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Good Morning



C Herridge -- New Reporting: @comey
Monday 09/29/2025

Paulette Goddard.
Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israeli oppo. leader tells US he'll back Gaza truce-for-hostages deal, Israeli gov't ministers reject it, Trump hails 'very good response'
Israel-Palestine-Jordan
77 killed in past 24 hours: Health ministry
Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Israel army says strikes Hezbollah
weapons depots in south Lebanon
Afghanistan
Daesh commander behind 2022 Peshawar
bombing ''killed in Afghanistan''
Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran denounces ''unjustifiable'' return of UN sanctions
India-Pakistan
Blast from explosives left by TTP terrorists
martyrs three children in Bajaur: sources
Fury after woke NHS supports first-cousin marriages despite risk of birth defects - and oppression against women

Posted by: Fred || 09/29/2025 01:58 || Comments || Link || [1797 views] Top|| File under:

#1  UK Cop Proves Free Speech and Patriotism in UK is over! If ever a cop needed public shaming before firing, this is the guy!
https://x.com/billymooreAPBD/status/1972183955341451736
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 09/29/2025 14:00 Comments || Top||

#2  ^He was only following orders.
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 09/29/2025 14:14 Comments || Top||

#3  Pentagon Pizza Index-worrying sign Sunday night,

https://x.com/zerohedge/status/1972501045185274318
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 09/29/2025 14:54 Comments || Top||


-Lurid Crime Tales-
Manhattan: SUV rammed off-duty fed’s car, gangster driver had guns, armor piercing bullets, drugs
[HotAir] In the heart of Midtown Manhattan last night, a white Dodge Durango rammed an off-duty federal agent's car, and what they found in the vehicle was chilling.

...What unfolded in Midtown wasn’t just a crash — it was a full-blown nightmare. According to police sources and witness accounts, the suspect behind the wheel of a Dodge Durango rammed an off-duty federal agent’s car before being taken down.

Here’s what was recovered:

🚨A handgun

🚨An AR-15 style rifle

🚨A scope

🚨Armor-piercing ammo marked Level 3+

🚨And a license plate cover I personally saw that read: “FTP — Fxck the Police”

Cops worked the scene from 10 p.m. until nearly 4 a.m., pulling bag after bag after bag from the SUV.

And while I was filming, people tried to stop me, tried to hide me, tried to keep the truth from coming out. But I stayed.

This wasn’t just a car crash. This was a heavily armed suspect in the heart of Manhattan, and it looked like NYPD may have stopped something much bigger from happening.

More from the same thread:
Viral News NYC
@ViralNewsNYC
·
4h
Suspect is described as a light skin Hispanic males with multiple gang tats and a tear drop under his eye. Looks like he's a seasons gang or cartel member.

We are extremely lucky he wasn't able to get to his guns. This could have turned out really bad.

I spoke with an eyewitnesses to this. He told me the suspect rammed the
@CBPNewYorkCity
officers car then rammed his car then somehow the suspects car flipped on its side. The suspect then kicked out the windshield and took off. Luckily NYPD officers were able to catch him

Viral News NYC
@ViralNewsNYC
·
3h
Fyi the guy also had a ton of drugs on him. Everything from cocaine to heroin to pills I believe you also had fake law enforcement stuff. This guy had so much shit i couldn't keep count of everything

Viral News NYC
@ViralNewsNYC
·
3h
This suspect is in the hands of the federal government. I believe the
@DEAHQ
picked took him from the PCT.
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 09/29/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1759 views] Top|| File under: Narcos



Afghanistan
Daesh commander behind 2022 Peshawar bombing ''killed in Afghanistan''
[GEO.TV] A top commander of the banned outfit ISIS-K, Muhammad Ihsani alias Anwaar, has been killed in Afghanistan's Mazar Sharif city, the security sources said on Sunday.

Muhammad Ihsani was responsible for escorting and training Tajik jacket wallahs and bringing them into Pakistain, they added.

He was also the main controller in the Kocha Risaldar bombing in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire...
, in which 67 people were martyred in 2022, sources said.

Pakistain has witnessed a surge in cross-border terror incidents since Taliban
...Arabic for students...
rulers returned to Afghanistan in 2021, particularly in the bordering provinces of KP and 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...
.

In August, the incidents surged by 74% compared to July, according to a report by the Pakistain Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS). The Islamabad-based think tank recorded 194 fatalities from bad boy attacks during the month.
Posted by: Fred || 09/29/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1796 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Saad Al Muhajir, a Bangladeshi citizen eliminated in Darshakhel alongside a TTP tashkeel was an Al-Qaeda affiliate


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🔺The development once again highlights the alarming presence of hundreds of foreign fighters currently stationed in Al-Qaeda-run training camps across Afghanistan.

🔺These camps continue to serve as incubators of Terrorism.

🔺The threat emanating from these sanctuaries is not confined to Pakistan or neighboring countries alone.

🔺The pattern of radicalization and the movement of these fighters suggest a much larger and more dangerous trajectory: the metastasis of terrorism on a global scale.

🔺The presence of such elements in Afghanistan is not merely a regional security issue, but a challenge to international peace and stability.

🔺Coordinated global action is required to dismantle these networks before they further expand their reach.

Posted by: badanov || 09/29/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1791 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda

#1  Such friendly little smile for a lad named Saad.
Posted by: Regular joe || 09/29/2025 14:35 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
FANO Forces stormed multiple Ethiopian Army (ENDF) positions in North Wollo, Amhara region


FANO is the Amhara militia. They’re fighting against not only the Ethiopian National Defense Force but also against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front and the Oromo Liberation Army, and even the Sudanese Armed Forces from time to time. One would think they’d have better things to do, but as usual one would be wrong.
Posted by: badanov || 09/29/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1779 views] Top|| File under:


Puntland, U.S. Forces Pound IS-Somalia in Back-to-Back Assaults


Transcript:
For the second straight day, Puntland defense forces launched coordinated attacks on IS-Somalia strongholds in the mountainous Well Barakallah area along the Balade Stream.

During the offensive, troops killed three foreign IS fighters from Tanzania, Sudan, and Kenya and dismantled fortified defensive positions painstakingly built by the militants.

A day later, U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) unleashed heavy airstrikes on additional IS-Somalia hideouts in northern Ceelka Barakallah. The strikes reportedly killed up to six foreign fighters sheltering in the targeted positions.

The back-to-back operations underscore a tightening joint campaign to dismantle IS-Somalia’s foothold in the rugged Cal Miskaad mountains of Puntland.



Posted by: badanov || 09/29/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1765 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State


Africa North
Al-Qaeda in Sahel (JNIM) reportedly raided Malian Army (FAMa) bases in Ségou.


Better than printed money: More from X
Posted by: badanov || 09/29/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1783 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda


Arabia
Houthis claim overnight missile attack, say cluster bomb warhead targeted Tel Aviv area
[IsraelTimes] The Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
s in Yemen
...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...
take responsibility for an overnight ballistic missile attack on Israel, claiming to have targeted "several sensitive targets" in the Tel Aviv area using a projectile with a cluster bomb warhead.

According to the military, the missile was successfully intercepted. There were no reports of injuries or damage.

The Iran-backed Houthis have fired several missiles with cluster bomb warheads at Israel in recent weeks.

The terror group also claims to have launched two drones at Israel, targeting "two vital targets" in the Eilat area. There were no reports of Houthi drones reaching Israel in the past day, indicating that they likely fell short before reaching the country.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/29/2025 2025-09-29 03:13 || Comments || Link || [1758 views] Top|| File under: Houthis

#1  At 1 am.
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 09/29/2025 5:08 Comments || Top||

#2  indicating that they likely fell short

Don't they make a pill now for longer endurance?
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/29/2025 10:59 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Blast from explosives left by TTP terrorists martyrs three children in Bajaur: sources
[GEO.TV] At least three children were martyred, and five others were maimed due to a blast from explosives left by the Tehrik-e-Taliban
...Arabic for students...
Pakistain (TTP) gunnies — Fitna al Khwarij — in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa's Bajaur, the security sources said on Sunday.

The tragic incident, sources added, occurred on September 27 when the children were playing with the explosives left by the outlawed group in the Laghrai area.

The maimed children are being treated at CMH Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire...
under the supervision of Pakistain Army doctors.

The police and relevant agencies, as per the security sources, have surrounded the area and have collected evidence.
Posted by: Fred || 09/29/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1798 views] Top|| File under: Pak Taliban (TTP)


South Waziristan : Major Explosion at Khawarij Hideouts


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Late at night, powerful explosions ripped through Khawarij hideouts in the rugged Shawal mountains of South Waziristan after their own explosive material detonated inside.

The terrorists had illegally occupied two locations:
1️⃣ A primary school in Dara Haibat Khel
2️⃣ An abandoned house belonging to Syed Rehman Abdul Khel in Tangi Badinzai

Both sites were being used as operational bases by the Khawarij. The accidental blasts caused 6 Khawarij to be sent to hell and injured 14 others.

Liquidated térrorists: Inayatullah, Zakir, Noor Hameem, Saeed (Afghani), Khair alias Umar, Shakir alias Molvi (Afghani)

Injured térrorists: Ziauddin, Kasani (Afghani), Suhail alias Malangi Mama, Sagheer (Afghani), Shahi (Afghani), Molvi Qari (Afghani), Siddique (Afghani), Yousaf Kaka, Saghar (Afghani), Watan Yar, Khairu, Zabiullah (Afghani), Zakaullah, Sabir alias Mukhlis

The hideouts contained large quantities of IEDs, grenades, rocket launchers and other explosives, resulting in the complete destruction of both the school building and the house.

Once again, their own explosives turned against them.
In 2024 the government of Pakistan declared the Tehrik-e-Pakistan (TTP) "Fitna al-Khawarij,” functionally rebellious heretics, and then banned them. This had exactly the non-effect one would expect.
Posted by: badanov || 09/29/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1775 views] Top|| File under: Pak Taliban (TTP)


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF says it foiled attempt to smuggle weapons into Israel from Egypt via drone
[IsraelTimes] )The IDF says it foiled another attempt to smuggle weapons into Israel from Egypt via drone today.

Troops located the drone after it crossed the border and it was found to be ferrying three assault rifles, the military says.

In the past year, 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.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/29/2025 2025-09-29 03:49 || Comments || Link || [1765 views] Top|| File under:


7 Arab men jailed for 12-14 years for role in death of Jewish man in 2021 Lod riots
[IsraelTimes] Family of Yigal Yehoshua, who died after being hit in the head by a brick when a mob stoned his car, will ask state prosecutor to seek a harsher sentence, lawyer says

The Lod District Court on Sunday sentenced seven men to between 12 and 14 years in prison for their role in the death of Yigal Yehoshua in 2021 during a riot that took place during a short war in Gazoo that year.

The 56-year-old victim’s family demanded a harsher sentencing and will ask the State Prosecutor’s Office to appeal the ruling.

The seven men sentenced are five Lod residents — and Israeli citizens — Yusef al-Qadhayim, 21; Walid al-Qadhayim, 25; Karim Bahlul, 18; Iyad Marahla, 20; and Haled Hassouna, 51; along with two West Bank residents, Ahmad Danun, 25; and Kamel Deif Alla, 21, who were in Israel illegally at the time. The ages given are their ages at the time of the crime.

The seven were convicted in May this year on charges of causing injury with terrorist motivations and other crimes for their role in pelting Yehoshua’s car with rocks, bricks and other objects as the 56-year-old made his way home in Lod in May 2021. Yehoshua, who was hit in the head by a brick, was maimed and later succumbed to his wounds.

Like other mixed Jewish-Arab cities, Lod, just south of Tel Aviv, saw a series of violent mostly peaceful inter-communal disturbances that month following the May 10 outbreak of a conflict between Israel and Hamas
..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
in Gaza.

The seven men who were sentenced to prison on Sunday were originally charged with causing Yehoshua’s death, but due to "significant evidentiary problems" were convicted on the lesser charges in a plea bargain.

In handing down the sentences, the Lod court said the Arab assailants had been "triggered" by a rock-throwing incident committed by Jewish rioters in the city prior to the fatal attack on Yehoshua, and that they had not acted in a premeditated manner.

However,
a lie repeated often enough remains a lie...
the court found that the attack on Yehoshua was carried out with "nationalistic motivations and as an act of terrorism."

Alongside the prison sentences, the court awarded Yehoshua’s family NIS 900,000 ($268,000) in compensation from the attackers.

The Ynet news site reported that people in the courtroom yelled out "not enough" when the sentence was read.

Irina Yehoshua, the victim’s widow, was quoted by Ynet as saying, "On the one hand I’m happy that it’s over... but unfortunately, the sentence handed down today is not enough, and our feeling is that the court was lenient with the murderers."

Tami Kalenberg-Levi, who Ynet said is representing the family on behalf of the governmental legal aid agency, told the news site that the family would request that the State Prosecutor’s Office appeal the ruling.

"This is not the punishment they were expecting," she said.

The May 2021 riots and war came after Israel moved to evict some 70 Paleostinians from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem, to be replaced by right-wing Jewish Israelis.

Israel also placed restrictions on gatherings at Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate and al-Aqsa Mosque, leading to further tensions and threats by both Hamas and its secularist rival faction Fatah.

In response to a large missile barrage from Gaza on May 10, Israel launched an Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
campaign, Operation Guardian of the Walls, in the Strip. The operation lasted 11 days.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/29/2025 2025-09-29 02:21 || Comments || Link || [1775 views] Top|| File under:


IDF soldier killed by gunfire during car-ramming in northern West Bank
[IsraelTimes] Staff Sgt. Inbar Avraham Kav hit as his comrades shoot attacker, a resident of Nablus; military seals off city, villages in area

An Israeli soldier was killed on Sunday after being hit by gunfire during what the military said was a car-ramming attack in the northern West Bank.

A Paleostinian suspect who carried out the attack at the Jit Junction — near the Paleostinian town of the same name and Israeli settlement of Kedumim — was rubbed out by troops, the Israel Defense Forces said.

The slain soldier in the incident was named as Staff Sgt. Inbar Avraham Kav, 20, of the Paratroopers Brigade’s 890th Battalion, from the northern town of Lotem.

Medical officials reported that he had sustained a severe head injury. Magen David Adom took him to Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva for treatment, where he succumbed to his wounds.

The incident began when a truck driven by the suspect allegedly accelerated toward Israeli troops at the junction, hitting Kav, before colliding with a vehicle, according to an IDF investigation. The soldiers then opened fire on the driver, killing him.

The military said that after being hit by the truck, the slain soldier was also hit by gunfire as the other troops opened fire on the attacker.

The Hamas
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
terror group welcomed the attack, but stopped short of claiming responsibility.

The Paleostinian suspect was identified by Israeli defense officials as a resident of the West Bank city of Nablus.

The IDF blocked entrances to the city as well as villages in the area. Paleostinian media said the IDF also blocked off access to Qalqilya and all villages along a stretch of Route 55 connecting the city to Nablus.

The incident came ten days after two soldiers were killed in an attack at the Allenby Bridge border crossing with Jordan. The assailant was a Jordanian who had been driving a humanitarian aid truck headed for 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.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/29/2025 2025-09-29 02:11 || Comments || Link || [1758 views] Top|| File under:


77 killed in Gaza in past 24 hours: Health ministry; Hamas claims lost track of two hostages in Gaza City, IDF bombs clans that don’t reject Hamas rule
[GEO.TV] Israeli 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...
have resulted in the deaths of at least 77 Paleostinians, including six individuals seeking aid in the last 24 hours, Al Jazeera reported, citing the Health Ministry.

Additionally, the ministry indicated that two bodies were retrieved from the debris of earlier attacks. Since the conflict began on October 7, 2023, the ongoing war has claimed the lives of a total of 66,005 Paleostinians and left 168,162 others injured, according to the ministry's statements.

Tanks thrust deeper into Gaza, medics say many injured trapped
[GEO.TV] Israeli tanks moved deeper into Gaza City's residential districts on Sunday, as local health authorities said they have been unable to respond to dozens of desperate calls, expressing concern about the fate of residents in the targeted areas.

Witnesses and medics said Israeli tanks had deepened their incursions in the Sabra, Tel Al-Hawa, Sheikh Radwan and Al-Naser neighbourhoods, closing in on the heart and the western areas of Gaza City, where hundreds of thousands of people are sheltering.

The Israeli military launched its long-threatened ground offensive on Gaza City on September 16 after weeks of intensifying strikes on the urban centre, forcing hundreds of Palestinians to flee, although many still remain.

[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Hamas says it has lost contact with two hostages amid IDF push into Gaza City
[IsraelTimes] Terror group claims it demanded a 24-hour lull in airstrikes to move captives to safety; Gaza City clans said to turn down Israeli proposal to form anti-Hamas enclaves

Hamas
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
claimed Sunday that it had lost contact with two hostages during Israeli operations in a pair of Gazoo City neighborhoods, as three Israel Defense Forces divisions moved deeper into the northern city in a bid to conquer it.

In a statement, the terror group’s al-Qassam Brigades armed wing said it had demanded that the IDF "withdraw to the south of Street Eight (one of the streets in Gaza City) and halt aerial sorties for 24 hours starting at 6 p.m. today so that attempts can be made to extract the prisoners (hostages)."

The statement’s apparent indication of the hostages’ exact location is unprecedented.

Both hostages were kidnapped in the Hamas onslaught of October 7, 2023, that sparked the war in Gaza. The Hostages and Missing Families Forum said in a statement that their families were working with authorities to review the Hamas statement, and asked that the names of their loved ones not be made public.

Terror groups in the Gaza Strip are holding 48 hostages, including 47 of the 251 kidnapped by Hamas-led faceless myrmidons on October 7, 2023. They include the bodies of at least 26 confirmed dead by the IDF. Twenty are believed to be alive, and there are grave concerns for the well-being of two others, Israeli officials have said. Among the bodies held by Hamas is also an IDF officer killed in Gaza in 2014.

The Hamas statement came after the IDF said the air force over the past day struck some 140 targets, including buildings used by terror groups, operatives, and other infrastructure, while medical sources in the Hamas-run Strip reported at least 77 killed by Israel over the past 24 hours.

As Israeli tanks moved deeper into Gaza City’s residential districts on Sunday, local health authorities said they have been unable to respond to dozens of desperate calls, expressing concern about the fate of residents in the targeted areas. Witnesses and medics said the tanks had deepened their incursions in the Sabra, Tel al-Hawa, Sheikh Radwan, and al-Naser neighborhoods, closing in on the heart and the western areas of Gaza City, where hundreds of thousands of people are sheltering.

Israel has instructed Gaza City residents to flee ahead of the offensive there. The military said Friday some 780,000 of roughly 1 million residents had fled so far, while Hamas’s government media office put the number closer to 190,000.

In one incident in Gaza City, troops of the Golani Brigade spotted a cell of five Hamas fighters that launched RPGs at a building where the forces were stationed, the IDF said. No injuries were caused in the attack, and the troops then directed a dronezap to kill the button men, according to the military.

Meanwhile,
...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter wished he had thought to pack sun block...
the IDF said 98th Division forces have "deepened their operational control" of Gaza City, and in the past day directed strikes on Hamas sites and operatives.

On Sunday, following an evacuation warning, the IDF said it struck a high-rise tower in Gaza City that was being used by Hamas. According to the military, Hamas set up "military infrastructure" in the building, which was used to advance attacks on Israeli troops in the area.

Israel’s ground troops also pressed on in southern Gaza, with forces from the IDF’s Gaza Division killing terror operatives and destroying Hamas infrastructure, including surveillance equipment, in the Strip’s south, the military said.

The IDF and Shin Bet also announced that a Hamas Nukhba Force commander who led the killing and kidnapping of Israelis from a roadside kaboom shelter near Kibbutz Re’im during the October 7, 2023, onslaught was killed in a recent Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
in the Gaza Strip. According to the military, Hassan Mahmoud Hassan Hussein
…an imaginative name — his parents are to be congratulated…
served as a Nukha company commander in Hamas’s Bureij Battalion. Hussein, alongside another Nukhba force commander, Muhammad Abu Attawi, led the attack on a bomb shelter near Re’im where partygoers from the Nova festival had fled to. Four people were taken hostage alive from the shelter, including Hersh Goldberg-Polin, and 16 were murdered. Seven managed to survive and were later rescued.

Hussein was also involved in attacks on troops during the war in Gaza, the IDF says. Attawi, the other Nukba commander involved in the attack on the Re’im shelter, was killed in an Israeli strike in October 2024.

GAZA CITY CLANS BOMBED AFTER REFUSING TO GOVERN ANTI-HAMAS ENCLAVE — REPORT
Israel recently approached two large Gaza City clans about forming anti-Hamas enclaves in the city, and, after being turned down, bombed homes that belong to them, according to a report in the Saudi daily Asharq al-Awsat on Sunday.

The outlet said the Shin Bet approached representatives of the Durmush and Bakr families, both of which have remained in Gaza City, about implementing a plan to divide the city into zones controlled by gangs supported by Israel. According to the report, which cited security sources and contacts on the ground in Gaza, the Durmush and Bakr families rejected the offer, which would have required them to fight Hamas and pass intelligence to Israel.

The proposed scheme appeared to be similar to a model implemented with gangs carving out anti-Hamas enclaves in Gaza’s south that claim support from Israel.

A member of the Bakr family, who asked not to be named, confirmed the details to the paper.

According to the sources cited by Asharaq al-Awsat, the families rejected the offer on Friday. On Saturday, Israel struck several houses belonging to members of the families in Gaza City, killing about 36 people, the report said.
Consequences. Congrats, guys, on achieving a teachable moment.
The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 66,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far, though the toll cannot be verified and does not differentiate between civilians and fighters. Israel says it had killed over 22,000 combatants in battle as of August and another 1,600 faceless myrmidons inside Israel during the October 7 onslaught.

Hamas released 30 hostages — 20 Israeli civilians, five soldiers, and five Thai nationals — and the bodies of eight slain Israeli captives during a ceasefire between January and March 2024, and one additional hostage, a dual American-Israeli citizen, in May 2024 as a "gesture" to the United States.

The terror group freed 105 civilians during a weeklong truce in late November 2023, and four hostages were released before that in the early weeks of the war. In exchange, Israel has freed some 2,000 locked away
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
Paleostinian terrorists, security prisoners, and Gazook terror suspects detained during the war.

Eight hostages have been rescued from captivity by troops alive, and the bodies of 51 have also been recovered, including three mistakenly killed by the Israeli military as they tried to escape their captors, and the body of a soldier who was killed in 2014.

Hamas terrorist who killed officer in hostage rescue op slain in IDF strike in Gaza
[IsraelTimes] Arnon Zmora, of the police’s elite Yamam unit, was killed in the June 2024 operation to rescue hostages Almog Meir Jan, Andrey Kozlov, Shlomi Ziv and Noa Argamani

A Hamas
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
operative who killed Israeli police officer Ch. Insp. Arnon Zmora, during a hostage rescue mission in the central Gazoo Strip last summer, was killed in a recent Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
in the Gaza Strip, the Shin Bet and Israel Defense Forces announced on Saturday.

Muhammad Ahmad Yusef al-Jamal, a member of Hamas, was among those guarding hostages Almog Meir Jan, Andrey Kozlov, and Shlomi Ziv, according to the IDF and Shin Bet.

On June 8, 2024, Israeli special forces from the Shin Bet and Israel Police’s elite Yamam unit raided an apartment belonging to Abdallah al-Jamal — Muhammad’s relative and a journalist — in Nuseirat and rescued the three hostages, in a mission later named Operation Arnon after the slain Yamam officer.

As the forces breached the building where the hostages were held, Muhammad al-Jamal shot Zmora fatally. Abdallah al-Jamal and other members of the al-Jamal family were killed during the raid, but not Muhammad.

Hostage Noa Argamani was also rescued in the operation from a separate nearby building.

Hamas’s government media office claimed at least 274 people were killed amid the operation, an unverified figure that also does not differentiate between combatants and civilians.

Alongside al-Jamal, the recent Israeli Air Force strike also killed Sari Idris Muhammad al-Aqrab, a Hamas terrorist who invaded Israel during the October 7 onslaught and was considered "close" to al-Jamal, the Shin Bet said.
Posted by: Fred || 09/29/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1800 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


The lead vessel of Greta’s Global Sumud Flotilla reports it was stopped in Greek waters after suspected sabotage



Posted by: badanov || 09/29/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1788 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Mossad: "it's never a coincidence"
Posted by: Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 || 09/29/2025 8:17 Comments || Top||

#2  "Don't forget to check the oil!"

Could be the action of "external forces". Could just be Idiots vs Machinery. The problem with machines is their utter disregard of pronouns, gender, and ideology.
Posted by: SteveS || 09/29/2025 9:18 Comments || Top||

#3  would be amusing if the problem was that they tried to supplement the gasoline with some green fuel
Posted by: Lord Garth || 09/29/2025 10:03 Comments || Top||

#4  Green Terra, or, "Riveting, ain't it?" *chomp chomp chomp*

Kek! Greta "The Big Gaia's" Cheka
Holds sea trials in Moscow and Mecca!
All cases impeccable!
All hands on deck
For conviction! [Rebecca the Wrecka]
Posted by: Chesney Tingle9105 || 09/29/2025 16:00 Comments || Top||

#5  "Look, comrades! Her filthy black, White, and light blue fingerprints are all over it!"
"What, no bloody ones, comrade prosecutor?"
"Er... Certainly, comrade Munchkin, lots of them, too! I just thought that... er..."
*bang*
Posted by: Chesney Tingle9105 || 09/29/2025 16:08 Comments || Top||

#6  SNL sketch? Babylon Bee?
Posted by: Blanchard || 09/29/2025 21:51 Comments || Top||

#7  Yeah, they oughta. Sadly, my attention barely spans four lines of oriental bogtrot.
Posted by: Chesney Tingle9105 || 09/29/2025 23:56 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran hangs man accused of spying for Israel amid wave of executions
[IsraelTimes] Case of Bahman Choobiasl wasn’t previously known to Iranian activists; prosecutors say he worked on ‘sensitive telecommunications projects,’ told Mossad about electronics imports

Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
said Monday it hanged a man accused of spying for Israel, the latest as Tehran carries out its largest wave of executions in decades.

Iran identified the executed man as Bahman Choobiasl, whose case wasn’t immediately known in Iranian media reports or to activists monitoring the death penalty
in the Islamic Theocratic Republic. However,
Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried...
the execution came after Iran vowed to confront its enemies after the United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
reimposed sanctions on Tehran over its nuclear program this weekend.

Iran accused Choobiasl of meeting with officials from the Israeli spy agency Mosssd
...sees all, knows all, gets 'em all in the end...
Iran’s Mizan news agency, which is the judiciary’s official mouthpiece, said Choobiasl worked on "sensitive telecommunications projects" and reported about the "paths of importing electronic devices."

Iran is known to have hanged nine people for espionage since its June war with Israel. The Israel Defense Forces conducted a sweeping assault on Iran’s top military leaders, nuclear scientists, uranium enrichment sites, and ballistic missile program. Jerusalem said the attack was necessary to prevent the Islamic Theocratic Republic from realizing its avowed plan to destroy the Jewish state, and that Tehran had been taking concrete steps toward assembling an atomic bomb.

Iran responded by firing missile barrages at Israeli cities and military sites.

Entangled in a decades-long shadow war with Israel, Iran has put to death many individuals it accuses of having links with the Mossad and facilitating its operations in the country.

Earlier this month, Iran executed Babak Shahbazi, who it alleged spied for Israel. Activists disputed that, saying Shahbazi was tortured into a false confession after writing a letter to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky offering to fight for Kyiv.

Iran has faced multiple nationwide protests in recent years, fueled by anger over the economy, demands for women’s rights and calls for the country’s theocracy to change.

In response to those protests and the June war, Iran has been putting prisoners to death at a pace unseen since 1988, when it executed thousands at the end of the Iran-Iraq war.

The Oslo-based group Iran Human Rights and the Washington-based Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for Human Rights in Iran put the number of people executed in 2025 at over 1,000, noting the number could be higher as Iran does not report on each execution.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/29/2025 2025-09-29 02:22 || Comments || Link || [1754 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Israel army says strikes Hezbollah weapons depots in south Lebanon
Despite Hezbollah refusing to be disarmed, the IDF continues disarming them.
[GEO.TV] The Israeli military said it struck weapons depots belonging to the gang Hezbollah in southern Leb
...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
on Sunday.

"A short while ago, the IDF (Israeli military) struck Hezbollah weapon storage facilities in southern Lebanon. These weapon depots were used by the terrorist organization to advance and carry out terror attacks against the State of Israel," the military said in a statement.

[X]

Lebanese media report Israeli airstrikes near Nabatieh in country’s south
[IsraelTimes] Lebanese media reports Israeli airstrikes near the southern Lebanon town of Jarmaq, close to Nabatieh. The IDF has not yet comment
Posted by: Fred || 09/29/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1801 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


Iran denounces ''unjustifiable'' return of UN sanctions
[GEO.TV] Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
on Sunday condemned as "unjustifiable" the reinstatement of United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
sanctions over its nuclear programme, after the collapse of talks with Western powers and Israeli and US strikes on its nuclear sites.

The measures, which bar dealings linked to the Islamic republic's nuclear and ballistic missile activities, took effect overnight after Western powers triggered the so-called "snapback" mechanism under the 2015 nuclear accord.

"The reactivation of annulled resolutions is legally baseless and unjustifiable... all countries must refrain from recognising this illegal situation," the Iranian foreign ministry said in a statement.

"The Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran will firmly defend its national rights and interests, and any action aimed at undermining the rights and interests of its people will face a firm and appropriate response," it added.

The return of the sanctions ends months of tense diplomacy aimed at reviving nuclear talks derailed since June, when Israeli and US forces bombed Iranian nuclear facilities.
Posted by: Fred || 09/29/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1796 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran


Syrian Army (former HTS) blocked the roads to Dayr Hafir in Aleppo and threatened Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).


Posted by: badanov || 09/29/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1765 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Syria/HTS



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