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Day 2: Probable Muslim Brotherhooder Mohamed Sabry Soliman waited a year, until daughter graduated HS before carrying out attack
2025-06-03
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[JerusalemPost] The United States District Court charged Mohammed Sabry Soliman, 45, with a federal hate crime after wounding eight individuals demonstrating in support of the hostages held by Hamas
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
holy warriors in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
on Sunday.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed on Monday that Soliman, a resident of El Paso, was arrested and was the main suspect behind the Colorado attack. He has since been charged with a federal hate crime.

During an interview with police, Soliman admitted to watching YouTube videos on how to make Molotov Cocktails and purchased the materials to make them, according to federal court documents. He also stated that he wanted to kill all Zionists, wished all Zionists dead and said he would repeat the attack if given the opportunity.

Soliman told officials that he had been planning the attack for a year but wanted to wait for his daughter to graduate from university before carrying it out.

On Sunday afternoon, a man threw Molotov cocktails and used an improvised flamethrower to target participants of a weekly walking group that raises awareness for the hostages in Hamas captivity. Officials currently believe it was a lone-wolf attack.

Soliman, who was heard screaming "Free Paleostine" and "end Zionism" before launching the attack at a group raising awareness of the plight of the 58 hostages held captive by Hamas, was booked into Boulder County Jail on multiple charges. These include first-degree murder, one count of attempted murder, one count of first-degree assault, one count of causing serious injury to an at-risk adult or someone over 70, and one count of using explosives or incendiary devices.

He is currently being held on a $10 million bond.

Before being taken to jail, the FBI confirmed he was taken for medical assessments at a nearby hospital.

"Our strength as a society comes from our shared values, and our commitment to protecting one another. Any attempt to divide us through fear or harm has no place in Boulder, Colorado, or anywhere in our nation," said FBI Denver Special Agent in Charge Mark Michalek. "We stand in full solidarity with those targeted. And we will continue to ensure that justice is pursued swiftly, support is provided to victims and their communities, and preventative action is taken to protect everyone’s safety."

"Boulder is not immune to tragedy, sadly, and I know a lot of people are scared right now and questioning how this happened and why. Boulder has recovered before from acts of violence before, and we will again recover. I urge this community to come together. Now is not the time to be divisive
...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled...
," Boulder Police Chief Stephen Redfearn said.

"When this call came out today, our officers rushed to the scene as quickly as they could to protect our community and arrest the suspect and I’m very proud of their response. I also greatly appreciate all of our law enforcement and community partners who responded to help as well. I want to assure our Boulder community that we will have increased presence at many events and locations throughout the city to ensure safety."

The FBI raided Soliman’s house following the attack, the New York Times

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

reported. An unknown woman was allowed to enter the property.

Neighbors told the media that they did not know Soliman well but that a family with three kids lived at the raided address, according to the New York Post.
Interesting. Are the family Lso here illegally? Do they need to be sent back to wherever they came from while Papa serves his prison sentence?
WHO IS MOHAMED SABRY SOLIMAN?
Originally from Egypt, Soliman arrived in the United States in 2022 with a non-immigration visa that would have allowed him to stay until February 2023, according to the Homeland Security Department.

He was later granted work authorization in March 2023, which should have allowed him to stay in the US only until March 2025.

Assistant Secretary of DHS Tricia McLaughlin said Soliman had tried to claim asylum in 2022.

Despite being granted access to the states in 2022, he had a failed asylum claim in 2005, sources told CNN
...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
Exactly the kind of person the Biden-Harris Politburo actively sought to grant entry to.
The Times of Israel adds:
The suspect who allegedly attacked a group of pro-hostage demonstrators in Colorado planned the attack for a year and wanted to kill “all Zionist people,” according to an affidavit filed in a federal court in Colorado on Monday.

The suspect, Mohammed Sabry Soliman, 45, is charged with attacking the rally on Sunday with a homemade flamethrower and Molotov cocktails, wounding eight. He was arrested at the scene of the attack.

The affidavit, filed by an FBI agent in the US District Court of Colorado, was based on Soliman’s interview with law enforcement after the arrest.

After he was arrested, a black plastic container with a yellow lid was found nearby. Inside were at least fourteen unlit Molotov cocktails made of glass wine bottles or Ball jars with gasoline inside and red rags hanging out of the top.

Also nearby was a “backpack weed sprayer” loaded with gasoline. Authorities have said Soliman used a “makeshift flamethrower” during the attack.

Law enforcement found a silver Toyota Prius parked a few blocks away that was registered to Soliman. Inside were a red gas container and papers with the words “Israel,” “Palestine,” and “USAID,” the affidavit said.

Soliman told law enforcement he researched how to make Molotov cocktails on YouTube. He assembled the firebombs and bought gas at a gas station on his way to Boulder. He lived in Colorado Springs, Colorado, about two hours away, with his wife and five children.

He targeted the hostage rally after learning about the group in an online search and saw that the group was planning to meet at 1 p.m. He arrived at the scene at 12:55 p.m. and waited for the demonstrators.

“Soliman stated that he hated the Zionist group and did this because he hated this group and needed to stop them from taking over ‘our land,’ which he explained to be Palestine,” the affidavit said. “He stated that he had been planning the attack for a year and was waiting until after his daughter graduated to conduct the attack.”

Soliman said he left an iPhone with messages to his family hidden in a desk drawer at his home. His wife turned an iPhone over to police.

The affidavit confirmed that Soliman is the individual seen in video from the scene of the attack. Video also showed him shouting, “End Zionists.”

The police department in Boulder, Colorado, said on Monday morning that none of the victims had perished, despite the suspect being held on a preliminary charge of murder.

“No victims have died,” the police department said in a statement.

The police department said it would hold a press conference on the attack later Monday and that more details would be forthcoming.

Police released a mugshot of the suspect, who had a bandaged ear and bruising on his face.

Soliman was set to appear in court at 1:30 p.m. local time, the police department’s daily booking report said. He was being held in the Boulder County Jail on a $10 million bond.

Other preliminary charges against Soliman included using explosive or incendiary devices during a felony, assault with a weapon, and crimes against at-risk elderly. The victims were four men and four women between the ages of 52 and 88. One of the victims was reportedly a Holocaust survivor.

Colorado firebombing suspect appears in court with head bandaged
[IsraelTimes] Mohammed Sabry Soliman, suspected of firebombing a pro-Israel rally in Colorado Sunday, appears in a Boulder County jail court for the first time since his arrest a day ago.

Soliman wears an orange jumpsuit and what appears to be a bandage wrapped around his head.

He does not make any statements, except affirming that he understands a protection order that bars him from contacting the victims of the attack.

The court schedules a June 5 hearing for the filing of formal charges against him.

Colorado suspect to be charged with attempted murder, hate crime; number of injured up to 12
[IsraelTimes] Mohammed Sabry Soliman, the suspect in a firebombing of a hostages march in Colorado yesterday, will be charged with state and federal charges and facing life in prison if convicted, officials say.

Acting US Attorney J. Bishop Grewell says at a press conference that Soliman, 45, is being charged with the commission of a hate crime, a federal crime which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison when coupled with attempted murder charges he will face from Colorado.

According to Grewell, Soliman attempted to buy a firearm to carry out the attack, but resorted to homemade incendiary devices when he could not acquire a firearm because he is not a US citizen.
So it could have been much, much worse. Thank goodness he wasn’t clever enough or charming enough to get a friend to buy guns for him.
Boulder county district attorney Michael Dougherty says the state will charge Soliman with 16 counts of attempted murder in the first degree — eight for attempted murder with intent, and eight for attempted murder with extreme indifference. If convicted, and the sentences run consecutively, the maximum sentence is 384 years in state prison.

Soliman will also be charged with two counts of use of an incendiary device, carrying a maximum sentence of 48 years, and 16 counts of attempted use of an incendiary device, with a maximum sentence of 192 years. Soliman threw two Molotov cocktails at the demonstrators, and investigators recovered 16 unused Molotov cocktails from the scene of the attack.

Other charges may be forthcoming, Grewell says.

Dougherty says police have identified four more victims of the attack, bringing the total to 12. The four additional victims suffered minor injuries and came forward to investigators after the initial incident.

The authorities say Soliman was not “on our radar” before the attack. Investigators are working to put together a timeline of the attack using surveillance footage and license plate readers.
More from MSN:
Authorities said in the news conference June 2 they believe he acted alone.

The arrest affidavit said he has a valid Colorado driver's license and no prior criminal history.

Soliman, a father of five, entered the U.S. in August 2022 on a B-2 tourist visa that expired over two years ago, said Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin. An affidavit said he was born in Egypt and lived in Kuwait for 17 years before moving to Colorado three years ago.

In his Toyota Prius parked nearby, investigators discovered red rags, a jug of gasoline and paperwork with the words "Israel," "Palestine" and "USAID," according to the charging document.

He told investigators that after being denied the legal purchase of a gun due to not being a citizen, he researched on YouTube how to make Molotov Cocktails, purchased the ingredients to do so and constructed them himself, the affidavit said.

McLaughlin said Soliman applied for asylum in September 2022. That claim was likely still pending. As of March, the immigration court backlog was around 3.6 million cases, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University.

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller on X described Soliman as an "illegal alien" and criticized the Biden administration, which he accused of approving a work permit for Soliman after he overstayed his tourist visa.

Uber on June 2 confirmed that Soliman had worked as a driver starting in spring 2023 although the company did not specify whether he worked driving passengers or for Uber Eats, or both. In a statement to USA TODAY, the company said his account has been terminated, prohibiting him from working there again. The company noted that he passed a background check and provided the legally required documents necessary to work as a contractor.“Mr. Soliman had no concerning feedback while driving on the Uber platform,” the company said in a statement. “We’ve banned the driver’s account and have been in touch with law enforcement.”
Even more from MSN:
Only one thing held Soliman back from attacking sooner, he told authorities: Waiting for his daughter to graduate high school.

A Colorado Springs Gazette article published in April profiled a student matching his daughter’s description as a recipient of a scholarship. According to the article, she described in her scholarship application how her family had immigrated to the US after living in Kuwait, noting that her father had undergone a “difficult surgery” when she was young “that restored his ability to walk.”

The girl said the incident inspired her to pursue medical school – a dream that would have been impossible in Kuwait but within reach in America.
And now that her Papa will go to prison for the rest of his life, causing the authorities to look into the immigration status of his family, medical school in America — and university altogether — are also no longer possible for her. The only thing left for her to do is pack up her stolen America life and head bck to Egypt. Say thank you to your Papa for his loving care of you, habibti.
Now, Mohamed Sabry Soliman faces a federal hate crime charge and state charges of attempted murder.

Soliman was born in Egypt and lived in Kuwait for 17 years before moving to Colorado, according to a state arrest affidavit.

CNN reviewed a Facebook account matching his name and date of birth. On the account’s page, which was last updated about 10 years ago, Soliman said he attended high school and college in Egypt and later moved to Kuwait, where he had an accounting job, according to the page. That account featured photos of Mohamed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood leader who served as Egypt’s president from 2012 to 2013, when he was ousted in a military coup that triggered mass protests and sit-ins in Cairo.
Ah hah! There always is a connection.
Posts on the Facebook page expressed support for the Muslim Brotherhood protests against the removal of Morsi. One post from August 2013 featured a four-finger salute with a yellow background, a symbol supportive of the Rabaa al-Adawiya Square encampment, which was violently dispersed by Egyptian security forces loyal to Egypt’s then-defense minister and current president, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

According to the newspaper article on the student whose identifying details match those of Soliman’s daughter, her father at one point underwent a serious medical procedure on his legs – one she described in her scholarship application as “nothing short of ‘magic.’”

When the family lived in Kuwait, the daughter stated, the success of the procedure inspired her to study medicine – but “the prospect of attending medical school there was not an option” as a non-Kuwaiti. “The move to the United States provides a chance to fulfill her dream,” the article said.

“Coming to the USA has fundamentally changed me,” she wrote. “Most importantly, I came to appreciate that family is the unchanging support.”
Erm. About that….
Mohamed Sabry Soliman first tried to come to the US in 2005 but was denied a visa, law enforcement sources told CNN.
I would love to know what reason was given for that rejection.
He entered the US in August 2022 as a non-immigrant visitor and in 2023 received a two-year work authorization that expired in March, a Homeland Security official said Monday.
So many different ways the selfish, lying liar lied.
With his wife and children, he moved into a two-story home on the far eastern edge of Colorado Springs and he found work, at least briefly, as an accountant. The health care company Veros Health said in a statement he was an employee starting in May 2023 but left three months later. The company did not respond to questions about his departure.
Jewish or Christian manager/colleagues? Female manager/colleagues? Black/Hispanic manager/colleagues? A mixture of the above that ticked off the miscreant’s cultural racism/sexism/religiousism?
Soliman had also worked as an Uber driver, according to the company, which noted all drivers must pass a criminal and driving history background check and hold a valid Social Security number.
And did he have a valid SS number?
The company said his account has now been banned.

Neighbors who briefly spoke with CNN said they saw Soliman’s children playing near his house
Any of them born in America? Is the mother an American citizen or did she follow Mr. Soliman from Kuwait or even from Egypt? And who is she connected to?
but were not familiar with the family. One neighbor said she had no direct interactions with Soliman but described his wife as friendly.

As he began plotting an attack, Soliman told authorities, he researched how to make Molotov cocktails on YouTube. He also learned online about the group that eventually became his target – a weekly demonstration in Boulder urging Hamas to return the remaining hostages from Gaza.

Soliman said he took a concealed-carry class and learned to shoot a gun but as a non-citizen was blocked from purchasing a gun, so he turned to Molotov cocktails, according to a state affidavit.

Soliman told authorities that he purchased ingredients for the cocktails – including “glass wine carafe bottles or Ball jars,” according to the federal complaint – constructed them and purchased gas at a gas station on the way to Boulder. He also filled up a backpack weed sprayer with gasoline.

Before leaving for the attack, Soliman said, he left an iPhone hidden in a desk drawer at home with messages for his family as well as a journal.

As the group marched with signs on Sunday, Soliman waited nearby with a utility vest over his shirt; some witnesses thought he looked like a gardener, multiple law enforcement sources said. The state affidavit notes that he bought flowers from Home Depot.
Bay Area ABC7 News adds:
He "said this had nothing to do with the Jewish community and was specific in the Zionist group supporting the killings of people on his land (Palestine)," the state documents said.
To be fair, he wasn’t to know that the people he was trying to murder are older and elderly Jews, including a Holocaust survivor.
Soliman, a husband and father of five, allegedly said he had been planning Sunday afternoon's attack for one year but waited until his daughter graduated from high school last Thursday to carry it out, state and federal documents said.

He said no one knew about his plans and he expected to die during the attack, the documents said.
And now he gets to die in an American prison, pondering the life path that took him there.
Soliman appeared at his first state court hearing virtually from jail on Monday afternoon, during which the judge kept his bond at $10 million.

He acknowledged that he had received and understood a protection order barring him from contacting the victims.

Soliman is due back in court on Thursday for the filing of state charges.

He said he drove about 100 miles from his Colorado Springs home to Boulder on Sunday and picked up gas at a gas station on the way, the documents said.

Soliman allegedly "filled 8 glass containers he purchased from Target with gas, he put them in a black storage bin and in order to get as close as possible to the group he dressed himself like a gardener," according to state court documents.

He allegedly used a "makeshift flamethrower" and threw an incendiary device into a crowd of pro-Israel demonstrators at a pedestrian mall, according to the FBI.

A video posted on social media during the attack showed Soliman holding what appeared to be Molotov cocktails and saying, "How many children killed" and "end Zionist," according to the court documents.

Soliman said he "only threw two at the group because he got scared," according to court documents.
The poor darling.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF says it is expanding Gaza ground offensive as troops reported to move on Khan Younis
2025-06-03
[IsraelTimes] Palestinian reports say Israeli attacks across the Strip killed at least 27 people, including three near US- and Israel-backed aid distribution site

The Israel Defense Forces said Monday it had expanded its ground offensive against Hamas
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
over the past day, as attacks across the Strip were said to kill some 27 Paleostinians, including three near a US- and Israel-backed aid distribution site in Rafah.

"In the past day, troops expanded the ground maneuver, eliminated gunnies and destroyed many weapons depots and terror infrastructure sites, above and below ground," the IDF said. The statement added that the air force hit dozens of targets, including cells of terror operatives, buildings used by terror groups, tunnels, weapons depots, and other infrastructure.

The announcement came after IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir instructed the army on Sunday to begin operating in new areas in Gaza. The military has said it seeks to seize 75% of the Strip in the renewed offensive launched last month.

Paleostinian media reported overnight that Israeli ground forces were approaching southern Gaza’s Khan Younis. IDF troops were said to demolish the rear wall of the city’s European Hospital after advancing toward the hospital over the past day. The military, in response to a query by The Times of Israel, denied that troops were operating within the European Hospital compound.

A May 13 Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
targeted a Hamas tunnel system that ran underneath the hospital, killing the terror group’s leader in Gaza, Muhammad Sinwar, and two other senior commanders in its military wing. The IDF confirmed Saturday that Sinwar was killed in the strike, which killed at least 28 people, according to Hamas’s civil defense agency. Hamas’s figures cannot be independently verified and do not distinguish between civilians and combatants.

Sinwar had taken over from his slain brother Yahya, who criminal masterminded the Hamas onslaught of October 7, 2023, which killed some 1,200 people in southern Israel and saw 251 taken hostage, sparking the war in Gaza. Israel killed Yahya Sinwar in October 2024.

Israel has accused Hamas of using Gaza’s civilians as human shields and of embedding itself in civilian infrastructure, including homes, hospitals, schools and mosques. The IDF says it takes steps to mitigate civilian harm, including by use of evacuation warnings, precision munitions, aerial surveillance, and other intelligence.

On Monday afternoon, the military carried out a strike against what it said was a Hamas command center embedded within a school sheltering displaced Paleostinians in central Gaza’s Deir al-Balah. The IDF said that the command center was being used by Hamas operatives to plan and carry out attacks against troops and Israeli civilians.

According to Paleostinian media, at least four people were killed in the strike on the al-Aishiya school.

WAFA, the Paleostinian Authority’s official news agency, reported another person killed in an Israeli dronezap in Khan Younis, and five others killed in a fighter jet strike on a family home in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City, in the Strip’s north.

The Hamas civil defense agency said an Israeli strike on a family home in the northern town of Jabalia killed 14 people, including six children and three women. A front man for the agency said the strike hit a family home and there were "more than 20 missing individuals still under the rubble."

The IDF confirmed to the Times of Israel that it had carried out strikes in Jabalia, but declined to provide further details on the targets.

The military had last week instructed the entire Jabalia area, as well as other towns in the Strip’s north and several Gaza City neighborhoods, to evacuate westward.

Another strike early Monday hit a mosque in Deir al-Balah. The military told The Times of Israel that it had targeted terror infrastructure in the area, and that it had warned civilians to evacuate the site ahead of the airstrikes.

AID GROUP DENIES KILLINGS NEAR DISTRIBUTION SITE
Hamas’s media office said IDF gunfire early Monday killed three people and maimed 35 near an aid distribution site operated by the US-based Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which Washington and Jerusalem have promoted as a way to circumvent Hamas in the distribution of aid.

The tolls could not immediately be verified. GHF said the distribution went on without incident, with "21 truckloads of food... totaling 18,720 boxes" handed out during the site’s opening hours, from 5 a.m. to 7 a.m.

The IDF said it was aware of the reports of casualties and was investigating the incident. According to the military, troops had opened fire on Paleostinian "suspects who approached forces" overnight, around a kilometer (0.6 miles) away from the distribution site, hours before it was set to open to hand out food to Gazooks.

The GHF has warned Paleostinians in its announcements that the aid sites open no earlier than 5 a.m., and that approaching the area beforehand could be dangerous due to Israeli military activity.

The IDF said it was letting GHF operate "independently to distribute aid to Gaza residents and prevent it from reaching the Hamas terror organization." The military also accused Hamas of doing "everything it can to prevent the success" of the new aid distribution system, which commenced operations last week.

"Hamas is a brutal terror organization that starves the population and puts it in danger to preserve its rule in the Gaza Strip," the army said.

GHF has accused Hamas of fabricating previous accounts of chaos and gunfire around distribution sites, which are located in Israeli military zones.

"Despite several inaccurate and, in some cases, blatantly false news reports, there have been no injuries nor fatalities during the first full week of GHF operations," the agency said Monday morning.

Over the past week, the agency said, it has distributed 5.8 million meals at three distribution sites in southern and central Gaza. But GHF’s classification of meals is based on boxes of dry food products that still require cooking equipment or community kitchens, which are very limited throughout the Strip after nearly 20 months of devastating conflict.

The IDF has acknowledged firing warning shots on previous occasions outside the distribution centers, including on Sunday, when troops fired at Paleostinians about a kilometer away from an aid site, hours before it was set to open.

The early Sunday gunfire killed 31 people, according to Hamas health authorities and eyewitnesses, though GHF denied the reports and released some 15 minutes of footage that purported to show the distribution had proceeded without incident. The military said troops "did not fire at civilians while they were near or within the humanitarian aid distribution site."

IDF issues evacuation order for new areas of Gaza’s Khan Younis

[IsraelTimes] The IDF orders Palestinians in a new area of southern Gaza’s Khan Younis to evacuate, as the military expands its ground offensive against Hamas.

The IDF’s Arabic-language spokesperson, Col. Avichay Adraee, posts a map on X showing several blocks in western Khan Younis that are to be evacuated. The neighborhood was not included in the IDF’s previous warnings for Khan Younis.

Civilians are called to head westward toward the Maswasi area on the coast.

“The IDF will operate with great force in the areas where you are present,” Adraee warns.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF bars reporters from visiting W. Bank villages on tour based on ‘No Other Land’ film
2025-06-03
[IsraelTimes] Officer seen telling group of journalists they cannot be let into Masafer Yatta — subject of Oscar-winning documentary — due to need ‘to keep the order in the area’

Israeli soldiers barred journalists from entering villages in the West Bank on Monday on a tour organized by the directors of the Oscar-winning movie "No Other Land."

The directors of the film, which focuses on Israeli settler attacks on Paleostinians in the West Bank, said they had invited the journalists on the tour to interview residents about increasing settler violence in the area.

In a video posted to X by the film’s co-director Yuval Abraham, an Israeli officer —his face concealed by a ski mask and identifiable as a major by the insignia on his uniform — was seen telling a group of international journalists that "no passage" was allowed in the area due to a military order.

"You know they are journalists. They’re coming to see the destruction in Masafer Yatta, the way you are destroying the community, the settler violence," a voice off camera could be heard telling the officer, referring to the Paleostinian village that "No Other Land" covers.

A Paleostinian man was then seen telling the officer and a soldier standing with him, whose face was also covered, that the journalists were coming to his home and should be let through. But the officer refused.

"Why didn’t you prevent the settlers when they came to burn the homes... attacking people?" the man was seen telling the officer. "Why don’t you come to do this order? Why only for journalists who are holding cameras and phones?... I have so many videos of settlers coming to attack us, shooting people here, you do nothing. Why?"

Eventually, the officer told the journalists that they were being kept out due to the need "to keep the order in this area."

Basel Adra, the Paleostinian co-director of the film who lives in the area, said the military blocked the journalists from entering two Paleostinian villages they had hoped to visit.

The Israel Defense Forces did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Since "No Other Land" gained notoriety, local villagers have faced an uptick in settler attacks, including in the villages of Tuba and Jinba. Hamdan Ballal, another of the film’s co-directors, was attacked by settlers and then arrested in March, drawing global condemnation.

Paleostinians say the settlers operate with the tacit consent of the Israeli state, which carries out home demolitions and rarely prosecutes settlers for instances of violence against Paleostinians. Locals have said the attacks are designed to intimidate them into fleeing their land.

The West Bank has seen a spike in violence since the October 7, 2023, Hamas'>Hamas
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
attack on Israel sparked the war in Gazoo.

In the West Bank, the military has undertaken large-scale counterterrorism operations that have killed hundreds of people — the vast majority of them combatants, according to the IDF — and displaced tens of thousands.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Ex-top Biden official: No genocide in Gaza, but Israel ‘without doubt’ committed war crimes
2025-06-03
[IsraelTimes] Former State Dept. spokesperson Matthew Miller says it’s an ‘open question’ whether Israel pursued a policy of crimes, but that there are certainly cases in which they occurred
They preferred for a presumption of guilt, facts be damned.
Related:
Matthew Miller 01/16/2025 Hamas Celebrates Ceasefire Deal in Gaza, and With Good Reason

Matthew Miller 12/28/2024 US Sanctions Billionaire Founder of Georgia Dream Party
Matthew Miller 12/20/2024 SDF accuses SNA of violating ceasefire in Kobane

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International-UN-NGOs
Israel punches back at UN chief for demanding probe into Gaza aid site shooting, Amb. Huckabee chastises US news media for fomenting Jew-hate
2025-06-03
[IsraelTimes] Israel calls a demand from United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres for an investigation into reported violence at a Gaza aid site a “disgrace.”

“Even if you look very hard, there’s one word you won’t find in the Secretary-General’s statement: Hamas,” writes Foreign Ministry spokesman Oren Marmorstein on X.

“Not a word about the fact that Hamas is the one shooting civilians and trying to prevent them from collecting aid packages.”

“Not a word about the fact that Hamas — as stated by U.S. Special Envoy Witkoff — rejected yet another ceasefire proposal and the release of the hostages.”

Guterres said on Monday he was “appalled” by reports that Palestinians were killed the previous day on their way to a Gaza Humanitarian Fund distribution site for aid, that the UN must be allowed to provide aid to Gazans, and said that there is no military solution to the conflict in Gaza.

Multiple witnesses and Hamas authorities in the Strip said at least 31 Palestinians were killed and dozens were wounded early Sunday by Israeli fire as they were on their way to a Gaza Humanitarian Fund distribution site in the southern Gaza Strip. The Israel Defense Forces said it didn’t shoot Gazans at or near the distribution site, but an Israeli military official acknowledged that troops did fire warning shots overnight around a kilometer away from the aid site.

Israel and the United States say they helped establish the new aid system to circumvent Hamas, which they accuse of siphoning off assistance.

UN agencies have refused to work with the system, which they say violates humanitarian principles.

Marmorstein says that “the real investigation that needs to be opened is why the UN continues to resist any attempt to provide aid directly to the people of Gaza.”

Huckabee claims US media ‘contributing to antisemitic climate’ that resulted in DC, Boulder attacks

[IsraelTimes] US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee accuses major American news outlets of “contributing to the antisemitic climate” that resulted in the recent attacks targeting Israeli embassy staffers in Washington and Israeli hostages activists in Colorado over the networks’ coverage of yesterday’s shooting of Gazans near an aid distribution site.

“Without verification of any source other than Hamas and its collaborators, the New York Times, CNN, and Associated Press reported that a number of people seeking to receive humanitarian food boxes from the Gaza Humanitarian Fund were shot or killed by the Israeli Defense Forces,” Huckabee says in a statement.

“These reports were FALSE. Drone video and first-hand accounts clearly showed that there were no injuries, no fatalities, no shooting, no chaos,” Huckabee asserts.

It is unclear what drone footage and first-hand accounts Huckabee is referring to. GHF released what it said was drone footage showing no incident at the site, but the clip was taken during daylight hours, while the incident that reportedly injured 31 Gazans took place at around 3 a.m.

Asked to elaborate on the information Huckabee had that led him to refute Hamas’s claims, an embassy spokesperson tells The Times of Israel it came from first-hand accounts from GHF staffers.

But the incident took place outside the GHF site before it had opened on Sunday.

The embassy staffer also cites IDF drone footage, but the footage released by the IDF was not shot at the time or place where the incident in question took place.

The spokesperson didn’t provide any further information.

While the IDF has denied firing at Gazans near the GHF aid site yesterday, it has acknowledged firing in the air at Palestinians. Doctors Without Borders said its aid workers treated Palestinians who said Israeli soldiers were the ones who shot at them.

“The only source for these misleading, exaggerated, and utterly fabricated stories came from Hamas sources, which are designed to fan the flames of antisemitic hate that is arguably contributing to violence against Jews in the United States,” Huckabee says.

“Media sources who willingly parrot these libelous allegations should recant their fake news stories, apologize and pledge to practice actual reporting of fact instead of engaging in dangerous propaganda that assists the terror group Hamas as they continue to hold innocent hostages for over 600 days after butchering over 1,200 people on October 7th,” he says, demanding an “immediate retraction” by the American media sites.
Related:
Antonio Guterres 05/31/2025 Israel claims Hamas losing control over Gaza civilians as GHF ramps up aid operations
Antonio Guterres 05/30/2025 Four Palestinians die in storming of Gaza UN food warehouse; IDF was not in area
Antonio Guterres 05/22/2025 UN says it has ‘collected and dispatched’ 90 truckloads of aid into Gaza

Related:
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Mike Huckabee 05/12/2025 Trump disapproves of Netanyahu’s Gaza strategy, thinks major offensive will be wasted effort — NBC report
Mike Huckabee 05/11/2025 ‘He’s got your back’: Huckabee says Trump’s decision to skip Israel on Mideast visit isn’t a snub

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Good Morning
2025-06-02



Deep Dive into FBI Scandal
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Monday 06/02/2025

Eduard Biewend and his Bride, Feodore 1842
Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas operative who led war%u2019s deadliest
attack on IDF troops eliminated, army says
Syria-Lebanon-Iran
IDF says it killed 2 Hezbollah operatives
Sunday in southern Lebanon drone strikes
Arabia
IDF downed Houthi missile Sunday that
triggered sirens in Jerusalem area, central Israel
Europe
There Are %u2018No Decisions To Be Made%u2019: Merz' Chief Of Staff Frei Does Not Rule Out Netanyahu's Arrest In Germany (translated)
Europe
Ireland Shopping Mall Massacre: 9-year-old girl shot by a man who had explosives strapped to his body
Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF provides solid proof that Hamas shot other Gazans while collecting humanitarian aid, not IDF soldiers as Hamas said
Solar flare plasma cloud reaches Earth ahead of forecast

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas operative who led war’s deadliest attack on IDF troops eliminated, army says
2025-06-02
[IsraelTimes] Khalil Abed al-Nasser Mohammad Hatib, commander of January 2024 attack that killed 21 reservists, targeted in drone strike called in by soldiers who ID’d him, according to IDF

A Hamas

..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
commander who led an attack last year that killed 21 Israeli troops in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
, the deadliest attack on IDF soldiers during the war, was eliminated in a dronezap over the weekend, the military and Shin Bet said Sunday, as dozens of Paleostinians were reportedly killed in Israeli strikes across the enclave.

Troops of the 414th Combat Intelligence Collection Unit identified Khalil Abed al-Nasser Mohammad Hatib on Friday and called in the dronezap that killed him, the IDF said.

On January 22, 2024, a cell commanded by Hatib in Hamas’s Maghazi Battalion carried out an RPG attack against troops operating near the Israeli border, according to the military. The RPGs hit two buildings that had been rigged up for detonation and a tank guarding the forces, killing 21 reservists.

It was the highest number of Israeli troops killed in a single attack since October 7, 2023, when thousands of Hamas-led gunnies stormed southern Israel to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages, sparking the war in the Gaza Strip. Israel has lost 416 soldiers in the ensuing offensive, as well as two coppers and three Defense Ministry civilian contractors.

Last month, Israel announced it was launching a renewed offensive in a bid to seize 75 percent of the Strip.

According to the military, Israeli Air Force strikes over the past day hit dozens of targets in Gaza, including terror operatives, booby-trapped structures and other buildings used by terror groups, tunnels, and sniper and anti-tank posts.

צה"ל ושב"כ חיסלו את המחבל שפיקד על חוליית המחבלים שהובילה להריגתם של
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The IDF and Shin Bet eliminated the terrorist who commanded the terrorist squad that led to the killing of 21 IDF fighters on January 22, 2024.

Over the weekend (Friday), in a joint operation by the IDF and Shin Bet, an aircraft attacked and killed, under the direction of the Southern Brigade in the Gaza Division, the terrorist Khalil Abd al-Nasser Muhammad Khatib, a squad commander in the al-Ma'azi Brigade of the Hamas terrorist organization.

After concentrating an intelligence effort and using a collection team from Unit 414, the fighters identified the terrorist and targeted an aircraft that attacked and eliminated him.

Khalil commanded a terrorist squad that launched anti-tank missiles at buildings where our forces were operating and at a tank crew that was securing them, in the Al-Maghazi area on January 22, 2024. As a result, 21 IDF fighters were killed.

In addition, during the war, the terrorist promoted and took part in many other terrorist plots against our forces.

The IDF and Shin Bet will continue to operate against terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip in order to remove any threat to the citizens of the State of Israel.


Meanwhile,
...back at the wrecked scow, Agent 49 felt gingerly for his head. It was still there. He had been hoping differently...
during operations in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis, troops demolished the remains of a booby-trapped building where Staff Sgt. Danilo Mocanu was killed on May 20, when a bomb planted by terror operatives partially brought down the structure with him inside.

Also in Khan Younis, soldiers of the 7th Armored Brigade and the Yahalom combat engineering commando unit located and demolished a 700-meter (0.4-mile)-long Hamas tunnel, the IDF said, publishing footage of the blast. According to the military, the tunnel was some 30 meters (98 feet) underground.

During the operations, according to the IDF, troops spotted a cell of three operatives who were moving bombs in order to booby-trap an unspecified site. The forces called in a dronezap, killing the three operatives, the IDF said, publishing video of the incident, which showed the targets carrying large bundles on foot.

The military added that troops operating in Khan Younis have killed dozens of terror operatives, and destroyed over 100 sites used by terror groups, including by calling in Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s.

WAFA, the Paleostinian Authority’s official news agency, reported eight people killed in an Israeli strike on a vehicle in Khan Younis, five people killed in a bombing of a house in central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp, and a child killed in an artillery attack on Gaza City’s Tel al-Hawa neighborhood, in the Strip’s north.

The IDF did not immediately comment on the reported strikes. The military has said it seeks to minimize civilian casualties, including by using surveillance and issuing warning calls, and has accused Hamas of using Gaza’s civilians as a human shield and fighting out of civilian infrastructure, including hospitals and schools.

The corpse count reported by WAFA was in addition to Paleostinian reports of 31 people killed near an Israel- and US-backed aid distribution hub in southern Gaza’s Rafah.

The IDF did not explicitly deny there had been gunfire in the area, but said it was unaware of any injuries "within" the aid site. Witnesses said Israeli forces fired on crowds around a kilometer away from the aid site hours before the distribution took place.

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the US- and Israel-backed agency meant to circumvent Hamas in the distribution of aid, pushed back on the reports, saying that its "aid was again distributed today without incident." The organization accused Hamas of fabricating the reports, and published some 15 minutes of footage ostensibly showing that no Paleostinian civilians were shot at the site at the reported time of the killings.

The Hamas-run health ministry says more than 54,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far. The toll cannot be verified and does not differentiate between civilians and fighters. Israel says it has killed some 20,000 combatants in battle as of January and another 1,600 gunnies inside Israel during the October 7 onslaught.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
IDF says it killed 2 Hezbollah operatives Sunday in southern Lebanon drone strikes
2025-06-02
​[IsraelTimes] Separate attacks eliminate members of the Iran-backed Lebanese terror group’s anti-tank missile and rocket units, according to military

Israeli dronezaps killed two Hezbollah operatives in southern Leb
...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. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration....
on Sunday, the Israel Defense Forces said, marking the latest in a string of deadly exchanges that continue to strain a fragile ceasefire between Israel and the Iran-backed terrorist group.

The IDF said the first strike, carried out in the village of Arnoun in Lebanon’s Nabatieh region, targeted a member of Hezbollah’s anti-tank unit. Lebanon’s health ministry confirmed one fatality in the attack, which it described as an "Israeli enemy strike" on a cycle of violence. Arnoun lies just five kilometers (three miles) from the Israeli border.

It said another person was killed in an Israeli raid that "targeted a vehicle on the Debl road" in the Bint Jbeil district. The IDF later confirmed the attack, saying a dronezap in Ayta ash-Shab killed a member of Hezbollah’s rocket unit.

Another strike on a car in nearby Beit Lif maimed one person, the Lebanese health ministry said.

The IDF did not immediately comment on the Beit Lif attack.

Since the initiation of a ceasefire agreement in November 2024, which expired in mid-February, Israel has continued to launch targeted strikes on Hezbollah operatives and infrastructure, claiming violations of the truce by the terrorist organization. According to the IDF, over 180 Hezbollah operatives have been killed in Israeli strikes since the deal was reached.

The November truce followed over a year of cross-border violence that began when Hezbollah started attacking Israel a day after its Paleostinian ally Hamas
..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
’s October 7, 2023, terror onslaught. The fighting between Israel and Hezbollah included two months of open warfare, and the ceasefire was based on the framework of United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the 2006 Second Lebanon War.

The resolution required Hezbollah to withdraw its fighters north of the Litani River — about 30 kilometers (19 miles) from the border — and dismantle all military infrastructure in southern Lebanon. Israel, in turn, was to withdraw its troops, though it has maintained five positions along the frontier it considers "strategic."


Translated from Hebrew by Google
In southern Lebanon, two more Hezbollah members were killed today in two separate attacks on a vehicle and a motorcycle in the villages of Beit Lif and Arnon, respectively. Since the ceasefire began at the end of November, 190 have been killed in Lebanon, the vast majority from Hezbollah.


The escalating violence has drawn regional criticism. During a visit to Baghdad on Sunday, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun condemned the Israeli raids as violations of Lebanese illusory sovereignty. In a joint presser with Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudan
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans...
i, both leaders denounced the Israeli actions.

"These repeated Israeli attacks against Lebanon’s illusory sovereignty are in violation of international law," Sudani said. He called for full implementation of the 2006 UN resolution and reiterated Iraq’s support for Lebanon’s territorial integrity.

President Aoun’s trip to Iraq, his first since taking office in January, also focused on strengthening bilateral ties in energy, telecommunications, and trade. Lebanon, grappling with a severe economic crisis, has relied heavily on Iraqi fuel shipments to keep its power grid functioning. The two nations have also discussed increased wheat deliveries, with Lebanon expecting 320,000 tons from Iraq in the coming months.

In his remarks, Aoun thanked Iraq for "all the support and donations," particularly during last year’s war, when Iraq welcomed thousands of displaced Lebanese civilians, primarily Shiite Moslems.

Hezbollah, which maintains strong political and military ties with 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...
and enjoys support from pro-Iran factions in Iraq, has not publicly commented on Sunday’s strike.

The developments come amid heightened uncertainty over the long-term viability of the ceasefire, with tensions simmering along the border and diplomatic efforts to de-escalate appearing increasingly strained.
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Europe
There Are ‘No Decisions To Be Made’: Merz' Chief Of Staff Frei Does Not Rule Out Netanyahu's Arrest In Germany (translated)
2025-06-02
No decisions to be made by Israel as well: no visits to Germany so long as this government is in office.
[ApolloNews] Chief of Staff Thorsten Frei has not ruled out the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he sets foot on German soil. He stated that they respect "the independence of the International Criminal Court."

The topic of Israel is causing conflict within the CDU/CSU: Following the anti-Israel speeches by Friedrich Merz and Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul this week, there has been internal party criticism of the statements made by the Chancellor and Foreign Minister. A dispute that even Thorsten Frei, a close confidant of Merz and well-connected, apparently cannot resolve: In an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the CDU's head of the Chancellery also failed to take a clear position on the question of the CDU's position on Israel and its war against the terrorist group Hamas.

The 51-year-old repeatedly evaded the question of whether Germany would defy the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and whether he would still be welcome in Germany. Frei initially only said: "The elected Prime Minister of Israel is, of course, always a dialogue partner of the German Federal Government" – no clear commitment. When the journalist asked him whether this would not answer the question, Frei simply replied with a postponement: "There is currently no visit to Israel planned; nor vice versa. Therefore, no decisions need to be made," Frei said.

The decision is certainly relevant now – especially because the coalition partner SPD is increasingly using harsher language against Israel and Merz, with his accusation that the Israeli army is breaking international law in the Gaza Strip, has at least caused decades of support for Israel and raison d'état to crumble ( Apollo News reported), if not even a historic low point in German-Israeli relations.

Frei also evades the commitment to Israel in the following questions: "In principle, Germany still respects the independence of the International Criminal Court and its procedural processes, as well as those of all other international courts," is the CDU politician's next response to the question of whether relations with Israel would ultimately take precedence over international law. Frei's answer, decoded, is: We will listen to the International Criminal Court's ruling, but since Netanyahu isn't visiting Germany, we don't even have to ask ourselves whether he will actually be arrested. That's not a convincing expression of solidarity.
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Friedrich Merz 05/27/2025 Russia Produces More Drones and Missiles Than It Spends
Friedrich Merz 05/27/2025 Ukraine says hit by record drone salvo after Trump rebukes Putin

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Johann Wadephul 06/07/2020 Merkel allies criticize Trump decision to cut US troops in Germany

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Thorsten Frei 02/27/2025 155 Afghan staff transferred from Pakistan to Germany, another group expected next month
Thorsten Frei 11/11/2024 ‘Olaf is a Fool' – Berlin responds to Elon Musk's swipe at Chancellor Scholz amid government collapse

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IDF provides solid proof that Hamas shot other Gazans while collecting humanitarian aid, not IDF soldiers as Hamas said
2025-06-02
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Hamas says IDF fire killed 31 near aid hub; army ‘unaware’ of casualties
BLUF: In the small hours of the night, far from the aid distribution point, somebody apparently shot at Gazans going against strict Hamas orders in order to line up to pick up food. The IDF says it wasn’t them. Who, oh who, dear Reader, could it have been?
[IsraelTimes] Both IDF and Gaza Humanitarian Foundation deny there was gunfire in aid distribution site, though eyewitnesses cited by AP say pre-dawn incident occurred a kilometer away from there

At least 31 Paleostinians were killed and dozens were maimed early Sunday as they were on their way to a humanitarian aid distribution site in the southern Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip, multiple witnesses and Hamas
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
authorities said.

The Israel Defense Forces issued a vague statement, saying that "at this time, we are unaware of injuries caused by IDF troops’ fire within the [humanitarian aid] distribution site" in Rafah, adding that "the matter is still under review."

When asked for clarification, the IDF did not explicitly deny that there had been gunfire, but said it was unaware of any injuries "within" the aid site. Witnesses said Israeli forces fired on crowds around a kilometer away from the aid site hours before the distribution took place.

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the US- and Israel-backed body in charge of the aid distribution, insisted that the "aid was again distributed today without incident."

GHF published videos ostensibly showing that no Paleostinian civilians were shot at the site. "Reports of injuries and fatalities are completely false and fabricated," the organization said, attaching around 15 minutes of footage from the distribution site after dawn.

The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza, whose tolls cannot be verified, said 31 people were killed and 170 others were maimed in the incident in Rafah on Sunday. Another person was killed and over a dozen were maimed at an aid distribution site in the Netzarim corridor area, Paleostinian media reported.

The News Agency that Dare Not be Named cited eyewitnesses as saying that the incident in Rafah occurred before dawn, as thousands marched toward the aid site. Israeli troops had ordered them to disperse and come back later, and as the crowds arrived at a roundabout around a kilometer away at 3 a.m., the IDF opened fire, the witnesses said.

An AP news hound arrived at a field hospital at around 6 a.m. and saw dozens of maimed, including women and kiddies. The news hound also saw crowds of people returning from the distribution point. Some were carrying boxes of aid, but most appeared to be coming back empty-handed.

Amid coverage in international media of the incident, former prime minister Naftali Bennett slammed the government for the fact that it did not provide any information, aside from the IDF’s vague statement. He said international media were reporting a "huge lie."

“Israel has no public diplomacy. The matter is not being managed," Bennett said.

GHF has denied previous accounts of chaos and gunfire around its sites, which are in Israeli military zones. The IDF has acknowledged firing warning shots on previous occasions.

GHF said Sunday that it had distributed 4.7 million meals at three distribution sites in southern and central Gaza over the past six days. But its classification of meals is based on boxes of dry food products that still require cooking equipment or community kitchens, which are very limited throughout the Strip after nearly 20 months of devastating conflict.

Under pressure from allies, Israel last month begun allowing some humanitarian aid into Gaza after blocking all food, medicine, fuel and other goods from entering since March 2, a move Jerusalem said was aimed at pressuring Hamas into releasing hostages.

The UN and other aid groups have refused to participate in the GHF system, saying it violates humanitarian principles. They say it puts aid under Israel’s control, to use to carry out its announced plans to move Gaza’s entire population to the south. They also say it cannot meet the massive needs of the population and endangers those seeking food.

Israel demanded the new system, saying it is needed to prevent Hamas from siphoning off supplies, as it accuses the terror group of regularly doing. UN agencies say their mechanisms already prevent significant diversion. Still, there is footage of aid being stolen by button men in Gaza, and one former hostage has testified that Hamas would eat from the stolen aid.

Just to underline that Doctors Without Borders are eager tools of Hamas:
MSF says patients it treated after chaos near Gaza aid site said they ‘were shot from all sides’ by IDF
Medical charity Doctors Without Borders said Sunday that people it treated at a Gaza aid site run by a new US-backed organization reported being “shot from all sides” by Israeli forces. The NGO, known by its French name MSF, blamed the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) system for chaos at the scene in the southern Gaza town of Rafah.

Gaza’s Hamas-run civil defense agency said Israeli fire killed 31 Palestinians at the site. Witnesses also told AFP the Israeli military had opened fire.

“Patients told MSF they were shot from all sides by drones, helicopters, boats, tanks and Israeli soldiers on the ground,” MSF said in a statement.
Goodness — such active imaginations.
MSF emergency coordinator Claire Manera in the statement called the GHF’s system of aid delivery “dehumanizing, dangerous and severely ineffective.”

“It has resulted in deaths and injuries of civilians that could have been prevented. Humanitarian aid must be provided only by humanitarian organizations who have the competence and determination to do it safely and effectively.”

MSF communications officer Nour Alsaqa in the statement reported hospital corridors filled with patients, mostly men, with “visible gunshot wounds in their limbs.”

MSF quoted one injured man, Mansour Sami Abdi, as describing people fighting over just five pallets of aid.

“They told us to take food — then they fired from every direction,” he said. “This isn’t aid. It’s a lie.”

The Israeli military said an initial inquiry found its troops “did not fire at civilians while they were near or within the humanitarian aid distribution site”.

A GHF spokesperson said: “These fake reports have been actively fomented by Hamas,” the Islamic militant group that Israel has vowed to destroy in Gaza.

Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
Related:
Doctors Without Borders: 2025-05-22 Soldier killed in booby-trapped Gaza building as strikes pound aid-deprived Strip
Doctors Without Borders: 2025-05-19 Huge protest in The Hague demands Dutch government draw ‘red line’ on Gaza war
Doctors Without Borders: 2025-04-05 Doctors Without Borders ‘appalled’ by second staff member killed in Gaza within weeks
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Home Front: WoT
Mohamad Soliman, the Muslim man who carried out the Islamic terrorist attack in Colorado today, appears to be an immigrant from Kuwait; he burnt six badly with Molotov cocktails
2025-06-02
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
… A professional profile for a man who has his same name and looks just like him says he works in finance, digital marketing, and international financial reporting. He also appears to have at least one daughter who is studying in the United States in Colorado.

He speaks English and Arabic.

@LoomerUnleashed

@CcpSkipTracer



…on a B1/B2 nonimmigrant visa with an authorized stay through 2/26/23, but he overstayed & never left.

I’m told on 9/29/22, he filed some sort of claim with USCIS, potentially an asylum claim, and on 3/29/23, USCIS under the Biden admin gave him work authorization, which expired on 3/28/25.


Molotov cocktail attack Boulder, pro-Israel rally violence, suspect identified Boulder 2025
[CountyLocalNews] On June 1, 2025, a shocking incident occurred in Boulder, Colorado, when authorities identified Mohamad Soliman as the suspect involved in throwing a Molotov cocktail at a pro-Israel walk. This disturbing act of violence resulted in injuries to multiple individuals attending the event.

The pro-Israel walk in Boulder was intended to be a peaceful demonstration, aimed at expressing solidarity with Israel amidst ongoing geopolitical tensions. However, the atmosphere quickly shifted to one of chaos and fear when Soliman allegedly hurled a Molotov cocktail into the crowd. The explosive device ignited, leading to injuries among attendees and prompting an immediate response from local law enforcement.

Witnesses reported a scene filled with panic as people scrambled for safety. Emergency services were dispatched swiftly to the location, providing medical assistance to the injured and working to secure the area. The Boulder police are actively investigating the incident, and Soliman’s motives remain unclear, although authorities are treating this act as a serious crime.



More from the Times of Israel:
6 wounded in firebomb attack on rally for Israeli hostages in Colorado
FBI calls incident in Boulder a ‘targeted terror attack’; footage shows man screaming ‘End Zionists’ at scene; comes less than 2 weeks after killings of Israeli embassy staff in DC

Activists rallying for the release of the Israeli hostages in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
were targeted in a Molotov cocktailing attack on Sunday, which the FBI said it was investigating as an act of terrorism.

Six people aged 67-88 were maimed in the attack, FBI Special Agent Mark Michalek said at a presser. One of the maimed is at death's door.

The suspect is in jug and was identified as Mohammed Sabry Soliman, 45.

Witnesses told Sherlocks that Soliman attacked the demonstrators with a "makeshift flamethrower" and threw an incendiary device, Michalek said. Boulder Police Chief Steve Redfearn said the suspect hurled Molotov cocktails at the demonstrators.

"It is clear that this is a targeted act of violence and the FBI is investigating this as an act of terrorism," Michalek said.

A joint statement from Boulder Jewish community groups said that an incendiary device had been thrown at participants in a hostage rally by a group called Run for Their Lives. Chapters of the group hold weekly events around the US to raise awareness about the hostages.

In footage said to be from the scene of the attack, a shirtless man screamed "End Zionists" while holding what appear to be Molotov cocktails. The man also shouted, "Paleostine is free."

At least one person was lying on the ground being tended to by bystanders as a police officer approached the shirtless man and cuffed his hands behind his back, the video showed.

"We are aware of and fully investigating a targeted terror attack in Boulder, Colorado," FBI chief Kash Patel said on X, adding that "our agents and local law enforcement are on the scene already, and we will share updates as more information becomes available."

Redfearn said at an earlier presser that at 1:26 p.m. local time, police received calls that there was a "man with a weapon" near the county courthouse on 13th and Pearl St. and that "people were being set on fire."

When police arrived at the scene shortly thereafter, they encountered "multiple victims" with injuries "consistent with burns," Redfearn said.

The victims were evacuated to a nearby Boulder Community Health medical center for treatment, Redfearn said, adding that a number of them apparently suffered "life-threatening" injuries.

Shortly after arriving on the scene, a suspect was pointed out to officers who managed to apprehend him, Redfearn said.

Redfearn confirmed that a pro-Israel peaceful demonstration was taking place in the area, as it frequently does.

Update at 11:30 a.m. EDT: The Daily Mail has more photos, courtesy of Skidmark. It seems the local police chief tried to claim unknown motive, but the FBI was firm that it was terror, so the police chief surrendered.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas says ready to 'immediately' hold round of Gaza truce talks
2025-06-02
[GEO.TV] The Palestinian resistance group Hamas said on Sunday it was ready to "immediately" hold a fresh round of negotiations for a truce in Gaza after recent talks appeared to hit a dead end.

"The movement affirms its readiness to immediately begin a round of indirect negotiations to reach an agreement on the points of contention," Hamas said in a statement after mediators Qatar and Egypt said they would intensify their efforts for a truce in the war-battered Gaza Strip.
That’s nice. What are you going to offer to make it worth it to Israel to stop killing your people and bouncing your rubble?

Senior Israeli official: Hamas ‘must understand it has to accept the Witkoff outline’
[IsraelTimes] Official says Israel ‘prepared for negotiations when Hamas comes to terms with reality’; IDF chief tells families of slain hostages that return of captives is ‘a top priority task’.
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