[IsraelTimes] Locals say rebel forces had ‘no mercy for anyone,’ reportedly killing some 460 patients and companions at a maternity hospital after capturing major city El-Fasher
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... ’s paramilitary forces killed hundreds of people, including patients in a hospital, after they seized El-Fasher city in the western Darfur region over the weekend, according to the UN, displaced residents and aid workers, who described harrowing details of atrocities.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization, said in a statement that 460 patients and companions were reportedly killed at Saudi Maternity Hospital in El-Fasher, the quiet provincial capital of North Darfur. He said the WHO was "appalled and deeply shocked" by the reports.
The Sudan Doctors Network, a medical group tracking the war, said fighters from the Rapid Support Forces on Tuesday "cold-bloodedly killed everyone they found inside the Saudi Hospital, including patients, their companions, and anyone else present in the wards."
Mini Minawi, the governor of Darfur, shared a video online, which purported to show RSF fighters inside the Saudi Maternity Hospital. The minute-long footage shows bodies lying on the floor in pools of blood. A fighter fires a single shot from a Kalashnikov-style rifle into a lone man sitting up, who then slumps to the floor. Other bodies could be seen outside. The News Agency that Dare Not be Named could not independently verify the date, location, or condition under which the video was recorded.
Sudanese residents and aid workers also described some of the atrocities carried out by the RSF, fighting since 2023 to take over Africa’s third-largest nation, after they seized the army’s last stronghold in Darfur after over 500 days of siege.
"The Janjaweed
…a name we do not hear nearly so often as the RSF…
showed no mercy for anyone," said Umm Amena, a mother of four children who fled the city on Monday after two days, using a Sudanese term for the RSF.
RSF commander Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo on Wednesday acknowledged what he called "abuses" by his forces. In his first comments since the fall of El-Fasher, posted on the Telegram messaging app, he said an investigation was opened. He did not elaborate.
The RSF has been accused by the UN and rights groups of atrocities throughout the war, including a 2023 attack on another Darfur city, Geneina, where hundreds of people were killed.
"IT WAS LIKE A KILLING FIELD"
Amena was among three dozen people, mostly women and kiddies, who were detained for a day by RSF fighters in an abandoned house close to the Saudi Hospital in El-Fasher.
The AP spoke with Amena and four others who managed to flee El-Fasher and arrived exhausted and dehydrated early Tuesday in the nearby town of Tawila, around 60 kilometers (37 miles) west of El-Fasher, which already hosts over 650,000 displaced.
The UN migration agency said about 35,000 people have fled El-Fasher, mostly to rural areas around it, since Sunday.
UN refugee agency official Jacqueline Wilma Parlevliet said that the new arrivals told stories of widespread ethnic and politically motivated killings, including reports of people with disabilities rubbed out because they were unable to flee, and others shot as they tried to escape.
Witnesses told the AP that RSF fighters — on foot, riding on camels, or in vehicles — went from house to house, beating and shooting at people, including women and kiddies. Many died of gunshot wounds in the streets, some while trying to flee to safety, the witnesses said.
"It was like a killing field," Tajal-Rahman, a man in his late 50s, said over the phone from the outskirts of Tawila. "Bodies everywhere and people bleeding and no one to help them."
Both Amena and Tajal-Rahman said that RSF fighters tortured and beat the detainees and shot at least four people on Monday who later died of wounds. They also sexually assaulted women and girls, they said.
Giulia Chiopris, a pediatrician at a hospital run by the Doctors Without Borders medical group in Tawila, said they received many patients since October 18, suffering from injuries related to bombing or gunshots.
She said that the hospital also received a high number of malnourished children — many of them unaccompanied or orphaned — who were also severely dehydrated during the road journey from El-Fasher.
"They arrive here; they are really exhausted," she told the AP. "We are seeing a lot of cases of trauma related to the last bombing and a huge number of orphans."
She recalled receiving three siblings — the younger 40 days old and the older 4 years — on Monday night, whose family was killed in the city. They were brought to the hospital by strangers, she said.
SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS MASS KILLINGS
In a report late Tuesday, the Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) said that RSF fighters continued to carry out mass killings since they took over El-Fasher.
The report, which relied on satellite imagery from Airbus, said it corroborated alleged executions and mass killings by the RSF around the Saudi Hospital and at a detention center at the former Children’s Hospital in the eastern part of the city.
It also said that "systematic killings" took place in the vicinity of the eastern wall, which the RSF built outside the city earlier this year.
The HRL also reported what it said were assassinations by the RSF on health facilities, health workers, patients, and humanitarian aid workers, which it said amount to war crimes.
Aid groups said hundreds were killed and hundreds detained since the RSF overran the city, but a corpse count has been difficult to determine given a near communication blackout.
Before the latest bout of violence, some 1,850 non-combatants were killed in North Darfur, including 1,350 in El-Fasher, between January 1 and October 20 this year, according to UN spokesperson Farhan Aziz Haq.
[X] So much gunsex. And a soundtrack of inspirational music — that’s important as the boats fly across the water followed by lines of armed men marching across the green landscape.
Bakura Doro's JAS faction released a video showing an attack on an ISWAP-controlled island in the Lake Chad, the JAS militants can be seen arriving in large numbers on canoes, this video implicitly refutes the reports on a reconciliation between ISWAP & JAS. https://t.co/9zAZ9nlZgOpic.twitter.com/tQC3hpFz2b
ISWAP claimed a SVBIED (carbomb) attack against the Nigerian army military camp in Kukawa, Borno state, in broad daylight before yesterday at 2 PM, the terrorists claim destroying a tank and barracks, and killing and injuring several soldiers.
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ISWAP claimed a SVBIED (carbomb) attack against the Nigerian army military camp in Kukawa, Borno state, in broad daylight before yesterday at 2 PM, the terrorists claim destroying a tank and barracks, and killing and injuring several soldiers.
The statement said that the SVBIED was supported by infantry fire, and managed to breach several lines of defenses until it reached the barracks near the main central building and exploded there.
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[Rudaw] Germany’s Federal Public Prosecutor General on Tuesday said that police had arrested an Iraqi national on suspicion of membership in the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS).
"Based on an arrest warrant issued by the investigating judge of the Federal Court of Justice on October 20, 2025, the Federal Prosecutor's Office today had the Iraqi national Salim A. arrested in Augsburg by officers of the Federal Criminal Police Office," the public prosecutor said in a statement.
"The accused is strongly suspected of having participated as a young adult as a member of a terrorist organization abroad," it added.
ISIS rose to power and seized swathes of Iraqi and Syrian land in 2014, declaring a so-called caliphate. The group was declared territorially defeated in Syria in 2019, two years after its defeat in Iraq. Despite its military defeat, it continues to pose security risks, particularly in the vast eastern deserts of Syria.
A large number of people from many countries, including European nations, joined the group before its defeat. Thousands of ISIS families - including foreign nationals - remain held by Kurdish forces in northeast Syria (Rojava), along with thousands of ISIS fighters detained in prisons.
Salim joined ISIS in April 2016, fighting in a unit of the organization in Syria's Raqqa city, according to the prosecutor's office.
"The accused was brought before the investigating judge of the Federal Court of Justice today, who informed him of the arrest warrant and ordered his detention pending trial," it noted.
[IsraelTimes] Iranian-American journalist Masih Alinejad wins applause in a New York City federal courtroom as two purported Russian mobsters were each sentenced to 25 years behind bars for hiring a hitman to kill her at her Brooklyn home three years ago, on behalf of the Iranian government.
“I crossed an ocean to come to America and have a normal life and I don’t have a normal life,” she says just before Judge Colleen McMahon announces the sentences in Manhattan federal court for Rafat Amirov, 46, and Polad Omarov, 41.
“I’m a brave woman. I’m a strong woman. They couldn’t break me. But they brought fear to my life. These criminals turned my life upside down,” she says as she spoke at a lectern near the men, who sat in prison uniforms with their hands folded before them.
McMahon says the men had committed a “terrible, terrible crime.”
Assistant US Attorney Michael D. Lockard had urged McMahon to dispense 55-year prison terms to the men. He said they were willing to carry out the desires of Iran to silence Alinejad, who has an online following of millions of people, more than the supreme leader of Iran.
He said the intended target of the assassination plot was not just Alinejad, “but those millions of people who look to Masih Alinejad to be their voice, to promote their cause and to shine a light on the corrupt and deadly tactics of the government of Iran.”
[TheFP] Today, a judge will sentence the hitman Iran sent to kill me on American soil. It’s proof that the country where I sought refuge protects the freedoms I love.
In Zehri, Balochistan, the Pakistani army has launched a full-scale military operation with tanks, fighter jets, drones, and heavy troops, putting the entire #ZehriUnderSiege. Locals are facing collective punishment, a clear war crime. This video shows Kitab Chowk, Zehri Bazaar. pic.twitter.com/W2BBfNhxxF
— Baloch Republican Party UK Zone (@BRPUKofficial) October 28, 2025
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If Balochistan's security and Defense force receive tanks and fighter jets, Pakistan can't stay one single night in Balochistan.
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This is the scene at Kitab Chowk, Zehri Bazaar where military offensives are now taking place and the people are being restricted of… pic.twitter.com/eh9dkvIFc3
If Balochistan's security and Defense force receive tanks and fighter jets, Pakistan can't stay one single night in Balochistan.
28 October 2025
This is the scene at Kitab Chowk, Zehri Bazaar where military offensives are now taking place and the people are being restricted of their own marketplace, their own land, and their own rights.
After the ongoing foreign military aggression by our rogue neighbour Pakistan, in the Zehri area of Khuzdar district, Balochistan, reports have emerged that Pakistani forces have occupied local lands, farm houses, and established new military camps there.
According to sources, near the Tarsani area of Zehri, Pakistani forces are using forced labor from local residents to construct these camps.
Several eyewitnesses reported that every morning, soldiers summon Baloch young men from their homes to work on the construction sites and only allow them to return late in the evening.
Local sources say that due to military pressure and continuous harassment, many families have been forced to leave Zehri and migrate toward Khuzdar, Hub Chowki, and other cities.
Residents of the area have also stated that Pakistani forces have set up multiple checkpoints at the entry and exit points of Zehri, where every person passing through is being asked for identification documents and personal details.
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⚠️Video footage has been leaked by accocunts affiliated with the Taliban that apparantly shows a group of both Pakistani and Afghan Taliban terrorists attacking a Pakistani Military Convoy in RazmakNorth Waziristan Pakistan #ttp#Afghanistan#AfghanTaliban#PakArmypic.twitter.com/W4Hk7LaNgc
[Rudaw] Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council on Tuesday refuted claims that a southern Iraq court had sentenced a Syrian national to death for supporting the current Syrian leadership, clarifying that he was charged with terrorism-related offenses, including glorifying Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) leaders and inciting attacks against Iraqi forces.
In a statement, the Council said, "Some social media pages published a picture of a court ruling issued by the Najaf Criminal Court, which included a death sentence ...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead... against a Syrian national, claiming he was arrested for ’publishing a video glorifying the current Syrian [interim] President [Ahmed al-Sharaa] and possessing materials related to the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... on his phone.’"
The Council clarified that "this information is incorrect," adding that the ruling against the defendant was "for the crime of confessing to the glorification of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi," the leader of ISIS’s so-called Caliphate, who was killed in a US raid in northwestern Syria in October 2019.
The individual was also indicted for "praising and encouraging the killing of members of the Iraqi Army and the Popular Mobilization Forces [PMF] in the al-Tarmiyah area [northern Baghdad] by publishing related videos on his personal social media page," the Council said.
He had also "called on people to join the terrorist [ISIS] entity" and "posted videos of himself burning a portrait of Imam Ali [bin Abi Talib (599—661 CE)]," the first Imam for Shiite Moslems and fourth Caliph in Islam, "with the aim of provoking chaos and sectarian tension."
The Council emphasized that "this ruling is not final and will be reviewed by the Federal Court of Cassation once the case file is received, as it is subject to automatic appeal (cassation)."
The clarification comes amid media reports alleging that the Najaf Court had sentenced 22-year-old Syrian national Mohammed Hassan, from Syria’s central-western Homs province, to death following his arrest on charges related to a Facebook post showing support to Sharaa.
The reports further claimed that Hassan was accused of possessing videos depicting members of the now-dissolved Free Syrian Army (FSA) capturing fighters from the Iraqi Shiite gang Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba, a powerful faction within the PMF.
A document purportedly issued by the Najaf Court - reportedly sentencing Hassan to "death by hanging" - has been widely circulated among Syrian social media users. However,
there's more than one way to skin a cat... Rudaw English has not been able to independently verify the authenticity of the document.
For its part, the Syrian foreign ministry stated it was following up on Hassan’s case through official channels.
Mohammad al-Ahmad, director of the Arab Affairs Department at the ministry, said in a Tuesday post on X that, "Since the publication of the news and upon instruction from the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates [Assad al-Shaibani] the case [of Mohammed Hassan] is being followed up with the Iraqi government through official channels until the authenticity of the published document is verified and further action is taken accordingly."
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[REGNUM] The Gaza Strip is once again in turmoil. After a brief pause, Israel has resumed strikes on the enclave, simultaneously accusing the Palestinian side of increasingly frequent manipulation of hostage bodies.
Hamas mirrors these attacks, calling Tel Aviv's rhetoric an attempt to derail the settlement and renew the war.
At the same time, the US turns a blind eye to the squabbles between the two opponents, continuing to address related peacekeeping issues.
NEW VIOLATIONS
A serious escalation of tensions in the enclave occurred on October 28 following a series of sporadic clashes between Israeli forces and Hamas loyalists across the demarcation line (the so-called "Yellow Line"). At least one Israeli casualty was reported.
Israel's response to the escalation was swift and asymmetrical: the military launched missile, bomb, and artillery strikes against the enclave's largest population centers.
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, the Bureij camp (central Gaza), several neighborhoods in Gaza, Rafah, and Khan Yunis came under fire. The incident killed 26 people, and injured dozens more to varying degrees.
The strikes continued on the morning of October 29, but they were more of a demonstration, with the main targets being the roads leading to Gaza and Khan Younis. Nevertheless, the Palestinian Ministry of Health reports that the enclave is still feeling the effects of the first wave of strikes: the death toll by mid-October 29 had risen to 65.
Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office isn't seeking flexible language to describe the situation. Official reports confirm that the order for new "powerful attacks" was a direct consequence of localized clashes in Gaza.
Although the main attacks on the enclave ceased by midday, and the “silence regime” was officially restored, Tel Aviv is not ruling out new punitive actions against Hamas.
SLOW DOWN THE PROCESS
At the same time, scandals are multiplying regarding the delays in returning the bodies of the dead Israeli hostages.
Hamas' leadership insists that it is fully fulfilling its obligations under the agreement, including conducting proactive searches for dead Israelis in high-risk areas, risking the lives of its members.
At the same time, Tel Aviv is convinced that the Palestinian resistance knows the burial site of at least eight more victims, but they are deliberately not disclosing this information, seeking to delay and bureaucratize the process as much as possible.
Moreover, according to Israeli security officials, Hamas is barely allowing Egyptian and Jordanian rescuers who arrived in the enclave to help search for bodies access to the process. Or it is deliberately providing them with false coordinates, thereby further blurring the search area.
The purpose of these seemingly strange manipulations is quite simple: while the Palestinian side is busy returning the bodies, international mediators cannot fully move on to the next step of the peace plan: the disarmament of local armed groups.
And since the guarantors of the new deal, led by Donald Trump, had previously given the go-ahead for the exchanges to take place without a clear deadline, Hamas has no reason to rush.
TWICE EXCHANGED
Public discontent in Israel is fueled by publications by the Abu Kabir Institute of Forensic Medicine, whose staff are authorized by the authorities to identify the remains of hostages handed over to Hamas.
The last few procedures have led experts to a disappointing conclusion: the bodies returned over the past week mostly belong to unidentified residents of the enclave and were not previously included in the exchange lists.
Consequently, Hamas still has 13 unreturned hostages, while the Palestinian side claims that only 7 remain.
Moreover, in order to consolidate the statistics of bodies handed over and reduce the overall gap, representatives of the movement are increasingly resorting to additional tricks, allegedly handing over those who have already been buried.
A striking example of this is Ofir Tsarfati,
.,.previously in our archive as Ofir Tzarfati…
whose remains were returned as a result of a military operation in late 2023 and buried in Israel
In other words, the IDF found his body and brought it back, no thanks to Hamas.
. His body was rediscovered under the rubble of a tunnel on October 28, 2025—almost two years after his burial.
Some parts of his body, anyway, which Hamas brought to the site and buried, then “rediscovered” and dug up again, all unwittingly watched — and taped — by an IDF drone. Which tape Israel shared widely, so now everyone is annoyed with Hamas…
The body was handed over to the Red Cross, and its recovery was presented as part of Hamas' systematic hostage search. Remarkably, this was accomplished just hours before the White House's latest ultimatum expired.
Remarkable, indeed.
On the other hand, the story of Tsarfati's return is known primarily from the Israeli side.
From the video. Mustn’t forget the video.
Neither Hamas nor the Red Cross have officially released the name of the hostage recovered from the rubble. No evidence has been presented that the movement stole his remains from the territory of the Jewish state.
And given that the Israeli side does not disclose the location of the grave of the “twice returned,” citing privacy, questions about this version only multiply.
Hamas, however, believes Israel is deliberately stirring up the scandal to portray the Palestinians as incapable of reaching an agreement and renew the military campaign, but this time under the slogan of vengeance for the restless.
TRUMP'S OPTIMISM
Despite the fact that the frequency of violations of the ceasefire is increasing and Hamas is demonstrating increasing nervousness towards official Tel Aviv, the White House believes that there are no problems with maintaining the peace agreement.
Thus, amid renewed Israeli attacks, President Donald Trump told reporters that Tel Aviv "has the right to defend itself," especially in cases where it has suffered confirmed losses.
With this statement, Trump effectively officially confirmed Israel's right to asymmetrical responses without damaging the settlement, and given the overall vagueness of the wording, he also left the Israelis with the right to determine the scale of retaliatory actions.
Trump's optimism is understandable: just days earlier, he had managed to clarify the contours of Gaza's future post-war structure. Specifically, he had reached an agreement with Qatar on the training (and, more importantly, funding) of an international peacekeeping force.
Prior to this, Egypt and Jordan had also volunteered to independently train new Palestinian “security forces.”
In other words, the foundation for the long-term peace settlement the Republican envisioned is close to completion. The subsequent responsibility for maintaining stability in the enclave will fall to other countries. This means that any hypothetical breakdowns in the settlement will do virtually no damage to Trump's reputation as a peacemaker.
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Trump, butt out!
Israel is removing a genocidal threat to its very existence.
If they want help, they'll ask for it!
Hamas already attempted a genocide on Oct 7, the moment they recover strength and recruit new members it's right back to paragliders over the borde and bombarding civilian targets with rockets made from "foreign aid" water pipes.
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^ Hair on fire, again? Perhaps you failed to read: With this statement, Trump effectively officially confirmed Israel's right to asymmetrical responses without damaging the settlement, and given the overall vagueness of the wording, he also left the Israelis with the right to determine the scale of retaliatory actions.
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Hamass has a simple choice - don't want Israel to attack? Stop attacking them.
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[Regnum] Israel has resumed observing the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip following strikes on dozens of Hamas targets. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Spokesperson's Office announced this on October 29.
"In accordance with the directive of the political leadership and following a series of strikes that hit dozens of targets and terrorists, the IDF has resumed observing the ceasefire," the statement said.
It is noted that 30 Hamas members who held command positions were liquidated.
On October 19, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Hamas of violating the ceasefire and ordered the military to take retaliatory action against Palestinian militias.
On October 28, Netanyahu ordered immediate, powerful strikes on the Gaza Strip. That evening, the IDF struck Gaza City. One rocket landed near the al-Shifa Hospital. Hamas political bureau member Suheil al-Hindi stated that the organization remains committed to the ceasefire.
Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip have killed 91 people, Al Jazeera reported on October 29.
Sources in the Palestinian enclave's emergency services reported casualties in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) strike. According to them, 48 people were killed in Gaza City, six of whom "were targeted by occupation forces while attempting to obtain food."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the Palestinian movement Hamas of violating the ceasefire and attacking IDF troops in the Rafah area. The Palestinians denied any involvement in the incident.
The “terror infrastructure site” in the Beit Lahiya area was intended to be used for an “imminent” attack on Israeli soldiers and against Israel, the military says. The IDF does not elaborate further on the weapons and the “aerial means.”
The IDF publishes footage of the site and of the strike.
The IDF says it remains deployed in Gaza “in accordance with the ceasefire agreement and will continue to operate to remove any immediate threat.”
Among those confirmed killed in the strikes are several terrorists who participated in the October 7, 2023, onslaught, according to the military.
The military says its strikes targeted dozens of terror operatives, including two battalion-level commanders, two deputy battalion commanders, and 16 company commanders in Hamas and other terror groups.
The strikes also targeted observation posts, weapon manufacturing sites, rocket launching sites, and tunnels, according to the IDF.
The military says it is not able to confirm yet that the Hamas commanders it targeted were killed in the strikes.
The IDF does, however, name several terrorists who it says infiltrated Israel on October 7 and were killed in the strikes in the past day.
They include: Muhammad Issa, a platoon commander in Hamas’s Nukhba Force; Fawaz Uwayda, a Nukhba Force cell commander; Muhammad Abu Shari’a and Nidal Abu Shari’a, both members of the Mujahideen Brigade’s terror group; and Hatem Maher Mousa Qudra, a Nukhba Force company commander who led the attack on Kibbutz Ein Hashlosha on October 7.
לאחר הפרות ההסכם על ידי חמאס וטרם כניסת האכיפה המחודשת: צה״ל ושב״כ תקפו עשרות מחבלים ברצועה, בהם שני מחבלים בדרג מג"ד, שני מחבלים בדרג סמג"ד ו-16 מחבלים בדרג מפקדי פלוגה
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Gaza officials say over 100 killed in Israeli strikes
[IsraelTimes] Gaza’s Hamas-run civil defense agency and hospitals says that a series of Israeli strikes overnight and this morning killed more than 100 people across the Palestinian territory.
“At least 101 fatalities were brought to hospitals, including 35 children and a number of women and elderly, as a result of Israeli airstrikes in less than 12 hours,” says Mahmud Bassal, spokesman for the agency, which operates as a rescue force under Hamas authority. The toll is confirmed by an AFP tally of reports from medical officials at five Gaza hospitals that received the dead and wounded.
Israel says it hit dozens of terror targets and terror operatives in response to ceasefire violations by Hamas. It says the ceasefire is now back in effect.
[IsraelTimes] Lebanese media reports that Israeli soldiers raided the southern Lebanon town of Blida before dawn and killed a municipal employee.
According to the official National News Agency, IDF troops entered Blida at around 1:30 a.m. with several military vehicles, and stormed the town’s municipal building.
At the municipality, the troops killed Ibrahim Salameh, an employee who had been staying there, the report says.
The Israeli soldiers withdrew at around 4 a.m., and the Lebanese army later entered the building and recovered the body of the municipal worker, NNA adds.
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The heading involves a picture of Zionist thugs invading a peaceful Lebanese town at dawn, firing wildly (like drunken cowboys in a western) and - semi accidentally killing a street sweeper.
[Rudaw] Syria’s anti-narcotics forces seized some 11 million Captagon pills flowing in from neighboring Leb ...The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else?... , Damascus state media reported Tuesday. The announcement comes a little over a week after Syrian and Iraqi authorities conducted a major joint operation seizing hundreds of kilograms of narcotics.
The Anti-Narcotics Directorate’s branch in Syria’s central-western Homs province "seized a vehicle coming from Lebanese territory, containing approximately 11 million Captagon pills in the southern Homs countryside," according to the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA).
The Directorate emphasized its "continued diligent efforts to pursue narcos and promoters" and to "limit the criminal activities associated with the drug trade and its negative effects on the security and safety of society," SANA reported.
For its part, the Syrian Interior Ministry, in a statement on its official Telegram channel, added that "the competent authorities are continuing the necessary investigations to uncover the identity of those involved and determine the criminal networks linked to the operation."
Captagon, a powerful amphetamine, has long been a source of concern across the Middle East.
Syria, under the regime of toppled Syrian dictator Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... , was widely recognized as a primary source of Captagon production and distribution. The trade became a political and economic tool for the Assad regime, with many analysts pointing to Maher al-Assad, the president’s brother, as a key figure behind the industry.
Homs province shares a border with Lebanon’s northeastern Baalbeck-Hermal region and the Bekaa Valley. Numerous factories were established in those regions where rugged terrain, long-standing clan-based networks, and weak state control have turned the region into a smuggling hotbed.
The loosely demarcated and highly porous nature of the border, coupled with deep familial and economic ties between border communities, further enables the illicit drug trade.
Additionally, the presence of powerful non-state actors - most notably the Lebanese Hezbollah movement - complicates law enforcement efforts. With its own supply routes and logistical infrastructure, Hezbollah has long been accused of facilitating or turning a blind eye to drug smuggling, undermining the efforts of both Lebanese and Syrian state security forces.
The latest bust comes days after Iraqi and Syrian authorities successfully seized hundreds of kilograms of narcotics in a major security operation conducted inside Syrian territory last week.
In a statement, the Iraqi interior ministry on Wednesday noted that its affiliate, the Directorate-General for Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Affairs, "conducted a qualitative operation in direct coordination" with Syria’s Anti-Narcotics Administration. Through "joint fieldwork and intelligence coordination," the two sides managed to seize "370 kilograms of narcotics."
The operation also led to "the arrest of a number of internationally wanted suspects who are part of cross-border smuggling networks," the ministry added.
Referring to the same operation, the Syrian interior ministry last week detailed that around 12 million Captagon pills were seized in the operation targeting a drug smuggling network in the Damascus countryside.
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...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...
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else?...
