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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Islamic Jihad threatens Israel as hunger-striking detainee reported in critical condition

2022-01-02

[JPost] Let him die a skinny martyr
The detainee, Hisham Abu Hawwash, has been on a hunger strike for 138 days in protest of his administrative detention.

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) organization warned over the weekend that if a Palestinian administrative detainee who is on hunger strike dies it would consider his death an "assassination" by Israel.

The detainee, Hisham Abu Hawash, has been on hunger strike for 138 days in protest of his administrative detention. He was recently transferred to the Shamir Medical Center (Assaf Harofeh), where he is reported to be in critical condition. Abu Hawash has been held in administrative detention since October 2020.

عاجل| المحامي جواد بولس: أطباء يؤكدون أن الأسير هشام أبو هواش يواجه احتمالية الوفاة المفاجئة، وحالته حرجة للغاية، والطاقم الطبي بالمستشفى الإسرائيلي يرفض تزويدهم بمعلومات عن الوضع الصحي لهشام.#أنقذوا_هشام_أبو_هواش #معركة_الأمعاء_الخاوية pic.twitter.com/6dQHmdctXr
— شبكة قدس | الأسرى (@asranews) January 1, 2022

PIJ Secretary-General Ziyad al-Nakhala threatened that if Abu Hawash dies, his organization would consider the death an assassination and respond accordingly.

A PIJ statement issued in the Gaza Strip claimed that Abu Hawash was "being subjected to a process of assassination."

"All options are open and on the table in case the occupation continues its procrastination and evasion of responsibility," the statement cautioned.

A PIJ-affiliated armed group called the Jenin Brigades in the West Bank threatened that Israel would pay a heavy price if the prisoner dies. The group announced a "state of general mobilization" among its members, saying it was ready for retaliation.

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh on Saturday called on Israel to release the detainee. "Abu Hawash is in critical condition and we hold the occupation authorities fully responsible for his life," he said.

On Friday, a delegation from the PA Health Ministry visited Abu Hawash at the hospital and found that his health condition was seriously dangerous as he suffers blurry vision, significant muscular atrophy and inability to move and talk, the ministry said in a statement.

The ministry said that it had reached out to international human rights organizations to demand that Abu Hawash be moved to a Palestinian hospital after the serious deterioration in his health condition.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Qassem Soleimani provided Gaza with ‘all classic weapons and long-range missiles’: PIJ leader

2021-01-03

[AlMasdar] The Secretary-General of 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...
, Ziyad al-Nakhalah,

...also spelt Ziad al-Nakhala, in 2018 he succeeded Ramadan Abdullah Shallah (also in the Rantburg archives as Ramadan Shallah, Ramadan Abdullah Mohammad Shallah, and Abu Abdullah) following that gentleman's stroke. Mr. Shallah was a PhD economist who was on the FBI most wanted list until he died in 2020, possibly in Florida. Back in 2003 Mr. Shallah was indicted in absentia of running a PIJ jihadi cell in Florida connected to PIJ Majlis Shura (governing council) secretary and U of S. Florida computer engineering professor Sami al Arian...

said on Friday, in an interview carried by RT Arabic, that Major General Qassem Soleimani

, who was assassinated in Baghdad, had provided 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 an iron fist by Hamaswith 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...
with "all classic weapons and long-range missiles."

He explained that Soleimani sent 10 ships loaded with weapons to Gaza,

...we seem to have missed that report, unless by ships he means rowboats ...

in addition to transferring missile technology to the PIJ and Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, fighters in Gaza after they were trained on it in Iran
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...
until it achieved self-sufficiency, as the two movements now have their experts. They themselves are now training Paleostinian engineers and technicians locally, Nakhalah said.

Nakhalah asserted that the accumulation of Paleostinian experience in this field has reached the point of innovation, as "our fighters in Gaza and the manufacturing units make progress in the arms industry every day."

During his visit to the Iranian capital, on Friday, in a ceremony commemorating the first anniversary of the liquidation of Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Mohandis, Nakhalah reiterated his assertion that "Qassem Soleimani sent us missiles that struck the capital of the Zionist entity, and these missiles are still doing their work" and that this Iranian leader was present. On all the battlefronts and in the Paleostine front in particular."

He explained, "Qassem Soleimani was assassinated because he was an obstacle to the United States and Israel in their efforts to reform the region."

Commenting on the recent Paleostinian military maneuvers in Gaza, Nakhalah told al-Mayadeen TV that it was "conducted with live weapons" from beginning to end, and that it was a message to Tel Aviv, despite its attempt to minimize it to reassure the Israelis, explaining that "long-range missiles have been tested. Its range exceeded approximately 100 km in the maneuver."

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

PIJ leader: Gaza terror groups have military presence in West Bank

2020-09-17

[Jerusalem Post] The Secretary-General of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist group, Ziyad Al-Nakhalah,

...also spelt Ziad al-Nakhala, he was successor as of 2018 to Ramadan Abdullah Shallah (also in the Rantburg archives as Ramadan Shallah and Ramadan Abdullah Mohammad Shallah) following that gentleman's stroke. Mr. Shallah was a PhD economist who was on the FBI most wanted list until he died ~~possibly in Florida~~ in Lebanon in June. Back in 2003 he was indicted in absentia of running a PIJ jihadi cell in Florida connected to Sami al Arian...

stated that Palestinian terror groups have military presence in the West Bank in an interview with Al-Mayadeen on Wednesday, warning that there are "no redlines" if war breaks out with Israel.

The IDF internet division has no doubt long since traced the connections to his cell phone and laptop...

Referring to a recent decision to establish a joint leadership of the Palestinian terrorist organizations, the PIJ leader stated that "important changes" will take place in the Palestinian territories, "especially in the West Bank." Nakhalah added that military structures which belong to the terrorist groups are present there.

"Soon we will develop new equations that may reach joint military action," said Nakhalah, stressing that there is "no binding truce" for the terrorist groups in Gaza and that they are in a "continuous war and conflict at the borders of the Strip."

We knew that, but useful of him to admit it.

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-War on Police-

Hundreds ‘ambush' Tampa police responding to report of shots fired, 2 officers injured, chief says

2020-06-24

[FoxNews] Two Tampa police officers were injured early Saturday after a crowd of hundreds surrounded a group of officers in an "ambush," the Tampa police chief said.

Officers were responding to a report of shots fired and a possible gunshot victim at an intersection near the Ybor City neighborhood around 1 a.m., Chief Brian Duggan told reporters Monday. A crowd of hundreds was at the scene when police arrived.

As offices searched for a possible victim, Duggan said the hundreds of people blocked all four ends of the intersection and became aggressive. The crowd surrounded officers, threw bottles and glass, and jumped on a police vehicle. Officers could not locate a victim.

"It's an ambush. I have no other way to describe it,” Duggan said. “When there are that many people out there and clearly no one had been shot. It was just a set up to get the cops there."

One officer was hit in the head with an object and suffered a small laceration and swelling, police said. The officer was treated and released from the hospital. A second officer who was hit in the head with a glass bottle is also expected to be OK.

Aerial footage from the scene shows a crowd surrounding officers at an intersection and officials can be heard over audio saying that an officer had been struck with a bottle. At one point, a large group of the crowd can be seen running away down the street.

“There were hundreds of them,” Dugan said, referring to the crowd. “Hundreds. We actually ended up having to call every single police officer that was available that night to respond there, from New Tampa to South Tampa.”

Duggan said that over 100 officers responded to the scene. One person was arrested.

Responding to a question on department morale during this time of heightened anti-police sentiment, Duggan said the pressure currently on police officers is “incredible.”

“Just by doing your job, whether you’re right or wrong, it doesn’t matter right now,” he said. “No one is listening. Any justified action is getting twisted.”

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Nasrallah threatens US, protesters amid economic turmoil - Explainer

2020-06-17

[JPost] Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah gave a speech on Tuesday threatening to kill anyone who tries to take away Hezbollah’s weapons. "To anyone who gives us the option of dying with our weapons or of starvation, I say that the weapons will remain in our hands and we will not go hungry, we will kill you. We will kill you." The harsh rhetoric exceeded the usual boasting by Hezbollah and was a direct threat to the US and internal Lebanese protesters that any pressure on Hezbollah will be met with violence. Hezbollah is angry that US sanctions on Syria are harming the economy in Lebanon and that there are voices who think Hezbollah should stop maintaining itself as an armed force within Lebanon.
Cry me a river
The long speech was reprinted at Iran’s Fars News and was tweeted online in translation by expert David Daoud. The speech was wide ranging and touched on several key topics. He began by memorializing a Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader named Ramadan Shallah who died on June 7. Islamic Jihad is supported by Iran and Hezbollah. It has been the source of attacks on Israel over the past years and Israel has targeted its members. Nasrallah said Palestinians are under threat of Israeli annexation and must unify. He spoke about unifying the Islamic "ummah" in the face of Israel and that Shi’ites and Sunnis should work together. Iran and Turkish leaders have also said this in recent weeks.
Because they've gotten along so well over the last 1300 years
Hezbollah wants to try to unite Shi’ites and Sunnis under its banner to fight the US and others. This was clear from the speech. Nasrallah fears sectarianism or a return to civil strife. Hezbollah, it must be remembered, emerged during the civil war in Lebanon and emerged stronger after it. Hezbollah took credit for Israel’s withdrawal in 2005 and then murdered the Prime Minister of Lebanon Rafic Hariri in 2005. In 2008 it clashed with protesters in Beirut and took over Beirut in a show of force. Since then it has held the presidency hostage, maneuvered its people into the presidency and Prime Minister’s office and sent forces to fight in Syria and to Iraq. Hezbollah now wants to be the arbiter of Lebanon’s future and it knows that sectarian strife can undermine that.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Abbas eulogizes jihad terrorist on FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist List who once lived in Tampa

2020-06-13

[JihadWatch] Ramadan Shallah

...on the FBI’s Most Wanted list as Ramadan Abdullah Mohammad Shallah

was "a colleague at [convicted jihad terror leader] Sami al-Arian’s Paleostinian think tank in Tampa who later emerged as the head of 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...
in the Middle East."

How did a man like that get into the United States in the first place? By taking advantage of the fact that no one would have dreamed of asking him about his religious views; to have done so would have been "Islamophobic."

"Paleostinian Leader Eulogizes Monster on FBI’s ’Most Wanted Terrorist’ List," United With Israel, June 7, 2020 (thanks to the Geller Report):

Paleostinian Authority (PA) 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....
eulogized the leader of the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad terror group, who died on Saturday night two years after he was struck by a powerful stroke.

Abbas referred to Ramadan Abdullah Shallah as "a great national figure," TPS reported, in comments delivered to the arch-terrorist’s family.

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Good morning

2020-06-07

Minneapolis Mayor Asks Trump For Aid
After Riots Cause At Least $55 Million In Damage

Sunday June 7th, 2020

Former Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Ramadan Shallah
finally moves on to a warmer place

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Did an aged activist set up the Buffalo police?

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Former Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Ramadan Shallah finally moves on to a warmer place

2020-06-07

[Jpost] A former leader of 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...
holy warrior group Ramadan Shallah has died after battling illness, al-Manar TV reported on Saturday.

Shallah, 62, served as secretary general of the Iran-backed group from 1995 to 2018. al-Manar did not specify the exact nature of the illness.

Labelled a terrorist organization by the United States, European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
and others, the group has waged attacks on Israel and aims to establish an Islamic Paleostinian state.

"By losing Shallah we lost a great national man," said 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....
in a statement published by the Paleostinian official news agency WAFA.

Shallah was born 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 an iron fist by Hamaswith 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...
in 1958 and studied in Egypt before earning a Ph.D in economics in the United Kingdom. He was elected head of Paleostinian Islamic Jihad after the killing of the group's former chief, Fathi Shiqaqi, in 1995.

The Times of Israel adds:

Shalah, who led PIJ from 1995 until 2018, had been in a coma for more than three years after heart surgery, the terror group said. It didn’t say where he died, but he is believed to have been in Lebanon.

Shalah was appointed head of the terror group after the assassination of his predecessor, Fathi Shikaki in Malta, which was widely attributed to Israel. He was succeeded by Ziad al-Nakhala in 2018.

In 2003, Shalah was among eight Palestinian Islamic Jihad operatives indicted in the United States on 53 terrorism and racketeering counts for running a cell out of Tampa, Florida. Though four suspects were arrested, Shalah was overseas and charged in absentia.

The US Department of Justice, in a statement on the indictment at the time, underlined the terror group’s role in suicide bombings that killed scores of Israelis, and at least two Americans, 20-year-old Alisa Flatow and 16-year-old Shoshana Ben-Yishai.

In April 2018, Shalah was transferred from Damascus, where he lives, to a hospital in Beirut after suffering a series of heart attacks, a source close to the group told the Palestinian Quds Press news agency. Shalah has been unconscious since undergoing surgery at the Beirut hospital, the report said.

Although the source attributed the Islamic Jihad leader’s deteriorating health to “natural causes,” the Palestinian Authority embassy in Beirut believed there’s a possibility Shalah may have been poisoned.

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Africa North

Egypt negotiates with Palestinian Islamic Jihad on Rafah crossing

2015-03-05

[Al Ahram] 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...
(PIJ) has offered Egypt an initiative on administering the Rafah-Gazoo border, sources told Ahram Online

PIJ secretary-general Ramadan Shallah visited Cairo on Sunday to discuss the situation at the Rafah-Gazoo border with Egyptian officials, as Egypt reportedly demanded all Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, staff stop all contacts with the Egyptian side.

Egypt has increasingly expressed its distaste for Hamas rule in Gazoo stressing it will only deal with the Paleostinian Authority on this issue, sources said.

An Egyptian intelligence source said that Cairo has been dealing for a while with the PIJ.

The source added that Jihad, the second largest Islamist organization in the Israeli-besieged Strip, has shown more "flexibility" in dealing with Egypt than Hamas.

Egypt has accused Hamas, which rules the Gazoo Strip, of involvement in terrorist activities in the Sinai Peninsula.

However,
a lie repeated often enough remains a lie...
Hamas leaders have distanced themselves from violence in Egypt and say they have no armed presence in areas outside Paleostinian land.

In October, Egyptian authorities closed the Rafah crossing following a major deadly attack by Islamist snuffies on an Egyptian army checkpoint which left more than 30 dead.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Report: Israel threatens to target Islamic Jihad secretary general

2012-12-07

[Ynet] Egypt informed the leadership of the Islamic Jihad that Israel was against the entrance of Jihad top operatives to the Gaza Strip, the Maan news agency reported.

According to the report, Israel has threatened to target the organization's Secretary-General Ramadan Shallah and his deputy Ziad Nakhleh, and as a result the leadership was considering to cancel the two's visit to the strip.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Thousands Join Islamic Jihad Rally In Gaza

2012-10-05

[Ma'an] Tens of thousands of Islamic Jihad supporters gathered in al-Kateba square in Gaza City on Thursday to celebrate the 31st anniversary of the movement's founding.

The event also marked the 17th anniversary of the assassination of Islamic Jihad's founder Fathi al-Shiqaqi.

Islamic Jihad secretary-general Ramadan Shallah addressed the crowds and called for a new national strategy.

"The Palestinian project of establishing a state on the 1967 borders through negotiations has obviously failed," Shallah said.

Nineteen years of failed negotiations have created a crisis which cannot be resolved by insisting on more negotiations, or through non-violent resistance, he added.

Shallah said Islamic Jihad supported all methods of resistance, and would not rule out armed struggle from the Palestinian agenda.

He said regional revolutions were "a double-edged sword": they gave hope to Palestinians, but Arab countries were too embroiled in domestic concerns to help the Palestinian cause.

Goodness. Could that be a ray of reality peeking through?

"We are not calling on anyone to get into a war with Israel but at least we can make a political war to protect Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque."

What on earth is "political war"?

Shallah said the Gaza Strip was no better off under Egypt's post-revolutionary government than it had been when Hosni Mubarak held the Egyptian presidency.

All that's left then is the non-Arab country in the region. Unfortunately, their currency is sinking into the Marinas Trench, but no doubt they'll send plenty of moral support.

Regarding Syria, he urged a political rather than a military solution, and said the country's unity must be guaranteed.

Clearly added in case Assad the Younger survives his current excitements...

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Palestinian Factions Maintain Presence In Syria

2012-07-28

But travel broadens the mind, it is said.

[Ma'an] Most Paleostinian factions have remained in Syria, with the exception of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, whose leaders have relocated, officials in Syria said Thursday.

Most Hamas leaders have fled Syria despite the movement's insistence that it was not seeking to move its politburo from Damascus
...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world...
. Only some local Hamas leaders in refugee camps remain, local officials told Ma'an.

Meanwhile,
...back at the comedy club, Boogie was cracking himself up, but nobody else seemed to be getting the non-stop jokes...
leaders of the

Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine
... Paleostinian Marxist movement, founded in 1967. It is considered a terrorist organization by more than 30 countries including the U.S., European Union, Australia, Canada, and Antarctica. The PFLP's stated goal is the establishment of a socialist State in Paleostine. They pioneered armed aircraft hijackings in the late 60s and early 70s...
, Fatah and 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 liquidation 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...
stayed in Syria amid the bloody 16-month uprising against

Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Leveler of Latakia...
, the officials say.

Islamic Jihad Secretary-General Ramadan Shallah visited Syria in mid-July before heading to Cairo, sources in the movement told Ma'an.

Sheikh Nafeth Azzam, Islamic Jihad politburo member, has previously denied that the movement's leadership in Syria had moved its headquarters to Tehran.

Hamza Abu Shanab of the Gazoo-based Paleostinian Coalition for the Syrian Revolution told Ma'an on Tuesday that 105 families originally from the Gazoo Strip had returned through Egypt's Rafah crossing since the weekend.

Paleostinian sources in Syria told Ma'an that most of those who fled to Gazoo were living in Syria as residents and not refugees, while some had been exiled to the country.

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