (BAM) has earned the outspoken musician spots on a number of podcasts and nearly 50,000 followers on Instagram.
US terminates additional $60 million in Harvard grants over alleged antisemitism
[IsraelTimes] The US Department of Health and Human Services says that it was terminating $60 million in federal grants to Harvard University saying the Ivy League institution failed to address antisemitic harassment and ethnic discrimination on campus. US President Donald Trump’s administration has frozen or ended federal grants and contracts for the university worth nearly $3 billion in recent weeks. The administration has accused Harvard of continuing to consider ethnicity when reviewing student applications and of allowing discrimination against Jews as a result of the anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian student protest movement that roiled American campuses last year.
Bloomberg Reporter Arrested With Pro-Hamas Group That Took Over Columbia Library
[Townhall] A reporter from Bloomberg News was arrested when pro-Hamas rioters took over Columbia University’s Butler Library earlier in the month. The reporter, Jason Kao, had graduated from Columbia in 2022. He was charged with criminal trespass and was given a desk appearance ticket.
Eighty-one activists were arrested in total.
“During the unrest, rioters injured two, passed out pamphlets endorsing Hamas’s violence, vandalized and damaged the library, and renamed the building after Basel al-Araj, a Palestinian terrorist killed in a 2017 shootout with the Israel Defense Forces,” according to the Washington Free Beacon:
“Kao’s personal website is exclusively devoted to negative coverage of Israel’s war in Gaza,” the outlet continued.
“Kao was employed by Bloomberg News as of May 1, based on a social media post from a colleague,” but Bloomberg told the Free Beacon that they no longer employ Kao.
Because the man is a propagandist, not a reporter — and certainly not a journalist.
George Washington U bans student for commencement speech calling to divest from Israel
[IsraelTimes] Speaker at George Washington graduation urges alumni not to donate, decries Gaza ‘genocide’; DC school apologizes for ‘inappropriate’ speech that strayed from approved text. Cecilia Culver made the comments while addressing the school’s liberal arts college on Saturday.
Culver had to take frequent breaks for sustained applause she received during her speech, delivered at GWU’s largest graduation ceremony. According to GWU’s own communications, during Culver’s time at the school the economics and statistics dual major was a recipient of a prestigious award and received an award from the Federal Reserve as part of an internship she completed.
“Cecilia is in every way a distinguished scholar,” the school noted.
GWU’s student newspaper noted that Daiya’s profiles have since been scrubbed from the university’s websites and directory. Her LinkedIn page is also disabled.
The finding was announced late Thursday by the US Health and Human Services Department. It comes hours after the Department of Homeland Security said it would revoke Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students, a major escalation in the administration’s monthslong feud with higher education.
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act blocks federal funding recipients from discrimination based on race, color or national origin. That final category, the press release notes, includes “discrimination against individuals that is based on their actual or perceived Israeli or Jewish identity or ancestry.”
The announcement did not include new sanctions against Columbia, which is already facing $400 million in federal cuts by the Trump administration over its response to pro-Palestinian campus protests. A spokesperson for Columbia said the university is currently in negotiations with the government about resolving its claims of antisemitism.
Students Sabrina Soffer, Ari Shapiro, and a group of anonymous plaintiffs accused GW of failing to address a surge in hostility towards Jewish students, particularly following the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, according to a copy of the complaint obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, claims the university violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act by allowing a “hostile educational environment” to flourish unchecked.
The 176-page complaint details a litany of incidents that paint GW as a campus where Jewish students face relentless intimidation. According to the filing, anti-Semitic acts include physical assaults, vandalism, and verbal harassment, with university administrators allegedly turning a blind eye. The lawsuit cites specific examples, such as anti-Israel protests that escalated into violence and Jewish students’ property being defaced with anti-Semitic slurs.
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I notice that a disproportional number of the Hamasnicks are female which shouldn't be unusual given that they constitute the majority of college students these days. Given that the young men who've been demonized in public schools and have seen too many male acquaintances and relatives divorced, falsely accuse, exploited by females, they've gone their own way. Now the entitled dames have no one talking to them and are seeking new people and venues to destroy.
Sultan Erdogan Recep Tayip I “the much beloved” is feeling feisty again.
[AnNahar] Prosecutors in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... issued arrest warrants for 63 active-duty military personnel Friday over links to a group accused of attempting a coup in 2016.
Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office said the suspects included four colonels and came from the army, navy, air force and gendarmerie. Early morning raids across the country resulted in 56 suspects being detained.
They are allegedly tied to an outlawed group that Turkey refers to as the Fethullahist Terror Organization, or FETO. Its leader, Fethullah Gülen >... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world. Gülen and Erdogan used to be really good friends, but only one of them could be sultan, and Gülen lost. He pegged out in 2024...> , died in October last year in the United States, where he had lived since 1999 in self-imposed exile.
Some 290 people were killed in July 2016 when rogue military units erupted into the streets of Ankara and Istanbul in a bid to depose the government of 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... . Jet fighters bombed the parliament building and presidential palace while Erdogan narrowly escaped liquidation or capture while vacationing on the west coast.
A subsequent purge of the military, police, judiciary and other state agencies saw tens of thousands arrested. Schools, businesses and media organizations tied to Gulen were closed down.
The prosecutor's statement said those targeted Friday were identified through telephone communications and said FETO still posed the "greatest threat to the constitutional order and survival of the state." Since the failed coup, 25,801 military suspects have been detained, it added.
The statement did not specify the exact charges against the suspects.
Gulen, a former holy man, amassed a worldwide following over decades and aided Erdogan's rise to power in 2003. The alliance broke down after the government closed some Gulen-run educational establishments and Gulenists ...the Turkish version of the Boogie Man, who set fire to the Turkish Reichsstag... in the police and judiciary pursued corruption allegations against Erdogan's government.
Gulen always denied any involvement in the failed coup. He was wanted in Turkey, which repeatedly demanded his extradition from the U.S.
The coup attempt contributed to the acceleration of authoritarian tendencies in Turkey, with Erdogan's government implementing measures that consolidated his powers.
Police in Fairfax, Va. have released the footage showing an armed Afghan migrant trying to kill police on April 23.
Jamal Wali, who was given refuge in the U.S. and has four children, made racist anti-white statements against the police, showed his firearm, and said he wished he… pic.twitter.com/bWU35FBP7L
The Fairfax County Police Department released body camera footage and press conference from the attempted murder of officers in Fair Oaks on April 23.
At 2:36 p.m., an officer was conducting traffic enforcement in the 4000 block of Majestic Lane near Greenbriar. The officer stopped a 1999 Toyota Corolla driven by Jamal Wali, 36, of Fairfax, for an expired safety inspection.
Wali was argumentative and refused to obey commands. Backup was called and once on scene, Wali reached for a firearm and shot two officers. A third officer discharged his weapon, striking Wali four times.
Responding officers quickly began performing life saving measures on the two officers and suspect. The two officers were transported in non-life-threatening condition to local hospitals. Wali was pronounced deceased at the hospital.
The officer involved in the shooting, Officer Ian Lachapelle has been identified is a 2-year veteran assigned to the Fair Oaks Patrol District.
In Chief Davis’ press conference (7:44), the Chief said that Wali has been in our country lawfully since 2014. That in fact, he did work with American military forces overseas prior to 2014. Chief said that he believes that's what gave him the pathway to be lawfully present in the United States. He's with his family now, his four children and his wife chief said.
Chief also said that the references that you'll hear him make to the Taliban are historical references. The FBI has shared with them that there are no open, ongoing, current investigations, or any insight that they have into Mr. Walli whatsoever.
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"Liberated Afghanistan" was, from a Western perspective a hostile and evil entity.
Maybe there was a realpolitical rationale for collaborating with this entity but flooding Western nations with masses of settlers whose allegiance was with the "Islamic Republic of Afghanistan" is and always has been madness.
[Rudaw] Three suspected members of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) were arrested by Kurdish security forces (Asayish) in separate operations in Sulaimani province, the Asayish said on Friday.
"In three separate operations and in coordination with the Iraqi national security forces, three wanted holy warriors were arrested in the areas of Sulaimani, Chamchamal, and Sharazur," Colonel Salam Abdulkhaliq, head of the Sulaimani-based Asayish media team, told Rudaw.
All three suspects "were active members of the ISIS organization," Abdulkhaliq said.
ISIS seized control of swathes of Iraqi land in 2014. The group was declared territorially defeated in 2017 but it continues to carry out bombings, hit-and-run attacks, and abductions.
The snuffies have taken shelter in an area of land stretching across the provinces of Salahaddin, Diyala, Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... and Nineveh where there is a security vacuum because it is disputed between Baghdad and Erbil.
Kurdish and Iraqi security forces frequently cooperate and carry out joint operations against ISIS cells in the Kurdistan Region.
Thousands of people have been detained across Iraq since 2014 for suspected links to krazed killer groups, including ISIS, and hundreds have been executed.
[Yahoo] Hamas has not paid its fighters for three months due to Israeli restrictions on humanitarian aid preventing the group seizing and selling supplies, according to reports.
Members of the al-Qassam brigades, Hamas’ military wing, have not received any pay since around February, a source from within the terror group told the London-based Arabic newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat.
Families of terrorists killed or captured during fighting with Israel are also reported to have not received their usual remuneration.
Hamas’s civil workers were said to have received a reduced salary equivalent of $250 four months ago, which “sparked resentment among employees”. It is not clear if they have been paid since.
Budgets allocated towards ministries and government agencies were also reported to have been put on hold around the same time.
Israel cut off supplies of humanitarian aid to Gaza in March, some of which Hamas had reportedly been seizing and selling to raise money. Around 100 aid lorries were allowed to reenter the strip on Friday, but this was much reduced from the around 600 a day that were crossing the border before March.
Moumen Al-Natour, a Palestinian lawyer from the Al-Shati camp in central Gaza, told the Wall Street Journal last month that the cash-strapped terror group had “a big crisis” on its hands.
[IsraelTimes] Police say smuggling is a security threat since drones could fall into Hamas’s hands; Danish authorities nab man for selling drones to terror group to be used in attack
State prosecutors on Monday filed an indictment against three Arab Israelis, after they were arrested by security forces on suspicion of smuggling drugs into 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 via drone.
Police officers, Shin Bet agents and IDF soldiers arrested the three Negev residents — Muhammad Sarahin, Sharif Abu-Gardud, and Younes Abu-Gardud — in April.
They were accused of carrying out multiple drug and cigarette smuggling operations from Israel to Gaza, leaving the drones in the enclave.
Police said the smuggling posed a "direct threat to national security" given the worry that the drones, which can carry loads of dozens of kilograms, could fall into the hands of Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... Officers requested to extend their detention until the end of legal proceedings.
The three defendants "were involved in exporting dangerous drugs by drone to the Gaza Strip during wartime, while fully aware that the entity controlling Gaza is the Hamas terror group, which would be able to use the drones that the defendants brought to Gaza for terrorist activities," state prosecutor Assaf Bar Yosef said.
The Wall Street Journal reported last year that cigarettes were regularly smuggled into war-torn Gaza via humanitarian aid trucks, having been placed there by UN and Israeli accomplices. Once past inspection and inside Gaza, the aid trucks were targeted by both smugglers retrieving their goods and other criminals hoping to get to them first, drawn by the contraband’s sky-high prices.
Following the outbreak of the war with Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack— when some 5,000 murderous Moslems invaded southern Israel, killing about 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages— Israel limited imports into Gaza to essential goods, a category that does not include cigarettes.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the resumption of "basic" aid to the Strip on Monday, after a two-month ban following the collapse of a ceasefire-hostage release deal.
Meanwhile,
...back at the Council of Boskone, Helmuth ordered the space pirate fleet to attack Zemblonia... a 28-year-old man was remanded in jug in Denmark on Monday on suspicion of purchasing drones to be used in a Hamas "terrorist attack," Danish intelligence said.
Flemming Drejer, head of operations at Denmark’s PET intelligence service, said in a statement that the service believed that "this individual purchased drones intended for use by Hamas in a terrorist attack at an unknown location in Denmark or abroad."
Appearing before a court on Monday, the man was remanded in jug until June 11.
PET said the case has links to both Hamas and criminal gangs in Denmark, and is related to a number of arrests made in December 2023 as part of an operation to prevent a suspected planned "terrorist attack."
Six people were ordered detained at the time, four in absentia, among them the 28-year-old man, who Danish media reports said was a prominent figure in organized crime in Copenhagen. According to public broadcaster DR, the suspect had been extradited from 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?... over a separate double murder case.
Terror groups have intensified efforts since October 2023 to carry out attacks on Jewish and Israeli sites in Europe.
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[Regnum] At least 76 people have been killed in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours. This was reported on May 24 by the Qatari television channel Al Jazeera. This all will stop the minute Hamas lays down its arms, returns the hostages — living and dead — and decamps from Gaza. But Hamas likes the world reaction to dead Gaans, so they ensure there is a steady supply.
In addition, more than 200 people were injured.
"The death toll continues to rise as attacks continue," the report said.
According to the channel, the Israeli army (IDF) struck a house in Khan Yunis, killing seven children, among others. A residential building in Jabaliya was also hit. The search for survivors under the rubble is still ongoing.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, on May 18, the ground forces of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) began conducting a large-scale ground operation, “Gideon’s Chariots,” in the northern and southern areas of the Gaza Strip.
The Gaza Health Ministry reported 96 dead and more than 140 injured after the Israeli attack in the morning that same day. The ministry noted that civilian targets were hit. The ministry also added that after the resumption of shelling by Israeli troops in Gaza, a total of more than 3,000 people were killed and about 9,000 were injured.
In turn, the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reported that Israel would allow the import of a “basic amount” of food products into the Gaza Strip to prevent the threat of famine in the enclave. In addition, Netanyahu’s office added that Israel intends to work to deprive Hamas of the ability to take control of the distribution of humanitarian aid so that it does not end up in the hands of terrorists.
The IDF also struck the Palestinian semi-exclave in early May. According to Al Jazeera, at least 66 people were killed in an Israeli air force attack on May 7, and 63 Palestinians the day before.
[IsraelTimes] Army acknowledges attack on suspects in Khan Younis, says it came after warning for civilians to leave ‘combat zone’; all standing infantry and armored brigades now deployed to Strip
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... ’s Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... -run civil defense agency said Saturday that an Israeli strike in the southern city of Khan Younis had killed nine children of a pair of married doctors, with the Israeli army saying it was looking into the reports.
According to Paleostinian media, the strike hit a home in Khan Younis, killing nine children of the same family, all under the age of 12. The father of the family and one of the children, aged 10, were seriously maimed. The mother, Alaa Najjar, a pediatrician at Nasser Hospital, was on duty at the time of the strike.
In response to the reports, the Israel Defense Forces confirmed it carried out a strike in Khan Younis, saying it targeted several suspects identified at a building near where ground troops were operating.
"The Khan Younis area is a dangerous combat zone that the IDF ordered civilians to evacuate for their safety before the start of the operation," the military said, referring to a warning on Monday.
"The claims about harm to uninvolved [civilians] are being looked into," it added.
Israel has stepped up its campaign in Gaza in recent days, drawing international criticism as well as calls to allow in more supplies after it partially eased a total blockade on aid imposed on March 2.
Hamas’s civil defense front man Mahmud Bassal said the agency had retrieved "the bodies of nine child deaders, some of them charred, from the home of Dr Hamdi al-Najjar and his wife, Dr Alaa al-Najjar, all of whom were their children."
He added that Hamdi al-Najjar and another son, Adam, were also seriously maimed in the strike, and that the family was taken to Nasser Hospital. A medical source at the hospital gave Adam’s age as 10 years old.
Bassal told AFP that Israeli strikes since the early hours had killed at least 15 people across Gaza as of Saturday afternoon. He said the dead included a couple killed with their two young children in a pre-dawn strike on a house in the Amal quarter of Khan Younis.
To the west of the city, at least five people were killed by a dronezap on a crowd of people that had gathered to wait for aid trucks, he alleged.
In a statement, the military said that over the past day the air force had struck more than 100 targets across the territory, targeting terror operatives and sites. The military says it takes steps to minimize harm to civilians, while adding that terror groups operate from within Gaza’s civilian population.
The IDF said Saturday that all standing army infantry and armored brigades were now deployed to the Strip, as Israel prepared to further intensify its offensive against Hamas.
In addition to the Golani, Paratroopers, Givati, Commando, Kfir, Nahal, 7th, 188th, and 401st brigades, a small number of reserve units are also in the enclave, it said.
The IDF had previously announced that five divisions were operating in Gaza, amounting to tens of thousands of troops.
Despite the easing of the blockade, distribution has also been hampered by looting by groups of men, some of them armed, near the city of Khan Younis, an umbrella network representing Paleostinian aid groups said.
"They stole food meant for children and families suffering from severe hunger," the network said in a statement.
Israel imposed the blockade in early March as hostage-ceasefire talks broke down, accusing Hamas of stealing aid meant for civilians.
The UN World Food Program said 15 trucks carrying flour to WFP-supported bakeries had been looted since Monday, which it said reflected the dire conditions facing Gazooks.
Israel has announced that a new system, sponsored by the United States and run by private contractors, will soon begin operations from four distribution centers in the south of Gaza, but many details of how the system will work remain unclear.
The UN has already said it will not work with the new system, which it says will leave aid distribution conditional on Israel’s political and military aims.
Israel says its forces will only provide security for the centers and will not distribute aid themselves.
Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN agency for Paleostinian refugees, UNRWA, criticized Israel on Friday, saying that the UN had brought in 500 to 600 trucks per day on average during a six-week ceasefire that broke down in March, about five times higher than current rates.
"No one should be surprised, let alone shocked at scenes of precious aid looted, stolen or ’lost’," he wrote on X, adding that "the people of Gaza have been starved" for more than 11 weeks.
Footage published in Arabic media on Friday showed hundreds of Paleostinians crowding around a bakery in central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp as bread was being distributed for the first time in weeks.
As the aid has begun to trickle in, the IDF has continued the intensified ground and air operation launched last week, which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said would end with Israel taking full control of the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli military said 83 trucks carrying flour, food, pharmaceutical drugs, and medical equipment entered the Gaza Strip from the Kerem Shalom crossing point on Friday, for a total of 388 since Monday, when the blockade was eased.
However, an umbrella network of Palestinian aid groups provided a separate figure, saying only 119 aid trucks have passed the Kerem Shalom crossing point and into Gaza. The discrepancy was likely because many of the trucks were not picked up by the aid groups from the Palestinian side of the crossing for distribution.
The UN World Food Program said 15 trucks carrying flour to WFP-supported bakeries had been looted since Monday.
With most of Gaza’s 2 million population squeezed into an ever-narrowing zone on the coast and in the area around the southern city of Khan Younis by Israel’s military operation, international pressure to get aid in quickly has ratcheted up.
The military said Friday that it had struck over 75 targets in Gaza over the previous 24 hours, including terror operatives, rocket launchers, buildings used by terror groups, weapon depots, and other infrastructure.
On Friday, Hamas-run Palestinian medical services said at least 25 people had been killed in the strikes. Another Hamas official told AFP that at least 71 people were killed. Neither of the figures could be independently confirmed.
In Gaza’s north, Al-Awda hospital reported Friday that three of its staff were injured “after Israeli quadcopter drones dropped bombs” on the facility. The Hamas-run civil defense agency later said it had successfully contained a fire at the hospital.
Meanwhile, the military said Friday that ground troops had killed several operatives across Gaza and destroyed other Hamas sites.
The targets included a launcher used to fire a rocket at southern Israel yesterday afternoon. Other targets included terror operatives, buildings used by terror groups, tunnels, and other infrastructure, the IDF says.
[IsraelTimes] Lebanon’s army says it has taken into custody a suspect in last year’s killing of a Christian political official, with help from Syria’s new authorities, in a case that sparked public outrage.
Pascal Sleiman, a coordinator in the Byblos (Jbeil) area north of Beirut for the Lebanese Forces (LF) Christian party, was abducted and killed in April 2024. The army had said he was killed in a carjacking by Syrian gang members who then took his body across the border.
The army received “one of the main individuals involved in the crime of kidnapping and killing” Sleiman after coordinating with Syrian authorities, a military statement says.
The suspect “heads a gang involved in kidnapping, robbery and forgery and has a large number of arrest warrants against him,” the statement says, adding that investigations are underway.
Sleiman’s LF party opposed Syria’s longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad, who was ousted in December, as well as its Lebanese ally Hezbollah.
Beirut and Damascus have been seeking to improve ties since the overthrow of Assad, whose family dynasty for decades exercised control over Lebanese affairs.
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.
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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...
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
