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The Grand Turk

Qatar, Turkey to host Palestinian murder convicts freed in hostage deal — officials

2025-01-29

[IsraelTimes] Decision on where to send the prisoners is coordinated with Israel, officials tell ToI; Hamas said to vow Fatah and PFLP terror chiefs will be released in ceasefire’s 2nd phase

Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
and ~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
are slated to host the Paleostinian murder convicts who were released and subsequently deported to Egypt as part of the hostage-ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas
Hamas

..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
, two officials tell The Times of Israel.

Israel demanded that the Paleostinians convicted of the most series crimes not be released to 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...
or the West Bank. Egypt agreed to serve as a temporary landing spot for those murder convicts, 70 of whom were released last week and now reside in Cairo.

Turkey has agreed to take in around 15 of those Paleostinians and Qatar is expected to take in the remainder, though talks are ongoing and an additional country may be asked to host some of the prisoners deported later on in the deal, according to a regional official and an Arab diplomat familiar with the matter.

The decision on where to send the various Paleostinian murder convicts is done in coordination with Israel, the two officials said.

A number of senior Hamas members already live in Qatar, where Israeli officials frequently travel to for hostage negotiations, and Turkey has previously hosted top members of the terror group.

Israel has committed to releasing 1,904 prisoners, including 737 serving life sentences, in return for 33 women, children, men over 50 and those considered especially ill, during the ceasefire deal’s 42-day first phase. Seven Israeli hostages have already been released, in return for 290 Paleostinian prisoners, including 121 serving life sentences.

Talks have yet to begin on the deal’s second stage, in which Hamas is expected to release young, relatively healthy male hostages, including soldiers, for whom the terrorist organization is likely to demand Israel pay a heavier price.

The Kan public broadcaster reported Tuesday that Hamas has promised the families of prominent terror convicts Marwan Barghouti and Ahmad Saadat that they will be released from Israeli prison in the second phase.

According to the source, Hamas is preparing a strategic plan to take over the West Bank-based Paleostinian Authority after the latter’s elderly leader 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....>
is no longer in office. If Hamas secures his release, Barghouti, a member of Abbas’s Fatah movement, will owe the terror group his life and freedom, Kan said.

Earlier this month, Kan cited a Paleostinian source as saying Hamas had prepared a list of five "heavy" prisoners that it wants Israel to release in the deal’s next phases: Barghouti, and four Hamas prisoners cumulatively serving over 200 life sentences for the murders of dozens of Israelis. Saadat was not on the list.

Israel has reportedly ruled out releasing Barghouti — a demand Hamas is said to have made as early as December 2023, two months into the Gaza war.

Saadat and Barghouti are senior terror chiefs considered icons by many Paleostinians. Both were arrested in 2002, at the height of the 2000-2005 Second Intifada.

Saadat, 72, the leader of the Marxist-Leninist Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine (PFLP), was sentenced in 2008 to 30 years behind bars for criminal masterminding the 2001 liquidation of then-Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze’evi, who advocated for Israel to "transfer" Paleostinians abroad.

Barghouti, 64, was sentenced in 2004 to five life sentences for his part in planning three terror attacks that killed five Israelis during the Second Intifada.

Barghouti had been a leader of the Tanzim, an offshoot of Fatah. He is a popular political figure, especially among younger Paleostinians who see him as untainted by Fatah’s corruption and cooperation with Israel. He is considered a leading candidate to win potential Paleostinian national elections and has also been touted as someone who can bring both the West Bank and Gaza his wing.

Barghouti has petitioned the High Court of Justice against his prison conditions following his transfer to solitary confinement after October 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas-led holy warriors stormed southern Israel to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages, sparking the war in Gaza.

Hamas banished the Fatah-dominated PA from the Strip in 2007, a year after besting the secularist faction in the last Paleostinian legislative elections.

Although both belong to Fatah, Barghouti had launched a slate of candidates separate from Abbas’s during the 2021 legislative election, which Abbas ultimately canceled, accusing Israel of blocking East Jerusalem Paleostinians from voting.

Observers believe Abbas has avoided holding elections for years due to fear of defeat, despite his term officially expiring in 2009. He took power in 2004, following the death of Fatah founder Yasser Arafat.

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'Legends of the Resistance': Whom Israel Gave to Hamas in Exchange for Hostages

2025-01-21

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Leonid Tsukanov

[REGNUM] Hamas and Israel, after nearly 15 months of constant consultations, have reached a consensus on a hostage exchange. Following agreements reached earlier in the Qatari capital of Doha, both sides pledged to ensure the transfer of people on agreed lists and then move on to a more comprehensive settlement of the protracted conflict. However, the implementation of the agreements is still in question.

There are many in Israel who see their military-political defeat in a diplomatic victory and would not mind renegotiating the agreements already reached.

CONTOURS OF EXCHANGE
Tel Aviv agreed to hand over 1,890 Palestinian prisoners to its opponents in exchange for the release of 33 Israeli hostages. Thus, the “exchange rate” of prisoners was 87 to 1 in favor of Hamas, which caused a storm of jubilation among Palestinian factions and protests from the far-right forces in the Israeli parliament.

However, Israeli negotiators still managed to avoid a repeat of the infamous “Shalit deal” (2011), where the ratio was 1 to 1027 in favor of Palestine, and to get Hamas to include all living hostages in the exchange lists.

In addition, Tel Aviv decided to stretch out the hostage exchange process as long as possible, so as not to pander to Palestinian propaganda and not to fuel the belief in the “absolute triumph” of Hamas.

In the first round, 90 Palestinians were exchanged for three Israeli women.

The parties also chose Saturday as a permanent exchange day, agreeing to provide lists no less than a day before the chosen date.

As a result, by the end of the first stage of the deal (tentatively scheduled for March 5, 2025), Hamas and Tel Aviv expect to fully fulfill their obligations.

THE OLD GUARD
In the first exchange, Hamas released only civilians. An exchange of IDF prisoners is planned for the coming weeks.

However, many legendary and significant figures in the Palestinian movement were freed.

Thus, among others, veteran of the resistance and commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades (the military wing of Fatah) Zakaria al-Zubeidi was released. He played a leading role in the Second Intifada (2000-2005) and seriously strengthened the potential of the Brigades, and the commanders he trained, in particular Ibrahim al-Nabulsi, caused many problems for the Israeli army and intelligence services.

For the past five years, al-Zubeidi has been held under special conditions in Gilboa prison, which is eloquently called "Israeli Alcatraz." The name of the commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades was erased from the lists by Israeli negotiators until the very last moment.

Also released was the deputy head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Khalida Jarrar, a figure well known not only in the Middle East. In the past, she was the official representative of Palestine to the Council of Europe and a fighter for the rights of prisoners. Jarrar, who had been held in solitary confinement for the past year and a half (something that far more seasoned field commanders were not “honored” with), became a symbol of oppression not only for the PFLP, but also for other Palestinian factions.

However, the high-profile names listed are only a small part of the extensive exchange list. And it may include much more odious figures.

Thus, back in May 2024, Arab media wrote that Hamas negotiators were fighting for the release of Marwan Barghouti, the most popular anti-Israeli politician and the founder of the youth militant wing of Fatah (the Tanzim movement).

Barghouti's release could well challenge the political monopoly of current Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas, subsequently triggering a drift in Fatah from being a relatively neutral faction towards Israel towards direct confrontation and the formation of a political coalition with Hamas.

Thus, living symbols of resistance, belonging to different groups and movements, have already found themselves at liberty. However, the "common denominator" for them was Hamas, which played a decisive role in their release from captivity. This significantly raises the prestige of the movement and its "political weight" in Palestine, especially in conjunction with the laurels of "the winner of the IDF."

This fact will probably manifest itself in the medium term, setting a trend for all Palestinian-Israeli relations.

THE LINE OF SCHISM
As noted above, the Israeli government's decision to support the deal with Hamas provoked an explosion of indignation among the conservative wing.

Many felt that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had “publicly capitulated” to the Palestinian forces (and by extension to Iran, which is celebrating the Palestinian victory as its own).

The leader of the far-right party "Jewish Power", Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir, who throughout the conflict criticized Netanyahu for "indecisive and half-hearted measures" against Hamas, resigned. Along with him, fellow party members - Minister of Heritage Amichai Eliyahu and Minister of Negev, Galilee and National Resilience Yitzhak Wasserlauf - also left their posts in the government. "Jewish Power" distanced itself from the ruling coalition.

Another opponent of the Hamas deal, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, also publicly criticized Netanyahu for his cowardice. And, although he did not resign like other "hawks", he demonstratively voted against the Hamas deal at a Knesset session. However, Smotrich quickly realized that he would not be able to gather a protest electorate around himself alone, especially after his recent quarrel with Ben-Gvir over disagreements on judicial reform, and therefore hastened to welcome the return of his fellow citizens from captivity.

After distancing Ben-Gvir's supporters, Netanyahu's government lost at least six votes in the Knesset, leaving the gap with the opposition at a minimum (62 votes to 52). And the deepening conflict with Smotrich threatens the loss of at least seven more mandates and, as a result, the loss of control over parliament (especially if the right-wing parties decide to officially join the opposition bloc).

In this case, the early elections that Netanyahu has so carefully avoided could become a reality. This means that Israeli hawks have a convenient pretext to force the prime minister to torpedo the deal with Hamas immediately after the last Israeli hostage leaves the enclave.

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Arab MK petitions court to let him visit Fatah leader and terror convict Barghouti

2024-04-22

[IsraelTimes] Ahmad Tibi demands injunction against Ben Gvir for gutting policy that let MKs exercise ’oversight’ regarding Paleostinian security prisoners’ conditions

Veteran Arab politician Ahmad Tibi on Sunday petitioned the Supreme Court

...the political football known as The Highest Court in the Land, home of penumbrae and emanations...
to allow him to meet with Paleostinian security prisoners, saying National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir’s blanket refusal to allow such meetings is discriminatory and contravenes the principle of legislative oversight. MK Tibi, represented by legal non-profit Adalah, specifically demanded a meeting with top Fatah figure Marwan Barghouti, a highly popular Paleostinian leader and former head of Fatah’s Tanzim terrorist faction, who, in 2002, was sentenced to five life sentences for his part in planning three terror attacks that killed five Israelis during the Second Intifada.

According to Tibi, a policy put in place by the last Knesset allowing such meetings had been nullified by Ben Gvir at the beginning of the current one, even as members of the minister’s own Death Eater Otzma Yehudit party have been allowed to visit Jewish terror convicts.

After Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",’s shock October 7 assault, when thousands of murderous Moslems stormed southern Israel to kill nearly 1,200 people and take over 250 hostages, Ben Gvir announced a worsening in the conditions of Paleostinian prisoners, whom the Red Thingy has not visited since October 25, according to Tibi’s petition.

"For half a year now, there has been no effective external oversight on the jailing conditions, and MK Tibi’s visit is especially important in these circumstances," read an Adalah blurb announcing the High Court petition.

"We are dealing with a case where the overseen party is preventing the overseer from overseeing him," read the petition, which, in addition to Ben Gvir, named as respondents the Knesset, the attorney general, and the acting Israel Prison Service chief.

The petition also noted that a recent request by Tibi to meet terror convict Walid Daqqa was ignored by Ben Gvir until after the inmate’s death, when the politician was told his request had been rendered "irrelevant."

It was urgent to meet Barghouti, the petition said, because of recent "reports regarding his harsh jailing conditions, including long stints of solitary confinement." Barghouti, who has himself petitioned the High Court over his conditions, was said to have told his family he was repeatedly beaten by prison guards — including to the point of losing consciousness. Barghouti’s lawyer had seen signs of violence on his client’s face, back, and legs, according to Tibi’s petition.

Barghouti, one of the prisoners whose release has reportedly been demanded by Hamas in exchange for the Israeli hostages, is widely considered a leading rival 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....
. Although both belong to the secular Fatah party, Barghouti launched a slate of candidates separate from Abbas’s during the 2021 Paleostinian Authority elections, which the president ultimately canceled.

Gershon Baskin, a former negotiator for Israel with Hamas, has called for the release of Barghouti as a solution for Israel’s "day after" concerns about Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
’s governance when the war sparked by Hamas’s assault is over. According to Baskin, if Barghouti were to assume leadership of the Paleostinians, he could provide Israel with an alternative to a full occupation of Gaza and the empowerment of a local Paleostinian administration that would inevitably be branded as traitorous by its peers.

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Amid tensions, Fatah offshoot accuses Islamist rivals of turning West Bank into Syria

2023-09-21

[IsraelTimes] In video, Tanzim militia accuses factions of seditious ties to Iran; PA officials accuse Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", of working with Salafi-jihadist forces in Leb
...an Iranian colony 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 dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of 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...
camp.

In a video circulating on social media since Tuesday, a dozen turbans of the pro-Fatah Tanzim militia accused a rival Islamist gang of turning the West Bank into "Syria, Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
and Iraq" — three Middle East countries wracked by civil wars over the past decade, with the involvement of Tehran.

In their video statement, the Tanzim members accused the Jenin Battalion — a local wing of the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
terror group — of conspiring with "Persian Shi’ite Iran" against Fatah, the "only Sunni weapon in the Arab homeland," in a bid to sow strife and chaos among the Paleostinian people.

The Tanzim militia is an armed offshoot of Fatah founded in 1995 by Yasser Arafat to counter rival Paleostinian Islamist groups. The militia, officially headed by Marwan Barghouti who is imprisoned in Israel for deadly terror attacks, has sought to siphon support from Islamist groups towards the PA leadership.

The Tanzim message introduced an atypical anti-Shiite element in Fatah’s rhetoric against opposing factions, evoking common anti-Shiite canards such as their "insulting the Companions of the Prophet [Muhammad]" — a reference to a theological dispute between Sunnis and Shiites on the legitimate successors to the Prophet.

Both the PIJ and Hamas, Fatah’s most prominent Islamist rivals, have made no secret of their close collaboration with Tehran, which supplies them with money and weaponry. Leaders of the two groups met with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in Damascus in May and again with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian in early September in Beirut. Last year, PIJ chief Ziad Nakhaleh said his organization took "direct orders" from the Quds Force’s late commander Qassem Soleimani

and that rockets it used to attack Israel were provided by Iran.

The video statement came amid escalating tensions between the PA’s security services and terror groups in the northern West Bank. The Jenin Battalion is suspected of being behind recent attacks against PA security forces, which included shooting toward their headquarters in Jenin and a shooting against a patrol car of the customs police on September 18, in which four agents were maimed.

In response, the PA announced it had compiled a list of 30 Jenin Battalion members it is about to arrest, including some who are on Israel’s top wanted list, continuing an ongoing crackdown on the terror group.

The Jenin Battalion is also responsible for Tuesday’s festivities with the IDF in the Jenin refugee camp, in which four operatives were killed.

The Tanzim video came one day after the Fatah branch in Jenin issued a statement accusing its internal enemies of collaboration with an "Iranian-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....
" axis (a contradiction, as Islamic State was born out of antagonism to Shiites and has carried out terror attacks inside Iran).

The allegation indicated an attempt by PA officials to group together radical Islamist rivals on multiple fronts. For nearly two months, Fatah forces have been engaged in another armed confrontation outside the West Bank, in the Ein el-Hilweh Paleostinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon, which erupted when a Fatah general was killed in late July.

Whee. A war of all against all.

Analysts on the PA’s Awda TV channel have claimed that the festivities between Fatah security forces and Islamist groups have been fueled by terrorist Salafi-jihadi elements infiltrating into Lebanon from Syria, with links to Islamic State and al-Qaeda. Such radical groups are referred to in Arabic as takfiri

...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed...
, for their practice of excommunicating (takfir) any Moslem who does not subjugate themselves to their turban interpretation of religion.

The presence of such turban groups is an established fact in Ein el-Hilweh, for instance, the camp was the birthplace of a radical Salafi group called Osbat al-Ansar, which was declared a terror organization after 9/11 for its ties to al-Qaeda, and bombed nightclubs and liquor stores in an attempt to establish an Islamic state in Lebanon.

Various PA sources have accused Hamas members in the Lebanese camp of having entered into a collaboration with jihadist groups. In an editorial in the PA’s official newspaper al-Hayat al-Jadida, Fatah Revolutionary Council member Muwaffaq Matar accused the "Islamic State-like" Hamas of using the support of other more radical terror groups in Ein el-Hilweh to advance its plans to control the Paleostinian political and security leadership, at the expense of the real goal — the struggle for Paleostinian "liberation."

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Israeli forces arrest Fatah-linked terror operative in Jenin refugee camp

2023-09-10

[IsraelTimes] IDF says Tanzim member Muhammad Naghnaghiya aided in carrying out series of West Bank shootings in recent months

Israeli forces raided the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank on Wednesday morning, for the second time in days, arresting a suspected terror operative partially associated with the Paleostinian Authority’s ruling Fatah party.

Muhammad Naghnaghiya, a veteran member of the mostly dormant Tanzim terror group, was detained for allegedly aiding in executing a series of shooting attacks in the West Bank in recent months, according to the military.

Members of the Border Police’s undercover West Bank unit converged on a building in the Jenin refugee camp and nabbed Naghnaghiya, after receiving intelligence on his whereabouts from the Shin Bet security agency.

The Israel Defense Forces said that during the raid, Paleostinian button men shot at the forces, who returned fire.

Naghnaghiya was handed over to the Shin Bet for further questioning.

Tanzim, an armed militia founded in 1995 and loosely affiliated with the PA’s ruling Fatah party, was a key player in violence at the start of the Second Intifada in 2000.

Paleostinian media on Wednesday published a photo from the early 2000s showing Naghnaghiya with notorious terror commander Zakaria Zubeidi in the Jenin refugee camp.

Zubeidi, a senior commander in the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, was released from Israeli prison in a 2007 amnesty deal, but was rearrested a decade later. Exactly two years ago, on September 6, 2021, while still awaiting trial, Zubeidi fled Gilboa Prison — along with five other high-risk Paleostinian security prisoners — in an escape that transfixed Israelis and Paleostinians for weeks. They were all later rearrested.

The raid on Wednesday morning came less than two days after Israeli forces entered the Jenin refugee camp to arrest three members of the Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", terror group.

Violence has surged across the West Bank over the past year and a half, with a rise in Paleostinian shooting attacks against Israeli civilians and troops, near-nightly arrest raids by the military, and an uptick in Dire Revenge attacks by krazed killer Jewish settlers against Paleostinians.

The IDF said Wednesday morning that troops detained nine wanted Paleostinians during overnight raids elsewhere in the West Bank, with festivities in some areas.

Paleostinian attacks in Israel and the West Bank since the beginning of the year have left 27 civilians and three soldiers dead, and several others seriously maimed.

According to a tally by The Times of Israel, 180 West Bank and East Jerusalem Paleostinians have been killed during the same period — the vast majority of them during festivities with security forces or while carrying out attacks, but some were uninvolved civilians and others were killed under unclear circumstances, including by armed Israeli settlers.

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IDF confirms nabbing terror operative during daylight raid in Jenin

2023-02-13

[IsraelTimes] The military confirms that Israeli troops arrested Jabril Zubeidi during an operation in Jenin today.

In a joint statement with the Border Police and Shin Bet, the Israel Defense Forces says Zubeidi turned himself over to undercover officers and soldiers who carried out the daytime raid. The statement describes Zubeidi as a local operative with the Fatah-linked Tanzim terror group and says he’s been involved in attacks on Israel forces.

It alleges he also helped plan attacks and cites his suspected involvement in the snatching of an Israeli Druze teenager’s body after he was killed in a car crash.

That’d be 17-year-old Tiran Fero last November, a very strange decision on their part.

The remains were ultimately returned.

The IDF says Israeli soldiers returned fire after being shot at in Jenin, and also had explosives and rocks hurled toward them. The military adds that troops found ammunition in a car while carrying out searches.

It also says it’s aware of Paleostinian reports of injuries, as the PA’s health ministry says three people were seriously hurt by Israeli fire. No Israeli forces were maimed.

Earlier:

Daytime clashes between Israeli troops, Palestinian gunmen reported in Jenin

[IsraelTimes] Daytime shootouts are reported in Jenin, with Israeli forces clashing with Paleostinians as they enter the northern West Bank city.

According to reports, the Israeli troops were seeking to arrest Jibril Zubeidi, the brother of imprisoned terror chief Zakaria Zubeidi.

Footage on social media shows a column of armored Israeli vehicles in Jenin.

There is no immediate comment from the Israel Defense Forces.

PA says 14-year-old died of wounds sustained in Jenin clashes

Unfortunately, he was led into danger by his elders, and now he is dead. Still, the Palestinian Authorities will pay his family a hefty sum to reward them for producing such killable offspring for the cause.

[IsraelTimes] The Paleostinian Authority Health Ministry says a teenager has died as a result of wounds sustained during festivities with Israeli troops in Jenin earlier.

The ministry identifies the teen as 14-year-old Qusai Radwan Waked.

Two other Paleostinians were seriously hurt during the festivities.

It was not clear to what extent the teen was participating in the festivities, but the IDF said troops had returned fire at button men who were shooting at them as they were arresting a wanted terror operative.

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9 Palestinians said hurt in gunfire exchange with Israeli troops in Nablus UPDATE: 2 dead Paleos, 19 injured

2022-07-24

[IsraelTimes] Army says security forces exchange fire with Paleostinian button men in West Bank city; terror commander said sought in arrest operation.

Nine Paleostinians were maimed, including one critically, in an exchange of fire with Israeli security forces during a military operation in the West Bank city of Nablus overnight Saturday-Sunday.

The Israeli military said troops operating in the city came under gunfire attack by armed Paleostinians and returned fire.

According to Paleostinian health authorities, nine Paleostinians were hurt in the exchange, including one who was at death's door, Ynet reported. There were no reported injuries among the Israeli forces.

Hebrew media reported that the Israeli troops were conducting an arrest operation of Paleostinian suspects in Nablus when they came under fire.

Channel 12 reported that one of the suspects is a commander with the Fatah-associated al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, designated a terror group by Israel, the US, the EU, and Canada, among other countries.

The report said the commander had barricaded himself in his home in the city and loud explosions were heard as the operation got underway.

Channel 12 also said that festivities between Israeli troops and Paleostinian button men were reported in the West Bank city of Jenin, according to Paleostinian media.

On Thursday, the Shin Bet said it had arrested a Nablus-based Paleostinian member of the mostly dormant Tanzim terror group who was allegedly responsible for a 2006 kaboom that killed an Israeli soldier

Also Thursday, Israeli security forces arrested 12 Paleostinian suspects throughout the West Bank, with ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful confrontations in some areas. As part of the arrest operation, Israeli troops entered the towns of Huwara, Salem, Bir Zayt, al-Yamun and Einabus among others to arrest individuals suspected of involvement in terrorist activity, the Israeli military said. Paleostinian rioters confronted Israeli forces operating in Jenin and Ramallah, throwing Molotov cocktails and hurling rocks toward them. Israeli forces responded by opening fire on the assailants.

No Israeli or Paleostinian casualties were reported in the operation.

Tensions in the West Bank have risen in recent days as thousands of right-wing Israeli ~~activist ~~muppet~~~~s flocked Wednesday to various sites across the West Bank in an effort to establish six new illegal outposts in the territory. Organized by the radical settler organization Nachala, the initiative is believed to have drawn some 10,000 individuals, although this figure could not be independently verified. Five ultra-nationalist ~~activist ~~muppet~~~~s were arrested late Wednesday and early Thursday.

Last Sunday, Israeli troops clashed with Paleostinian button men during an early morning raid in the northern West Bank city of Tubas. It came following a brief pause in arrest operations in the West Bank, amid US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
Joe <q>The Big Guy</q> Biden

...46th president of the U.S. Being a self-defined foreign policy whiz kid means never having to say you're sorry...
’s two-day trip to the region. The US president departed from the country last Friday.

It was believed the IDF wished to avoid any major confrontation during the visit.

Tensions have remained high, as Israeli security forces stepped up operations in the West Bank following a deadly wave of terror attacks against Israelis that left 19 people dead earlier this year.

Courtesy of Skidmark, update from Fox News at 11:25 a.m. EDT:

Israeli forces said the shooting took place in the city of Nablus and that at least two armed Palestinians were killed after an hours-long exchange of gunfire.

The Palestinian Red Crescent identified the deceased Palestinians as Aboud Sobh, 29, and Muhammad Al-Azizi, 22. Nineteen other Palestinians were wounded in the shooting.

Two of those who were injured are in critical condition, the local rescue service added.

The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades militant group claimed the two deceased members, Reuters reported.

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After 16 years, Israel arrests Fatah-linked terrorist for killing of IDF soldier

2022-07-22

[IsraelTimes] Alam al-Ra’i, 42, held for firing at Israelis near Nablus in April; during probe Shin Bet finds he was part of cell that set off 2006 bomb that killed Staff Sgt. Osher Damari

The Shin Bet security agency revealed Thursday that it had arrested a Paleostinian member of the mostly dormant Tanzim terror group who was allegedly responsible for a 2006 kaboom that killed an Israeli soldier.

Alam al-Ra’i, 42, a resident of Nablus, was arrested for at least two shooting attacks at Israelis near Joseph’s Tomb on the outskirts of the West Bank city and in other areas nearby in April, the Shin Bet said.

During his interrogation, the Shin Bet found al-Ra’i was part of a cell that set off a bomb during a raid in Nablus on July 17, 2006, killing Staff Sgt. Osher Damari, 20, and wounding several other soldiers.

The Shin Bet said al-Ra’i was responsible for several more attacks against Israeli soldiers between 2005 and 2007, while part of the same Tanzim cell, and in later years committed dozens more shootings and explosive attacks, some of which maimed troops.

The April shooting attacks near Nablus were directed by a terror operative in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip, according to the Shin Bet. al-Ra’i received payment for working to recruit others and committing the attacks, the agency said.

An indictment against al-Ra’i, charging him with "numerous serious security offenses, with above all the murder of the soldier Osher Damari" was to be filed later Thursday, the Shin Bet said.

Tanzim, an armed militia founded in 1995 and loosely affiliated with the Paleostinian Authority’s ruling Fatah party, was a key player in ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful demonstrations at the start of the Second Intifada in 2000. Its leader then was Marwan Barghouti, who is serving five life terms in jail for orchestrating deadly terror attacks.

While the group has not been blamed for any major attacks in almost two decades, Israel said it arrested its leader in 2016.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Syria, Russian allies claim opposition planning violent strikes

2021-07-10

Some elements of this story have been translated via Google Translate.
[Rusvesna] At least two Syrian radical Islamic groups are planning attacks in the wake of Syrian president Bashir al-Assad's coming inauguration, according to Russian language sources.

Khuras al-Din

... Al Nusra ally also spelt Hurras al-Deen, which apparently is Arabic for "Guardians of Religion", though sometimes it is called Harakat Ansar al-Deen. The membership includes foreigners as well as Syrians...

and Ansar al-Tawhid

...formerly Jund al-Aqsa, it merged with Tanzim Hurras al-Deen in 2018 to form Nusret Islam, now apparently known as “Hurras al-Deen and Ansar al-Tawhid”, or sometimes Tanzim Ansar al-Tawhid — because if you can’t play Toad The Wet Sprocket with organization names, what is the point? The combined group lost a bunch of emirs a couple of years ago from around the Ummah...

groups recently completed preparations for attacks on Syrian government forces in the south, according to the sources:

It has been established that the turbans are almost finishing preparing for an attack on a number of facilities of the Syrian Arab army. In addition, military equipment was transferred to the Kneddah area, 40 km from Idlib, including a group of pickups with homemade rocket launchers, up to 300 turbans and a truck with ammunition.

The proof, according to the sources, is that those groups have been conducting attacks against ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish backed militia, their columns and at checkpoints. A failed attack against Maaret El-Ihuan by Khuras al-Din, also took place the day before. The Death Eaters have been looting local residents and robbing NGO supply columns.

Slowing down the radicals' operations have been the recent closure of the border checkpoint at Bab al-Hawa.

Syrian forces have responded to the threats by increasing the number of checkpoints.

The reports say that the Death Eaters are being supplied by "foreign intelligence services."

The attack plans are to take place in Daraa and El-Quneitra provinces. The report said the terrorist sleeper cells have been filled out in Tafas, Nava, Jasim, Es-Sanamain, Dail and Mutaya.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Palestinians protest day after scuffle with settlers

2020-07-07

Of course they did. Yesterday’s nonsense is here.

[IsraelTimes] Dozens of Paleostinians participated in a Fatah-organized protest near the town of Biddya against what residents called a "takeover" of their land, Paleostinian Authority official news agency WAFA reports.

The site of the protest, Khillet Hassan, saw a ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful confrontation between Paleostinians and Israelis yesterday; both parties claim that they were attacked first.

Four Israelis were lightly maimed, while two Paleostinians were shot and taken to a public hospital in Salfit for treatment. Ma’an News Agency reported one of the shooting victims had moderate wounds.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

High ranking Chechen jihadist killed by Syrian Army in northern Hama

2019-03-05

[ALMASDARNEWS] A high ranking jihadist commander from Chechnya was killed by the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) in the northern countryside of the Hama Governorate on Sunday.

According to reports from northern Hama, the Syrian Arab Army killed the deputy emir of Tanzim Ansar al-Tawhid, Khamza al-Shishani, after he and his forces attempted to attack their positions on Sunday morning.

Taking advantage of the poor weather, Tanzim Ansar al-Tawhid launched a heavy assault on the Syrian Arab Army’s positions in northern Hama.

They were initially successful after overrunning the first line of the Syrian Arab Army’s defenses; however, their assault would turn disastrous after the latter launched a counter-attack.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Foreign jihadists attempt to ambush Syrian Army troops in southern Aleppo

2019-02-28

[ALMASDARNEWS] The jihadist rebels of Tanzim Hurras al-Deen launched a surprise attack in the southern countryside of the Aleppo Governorate last night.

According to a military source in Aleppo, Tanzim Hurras al-Deen stormed the Syrian Army’s positions at the Ruwaydah axis in a bid to overwhelm them and kill their soldiers.

The jihadist group claimed they killed several Syrian Arab Army soldiers during the attack; however, a military source near the attack site said that they suffered a couple of injuries from the gunfire.

The source added that the Syrian Arab Army was able to kill at least two of the Tanzim Hurras al-Deen fighters, while also injuring a couple others during the fierce exchange.

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