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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Fundraising for school clothes for Palestinian refugees announced in Dagestan

2024-08-29

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] This year, 69 children who arrived from Palestine will go to Dagestani schools; more than a million rubles are needed for their school clothes, the Nadezhda foundation reported.

As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, there are 195 Palestinian refugees in Dagestan, including 97 children. 137 people received passports of Russian citizens, the Ministry of Labor of Dagestan reported, announcing the employment of eight refugees. The department emphasized that the refugees are fully provided with clothing and basic necessities, and also reported that more than 20 million rubles have been allocated for food and accommodation for Palestinian refugees since November 2023.

A total 69 children who arrived from Palestine will go to school this year, the Nadezhda Foundation reported today. "They need school clothes. Unfortunately, they do not have the opportunity to buy them themselves," the foundation's Telegram channel said.

The foundation has announced a fundraiser for school uniforms; the required amount is 1,112,000 rubles, the statement says.

Let us recall that on April 18 it became known that the Dagestan authorities will have to provide accommodation for another 200 refugees from Palestine. The Russian government had previously adopted a resolution on this. In total, the republics of the North Caucasus, according to this resolution, will have to accommodate 812 refugees from Palestine.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Hamas' Al-Aqsa Brigades targets Israeli forces in Northern Gaza

2024-02-19

[GEO.TV] The Palestinian armed group, Al-Aqsa Brigades, claims to have struck an assembly of Israeli soldiers and vehicles in the northern Gaza Strip's "eastern front" with a rocket, Al Jazeera reported.

Additionally, the group stated via its Telegram channel that it aimed mortar shells at an Israeli soldier group near Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Fatah Facebook Page Glorifies Female Fighters, Suicide Bombers

2014-07-13

Women's liberation, Palestinian style.

Praising a fem splodydope is about the only time the jihadis find favor in wimmins...

[IsraelTimes] A short video clip posted on the Fatah movement's official Facebook page Thursday glorified a female army unit training to launch rockets at Israel and presented jacket wallahs as role models for the Paleostinian population.

Prob'ly a good thing Israel already cleaned out Hamas in the West Bank -- soon it will be time to go after Fatah. (I find it fascinating that they aren't hiding behind the Palestinian Authority label any longer.)

Fatah is the PLO faction headed by Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
Fatah prides itself on its "young women," who "part from their children, leave their homes and go to the battlefield carrying burial shrouds to fight in the ranks of the Paleostinian resistance in the Gazoo Strip," a narrator can be heard saying, according to a translation provided by NGO Paleostinian Media Watch, as a group of Paleostinian women are seen training, assembling and setting up rockets, shooting and engaging in physical training.
So when they say the corpse count includes X number of wimmin and kiddies, these are the wimmin?
"Another aspect of the Paleostinian woman's role in all areas is being created here," the narrator continues.

"She is not merely the man's partner in domestic life, but his ~~lover~~ companion wherever he is; on the battlefield, she is at his side on the frontline, and fulfills an active role in training generations of resistance [fighters], who will confront the 'invincible' army."

The narrator proceeds to explain that the female fighters have "willpower stronger than mountains," and that they "strive to become an important part of the path of Jihad and the struggle --the path walked by Dalal Mughrabi, Hanadi Jaradat and Reem Riyashi."

In 1978, Mughrabi led one of the most lethal terror attacks in Israel's history when she and several other Fatah faceless myrmidons hijacked a bus on Israel's Coastal Highway, killing 37 civilians, 12 of them children, and wounding over 70.

In 2003, Jaradat became one of the first female Paleostinians to carry out a suicide kaboom, blowing up a Haifa restaurant. Twenty-one people were killed in the bombing and 51 were maimed.

Riyashi blew herself up at the Erez crossing between Israel and the Gazoo Strip in 2004, killing three soldiers as well as one civilian.

"These are the acclaimed Fatah women," Fatah's Facebook administrator said of the women training for attacks.

On Wednesday, gangs linked to Fatah said they had begun launching rockets and mortar shells into Israel, in the first indication that Abbas's movement was taking part in violence emanating from Gazoo.

The Nidal Al-Amody force of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades grabbed credit for firing Grad and 107 millimeter rockets toward Ashkelon, Sderot, Netivot, Kibbutz Ein Hashlosha and the Sufa Crossing from Gazoo, starting at 5 p.m Wednesday. Communiques specifying the attacks were published on Fatah's official Facebook page.

Early Thursday morning, another armed force associated with Fatah, the Abdul Qader Husseini Battalions, grabbed credit for launching two Grad rockets
...Soviet-developed 122-mm rockets, usually launched from trucks. Newer versions are reported to have a range of up to 30 km....
at Ashkelon and four mortar shells at Kibbutz Nir Oz near Khan Yunis.

A photo depicting two members of the Husseini Battalions preparing to launch a rocket at Israel was posted on Fatah's Facebook page, its title reading "The Al-Aqsa Brigades and the Abdul Qader Husseini Brigades have proven today that they are the most loyal to the blood of the deaders. They were among the first to quickly respond to the aggressive [Israeli] operation."

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Arabia

UAE Releases Fatah Members Accused Of Aiding Hamas Murder

2012-10-01

[Ma'an] Two Fatah members accused of involvement in the 2010 murder of a senior Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, official in Dubai have been released by authorities in the United Arab Emirates, the Al-Aqsa Brigades said Sunday.

Anwar Shheibar and Ahmad Abu Hasanien were freed after being held in the UAE for two years, a statement said, without mentioning an exact release date. The pair were accused by Dubai police of providing logistical support to an operation which led to the liquidation of a Hamas leader in 2010.

Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was found dead in a Dubai hotel on January 20 having been killed by a team of 11 mercenaries. Dubai police say that a hit squad sent by the Israeli spy agency Mossad suffocated Mabhouh with a pillow after injecting him with a muscle relaxant.

Israel neither confirmed nor denied involvement.
They didn't need to...
The alleged assassins, 10 men and one woman, all carried fraudulent European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
passports which had been acquired through the identity theft of EU citizens.

Hamas had accused Anwar Shheibar and Ahmad Abu Hasanien of involvement in the murder, with Fatah denying any connection to the incident.

A website run by Hamas said that both men had fled Gazoo in 2006 and were working for a construction company owned by former Fatah official Muhammad Dahlan, AP reported at the time.

The families of Shheibar and Hasanien are seeking legal action over their prolonged detention, the Al-Aqsa Brigades statement added.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Fatah militants: Killing children unacceptable

2011-03-15

[Ma'an] The military wing of the Paleostinian Authority's ruling Fatah party, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, said Monday that its activists had no part in the slaying of five members of a settler family in Itamar on Friday night.
Pontius Pilate (pronounced /ˈpɒntʃəs ˈpaɪlət/ according to most colloquial standards; Latin: Pontius Pilātus; Greek: Πόντιος Πιλᾶτος, Pontios Pilātos) was the fifth Prefect of the Roman province of Judaea, from AD 26--36. He is best known as the judge at Jesus' trial and the man who authorized the Crucifixion of Jesus.
--Wikipedia

Out, Out damned spot!!

That's what they say in English. In Arabic they are thrilled at the wonderful accomplishment of one of their own, brave mujahid that he is.

Commenting on the nature of the killings, which saw five out of eight members of the Fogel family stabbed to death, including a four-month-old infant, the brigades said they "oppose the targeting of civilians and killing of children no matter what the pretext may be."

But by Muslim definition Juices are never civilians, and Juice-children are future Juice-soldiers, so they are legitimate targets, too. So what this statement means is that the Brigades object to the targetting and killing of Palestinian non-soldiers and children, which the Israelis don't do.

The killings triggered settler outrage and an Israeli military manhunt in the northern West Bank, and were condemned by the Paleostinian Authority,

In English; in Arabic they were gleeful and proud.

with President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas saying Monday that the killings were "inhuman."

Again, in English.

Fatah's Al-Aqsa Brigades came under scrutiny after an offshoot with loose affiliation going by the "Imad Mughniyya Group" sent a statement to media outlets claiming to have carried out the attack, but details from the statement did not match statements from Sherlocks. Members of the group in Gazoo later denied any involvement.

The loose connection with the Al-Aqsa brigades saw some news reports point fingers at the group, prompting the release of a statement saying "All statements released by other groups claiming they are affiliated to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades under any names, are false and unacceptable."

But only in English.

The brigades went on to condemn the wave of settler attacks targeting Paleostinians, saying "Our people are encountering unprecedented frantic attacks by mobs of settlers," adding that the attacks were creating an increasingly unstable situation in the West Bank as the rest of the Arab world was in turmoil.

Those Juices are fighting back. How dare they!

"Settlers have escalated their aggression, [they are] taking advantage of this time following the killing of five settlers. Israel claims that the killing was a 'natural outcome' from Paleostinian 'incitement' against settlers, saying we urge people to attack innocent people," the statement said, the allegations were untrue.

The thug group said it held Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "completely responsible for the latest breakdown ... the government has unleashed settlers who have been attacking Paleostinians, provoking them day and night."

By walking about and breathing, mostly.

Israel must not "take advantage of the death of innocents," the statement concluded.

The death which was accomplished by murder. Let us not forget that part.

In the wake of the deaths, Netanyahu announced the construction of 500 new settlement buildings, even as international groups called for an urgent return to peace talks, which Paleostinians say can not go forward as long as illegal settlements continue to be constructed on occupied land.

Illegal settlements including Tel Aviv and Haifa. Cleverly worded, guys.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Hebron: Al-Aqsa brigades opened fire over flotilla raid

2010-06-15

A group within the Fatah-affiliated Al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for opening fire at an Israeli patrol car in Hebron, killing an officer on Monday morning, as Israeli forces heavily deployed in the area in response to the attack.

A statement issued by the Imad Mughaniyeh group said it fired toward the patrol car near the Al-Fawwar refugee camp south of Hebron, killing one officer and injuring three others, in response to Israel's deadly raid on Gaza-bound aid fleet, killing nine passengers on board two weeks ago.

More Palestinian than thou. How quaint.

Meanwhile, the Islamic Jihad movement praised the assault, which they said "proved Palestinian fighters are keen on resistance ... all Palestinians have the right to resist and the right to reject negotiations," a party statement read.

"Thump your chests louder, lads -- show 'em what you're made of!"

Shots were fired by Israeli forces invading towns and villages around the Al-Fawwar refugee camp following the gun attack south of the illegal Israeli settlement of Haggay on Monday morning.

Since by Palestinian definition, if it's Israeli it's illegal, regardless of actual facts.

Reports from several nearby Palestinian villages and towns, including Dura and As-Samu, said troops stormed the areas, apparently looking for unidentified gunmen.

The entrance of the Al-Fawwar camp was blocked, a Palestinian motorcyclist identified as Hasan Arqoub was detained in Dura, and a busload of students were prevented from traveling to school by a roadblock. The students were due to take their high school exit test.

No doubt the students were devastated.

According to the Israeli news site Ynet, a "massive security and rescue forces have been dispatched the area," looking for those who perpetrated the attack, which left one officer dead and at least two others injured, Israeli media reported.

"This was definitely a terrorist attack," police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told Haaretz about the incident.

Israeli media said a car of police officers was "ambushed" by unknown gunmen south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Israel grants amnesty to 73 Al-Aqsa fighters

2010-06-10

[Ma'an] Israel has offered a range of amnesty deals to 73 Palestinian fighters from the West Bank, largely affiliated with Fatah's armed wing, the Al-Aqsa Brigades, which it delivered to the Palestinian Authority on Wednesday.

The list follows an agreement between Israel and the PA to clear its list of "wanted" Palestinians, in exchange for either a full pardon or partial custody in a PA administered prison. Fighters are asked to turn in their arms and renounce all acts of resistance against Israel.

The categories of amnesty include full pardon; partial pardon; partial pardon requiring nights spent at their home address; and partial pardon but with movement restricted to a single West Bank district.

Ma'an obtained a copy of those granted amnesty from the Nablus district, which include 22 pardons, detailed below:

Full pardon
1- Thaer Mashi
2- Lu'ai A'klik
3- Nael Khaled

Partial pardon
4- A'la' Hanun
5- I'mad Sawalha
6- Istefan A'nabtawi
7- Ahmad Shanteer
8- Mohammad Sharqawi

Partial pardon; required to sleep at home address
9- Hamza Qandil
10 -- Abdallah Hejazi
11 -- Hasen Abu Al-A'des
12 -- Rashad I'beid
13 -- Yasmin Ihmeid
14- Nafeth Asmar
15 -- Ghassan A'ta

Partial pardon with movement restricted to Nablus district
16 -- Naser Khatib
17 -- A'llam Ra'ee
18 -- Ja'far As-Samhan
19 -- Raed Dweikat
20 -- Lu'ai Al-Madani
21- Fathi Mena
22 -- Ahmad Ramadan

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Tulkarem blast damages home of Fatah fighter

2010-04-08

[Ma'an] An explosive charge was detonated in front of an Al-Aqsa Brigades member's home in the Tulkarem refugee camp on Wednesday, witnesses said. There were no immediate reports of injury.

Relatives of Husni Abu Zugheib, a member of the Fatah-aligned armed wing, said the home sustained material damage. The culprits also vandalized the walls of the building with slogans denouncing the fighter, they added.

Palestinian Authority police announced that an investigation was opened into the incident, as Fatah officials in the city denounced what they called an attack on Abu Zugheib. "Those suspected of orchistrating this attack must be exposed and punished," a Fatah official said.

An Israeli military patrol raided Tulkarem hours earlier, stopping several Palestinians to check IDs, eyewitnesses said. No clashes or detentions were reported, although residents said they felt threatened and forces were unnecessarily provoking civilians. Patrols were reportedly focused on Shwaika Street, Al-Younis, and Al-Quds Open University areas.

An Israeli military spokeswoman said the army was unaware of the incident. However, Israeli forces are operating in the West Bank to ensure the security of Israel and protect its citizens, she added.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Al-Aqsa fighter succumbs to injuries in Berlin

2010-02-19

[Ma'an] A Palestinian operative affiliated with Fatah's Al-Aqsa Brigades died in Berlin on Thursday, sources said. Dia Faeq Salawda, 23, was seriously injured during an attack on the illegal Elon Moreh settlement south of Nablus in 2002. Salawda was treated at the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem, before being transferred to Jordan, and finally Germany, where he died.
It's taken him eight years to peg out?

Eight years and the medical institutions of three countries, including the renowned Haddassah Center in Israel. I hope that particular batch of settlers has improved their defence techniques since then.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Militant groups claim responsibility for Israeli tower attack

2010-01-16

[Ma'an] The Al-Aqsa Brigades and the Imad Mughaniyah group, armed wings of Fatah, and the Abu Al-Qumans military council, claimed responsibility on Friday for an attack against the largest transmission tower west of the Erez border crossing, northern Gaza.

Golly, a transmission tower! Truly, these are men among men, Lions of bloody Islam like unto none other.

"This attack confronted recent Israeli invasions, attacks and assassination of six leaders of the Imad Mughaniyah and Al-Quds Brigades [Islamic Jihad's paramilitary wing]" a joint statement issued by the groups said.

According to the statement the tower was hit directly. Residents told Ma'an that loud explosions were heard near the Erez crossing, but that the cause was unknown.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

PA detains Al-Aqsa operatives in Nablus

2010-01-09

[Ma'an] Palestinian Authority security forces placed nine Fatah operatives into protective custody in the northern West Bank city of Nablus on Friday, detaining them in the nearby Al-Juneid prison, Ma'an has learned.

The men were once "wanted" members of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Fatah's paramilitary wing, until they entered into an amnesty program and received pardons from Israel.

An informed security source said the arrests came amid indications from the Israeli military that it would take its "own procedures," which were not specified, in the event PA forces failed to detain all nine before midnight. PA officials interpreted the warning as a threat to reinvade Nablus, the site of an incursion last month that left three Al-Aqsa members dead, two of whom had received pardons beforehand.

Ma'an obtained the identities of the men, who all turned themselves in before the alleged deadline.

1. Mahdi Abu Ghazaleh
2. Omar Akuba
3. Saleh Abu Al-Hayyat
4. Zaki Anees Issa
5. Muntaser Anees Issa
6. Haytham Al-Masry
7. Muhammad Labada
8. Reda Tubela
9. Anwar Al-Mahrum

At least two of them, Mahdi Abu Ghazaleh and Omar Akuba, were partially pardoned as recently as two months ago along with 30 others, and it was not clear why Israel was insisting they be rearrested.

Approached by Ma'an, representatives of the Israeli military were not immediately able to comment.

A number of Al-Aqsa fighters voluntarily entered an amnesty program in which they signed an agreement swearing off armed struggle against Israel. Under the terms of the deal, each handed in their weapons in exchange for a guarantee from Israel that they would no longer be pursued for arrest or assassination. The assassinations last month, however, threw into question the program's legitimacy.

Last Sunday, another operative affiliated with the Al-Aqsa Brigades handed himself over to Israeli authorities. Imad Tayih, 22, from the Al-Far'a Refugee Camp near Tubas, had been "wanted" by Israel for over a year and a half. During his time as a fugitive, he survived targeted assassination attempts and was injured as a result on several occasions, according to his family.

He turned himself in at the Salim military base in Nablus late last Sunday, said his cousin Faris, who observed that Tayih had been receiving a high volume of telephone calls from Israeli intelligence threatening to kill him if he did not give himself up.

Since the beginning of the second Palestinian intifada in September 2000, Israeli forces have assassinated more than 200 Palestinians with the use of air strikes, ambushes or undercover forces. As many as 400 bystanders were also killed in these attacks.

Faris explained that whenever his cousin would receive such a call, it was swiftly followed by attempts to ambush or abduct Tayih, adding that he had survived two assassination attempts and was injured nine times, recently including a critical gunshot wound to the spine. Unable to receive medical assistance and no longer able to bear the pain, Tayih handed himself in.

An Israeli military spokesman refused to comment on that arrest at the time.

Three weeks ago, Israeli forces assassinated three Palestinians affiliated with the Al-Aqsa Brigades in Nablus. The attack provoked an angry response from President Mahmoud Abbas, who threatened to scale back security coordination with the Israelis. The arrangements were already strained in late November when Israeli forces operating in Nablus and Salfit detained the commander and four officers of the PA Intelligence Services.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Al-Aqsa Brigades claim Gaza shelling

2009-12-29

[Ma'an] The Al-Aqsa Brigades, the armed wing of Fatah, said on Monday that they fired a homemade projectile overnight at an Israeli installation near the Kissufim crossing in the central Gaza Strip.

The group said in a statement that this was in retaliation for the Israeli operation in the West Bank city of Nablus on Saturday when three Al-Aqsa-affiliated men were killed.

An Israeli military spokesperson said officials were not aware of any such event.

"From an initial check the IDF is not aware of any shelling or any rocket falls in the Kissufim area," a military representative said over the phone.

Israeli special forces killed the three Nablus men alleging that they were linked to the fatal shooting of a settler on Thursday night.

Also on Saturday, Israeli force shot death three Palestinians who Israel claimed tried to enter Israel. Palestinian officials said the three were collecting scrap metal near the border.

Saturday's violence was the worst Israeli-Palestinian death toll since the end of Israel's three week offensive on Gaza last winter which left 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis dead.

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