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Ibrahim Aqil joins Fuad Shukr, Muhammad Nasser, Taleb Abdullah on list of eliminated Hezbollah military brass, along with Deif, Haniyeh and al-Arouri from Hamas By Jana Choukeir. 20 September 2024, 10:29 pm Clockwise from top left: Ibrahim Aqil (US State Department), Fuad Shukr (Hezbollah media office), Muhammad Nasser (Hezbollah media office), Ismail Haniyeh (AP), Muhammad Deif (IDF), Taleb Abdullah (Hezbollah media office). Clockwise from top left: Ibrahim Aqil (US State Department), Fuad Shukr (Hezbollah media office), Muhammad Nasser (Hezbollah media office), Ismail Haniyeh (AP), Muhammad Deif (IDF), Taleb Abdullah (Hezbollah media office). Reuters — Israel killed a top Hezbollah commander...

[...] "This evening, we updated the families of Hersh, Eden, Ori, Alex, Almog, and Carmel, may their memories be a blessing, that we eliminated two terrorists who had held them hostage in a tunnel in the Rafah area. "The day after the hostages were murdered, troops from the 162nd Division identified two terrorists emerging from an underground tunnel shaft in the Tel al-Sultan area and eliminated them during an encounter. After investigating the findings from the tunnel and equipment on the terrorists, we found DNA evidence and several items belonging to the terrorists we eliminated. Based on the findings and...

⚠️ BREAKING: Mohammad Reza, the deputy commander of Iran Quds Force, was successfully eliminated by the Israeli Air Force in Beirut, Lebanon. Good ... riddance. Hell awaits. 10:23 AM · Sep 20, 2024

Senior Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Aqil said killed in Beirut strike. By AFP. September 20, 2024, 4:57 pm. A source close to Lebanon’s Hezbollah says the Israeli strike in Beirut’s Dahiyeh neighborhood killed Ibrahim Aqil, a senior commander in the terror group’s elite Radwan unit. “The Israeli air strike killed Radwan Force commander Ibrahim Aqil, its armed force’s second-in-command after Fuad Shukr,” who was killed by an Israeli strike in July, also in Hezbollah’s southern Beirut stronghold, says the source who requested anonymity to discuss sensitive matters. [https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/senior-hezbollah-commander-ibrahim-aqil-said-killed-in-beirut-strike/ TOI]

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a resolution Wednesday that effectively bars Israel from self-defense in any of the territory it captured in a defensive war in 1967, including in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem. The resolution refers to a ruling earlier this year by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) — led by a judge from Lebanon, which is in a state of war with Israel — in which it declared Israel’s presence in Gaza, Judea and Samaria (the West Bank), and eastern Jerusalem to be illegal under international law. (Israel angrily rejected the ruling, with Prime Minister...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday condemned Israel over a series of explosions across Lebanon involving pagers that targeted members of militant group Hezbollah. Ocasio-Cortez, a vocal critic of Israel’s government amid its broader war in Gaza, weighed in following reports that Israel’s intelligence and military arms were behind Tuesday’s pager attack that killed a dozen people and injured several thousand. “This attack clearly and unequivocally violates international humanitarian law and undermines US efforts to prevent a wider conflict,” the New York Democrat wrote on social media platform X. “Congress needs a full accounting of the attack, including an answer...

The Houthis fired a surface-to-surface missile that reached Israel at 6:32 a.m. on Sunday morning, local time, triggering sirens all over the area near Tel Aviv, but exploding in an open area without causing any damage. The missile was detected in the midst of the morning news broadcast on Army Radio, taking the announcer by surprise. At first, it was unclear whether the sirens had been caused because of rockets fired from the south (Hamas) or the north (Hezbollah); then a report came that it had actually entered Israeli airspace from the east, sparking speculation that it had been fired...

At a Philadelphia protest against the presidential debate between Kamal Harris and Donald Trump on September 10, 2024, protesters waved Hamas and PFLP flags, held a banner stating: “Amerika is the head of the snake,” and chanted, “Yahya Sinwar, you make us proud!” Protesters continued to laud Hamas’s Izz Al-din Al-Qassam Brigades and the Lion’s Den. They added: “Resistance is justified, when people are occupied.” The protest’s MC led the crowd in a chant: “U.S. imperialist – number one terrorist!” Participants chanted that Vice President Kamala Harris is a “war criminal,” and called for “Intifada, revolution,” while making a triangle...

Iraqi officials – some on the record, some not – stated this week that they are finalizing an effort to remove nearly all American troops from the country following the collapse of the Islamic State “caliphate.” The plan would allegedly remove nearly all American military personnel from the country by 2025, leaving some in the autonomous northern region governed by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) for another year. Defense Minister Thabit al-Abbasi reportedly announced the plan in an interview with the Saudi network Al Arabiya this week; the Washington Post quoted an anonymous “Iraqi military official” on Thursday describing the...

Editor’s Note: The thought police at Google immediately slapped a restraining order on this editorial — as they now do with everything we publish about “climate change” to punish us for not toeing the line. Here is the notice we received from them:What do the climate activists really want? Do they have nothing more in mind than a noble crusade to prevent the burning sky from falling on us? Or is the global warming scare just another piece of the revolution? It’s of course the latter. We know this because they’re constantly telling us it is. The most recent admission...

Yahya Sinwar's nephews, I wonder if they will grow up to be peace activists. pic.twitter.com/MMban9Z4vW — Eli Kowaz - איליי קואז (@elikowaz)

“During the blessed last 10 days of Ramadan, we celebrate our Administration’s incredible Muslim team,” Vice President Kamala Harris announced, posing on the steps of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building with some of the most controversial figures in the administration. There right behind Kamala was Nasrina Bargzie, her deputy counsel and future Muslim liaison, who had been interviewed by the FBI after 9/11, wore orange for the Islamic terrorists at Gitmo and had fought a lawsuit Jewish students over harassment by pro-terrorist activists at Berkeley. Second from Kamala’s right was Mazen Basrawi, Biden’s current Muslim liaison, who had attended a...

According to research by the Rheinneckarblog, Emrah Ibrahimovic (18) is an Islamist Neo-Nazi from Austria with Bosnian roots. Apparently radicalized at least on the Internet with IS propaganda from the offshoot al-Nusra-Frint and another offshoot HTS. But the weapon, a Karabiner 98 with bayonets, and the clothing in red, black and white, probably identifies him as a Bosnian SS thug in the service of the National Socialists. A central figure here is Mohammed Amin al-Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who made a pact with Adolf Hitler in the joint fight against "world Jewry". Al-Husseini is considered the mentor and mastermind...

Austrian suspect reportedly enters Germany recently at the entrance to the Nazi crimes Memorial; Hertzog spoke with his German counterpart.

"I am devastated and outraged," stated the U.S. president, who then called for a deal between Israel and Hamas. (August 31, 2024 / JNS) U.S. President Joe Biden stated shortly before midnight on Saturday night that he is “devastated and outraged” after the U.S. citizen Hersh Goldberg-Polin was identified among six bodies that Israeli forces recovered earlier in the day in a tunnel in Rafah. Biden vowed that “Hamas leaders will pay for these crimes,” but then said that the United States “will keep working around the clock” to secure a deal—which would be between the Jewish state and the...

This is a Gazan channel that has gained over the years 1.7 million followers from around the world • After a short time the post was deleted. An anti-Semitic post on the Gaza channel "GAZA NOW". The Gazan channel "Gaza Now" published an anti-Semitic post this evening (Thursday), which included a call for the murder of Israelis in Europe and the US. The post was accompanied by a gray shirt with a print of the Nazi oppressor Adolf Hitler. After a short time, both posts were deleted. "We swear to you that everyone who killed our people will die wherever...

Gruesome details revealed in West Bank terrorist home-invasion murder. Military prosecution charges the Hamas operative with murder for targeting Yohai Avni because he was Jewish, acknowledging a nationalist motive after 51 days and intense family pressure, marking it as a terrorist act. In a dramatic, last-minute turn, the military prosecution charged the terrorist responsible for the murder of Yohai Avni, a 40-year-old resident of Givon HaHadasha in the West Bank, with committing the crime "because the victim was Jewish." This nationalist motive was added to the indictment just hours before it was presented in military court Tuesday morning, marking the...

Air Force fighter jets attacked terrorist targets in Lebanon tonight (between Saturday and Sunday), after Hezbollah's preparations to launch rockets and missiles at the State of Israel were detected. Defense Minister Galant signed a special situation on the home front for 48 hours , the IDF spokesman told the public: "The defense is not airtight, continue to act responsibly." Notable updates: -Political source: Hezbollah also intended to fire at strategic installations in the center of the country. -Hezbollah in an official statement: We have completed the first phase of the response, we have launched 320 rockets -The Home Front Command...

The IDF says it has detected preparations by Hezbollah to launch rockets and missiles and is preemptively striking in Lebanon “to remove the threat.” Fighter jets are striking Hezbollah targets that “posed an imminent threat to the citizens of the State of Israel,” the army says, adding that “life-saving instructions” will be sent out in some parts of the country. Alarms are meanwhile sounding in several northern communities.