Showing posts with label Abu Ali Express. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Abu Ali Express. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 02, 2022

This morning, at a checkpoint near Beit Horon, a Palestinian rammed an IDF soldier with a van, seriously injuring him. The terrorist then exited the vehicle with an axe and attempted to kill the soldier who was lying on the ground.The officer managed to shoot the terrorist, killing him.

Here is security camera footage of the incident:


The terrorist in this case was Habis Abdel Hafeez Youssef Rayan, who is 54 years old.

It is unusual for a man of that age to be directly involved in a terrorist attack. What could be his motivation, and will this be the start of a new wave of older male terrorists?

According to the Palestinian Shams news agency, two of Rayan's sons are members of Islamic Jihad from the town of Beit Dukko. One is Qusay Rayan, who is in Israeli prison, and Assem Rayan, who was released from prison.

I assume this is Assem with Habis.



Abu Ali Express notes that someone named Ra’ed Yosef Rayan, of Beit Dukko, has been on a hunger strike for administrative detention and that detention was just extended yesterday. It seems likely that Ra'ed is another relative of Habis, but it seems unlikely that he would go on a suicide attack for a nephew's detention extension when his own son has been in prison for longer.

When young Arab women attack soldiers at checkpoints, it is often discovered afterwards that they had faced some sort of humiliation - often caught in an illicit relationship - and their "martyrdom" is an attempt to end their shame. We will not learn it from Palestinian media, but it is possible that Habis Rayan was facing serious business problems or bankruptcy, and this is a surefire method to ensure a salary for his family for as long as the Palestinian Authority exists. 

One person isn't a trend, but we need to see if other older Palestinian men decide to follow Habis - especially since he is getting widely praised in Palestinian media as a heroic martyr.





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Thursday, September 01, 2022




The New Arab reports:
Lebanese ministers were filmed hurling rocks across the country's border with Israel during a visit to Lebanon's southern border on Tuesday.

A report broadcast by Lebanon's Al Jadeed TV showed Minister of Energy Walid Fayyad and Minister of Social Affairs Dr. Hector Hajjar throwing several rocks across the Blue Line, which marks the country's southern frontier with Israel.

The ministers were accompanied by several other members of Lebanon's cabinet.

Video of the event was widely shared - and widely mocked by Lebanese.


Abu Ali Express translated some of their comments:

1. "It's so sad... They are literally throwing my future away..."

2. "Before finding the time to throw stones, how about you work on providing me with electricity."

3. "[The ministers]  prevent us from ever progressing out of the Stone Age..."

4. "(Dear) Minister of Energy, you can't even turn on a light bulb, and you want to wipe Israel off the face of the earth by throwing a stone (at it)?"

5. "They took a group of idiots and made them ministers..."

6. "Echoes of explosions of laughter heard yesterday coming from the Israeli settlements..."

7. "How do you want us to have electricity when the "Minister of Darkness" is an idiot, and the "Minister of Diapers" is even more idiotic than him?

8. The Minister of Energy and the Minister of Social Affairs threw stones at Israel. One cannot guarantee an hour of electricity, and the other is responsible for having 80% of Lebanon below the poverty line.

Others say the Energy Minister is trying to cut off electricity to Israel since he has experience in that area, or that the ministers are bombing Lebanon with the newest missiles.

 




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Monday, August 08, 2022

The Hamas health ministry issued their list of 43 people killed over the weekend. Here is my preliminary analysis.

Bolded names are children.

1- Imad Abd al-Rahim Shallah, 50 Gaza.

With PIJ
2- Youssef Salman Qaddoum 24 Gaza.PIJ
3- Tayseer Mahmoud Al-Jabari, 50 Gaza City.PIJ
4- Salama Muharib Abed 41 Gaza.PIJ
5- Alaa Abdullah Qaddoum, 5 Gaza City.With PIJ
6- Donyana Adnan Attia Al-Amour 22 Gaza.Likely PIJ rocket
7- Mohamed Ahmed Abdel-Fattah Al-Madhoun, 26 Al-Nada Towers.PIJ
8- Fadl Mustafa Zorob 30 Khan Younis.PIJ
 9- Muhammad Hassan Al-Bayouk, 35, Khan Younis.PIJ
10- Ahmed Mazen Azzam, 25 Gaza Strip.PIJ
11- Tamim Ghassan Abdullah Hijazi, 23 Al-Zana.PIJ
12- Osama Abdul Rahman Al-Suri, 27, Bani Suhaila.PIJ
13- Hassan Mohamed Mansour, 26, Jabalia. PIJ
14- Naama Muhammad Abu Qaida 62 Jabalia.Likely PIJ rocket
15- Nour El-Din Ali Al-Zubaidi 19 JabaliaLikely PIJ rocket
16- Hazem Muhammad Salem 12 Jabalia.Jabalia rocket
17- Ahmad Muhammad Al-Nayrab 13 Jabalia.Jabalia rocket
18- Moamen Muhammad Al-Nairab 4 Jabalia.Jabalia rocket
19 - Khalil Iyad Abu Hamadeh, 19, Jabalia.Jabalia rocket
20- Ahmed Walid Al-Fram, 18 Jabalia.Jabalia rocket
21- Misbah al-Khatib 50 Jabalia agreed.Jabalia rocket
22- Muhammad Muhammad Ibrahim Zaqout 19 Jabalia.Jabalia rocket
23- Ziad Ahmed Al Mudallal, 36 Rafah.PIJ
24- Muhammad Iyad Hassouna, 14 Rafah.With PIJ in Rafah
25- Ismail Abdel Hamid Mohamed Salameh, 30 Rafah.With PIJ in Rafah
26- Hana Ismail Ali Salameh, 51, Rafah.With PIJ in Rafah
27- Rafat Saleh Ibrahim Al-Zamili, 45, Rafah.PIJ
28- Khaled Saeed Mansour 47 Rafah.With PIJ in Rafah
29- Alaa Saleh Al-Tahrawi, 30, Rafah.With PIJ in Rafah
30- Ahmad Muhammad Afana, 31, Jabalia.Hamas (but not target)
31- Dia Zuhair Al-Borai, 30 Jabalia.Likely PIJ rocket
32- Jamil Ehab Najm 15 Jabalia.Likely PIJ rocket
33- Jamil Najm Najm 6 Jabalia.Likely PIJ rocket
34- Nazmi Fayez Abu Karsh 16 Jabalia.Likely PIJ rocket
35- Hamed Haider Najm 17 Jabalia.Likely PIJ rocket
36-Mohamed Salah Negm 17 Jabalia.Likely PIJ rocket
37- Muhammad Yasser Nimr Al-Nabahin 13 Al-Bureij.With Hamas (son)
38- Ahmed Yasser Nimr Al Nabahin 9 Al-Bureij.With Hamas (son)
39- Dalia Yasser Nimr Al Nabaheen 13 Al Bureij.With Hamas (son)
40 - Yasser Nimr Mahmoud Al Nabahin 45 Al-Bureij.Hamas
41 - Khaled Ayman Yassin, 27 ZaytounUnknown
42- Shady Emad Nimr Kahil, 27 ZaytounUnknown
43- Abd al-Rahman Jum’ah al-Silk 19 al-Shuja’iyya.Unknown


We know seven people were killed by an errant Islamic Jihad rocket in Jabalia. There was another set of deaths, five children, in the Fallujah cemetery in Jabalia that look to be from an errant rocket as well based on photos of the damage. I am counting several other likely errant rockets based on the descriptions of their deaths in PCHR as being from "shrapnel" or, in some cases, in an "open field" where it would make no sense for the IDF to attack.
One Hamas member, Yasser Nabahin, seems to have been targeted by the IDF, and he was near his three sons who were also killed. I don't know if this was an accident or if he was actively fighting with Islamic Jihad. Hamas' obituary does not say he died while fighting, but if he went rogue, they wouldn't say that. 

Another Hamas member, Ahmad Afana, was apparently killed when a wall collapsed on him as he was trying to extricate people from a building, so he wasn't killed by Israel.

This would mean that the IDF killed 13 terrorists. There were 10 civilians killed as human shields or collateral damage. Islamic Jihad killed (or likely killed) 16 civilians with rocket fire that fell short. Three I do not yet know, and one was an accidental death. 

The Jerusalem Post quotes the IDF with somewhat different statistics, but a similar number of people killed by PIJ rockets:
The Palestinians, however, reported a total of 35 deaths out of which 26 were innocent bystanders. Of the 26, 11 were killed in Israeli airstrikes, and 15 were killed by Islamic Jihad rockets that failed to clear Gaza.
I don't know why they say 35 total when the Gaza authorities said 43. (Some reports say 44.)

Either way, Islamic Jihad killed far more civilians than Israel did. 

UPDATE: Here is a photo of the room where Donyana al-Amour (#6) was killed. The spray patterns on the walls (small shrapnel holes)  indicate it was a PIJ rocket.  (h/t Abu Ali Express)


UPDATE 2: Another child, Fatima Abeid, was killed by this rocket that fell on Beit Hanoun as can be seen in this video. (h/t Abu Ali Express)






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Wednesday, June 29, 2022


On Tuesday, Hamas' Al Qassam Brigades published a video showing Hisham al-Sayed, one of two Israeli men being held by the terror group in the Gaza Strip, hooked up to an oxygen mask.

Al-Sayed is a Bedouin with mental health problems - but Hamas insists that he is an Israeli soldier. 

Much of the anti-Israel Arabic media is happily parroting the claim, since it would look really bad for Hamas to have kidnapped a mentally ill Arab civilian whom their allies in the human rights community call "Palestinian."

According to Abu Ali Express, as soon as Hamas released this video Palestinians on social media started making fun of Hamas. They had been led to believe that Hamas had captured a Jewish Israeli soldier, and al-Sayed obviously is neither Jewish nor a soldier. They wondered about the timing of trying to pressure Israel to make a prisoner swap when the government is in limbo, they sarcastically asked whether he was on a hunger strike or whether his family could visit - showing the difference between Arabs in Israeli prisons and this Arab in Hamas custody.

Yet some are doubling down, still insisting that al-Sayed is a soldier. A Nablus academic is upset at the pushback, saying, "The cheap media underestimates the achievement of the Palestinian resistance and depicts it as murderous monsters who hold a mentally ill person for political purposes, even though the prisoner is a combat soldier!!"

One popular tweet reproduces his wallet showing a bus card for the Metropoline Public Transportation, claiming that the bus line really only transports soldiers and no ordinary Israeli citizen holds such a pass. (It isn't true.) 

Tellingly, Al Jazeera Arabic calls him a soldier as well. (I cannot find coverage of this in AJ English.)

Hamas' narrative falls apart when people see that they are holding an Arab hostage. 



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