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Hamas Fires 5,000 Rockets Into Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.


Hamas says its political leader Ismail Haniyeh has been killed in an Israeli attack in the Iranian capital.
According to Iranian media, an air strike hit a building for war veterans in Tehran where Haniyeh was staying at around 02:00 (22:30 GMT).
Haniyeh, 62, was widely considered Hamas's overall leader and played a key role in negotiations aimed at reaching a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
Israel has not commented, but it has promised to destroy Hamas following the 7 October attack on southern Israel which killed 1,200 people.
On Wednesday, the Israeli government's press office posted a photo of Haniyeh on social media captioned with the word "eliminated", which it has subsequently deleted.
According to Hamas, Haniyeh was in Tehran to take part in the inauguration ceremony of the new Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, who was sworn in on Tuesday.
His death could now delay efforts to bring about a ceasefire in Gaza, as he was a critical interlocutor in the negotiations brokered by Qatar, the US and Egypt.

Several countries, including Iraq, Turkey, Russia and Qatar have condemned the attack. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the assassination was "something we were not aware of or involved in".

Hamas's armed wing said Haniyeh's death would "take the battle to new dimensions" and have major repercussions.

Iran's leader Ayatollah Khamenei has vowed "harsh punishment" against Israel, and has declared three days of national mourning.

Haniyeh’s death comes just a hours after Israel claimed it killed the top military commander of Hezbollah, a Lebanon-based group, also backed by Iran.

Israel said it killed Fuad Shukr in an air strike, in retaliation for a rocket attack in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights at the weekend.

Hezbollah has not yet confirmed that a senior commander was killed by an Israeli attack in Beirut on Tuesday, but has said Shukr was in a building which was targeted.

"Since the incident, the civil defence teams have been working to lift the rubble steadily, but slowly, due to the situation of the destroyed classes, and we are still waiting for the result," a statement released by the group on Wednesday said.

Israel's Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said the country was not seeking to escalate with Hezbollah, but was "prepared to handle all scenarios".

Haniyeh was a prominent member of Hamas in the late 1980s and was imprisoned by Israel for three years in 1989 as it cracked down on the first Palestinian uprising.

He was then exiled in 1992 to a no-man's-land between Israel and Lebanon, along with a number of Hamas leaders.

Haniyeh was appointed Palestinian prime minister in 2006 by President Mahmoud Abbas after Hamas won the most seats in national elections, but he was dismissed a year later after the group ousted Mr Abbas' Fatah party from the Gaza Strip in a week of deadly violence.

Haniyeh rejected his sacking as "unconstitutional", stressing that his government "would not abandon its national responsibilities towards the Palestinian people", and continued to rule in Gaza.

He was elected head of Hamas's political bureau in 2017.

In 2018, the US Department of State designated Haniyeh a terrorist. He had lived in Qatar for the past several years.

His official funeral will be held on Thursday in Tehran, with the burial taking place on Friday in Doha, Qatar, according to a senior Hamas official.

Following Hamas's attack on 7 October which killed 1,200 people, Israel responded with an ongoing military operation in the Gaza Strip which has killed at least 39,445 people, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.
 
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Superman said:

Hamas says its political leader Ismail Haniyeh has been killed in an Israeli attack in the Iranian capital.
According to Iranian media, an air strike hit a building for war veterans in Tehran where Haniyeh was staying at around 02:00 (22:30 GMT).
Haniyeh, 62, was widely considered Hamas's overall leader and played a key role in negotiations aimed at reaching a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
Israel has not commented, but it has promised to destroy Hamas following the 7 October attack on southern Israel which killed 1,200 people.
On Wednesday, the Israeli government's press office posted a photo of Haniyeh on social media captioned with the word "eliminated", which it has subsequently deleted.
According to Hamas, Haniyeh was in Tehran to take part in the inauguration ceremony of the new Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, who was sworn in on Tuesday.
His death could now delay efforts to bring about a ceasefire in Gaza, as he was a critical interlocutor in the negotiations brokered by Qatar, the US and Egypt.

Several countries, including Iraq, Turkey, Russia and Qatar have condemned the attack. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the assassination was "something we were not aware of or involved in".

Hamas's armed wing said Haniyeh's death would "take the battle to new dimensions" and have major repercussions.

Iran's leader Ayatollah Khamenei has vowed "harsh punishment" against Israel, and has declared three days of national mourning.

Haniyeh’s death comes just a hours after Israel claimed it killed the top military commander of Hezbollah, a Lebanon-based group, also backed by Iran.

Israel said it killed Fuad Shukr in an air strike, in retaliation for a rocket attack in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights at the weekend.

Hezbollah has not yet confirmed that a senior commander was killed by an Israeli attack in Beirut on Tuesday, but has said Shukr was in a building which was targeted.

"Since the incident, the civil defence teams have been working to lift the rubble steadily, but slowly, due to the situation of the destroyed classes, and we are still waiting for the result," a statement released by the group on Wednesday said.

Israel's Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said the country was not seeking to escalate with Hezbollah, but was "prepared to handle all scenarios".

Haniyeh was a prominent member of Hamas in the late 1980s and was imprisoned by Israel for three years in 1989 as it cracked down on the first Palestinian uprising.

He was then exiled in 1992 to a no-man's-land between Israel and Lebanon, along with a number of Hamas leaders.

Haniyeh was appointed Palestinian prime minister in 2006 by President Mahmoud Abbas after Hamas won the most seats in national elections, but he was dismissed a year later after the group ousted Mr Abbas' Fatah party from the Gaza Strip in a week of deadly violence.

Haniyeh rejected his sacking as "unconstitutional", stressing that his government "would not abandon its national responsibilities towards the Palestinian people", and continued to rule in Gaza.

He was elected head of Hamas's political bureau in 2017.

In 2018, the US Department of State designated Haniyeh a terrorist. He had lived in Qatar for the past several years.

His official funeral will be held on Thursday in Tehran, with the burial taking place on Friday in Doha, Qatar, according to a senior Hamas official.

Following Hamas's attack on 7 October which killed 1,200 people, Israel responded with an ongoing military operation in the Gaza Strip which has killed at least 39,445 people, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.
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FAFO.
 
JMM said:
They either have no air defense system or is it possible those strikes were launched from a satellite?
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I think that was Israel point where the launched their rebuttal to the strikes Iran did on them. Didn’t do much, but what it did do is show “we can crack your defenses,” and they did it again with a major hit
 
JMM said:
They either have no air defense system or is it possible those strikes were launched from a satellite?
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Can't get nothin' on the dial
The frigin' thing gone wild
All I get is the dumbed down news
New satellite blues
New satellite blues
New satellite blues
New satellite blues
New satellite blues
I got new satellite blues
New satellite blues
New satellite blues
New satellite blues
 
Lunar said:
Can't get nothin' on the dial
The frigin' thing gone wild
All I get is the dumbed down news
New satellite blues
New satellite blues
New satellite blues
New satellite blues
New satellite blues
I got new satellite blues
New satellite blues
New satellite blues
New satellite blues
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I was thinking something more Mel Brooksian

 
What does anyone expect after US funds proxy war in Ukraine after destroying the Nord Stream?

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.....
 
Buster said:
This **** is crazy and not getting the press it deserves. Good to see the good guys getting one over on the bad guys, but the fact that this whole plan can come to fruition is pretty scary. Lots of moving parts.
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They should have steered clear of the Apple Cherry Bomb 15. It does have a good camera though.
 
Buster said:
This **** is crazy and not getting the press it deserves. Good to see the good guys getting one over on the bad guys, but the fact that this whole plan can come to fruition is pretty scary. Lots of moving parts.
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Im just not sure how they knew all the pages / walkie talkies were going to the bad guys
 
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