#3
/\ Thank God there is still an America they can come to. Losing a conflict can have very long-term consequences. Many French Huguenots and Jews found santuary from Euro-oppression in South Africa long before the events of 1948. Notice if you will, how few have migrated recently to the UK. Perhaps there is a message hidden here. Or possibly not so hidden.
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"A U.S. Navy MQ-4C Triton surveillance drone disappeared abruptly and unexpectedly from online flight tracking sites after declaring an in-flight emergency while flying over the Persian Gulf today.
Is this related to the Changed code?
Squawk 7400 – UK Introduces New Drone Code. Not adopted worldwide
The UK is not starting from scratch here. The United States FAA in fact authorized the use of 7400 already in 2016. For US-operated UAS flying under FAA jurisdiction, 7400 has therefore been the expected lost-link squawk for nearly a decade. The code hasn’t been officially recognized by the ICAO yet. Europe’s EASA updated its Standardised European Rules of the Air (SERA) in 2025 and introduced a new code (7601). That covers radio communication failure in crewed aircraft, but so far anything similar for drones losing contact with its master has failed to materialize.
“As it isn’t globally recognized yet, you will not see UAS squawking 7400 on Flightradar24 at this time” .
Who knows what the future holds?
Navy MQ-4C Triton’s Fate Unknown After Disappearing From Flight Tracking Over Persian Gulf
Tracking data shows the MQ-4C rapidly losing altitude after declaring an unspecified in-flight emergency.
Online flight tracking data shows the MQ-4C had just completed a roughly three-hour-long flight over the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz and appeared to be returning to base at Naval Air Station Sigonella in Italy. The online tracking shows the Triton had just crossed into Saudi Arabian airspace before making a sudden turn to the northeast in the direction of Iran. Available data also shows the drone rapidly descended from a typical cruising altitude of around 50,000 feet down to below 10,000 feet.
The MQ-4C’s transponder was broadcasting (or “squawking”) the code 7700, which is a general declaration of an in-flight emergency, at the time. The code, by itself, does not offer any indication of what that the emergency might be or how serious the situation is. There are also unconfirmed reports that the Triton initially sent out another code, 7400, which is used to declare a loss of connectivity between a drone and its controllers on the ground."
DHQ confirms attack on military base in Borno, troops repel insurgents
By: Zagazola Makama
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has confirmed that troops of Operation Hadin Kai successfully repelled a coordinated terrorist attack on a military base in Benisheikh, Borno.
DHQ confirms attack on military base in Borno, troops repel insurgents
By: Zagazola Makama
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has confirmed that troops of Operation Hadin Kai successfully repelled a coordinated terrorist attack on a military base in Benisheikh, Borno.
The Director, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. Michael Onoja, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja.
Onoja said the attack, which targeted the Headquarters of the 29 Task Force Brigade, occurred at about 12:30 a.m. on Thursday when insurgents attempted to breach the defensive perimeter of the formation.
He said the troops, under the leadership of the Brigade Commander, Brig.-Gen. Oseni Braimah, responded with superior firepower and tactical coordination, forcing the attackers to retreat.
The Defence Headquarters on Thursday reacted to an attack by 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.... West Africa Province, ISWAP, murderous Moslems on a military base in Benisheikh, Borno State.
However,
man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... the Defence Headquarters was silent on reports that the ISWAP murderous Moslems killed Brig.-Gen. O. O. Braimah, a Brigade Commander of the Joint Task Force in Benesheikh, during the attack.
The DHQ described the assault as a sign of desperation by terrorist groups following recent losses in ongoing military operations in the North-East.
The military confirmed that some soldiers were killed during the encounter. It said the Chief of Defence Staff, General Olufemi Oluyede, has paid tribute to the fallen personnel and extended condolences to their families.
Meanwhile,
...back at the precinct house, Don Calamari's lawyer was getting even redder in the face... clearance operations are ongoing in the area to track fleeing gunnies and prevent them from regrouping.
A war of attrition is the most expensive form of warfare. All it does is to wear down materiel and morale. ISWAP has launched coordinated attacks on two military bases in Pulka and the Mongunu super camp in Borno State within the past 24 hours.
— Defense News Nigeria (@DefenseNigeria) April 9, 2026
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A war of attrition is the most expensive form of warfare. All it does is to wear down materiel and morale. ISWAP has launched coordinated attacks on two military bases in Pulka and the Mongunu super camp in Borno State within the past 24 hours.
Now ISWAP has suffered heavy casualties in the Lake Chad region recent weeks due to intense operations by Nigerian troops. But the steady stream of weapons and supply from the Sahel to their sanctuaries in the Lake Chad means that Nigeria is unable to exhaust ISWAP manpower, even while inflicting significant casualties.
Now the biggest problem to breaking this deadlock remains Nigeria's fundamentally defensive posture. We are yet to seriously challenge the territorial domination maintained by ISWAP in the Lake Chad. This allows ISWAP to consolidate and expand in Borno. Nigeria needs to commit overwhelming force against ISWAP enclaves in the Lake Chad region and decisively dismantle them, regardless of the cost.
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[RUSVESNA] Kuwait says its air defense systems are currently intercepting enemy drones that violated its airspace and struck several important targets.
The sounds of explosions are shaking American bases in Kuwait, Iranian media reports.
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Bomb every damn thing these MUTHERFUCKERS have. If the Iranian ppl can't FINALLY stand up for themselves they can sit in the dark also.
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But, but, but I thought the Iranians were concerned about their energy ?
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The next stage in the slow motion conquest of Britain by Islam.
[REGNUM] In Britain, barbaric scenes are once again being witnessed on the streets. Recently, hundreds of migrant teenagers in London emerged en masse from their homes following calls on social media, storming shops and restaurants, setting off fireworks, and smashing cars and police vans, turning an evening stroll into a street "safari" with no rules.
A couple of hours later, the same thing happened in Milton Keynes. A crowd of young people blocked police cars and attacked officers, forcing them to resort to physical force. Local authorities were forced to increase patrols and introduce vigils until the early hours to prevent the city from looking like a war zone, although the "protesters," as they are commonly called among adherents of political correctness, numbered just over a hundred.
During the 2024 surge in anti-migrant unrest, waves of violence swept through British streets as far-right groups attacked refugee gathering places and buses. In response, Muslim and migrant communities formed their own "patrols"—groups of young men who declared they would now "protect" their neighborhoods.
Those events demonstrated the system's impotence in the face of disgruntled crowds—on both sides. Apparently, no significant changes in law enforcement have occurred in the past two years. Now the authorities are trying to shift responsibility. In London, police are directly calling on parents to take responsibility for themselves and not let their children out on the streets after suggestions on social media for "having fun."
London Mayor Sadiq Khan and Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch are calling for tougher laws. They believe that a situation where teenagers can rob, record, and post their "exploits" online, and then go home has fostered a sense of impunity. This has already paved the way for future "street wars."
In reality, the laws in Britain are quite strict. How they are enforced is another matter. And politicians are simply being disingenuous, pushing the idea of increasing control over their own population that suits them.
The key problem is that the current unrest is not a spontaneous nuisance, but a logical consequence of years of blurring the lines between normal street behavior and outright crime.
During the 2024 pogroms, British youth took to the streets with a specific goal: to attack targets associated with refugees and migrants, including hotels, buses, shops, and charity offices. The current events in British cities are similar in mechanism to what happened then, although they have a different tone. Young immigrants are simply having a good time.
Violent gangs are made up primarily of young members of ethnic minorities who have long been accustomed to issues in their neighborhoods being resolved by force, witnessing clashes at "migrant" hotels, self-proclaimed "patrols," or spontaneous counter-demonstrations following police arrests and attacks by far-right groups.
For many teenagers, participating in such events is a kind of test: if you know how to act in a crowd, not show up in front of the camera, rob without getting caught by the police, you quickly rise up the hierarchical ladder.
Meanwhile, the country's leadership prefers not to discuss why young people resort to mass riots in the first place and how violence and lawlessness have become a fashion trend. While London pretends to solve the street problem by cleaning and searching for videos of perpetrators, the same thing happens: a rally point is announced on social media, the crowd instinct is triggered, and an innocent migrant becomes part of a street mob of rioters.
The entire energy of the British state apparatus is being spent on blaming parents and social media. The press is increasingly publishing statements from officers emphasizing that the number of teenagers on the streets is especially high on weekends and holidays.
Police are urging parents to monitor their children's geolocation, apps, and friends, and to prohibit them from going out at night. Meanwhile, there are no employment programs for teenagers from immigrant families. It's much easier for authorities to preach than to change the model for distributing refugees across cities and building infrastructure.
Repeated unrest shows that official rhetoric about the successful integration of migrants has long since degenerated into a set of empty slogans, divorced from real life.
Instead of fitting into existing rules, attending school, college, and working, marginalized teenagers find a far more appealing path—living by their own "rules." For these people, official institutions are not a tool of protection or a space for opportunity, but an obstacle to be circumvented or avoided. In extreme cases, they should be resisted—including physically.
Migrants are more interested in creating their own parallel structures rather than integrating into society, where the most important values are neighborhood honor and weapons, not a diploma, a profession, or a decent apartment. Therefore, they view street clashes not as an aberration, but as a natural manifestation of life, where power and security are determined not by the courts, but by the number of people ready to fight.
Meanwhile, ministers continue to talk about integration and tolerance, ignoring the root of the problem—disunity and the endless flow of migrants. And as long as this attitude persists, gangs and street "patrols" will remain a reality in British neighborhoods.
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Note that this Commie rag uses all the woke tropes about who started things and how the far right is responsible as far-right groups attacked refugee
“It’s for personal use — that’ll keep us ‘til Tuesday.”
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A British mother and her daughter have been arrested at a Spanish airport after allegedly trying to fly back to the UK with 42 kilos of cocaine in their luggage.
The pair, aged 47 and 19, allegedly posed as tourists visiting the east coast city of Valencia for Easter before attempting to return to Britain with suitcases full of the class-A drug.
They were held on Thursday night last week, just before the start of the main Easter activities and around three days after their arrival. The cocaine had been packed into two suitcases inside 23 packets and in tablet form, according to local press reports. The pair held are said to have been booked on a flight back to Birmingham.
They were remanded to a local jail after appearing before a judge in Quart de Poblet, a municipality near Valencia which is the closest to Valencia's .
Police have not yet made any official comment but are expected to do so later today.
At the end of May Spanish police went public with the arrests of a British couple aged 33 and 34 held at the same airport after 33 kilos of marijuana was found in their luggage. They claimed at the time they were tourists coming from Thailand. The pair were remanded in custody after suspicious officers picked them out from other passengers arriving because of their 'nervous and evasive attitude.'
Confirming the latest arrests at the time, a spokesman for the Civil Guard in Valencia said: 'The Civil Guard and Tax Agency have arrested two people on a flight from France for carrying more than 33 kilograms of vacuum-packed marijuana in their suitcases.
'The two passengers, a British man and woman, were displaying a nervous and evasive attitude and were stopped before they reached customs control.
'They said they were coming from Thailand and were entering Spain as tourists and had nothing to declare.
'Following standard procedure, their suitcases were put through a specialist scanner which showed up a large amount of organic material in both but no clothes or personal belongings.
'The cases were subsequently opened in their presence and found to contain a substance which tested positive in the cannabis-marijuana drugs test.
'The drugs were subsequently confirmed to be 33,540 grams of marijuana.
'The British man and woman were subsequently arrested for a crime of drug trafficking and remanded in prison following a court appearance.'
It was not immediately clear this morning if they remain behind bars.
In January last year an OnlyFans model was arrested at Barcelona's El Prat airport after travelling from Thailand with more than 34 kilos of cannabis in her suitcase.
Not just a Valencia thing, then.
Clara Wilson, from Huthwaite, Nottinghamshire, was later jailed for three years after admitting trying to smuggle nearly £200,000 worth of drugs into Spain. She put her hands up to wrongdoing as part of a plea bargain deal after being offered a more lenient punishment ahead of her full trial.
Last October Brit Martin Renwick Hunter, 69, was jailed for nearly four years after being convicted of trying to smuggle almost £100,000 of drugs onto a Spanish car ferry. He was stopped as he tried to board the Algeciras-bound vessel in Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta on July 13 last year.
[NYPost] A New York City mental health nurse has been fired after she filmed herself harassing a group of Israeli men in Times Square — repeatedly calling them "baby-killers" and "terrorists" in a hate-filled antisemitic rant that only ended when a performer dressed as Spider-Man intervened.
Jennifer Koonings, who worked at the Manhattan-based Inspire Mental Health Services, shared multiple videos on Instagram of the moment she unleashed the wave of vitriol over the weekend as she tried to bait the group of unassuming men in the packed tourist hotspot.
"You guys killed babies in Paleostine ... Slaughtered babies," Koonings shouted in one clip posted to her 141,000 Instagram followers.
"We don’t want you here, terrorists."
Eventually, a panhandler dressed as Spider-Man had to step in to urge Koonings to back off.
"You don’t need to harass people," Spidey told Koonings and several other women who were shouting hate along with her. "You don’t know anything about them."
"They’re baby-killers," Koonings raged to the imitation web-slinger. "They’re f—king Israelis."
Koonings and her crazed crew even turned their hate on Spider-Man, telling him to "shut the f—k up" as he urged calm.
In a second clip that seemingly preceded the ordeal, Koonings — who has a history of anti-Israel political activism
Antifa?
— recorded herself asking the men where they were from.
When they noted they were from Israel, Koonings’ off-camera response prompted one of the men to say, "Oh, you don’t like us now?"
The group, who were smoking and had suitcases nearby, remained calm and did not visibly react to the barrage of insults, the videos show.
It wasn’t immediately clear what sparked Koonings’ outburst or why she confronted the men in the first place.
The footage quickly went viral on social media, sparking widespread calls for her to be fired.
Koonings later bragged on Instagram that she had been terminated from her role at the mental health provider in the wake of the saga.
Her biography on Inspire Mental Health Services had been scrubbed from the website as of Wednesday.
The Post reached out to the facility but didn’t hear back immediately.
[IsraelTimes] Handala group claims to have collected ‘19,000 confidential images and videos from the most secret meetings’; footage reveals previously undisclosed meetings
[IsraelTimes] 22-year-old allegedly created and tested explosives, and recruited three others, in exchange for money
A young man from Haifa and three others suspected of manufacturing explosives at an Iranian agent’s behest as part of a plot to "harm a senior figure" are to be charged in court in the coming days, police said Thursday, after a gag order was lifted on the case.
Haifa resident Ami Gaydarov, 22, was arrested on March 9 on suspicion of maintaining contact with an Iranian intelligence agent since last August.
The senior figure in question was widely reported to be former prime minister Naftali Bennett, who has been a target of Iranian espionage efforts in the past.
The young man allegedly rented an apartment in the city’s downtown area as a makeshift laboratory, so he could create and test the materials with his alleged accomplices.
A Lahav police investigator who spoke to the Ynet news site said Gaydarov — with the help of his handler — managed to create TATP, a highly volatile explosive often used in terror attacks due to its relatively simple recipe. He reportedly made 8-10 kilograms (18-22 lbs) of the material, storing it in jars.
Police said he was assisted by others, among them Haifa residents Sergey Leibman and Edward Shovtiuk, who are set to face charges in the coming days. They allegedly helped him purchase ingredients and hide and test the material.
The fourth suspect has not yet been named.
On top of manufacturing explosives, police said Gaydarov was also instructed to take photos of the Haifa Port and missile impact sites in northern Israel during the war with Iran, currently on pause after a ceasefire was declared this week.
View of the Haifa port, March 15, 2026 (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
Gaydarov received a total of NIS 70,000 ($23,000) in exchange for the tasks he carried out, most of it in the form of cryptocurrency, police added.
The case was investigated jointly by the Shin Bet security service and police’s Lahav 433 major crimes unit, and was previously subject to a gag order, parts of which have been gradually lifted.
Rauf Najjar, the defense attorney for alleged accomplice Shovtiuk, told The Times of Israel that an indictment was expected Monday against the suspects.
Najjar said his client "suffers from a complex health and mental situation" and insisted that he "fully cooperated with the investigating unit" during his interrogation.
"We can respond extensively after we receive the indictment and scans of the investigation materials," he added.
Iran-linked actors have for several years been attempting to spy on prominent Israeli politicians, security officials and scientists, presumably with the goal of harming them. To this end, they have been known to enlist ordinary Israeli citizens they meet online — usually via the Telegram messaging app — to spy for money.
The alleged plot marked a relatively rare instance in which an Iranian agent managed to convince his Israeli recruit to go a step beyond spying or vandalism, and begin plotting violence.
Like most Israeli recruits, Gaydarov was started out by his handler with mundane tasks — filming in the street and sending his location from areas he was ordered to travel to. These requests gradually escalated into serious offenses like espionage and intelligence gathering.
Unlike Gaydarov, most recruits have been known to spurn agents’ suggestions to harm or assassinate Israeli public figures.
Earlier exceptions to this included a pair of Jewish young men from Tiberias, arrested while preparing to fly to 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 JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... for shooting training, and a group of seven young men from Beit Safafa, an Arab neighborhood in East Jerusalem, who planned to assassinate a prominent scientist and mayor of a major city.
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[REGNUM] With the formal ceasefire between Iran, the United States, and Israel taking effect, tensions in the Middle East have not subsided. Quite the contrary. After ceasing attacks on the Islamic Republic, the Jewish state quickly shifted its attention to Lebanon, where it intensified its pressure on Hezbollah.
Apparently, the Israelis were counting on Tehran not standing up for its fellow members of the "Axis of Resistance." However, Iran proved no timid and quickly demonstrated that it would not abandon its allies in trouble.
INTIMIDATION CAMPAIGN
On the evening of April 8, just hours after the cessation of mutual shelling with Iran, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) aircraft launched a massive air strike on Lebanese territory.
The attacks affected not only the infrastructure of the southern provinces but also targets in the central and eastern parts of the country. According to the Israeli General Staff, more than a hundred targets were hit. The bombings killed more than 250 local residents. The number of injured exceeded a thousand.
In ten minutes. Seriously impressive.
The operation, codenamed "Eternal Darkness," was marketed by the Israelis as a deterrent aimed at the Shiite movement's top leadership. Among the targets declared for elimination were senior Hezbollah figures, including its Secretary General, Naim Qassem.
Moreover, Israel hoped that through massive bombing, it would accelerate the exodus of residents from the southern regions of Lebanon, which would help speed up the clearing of border areas and the creation of a so-called “security zone” in the Litani River region.
Israeli "hawks" are not hiding their joy at the operation's results. As Defense Minister Israel Katz noted, the surprise massive strikes were a "new record" for the Israeli armed forces, surpassing even the legendary anti-Lebanon Operation Pager of 2024 in terms of damage.
However, objective monitoring shows a rather contradictory result of "Eternal Darkness": not all targets declared in flight missions as Hezbollah facilities were actually such, and most of the field commanders managed to escape the shelling.
Moreover, strikes on densely populated areas dramatically increased the number of civilian casualties. This enraged officials in Beirut, which demanded an explanation from Washington. However, the White House responded to the legitimate outrage succinctly: "Lebanon is a separate conflict."
NOT A WORD OF APPROVAL
The massive bombing of Lebanon failed to gain support from the international community—more than fifty countries condemned Israel's actions within the first 24 hours.
Let us pause for a moment to enjoy exactly how much Israel does not care about the opinion of countries that do not share her interest in her own survival.
Even countries previously considered candidates for a rapid normalization of relations with the Jewish state, such as Saudi Arabia and Syria, voiced criticism.
Lots of pro forma statements in that part of the world, much less actual concern underneath.
The message in all cases was the same: by solving tactical problems in Lebanon, Israel is disrupting the strategic settlement in the Middle East and, apparently, will soon launch a new round of high-intensity conflict.
Oh well. Anyway…
At one point, US President Donald Trump decided to explain to an indignant public that the Israelis were acting within the strategic parameters available to them. "The cessation of Israeli strikes on Lebanon was not part of the ceasefire agreement with Iran because Hezbollah is present in the country," the White House chief stated.
Indeed.
US Vice President J.D. Vance subsequently attempted to smooth things over somewhat. Speaking to reporters, he reiterated that Lebanon "was not part of the deal," and that this framing of the matter had allegedly been agreed upon with the Iranians and confirmed by Pakistan, which acted as a mediator.
This decision was designated as temporary, to facilitate the achievement of initial agreements. According to the Americans, the status of the Lebanese theater of operations was planned to be discussed face-to-face, likely at a meeting of delegations in Islamabad.
Vance, however, continued Trump's line. He called Iranian attempts to pressure Washington to expand the agreement post-factum a "misunderstanding" and hinted that it would be foolish to disrupt such a fragile ceasefire over such "trouble."
He later added, however, that Israel had agreed to "temporarily limit" strikes on Lebanon as part of efforts to reach an agreement between Washington and Tehran. However, Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet did not confirm this.
PANIC IN RIYADH
Washington's initial calculations appear to have been based on the belief that Iran would ignore events in Lebanon for some time, focusing on restoring its own defense capabilities and, more importantly, stabilizing its systems of governance.
The White House believes that the country's new Rahbar (Supreme Leader), Mojtaba Khamenei, is "dead or dying," and that generals and influential officials are running the country in his name. This belief is based, in part, on the fact that only Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has spoken about the progress of peace negotiations with the United States, although previously such matters were addressed by the Supreme Leader's Office.
Rumors of a coup in the Islamic Republic were fueled, among others, by Iranian opposition figures close to Trump, and at some point the US president believed he had already won, and that the enemy would seize any opportunity to escape the conflict.
In practice, things turned out differently. The Iranian leadership took the incident as an insult. They were quick to point out that the peace concept that formed the basis of the upcoming negotiations referred to Lebanon as part of the battlefield, meaning the ceasefire should fully apply to it.
In retaliation, Tehran closed the Strait of Hormuz again. This time, the blockade is more severe—simply buying off shipowners is no longer an option. Tankers are turning around in the closed zone one after another and being laid up. The Houthis, who are backing their "Axis of Resistance" allies, have once again threatened to close the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, the region's second-most important shipping route, have also joined in.
To ensure that their demands weren't perceived as empty threats, Iranian missile forces deliberately escalated the situation: by the end of the day, they attacked Saudi Arabia's East-West oil pipeline, damaging one of its pumping stations. Considering that this energy artery is currently the only route for transporting Saudi oil from its fields to its shipping ports, the attack caused genuine panic in Riyadh. Saudi diplomats spent half a day calling the White House, demanding that Trump "show common sense."
Washington found itself trapped. It turned out that Tehran didn't really need negotiations: between the stability of its "axis of resistance" and a temporary respite, the Persians unhesitatingly chose the former. Meanwhile, cutting off diplomatic communication now would further deepen the conflict and provoke further nervousness both within the United States and among the White House's regional allies, something the American administration clearly doesn't want.
At the same time, the Republicans also cannot give in to Iran's demands—and not so much out of a desire to save face. Israel is actively opposed to this option, unwilling to halt its offensive against Hezbollah even with Vance's announced "temporary de-escalation." This is especially true after the "voluntary-compulsory" halt to operations against Iran. It will be difficult for the Americans to make another gesture by including Lebanon in the settlement zone.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[RUSVESNA] The Israeli army says it is striking Hezbollah rocket launch sites.
It was previously reported that Netanyahu ordered the start of direct negotiations with Lebanon.
Extending the peace agreement to Lebanon was one of Iran's main demands in the negotiations.
The Israeli army is surrounding the Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil and has issued an evacuation warning to residents Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[RUSVESNA] The Israeli army is surrounding the Lebanese city of Bint Jbeil and has issued an evacuation warning to residents of the entire southern part of Beirut!
The video shows southern Lebanon, "clashes and attacks by the Zionist enemy," Iranian and Lebanese media report. The photo shows the Lebanese capital, Beirut, after Israeli attacks.
IDF ground forces are surrounding the town of Bint Jbeil (population 30,000) and planning an attack to capture it, Maariv reports.
Around 300 Lebanese were killed and more than 1,100 wounded in Israeli strikes over two days.
How many of those 1400 casualties were Hezbollah turbans or intentional human shields?
According to the report, the decision was made the day before following repeated requests from Lebanon. Netanyahu ordered negotiations to begin as soon as possible.
On April 8, the Lebanese Red Cross reported that more than 80 civilians were killed and 200 others were injured as a result of an Israeli rocket attack on Beirut.
This occurred the day after the ceasefire with Iran announced by US President Donald Trump. On the night of April 8, he announced an agreement with Iran on a two-week ceasefire. The politician also assured that the ceasefire would be bilateral. The US side, the head of the White House explained, received a ten-point proposal from Tehran, which will serve as the basis for the final agreement. One of these points concerns the full opening of the Strait of Hormuz.
Following this strike, the Iranian news agency Fars reported that the Islamic Republic was considering launching a new military operation against Israel due to its ceasefire violations. Meanwhile, Iran views the ongoing attacks on Lebanon as either a direct order to Israel from the US or evidence of Netanyahu's ungovernability.
The secretary of Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem ... the Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies... was killed on Wednesday evening in an Israeli Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... in Beirut, the Israel Defense Forces announced Thursday.
Ali Yusuf Harshi was targeted in a strike in Beirut’s Tallet Khayat neighborhood, outside Hezbollah’s Dahiyeh stronghold. Footage showed that the strike partially collapsed a multistory building.
The military said Harshi was Qassem’s nephew and personal secretary.
"Harshi was a close associate and personal adviser to Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem, and played a central role in managing his office and his security," the military said in a statement.
The military said Thursday evening that Hezbollah had fired some 70 rockets from Leb ...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects.... at northern Israel since the morning. There were no reports of injuries or damage as the rockets were either intercepted or allowed to strike open areas.
The IDF said that overnight it struck two "central" Litani River crossings that were used by the Iran-backed terror group to transfer "thousands of weapons, rockets and launchers" into southern Lebanon.
Additionally, some 10 weapons depots, rocket launchers and Hezbollah headquarters were struck in southern Lebanon, the military added.
Israel and Hezbollah continued to exchange fire into Friday, despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s announcement of peace talks with Leb ...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration.... , which had continued to reel from major Israeli strikes two days earlier.
There was no immediate response to the Israeli announcement from Lebanon, which had repeatedly proposed talks to end the war, or from Hezbollah. Netanyahu said that talks would focus on disarming Hezbollah and "establishing peaceful relations" between the countries.
Negotiations are expected to begin next week at the State Department in Washington, according to a person familiar with the plans. The talks are to be handled on the American side by US Ambassador to Lebanon Michel Issa, and on the Israeli side by Israel’s Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter, according to the person, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the delicacy of the situation.
A Lebanese diplomatic official familiar with the developments said that the country has not yet appointed someone to lead talks from Beirut. Lebanese President Joseph Aoun is keen to have a temporary ceasefire when talks commence in parallel with those between the United States and Iran, mediated by Pakistain. The official spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.
Israel’s announcement came hours after it had warned of escalation and said that it had killed an aide and nephew of Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem ... the Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies... , Ali Yusuf Harshi.
Later Thursday, Hezbollah said its fighters were engaged in festivities with Israeli soldiers in the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil, from which the Israel Defense Forces has sought in recent days to clear the Iran-backed terror group’s operatives and infrastructure.
Hezbollah, in a statement, said it used light arms and RPG fire against Israeli soldiers who were advancing in the town, as well as rocket barrages on other troops in the area.
The IDF did not report casualties among Israeli forces on Thursday.
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir toured the town’s outskirts earlier in the day, saying, "Our main combat arena is here in Lebanon."
"The objective defined for you is the removal of the direct threat to the residents of the north, which you are carrying out with determination," he told troops, according to remarks published by the army.
Following the visit to Bint Jbeil, the IDF said Zamir approved new battle plans for the fighting against Hezbollah.
Hezbollah, meanwhile, continued to target Israel, including firing a missile at the southern port city of Ashdod early Friday morning, one of the deepest attacks attempted by the terrorist organization amid the current fighting.
There were no reports of injuries. The Home Front Command for the first time issued an early warning for the missile attack, around two minutes before sirens sounded in the port city.
Sirens were also activated in Tel Aviv and surrounding towns in central Israel due to the interception of the missile and fear of falling fragments.
Shortly before the attack on Ashdod, the military said the Israeli Air Force struck some 10 rocket launchers in Lebanon that were used to fire at northern Israel in the preceding hours, adding that it was continuing to operate to locate and destroy additional launchers.
’SEARCHING ALL DAY’
Defense Minister Israel Katz said Thursday that more than 200 Hezbollah operatives were killed. Among the targets of the strikes, according to the IDF, were Hezbollah command centers and other military infrastructure, including intelligence headquarters and offices used by Hezbollah to plan attacks on IDF troops and Israeli civilians; infrastructure of Hezbollah’s rocket and naval units; and assets of the terror group’s elite Radwan Force and aerial unit.
In Beirut on Thursday, people continued to wait anxiously on the ragged edges of search and rescue work, shielding their faces from the dust. Exhausted firefighters sat on a charred car amid collapsed buildings.
Lebanese Civil Defense spokesperson Elie Khairallah told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that a maimed woman was found alive overnight in the seaside neighborhood of Ain Mreisseh, and a man was found alive in his collapsed apartment building in the southern suburbs.
Mohammad Chehab, a Syrian man from Deir el-Zour, said that six of his 10 family members had been found dead in a destroyed building.
"They’ve been searching all day," for the rest, he said.
At hospitals, survivors and doctors described the carnage, while relatives gathered to identify bodies.
Abdul Rahman Mohammad, a Syrian who lost five relatives in the Hay al-Sellom neighborhood, waited at Rafik Hariri Hospital to retrieve the bodies of his mother, two sisters, brother and brother-in-law.
"They were struck without any warning. This is Israeli brutality," he said.
Dr. Mohamad El Zaatari, director of the public hospital, said that it had treated 45 maimed people, including 10 cases in intensive care.
At the Makassed hospital, Rabee Koshok lay on a bed.
"I thought I was dead. What happened?" he recalled. "A big flash of light struck my face and eyes, and I found someone flying over and landing next to me. He was dead."
Koshok had been in the commercial district of Corniche al Mazraa when a strike hit a nearby building.
Dr. Wael Jarrosh said that the hospital received around 70 maimed patients within 10 minutes of the blasts. Two people died and five remained hospitalized, including three in intensive care.
"This has destroyed us psychologically," the doctor said.
LEBANON ALLEGES ’BLATANT VIOLATION’ OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
Netanyahu earlier had said that strikes would proceed "with force, precision and determination." The IDF accused Hezbollah members of moving out of the terror group’s main areas of influence in southern Lebanon and Beirut’s southern suburbs, known as Dahiyeh, and blending into civilian areas.
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said that his country would file an urgent complaint with the UN Security Council, calling the attacks a "blatant violation" of international and humanitarian law.
In a cabinet session earlier Thursday, the Lebanese government announced a plan to demilitarize Beirut and deploy an increased level of security patrols.
The Lebanese government has had lots of plans. Hezbollah has allowed none of them to be properly executed. It seems reasonable to expect more of the same.
Even before the renewed war, Lebanon’s government had sought Hezbollah’s disarmament. The issue has inflamed tensions among Lebanese who are deeply divided over the terror group and its arsenal.
Melhem Khalaf, a reformist politician representing Beirut, was critical of Israel’s strikes, but also of Hezbollah for dragging Lebanon back into war.
"All the targeted areas are safe residential Lebanese areas," Khalaf said, while watching a bulldozer clear rubble. "What we are witnessing is a massacre against civilians."
More than a million people have been displaced by the war, many from the south and Dahiyeh. Israel’s military has issued warnings for the population to leave those areas, followed by heavy bombardment.
Israel has also launched a ground invasion in the border region. The corpse count in Lebanon has reached 1,739, the health ministry said, with 5,873 maimed.
Meanwhile,
...back at the palazzo, Don Smilzo looked for an avenue of escape. The only window opened a hundred feet above the moat. The nearest of the hired assassins hold a bloody axe.
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