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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Three soldiers killed fighting in northern Gaza, airstrike hits Hamas security chief
2024-12-24
[IsraelTimes] Kfir Brigade’s Cpt. Ilay Gavriel Atedgi, 22, Staff Sgt. Netanel Pessach, 21, and Sgt. First Class (res.) Hillel Diener, 21, killed by explosion during operation in Beit Hanoun area

Three Israeli soldiers were killed during fighting in the northern 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 on Monday, the military announced, as operations to combat the Hamas
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
 terror group’s regrouping efforts in the area continued.

The slain troops were named as: Cpt. Ilay Gavriel Atedgi, 22, from Kiryat Motzkin; Staff Sgt. Netanel Pessach, 21, from Elazar; and Sgt. First Class (res.) Hillel Diener, 21, from Talmon.

They all served in the Kfir Brigade’s Shimshon Battalion.

According to an initial Israel Defense Forces probe, the soldiers were killed by an bomb in the Beit Hanoun area.

Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip stands at 391. The toll includes a police officer killed in a hostage rescue mission and a Defense Ministry civilian contractor.

The Kfir Brigade had just wrapped up an operation against Hamas in nearby Beit Lahiya earlier this week.

Troops advanced to the Beit Hanoun area "following intelligence information about the presence of bully boyz and terror infrastructure in the area," the IDF said on Sunday.

The military and Shin Bet also announced Monday that a senior member of Hamas’s general security forces had been killed in a Sunday Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
 in Gaza City.

According to the military, the target of the strike, Tharwat Muhammad Ahmad al-Bayk, served as the head of the security directorate in Hamas’s General Security Service.

Al-Bayk was targeted while at a Hamas command center embedded within the Musa Ibn Nusayr school, in Gaza City’s Daraj neighborhood, the IDF said.

The school was serving as a shelter for displaced Gazooks, and Paleostinian media reported at least eight dead in the strike.

The IDF and Shin Bet said that the security directorate in the General Security Service is a Hamas body that is tasked with building an intelligence picture to help the terror group make decisions.

The unit is also responsible for the protection of Hamas’s brass hats, and has the job of providing shelters for the senior commanders and leaders to enable them to continue their military activity, the joint statement said.

"Al-Bayk was considered one of the main links in the mechanism, and a significant factor in [Hamas’s] decision-making," the statement continued.

The IDF said it took steps to mitigate civilian harm in the strike, including by using a precision munition and aerial surveillance.

Meanwhile,
...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment...
 organized looting is increasingly threatening aid delivery in war-torn Gaza, with gangs taking advantage of the chaos and lack of governance to steal basic items, The New York Times

...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
 reported Monday.

The paper said the phenomenon, which was once limited to desperate individuals, has now blossomed into systematic practices by gangs in the enclave.

The growing threat has led the UN and other aid groups to halt operations, contributing to rising hunger and leaving tens of thousands of people without critical supplies, the report said.

The report said the Israeli military has tried to find alternate routes for aid that will bypass looters, but success has been only partial.

It added that the IDF appears to increasingly be targeting armed looters with airstrikes to deter the practice.

Also on Monday, Channel 12 aired satellite footage from Hebrew University GIS specialist Adi Ben Nun that it said showed 100 percent of the 19,000 buildings in the northern Gaza city of Jabalia had been destroyed.

Similar footage from July — before the IDF launched its third counter-terrorism operation in the city since the start of the war — showed 54% of Jabalia’s buildings destroyed, the network said.

Israel says much of the destruction in Gaza is a result of Hamas using the Strip’s infrastructure for terror purposes, but the widespread destruction has fueled accusations of excessive force and collective punishment.

The satellite footage also indicated that the IDF has completed demolishing all 4,000 buildings in Gaza that were within one kilometer of the border with Israel. Channel 12 said the military believes it has completed its goal of creating a buffer zone in that border area.

The Netzarim Corridor bisecting northern and southern Gaza has also been flattened of almost every building that once existed there and has been expanded to nearly 32 square kilometers as the IDF has reportedly built dozens of military complexes there. There have been mounting reports that the IDF has turned the corridor into a de facto kill zone, shooting anyone who approaches it.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas terrorist opens fire at Israeli civilian bus in West Bank; 8 wounded, 3 seriously
2024-11-30
[IsraelTimes] Palestinian gunman, who used M-16 assault rifle, shot dead by troops; Al-Qassam Brigades names him as Samir Muhammad Ahmad Hussein, 46; IDF rules out possibility of second gunman

At least eight people were maimed, three of them seriously, when a Hamas
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
 terrorist shot up a civilian bus near the West Bank settlement of Ariel on Friday. The assailant was rubbed out by security forces.

According to the Magen David Adom ambulance service, four people were hit by gunfire, including three at death's door and one in moderate condition. Another four people were lightly maimed by broken glass, MDA said.

The military said that four of the maimed were soldiers and all were lightly injured.

Hebrew media outlets reported that one of those seriously maimed in the attack was the bus driver, Hassan Elsachen.

The al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military wing, grabbed credit for the shooting, naming the gunman as Samir Muhammad Ahmad Hussein, 46, from the village of Einabus near Nablus. Hussein was a member of the Brigades, Hamas said.

The IDF believes the terrorist did not act alone, and that other accomplices may have provided the M-16 assault rifle and vehicle with which he carried out the attack.

However,
a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package...
 a military source said the army had ruled out the possibility of a second terrorist after scanning the area around the Gitai Avisar Junction, where the attack took place.

According to an initial IDF probe, Hussein had set out from the Nablus area, driving from the Tapuah Junction to Gitai Avisar — a route with no internal checkpoints. Hussein stopped his car on the side of the road, about 150 meters away from a bus stop, and shot up the bus while approaching it on foot, the army said.

IDF troops stationed in the area returned fire, killing him shortly after the attack began, according to the probe.

The West Bank, which is controlled by Israeli security forces, has seen a sharp rise in violence since 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 began on October 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas-led Death Eaters stormed southern Israel to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages.

The onslaught was followed by sharp restrictions on Paleostinian movement in the West Bank and wide-scale counterterrorism operations there. On Wednesday, the Shin Bet said it thwarted an arms shipment to the West Bank by Iran, Hamas’s benefactor.

Since the Hamas onslaught, Israeli troops have arrested some 5,250 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 2,050 affiliated with Hamas.

According to the Paleostinian Authority health ministry, more than 716 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed in that time. The IDF says the vast majority of them were button men killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops or Death Eaters carrying out attacks.

During the same period, 41 people, including Israeli security personnel, have been killed in terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank. Another six members of the security forces were killed in festivities with terror operatives in the West Bank.

Security forces operate at home of terrorist who carried out West Bank shooting today

[IsraelTimes] Members of the IDF, Border Police, and Shin Bet operated at the home of Samir Muhammad Ahmad Hussein, the Hamas terrorist who carried out a shooting attack earlier today near the West Bank city of Ariel.

In a statement, the military says the troops questioned suspects and searched for “additional findings in the area.”
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US offering $10 million for info that thwarts Hamas financial network
2024-01-06
[IsraelTimes] The United States is offering up to $10 million for information on five Hamas
...a regional Iranian catspaw,...
 financiers or anything leading to the disruption of the Paleostinian hard boy group’s financial mechanisms, the State Department says.

The reward offering follows four rounds of US sanctions on Hamas after the group’s terror onslaught incursion into Israel on October 7.

The five are Abdelbasit Hamza Elhassan Khair, Amer Kamal Sharif Alshawa, Ahmed Sadu Jahleb, Walid Mohammed Mustafa Jadallah and Muhammad Ahmad ’Abd al-Dayim Nasrallah, who have all been previously designated global Death Eaters by the United States, the department says in a statement.

The first financier, known as Hamza, is based in Sudan
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
, has managed numerous companies in Hamas’ investment portfolio and was involved in the transfer of almost $20 million to Hamas, the department said. He is tied to Sudanese President Omar Bashir and Islamist groups undermining stability in Sudan, according to the State Department.
Nice current news: Omar "Epaulet Guy" Bashir was deposed in a coup d'état in 2019
Three of the Hamas operatives cited — Amer Kamal Sharif Alshawa, Ahmed Sadu Jahleb, and Walid Mohammed Mustafa Jadallah — are part of the group’s investment network in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
, the department says.

Nasrallah has close ties to Iranian entities and has been involved in the transfer of tens of millions of dollars to Hamas, including its military wing, the agency says, adding that he was based in 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...
 in October.

The rewards would be provided for information on any source of revenue for Hamas, major donors, financial institutions that facilitate transactions for Hamas, front companies that procure dual-use technology for the group and criminal schemes that benefit Hamas, the State Department says.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syria’s Daraa undergoes persistent security chaos, 15 killings in week
2023-07-15
[NPASyria] Last week, Daraa Governorate, southern Syria, witnessed a marked increase in security chaos and killing cases in different areas of the governorate, recording 15 killing cases against civilians and soldiers of the government forces.

On Thursday, residents in the western countryside of Daraa found two bodies for two people rubbed out in two different incidents. Eyewitnesses told North Press, "Residents found the body of Abdullah Muhammad al-Hariri in al-Zaarora area in the vicinity of the city of Jasim in Daraa northern countryside."

Al-Hariri, who hails from the town of Naamer in Daraa eastern countryside, was killed by several gunshots at close range, according to the eyewitnesses, the body was transferred to the National Hospital in Jasim before handing it to al-Hariri’s family.

Later on Thursday, residents found the body of Muhammad Ahmad al-Farokh near an irrigation canal in the town of al-Harah in the northern countryside of Daraa.

Local sources told North Press that al-Farokh was kidnapped on July 11.

On July 12, a local source told North Press, "Hazza Adnan al-Zahri was rubbed out by unknown button men riding a cycle of violence in the town of Mahjah in northern Daraa."

The source said that al-Zahri was working within the ranks of a group affiliated with the Military Security branch of the government forces in Daraa.

In another context, a another local source told North Press that "both Ahmad Shoukry al-Nassar and Ahmad Mansour al-Sharif were killed after being targeted by unknown button men in the city of al-Sanamayn in northern Daraa in separate incidents."

The source pointed out that the two individuals who were killed were civilians and not affiliated with any military or security formation.

On July 11, local sources told North Press that "Abdurrahman Barghash" was killed and two other soldiers were maimed in an attack on an armored vehicle of the government with an IED on Damascus-Daraa Highway west of the village of Saida in the eastern countryside of Daraa.

The sources added that the maimed were transferred to the National Hospital in Daraa, and no information was obtained about their health condition.

On the same day, sources said that the first lieutenant Muhammad Ahmad al-Tahan succumbed to injuries he sustained when targeted by unknown assailants on July 9 in the city of al-Sanamayn.

The sources added that al-Tahan, who hails from Bab Amr district in Homs, operated within the ranks of the Ninth Brigade of the government forces.

A local source told North Press on the same day that Yaser Abdurrahman al-Zarqan was killed by unknown attackers in the city of Kafr Shams in the northern countryside.

Al-Zarqan operated in a local group affiliated with the government Military Security in Daraa, according to the source.

Unknown attackers targeted "Abu Jaafar," official in the studies department of the Military Security Branch in the city of Nawa in Daraa western countryside, killing him immediately.

"Suleiman Gharib al-Jondi was killed after unknown attackers shot at him in al-Sanamayn, local sources told North Press.

The sources added that al-Jondi, who was a former member of the opposition, was transferred to the National Hospital in the city where he departed this vale of tears.

On July 9, a local source told North Press that "Muhammad Qassim al-Musallamah was killed as a result of being targeted by unknown button men while he was in Daraa al-Balad, in Daraa city."

The source added, "Al-Musallamah" was accused of working in the drug trade and promoting it in the area.

On the same day, eyewitnesses told North Press, "Residents found the body of Saaeed Ismail al-Sebsebi in the town of Inkhil in Daraa northern countryside."

The eyewitnesses added that al-Sebsebi was found killed with a piece of paper on the back, saying "This is the end of every spy of the state security."

Al-Sebsebi, who hails from the village of al-Danaji, worked within the government Military Security Branch, according to the eyewitnesses.

On July 8, a local source told North Press that unknown button men opened fire directly at Youssef al-Labbad, nicknamed Youssef al-Kheiriya, in the city center before fleeing the scene.

The source added that al-Labbad was hit by several bullets and was rushed to al-Sanamayn National Hospital, but he succumbed to his wounds before reaching the hospital.

The source pointed out that "al-Labbad had worked with a group affiliated with the Military Security branch of government forces in Daraa and was recently accused of working for the State Security branch."

On the same day, a local source told North Press that the young man, Mouayed Yahya al-Shakoush, was killed as a result of torture after he was arrested with Yaser al-Shakoush on July 7.

The source said that Mouayed al-Shakoush was arrested by a group called Raed al-Shahadat, affiliated with the government’s State Security Branch, in the town of Namar in northern Daraa.

In a separate incident on the same day, Muhammad Hassan Hussein al-Hariri was killed after being shot by unknown button men in eastern Daraa.

A local source told North Press that unknown button men riding a cycle of violence stopped the bus driven by al-Hariri and opened fire on him.

The source added that al-Hariri, who hails from the city of al-Hirak in eastern Daraa and worked as a bus driver, was taken to the al-Sharq Hospital in the city of Daraa, where he died.

In July 2018, the opposition armed factions and Syrian the government forces reached a ceasefire agreement mediated by Russia in the opposition-held areas in Daraa. Under the deal, the opposition armed factions agreed to hand over their weapons in exchange for staying in Daraa, and those who opposed the agreement they were sent to Idlib, which is under the control of 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...
 (HTS — formerly al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
 Front).
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Four government soldiers killed in Syria’s Daraa
2023-07-12
[NPASyria] On Tuesday, a soldier of the Syrian government forces was killed and two others were maimed in an attack on a military car in the eastern countryside of Daraa, southern Syria.

Local sources told North Press that "Abdurrahman Barghash" was killed and two other soldiers were maimed in an attack on an armored vehicle of the government with an IED on Damascus-Daraa Highway west of the village of Saida in the eastern countryside of Daraa.

The sources added that the maimed were transferred to the National Hospital in Daraa, so far no information has been obtained about their health condition.

In a different incident, the first lieutenant Muhammad Ahmad al-Tahan succumbed to injuries he sustained when targeted by unknown assailants on July 9 in the city of al-Sanamayn in the northern countryside of Daraa, according to local sources.

The sources added that al-Tahan, who hails from Bab Amr district in Homs, operated within the ranks of the Ninth Brigade of the government forces.

A local source told North Press that Yaser Abdurrahman al-Zarqan was killed earlier today by unknown attackers in the city of Kafr Shams in the northern countryside.

Al-Zarqan operated in a local group affiliated with the government Military Security in Daraa, according to the source.

Unknown attackers targeted "Abu Jaafar," official in the studies department of the Military Security Branch in the city of Nawa in Daraa western countryside.

As a result of the attack, Abu Jaafar was killed immediately, according to a local source.

In July 2018, the opposition armed factions and Syrian the government forces reached a ceasefire agreement mediated by Russia in the opposition-held areas in Daraa. Under the deal, the opposition armed factions agreed to hand over their weapons in exchange for staying in Daraa, and those who opposed the agreement they were sent to Idlib, which is under the control of 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...
 (HTS — formerly al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
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Eight Killed Including Two ISIS Militants In Syria’s Daraa In Week
2022-08-20
[North Press] Eight individuals, including two snuffies of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 Organization (ISIS) and a government affiliate in different areas in Daraa Governorate, south Syria, in light of a continuation of killing operations and security chaos.

On Wednesday, local sources told North Press that the government forces handed over the body of Muhammad Rabi’ Sayel Awdat known as "Hamoda Tasil" to his family after he died in a prison under torture.

He was arrested on August 8 at a checkpoint of the government forces between two towns of Dael and Tafas in the western countryside of Daraa.

Two videos went viral on social media in which Awdat is shown admitting his affiliation with ISIS, and that the organization is responsible for the killing of a number of members of the Central Committee and former leaders of the Syrian opposition.

On the same day, residents of Tel Shihab, a town in the western countryside of Daraa, found Maher Muhammad Ruwaisi’s body at the town’s roundabout.

Ruwaisi, who comes from the village of Jabila in the western countryside of Daraa, accused of working with the Syrian government forces, according to residents.

Residents of Lojat area in the eastern countryside of Daraa found the body of 25-year-old Abdulkarim Ali Eid al-Hawasna buried under a pile of stones, according to local sources.

Al-Hawasna, who hails from the village of al-Kharsa in the northwestern countryside of Suwayda and resides in the town of Samma in the western countryside, has gone missing for about eight months.

On Tuesday, Daraa witnessed three crimes against three civilians, one of whom was a prominent.

Local sources told North Press that Fadi Asmi sustained injuries in a shooting by unidentified gunnies in the city center of Dael; he departed this vale of tears before reaching Tafas National Hospital.

Asmi is a member of the Central Committee and a leader in Daraa.

On August 16, Family of media activist muppet Ahmad Tayseer al-Khatib received the news of the death of their son inside Saydnaya Military Prison of the Syrian government forces following three years after his arrest.

Al-Khatib, who hails from the town of al-Jeezah in the eastern countryside of Daraa, lost his life due to bad care.

On the same day, the young man Muhammad Ahmad al-Shaqran was rubbed out by unknown attackers near the village of al-Oja in the western countryside of Daraa, eyewitnesses told North Press.

Al-Shaqran, who comes from Tel Shihab, was a civilian, and he had not joined any military or security formations, according to the eyewitnesses.

On August 15, local sources told North Press, "Muhammad Ahmad al-Hallaq, nicknamed Omar al-Jababi, 36, was found killed near al-Shummari Refinery north of the town in the town of Mezeirib, west of Daraa."

Al-Hallaq, who comes from the city of Jabab in the north of Daraa, was formerly a lieutenant within the Syrian government forces, and joined the opposition and then ISIS in the Yarmouk valley in 2016.

On Sunday, local sources told North Press that Muhammad Qasem Shehadat departed this vale of tears he sustained on August 4 in festivities with drug traders in the city of al-Sanamayn in the northern countryside of Daraa.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Turkish border: Turks continue making life unpleasant for the locals in the hope that they’ll leave the land open for the refugees Turkey wants to resettle there
2022-08-07


Turkey Issues Unfair Sentences Including Death Against Kurds In Syria’s Afrin
Aug 4, 2022
[NPASyria] A Turkish court in the Turkish-occupied city of Afrin in the north of Aleppo, northern Syria, issued sentences, including death to some Kurds on charges of dealing with the Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES).

The conditions or manner of trial of these people were unknown, and their families could not visit them or get a lawyer to defend them, Violations Documentation Center in Northern Syria (VDC-NSY) said.

The AANES was first formed in 2014 in the Kurdish-majority regions of Afrin, Kobani and Jazira in northern Syria following the withdrawal of the government forces. Later, it was expanded to Manbij, Tabqa, Raqqa, Hasakah and Deir ez-Zor after the SDF defeated ISIS militarily there.

Turkey has been occupying Afrin and its countryside since March 2018, following a military operation called “Olive Branch” by the Turkish forces with the support of the Turkish-backed armed opposition factions, also known as Syrian National Army (SNA).

Since then, the region has been witnessing trees’ cutting, arrests and killing incidents.

These areas, however, continue to witness a state of security chaos, accompanied by explosions and continuous fighting, amid the factions’ inability to maintain security.

Hussein Mustafa Hussein, 20, is from al-Mahmoudiya neighborhood of the city of Afrin. He was kidnapped on April 28, 2021. His family could not visit him or know where he was arrested until he was sentenced to death.

Youssef Mustafa Hussein was kidnapped in May 1, 2021 and sentenced to three years in prison under the same previous circumstances.

Mustafa bin Muhammad Hussein, 28, was kidnapped for the first time in 2019 and was released in March 2021 after he paid a ransom. However, he was kidnapped again after a week without knowing his fate until he was sentenced to 13 years in prison.

Ezzaddin bin Youssef Mustafa, 17, was kidnapped on May 5, 2021 and sentenced to 13 years in prison.

Zainab Muhammad Olashli, 27, Mustafa Hussein’s wife, was kidnapped on June 12, 2021 and sentenced to 12 years in prison.

During June 2022, the SNA arrested 80 civilians of Afrin, according to the VDC-NSY.

Since the beginning of the year, Afrin witnessed more than 433 arrests. This number is the documented one, whereas the actual number is more than this, especially that there are some detainees were not mentioned by their families, the organization noted.

Turkish Border Guards Kill Farmer In Syria’s Kobani
Aug 4, 2022
[NPASyria] Ottoman Turkish border guards shot and killed on Thursday a farmer in a village east of Kobani, northern Syria.

The dear departed is Ibrahim Osman Mohyaddin, a resident of the village of Goran, 28 km east of Kobani.

Khalil Qawas, a resident of the village of Kharabisan Foqani, told North Press, "Mohyaddin, who hails from the village of Kharabisan Foqani, was shot when he was watering his farmland in the village of Goran on the Ottoman Turkish border."

Qawas added that Mohyaddin was transferred to Kobani Hospital, but passed away before getting there, noting that he was shot in the chest.

On September 27 of last year, the Ottoman Turkish border guards shot and maimed 55-year old farmer Muhammad Ahmad Sheikho in the village of Seftak, in Kobani western countryside, while he was wandering his land, which is adjacent to the Ottoman Turkish border (approximately 250 m off the Ottoman Turkish border).

The Ottoman Turkish border guards repeatedly target Syrian farmers in different areas while they work in their farmlands near the border.

Until mid-February, The Violations Documentation Center in Northern Syria (VDC-NSY) had documented the death of 525 Syrians, including 101 minors and 67 women, by Ottoman Turkish border guards.

Turkish Military Shells A Town Of Syria’s Aleppo, Wounds 7 People
Aug 4, 2022
[NPASyria] Seven civilians were injured, including children, in a Turkish shelling of the town of Tel Rifaat in the northern countryside of Aleppo.

The town of Tel Rifaat, 35 km north of Aleppo city, has been a shelter for Afrin displaced people since 2018 following the Turkish invasion of Afrin and its countryside which resulted in the displacement of about 300.000 of the original inhabitants.

A medical source in the Tel Rifaat Hospital told North Press that seven people were wounded, including five children, one of whom is in a critical condition.

“A shrapnel crossed the child’s skull, which puts his life at risk, so he will be transferred to Aleppo,” the source said.

The source said the wounded children are Orivan Muhammad Abdo, 15, Dina Othman, 6, Hussein Jamal Qassem, 7, Afrin Abdel Rahman Haider, 13, and Mahmoud Gharib Mamo, 6.

The others are Hussein Bayram Alko, 43, Ronahi Selo, 27, according to the medical source.

An eyewitness said that a drone bombed several areas near a military post of the government forces (200 meters away), which was targeted by a drone earlier.

The source noted that the shelling targeted several vital spots in Tel Rifaat, such as the town’s market and school.

On August 1, Turkish shelling of Tel Rifaat killed an internally displaced woman from the city of Afrin, north of Aleppo.

There are 3.692 displaced families that include 14.783 people from Afrin and 35 displaced families from Idlib live in Tel Rifaat, according to statistics carried out by Autonomous Administration of Afrin, which is currently operating in the northern countryside of Aleppo.

There are also 630 families that include about 3.000 people of original residents in the town, according to the same source.

Turkey has escalated its attacks on areas in north and northeast Syria, using artillery and drones following Tehran Summit, in which Turkey failed to obtain a green light by Iran and Russia to invade the region.

Tehran Summit, on July 19, brought together presidents of each of Iran, Russia and Turkey with the Syrian issue and Turkish threats on the top of its agenda

Turkish Artillery Targets Village North Of Syria’s Hasakah
Aug 3, 2022
[NPASyria] Turkish forces and their affiliated opposition factions, known as the Syrian National Army (SNA), shelled on Wednesday evening the countryside of Tel Tamr, a town north of Hasakah Governorate, northeastern Syria.

A source in the Tel Tamr Military Council, affiliated with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), told North Press, “The Turkish forces targeted with artillery shells the village of Tawila, west of the town of Tel Tamr.”

The bombardment resulted in material damage, according to the source.

The town of Tel Tamr and its countryside have been under constant bombardment by Turkish forces and its affiliated SNA factions for more than two years.

However, these attacks have witnessed a spike for the last three weeks; the most violent of which was on July 30, when 11 civilians were injured, including children.

Tel Tamr, which has a population of about 25.000 and is 30 km away from the Syrian-Turkish border, is of strategic importance as it is a junction on the M4 Highway linking the Jazira region in northeast Syria to Aleppo Governorate in the northwest.

Parts of the northern and western countryside of the town and the entire southern countryside are protected by the Syriac Military Council and the Assyrian Khabour Guards Forces, while the Turkish-backed SNA control the northern countryside up to the city of Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain) on the northern border of Syria.

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Nigeria: Bandits Kill 84 in Two Weeks, Buhari Expresses Sorrow
2021-07-12
[All Africa] No fewer than 84 people have been killed by suspected bandidos in the last two weeks across the country.

Worst hit are Kaduna and Xamfara States. The situation forced President Muhammadu Buhari to express sorrow.

For some time now, Nigeria has been a hotbed of conflicts. Apart from the perennial conflict between the farmers and herdsmen, there are other notable security challenges, including one posed by bandidos.

Recently, in the North-West, particularly Zamfara, Sokoto, Katsina, Kaduna and Kebbi States, the activities of bandidos have been particularly alarming.

The activities of the bandidos' range from kidnapping to murder, robbery, rape, cattle-rustling and the likes. Their modus operandi involves maiming and killing victims with little or no provocations.

For example, on Thursday, 42 people were massacred by bandidos in five communities of Faru District in Maradun Local Government Area of Zamfara State.

TIMELINE
June 21, A state politician, Muhammad Ahmad, killed by button men in Zamfara

July 4, Kaduna State Government reveals that about seven people were killed by suspected bandidos in Chikun, Kajuru and Giwa Local Government Areas of the state.

July 5, Suspected bandidos kill at least 19 people in an attack on Tsauwa village, Katsina State.

July 6, Bandits kill seven soldiers, injure five others after ambushing troops of the Forward Operational Base and that of the Special Operational Command operating in Kebbi.

July 8, Bandits kill 42 people in five communities of Faru District in Maradun Local Government Area of Zamfara

July 8, Nigerian Navy man, Bilal Mohammed, Nigerian Army Private Salisu Rabiu killed by bandidos while defending students of Bethel Baptist High School, Kaduna State, who were kidnapped by bandidos.
Related:
Kaduna: 2021-07-10 Terror, As Kidnappers Break Walls to Ferret Residents From Homes in Kaduna
Kaduna: 2021-07-06 Gunmen kidnap 140 school students in northwest Nigeria
Kaduna: 2021-07-01 Persecution: Nigerian Terrorists Murder 18 Christians, Including Doctor
Related:
Muhammadu Buhari: 2021-07-05 Nigerian Govt Concerned About New Threats to Bomb Oil Assets
Muhammadu Buhari: 2021-07-02 Nigeria: We're Problems of Nigeria, Not Religion, Ethnicity - Buhari
Muhammadu Buhari: 2021-06-14 Nigeria: Why Some Nigerians Finance Terrorism - Buhari
Related:
Herdsmen: 2021-07-02 Nigeria: We're Problems of Nigeria, Not Religion, Ethnicity - Buhari
Herdsmen: 2021-07-01 Persecution: Nigerian Terrorists Murder 18 Christians, Including Doctor
Herdsmen: 2021-06-16 Central Nigeria gun attacks kill 12: Police
Related:
Zamfara: 2021-06-12 Gunmen attack villages, kill over 90 in Nigeria
Zamfara: 2021-06-07 Death toll rises to 88 in attack in northwest Nigeria: Police
Zamfara: 2021-06-05 Armed attackers kill 100 civilians in Burkina Faso village raid
Related:
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israel agreed to more than just a prisoner exchange to get woman back from Syria
2021-02-20
What is it with mentally ill or autistic Israelis running off to dangerous places? There are two or three of them in Gaza, at least one of whom Israel has had to ransom several times.
[IsraelTimes] A central aspect of the agreement to secure the release of an Israeli woman who crossed into Syria that was brokered by Russia this week has been barred from publication by the military censor, despite the fact that the matter would be seen as deeply controversial to the Israeli public. (The woman, whose name has not been released for publication, was flown back to Israel, via Moscow, overnight Thursday-Friday.)

“Last week, I raised in the Knesset a demand to allow the entrance of thousands of vaccines to Gaza and to provide vaccines to Palestinians in the West Bank from the large inventory that Israel has (which is the responsibility of an occupying force). Did I need to wait for a Jewish wo/man to cross into Gaza so that [Palestinians] could get a vaccine?” Tibi wrote.

On Friday afternoon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with the young woman’s mother, who thanked him for the efforts to free her from captivity, according to a statement from the premier’s office.

Netanyahu gave her his well-wishes and said Israel would always act to return captive citizens.

On February 2, the Israeli woman crossed the border into Syria in the foothills of Mount Hermon, an area where there is minimal fencing and spotty surveillance camera coverage. It was not immediately clear how the 25-year-old woman, who reportedly speaks fluent Arabic, knew that this location was a good spot to cross. The military said it was investigating the incident.

This was not the woman’s first time attempting to cross Israel’s borders. According to Israeli authorities, she had twice tried to enter the Gaza Strip — once by land and once on a makeshift raft — and once attempted to cross into Jordan. All three times she was captured by either the military or the police.

After successfully crossing into Syria this month, she entered the Druze village of Khader, where she was captured on suspicion of being a spy and handed over to Syrian intelligence. Damascus told Russia of the matter, and Moscow passed along the information to Israel, prompting negotiations to get her back.

“Roughly two weeks ago, we received information about an Israeli civilian woman being held by Syrian security forces. She crossed to the Syrian side of her own volition and by herself — an incident that we will be investigating,” Defense Minister Benny Gantz said in a video statement on Friday, after her return.

“We immediately began working to bring her back. We clarified to the other side that she was a civilian and that this was a humanitarian issue and not a security one. We held conversations with the senior-most Russian officials, our counterparts. I spoke personally with the Russian defense minister, whom I’d like to thank for his involvement and for the assistance from the Russian government in the effort to return her home,” Gantz said.

In addition to the classified aspect of the agreement, Israel initially agreed to concessions regarding two prisoners — Nihal al-Maqt and Dhiyab Qahmuz — both from the Druze community of the Golan Heights, who largely remained loyal to Damascus after the area was captured by Israel in 1967 and effectively annexed in 1981.

As the incident unfolded, Russia had pushed for Israel to scale back its airstrikes on Iran-linked sites in Syria — ongoing attacks that both Damascus and Moscow oppose, the former because its air defenses are regularly targeted during these operations as they fire on Israeli jets and the latter because it interferes with Russian efforts to stabilize and rebuild the war-torn country. But this request appears to have been rejected, as evident by the Syrian reports of Israeli strikes in the country over the past two weeks.

Al-Maqt had been imprisoned for incitement since 2017, and Qahmuz was sentenced to 16 years in prison in 2018 for plotting a terror bombing in coordination with the Lebanese Hezbollah terror group.
Al Masdar adds:
Thursday saw a Russian mediated prisoner swap with Muhammad Ahmad Hussein and Tariq Ghasab al-Obeidan, both natives of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights of Quneitra province, released.

The exchange operation that began yesterday led to the two Syrian captives freed and returned to their hometown in the Quneitra province.

Captive Nihal Al-Maqt, an Israeli girl from an ultra-Orthodox West Bank settlement who had mistakenly entered the Syrian territories in the Quneitra region and subsequently arrested by the Syrian authorities also set free as part of the same operation.
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Arab Israeli man charged with aiding Temple Mount terrorists
2017-08-25
[IsraelTimes] Shin Bet says investigation of deadly shooting attack uncovered connections between the gunnies and banned Northern Branch of Islamic Movement

An Arab Israeli man was indicted Thursday for assisting the three gunnies who killed two coppers just outside the Temple Mount compound last month.

The Shin Bet security service said the suspect, 35-year-old Amjad Muhammad Ahmad Jabarin from the city of Umm al-Fahm, transported the three faceless myrmidons to Jerusalem, spoke with them about their plans ahead of time, and "even offered to join them in carrying out the attack on at least two occasions."
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Four terror attacks on Friday, three attackers killed, plus a bonus
2016-09-17
It's Friday, and Muslim boys (of both sexes) must be boys.
[IsraelTimes] Fourth attack of the day: An Israeli soldier was lightly wounded in a stabbing attack at a checkpoint in the West Bank city of Hebron on Friday, according to officials.

The assailant was shot and killed by forces at the Gilbert checkpoint near the Tel Rumeida neighborhood of the city, the army said.

The 19-year-old soldier had his face slashed in the attack, the Magen David Adom ambulance service said. He received treatment on the scene from both MDA paramedics and an army medical unit, before he was taken to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem for further care, according to the ambulance service.

This was the fourth terror-related incident of the day, and the second in the Hebron area.
Hebron is Hamas Central in the West Bank, so it is safe to assume the two attackers are either members of Hamas or have friends and relations who are.
First attack of the day:
Earlier on Friday, a Jordanian national was shot and killed as he attempted to stab a Border Police officer at the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem.
According to the linked article, the formerly living gentleman had crossed over from Jordan the previous day for reasons unknown.
Second attack of the day:
Less than an hour later, a soldier shot and killed a Palestinian man and seriously wounded a Palestinian woman who allegedly carried out a car-ramming attack outside the Kiryat Arba settlement next to Hebron.
According to another linked article, the expired couple were related to a Palestinian lady who did the same thing there in June.
Third attack:
On Friday afternoon, a bus driver was also lightly wounded when unidentified perpetrators threw rocks and glass bottles full of paint at his vehicle on the highway between Jerusalem and the Ma’ale Adumim settlement.
Bonus:
Late Thursday night in Hebron, IDF soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian suspect, Muhammad Ahmad Abed al-Fattah al-Sarrahin, who fled as they attempted to arrest him.

“During an arrest operation in Beit Ula, security forces apprehended one suspect while another attempted to flee the building,” an Israeli army spokeswoman told AFP. “During the pursuit a force opened fire, resulting in the suspect’s death.”

The Hebron area, where Palestinians, Israeli settlers and soldiers live in close proximity, has been a frequent scene of clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinians, as well as terror attacks by Palestinian assailants.
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Missed during the first outage: Trio of Palestinian dentists arrested for pipe bomb attack
2016-07-09
[IsraelTimes] Blast that severely injured IDF officer in May was triggered by cellphone; Shin Bet finds 59 additional bombs

Three Paleostinian dentists, a nurse and one other man were tossed in the slammer
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
 for allegedly carrying out a pipe kaboom that seriously injured an IDF officer at the entrance to the Paleostinian village of Hizme last month, the Shin Bet security service revealed Sunday.

On the night of May 10 -- just after the start of Israel’s Memorial Day -- the Israeli patrol was struck by an improvised bomb, composed of four pipe bombs, which exploded next to Lt. Shachar Roditi’s face, severely wounding him.

The five terror cell members were arrested in the days following the attack, the Shin Bet said, but details of the case were kept under a gag order until Sunday.

Dr. Samer Mahmoud Daoud al-Halabiyeh, a dentist from Abu Dis outside of Jerusalem, is believed to be the operation’s ringleader, who both placed and detonated the pipe bombs that hit Roditi.

During their investigation, Israeli forces also uncovered 59 additional bombs that were allegedly created in order to carry out future attacks, the Shin Bet said.

Halabiyeh, 36, told interrogators he began planning the attack in February because of the "desecration of Al-Aqsa and the Paleostinian children injured by Israel," the Shin Bet says in a statement.

Along with Halabiyeh, who is believed to have set off the bomb with his cellphone, the Shin Bet and the army’s undercover Duvdevan Unit arrested four other Paleostinians who are suspected of having helped Halabiyeh in his attack and during its aftermath, the security service says.

His brother, Dr. Daoud Shehadeh Mahmoud al-Halabiyeh, and his cousin Shadi Muhammad Ahmad Muhsen were arrested for allegedly bringing the IEDs used in the attack from Halabiyeh’s dental practice, the Shin Bet said.

Halabiyeh’s 64-year-old father, Mahmoud Aauod Shehadeh al-Halabiyeh, who works as a nurse in a local hospital, was also arrested on suspicion that he tried to remove evidence from the clinic, the security service said.

Dr. D’jana Faiz Jamil Nab’han, 36, from the Qalandiya refugee camp was also arrested for assisting Halabiyeh in his crime, though the Shin Bet did not elaborate on his role.

Israeli forces also recovered dozens of other bombs from Halabiyeh’s dental practice, which they believe were going to be used in future attacks.

Fifty-six small pipe bombs, two Molotov cocktails and a large U-shaped pipe bomb were discovered in the clinic. Some were already prepared with fuses and one was connected to a cellphone, the Shin Bet said.

"According to the assessments of professionals, these were bombs that were potentially lethal," the service said in a statement.

Lt. Roditi suffered severe wounds to the face and upper body as a result of the attack. Doctors from Jerusalem’s Hadassah Hospital operated on the young officer for over 12 hours after the attack to remove shrapnel and repair some of the damage caused by the blast.

Roditi left the hospital on May 23 to recover at home.
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