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Mullah Fateh Krekar	Mullah Fateh Krekar	Al-Islah Group	Axis of Evil				20021212
	Mullah Fateh Krekar	Ansar Al-Islam	Axis of Evil				20021212
Zafar Abdul Fateh	Zafar Abdul Fateh	Hizb-ul-Mujahideen	Afghanistan/South Asia				20020508
	Zafar Abdul Fateh	Hizbul Mujahideen	Afghanistan/South Asia	Kashmiri	At Large	Big Shot	20020505
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India-Pakistan

Army's top brass reiterates resolve to take action at all levels against India-backed proxies

2025-07-11

[GEO.TV] The Pakistan Army's top brass has reiterated its vow to take decisive and holistic actions at all levels against the Indian backed and sponsored proxies, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Thursday.

The 271st Corps Commanders' Conference (CCC), held in Rawalpindi under the chairmanship of Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir, Chief of Army Staff, observed that India is intensifying its actions against Pakistan following its recent defeat in the war.

Pakistan and India went to war in May after New Delhi launched attacks on Islamabad, claiming that it was involved in the attack on tourists in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam — an allegation that the Pakistani government has denied.

Although the war stopped within 90 hours after Pakistan's decisive response, the government has said that Indian carried out numerous terrorist activities in Pakistan via its proxies since the clash.

During the high-level meeting, the CCC offered Fateha for the martyrs of recent terrorist attacks carried out by Indian-sponsored proxies, vowing that their sacrifices would not go in vain.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iranian - Israeli War News roundup for June 18th,2025

2025-06-19

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Iran Claims Israeli F-35 Fighter Jet Destroyed
[Regnum] Iranian military shot down an Israeli F-35 fighter jet near Tehran, IRNA reported, citing Varamin County authorities.

"The army's air defense forces hit and destroyed an enemy Israeli F-35 fighter jet in the Javadabad area of Varamin," the agency quoted the head of Varamin district as saying on his Telegram channel.

Security forces and military officials investigating the details will provide more information later, the statement said.

On the evening of June 16, Tasnim reported the destruction of an F-35 near the city of Tabriz in northwestern Iran. It was noted that this was the fourth such aircraft shot down by Iranian air defense forces.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, on the night of June 13, Israel began to strike Iran as part of a large-scale military operation, "Rising Lion," under the pretext of eliminating the threat of nuclear weapons. Tehran responded by launching Operation True Promise 3 and began to strike Israeli military and military-industrial facilities.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC, Iran's elite military force) said Iran had gained full control of Israeli airspace during the attack on the night of June 18.

IDF reports that in first, Israeli drone shot down over Iran
[IsraelTimes] Military says surface-to-air missile took down Hermes UAV, air force is constantly working to maintain air superiority

In an apparent first, an Israeli Air Force drone was shot down over the Isfahan area in central 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...
overnight, the Israeli military and Iranian media said. Footage broadcast by Iran’s state broadcaster IRIB on Wednesday morning showed what appeared to be a crashed Israeli Air Force Hermes 900.

"During operational activity, a surface-to-air missile was launched at an air force unmanned aerial vehicle," the Israel Defense Forces said later, confirming the drone crashed in Iran.

The IDF said that "there is no fear of information leaking."

The IAF has been operating over Iran, at a distance of more than 1,500 kilometers from Israel, since early Friday. The military says it has air supremacy over western Iran and Tehran, and is working to extend it to other parts of the country, to thwart Iranian ballistic missile attacks on Israel. More than 70 Iranian air defense batteries have been destroyed in strikes so far, according to the IDF.

"Achieving air superiority involves initiative and offensive actions, which come with costs that were accounted for in the plan. We are constantly engaged in the struggle to maintain air superiority," the military said.

The IDF said the incident over Isfahan was being investigated further.

The military has denied previous Iranian claims of shooting down Israeli aircraft, which were not backed by any evidence.

Several Hermes drones were downed during the war with Iran’s proxy Hezbollah terror group.

Now in its sixth day, the Israeli operation in Iran was launched Friday with the objective of removing the "existential threat" of the Iranian nuclear program and ballistic missile capabilities. Israel says its sweeping assault on Iran’s top military leaders, nuclear scientists, uranium enrichment sites, and ballistic missile program is necessary to prevent the Islamic Theocratic Republic from realizing its avowed plan to destroy the Jewish state.

Iran has retaliated by launching more than 370 missiles and hundreds of drones at Israel. So far, 24 people have been killed in Israel and more than 500 maimed.

Israeli strikes on Iran have killed at least 224 people, according to Iranian officials.

More from regnum.ru
Khamenei says Iran has no intention of surrendering
Iran intends to “stand firm” and will not give up, the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in an address to the nation on June 18.

The Iranian people never surrender, the ayatollah said. Tehran will respond to any possible US military intervention and will cause irreparable damage to Washington, Khamenei also stressed.

“The Americans should know that any military intervention will certainly result in irreparable damage for them,” he noted.

Earlier, US President Donald Trump demanded Tehran's unconditional surrender. American media reported that Trump was considering the possibility of the US entering the war, including striking Iran's nuclear facilities. According to journalists, US troops in the Middle East have been put on high alert.

Even more from regnum.ru and the noted military defense experts at the Washington Post
Israel's air defense will collapse in 10 days without US help - American media
Without help from the United States, Israel's air defense systems will fall under Iranian strikes in 10 days due to a shortage of ammunition. This is reported by the American newspaper The Washington Post (WP), citing an informed source.

"Without resupply from the United States or greater U.S. military involvement, Israel could maintain its missile defenses for another 10 to 12 days if Iran maintains a steady pace of attacks," the report said.

According to the source, by the end of this week Israel will be able to intercept only a small part of the missiles launched by Iran. The publication also specified that air defense costs Israel $285 million per day.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, on the night of June 13, Israel began to strike Iran as part of a large-scale military operation, "Rising Lion," under the pretext of eliminating the threat of nuclear weapons. Tehran responded by launching Operation True Promise 3 and began to strike Israeli military and military-industrial facilities.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC, Iran's elite military force) said Iran had gained full control of Israeli airspace during the attack on the night of June 18.

Yet, more from regnum.ru
Iran Launches Missile Attack on Israel, Media Writes
Iran has launched a new missile attack on Israel, the IRNA agency reported on June 18 on its Telegram channel.

“Iranian missiles headed towards the occupied territories (Israeli territory. — Ed.),” the publication says.

The Israeli army said that they had already detected the missiles and were intercepting the shells. Residents of the country were urged to remain in shelters.

Shortly before this, the Iranian authorities called for the evacuation of the population of one of the districts of the Israeli city of Haifa. Similar statements had been published before, in particular, before the strikes on Tel Aviv.

On the night of June 18, the Israeli army recorded two rocket attacks from Iran within an hour. The population was called to take shelter in shelters and remain there until further notice.

Later, a source in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC, the elite units of the Iranian Armed Forces) said: Tehran was able to secure full control over Israeli airspace during the night attack. The IRGC noted that the Israelis were defenseless against Iranian missile attacks. According to this information, dominance was achieved through the use of Fateh missiles.

Again, more from regnum.ru
IRGC: Iran used super-heavy ballistic missile Sajjil for the first time
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC, elite forces of the Iranian Armed Forces) said that it used super-heavy ballistic missiles "Sajil" for the first time in an attack on Israel. This was reported on June 18 by the Tasnim agency.

“During the twelfth wave of Operation Sadeq’s Promise, the IRGC fired three Sajjil missiles,” follows from a publication on the publication’s Telegram channel.

According to these reports, Iran has struck Israeli Mossad headquarters, military intelligence and Israeli air bases. The IRGC also said that missile attacks from Tehran would be "effective and continuous."

Open sources indicate that the range of the Sajjil is 2,000 km. The surface-to-surface missile was first tested in November 2008. The Sajjil differs from the basic version in its increased accuracy and increased speed at the initial stage of flight. The length of the missile is 17.5 m, and its weight can reach 500 to 1,500 kg.

Earlier on June 18, the IRNA news agency reported that Iran had launched a new missile attack on Israel. Shortly before this, Iranian authorities called for the evacuation of the population of one of the areas of the Israeli city of Haifa. Similar statements had been published before, in particular, before the strikes on Tel Aviv.

On the night of June 18, the Israeli army recorded two rocket attacks from Iran within an hour. Later, a source in the IRGC said: Tehran was able to secure full control over Israeli airspace during the night attack. According to this information, dominance was achieved through the use of Fateh missiles.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Air raid alert declared in northern Israel

2025-06-19

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] An air raid alert has been declared in northern Israel. This was reported on June 18 by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) press service.

"Sirens are sounding in northern Israel due to the penetration of an enemy aircraft," the army press service clarified on social media.

The IDF did not provide any other details.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, on the night of June 17, Iran destroyed a long-range air defense system during strikes on Israel. It is noted that this operation was planned in advance. Iranian stealth drones were used in it. The attack was carried out in the central part of Israel. The official representative of the Iranian Defense Ministry, Reza Talaei, assured that Tehran used "one new missile" to strike Israel on June 17.

On the evening of June 17, Iranian state television IRIB broadcast a message that the world was in for a "surprise" in the coming hours. This will be remembered for centuries, the source claimed.

The same day, Chief of the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Abdulrahim Mousavi called on the Israelis to leave Tel Aviv and Haifa, saying that previous Iranian operations against Israel were only a warning.

IRNA reported on June 18 that Iran had secured full control over the Jewish state's airspace during a nighttime attack on Israel. According to a statement by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC, Iran's elite military unit), the Israelis were completely defenseless against Iranian missile attacks. They achieved dominance through the use of Fateh missiles.

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India-Pakistan

Army top brass vows to decimate India-backed terrorist proxies with ''full force''

2025-05-23

[GEO.TV] A day after a blast in Khuzdar martyred six people, including four children, the military's top brass has vowed to dismantle and decimate all proxies and controllers of terrorism with unrelenting resolve, according to a statement issued by the military's media wing on Thursday.

"These hostile elements, trained and financed to incite chaos and fear, will be dismantled and decimated with full force of national will and institutional strength."

The statement came after Chief of Army Staff Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir chaired the 270th Corps Commanders' Conference (CCC) at the General Headquarters, Rawalpindi.

The ISPR said the top commanders' meeting commenced with Fateha for the deaders of Bunyan-um-Marsoos, and the heinous terrorist attack in Khuzdar, Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
, an atrocity perpetrated through India-sponsored proxies, which resulted in the loss of four innocent children and two adults.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Hezbollah reveals new Fateh-110 missile — Hodhod Yemen News Agency

2024-11-07

[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] Hezbollah's military media unveiled a new missile on Wednesday evening, which has recently entered service and is now part of the Lebanese resistance's heavy missile arsenal.

The missile revealed by Hezbollah is called ''Fateh 110.''

It is a precision surface-to-surface missile used to bomb vital targets with an accuracy of 10 meters. The missile has high destructive capabilities. It can be launched from fixed or mobile platforms. It works on solid fuel. It entered service on 06-11-2024

Specifications:

Diameter: 616 mm
Length: 8.8 m
Total weight: 3450 kg
Warhead weight: 500 kg
Range: 300 km

Earlier, Hezbollah released video footage of targeting the ''Tzrifin'' base of the enemy ''Israeli'' army south of ''Tel Aviv'' (occupied Yaffa) with Fateh-110 missiles.

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Secret Iranian missile storage site exposed by anti-regime group amid mounting regional tensions

2024-10-25

[FoxNews] 'Decades of appeasement have emboldened this dictatorship,' Iranian dissident says.

A leading Iranian dissident group, the People’s Mojahedin of Iran (MEK), has provided Fox News Digital with information about a secret site where the Islamic Republic of Iran allegedly stores and prepares the missiles it uses against foes, sells to allies and provides to its proxies.

Located in a mountainous region outside of Eshtehard City, northwest of Tehran in Alborz province, the camp, known as the Shahid (Martyr) Soltani Garrison, is heavily guarded and surrounded by two rows of barbed wire. It has purportedly seen increased activity in the latter part of 2024, with the MEK noting that "more than ten trailers carrying missile parts" passed into the camp in July.

Among the weapons stored at the site are the Shahab-3, Qiam, Fateh and Fath series ballistic missiles, the MEK said.

Iran expert, Behnam Ben Taleblu, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said after its "layered attack" on Israel in April, which involved about 300 drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles, the Islamic Regime "got rid of the low- and slow-flying" assets and "doubled down on ballistic" weapons. Iran launched more than 180 ballistic missiles into Israeli airspace on Oct. 1.

Taleblu noted that Iran utilized the same liquid-propellant systems from its April attack, the Emad and Ghadr ballistic missiles, which are evolutions of the Shahab-3. He said the October attack also involved the solid-propellant Kheibar Shekan and reportedly even the hypersonic Fattah-1 ballistic missile. An Israel Defense Forces spokesperson also confirmed to Fox News Digital that Iran’s recent attacks included Fattah-1 and Fattah-2 hypersonic ballistic missiles.

During the larger Oct. 1 attack on Israel, two U.S. destroyers intercepted about a dozen Iranian missiles. Neither the Pentagon nor the Defense Intelligence Agency responded to Fox News Digital’s questions about whether American assets have been targeted by the varieties of Iranian ballistic missiles said to be housed at the Eshtehard site, or whether the U.S. has intercepted any of these missiles in the region.

To protect Israel from further Iranian ballistic missile strikes, the U.S. sent its Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system to Tel Aviv, along with a cadre of 100 U.S. soldiers to operate the system. Taleblu says THAAD will "function as a critical patch in Israel’s existing, already very well-layered air-missile defenses," though with just 48 interceptors, Taleblu says THAAD’s long-term suitability is "debatable."

Meow…

It is unknown whether ballistic missiles targeting Israel were stored or prepared at the Shahid Soltani Garrison. It is also unknown whether the short-range ballistic missiles Iran provided to Russia, for which Iran was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury and State departments, were held at the location.

The MEK provided satellite imagery showing two distinct sections of the Shahid Soltani Garrison. Above-ground storage sites "were established at least 15 years ago" and include a segment of one-floor warehouses and one three-floor warehouse that offer a combined 6,500 square meters of storage space. Around 10 buildings in another segment of the garrison offer up an additional 3,000 square meters of space. Underground tunnels constructed on the site between 2017 and 2021 offer more storage locations.

According to the report, the Al-Ghadir Missile Command, an element of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Aerospace Force, is responsible for the camp. IRGC Brig. Gen. Partovi was the last known commander of the site. The MEK stated that Col. Mohammad Reza Hakimzadeh and Col. Barati of the Eshtehard Corps of the IRGC are responsible for administrative affairs related to the camp.

In 2010, the Al-Ghadir Missile Command was sanctioned by the U.S. as well as by the EU. Commanders within Al-Ghadir Missile Command, including Mahmoud Bagheri Kazemabad and Mohammad Agha Jafari, have also been subject to U.S. sanctions.

Ballistic missiles of likely and certain Iranian origin have previously targeted U.S. forces. Iran-backed militias fired an unknown close-range ballistic missile at Al Asad Air Base on Nov. 21, 2023, resulting in eight injuries and damage to infrastructure.

On Jan. 8, 2020, Iran launched 27 theater ballistic missiles toward Al Asad Air Base. Of these, 11 Fateh and Qiam missiles landed inside the U.S. base, according to a medical study of the attack’s effects. The missiles’ impact resulted in around 35 cases of traumatic brain injury or concussion.

Taleblu noted that countering Iran’s ballistic missile program will require several lines of effort. On the economic and political end of the spectrum, they are taking on Iran’s trade with China, going after Iran’s domestic and foreign supply chain "for the whole ballistic life cycle" and exposing the rotating array of individuals involved with the ballistic missile program to travel bans and sanctions. In tandem with covert or kinetic operations, the aforementioned efforts "can really handcuff this missile program," Taleblu explained.

Taleblu said the importance of maintaining advanced missile defense systems in order to deter Iranian weapons, hardening U.S. bases,and ensuring "the elements of deterrence by punishment are not only present, but are understood and are credible."

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Hamas Leader Killed in Israeli Air Strike Was United Nations Employee

2024-10-01

More on the gentleman.

[Red State] Fateh Sherif was, supposedly, an educator — the principal of Deir Yassin Secondary School. He was also an employee of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine (UNRWA.) Sherif also moonlighted as a Hamas leader, responsible for coordinating Hamas actions with Hezbollah, including recruiting and logistics operations.

Now he's been shuffled off the mortal coil by the Israeli Air Force after an air strike eliminated him, and the UNRWA is finally admitting he was one of theirs.

A U.N. aid group confirmed Hamas’ leader in Lebanon, who was recently killed by Israeli strikes, was their employee.

Fateh Sherif was killed Monday in an airstrike on the al-Bass refugee camp in the southern Lebanese city of Tyre, along with his wife and children.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) noted that Sherif had been on suspension with the organization since March but had not been fired.

"Fateh Al Sharif was an UNRWA employee who was put on administrative leave without pay in March and was undergoing an investigation following allegations that UNRWA received about his political activities," an UNRWA spokesperson said in a statement to Fox News Digital.

At the time, his suspension sparked widespread protests and strikes by teachers in Lebanon.

What a fine example he set for little Lebanese schoolkids! It's important to note that Sherif had been living this not-so-subtle double life for some time now, and the UNRWA seemed to notice only after they came under scrutiny for some of their members providing support for, if not actually taking part in the Oct 7th attacks on Israel — and for stealing and reselling humanitarian aid meant for non-Hamas Gazans.

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International-UN-NGOs

UNRWA chief says he did not know a suspended teacher was Hamas’s leader in Lebanon

2024-10-01

Responding to this story from yesterday.

[IsraelTimes] The head of the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) on Monday denied knowing that its employee Fateh Sherif Abu el-Amin was a Hamas commander in Lebanon, and called on states to push back against Israeli attacks on the agency’s reputation.

The head of Hamas’s Lebanon branch, Abu el-Amin, was killed along with family members in an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon, the Palestinian terror group said on Monday. A statement from the terror group identified him as a “successful teacher and excellent [school] principal.”

The Palestinian Refugees Portal news site reported in early June that Sherif was set to be reinstated, citing a press release from a Damascus-based group representing Palestinian refugees in Syria and Lebanon that said an arrangement had been found to drop the probe and end the teacher strike.

He was suspended from his job at UNRWA in March following allegations concerning his politics, Philippe Lazzarini told reporters in Geneva.

“The specific allegation at the time was that [he was] a part of the local leadership… I never heard the word commander before,” he said. “What’s obvious for you today, was not obvious yesterday.”

UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said el-Amin had been on administrative leave without pay since March — “as soon as UNRWA received information about his possible involvement with Hamas at a senior level” — and had never been reinstated.

“As soon as information was received — in this case, from the Israeli government — action was taken,” Dujarric told reporters. “Every time UNRWA has received information beyond just a name, action has been taken.”

“Anyone who works for the UN and engages in terror, terror-like activity is unacceptable and outrageous and an insult to all UN staff members around the world,” he said.
He said with a *wink*
In a statement to the Times of Israel, UNRWA said Sherif was undergoing an investigation following allegations that UNRWA received about his “political activities.”

Lazzarini, who briefed the press after meeting with UN member states earlier on Monday, said he asked them to “push back on all the reputation attack on the agency and the ongoing drafting of bills which could be adopted in Jerusalem.”

He was referring to a move by Israeli parliament to declare the organization a “terrorist body,” which has already received preliminary approval. Such a move would be “absolutely unconscionable,” he added.

UNRWA has been in hot water for the past year over evidence of members’ involvement in terror activities. Israel has alleged that at least 12 of UNRWA’s employees were directly involved in Hamas’s October 7 atrocities, another 30 assisted or facilitated those crimes, and as much as 12 percent of the organization’s staff in Gaza — over 1,000 people — are affiliated with terror organizations.

According to the military, Sherif was responsible for coordinating Hamas’s activity in Lebanon with Hezbollah, as well as Hamas’s “force build-up efforts in Lebanon, in the field of recruiting operatives and procuring weapons.”

Sherif’s suspension in March sparked demonstrations and strikes by teachers demanding his reinstatement.

The Palestinian Refugees Portal news site reported in early June that Sherif was set to be reinstated, citing a press release from a Damascus-based group representing Palestinian refugees in Syria and Lebanon that said an arrangement had been found to drop the probe and end the teacher strike.

A “commitment” was reached “not to prosecute any employee on the basis of his national affiliation,” according to the press release.

Israel has long accused the agency of employing members of Hamas and other terror groups, allowing them to steep future generations in virulent anti-Israel ideology.

While UNRWA provides education, health, and aid to millions of Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria, Israel has also accused multiple agency staffers of taking part in the Hamas-led attack on October 7, in which some 1,200 people in Israel were killed and 251 taken hostage.

Several donor countries cut aid to the agency after Israel provided evidence that employees took part in Hamas’s October 7 massacre. Many, however, have since reinstated their support, citing the dire need in Gaza.

During its operations in Gaza, the IDF found a Hamas data center located directly beneath UNRWA headquarters in Gaza City, in addition to numerous findings indicating the use of the agency’s assets for terror purposes.

The UN acknowledged in August that nine UNRWA staff may have been involved in the Hamas October attacks and fired them.

UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) was established in 1949 and provides relief to Palestinians considered refugees across the Middle East, including in Lebanon where it says up to 250,000 reside.

The only UN refugee agency established for a specific people, it has come under criticism for bestowing the status not just on those who lost their homes in 1948, but to all their descendants as well — a practice unheard of elsewhere. Israel and its supporters say this encourages an enduring victimhood mentality and narrative in Palestinians and increases their dependence on aid.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Hamas says its leader in Lebanon was killed in Israeli airstrike

2024-09-30

[IsraelTimes] Palestinian terror group Hamas says that its leader in Lebanon, Fateh Sherif Abu el-Amin, was killed in an Israeli strike in the south of the country.

The group says a number of his family members were also killed in the strike.

“Fateh Sherif Abu el-Amin, the leader of Hamas… in Lebanon and member of the movement’s leadership abroad” was killed in a strike on his “home in the Al-Bass camp in south Lebanon,” a Hamas statement says.

The official National News Agency reported an airstrike near the southern city of Tyre.

כלי תקשורת פלסטיניים מדווחים: מנהיג חמאס בלבנון אבו אל-אמין שימש גם כראש התאחדות מורי אונר"א במדינה@nurityohanan https://t.co/RqUVzg6Ckr pic.twitter.com/5J80SO43wj
— כאן חדשות (@kann_news) September 30, 2024

Update at 4:25 p.m. ET — Fred found this for us:

Just a reminder that Fathi al-Sharif, the head of the UNRWA teachers union in Lebanon who was killed in an Israeli airstrike yesterday, was also the head of Hamas in Lebanon.

Why are terrorists employed by the UN @antonioguterres? pic.twitter.com/AtJlhv2NzD
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) September 30, 2024

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Pager, walkie-talkie explosions took 1,500 fighters out of action – Hezbollah source

2024-09-26

[IsraelTimes] Officials within the terror group say chain of command remains intact, and fighters are trained to operate even if it breaks down, pointing to underground arsenal, tunnel network

The explosion last week of thousands of Hezbollah’s communication devices across Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
put 1,500 fighters out of commission due to their injuries, with many having been blinded or had their hands blown off, a Hezbollah official told Rooters.

While that is a major blow, it represents a fraction of Hezbollah’s strength, which a report for the US Congress on Friday put at 40,000-50,000 fighters. The terror group’s leader, His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...>
, has said it has 100,000 fighters.

The blasts, which were widely blamed on Israel, were closely followed by IDF aerial assaults over the past week that have left the powerful Lebanese Shiite terror group and political party reeling.

Yet Hezbollah’s flexible chain of command, together with its extensive tunnel network and a vast arsenal of missiles and weapons it has bolstered over the past year, is helping it weather the unprecedented Israeli strikes, three sources familiar with the Lebanese group’s operations said.

On Friday, Israel killed the commander who founded and led Hezbollah’s elite Radwan force, Ibrahim Aqil. And since Monday, Lebanon’s deadliest day of violence in decades, the health ministry says more than 560 people, among them 50 children, have died in air barrages. The tally does not distinguish between combatants and civilians. Israel said it targeted homes where Hezbollah emplaced rockets, missiles and other arms, having repeatedly called on residents to flee.

Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi said on Sunday that Aqil’s death had shaken the organization. Israel says its strikes have also destroyed thousands of Hezbollah rockets and shells.

But two of the sources familiar with Hezbollah operations said the group swiftly appointed replacements for Aqil and other senior figures killed in Friday’s ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
...KABOOM!...
in Beirut’s southern suburbs. Nasrallah said in an August 1 speech that the group quickly fills gaps whenever a leader is killed.

Since October 8, when Hezbollah began firing at Israel in support of its ally Hamas
Hamas

..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
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 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...
, it has redeployed fighters to frontline areas in the south, including some from Syria, the three sources said.

It has also been bringing rockets into Lebanon at a fast pace, anticipating a drawn-out conflict, the sources said, adding that the group nevertheless sought to avoid all-out war.

Hezbollah’s main supporter and weapons supplier is Iran. The terror group is the most powerful faction in Tehran’s "Axis of Resistance®" of allied irregular forces across the Middle East. Many of its weapons are Iranian, Russian or Chinese models.

The sources, who all asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the matter, did not provide details of the weapons or where they were bought.

Hezbollah’s media office did not reply to requests for comment for this story.

Andreas Krieg, a senior lecturer at the School of Security Studies at King’s College London, said that while Hezbollah operations had been disrupted by the past week’s attacks, the group’s networked organizational structure helped make it an extremely resilient force.

"This is the most formidable enemy Israel has ever faced on the battlefield, not because of numbers and tech but in terms of resilience."

POWERFUL MISSILES
Fighting has escalated this week. Israel killed another top Hezbollah commander, Ibrahim Qubaisi, on Tuesday. For its part, Hezbollah has shown its capacity to continue operations, firing hundreds of rockets toward Israel in ever deeper attacks.

On Wednesday, warning sirens sounded in Tel Aviv as a single surface-to-surface missile was intercepted by air defense systems, the Israeli military said. Hezbollah said it had targeted an Israeli intelligence base near Tel Aviv, more than 100 kilometers (60 miles) from the border.

The group has yet to say whether it has launched any of its most potent, precision-guided rockets, such as the Fateh-110, an Iranian-made ballistic missile with a range of 250-300 kilometers (341.75 miles). Hezbollah’s Fateh-110s have a 450- to 500-kilogram warhead, according to a 2018 paper published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.

Hezbollah’s rocket attacks are possible because the chain of command has kept functioning despite the group suffering a brief spell of disarray after the pagers and walkie-talkies detonated, one of the sources, a security bigshot, said.

The three sources said Hezbollah’s ability to communicate is underpinned by a dedicated, fixed-line telephone network — which it has described as critical to its communications and continues to work — as well as by other devices.

Many of its fighters were carrying older models of pagers, for example, that were unaffected by last week’s attack.

Rooters could not independently verify the information. Most injuries from the exploding pagers were in Beirut, far from the front.

Hezbollah stepped up the use of pagers after banning its fighters from using cellphones on the battlefield in February, in response to commanders being killed in strikes.

If the chain of command breaks, frontline fighters are trained to operate in small, independent clusters composed of a few villages near the border, capable of fighting Israeli forces for long periods, the senior source added.

That is precisely what happened in 2006, during the last war between Hezbollah and Israel, when the group’s fighters held out for weeks, some in frontline villages invaded by Israel.

Israel says it has escalated attacks in order to degrade Hezbollah’s capabilities and make it safe for tens of thousands of displaced Israelis to return to their homes near the Lebanon border, which they fled when Hezbollah began firing rockets on October 8.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has said it prefers to reach a negotiated agreement that would see Hezbollah withdraw from the border region but stands ready to continue its bombing campaign if Hezbollah refuses, and does not rule out any military options.

Hezbollah’s resilience means the fighting has raised fears of a protracted war that could suck in the US, Israel’s close ally, and Iran
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— especially if Israel launches, and gets bogged down in, a ground offensive in southern Lebanon.

Israel’s military did not respond to a request for comment for this story.

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian warned on Monday of "irreversible" consequences of a full-blown war in the Middle East. A US State Department official said Washington disagreed with Israel’s strategy of escalation and sought to reduce tensions.

UNDERGROUND ARSENAL
In what two of the sources said was an indication of how well some of Hezbollah’s weapons are hidden, on Sunday rockets were launched from areas of southern Lebanon that had been targeted by Israel shortly before, the two sources said.

Hezbollah is believed to have an underground arsenal and last month published footage that appeared to show its fighters driving trucks with rocket launchers through tunnels. The sources did not specify if the rockets fired on Sunday were launched from underground.

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Monday’s barrage had destroyed tens of thousands of Hezbollah rockets and munitions.

Israel’s military said long-range cruise missiles, rockets with warheads capable of carrying 100 kilograms of explosives, short-range rockets, and explosive UAVs were all struck on Monday.

Rooters could not independently verify the military claims.

Boaz Shapira, a researcher at Alma, an Israeli think tank that specializes in Hezbollah, said Israel had yet to target strategic sites such as long-range missiles and drone sites.

"I don’t think we are anywhere near finishing this," Shapira said.

Hezbollah’s arsenal is believed to comprise some 150,000 rockets, the US Congress report said. Krieg said its most powerful, long-range ballistic missiles were kept below ground.

Hezbollah has spent years building a tunnel network that by Israeli estimates extends for hundreds of miles. The Israeli military said Monday’s airstrikes hit Hezbollah missile launch sites hidden under homes in southern Lebanon.

Hezbollah has said it does not place military infrastructure near civilians. Hezbollah has issued no statement on the impact of Israel’s strikes since Monday.

TUNNELS
The group’s arsenal and tunnels have expanded since the 2006 war, especially precision guidance systems, leader Nasrallah has said. Hezbollah officials have said the group has used a small part of the arsenal in fighting over the past year.

Israeli officials have said Hezbollah’s military infrastructure is tightly meshed into the villages and communities of southern Lebanon, with ammunition and missile launcher pads stored in houses throughout the area. Israel has been pounding some of those villages for months to degrade Hezbollah’s capabilities.

Confirmed details on the tunnel network remain scarce.

A 2021 report by Alma, the Israeli think tank, said Iran and North Korea
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both helped build up the network of tunnels in the aftermath of the 2006 war.

Israel has already struggled to root out Hamas commanders and self-reliant fighting units from the tunnels crisscrossing Gaza.

"It is one of our biggest challenges in Gaza, and it is certainly something we could meet in Lebanon," said Carmit Valensi, a senior research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, a think-tank.

Krieg said that unlike Gaza, where most tunnels are manually dug into a sandy soil, the tunnels in Lebanon had been dug deep in mountain rock. "They are far less accessible than in Gaza and even less easy to destroy."

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'Doomsday Weapons': How Hezbollah Responds to Israel

2024-09-25

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Artemy Sharapov

[REGNUM] The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched a "preemptive" offensive against the Lebanon-based Shiite organization Hezbollah. The "preemptive strikes" began on the morning of September 23.

"We are striking at the military infrastructure that Hezbollah has been building for the past 20 years," said IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevy, adding that the Israeli military is preparing for the next stages of the conflict, which Halevy promised to talk about later.

In turn, Hezbollah representatives announced rocket attacks on an Israeli industrial complex in northern Haifa. The attack on the night of September 24 was called a response to the pager explosions that occurred in Beirut. In addition, the Shiite movement attacked Megiddo airport in northern Israel with rockets three times overnight.

At the same time, Hezbollah began to strike Israeli territory on September 21, using an arsenal of long-range missiles. The targets of the attacks were military facilities of the Israeli IDF. According to the group's statement, Fadi-1 and Fadi-2 missiles were used for the shelling. Most likely, these munitions were delivered to Lebanon from Syria, military expert and author of the ImpNavigator blog Yuri Lyamin told Regnum news agency.

"In fact, no one hid the fact that Syria supplies these rocket munitions to Hezbollah. They were first used back in 2006, during the Second Lebanon War. Moreover, during the civil war in Syria, government troops practically did not use them, so everything that was produced on Syrian territory went to Lebanon in case of a new war with Israel," the expert noted.

The weapons are supplied by Iran. Syria transfers them to Hezbollah because they’re next door, and they try very hard to conceal the transfers from Israel. Sometimes they succeed.

The 220 mm Fadi-1 is designed to hit targets at a distance of up to 70 kilometers, the mass of the missile's warhead is 83 kilograms. The Fadi-2 class missiles have a caliber of 302 mm, carry a warhead weighing over 100 (according to some sources - over 150 kilograms) and are designed to strike at a distance of up to 100 kilometers.

According to Israeli intelligence, the Fadi class missiles are a modification of the Kheibar-1 missiles, developed in Syria in the early 2000s based on the Chinese WS-1 missiles.

Israel has repeatedly tried to stop the supply of missiles from Syria, striking Syrian military enterprises. In early September, the Israeli Air Force attacked a military facility near the city of Masyaf in the Syrian province of Hama. Presumably, Fadi missiles were being manufactured at this facility.

However, Israel is not able to completely stop the supply of ammunition from Syria, Yuri Lyamin is sure.

"The length of the border between Syria and Lebanon is hundreds of kilometers. Moreover, it passes through hard-to-reach mountain ranges. Israel manages to cover and destroy something, but Syria itself is large, there are places to hide missiles, there are many supply routes," the expert believes.

At the same time, a supply route for more sophisticated missiles passes through Syria, heading to Lebanon from Iran, Hezbollah's main ally.

TARGETS FOR STRIKES
The current escalation between Hezbollah and Israel began in October 2023. The Lebanese group shelled Israeli territory in support of the Gaza Strip and the Palestinian group Hamas.

At first, Hezbollah limited itself to shelling Israeli territory with “salvos” of unguided rockets, which were destroyed on approach by the Iron Dome missile defense system. This exchange of pleasantries generally suits both sides, since, on the one hand, it allows for the appearance of support for the “Palestinian resistance,” and on the other, it does not escalate the conflict to a new level, since the shelling does not lead to casualties among the civilian population.

At the same time, the shelling also has a strategic goal - to exhaust, if possible, the stocks of Israeli air defense/missile defense missiles. And it is quite possible that this was the task set by the group's command at an early stage of the conflict, military expert Alexander Mikhailovsky said in a commentary for the Regnum news agency.

"Along the demarcation line - since there is no de facto border between Israel and Lebanon - there are probably hundreds of launchers of calibers from 80 to 122 mm hidden. They are buried in the ground, hidden in caves, camouflaged. It is quite difficult to find them. At the same time, the launch of 50-100 missiles, fired according to the principle of "whoever God sends", allows, for example, to cover the launch of a drone, which will then work on a specific target," the expert explains.

In the summer of 2024, Hezbollah showed footage taken by reconnaissance drones that had penetrated the Iron Dome. The drones captured, among other things, the Israeli Navy base in Haifa, as well as a number of military installations in the northern regions of the country. They later became the target of large-caliber missile strikes. But it is difficult to assess the damage caused by the shelling.

"Israeli intelligence services keep any data on rocket attacks on military targets secret, and Hezbollah likes to exaggerate its successes. So, most likely, they are causing damage to the said targets, but limited. However, this could be a test run, and the main strikes are still ahead," Mikhailovsky believes.

Arab media outlets have made a similar assessment, predicting more extensive strikes on Israel and hinting at the use of ballistic missiles capable of reaching central Israel.

MODERN ARSENAL
Israeli intelligence agencies have repeatedly stated that Hezbollah has a large number of different types of missiles. According to the Alma Research Center, the movement has about 5,000 long- and medium-range missiles capable of hitting targets at a distance of 200 kilometers, 65,000 short-range missiles (the range of destruction is from 45 to 200 kilometers) and about 145,000 artillery and small-caliber rocket munitions with a range of up to 20 kilometers.

For obvious reasons, Hezbollah officials have not disclosed the size of their arsenals. However, the movement's media outlets occasionally publish footage of individual types of weapons.

One of the photos published online from Hezbollah warehouses showed Mushak-200 missiles with a 600-kilogram warhead and a range of up to 200 kilometers. Presumably, these missiles are a copy of the Iranian Zelzal-2 missiles.

"Iran has never hidden the fact that it supplies weapons to Hezbollah. Israel has attempted to destroy arms shipments on the supply route through Syria, for example at Syrian Air Force air bases. But here, again, it is physically impossible to intercept all the supplies, the territories are too large," notes Yuri Lyamin.

The name of the missile refers to the Quran's sura "Earthquake", which describes the events of the End of the World. In other words, the name is a very specific warning to a potential enemy.

Theoretically, Hezbollah may also have Zelzal-3 missiles with a range of up to 250 kilometers. And Israel Hayoum suggests that Hezbollah has Fateh-100 missiles, also known as M-600, with a range of up to 300 kilometers.

In other words, Hezbollah is capable of striking most of Israel's territory, so the IDF command's concern about the "threat from the north" is well founded.

ISRAEL TRIES TO CREATE A 'BUFFER ZONE'
Traditionally, the main areas of Hezbollah activity are considered to be the territories of southern Lebanon, as well as part of Beirut and its suburbs, where representatives of the Shiite Muslim community live.

Unable to disrupt the supply of missiles, the Israeli army plans to eliminate Hezbollah's infrastructure and the movement's main bases.

Earlier, the IDF command repeatedly stated that the goal of the operation in Lebanon should be the creation of a "buffer zone" - a territory stretching 20-30 kilometers along the border between Lebanon and Israel. This is where most of Hezbollah's military facilities, underground shelters and missile arsenals are located.

In this way, Israeli troops plan to secure the northern regions of the country from the threat of rocket attacks. But whether this will be successful is a big question.

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Sudan's Attorney General urges end to UN Mission, cites RSF death toll

2024-09-12

[SUDANTRIBUNE] Sudan
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's Attorney General, al-Fateh Tayfour, has called for the cessation of the United Nations
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Fact-Finding Mission's mandate. He also accused the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group of killing more than 27,000 people since the conflict began in April 2023.

On Saturday, the Sudanese government rejected the recommendations of a Human Rights Council fact-finding mission, which called for the deployment of a neutral force to protect civilians in the ongoing war. The government accused the mission of being politically motivated and exceeding its mandate, citing the mission's decision to publish its report and hold a presser before presenting it to the Human Rights Council.

''The mandate of the Fact-Finding Mission should be terminated,'' Tayfour urged, ''and cooperation with regional countries must be strengthened to ensure access to victims and witnesses, the recovery of stolen goods, and the extradition of criminals.''

Speaking at an interactive dialogue session during the 57th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, the head of the Sudanese delegation, revealed that the National Committee for Investigating Crimes and Violations of National and International Humanitarian Law had declared 346 individuals runaways, demanding they surrender to authorities. The committee has also reached out to six countries for the extradition of 16 suspects believed to be harboured abroad.

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