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Abdel Razaq Al Yahya	Abdel Razaq Al Yahya	Palestinian Authority	Middle East	Palestinian		20020804
Abu Yahya	Abu Yahya	Muslim Youth Movement	Britain			20020908
Abu Yahya Al-Libbi	Abu Yahya Al-Libbi	al-Qaeda	Terror Networks			20051222	Link
Abu Yahya al-Libbi	Abu Yahya al-Libbi	al-Qaeda	Terror Networks			20061011	Link
Abu-Yahya al-Libbi	Abu-Yahya al-Libbi	al-Qaeda	Afghanistan			20051219	Link
Brig.Gen. Yahya Rahim Safavi	Brig.Gen. Yahya Rahim Safavi	Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps	Middle East			20030422
Fawaz Yahya al-Rabeei	Fawaz Yahya al-Rabeei	al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula	Arabia			20040508	Link
	Fawaz Yahya al-Rabeei	al-Qaeda	Arabia			20030406
Fawaz Yahya al-Rabei	Fawaz Yahya al-Rabei	al-Qaeda in Yemen	Arabia			20060228	Link
Fawaz Yahya al-Rabeiee	Fawaz Yahya al-Rabeiee	al-Qaeda in Yemen	Arabia			20060205	Link
Maulana Ghulam Yahya Allah Baksh	Maulana Ghulam Yahya Allah Baksh	Lashkar-e-Taiba	India-Pakistan			20060425	Link
Mohammad Yahya	Mohammad Yahya	al-Qaeda	India-Pakistan			20020630
Mohammed Mohsen Yahya Zayed	Mohammed Mohsen Yahya Zayed	al-Qaeda	Europe			20031117
Mohammed Moshen Yahya Zayed	Mohammed Moshen Yahya Zayed	al-Qaeda	Arabia			20030721
	Mohammed Moshen Yahya Zayed	Yemeni Islah party	Europe			20030721
Yahya Abdellah al-Aboudi	Yahya Abdellah al-Aboudi	Iraqi Baath Party	Iraq			20030723
Yahya Goba	Yahya Goba	al-Qaeda	Fifth Column		In Jug	20030513
Yahya Mossa Basha	Yahya Mossa Basha	American Muslim Council	Home Front			20030429
Yahya Mujahid	Yahya Mujahid	Jamat-ud-Dawa	India-Pakistan			20021101
	Yahya Mujahid	Jamaat-ud-daawa	India-Pakistan			20060825	Link
	Yahya Mujahid	Lashkar-e-Taiba	India-Pakistan			20011214
Yahya Mukbul	Yahya Mukbul	Islamic Jihad	Middle East			20040107
Yahya Rahim Safavi	Yahya Rahim Safavi	Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps	Syria-Lebanon-Iran			20051206	Link
Yahya Saleh Al-Mujalli	Yahya Saleh Al-Mujalli	al-Qaeda	Arabia			20060228	Link
Yahyah bin Ali Al-Ghamdi	Yahyah bin Ali Al-Ghamdi	al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula	Terror Networks			20040127

Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Israel targeted Muhammad Sinwar in rare moment when he had no hostages around him — report

2025-05-24

[IsraelTimes] TV report says Hamas chief made mistake of meeting with top commanders without his usual protective ‘hostage belt’; when Israel was sure no captives were present, it bombed

The strike that targeted and possibly eliminated Hamas
Hamas

..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
leader Muhammad Sinwar 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...
earlier this month was made possible when the terror chief made the rare mistake of moving without a defensive "hostage belt" protecting him, according to a Friday report.

Channel 12 aired new details on the massive strike on Sinwar and other top Hamas officials in a Khan Younis tunnel on May 13 that is currently believed to have killed Sinwar, the de facto commander of Hamas in Gaza, following Israel’s killing of his brother Yahya last October.

The network said Muhammad Sinwar was almost always surrounded by hostages throughout the war, as Hamas leaders realized this was a strong deterrent against Israeli liquidation attempts. And indeed, Channel 12 said Israeli intelligence had long tracked Sinwar but repeatedly ruled out potential strikes on him when presented with the opportunity due to fears there were hostages in his vicinity.

"No risks are taken if there’s even a one percent chance that hostages are in the area," a security source told the network.

The report said Sinwar became even more careful following the death of his brother in a firefight with Israeli forces, and that only a very small number of people knew his location at any time, echoing a report Thursday in the Wall Street Journal.

However,
a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all...
for unknown reasons, Sinwar decided on May 13 to meet with the commander of the Rafah Brigade in Hamas’s military wing, Mohammad Shabana, as well as other senior commanders, without his usual escort of hostages.

The Wall Street Journal quoted Hamas and Arab officials who said the meeting of tap-ranking Hamas figures was convened to discuss their approach to talks on a ceasefire and hostage release deal, among other matters.

Presented with this opportunity, the Israeli Air Force immediately began preparing for a strike, the report said, though top officers expected it would likely be called off due to fears of harming hostages.

However,
a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all...
when ironclad intelligence arrived that no hostages were present, the IAF was given the green light, jets were scrambled, and the bombing went ahead.

The strikes targeted an underground command compound below the European Hospital. The Hamas-run health ministry reported 16 dead and over 70 maimed in the strike, though there was no immediate word if Sinwar was among the casualties.

The IDF later bombed the area several more times, in an apparent attempt to prevent anyone from approaching the tunnel and aiding the terror operatives.

According to the officials cited by the Wall Street Journal, Hamas recovered Sinwar’s body a day after the strike and temporarily buried it in another tunnel, with the intention of moving his remains to a more suitable grave once the fighting ceases.

Saudi channel al-Hadath reported that Sinwar’s body was was recovered along with the remains of 10 of his aides. Hamas has not confirmed this.

Israel has also not confirmed that Sinwar was killed, but Defense Minister Israel Katz said that "according to all the indications Muhammad Sinwar was eliminated."

Following the killing of Hamas’s top military commander, Muhammad Deif, last July, Muhammad Sinwar took charge of the terror group’s military wing. Later, after Sinwar’s older brother Yahya was killed by IDF troops, he became the de facto leader of the terror group in the Strip.

Israeli officials have described Muhammad Sinwar as obstinate concerning negotiations for the release of hostages, and an obstacle to reaching a ceasefire deal.

The younger Sinwar was also wanted for terrorist actions against Israel and has been active in Hamas for decades.

He was locked away
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
by Israel in the 1990s for nine months and spent an additional three years in a Paleostinian Authority prison in Ramallah, from which he escaped in 2000. In 2006, Sinwar was part of the Hamas cell that kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit. He also previously commanded Hamas’s Khan Younis Brigade.

Most of Hamas’s leadership has been eliminated by Israel during the ongoing war, which was sparked when the terror group stormed southern Israel on October 7, 2023, to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages.

On Thursday, Paleostinian media reported that Zakaria Sinwar, brother of Yahya and Muhammad Sinwar, succumbed to wounds sustained in an Israeli ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
...KABOOM!...
on Saturday night.

Zakaria, a lecturer at the Islamic University in Gaza, was initially said to have been killed in the strike, but media reports later said he had been critically injured.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Resuming Control of Gaza Is a Terrible Idea. But What the Hell Else Can Israel Do?

2025-05-22

[PJMedia] It's official: Israel's expanded military operations 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 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 won't be complete until Israeli Defense Forces "take over all the areas of the Strip," according to a statement Monday on social media by Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu.

Calling Israel's military actions following the Oct. 7 terror invasion a "war of civilization over barbarism," Netanyahu reminded Hamas
Hamas

..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
(and the world) that "The war can end tomorrow if the remaining hostages are released, Hamas lays down its arms, its murderous leaders are exiled and Gaza is demilitarized."

"No nation can be expected to accept anything less and Israel certainly won't."

This would be a good time to remind you that Hamas's objective on Oct. 7 was to derail Arab-Israeli peace efforts through an "extraordinary action." That's according to since-deceased Hamas chief, Yahya Sinwar. Hamas took hostages, murdered babies, and raped women to death for the sole purpose of committing the region to a forever war.

Israel now seeks peace by the only means left to them: the total destruction of Hamas and resuming control of the Gaza Strip.

A joint statement Monday by Britannia, Canada, and La Belle France warned, "If Israel does not cease the renewed military offensive and lift its restrictions on humanitarian aid

, we will take further concrete actions in response." Jerusalem said on Sunday that Israel would allow "a basic quantity of food to be brought in" to Gaza but otherwise rebuffed those demands.

Netanyahu, according to a Wall Street Journal report, said the decision came after pressure from "Israel’s closest friends in the world."

The story added that "the country’s backers in the U.S. Senate told him they couldn’t tolerate images of extreme hunger coming out of Gaza and that could affect their continued support."

Israel's friends in the U.S. Senate really ought to know better.

Any food going into Gaza is commandeered by Hamas for either its own use or to be sold to Gazooks at obscene prices, as we've seen time and again.

The history of Gaza since Israel withdrew is Hamas thugs stealing Western aid for their personal enrichment. You didn't think Sinwar got to be worth $3 billion selling olive oil and prayer rugs, did you?

"The terror group’s three top leaders alone are worth a staggering total of $11 billion," the New York Post reported shortly after Oct. 7, "and enjoy a life of luxury in the sanctuary of the emirate of 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...
." By resuming control of Gaza, Israel will put a stop to Hamas's grand theft — everything.

Gaza wasn’t just a grifting operation for Hamas; it was a 140-square-mile terrorist enclave of underground tunnels, rocket stockpiles, and Iranian-trained fighters. That will come to an end with Israeli occupation, too.

The tragic irony is that Israel pulled out of Gaza for strategic and moral reasons that seemed correct to Ariel Sharon's Kadima government at the time. The Oslo Accords had stalled, and Israeli military rule over a growing population of two million Arabs was increasingly untenable. It won't become any more tenable under re-occupation.

Israel's reward for pulling out in 2005 was an endless terror campaign, culminating in the Oct. 7 atrocities. Their reward for reoccupation will likely be another Intifada. Dispersal to Libya, if the rumors have any truth to them, is probably the best thing for both Gazooks and Israelis.

Critics will accuse Israel of being an apartheid state — but they do that already. I say, "Resuming control of Gaza is a terrible idea, but what the hell else are they supposed to do?"

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Israel will seize more of Gaza if Hamas doesn’t free hostages, IDF chief warns

2025-05-21

[IsraelTimes] Zamir tells Gazan civilians that their leaders, not Israel, ‘brought destruction’ upon them, as hostage talks appear to once more reach an impasse in Doha

The Israeli military is prepared to capture more territory 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 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 if Hamas
Hamas

..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
does not agree to release the remaining hostages it is keeping in captivity, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir warned in a video statement on Tuesday.

He issued the ultimatum following a situational assessment and field tour in Gaza, days into a major new offensive dubbed "Gideon’s Chariots," through which Israel seeks to attack Hamas and seize and retain territory, while relocating Paleostinians from the north of the Strip to its south.

The offensive was launched amid negotiations in Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
for a ceasefire and hostage release deal, which started back up again last week following the release of American-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander.

Israel had previously warned that it would launch the offensive should no agreement be reached following the end of US President Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
’s visit to the region last week. While reports initially indicated that the new talks were moving in the right direction, they hit a wall in recent days.

Zamir said "Hamas will pay a price for its refusal" to release the hostages.

"It will face intense firepower," he said. "We will expand the ground maneuver, conquer additional territory, clear and destroy the terror infrastructure until its defeat."

"Hamas only has one option, and that is to release our hostages," Zamir continued, adding that should an agreement be reached, "the IDF will know how to adjust its activity accordingly."

"Our objectives are clear: the return of the hostages to their homes, the defeat of Hamas and the dismantling of its rule," he continued. "We are defending ourselves, and for that we must attack. We cannot defend ourselves only on the defense, without clearly removing the threat from the other side of the border."

At several points during his remarks, Zamir recalled that Israel had not been the one to start the war in Gaza, but that it erupted when Hamas launched its deadly cross-border invasion on October 7, 2023.

"This was not a military assault, but a horrifying crime against innocent civilians, and act of terror against the State of Israel and the Jewish people," he said of the attack, in which some 1,200 people were killed and 251 were seized as hostages, of whom 58 are still awaiting release.

"Since that dreadful day, the IDF has acted with force and determination in a multi-front campaign against enemies whose goal is to destroy us," said Zamir.

Turning to the Paleostinian civilians in Gaza, he added: "We are not the ones who brought this destruction upon you."

"We did not start the war. We did not rob you of food, shelter, or money. We are not the ones hiding in hospitals or schools. We are not the ones staying in luxury hotels while you live in hardship," he said.

"This is your leadership, those who are holding our hostages. Hamas is responsible for starting the war. It is responsible for the dire situation of the population. It destroyed, and it will not be the one to rebuild."

Hostage Matan Zangauker struggling to stand, suffering severe health issues – report

This is who Hamas is. This is who all the jihadis are.

[IsraelTimes] According to reported testimony from ex-hostage Edan Alexander, Matan Zangauker suffers from muscular atrophy, is held in cages and has been severely tortured.

Released hostage Yarden Bibas says he encountered Yahya Sinwar in tunnel
[IsraelTimes] Released hostage Yarden Bibas describes meeting Yahya Sinwar while in captivity, when the former Hamas leader allowed him to remain with his best friend, David Cunio, who is still held captive in Gaza, for around two weeks before they were separated.

“David is my best friend, he has been with me my whole life,” Bibas tells Channel 12 news.

Bibas says he met Cunio on the day his wife, Sharon Aloni Cunio, and their twin daughters were released from captivity on November 27, 2023, as part of a temporary ceasefire deal.

“He was moved to me in the tunnel. When he saw me for the first time, he was in shock. He thought he saw a ghost. I hugged him, and then he continued to the next place,” Bibas says.

“When Sinwar arrived at the tunnel, I said to him that this is my best friend and I want to stay with him. He said there was no problem, you can stay with him. After around two weeks, they separated us. I don’t know why,” Bibas says.

TV report: Freed hostage Edan Alexander meets Gallant, tells him he slept on Gazan street and nobody noticed
[IsraelTimes] Freed hostage Edan Alexander describes the difficult conditions of his captivity to former defense minister Yoav Gallant, including sleeping on Gaza’s street, in quotes reported by Channel 12 news.

Asked by the former Likud lawmaker how he held onto hope in captivity, Alexander reportedly answered: “I knew that my friends from Golani were fighting above for me and I had a duty to survive for them.”

“My captivity was difficult. We moved between dozens of places, we slept in apartments, mosques, and even on the street. One of the times we didn’t stop moving from place to place, and then we slept on Basmata Street — without anyone noticing. And now we must do everything to release everyone,” he said, Channel 12 reports.

Channel 12 also says that Alexander was held alongside senior Hamas officials, including its former leader and October 7, 2023, massacre mastermind, Yahya Sinwar, who was killed by IDF troops in October.

According to Alexander’s reported testimony, food cans would explode in the tunnels due to the intense summer heat.

Separately, Channel 12 reports on a meeting between Alexander and the family of hostage Nimrod Cohen, with whom he was held in captivity.

Alexander reportedly told them Cohen supported him during their time together, but was very depressed and traumatized due to his experiences of the October 7 massacre, when he saw his friends murdered.

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Arabia

Iran-Backed Houthi Terrorists Declare ‘Maritime Blockade' of Israel's Haifa Port

2025-05-21

They can declare all they want, but they're pathetically inept at execution. Houthi missiles have gotten through US Navy and IDF defenses about three times since the whole thing started, their UAVs a few more times than that. As wars go, they’re much better at waking up Israelis in the middle of the night because the warning sirens went off than they are at actually reaching the country, never mind hitting anything other than deserts, seas, and open fields. Some foreign airlines have fled the field, which just mean s more business for the braver ones, and of course the Israeli companies.

[Breitbart] The Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen declared a “maritime blockade” of Israel’s Haifa port on Monday – a blockade they presumably intend to enforce with missile and drone attacks on shipping.

“All companies with ships present in or heading to this port are hereby notified that, as of the time of this announcement, the aforementioned port has been included in the list of targets,” said Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree.

Another Houthi spokesman, Ahmed Salah, said that civilian vessels are now “prohibited” from loading or unloading cargo at Haifa, which is Israel’s largest seaport. Ships which defy the order will be considered “military targets” by the Houthis.

“The presence of any vessels heading to the Port of Haifa, or having any indirect connection thereto, will expose your company and its fleet to sanctions,” Salah said.

“In the event that your company is listed on the sanctions list, its fleet will be prohibited from transiting the Red Sea, Bab al-Mandab Strait, the Gulf of Aden, the Arabian Sea, and the Indian Ocean. Moreover, it will be subject to targeting by the Yemeni Armed Forces wherever reachable,” he said.

Neither Houthi spokesman mentioned whether Israel’s other ports would be included in the “blockade.”

The Houthis have been attacking civilian ships in the Red Sea ever since Hamas launched the Gaza War by attacking Israel on October 7, 2023. The Yemeni insurgents, who drove the legitimate government out of the national capital in 2014 and control much of Yemen’s coastline, have a habit of declaring escalated attacks or “blockades” whenever Israel escalates its military activity in Gaza.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched a new operation in Gaza after Hamas refused to release the remaining hostages it kidnapped on October 7. IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir said on Tuesday that Hamas will “pay the price for its refusal” by losing more of its territory and “terror infrastructure.”

“Hamas has one option, and that is to release our hostages. If there is an agreement, the IDF will know how to adjust its activity accordingly,” Zamir said.

The Houthis declared a “blockade” of Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport in early May, after slipping a lone ballistic missile past Israeli and U.S. defenses and blowing up a grove of trees near the airport. Ben Gurion resumed normal operations soon after the attack, although the threat of more missile strikes has not been taken lightly.

The Houthis threatened to attack Ben Gurion again on Monday, causing some airlines to suspend flights to the airport.

The Houthi declaration of a “naval blockade” against Haifa, and the new threat against Ben Gurion Airport, were probably intended as direct responses to IDF Arabic-language spokesman Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee warning Yemeni civilians to avoid three “seaports controlled by the terrorist Houthi regime,” including the major port of Hodeidah, because they could face Israeli military action.

“Due to the terrorist Houthi regime’s use of seaports for its terrorist activities, we urge all those present at these locations to leave and stay away for your own safety. Evacuating these ports will keep you safe,” Adraee said last Wednesday.

The Houthis announced last week they had agreed to “pause” attacks on Red Sea shipping after the U.S. and Israel took action against Houthi piracy. The ostensible “pause” did not exclude the possibility of renewed attacks based on Israeli military action in Gaza.

“Yemen’s position on the Palestinian issue and its support for Gaza will not change. We received requests from the U.S. through the Sultanate of Oman, and what changed was the U.S. position, while our stance remains unchanged,” a Houthi spokesman said last Wednesday.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Here's the Smoking Gun: UNWRA Knew About Oct 7 in Advance

2025-05-20

[PJMedia] Hillel Neuer this weekend posted the smoking gun: the UN’s Paleostinian "humanitarian" agency knew in advance of Hamas
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
’s Oct. 7 terror invasion — and Hamas meant to torpedo any chance for peace between Israel and Saudi Arabia

Mr. Lazzarini, here are the minutes of Hamas' high-level meeting on Oct. 3, 2023 planning an “extraordinary action” to torpedo Saudi-Israel peace. Your longtime UNRWA official Suhail al-Hindi is listed. He was away, but did they inform him/you of the planned Oct. 7 massacre? https://t.co/eptlcbt3LE pic.twitter.com/bAU4h2D8J9
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 19, 2025

According to Neuer's translation, the minutes cite Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar saying, "There is no doubt that the Saudi-Zionist normalization agreement is progressing significantly... [opening] the door for the majority of Arab and Islamic countries to follow" and that an "extraordinary action" was required to derail Arab-Israeli peace efforts.

And Another Thing: This is the year that Data Republican (small-r) taught us about something I think we should term "mission capture." That's when NGOs end up doing privatized versions of the things government shouldn't do or doesn't want to be seen doing, instead of charitable or humanitarian work. Granted, many NGOs are established for that very reason.

Oct. 7 quickly followed — and UNRWA's own Suhail al-Hindi was present at the meeting where the need for an "extraordinary action" was floated.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

That, too: Hamas document shows Oct. 7 attack aimed at derailing Saudi normalization – report

2025-05-19

[IsraelTimes] In days prior to assault, leader Sinwar said ‘extraordinary act’ needed quash Riyadh’s openness to diplomatic ties with Israel; other documents show great concern over issue

Hamas
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
’s Gazoo chief Yahya Sinwar told associates in the days prior to the terror group’s devastating October 7, 2023, attack, on Israel that an "extraordinary act" would be required to derail normalization talks between Israel and Saudi Arabia

...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
, according to a document reportedly found by the IDF in Gaza.

The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday on a number of documents from recent years that discussed Hamas’s concerns about Saudi movement toward diplomatic ties with Israel, and the terror group’s efforts to hamper it.

Successive American administrations have sought to broker such an agreement, framing it as the "crown jewel" of potential normalization deals, in light of Saudi Arabia’s overarching status in the Arab and Moslem worlds.

Arab intelligence officials familiar with Hamas told the Journal that the documents appeared to be genuine.

The Journal did not publish any images of the documents, and there was no official Israeli comment.

The minutes of a meeting of Hamas’s political bureau in the Strip on October 2, 2023, cite Sinwar as saying, "There is no doubt that the Saudi-Zionist normalization agreement is progressing significantly." The Hamas leader warned a deal would "open the door for the majority of Arab and Islamic countries to follow the same path."

According to the Wall Street Journal, Sinwar said that it was time to activate an attack plan that the terror group had been working on for some two years "to bring about a major move or a strategic shift in the paths and balances of the region with regard to the Paleostinian cause."

Without directly quoting the document, the Journal said Sinwar — who was killed by the IDF about a year into the war — expected other Iran-backed terror and proxy groups to join the fighting.

Other documents apparently seized by the IDF and reviewed by the newspaper included one from September 2023 that recommended escalating violence in the West Bank and Jerusalem to decrease the chances of normalization between Jerusalem and Riyadh.

That document criticized the Saudis for what Hamas saw as their "weak and limited steps to neutralize" the terror group and prevent it from blocking normalization.

A Hamas briefing from August 2022, marked "secret" and composed by the group’s military leadership, urged a "reposition" in order to "preserve the survival of the Paleostinian cause in the face of the broad wave of normalization by Arab countries, which aims primarily to liquidate the Paleostinian cause." That realignment increased its coordination with, among others, the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah.

Then, in October that year, Hamas prepared a job advertisement, also found by the Israeli military, for a position in its Department of Arab and Islamic Cooperation to lead diplomatic efforts to stop normalization. It described the job as, in part, "Marketing the movement’s programs to confront normalization" and organizing activism groups in the Arab world to call for boycotts on entities that backed having ties with Israel.

Hamas did not respond to a request for comment on the report, the Journal said.

Though Israel and Saudi Arabia have not established diplomatic relations, their clandestine ties strengthened in recent years as they confronted a shared threat in Iran. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew to Saudi Arabia in November 2020 to meet with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman

...Crown Prince and modernizer of Saudi Arabia as of 2016. The Turks hate him, so he must be all right, despite the occasional brutal murder of Qatar-owned journalists...
, the first publicly reported meeting between the two.

Former US president Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant....
’s administration sought to include a normalization accord between Israel and Saudi Arabia in a "mega-deal" it worked to sign with Riyadh, which has long made clear, however, that such an agreement would require a political horizon for the Paleostinians.

The Biden administration had managed to make significant progress in the series of bilateral agreements with Saudi Arabia — and was slated to begin serious discussions with Riyadh regarding the exact terms of the Paleostinian component of the package — when Hamas launched its October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, in which some 1,200 people were killed and 251 were taken hostage.

The onslaught and ensuing war derailed the normalization effort and Riyadh began to recognize that it would need more concrete steps toward the establishment of a Paleostinian state, as solidarity with the Paleostinians in Saudi Arabia and the region on the lam skyrocketed due to the devastation in Gaza.

US President Donald Trump
...The cad! Twice caught beating wimmin!...
has also pledged to broker an Israel-Saudi normalization deal, repeatedly asserting that additional countries would quickly join the Abraham Accords, which normalized ties between Israel and several Arab countries at the tail end of his first term. But during a visit to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, part of a three-day regional tour that did not include Israel, he indicated his recognition that Riyadh won’t be joining as quickly as he may have hoped.

It is not the first time that documents ostensibly found in Gaza have been leaked to the international press.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Netanyahu says Qatar negotiators also discussing end to Gaza war if Hamas disarms

2025-05-19

[IsraelTimes] PM shifts from insistence only on limited, temporary hostage-truce deal; conditions end of conflict on Hamas fighters going into exile; announcement comes amid new IDF offensive

Israel’s negotiation team in Qatar was exhausting “every possibility” for a deal to free the hostages, including a framework that would consider an end to the war, the Prime Minister’s Office said Sunday, indicating a shift in position by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Netanyahu has until now insisted that the team would only negotiate on the basis of the US special envoy Steve Witkoff’s proposal for a short-term ceasefire and limited hostage exchange.

However, in a statement, the PMO said that the team was now working toward the possibility of either Witkoff’s proposal, or an agreement to end the war through a comprehensive release of all hostages in Gaza and the complete surrender and exile of Hamas.

“Under the prime minister’s direction, even at this hour, the negotiating team in Doha is working to exhaust every possibility for a deal — whether according to the Witkoff outline or within the framework of ending the war, which would include the release of all hostages, the exile of Hamas terrorists and the disarmament of the Gaza Strip,” the statement said.

Talks are being held as the Israel Defense Force ramps up a new military offensive in Gaza aimed at seizing most of the Strip. The fighting was likely to significantly expand should the talks fail.

“Thanks to [Netanyahu’s] policy of exerting military and diplomatic pressure, the government has so far succeeded in bringing home 197 hostages, and is doing everything possible to return the 58 remaining captives,” the PMO said.

Meanwhile, an Israeli official told Ynet: “We are giving Hamas a chance to come back from the brink before we take the drastic action in Gaza. We may reach a deal after the fighting, but the conditions will be less favorable for Hamas, so it would be better for them to release our hostages now and reach a deal.”

Israel has consistently said that the war will not end without the destruction of Hamas as a military and governing power. In recent talks, Netanyahu has insisted on only agreeing to a temporary ceasefire of roughly 45 days, which would begin with Hamas releasing about 10 hostages.

However, in the past, he has floated the willingness to end the war if Hamas surrenders and disarms.

Hamas has indicated a willingness to give up power in Gaza, but has so far refused to give up its weapons.

Before addressing the negotiations in Qatar, the PMO statement began by criticizing former Israeli hostage negotiator, Brig. Gen. (res.) Oren Setter, who resigned from the team in October and in a February interview accused Netanyahu of missing two opportunities last year for a hostage-ceasefire deal with Hamas.

In an interview with the Kan public broadcaster, Setter said that he saw an opportunity, under the current combined military and diplomatic pressure, to reach a comprehensive deal for the return of all hostages, but was “concerned it’s going to be missed — that once again, we’ll end up with a partial agreement.”

Setter “undermined government policy through deliberate leaks and biased briefings from within the cabinet that harmed the negotiations, endangered our hostages and echoed Hamas’s false propaganda,” wrote the PMO, reiterating its February denial of his statements.

“His claims that an agreement could have been reached earlier are completely baseless. As senior American officials have repeatedly testified, Hamas refused for many months to enter negotiations and was the sole obstacle to a deal,” the statement said.

The reports come as the IDF significantly ramped up its military pressure in the Gaza Strip after launching its offensive dubbed “Gideon’s Chariots,” which will seek to “seize strategic areas” of the Hamas-run Strip.

According to Israeli officials, the operation aims to seize strategic areas of the Strip, target Hamas, prevent the terror group from taking control of humanitarian aid supplies, and move Palestinians from northern to southern Gaza.

Gaza’s Hamas-run authorities reported that widespread Israeli airstrikes have killed over 400 people since Thursday, including 100 people over Saturday night. The tolls cannot be verified and do not differentiate between civilians and fighters.

Israel has blocked the entry of medical, food and fuel supplies into Gaza since the start of March to try to pressure Hamas into freeing Israeli hostages and has approved plans that could involve seizing the entire Gaza Strip and controlling aid.

Mediators Egypt and Qatar, backed by the US, began a new round of indirect talks with Hamas on Saturday. However, sources close to the negotiations told Reuters there had been no breakthrough.

A Hamas official told the news agency: “Israel’s position is unchanged, they want their prisoners released, without a commitment to end the war.”

However, US hostage envoy Adam Boehler said Hamas’s release of American-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander last week was a “sign” that the terror group “understands” that it needs to release hostages “if they want this barrage of attacks to stop.”

Boehler told ‘Fox News Sunday’ that hostage negotiations in Doha are very “fluid,” denying reports that they were not going well.

At the same time, far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, who has been a major opponent of any ceasefire deal, expressed his opposition to the negotiations in Doha and emphasized that no deal had been reached in a radio interview: “If we don’t collapse Hamas, if we don’t go to war until the end, this government has no right to exist.”

“If our hostages don’t eat — there is no reason in the world for us to introduce humanitarian aid. It’s a mistake to make a deal right now and it’s a mistake to give humanitarian aid,” he said.

Ben Gvir also tweeted: “A framework to end the war without defeating Hamas will not come to pass.”

Potentially complicating the ceasefire talks further, a series of Israeli airstrikes last week killed Muhammad Sinwar, the de facto commander of Hamas in Gaza, according to reports on Sunday that said his body was found in a Khan Younis tunnel.

His brother Yahya Sinwar, the former Hamas leader in Gaza, was killed last October, and another brother, Zakaria Sinwar, was reportedly killed in an airstrike Saturday.

Senior Hamas official denies CNN report that group will release 7-9 hostages for 60-day truce

[IsraelTimes] Senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri tells the Qatari Al Jazeera channel that a CNN report claiming Hamas is willing to release nine hostages in exchange for a two-month ceasefire is false.

The report had cited an unnamed Hamas official.

Abu Zuhri further claims that Hamas is prepared to release all the hostages in one phase, on the condition that Israel agrees to end the war with international guarantees.

He accuses Israel of trying to “confuse the public” with false reports in order to pressure Hamas.

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Houthis Claim Rocket Strikes Ben Gurion Airport, but actually the IDF shot it down

2025-05-19

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Yemeni Houthis from the Ansar Allah movement launched two ballistic missiles at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv. This was stated on May 18 by Yahya Saria, a spokesman for the armed forces formed by the Houthis.

"Yemen's rocket forces carried out a military operation, attacking Ben Gurion Airport in the occupied Jaffa region with two ballistic missiles. The operation achieved its goal and forced millions of occupiers to take refuge in bomb shelters," a spokesman for the movement said on Al Masirah TV.

A much more realistic aim than actually hitting Israel, since yesterday we were informed that the IDF shot down one, while the other was never even on Israel’s radar — presumably falling very short.

A Houthi spokesman also said Yemeni rebel forces launched an attack drone towards the Israeli airport on the morning of May 17.

As reported by the Regnum news agency, on May 18, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) recorded a new rocket attack from Yemen. It is noted that air raid sirens were activated in several areas of Israel after the rocket was launched from Yemen. Later, the IDF reported intercepting the rocket.

Earlier it was reported that the IDF intercepted a rocket launched from Yemen on May 9, and on May 4 Israel reported that debris from a rocket launched from Yemen fell in the Ben Gurion area. After the rocket attack, the use of airspace was suspended for an hour, then the airport resumed receiving and releasing aircraft.

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Israel airstrikes kill at least 100 in Gaza amid ceasefire talks, incl. 3rd Sinwar brother

2025-05-19

[GEO.TV] Israeli ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s killed at least 100 Paleostinians across the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip overnight, local health authorities said on Sunday, as mediators hosted a new round of ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas
Hamas

..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military, which has expanded its strikes on the enclave, killing hundreds of people since Thursday, in preparation for a new ground offensive to achieve "operational control" in parts of Gaza.

[X]

🚨 Breaking: Zakaria Sinwar, the brother of Yahya and Muhammad Sinwar who were eliminated, was eliminated pic.twitter.com/eNLUGHF8GR
— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) May 18, 2025

For those wondering:
Sinwar came up from the tunnel to film with Al Jazeera, thinking he’s in control.
He didn’t know Qatar had sold him out.
That was his last frame—alive. pic.twitter.com/UtcBdVCGkU
— daniel (@LionsOfZion_ORG) May 18, 2025

Which Sinwar was that? Muhammad, Yahya, or little Zakaria?

🚨 Breaking: Head of H×mas Muhammad Sinwar confirmed eliminated. He replaced his brother Yahya Sinwar, who was eliminated.

Muhammad Shabana, his second in command and the top candidate to replace him, was also eliminated together with him. pic.twitter.com/fKPNzYvCv1
— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) May 18, 2025

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IDF launches sweeping new Gaza offensive; Palestinians say dozens killed in strikes; Md Sinwar’s body found in Kahn Younis tunnel w/10 dead aides last week

2025-05-18

[IsraelTimes] Gideon’s Chariots offensive involves seizing control of ‘strategic areas,’ officials say; troops said advancing on Deir al-Balah, where ground forces have not operated since Oct. 7

The Israel Defense Forces announced late Friday that it has launched the first stages of a major offensive 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 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, dubbed "Gideon’s Chariots," that will seek to "seize strategic areas" of the Hamas
Hamas

..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
-run Strip, where authorities reported dozens killed in heavy Israeli ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s overnight and on Saturday morning.

In a statement, the military said it had "launched extensive attacks and mobilized forces" over the past days, "to achieve all the goals of the war in Gaza, including the release of the hostages and the defeat of Hamas."

"IDF troops in the Southern Command will continue to operate to protect Israeli citizens and realize the goals of the war," the military added.

Paleostinian media reported on Saturday that IDF ground troops had advanced overnight toward central Gaza’s Deir al-Balah. According to the reports, heavy artillery fire and airstrikes were carried out in the eastern Deir al-Balah area as the forces advanced.

Deir al-Balah is one of the few areas of the Strip where Israel has not sent ground troops since the Hamas onslaught of October 7, 2023, which sparked the war in Gaza. Ground forces have previously operated on the outskirts of the town, but not deep inside it.

Social media users posted pictures of what they said were leaflets the IDF had scattered in the area of the town, instructing residents to flee. It was not immediately clear if the leaflets were genuine.

The reported leaflet featured the IDF logo on one corner and a Star of David captioned "righteous conquest," in Arabic, on the other corner. Over a background that showed a sea parted over destroyed buildings, the leaflet quoted a Koranic verse about the "Parting of the Sea," and below it a message: "Residents of Gaza, the Israeli army approaches."

According to Israeli officials, the operation would see the IDF "conquer" Gaza and retain the territory, attack Hamas, prevent the terror group from taking control of humanitarian aid

supplies, and move Paleostinians from Gaza’s north to its south.

An Israeli defense official said earlier this month that the operation would not be launched before the end of Friday of US President Donald Trump
...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election. Then he beat Kamala while dodging bullets...
’s four-day Middle East tour.

The tour coincided with the resumption of Gaza truce-hostage talks in Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
following the US-brokered release of Israeli-American captive soldier Edan Alexander. The talks have made little progress amid Israel’s refusal to end the war until Hamas is defeated.

HAMAS AUTHORITIES SAY DOZENS KILLED IN AIRSTRIKES
Airstrikes were reported Saturday in the areas of Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, and Jabalia, in the Strip’s north. Marwan Al-Sultan, director of northern Gaza’s Indonesian Hospital, said Saturday morning that the medical center had since midnight received “58 martyrs, while a large number of victims remain under the rubble.”

Sultan said the situation at the hospital was “tragic and catastrophic after its surroundings were targeted again this morning, causing the collapse of ceilings and cracks in the walls.”

“The operating rooms and intensive care units are completely full, and we are unable to receive any more critical cases,” he said.

He added there was “a severe shortage of blood units, medicines, medical and therapeutic supplies, and surgical procedures.”

Doctors had been forced to source blood for transfusions from other patients and even from themselves “due to the impossibility of donations from citizens due to malnutrition,” said Sultan.

Meanwhile, Hamas’s civil defense agency said 10 bodies had been brought to Gaza hospitals following strikes Saturday morning.

Agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP that three people were killed and four wounded in drone strikes east of Khan Younis, while three others were killed and several wounded in the bombing of a house in Jabalia.

An attack on an apartment northwest of Khan Younis killed three people, while one person was killed and five wounded, “including a girl, a young woman and a pregnant woman,” in a strike on a tent west of the city, he added.

More than 300 Gazans have been killed in Israeli strikes since Thursday, according to Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry, which says more than 53,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the war so far.

The tolls cannot be verified and do not differentiate between civilians and fighters. Israel has said it seeks to minimize civilian fatalities and stresses that Hamas uses Gaza’s civilians as human shields, fighting from civilian areas, including homes, hospitals, schools and mosques.

Israel says it has killed some 20,000 combatants in battle as of January, and another 1,600 terrorists inside the country during the October 7 onslaught, when thousands of Hamas-led terrorists killed some 1,200 people and took 251 hostages.

UN CHIEF ‘ALARMED’ BY EXPANDED GAZA OFFENSIVE
Speaking at an Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
summit in Baghdad on Saturday, United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...
chief António Guterres
...Portuguese politician and diplomat, ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005 and 2015. He was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 1995 to 2002 and was the Secretary-General of the Socialist Party from 1992 to 2002. He served as President of the Socialist International from 1999 to 2005. In both a 2012 and 2014 poll, the Portuguese public ranked him as the best Prime Minister of the previous 30 years...
expressed astonishment at Israel’s expanded operation in the besieged Strip.

"We need a permanent ceasefire, now," said Guterres. "I am alarmed by reported plans by Israel to expand ground operations and more."

His comment followed a statement by UN aid chief Tom Fletcher rejecting a US-backed proposal to deliver aid to Gaza without it going to Hamas.

“To those proposing an alternative modality for aid distribution, let’s not waste time. We already have a plan,” he said, adding that the UN has a proven plan and 160,000 pallets of relief ready to enter the Palestinian enclave now.

Fletcher enraged Israel’s mission to the UN this week after he told the body’s security council to act “to prevent a genocide” in Gaza. Israel has angrily rejected the accusation that it is perpetrating a genocide.

Israel halted the flow of aid to Gaza on March 2, hours after the Gaza ceasefire-hostage deal’s first phase expired amid Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s refusal to negotiate the second phase, which would have required an end to the war. On March 18, Israel resumed hostilities in Gaza with a surprise series of deadly airstrikes.

Following the 42-day first phase and the release of Edan Alexander on Monday, terror groups in Gaza still hold 58 hostages, at least 35 of whom have been confirmed dead, including a soldier killed fighting in the 2014 Gaza war.

IDF says it demolished 2 km ‘strategic’ Hamas tunnel in Gaza
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says it demolished a 2-kilometer-long Hamas tunnel during recent operations in the northern Gaza Strip.

The military describes the tunnel as “strategic.” It was located and destroyed by troops of the Gaza Division’s Northern Brigade and Yahalom combat engineering unit.

Report: Body of Hamas leader Muhammad Sinwar found in Gaza tunnel struck by IDF
[IsraelTimes] The Saudi channel Al-Hadath reports that the body of Muhammad Sinwar, the de facto commander of Hamas’s military wing in Gaza, was found in a tunnel in Khan Younis where the terror leader was targeted by the Israel Defense Forces last week.

According to the report, the bodies of 10 of Sinwar’s aides were found with him.

It is also reported that there is evidence that the commander of the Rafah Brigade in Hamas’s military wing, Mohammad Shabana, was also killed in the strike.

Israel has not confirmed the deaths of either Sinwar or Shabana.

The strikes on Tuesday targeted an underground command compound below the European Hospital where Sinwar was believed to be sheltering. The IDF later bombed the area several more times, in an apparent attempt to prevent anyone from approaching the tunnel.

Sinwar, a senior Hamas military commander, is the younger brother of the former Hamas leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, who was killed by the IDF in southern Gaza last October.

Following the killing of Hamas’s top military commander, Muhammad Deif, last July, Muhammad Sinwar took charge of the terror group’s military wing. Later, after Sinwar’s older brother was killed by IDF troops, he became the de facto leader of the terror group in the Gaza Strip.

Israeli officials have described Muhammad Sinwar as obstinate with regard to negotiations with Hamas for the release of hostages, and an obstacle to reaching a ceasefire deal.

The younger Sinwar is also wanted for terrorist actions against Israel and has been active in Hamas for decades.

He was jailed by Israel in the 1990s for nine months and spent an additional three years in a Palestinian Authority prison in Ramallah, from which he escaped in 2000. In 2006, Sinwar was part of a Hamas cell that abducted IDF soldier Gilad Shalit. He also previously commanded Hamas’s Khan Younis Brigade.

Most of Hamas’s leadership has been eliminated by Israel during the ongoing war.

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Bild report seriously distorted Hamas document, left out information showing Hamas wanted truce — German TV

2025-05-18

[IsraelTimes] The German current affairs show Panorama says it acquired the full, highly classified document reported by German tabloid Bild in September, claiming that the publication seriously distorted the file.

While Bild presented the document as evidence that Hamas was not interested in reaching a serious ceasefire-hostage deal with Israel, Panorama says the full document shows Hamas was ready to be flexible in arrangements and sought a truce for 84 days with a pathway to ending the war.

If the pathway did not involve Hamas completely disarming, exile from Gaza, and returning all hostages living and dead, it was merely a hudna proposal at best, not a viable offer.

The Bild report excluded this information and presents Hamas as indifferent to whether the ongoing war ends quickly. It reported that it instead prioritized maintaining the terror group’s military capabilities, “exhausting” Israel’s military and political apparatuses, and increasing international pressure on Israel.

Bild reported that the document was found on a computer in Gaza that belonged to Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. It later became apparent that the document was written by lower-level officials in the terror group and did not necessarily reflect the leadership’s position.

Indeed.

The document was allegedly unlawfully removed from the IDF’s military intelligence database by the reservist — a non-commissioned officer (NCO) — who gave it to Eli Feldstein, an aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who saw to it that it was transferred to Bild, though he was aware that it was obtained illicitly and that the military censorship had barred the information from publication.

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'Israel' bombs Yemen's Hodeidah - both al Saif and al Hodeidah ports - at least 1 toes up; 15 IDF jets drop 35 bombs Friday a.m.

2025-05-17

Perhaps air power yet has a purpose in the war machine, Vox Day to the contrary.

[HodhodYemenNews] The Israeli occupation launched fresh aggression on Yemen early Friday, targeting critical infrastructure in Yemen’s western province of Hodeidah.

According to local sources in the province, Israeli strikes hit both the al-Salif Port and the al-Hodeidah Port, both in the province.

One killed, nine injured in Israeli airstrikes on Yemen’s Hodeidah
[HodhodYemenNews] At least one person was killed and nine others were injured when Israeli warplanes launched airstrikes on Yemen’s western province of Hodeidah on Friday, the Health Ministry in Sana’a reported.

in a statement, the Ministry explained that one citizen was killed and three others were injured in the Zionist aggression on the Port of Salif. Additionally, six citizens were injured in the Zionist attack on the Port of Hodeidah. This is a preliminary toll.

The Ministry condemned in the strongest terms the blatant Israeli aggression on Yemen, which targeted vital civilian facilities and infrastructure, considering it a full-fledged war crime that violates all international and humanitarian laws, norms, and conventions.

IDF pounds Houthi ports in Yemen, threatens to kill leader, after missile, drone attacks
[IsraelTimes] Military estimates it will take a month for Iran-backed terror group to repair Hodeidah and Salif ports following airstrikes; 15 jets dropped 35 bombs

Israeli fighter jets carried out a wave of ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s in 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...
on Friday afternoon, targeting two Iran's Houthi sock puppets

...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
-controlled ports in the west of the country, and threatened to kill the terror group’s leader, in response to the Iran-backed group’s ongoing missile and drone attacks on Israel.

Israel had waited until the end of US President Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
’s visit to the region before launching its reprisal strikes on the Houthis.

Decidedly thoughtful and respectful, and then they smacked down the hammer hard.

Since the Israel Defense Force’s last strike on Yemen, on May 6, the Houthis launched at least seven missiles and two drones at Israel, the latest of them on Thursday night.

Fifteen fighter jets were involved in the strike on Friday, dropping some 35 munitions on the Hodeidah and Salif ports, destroying infrastructure, the military said. IAF refuelers and spy planes also participated in the operation.

Earlier this week, the IDF issued two evacuation warnings for the two ports in western Yemen, along with a third port, Ras Isa, the latter of which was not targeted on Friday.

"These ports are used for the transfer of weapons and are another example of the cynical exploitation of civilian infrastructure by the Houthi terror regime to advance terror," the military said in a statement.

The two ports have been targeted by the Israeli Air Force before, as was Yemen’s Sanaa International Airport on May 6.

🤬l'armée de l'air israélienne (FDI) a mené une série de frappes aériennes sur les ports de Salif et de Hodeida, dans la province de Hodeida, sur la côte ouest du Yémen contrôlée par les Houthis du mouvement Ansar Allah, a rapporté la chaîne de télévision yéménite Al Masirah. pic.twitter.com/no8tzpyZmv
— Bien mal a qui ne profite jamais, ne l'oubliez pas (@tom548406612159) May 16, 2025

The IDF said the strikes are intended to “deepen the damage to the Houthis’ terror capabilities,” and “neutralize” the ports, to prevent the group from bringing in more Iranian weapons and to harm the group economically.

The military estimated it would take the Houthis about a month to restore the ports. Until then, it would be unable to dock ships longer than 80 meters there.

“In light of the Houthi terror regime’s use of these ports for terror purposes, the IDF reiterates its warning to those present at the ports to distance themselves and evacuate the area,” the military said.

Defense Minister Israel Katz, in a statement, threatened to eliminate Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi if the Iran-backed group continues to fire on Israel.

“The IDF now struck and severely damaged the ports in Yemen that are under the control of the Houthi terror group. The airport in Sanaa also remains destroyed,” Katz said.

“As we said, if the Houthis continue to fire missiles on Israel, they will suffer painful blows, and we will also strike the terror chief, just as we did to Deif and the Sinwars in Gaza, to Nasrallah in Beirut and to Haniyeh in Tehran,” he said, referring to the leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah that Israel has assassinated ~~(it is not yet confirmed that Hamas Gaza leader Muhammad Sinwar, brother of slain Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar, was killed in this week’s strike that targeted him).~~

Death confirmed. See today’s report of the festivities in Gaza.

“We will hunt down and eliminate Abdul-Malik al-Houthi in Yemen as well. We will defend ourselves by our own strength against any enemy,” Katz added.

Since March 18, when the IDF resumed its offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the Houthis have launched 34 ballistic missiles and at least 10 drones at Israel. Several of the missiles have fallen short.

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