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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syrian leader hailed by US envoy for moves on ‘relations with Israel,’ foreign fighters
2025-05-25
[IsraelTimes] Ahmed al-Sharaa meets Thomas Barrack in Turkey, is also hosted by Erdogan, amid reports he kicked Palestinian factions out of Syria as part of US conditions for lifting sanctions

US President Donald Trump
...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania...
’s special envoy to Syria said Saturday he met with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa and commended the steps he has taken regarding imported muscle and relations with Israel.

Thomas Barrack, a special envoy to Syria and the current US ambassador to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...a NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
 member, but not the most reliable...
, said in a statement that the two met in Istanbul on Saturday, and that he commended Sharaa for "taking meaningful steps" on imported muscle as well as "relations with Israel."

The meeting came a day after a report that leaders of Iran-backed Paleostinian terror groups in Syria, who were close to former president Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Despoiler of Deraa...
, left the country under pressure from Sharaa, citing Paleostinian sources.

The crackdown did not appear to affect the Syrian presence of 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...
-based Hamas
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
, which is also backed by Iran, nor that of Fatah, the secularist faction that dominates the West Bank-based Paleostinian Authority.

The White House had demanded that Sharaa crack down on Paleostinian terror groups as a condition for the removal of Washington’s sanctions on Damascus.

There have also been unconfirmed reports that Syria’s new regime has held indirect talks with Israel on potential normalization between the two countries, despite Israeli leaders’ deep suspicion of Sharaa due to his jihadi past.

Sharaa was in Istanbul this weekend for an unannounced meeting with Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
, according to the Anadolu state news agency.

The two leaders were seen greeting each other outside Erdogan’s office, ahead of a meeting that private Ottoman Turkish news channel NTV said lasted more than two and a half hours.

The Syrian delegation included its foreign and defense ministers and would "discuss a number of common issues" with the Ottoman Turkish side, the Syrian presidency said on Telegram.

Turkey’s foreign and defense ministers, its intelligence chief and the head of the state defense industry agency also took part, according to Anadolu.

Since Assad’s ouster, the new administration has been looking to build relations with the West and roll back sanctions, but some governments have expressed reluctance, pointing to the Islamist past of leading figures.

Ankara is a firm supporter of Syria’s new Islamist authorities and is seeking to roll back sanctions and rebuild the country’s infrastructure and economy after almost 14 years of civil war. Erdogan also hosted al-Sharaa in February.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran-backed Palestinian terror groups said to leave Syria under pressure from Sharaa
2025-05-24
[IsraelTimes] Flight of pro-Assad factions comes amid Trump’s demand that the new regime crack down on Palestinian terrorism as a condition for sanctions relief

Leaders of Iran-backed Paleostinian terror groups in Syria close to former president Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Leveler of Latakia...
 have left the country under pressure from the regime of Ahmed al-Sharaa, who led the ouster of the Iran-backed strongman in December, Paleostinian sources said Friday.

The armed factions’ flight comes amid a White House demand that Sharaa crack down on Paleostinian terror groups as a condition for the removal of Washington’s sanctions on Damascus. There have also been unconfirmed reports that Syria’s new regime has held indirect talks with Israel on potential normalization between the two countries, despite Israeli leaders’ deep suspicion of Sharaa due to his jihadi past.

The crackdown did not appear to affect the Syrian presence of 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...
-based Hamas
..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
, which is also backed by Iran, nor that of Fatah, the secularist faction that dominates the West Bank-based Paleostinian Authority.

The leader of one Iran-backed Paleostinian group, who left Syria after Assad’s overthrow, said on condition of anonymity that "most of the Paleostinian factional leadership that received support from Tehran has left Damascus" to countries including Leb
...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel...
. Another faction leader still in Damascus confirmed the development.

The first faction leader said "the factions have fully handed over weapons in their headquarters or with their cadres" to the authorities, who also received "lists of names of faction members possessing individual weapons" and demanded that those arms be handed over.

A third Paleostinian faction source in Damascus said that after Assad’s overthrow, "we gathered our members’ weapons ourselves and handed them over, but we have kept individual light weapons for protection... with the [authorities’] authorization."

In Yarmouk, a Paleostinian refugee camp in the Damascus suburbs that was devastated during Syria’s civil war, factional banners usually displayed at the entrance were gone and party buildings were closed and unguarded, AFP photographers said. Factional premises elsewhere in Damascus also appeared closed.

Many Paleostinians fled to Syria in 1948 following the creation of Israel, and from the mid-1960s Syria began hosting the leadership of armed Paleostinian factions. Iran-backed Paleostinian groups enjoyed considerable freedom of movement under Assad.

Washington, which designates some of the factions as terrorist organizations, last week announced it was lifting sanctions on Syria. The White House had earlier said the new Syrian regime would have to comply with demands, including suppressing terrorism and preventing "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...
and its proxies from exploiting Syrian territory."

According to the White House, during a meeting in Saudi Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
 last week, US President Donald Trump
...Never got invited to a P.Diddy party...
 gave Sharaa a list of demands that included deporting "Paleostinian terrorists."

The Iran-backed Paleostinian factions in Syria, along with other terror groups from Lebanon, Iraq and 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...
, are part of Iran’s so-called Axis of Resistance®, which is openly committed to Israel’s destruction. Some Axis members fought alongside Assad’s forces when civil war erupted in Syria in 2011.

In neighboring Lebanon, a government official told AFP that the disarmament of Paleostinian camps, where factions usually handle security, would begin next month based on an accord with visiting Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....>
, who also met with Sharaa in Damascus last month.

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The Iran-backed Paleostinian groups in Syria "did not receive any official request from the authorities to leave Syrian territory" but instead faced restrictions, the first faction leader told AFP.

Some factions "were de facto prohibited from operating," or their members were arrested, he said, adding that the new authorities have seized property from "private homes, offices, vehicles and military training camps in the Damascus countryside and other provinces."

Syrian authorities did not immediately provide a comment to AFP when asked about the matter.

Earlier this month, officials from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine-General Command (PFLP-GC) said Syrian authorities briefly detained factional chief Talal Naji.

In April, Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
 said Syrian official Khaled Khaled and organizing committee member Yasser al-Zafri were tossed into the calaboose "without explanation." A source from the group told AFP on Friday that they were still detained.

The second Paleostinian faction leader, from a group that has remained in Damascus with limited representation, said there was "no cooperation between most of the Paleostinian factions and the new Syrian administration."

"The response to our contact is mostly cold or delayed. We feel like unwelcome guests, though they don’t say that clearly," he added, also requesting anonymity.

A Hamas official in Gaza told AFP that it had "channels of communication with our brothers in Syria."

Hamas has minimal representation in Syria, having left the country after the civil war there began. Hamas’s ties with the Assad regime had deteriorated amid the terror group’s support for opposition demands.

Yarmouk camp resident Marwan Mnawar, a retiree, said that "nobody knows what happened to the factional leadership," adding that "people just want to live, they are exhausted" by the conflict and factional infighting.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Report: Hamas and Islamist leaders to leave Lebanon for Qatar and Turkey
2025-05-23
[NAHARNET] Wednesday's talks between President Joseph Aoun and Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....>
 led to a ''roadmap for addressing the crisis of Paleostinian camps in Leb
...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects....
 on all levels, especially as to the issue of chaos, arms proliferation and the transformation of some camps into havens for outlaws,'' al-Binaa newspaper reported on Thursday.

Amid reports that the Hamas
..always the voice of sweet reason...
 Movement has ''expressed readiness for cooperation,'' the daily said ''leaders from Hamas and fundamentalist organizations will leave Lebanon within 15 days, likely to Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
 and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
Aoun and Abbas met in Baabda on Wednesday and backed placing all weapons under Lebanese state control, as they discussed efforts to disarm gangs in Paleostinian refugee camps.

A joint statement from the Lebanese presidency said the two leaders shared the "belief that the era of weapons outside Lebanese state control has ended" and backed the principle that arms should be held exclusively by the state.

Abbas' three-day trip is his first to Lebanon since 2017.

The country hosts about 222,000 Paleostinian refugees, according to the United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
 agency UNRWA, many living in overcrowded camps beyond state control.

A Lebanese government source said Abbas' visit aimed to set up a mechanism to remove weapons from the camps. The source requested anonymity as they were not allowed to brief the media.

The statement said the two sides agreed "to form a joint Lebanese-Paleostinian committee to follow up on the situation of Paleostinian camps in Lebanon and work on improving the living conditions of refugees, while respecting Lebanese illusory sovereignty and committing to Lebanese laws."

By longstanding convention, the Lebanese Army stays out of the Paleostinian camps, where Abbas' Fatah, its rival Hamas and other gangs handle security.

Hamas claimed attacks on Israel from Lebanon during more than a year of hostilities involving its Lebanese ally Hezbollah. The festivities, sparked by 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...
 war, largely subsided after a truce in November.

"The monopoly of weapons should be in the hands of the state," Aoun said in an interview with Egyptian channel ON TV on Sunday.

The army, he added, had dismantled six Paleostinian military training camps -- three in Bekaa, one south of Beirut and two in the north -- and seized weapons.

Under the November ceasefire agreement, the army has also been dismantling bad boy group Hezbollah's infrastructure in the country's south.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas denies rumours of planned prisoner release in return for two-month truce
2025-05-20
“OK,” replied the IDF. “We’ll just continue the war until you surrender — give us back all the hostages, living and dead, disarm, and get out of Gaza.”
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Head of Hamas
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
' Political Bureau Abroad, Dr. Sami Abu Zuhri
...a senior spokesman for Hamas. Zuhri gained notoriety in 2006 when he dropped his money belt containing somewhere between 640,000 and 900,000 euros, which was confiscated by Paleostinian security and customs officials at a routine border crossing from Egypt to Gaza. The news brought competing Hamas and Fatah forces to the crossing checkpoint for an epic face-making and hollering contest...
 denied the rumors about the movement agreeing to release 9 ''Israeli'' captives in exchange for a two-month truce, emphasizing that talks about such an agreement are inaccurate and an attempt to deceive global public opinion.

Abu Zuhri told al- al-Jazeera that the occupation is trying to confuse the arena with fake news in order to pressure the resistance and carry out its crimes.

He confirmed that Hamas will not hand over the occupation's captives as long as it insists on endlessly continuing its aggression against 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...
''We initiated the handover of soldier Edan [Alexander] to create an atmosphere for reaching an agreement, but the American administration did not appreciate our step,'' he said.

He expressed the movement's readiness to release all the captives at once, but only on the condition that the occupation commits to ending the war with international guarantees.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Aoun says exchanging messages with Hezbollah, disarmament can't be done hastily
2025-05-20
[NAHARNET] President Joseph Aoun has said diplomatic contacts are ongoing especially with the U.S. to pressure Israel to stop its attacks on 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....
, adding that Deputy U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Morgan Ortagus will visit Lebanon soon.

In an interview late Sunday with Egyptian digital television channel ON E, Aoun said the Israeli occupation of five Lebanese hills is preventing the Lebanese army from deploying on the border. "We are in constant contact with the U.S. to urge it to pressure Israel," he said, explaining that Lebanon is seeking a truce deal and not a normalization of ties with Israel.

"We have asked for indirect negotiations to demarcate the land border the same way we did with the maritime border" with Israel, Aoun told the Egyptian channel.

As for his dialogue with Hezbollah over the handover of its weapons, Aoun said he and Hezbollah are exchanging messages but that the group's security situation does not allow it to have meetings. "Hezbollah represents a segment of the Lebanese population and has the right to participate in the politics but not to keep its arms."

Aoun said that addressing the Hezbollah's disarmament should not be done too hastily, adding that Lebanon has good relations with 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...
but does not accept any foreign intervention. "If the U.S.-Iranian negotiations reach a conclusion, it will affect the region and Lebanon," he said.

Aoun will also discuss this week with Paleostinian president the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....>
 the disarmament of Paleostinian camps.

By long-standing convention, Lebanon's army stays out of the Paleostinian camps -- where Abbas's Fatah movement, bad boy group Hamas
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
 and other gangs are present -- and leaves the factions to handle security.

Last month, the army said it had arrested several Lebanese and Paleostinians in connection with rocket attacks towards Israel.

Abbas last visited the country in 2017 and will arrive in Lebanon on May 21
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Report: Decision to disarm Palestinian camps taken, Abbas' visit decisive
2025-05-20
[NAHARNET] A decision to disarm the Paleostinian refugee camps in Leb
...The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else?...
 has been taken and Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....>
' visit to Beirut on Wednesday will be ''decisive in this regard in terms of devising the plans and executive mechanisms,'' Lebanese sources informed on the Paleostinian file said.

''Lebanese officials prefer that the plans be Paleostinian and shared with the Lebanese side, with Lebanon pushing for the disarmament process to be among the Paleostinian themselves and led by the Fatah Movement,'' the sources told ad-Diyar newspaper.

''The Hamas
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
 Movement for its part has sent positive signals on its readiness to hand over weapons if there is a major Lebanese-Paleostinian decision in this regard, as eyes remain fixed on the hardline organizations inside the camps and whether they will cooperate or the matter will require surgical measures carried out by Fatah and its allies,'' the sources added.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Watchdog: Gazan reporters face beatings, threats when covering anti-Hamas rallies
2025-05-16
[IsraelTimes] Committee to Protect Journalists says phenomenon ‘vastly underreported’ due to reporters’ fear of coming forward; journalists self-censoring rather than reporting on dissent

Gazook journalists face beatings and threats while covering anti-Hamas
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
 protests and dissent in the Strip, forcing them to self-censor to ensure their safety, the Committee to Protect Journalists reported Thursday.

The media watchdog lamented that the phenomenon has been "vastly underreported," noting that the Paleostinian Journalists’ Syndicate, the Paleostinian journalists’ union, does not publicize the testimonies they compile of Hamas attacks on news hounds over fear of reprisals.

Gazook Tawfiq Abu Jarad told CPJ that he complied with a Hamas security agent’s warning not to cover a women’s anti-war protest on April 27 in Beit Lahiya, adding that the agent told him he would be "responsible" if his wife took part in the rally.

Jarad recounted that he was beaten and questioned in November 2023 by Hamas operatives in Rafah, who alleged he was "covering events in 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 calling for a coup."

"I have not covered any recent demonstrations," said Abu Jarad, who works for the Ramallah-based Sawt al-Hurriya radio station.
"Ramallah Morning Zoo™" for your drive-time pleasure
The news hound filed a complaint to PJS over the intimidation, which slammed Hamas’s infringement on press freedom.

Since late March, sporadic protests against the terror group, which has been the de facto government of Gaza for almost two decades, have taken place in the Strip, despite reports of Hamas attempting to detain and harm demonstrators, and counter to claims by the terror group that the protests are merely anti-war. Many of the protests have occurred in Beit Lahiya.

Before the war, anti-Hamas protests were also relatively rare events, and were often suppressed violent mostly peacefully by the terror group.

CPJ said the journalists’ union, limited by the hesitancy of Gaza journalists to speak up publicly, only published the testimony of one other Gaza journalist, Ibrahim Muhareb, who was brutally assaulted last year by men claiming to be plain-clothed Hamas coppers.

Muhareb, a freelance photographer who was working from a tent outside Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, said he was set upon by agents and suffered deep head wounds in the attack.

"When I tried to contact a police officer in charge of journalists’ affairs, they tried to dismantle my tent. When I resisted, they began assaulting me, by kicking me," he said.

"I tried to speak to them calmly, but they began to beat me even more severely. They suddenly struck me with an instrument, causing me to lose consciousness, and blood flowed from my head," he added. "Some colleagues tried to intervene, but they prevented them, literally telling them that ’the spy and the journalist are one and the same.'"

Muharab said that other journalists eventually managed to pull him away and took him to receive medical attention.

Mohammed Abu Aoun, a correspondent for Fatah-linked Awda TV, told CPJ he was set on by Hamas security agents in 2024 while interviewing a woman in Deir al-Balah who began insulting Hamas’s leaders.

"The officers immediately took me to an unknown location and beat me," he told the watchdog.

CPJ cited several other journalists who were prevented from covering certain events, but did not consent to their stories going public.

Ismail al-Thawabta, the director general of Gaza’s Hamas-run Government Media Office, claimed to have received no complaints over intimidation regarding media coverage of the rallies, or any such measures from security agents in response to CPJ’s queries.

Thawabta also claimed that Hamas has "fully opened the field" and ensured journalists could safely and freely cover events in Gaza.

PJS’ head Nasser Abu Bakr told the committee that Hamas’s regime commits "major violations" against press freedoms, including "summonses, interrogations, phone calls, threats, sometimes beatings and arrests, to harassment, publication bans, interference with content, and surveillance."

Deputy PJS head Tahseen al-Astal said that journalists do not want to go public about their problems, feeling such stories would "pivot eyes from the war in Gaza."

"Most journalists have begun to practice self-censorship in their writing to avoid any problems with security," he added.

CPJ Regional Director Sara Qudah expressed alarm over the "threats, assaults and intimidation" experienced by Gazook journalists.

"Hamas must end its repression of the press and be held accountable for these violations. Journalists must be free to report without fear of violence, harassment, or retaliation."

Throughout the war, the CPJ has mainly condemned the Israeli military for attacks endangering journalists in Gaza. In February, it said 2024 was the deadliest for journalists in recent history, with at least 124 news hounds killed — and Israel responsible for nearly 70 percent of that total.

Shortly after the report was released, the Israel Defense Forces responded by insisting that it does not intentionally target journalists in the Gaza Strip, while noting that many on the list are members of terror groups.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Al Jazeera says Palestinian Authority has allowed it to resume work in West Bank
2025-05-13
[IsraelTimes] Qatari network was banned by PA from broadcasting in the territory following ‘misinformation’ and ‘incitement’ in its coverage of Ramallah’s crackdown on terror groups

Al Jazeera’s Ramallah bureau chief said Monday that the news channel can resume working in the West Bank, after Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....>
 lifted a ban that had been in place since January.

"Paleostinian President Mahmoud Abbas has decided to lift the ban on the Al Jazeera network and allow its crews to resume work in the Paleostinian territories starting tomorrow morning," Waleed Omari said, in a statement to the Israeli-Paleostinian Foreign Press Association.

A Paleostinian official confirmed the removal of the ban to AFP, but the PA did not issue a formal announcement.

The Paleostinian Authority in January ordered the temporary suspension of Al Jazeera broadcasts across the West Bank, against the backdrop of the Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
i network’s critical coverage of Ramallah’s crackdown on terror groups in the territory.

The PA accused the network of "misinformation, incitement, sedition and interference in Paleostinian internal affairs."

In late December, Al Jazeera had condemned what it said was an "incitement campaign" by PA President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party against the network in some areas of the West Bank.

"This campaign follows the network’s coverage of festivities between Paleostinian security forces and resistance fighters in Jenin," Al Jazeera said in a statement at the time, lionizing the anti-PA fighters, many of whom were affiliated with the Hamas
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
 and Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
 terror groups.

The Qatari broadcaster has close ties with Hamas and has long been accused of having a distinct anti-Israel slant.

The network is already banned from broadcasting from Israel, amid a long-running feud with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, which has only worsened during the ongoing war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
. Israeli officials have long complained about Al Jazeera’s coverage, which they say is heavily influenced by Hamas and endangers IDF troops in Gaza.

A court, reviewing the temporary ban, determined that there was a "close connection" between Al Jazeera and Hamas, that some Al Jazeera news hounds in Gaza had turned themselves into "assistants and partners" with Hamas, and that some of them had even carried out terror attacks.
Related:
Al Jazeera 05/12/2025 Report: Body of US journalist Austin Tice, missing since 2012, found in Syria
Al Jazeera 05/12/2025 'Secret Codes': Israelis are looking for sheikh lovers in the army and secret services
Al Jazeera 05/11/2025 Ex-hostage Omer Shem Tov says he refused captors’ demand to fell building on IDF troops

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Lebanon and Syria's moves to centralize power lead to crackdowns on Palestinian factions
2025-05-11
[AnNahar] Leb
...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects....
 and Syria are cracking down on Paleostinian factions that for decades have had an armed presence in both countries and which on some occasions were used to plan and launch attacks against Israel.

The crackdown comes as Syria's new rulers under Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
 are pursuing officials of the former government under Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Despoiler of Deraa...
, including those in the ousted president's web of security agencies. Syria's most prominent Paleostinian factions were key allies of the Assad dynasty in both war and peace time and closely cooperated on security matters.

It also comes after Iran's main regional ally, Lebanon's Hezbollah, was weakened after over a year of war with Israel and as Lebanon's new government vows to monopolize all arms under the government, including Hezbollah and Paleostinian factions in Lebanon.

On Wednesday, Syria's President Ahmad al-Sharaa said his government is holding indirect talks with Israel through mediators, who he did not name. He said the aim of the indirect negotiations is to ease tensions after intense Israeli Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s on Syria.

A crackdown on hardline Paleostinian factions, including the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
, which took part with Hamas
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
 in the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
, is likely to be welcomed by Israel.

A Syrian government official declined to comment on the matter.

A Paleostinian official who had been in Damascus for more than 40 years, and who recently left the country, said Paleostinian factions in Syria were forced to hand over their weapons and the Paleostinian embassy will be the only side that Syria's new authorities will deal with. The Paleostinian groups would only be limited to social and charitable activities, the official added, who spoke on condition of anonymity fearing for their safety.

Paleostinian factions for decades have lived in refugee camps in Lebanon and Syria and have been involved militarily both locally and regionally. They closely aligned themselves with the Assads and later with Hezbollah in Lebanon, whose powerful military arsenal grew over the past few decades. Over time, many of the leaders of groups like Hamas and the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad were based in those countries.

However,
a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all...
 the regional developments of late 2024 that went against Iran's favor in the Levant began to take shape in recent weeks among the Paleostinian factions in Lebanon and Syria.

"No weapons will be allowed in the (Paleostinian refugee) camps. The Syrian state will protect citizens whether they are Paleostinians or Syrians," said Syrian political analyst Ahmad al-Hamada, whose view points reflect those of the government. "It is not allowed for Paleostinian factions that were arms for 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...
and the Assad regime to keep their weapons."

When asked whether the state will prevent any attacks against Israel, al-Hamada said Syria will not allow its territories to be used as a launch pad against any neighbor.

Syrian authorities in Damascus this week detained two bigwigs of the Iran-backed Paleostinian Islamic Jihad group and briefly detained and questioned the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine-General Command, FLP-GC, that since its founding had been a key ally of Assad.

Another Paleostinian official with one of the factions that had been based in Syria said the developments caught them by surprise, and that regardless of who runs the country they are keen to have good relations with Syria's new rulers and maintain the country's stability.

"We hope that this wouldn't have happened. But we don't have a say in this," the official said, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they are still based in the country. "We are simply guests here."

The government in Lebanon, which is trying to expand its army's influence in the south near Israel, has also been reclaiming dozens of informal border crossings with Syria, which were key arteries for Iran and its allies to transport weapons and fighters over the years. Many of those crossings were held by PFLP-GC forces of Evil who have given some of those positions up to the Lebanese Army after Assad's downfall.

Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....>
, who Paleostinian factions in Syria oppose, visited Damascus last month for the first time in more than a decade and he is scheduled to visit Lebanon on May 21.

After Israel intensified its airstrikes on Lebanon in response to Hamas allegedly firing rockets from southern Lebanon in late March, the Lebanese government for the first time called out the Paleostinian group and arrested nearly 10 suspects involved in the operation. Hamas was pressured by the military to turn in three of their forces of Evil from different refugee camps.

Ahmad Abdul-Hadi, a Hamas representative in Lebanon, was also summoned by the head of one of the country's top security agencies over the incident and was formally told that Hamas should stop its military activities.

Lebanon's President Joseph Aoun, who is backed by the United States and Arab countries rather than Hezbollah and Iran, has said armed factions should not be allowed to "shake up national security and stability." His statement has set a new tone after decades of tolerating the presence of armed Paleostinian groups in refugee camps which have led to armed conflict in the crowded ghettos.

"I think we're in unprecedented times, politically speaking," said Mohanad Hage Ali, a senior fellow at the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut. "The (Lebanese) army is acting out of a political will, with its former chief now the president. There is a strong political thrust behind the army."

A Lebanese government official familiar with the initiative said that Hamas was told to hand over wanted forces of Evil and end all its military activity in the country. He added that there is also a plan to gradually give up Hamas' weapons, which coincides with the visit to Lebanon of Abbas, leader of the rival Fatah group.
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Almost half of Gaza Palestinians willing to ask Israel to help them leave — poll
2025-05-07
[IsraelTimes] Ramallah-based think tank finds majorities in Gaza and West Bank oppose Hamas disarmament, unconvinced IDF will withdraw if Israel’s demands met

Almost half of Gazooks may be willing to apply to Israel to help them leave to other countries, according to a survey released Tuesday that also showed that support for anti-Hamas
..always the voice of sweet reason...
 protests is much higher in 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 than in the West Bank.

The poll also showed that for the first time since the Gaza war was sparked by the Hamas onslaught of October 7, 2023, more Gazooks thought Israel rather than Hamas would emerge victorious, though a plurality thought the war would end in a stalemate. Gazooks were also more likely to support concessions from Hamas, but a majority still thought these would not make Israel withdraw from the Strip.

The survey by the Paleostinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PCPSR), which is based in Ramallah and funded by Western donors, was based on polling of people across the Gaza Strip and West Bank on May 1-4, some six weeks after Israel resumed hostilities in Gaza.

The survey found that 49 percent of respondents would be willing to apply to Israel to help them emigrate via Israeli ports and airports, versus 50% who said they would not be willing to do so.

Israeli ministers have made little secret of their wish to see a large part of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents moved out of the enclave, in line with the plan announced by US President Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
 in February to take control of the Strip and rebuild it as a coastal resort. Asked about Trump’s plan, 56% of Gazooks said they would be unwilling to emigrate after the war, and 43% said they would.

Much of Gaza has been reduced to rubble in the war sparked on October 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas-led holy warriors stormed southern Israel to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages. However,
man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them...
 many Gazooks believe leaving would mean surrendering their home, and Israel has made little headway persuading other countries to accept them.

Asked if Hamas’s decision to launch the onslaught had been a correct one, 37% of Gazooks said yes, 58% said no, and 5% said they didn’t know. In the West Bank, 59% of respondents said yes, 29% said no, and 13% said they didn’t know. In total, 50% of respondents said yes, 40% said no and 10% said they didn’t know. Paleostinian support for the onslaught was at its lowest in both territories since the start of the war.

The overwhelming majority of respondents, 87%, denied that Hamas had committed "the atrocities seen in the videos shown by international media," such as murdering women and kiddies in their homes, PCPSR said, adding that just 9% believed Hamas had committed atrocities. The firm did not provide a breakdown between Gaza and the West Bank for the question.

A majority of Paleostinians, 56%, said they expected that Israel and Hamas would reach a ceasefire-hostage release deal in the coming days, as opposed to 41% who did not expect an agreement soon. The majority that expects a deal soon included 65% of West Bank respondents and 42% of Gazook respondents, PCPSR said. The firm did not say if the latter constituted a plurality of respondents in Gaza.

Israel announced on Monday that it would expand operations in Gaza and begin seizing territory there until Hamas is defeated and the remaining 59 hostages are released.

However,
man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them...
 69% of Gazook respondents and 88% of West Bank respondents said they believe the Gaza war will not end if Hamas disarms. Sixty percent of Gazook and 82% of West Bank respondents also disagreed that the war would end if Hamas releases the hostages.

PCPSR speculated that those results were the reason "why the overwhelming majority is opposed to a Hamas disarmament or the departure of its military leadership from the Gaza Strip." According to the polling firm, 85% of respondents in the West Bank, and 64% in Gaza, were opposed to the disarmament of Hamas; overall, just 18% of Paleostinians supported it, including 33% of respondents in Gaza and 9% in the West Bank.

Seventy-four percent of West Bank respondents also said they were opposed to the expulsion of Hamas leaders as a condition to ending the Gaza war, while 20% said they supported the move. In Gaza, the results were close, with 51% saying they support expulsion as a condition for a ceasefire, and 47% saying they oppose it.

Just 23% of Gazooks think Hamas will win the war with Israel — the lowest figure since the start of the war. It was also the first time the figure was lower than the number of Gazooks who thought Israel would emerge victorious, which stood at 29%. Forty percent of Gazooks thought neither Israel nor Hamas would win.

The PCPSR survey also found that 48% of Paleostinians in Gaza supported the series of anti-Hamas demonstrations that began in various places around the enclave in March. The figure was just 14% in the West Bank, whose Paleostinian Authority is dominated by Hamas’s secularist rival Fatah.

At the same time, 54% of Gazooks also thought the protests, which Hamas said were set up by Israeli intelligence services, were steered by outside hands. Just 20% said they expressed the real opinion of the population.

The protests in Gaza were a rare public show of opposition to Hamas, which has ruled the Strip since 2007. The terror group has reportedly executed at least one man for taking part in the protests.

Israel has previously published what it said were documents seized in Gaza that showed Hamas had inflated its support rates in surveys undertaken by PCPSR. Prominent Paleostinian pollster Khalil Shikaki, who runs PCPSR, told The Times of Israel at the time that it was "highly unlikely" that the terror group had duped the think tank.

The Strip has also grown increasingly short on food after Israel cut off the flow of aid to Gaza on March 2. The aid halt began hours after the Gaza ceasefire-hostage release deal’s first phase expired amid Israel’s refusal to negotiate the second, which would have required a full IDF withdrawal from the Strip. Israel accuses Hamas of hoarding the aid.

According to PCPSR, 53% of Gazooks said they had enough food for a day or two, while 48% said they did not even have that much. Seven months ago, by contrast, 69% said they had enough food for a day or two, the polling firm said.

Israel, which renewed hostilities in Gaza on March 18, on Monday announced it would expand operations in Gaza and begin seizing areas of the Strip until Hamas is defeated and the remaining 59 captives are released. An Israeli official said the expansion would also see Israel renew the flow of aid to the Strip under a new mechanism.

Gaza’s Hamas-led health ministry says more than 52,000 Gazooks have been killed since the terror group invaded Israel. The figure, which cannot be independently verified, does not distinguish between civilians and combatants. Israel says it has killed some 20,000 fighters in Gaza as of January and another 1,600 holy warriors inside Israel during the Hamas onslaught.

According to PCPSR, 52% of Gazooks said they had lost one or more family members during the current war.

The think tank said the survey’s sample was 1,270 with a margin of error of 3.5%.

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Palestinian president confirms Beirut visit after disarmament call — Naharnet
2025-05-07
[NAHARNET] Paleostinian president the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....>
 will visit Leb
...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
 on May 21 to discuss extending Beirut's authority to Paleostinian camps, a Lebanese government official said Tuesday, as Abbas's office confirmed the date.

The visit comes after President Joseph Aoun said late last month authorities were working to "withdraw (unauthorized) heavy and medium weapons from all Lebanese territory", and that he would raise disarmament of the camps with Abbas.

The government official, requesting anonymity as they were not authorized to brief the media, said Abbas and Lebanese leaders would discuss "extending state authority to all Lebanese territory, including the Paleostinian camps".

By long-standing convention, Lebanon's army stays out of the Paleostinian camps -- where Abbas's Fatah movement, holy warrior group Hamas
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
 and other gangs are present -- and leaves the factions to handle security.

Hamas claimed attacks on Israel from Lebanon during more than a year of hostilities between Israel and the Paleostinian group's Lebanese ally Hezbollah that erupted over 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...
 war.

A November ceasefire largely halted hostilities, but Israel has continued to carry out strikes on Lebanon, mainly targeting Hezbollah operatives and infrastructure but occasionally also Hamas members or other allies.

After unclaimed rocket fire towards Israel from Lebanon on March 22 and 28, Israel responded by bombing south Lebanon and Beirut's southern suburbs, strongholds of the Iran-backed Hezbollah which denied involvement in the launches.

Lebanon's top security body the Higher Defense Council has warned Hamas against using the country for attacks on Israel.

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam also said illegal weapons must be handed over and that Hamas and other factions must not "undermine security and national stability".

Since then, Lebanon's army has said that Hamas has handed over three people suspected of involvement in the March rocket launches.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Report: Hamas reestablishes internal security force amid growing chaos in Gaza
2025-05-05
[IsraelTimes] Palestinian news outlet Safa reports that Hamas’s interior ministry has reestablished a unit called the “Executive Force,” aimed at restoring order in the Gaza Strip.

The force originally operated in 2006, during the period when Hamas was part of the Palestinian Authority government, and functioned under PA security structures.

Following Hamas’s takeover of Gaza in 2007, the Palestinian Authority declared the force illegal, and Hamas later dismantled it.

According to the report, approximately 5,000 Hamas operatives have now been integrated into the newly reestablished force, which is tasked with “restoring order and stability and acting against gangs of thieves and collaborators with Israel.”

While Hamas has not officially confirmed the report, a news outlet affiliated with the organization republishes the Safa article.
Related:
Executive Force: 2009-10-14 Fatah leaders call Mash'al a Judas who has "lit sedition" in Palestine
Executive Force: 2009-08-26 Al-Qaida-Style Islamism Comes to Gaza
Executive Force: 2009-01-15 Senior Hamas figure Said Siam killed in airstrike
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