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Nabil Abu Rdeneh	Nabil Abu Rudeineh	Palestinian Authority	Israel-Palestine	Palestinian		Big Shot	20020524
		Arafat's media adviser
	Nabil Abu Rdeneh	Palestinian Authority	Middle East	Palestinian		Front Man	20021017
		Spokesman for Arafat
	Nabil Abu Rudeina	Palestinian Authority	Middle East	Palestinian		Big Shot	20020824
		Senior advisor to Arafat
Nabil Abu Salmeeyah	Nabil Abu Salmeeyah	Hamas	Israel-Palestine-Jordan				20060713	Link
Nabil Almarabh	Nabil Almarabh	al-Qaeda	Terror Networks				20040629	Link
Nabil Amr	Nabil Amr	Palestinian Authority	Israel-Palestine	Palestinian		Big Shot	20030807
		Information Minister under Arafat
Nabil Amro	Nabil Amro	Palestinian Authority	Middle East	Palestinian		Big Shot	20030420
		A member of Mahmoud Abbas' cabinet as PM under Arafat. Amro's son received a $50K wedding present from the PA.
Nabil Aqal	Nabil Aqal	Hamas	Middle East				20040327
Nabil Benattia	Nabil Benattia	al-Qaeda in Europe	Europe				20040202
Nabil Ibrahim Masoud	Nabil Ibrahim Masoud	Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades	Israel-Palestine				20040315
Nabil Kauk	Nabil Kauk	Hizbullah	Syria-Lebanon-Iran				20061007	Link
Nabil Mahzoumeh	Nabil Mahzoumeh	Hamas	Middle East	Iranian	Deported	Mastermind	20030626
		Iranian liasion with Palestinian insurgency groups. Deported by Israel in 1985.
Nabil Massoud	Nabil Massoud	al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades	Israel-Palestine-Jordan				20051106	Link
Nabil Masud	Nabil Masud	Hamas	Israel-Palestine				20040314
Nabil Nanakli Kosaibati	Nabil Nankali	al-Qaeda	Arabia	Syrian-Spanish	Jugged	Mastermind	20030912
		convicted of planning and conducting terrorist attacks and the assassination of government officials in Yemen. He was arrested in Sanaa in 1997 along with a number of accomplices who were later rounded up in the capital and in the Red Sea port city of Aden. They were all tried and convicted by an Aden court. Nankali was also found guilty of training terrorists on ways to prepare explosives and conduct attacks.
	Nabil Nanakli Kosaibati	al-Qaeda	Arabia	Syrian-Spanish	Jugged	Tough Guy	20030921
		convicted spy and suspected al-Qaida operative; sentenced to death in Yemen in 1998 for spying for Saudi Arabia
Nabil Quark	Nabil Quark	Hizbullah	Syria-Lebanon-Iran				20040622	Link
Nabil Sahrawi	Nabil Sahrawi	Salafist Group for Call and Combat	Africa: North				20040701	Link
	Nabil Sahrawi	Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat	Africa North		Deceased		20060914	Link
Nabil Sayadi	Nabil Sayadi	Global Relief Foundation	Europe				20040413	Link
	Nabil Sayadi	al-Qaeda in Europe	Europe				20040413	Link
Nabil Shaath	Nabil Shaath	Palestinian Authority	Israel-Palestine	Palestinian		Big Shot	20021029
		International Cooperation Minister under Arafat
Nabil Sharaoui	Nabil Sahraoui	Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat	Africa: North	Algerian	At Large	Supremo	20031222
		also known as Abou Ibrahim Mustafa
	Nabil Sahraoui	Salafist Group for Call and Combat	Africa: North				20040310
	Nabil Sahrawi	Salafist Group for Dawa and Fighting	Africa: North				20040112
Nabil Soliman	Nabil Soliman	Egyptian Islamic Jihad	Africa: North	Egyptian	Arrested	Tough Guy	20020616
		"Nabil Soliman, the man convicted in absentia by an Egyptian court of participation in the assassination of former president Anwar Sadat, was removed from the United States to Egypt on June 12, 2002," said a statement made by U.S. embassy. "Soliman was taken into custody by Egyptian authorities upon arrival at Cairo Airport."
Nabil Tammos	Nabil Tammos	Palestinian Authority	Middle East	Palestinian		Tough Guy	20030712
		Death Squad member charged of murdering cadres of Hamas and Islamic Jihad
Nabil Ukal	Nabil Ukal	al-Qaeda	Middle East	Palestinian	Jugged	Cannon Fodder	20021208
		arrested in 1999 at the Rafah border crossing, on his way to a bin Laden training base in Afghanistan. Ukal, a Jabalya refugee camp resident, is on trial at the military tribunal at the Erez junction. He admitted to most of the charges against him, as part of a plea bargain.
Nabil al-Marabh	Nabil al Marabh	al-Qaeda	Home Front: WoT			Mastermind	20010918
		Suspected al-Qaeda operative in Boston, linked to two of the 9-11 hijackers
	Nabil al-Marabh	al-Qaeda	Home Front: WoT				20040603	Link
Sheikh Nabil Qaouk	Sheikh Nabil Qaouk	Hizbullah	Syria-Lebanon-Iran				20011223

Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Ex-Mustaqbal official clenches Beirut municipal seat from rival, broad coalition

2025-05-21

[NAHARNET] al-Mustaqbal
... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri...

... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri...
Movement's former Beirut coordinator Mahmoud al-Jamal, a retired brigadier general, has managed to clench a seat on Beirut's new municipal council, preventing a list comprising most political parties from winning all 24 seats.

Al-Jamal's win came at the expense of Elie Andrea, a Greek Orthodox member of the rival list who was backed by Greek Orthodox Metropolitan of Beirut Elias Audi.

Andrea was the subject of ''dismay, especially among Greek Orthodox voters, which led to the redaction of his name by voters due to his bad performance as a member of the outgoing municipal council,'' the Nidaa al-Watan newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Andrea had also faced a social media campaign against him prior to the elections against the backdrop of his dispute with outgoing municipal chief Jamal Itani, Asharq al-Awsat newspaper reported.

This is the first time in decades that sees Moslems outnumbering Christians in the municipal council. The country's rival political parties had formed an electoral alliance in Beirut under the excuse of preserving Christian-Moslem parity.

Political rivals such as Hezbollah and the Lebanese Forces
A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb...
came together to form the list, which also comprised the Amal Movement, the Kataeb Party, the Free Patriotic Movement
Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic...
, al-Ahbash, the Tashnag Party
Socialist party representing the Armenian diaspora in Leb. They're Christians, but they try to remain neutral, which means they get shot at without shooting back...
, the Hunchak Party, the Progressive Socialist Party and MP Fouad Makhzoumi.

Al-Jamal's list was backed by MP Nabil Bader and the Jamaa Islamiya and apparently received votes from Mustaqbal supporters.

Four other lists were also formed in the capital, including one by the Beirut Madinati civil society group, which won one third of the capital's votes in the 2016 polls.

Voter turnout reached only 21% in Beirut, which has historically witnessed similar low turnout levels.

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Africa Horn

Sudanese Armed Forces Completely Liberate Capital Province of Khartoum from RSF Rebels

2025-05-21

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The Sudanese armed forces have completely liberated the capital province of Khartoum from rebels from the Rapid Reaction Forces (RRF). This was reported by the Turkish news agency Anadolu Ajansı.

"The Sudanese army announced the liberation of the capital province of Khartoum from the paramilitary Rapid Reaction Forces," the agency said in a statement.

As the agency writes, citing a statement by military spokesman Nabil Abdullah, the Sudanese Armed Forces continue to suppress the militia in the south and west of Omdurman and continue to clear the Salha region, south of Omdurman, and its environs.

As reported by Regnum News Agency, a turning point was noted in the civil war in Sudan at the end of March - after two years of trench warfare, government forces began to push back the rebel troops along the entire front line. The Sudanese authorities announced the complete liberation of the country's capital Khartoum from the rebel formations of the SRF and the return of several large military bases and arsenals under their control. In response, the rebels intensified fighting in the south and west of Sudan and announced the formation of a government in the captured territories.

The civil war in Sudan has been ongoing since 2023. During this time, more than 20,000 people have died, and more than 14 million have been displaced - with a total population of 50 million people.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Muslim-Christian parity preserved in Beirut Municipality as list backed by main political parties wins

2025-05-20

[NAHARNET] A list backed by most political parties won all 24 seats of Beirut's municipality on Sunday, maintaining Christian-Moslem parity on the capital's municipal council.

Political rivals such as Hezbollah and the Lebanese Forces
A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb...
came together to form the list, arguing that such a temporary coalition was necessary to preserve equal Christian-Moslem power-sharing.

The list was also backed by the Amal Movement, the Kataeb Party, the Free Patriotic Movement
Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic...
, al-Ahbash, the Tashnag Party
Socialist party representing the Armenian diaspora in Leb. They're Christians, but they try to remain neutral, which means they get shot at without shooting back...
, the Hunchak Party and MP Fouad Makhzoumi.

A rival list was formed by MP Nabil Bader, the Jamaa Islamiya and a figure who was considered close to al-Mustaqbal
... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri...

... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri...
Movement.

Four other lists were also formed in the capital, including one by the Beirut Madinati civil society group, which won one third of the capital's votes in the 2016 polls.

Voter turnout reached 21% in Beirut, 44.57% in Zahle, 41.11% in West Bekaa, 37.70% in Rashaya, 34.15% in Hermel and 48.88% in Baalbek.

The Lebanese Forces meanwhile announced its victory in the Zahle municipal polls against a list backed by all the other political forces and families in an electoral battle in which the Free Patriotic Movement gave its supporters the freedom to vote for either list.

LF leader Samir Geagea
....Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005....
hailed a ''major victory'' in the city, saying ''Zahle has chosen progress, change, civilization, illusory sovereignty, deaders and Leb
Leb

...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
A Hezbollah front man meanwhile said the party and its ally the Amal Movement won in the city of Baalbek, the city of Hermel and in 19 towns in the Bekaa.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Main political parties agree on coalition list for Beirut municipal elections — Naharnet

2025-05-07

[NAHARNET] The country's main political parties have agreed on forming a unified electoral list for Beirut's municipal vote, al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Tuesday.

''A meeting was held yesterday at MP Fouad Makhzoumi's home in the presence of representatives of parties and Beiruti figures, which resulted in an agreement on forming a coalition list in Beirut,'' the daily said.

The list will comprise candidates nominated by Hezbollah, the Amal Movement, the Free Patriotic Movement
Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic...
, the Lebanese Forces
A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb...
, the Kataeb Party, al-Ahbash, the Tashnag Party
Socialist party representing the Armenian diaspora in Leb. They're Christians, but they try to remain neutral, which means they get shot at without shooting back...
and the Hunchak Party, the newspaper added. MP Nabil Bader and the Jamaa Islamiya meanwhile stayed outside the coalition, al-Akhbar said.

''Over the past hours, Bader contacted a number of figures trying to convince them to join a list that he intends to form in the face of the political forces' list, but he is facing difficulty in convincing these figures, who believe that it will be a lost battle,'' the daily added.

The Beirut Madinati civil society coalition, which garnered one third of the votes in 2016, is meanwhile expected to form a third list.

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Africa Horn

Sudanese paramilitary forces carried out 1st drone attack on Port Sudan, army says

2025-05-05

[IsraelTimes] The Sudan
Sudan

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Afghanistan

U.S.-Taliban Engagement Deepens as Haqqani Figures Quietly Shift Off Sanctions Radar

2025-03-23

[KhaamaPress] Sirajuddin Haqqani

...son of Pashtun warlord Jalaluddin Haqqani, still titular head of the Haqqani Network....
, the acting Interior Minister under the Taliban
Taliban

...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
-led administration in Afghanistan, continues to draw international attention as signs of evolving U.S. policy emerge. Sources close to the Haqqani network
...a branch of the Afghan Taliban that was based in Pakistain. The network is a family business founded by the late Jalaluddin Haqqani...
have told Afghan outlet Tolo News that the reward designations on key figures of the group have been lifted by the U.S. government. According to these sources, Sirajuddin Haqqani, along with Abdul Aziz Haqqani and Yahya Haqqani, are no longer included on the U.S. State Department’s Rewards for Justice list.

This development follows a period of growing engagement between the United States and the de facto Afghan authorities. Earlier this month, a U.S. delegation visited Kabul for the first time since 2021, reportedly focusing on the release of American detainees. One of those detainees, George Glezmann, was subsequently freed after over two years in jug and returned to the United States.

Tammy Bruce, spokesperson for the U.S. State Department, told Afghan media that while the return of detained Americans was the top priority of the visit, broader and longer-term issues were also discussed with Taliban officials. She did not elaborate on those discussions, citing political sensitivity.

While Sirajuddin Haqqani’s profile has indeed been removed from the State Department’s Rewards for Justice website, his name remains listed on the FBI’s Most Wanted database with no visible changes to his profile or the reward amount. This contrast has raised questions about the exact nature of the changes, and whether they reflect a shift in designation or are part of a phased diplomatic strategy.

Symbolically, anti-U.S. slogans once painted on the walls of the former U.S. Embassy in Kabul have reportedly been removed. This act, though subtle, aligns with a growing trend of more moderate and engagement-focused messaging from the current leadership.

At the regional level, India has also confirmed its ongoing engagement with the Taliban government. On March 20, Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar stated that New Delhi had chosen to engage with those in control in Afghanistan, driven by humanitarian imperatives. India has provided large-scale food aid, COVID-19 vaccines, and development assistance since August 2021, and Indian envoys have met with top Taliban officials in recent months.

India’s approach mirrors a broader recalibration of regional strategy. As the U.S. looks to stabilize its influence in South Asia, some analysts suggest that India may become a more active partner in shaping regional outcomes, while traditional players such as Pakistain—closely aligned with China—may find their roles shifting in the evolving landscape.

Although there is no official confirmation from U.S. authorities regarding a change in Haqqani’s legal designation, the combination of recent diplomatic activity, removals from key sanctions lists, and a shift in regional posture point to a growing willingness by international actors to engage in measured, pragmatic dialogue with the Afghan leadership.

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Africa Horn

Armoured Corps Links with Sudanese forces in HQ, squeezing RSF in Khartoum - Sudan Tribune

2025-03-19

[SUDANTRIBUNE] The Sudan
Sudan

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Palestinian Authority slams Hamas over talks with US, urges it to resume ‘national sanity’

2025-03-14

[IsraelTimes] The Palestinian Authority condemns Hamas for holding negotiations with the United States regarding Gaza’s future, saying this harms Palestinian unity and violates a law against communications with foreign parties.

In a statement issued on PA mouthpiece WAFA last night, presidential spokesperson Nabil Abu Rudeineh alleges the talks circumvent and “weaken” the Arab consensus in favor of Egypt’s plan for postwar Gaza, as well as the efforts to confront US President Donald Trump’s plan to displace all the Strip’s population.

Highlighting the longstanding split between the PA-controlled West Bank and the Hamas-ruled Gaza, Abu Rudeineh urges the terror group “to come back to national sanity, end the intra-Palestinian division, and hand over the Gaza Strip to the Palestinian National Authority, so that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank would be reunited under the rule of a single national authority, a single law, a single weapon, and a single legitimate political representation.”

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Africa Horn

Sudanese army ends RSF''s two-year siege of El Obeid

2025-02-24

[SUDANTRIBUNE] The Sudan
Sudan

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Africa Horn

Sudan army claims major advances in greater Khartoum

2025-02-10

[NEWARAB] Sudan
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...
's military said on Saturday that it had regained control of nearly all of Khartoum North, as it intensified its offensive aimed at reclaiming full control of the capital from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

The army, at war with the RSF since April 2023, has in recent weeks won back large swathes of the capital and its surrounding areas from the paramilitaries.

On Saturday, the military said it had recaptured Kafouri, a key district in Khartoum North, after pushing the paramilitaries to the outskirts of the city also known as Bahri.

The district, one of greater Khartoum's wealthiest, had been a key base for the paramilitary group, housing properties linked to senior RSF leaders, including Abdel Rahim Daglo, the brother and deputy of RSF commander Mohammed Hamdan Daglo.

In a statement, military front man Nabil Abdullah said army forces and their allies on Friday pushed out "remnants of the Daglo terrorist militias," from Kafouri and other areas 15 kilometres to the east in Sharq El Nil.

On Thursday, a military source told AFP the army was advancing towards the centre of Khartoum, while eyewitnesses reported festivities there and explosions in the south of the capital.

The developments mark one of the army's most significant advances since the war broke out between army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his former ally Daglo's RSF, which quickly seized much of Khartoum and other strategic areas.
Fears of reprisals

However,
women are made to be loved, not understood...
as fighting rages on in the capital, Amnesty International raised concerns Friday over potential reprisals in areas recently recaptured by the army.

The rights group cited reports of the circulation of lists targeting activists, human rights
...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty...
defenders, medical and humanitarian workers, accused of being "partners of the RSF".

In South Belt, a neighbourhood in Khartoum, the RSF on Saturday detained two members of a local volunteering rescue group at gunpoint from Bashair Hospital - the last partially functioning facility in the area, the group said in a statement.

On Thursday, the RSF had also reportedly detained the manager of Bashair Hospital as well as the head of a soup kitchen and a volunteer, according to local rescuers.

Last week, the UN human rights office documented at least 18 civilian deaths in Bahri since the army began its advance there in late January.

Following the army's takeover of al-Jazira state capital Wad Madani last month, mass executions against civilians were reported.

Human rights groups have accused the army and allied militias of extrajudicial killings, kidnappings, and physical and psychological torture, particularly targeting communities suspected of RSF ties.

Though the RSF has become notorious for alleged ethnic-based violence - leading the United States last month to accuse it of genocide - reports have also emerged of civilians being targeted on the basis of ethnicity in army-controlled areas.
Air strikes in Darfur

Elsewhere, the military has intensified its operations against paramilitaries in the vast western region of Darfur.

In the RSF-controlled Central Darfur state capital Zalingei, a military air strike on a residential neighbourhood killed three siblings and injured three other family members, according to a local group representing displaced people and refugees in the region.

The city has been a stronghold for rebels and gangs other than the RSF, serving as a base for launching attacks against the state.

The Darfur General Coordination of Camps for the Displaced and Refugees, a local civil society group, said on Saturday that the army air strike also destroyed homes in the area.

Further south, in the RSF-held South Darfur state capital Nyala, military air strikes killed 57 people within two days last week, according to medical sources at a hospital.

While the RSF holds sway over much of Darfur, the army has consolidated its grip on the country's north and east as well as parts of the centre.

The conflict has devastated the country, displacing more than 12 million and plunging Sudan into the "biggest humanitarian crisis ever recorded" according to the International Rescue Committee.

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Africa Horn

Sudan''s army claims control of key town near Khartoum

2025-02-08

[SUDANTRIBUNE] Sudan
Sudan

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Palestinians accuse Israel of ‘ethnic cleansing’ in West Bank, urge US intervention

2025-02-04

[IsraelTimes] Palestinian Authority says 70 killed this year, claims goal is ‘displacing residents’; IDF says it has killed over 50 terror operatives in the northern West Bank in recent days

The office of 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....>
on Monday denounced an Israeli military operation in the West Bank as "ethnic cleansing," with the PA health ministry saying Israeli forces killed 70 people in the territory this year.

It came a day after the Israel Defense Forces said that it has killed over 50 Paleostinian terror operatives in the northern West Bank since launching a major counterterrorism offensive nearly two weeks ago.

In a statement, front man Nabil Abu Rudeineh said the Paleostinian presidency "condemned the occupation authorities’ expansion of their comprehensive war on our Paleostinian people in the West Bank to implement their plans aimed at displacing citizens and ethnic cleansing."

Later, the Paleostinian health ministry in Ramallah said there had been "70 deaders in the West Bank since the beginning of this year," with 10 children, one woman and two elderly people among the dead.

The ministry told AFP that they were "killed by the Israeli occupation."

The figures showed 38 people killed in Jenin and 15 in Tubas in the north of the West Bank. One was killed in East Jerusalem, it said.

The IDF launched a major offensive, dubbed Operation Iron Wall, in the West Bank on January 21 aimed at rooting out Paleostinian terror groups from the Jenin area, which has long been a hotbed of terrorism.

On Sunday it said so far over 35 button men were killed by troops during operations in Jenin, Tulkarem, and the Tamun area, while another 15 were killed in dronezaps.

The IDF has acknowledged mistakenly killing several civilians during the operation, including a toddler.

More than 100 wanted Paleostinians have been detained, and troops have seized some 40 weapons and neutralized over 80 bombs during the operation, according to the IDF.

"We demand the intervention of the US administration before it is too late, to stop the ongoing Israeli aggression against our people and our land," Rudeineh told the Paleostinian official news agency WAFA in a statement coinciding with a visit by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington.

During his visit, on Monday, Netanyahu was expected to begin talks on the second phase of the truce with Hamas
Hamas

..always the voice of sweet reason...
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...
The next stage is expected to cover the release of the remaining hostages held by terror groups in Gaza, and include discussions on a more permanent end to the war, which was started by Hamas on October 7, 2023, when it led thousands of Death Eaters in an invasion of southern Israel, killing 1,200 people and abducting 251.

Since October 7, 2023, troops have arrested some 6,000 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 2,350 affiliated with Hamas.

According to the Paleostinian Authority health ministry, more than 858 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, 46 people, including Israeli security personnel, have been killed in terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank. Another eight members of the security forces were killed in festivities with terror operatives in the West Bank.

Throughout the war in Gaza, the IDF has carried out more than 100 ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s in the West Bank, using drones, attack helicopters, and fighter jets.

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