“Four Israeli soldiers were killed and dozens wounded in a drone attack by
Hezbollah on a military base in central Israel, while at least four
Palestinians were killed in an Israeli air strike on a packed tent encampment
for displaced people in central Gaza. A drone launched by Hezbollah on Sunday
night passed through Israel’s air-defense systems and hit an Israeli military
base near Binyamina in central Israel, killing four soldiers and severely
wounding seven, the military said. Overall, more than 60 were wounded in the
strike, according to Magen David Adom, Israel’s national emergency service. The
drone didn’t set off warning sirens in advance and struck a canteen belonging
to the Golani infantry brigade as soldiers were eating dinner, according to
Army Radio. Photos and videos shared on Israeli social media showed a large
hole in the ceiling of the canteen hall and a bloodied floor. Hezbollah took
responsibility for the attack, saying it had launched a squadron of attack
drones at the base.”











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October 15, 2024



The Wall Street Journal: Deadly Hezbollah Strike Shows Growing Threat Posed By
Drones
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“Four Israeli soldiers were killed and dozens wounded in a drone attack by
Hezbollah on a military base in central Israel, while at least four
Palestinians were killed in an Israeli air strike on a packed tent encampment
for displaced people in central Gaza. A drone launched by Hezbollah on Sunday
night passed through Israel’s air-defense systems and hit an Israeli military
base near Binyamina in central Israel, killing four soldiers and severely
wounding seven, the military said. Overall, more than 60 were wounded in the
strike, according to Magen David Adom, Israel’s national emergency service. The
drone didn’t set off warning sirens in advance and struck a canteen belonging
to the Golani infantry brigade as soldiers were eating dinner, according to
Army Radio. Photos and videos shared on Israeli social media showed a large
hole in the ceiling of the canteen hall and a bloodied floor. Hezbollah took
responsibility for the attack, saying it had launched a squadron of attack
drones at the base.”



Reuters: Israel Kills At Least 40 In Gaza, Tanks Deepen Raid In The North
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“Israeli military strikes killed at least 40 Palestinians across the Gaza
Strip as Israeli forces tightened their squeeze around Jabalia in the north of
the enclave on Tuesday, amid fierce battles with Hamas-led fighters.
Palestinian health officials said at least 11 people were killed by Israeli
fire near Al-Falouja in Jabalia, the largest of Gaza's eight historic refugee
camps, while 10 others were killed in Bani Suhaila in eastern Khan Younis in
the south when an Israeli missile struck a house. Earlier on Tuesday, an
Israeli airstrike destroyed three houses in the Sabra suburb of Gaza City, and
the local civil emergency service said they recovered two bodies from the site,
while the search continued for 12 other people who were believed to have been
in the houses at the time of the strike. Five others were killed when a house
was struck in the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza.”



Afghanistan



Associated Press: Taliban-Run Media Stops Showing Images Of Living Beings In
Some Afghan Provinces
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“Taliban run-media have stopped showing images of living beings in some
Afghan provinces to comply with morality laws, an official confirmed Tuesday.
In August, the country’s Vice and Virtue Ministry published laws regulating
aspects of everyday life like public transportation, shaving, the media and
celebrations reflecting authorities’ interpretation of Islamic law, or Sharia.
Article 17 bans the publication of images of living beings, sparking concerns
about the consequences for Afghan media and press freedom. A spokesman for the
Vice and Virtue Ministry, Saif ul Islam Khyber, said government media in the
provinces of Takhar, Maidan Wardak and Kandahar have been advised not to air or
show images of anything with a soul — meaning people and animals. Khyber told
The Associated Press a day earlier that the ministry was responsible for
implementing the morality laws.”



Pakistan



Reuters: Islamist Militants Kill Four, Including Three Policemen, In Pakistan
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“Islamist militants stormed a northwestern Pakistani district police office
on Monday, killing three policemen and a civilian before police shot and killed
all five attackers. Provincial police chief Akhtar Hayat told Reuters that the
attack on the complex, which houses both the district police headquarters and a
residential complex, lasted for hours before all the five suicide bombers were
killed. The attackers killed three police officers and a civilian employed at
the complex, he said. The incident occurred in district Bannu, which borders
the restive North Waziristan tribal region on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
Islamist militant group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility
for the attack, a spokesperson for the group said. Bannu is about 350 km (217
miles) from Pakistan's capital Islamabad, which is under strict security
lockdown due to the arrival of Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Monday ahead of a
regional leaders' meeting this week.”



Associated Press: Pakistan Hosts A Major Security Meeting This Week As It
Struggles Against Rising Insurgent Violence
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“Pakistan is hosting a major security meeting this week, with senior leaders
from longtime ally China and archrival India among those attending. The
Shanghai Cooperation Organization was established in 2001 by China and Russia
to discuss security concerns in Central Asia and the wider region. But it’s
Pakistan’s own security that is under the microscope. An attack on a foreign
ambassadors’ convoy, violent protests by supporters of an imprisoned former
prime minister, and a bombing outside Pakistan’s biggest airport are signs the
country is struggling to contain multiplying threats from insurgents. The
meeting, which begins Tuesday in Islamabad, comes at a crucial time for the
government. Here’s why: Pakistan says it has foiled attacks through
intelligence-based operations and preventative measures. It frequently vows “to
root out terrorism.””



Lebanon



Associated Press: Israeli Strike In Northern Lebanon Kills At Least 21 People
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“An Israeli airstrike hit an apartment building in northern Lebanon on
Monday, killing at least 21 people, according to the Lebanese Red Cross. The
Israeli military did not immediately comment and the target was not clear. The
strike hit a small apartment building in the village of Aito, which is part of
the country’s Christian heartland in the north and far from the Hezbollah
militant group’s main areas of influence in the south and east. Rescue workers
in Aito searched through the rubble of the building as ambulances stood by to
receive the bodies of victims. Nearby buildings and cars were damaged in the
strike. The strike came a day after a Hezbollah drone attack on an army base in
northern Israel killed four soldiers — all of them 19 years old — and severely
wounded seven others in the deadliest strike by the militant group since Israel
launched its ground invasion of Lebanon nearly two weeks ago.”



Middle East



NBC: Parents Of Slain Hamas Captive Push For Deal, Warning Remaining Hostages
Won't 'Make It Much Longer'
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“The body of Israeli American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin was found “bullet
ridden and emaciated” in a 60-foot-deep tunnel, his grieving parents told NBC
News in their first interview since his death, warning that the scores of
hostages still in the Gaza Strip are “not going to make it much longer.” In a
wide-ranging and emotional interview in Jerusalem last week, they revealed the
squalid conditions in which their son was kept, their exasperation at the
failed diplomatic process and their fears of the war’s escalating further.
Goldberg-Polin’s parents, Jon Polin and Rachel Goldberg-Polin, said they felt
they had failed as their high-profile push for a cease-fire deal to bring their
son home from Hamas captivity fell on deaf ears. In the year since militants
abducted their son in video seen around the world, they have felt like “pawns
in chess,” his mother said, as world leaders failed to resolve the “surplus of
anguish, misery and suffering on both sides” of the Israel-Gaza border.”



Fox News: Israeli Forces Seize Documents That Reveal Hamas Plan For More
Elaborate Attacks: Report
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“Years before Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023 and started the latest
war in the region, the terror group plotted other assaults, including a scheme
to blow up a skyscraper in Tel Aviv while pressuring Iran to assist in its
battle against the Jewish state, according to documents found by Israeli forces
in the Gaza Strip, the Washington Post reported. The documents seized from
Hamas command centers uncovered planning for the attacks using trains, boats
and even horse-drawn chariots, according to the newspaper. The 59 pages of
documents include an illustrated presentation detailing possible options for an
attack as well as letters from Hamas to Iran’s top leaders in 2021 requesting
hundreds of millions of dollars in funding and training for 12,000 additional
Hamas fighters. "Hamas is so determined to wipe Israel and the Jewish people
off the map that it managed to drag Iran into direct conflict — under
conditions that Iran wasn’t prepared for," an Israeli security official who has
reviewed the letters and planning documents told the Post.”



Africa



Bloomberg: Africa Abandoned In Fight Against Terrorism, Senegal’s Sall Says
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“Former Senegalese President Macky Sall said Africa’s fight against terrorism
should be a global concern and the continent isn’t getting enough support in
its effort to combat the scourge. “Africa has been left to its own devices to
face the challenges of terrorism, whether in the Sahel region on the Horn of
Africa or even in southern Africa in Mozambique,” Sall said in an address to
the Future Resilience Forum, which aims to find solutions to security threats,
climate change and other global challenges, in London on Monday. “The advance
of terrorism on the continent isn’t just an African affair. It would be a
mistake to believe that it’s up to Africans to resolve this issue.” West
Africa’s Sahel region has emerged as a global terrorism hotspot, with
insurgents wreaking havoc and trying to seize power across a range of
countries. While Western powers, including the US and France, had contributed
troops and funding to try and help prop up elected governments, their presence
and influence has diminished since juntas seized power in nations including
Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso.”



Canada



PBS News: Canada And India Expel Each Other’s Diplomats As Dispute Over 2023
Assassination Escalates
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“Canada and India each expelled six diplomats Monday in tit-for-tat moves as
part of an escalating dispute over the June 2023 assassination of a Sikh
activist in Canada. A senior Canadian government official said that Canada was
expelling six Indian diplomats, including the high commissioner, after police
uncovered evidence of ongoing violent criminal activity linked to the Indian
government. Shortly afterward, the Indian foreign ministry said it was
expelling six Canadian diplomats, including the acting high commissioner and
the deputy high commissioner. It said in a statement that the diplomats were
told to leave India by the end of Saturday. The ministry had said earlier
Monday that India was withdrawing its diplomats, after rejecting Canada’s
diplomatic communication on Sunday that said the Indian ambassador was a
“person of interest” in the assassination.”



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