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Dobropillya/Kucheriv Yar front, 22nd July. Large🇷🇺attack reported. Unclear if towards former, latter, to north, or multi axis. Tanks seen near Fedorivka, Mayak + Shakhove. 🇺🇦Border Guard Unmanned Systems Regt 'Phoenix' report 9 tanks, 2 AFVs, 3 Grads + dozens of troops destroyed.

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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦 A prominent Russian military commentator has sharply criticized Russia's command after a disastrous assault near Shakhove in Ukraine's Donetsk region reportedly ended in catastrophic losses. Russian imperialist commentator Maksim Kalashnikov accused commanders of sending elements of the 90th Tank Division, alongside troops from the 8th and 41st Combined Arms Armies, into battle without any protection against drone attacks. 🟥 "Another incompetent commander sent the 90th Tank Division's equipment, together with troops from the 8th and 41st Armies, into an assault without any protection from drones. Seven tanks were destroyed along with numerous other vehicles. More than a hundred men were killed. Eternal memory to the fallen." He added that such failures are inexcusable five years into the war, arguing that every commander should already understand the devastating impact of Ukraine's "drone wall." Kalashnikov warned that until those responsible are held accountable, similar massacres will continue. 🔻 According to the Russian source, the losses near Shakhove included: • 7 tanks • 6 armored vehicles/infantry fighting vehicles • 1 BM-21 Grad multiple launch rocket system • 1 Tornado-S multiple launch rocket system • 3 specialized military vehicles • 47 light military vehicles • 120 Russian troops killed, with many more wounded. The reported destruction highlights how battlefield dominance is increasingly being determined by drone warfare rather than traditional armored assaults. Repeated attempts to push large mechanized columns through areas saturated with reconnaissance and strike drones continue to produce devastating losses, underscoring the growing vulnerability of conventional armored tactics in modern high-intensity warfare. See the latest updates with us: Visioner

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The advance of two armies and a tank division of the Russian armed forces was repelled: forces of the First Corps Azov of the National Guard of Ukraine destroyed dozens of units of equipment and a large number of occupier personnel. On July 22, the occupiers, using forces of the 8th and 41st Armies along with the 90th Tank Division, attempted an assault in the sector held by the First Corps Azov of the National Guard of Ukraine, involving dozens of units of armored and light vehicles. The 41st Guards Combined Arms Army and the 90th Guards Vitebsk-Novgorod Tank Division of the Russian armed forces advanced from the area of the settlement of Novoekonomichne, while forces of the 8th Guards Combined Arms Army simultaneously advanced from the area of the village of Vozdvyzhenka. For four hours, they attempted to enter settlements in the area of the village of Shakhove. The enemy attempted to deny the sky to Ukrainian forces using "Gerbera" and "Lancet" strike drones. A modern Russian "Tornado-S" MLRS, which was being used to support the assault, was also destroyed. Forces of the First Corps Azov of the National Guard of Ukraine, together with attached units, blocked the path of the advancing mechanized columns. Mine-explosive obstacles were laid on the approaches to the positions of the Ukrainian Defense Forces, and bridges were damaged by tactical aviation. During the assault, the Russians attempted to restore the crossings using pontoons, but these were destroyed by tactical aviation of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). As a result of the professional actions of all units involved under the command of the First Corps Azov of the National Guard of Ukraine, using barrel artillery, multiple launch rocket systems, and attack drones, the following were destroyed: 7 tanks, 6 armored combat vehicles, 1 BM-21 "Grad" MLRS, 1 "Tornado-S" MLRS, 3 units of special equipment, and 47 units of light vehicles. 123 occupiers were eliminated, and 29 were wounded. The mechanized assault was repelled. We thank the units of the First Corps Azov of the National Guard of Ukraine, the SBU's "A" Special Operations Center, the Unmanned Systems Forces, the Air Force of the AFU, units of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, in particular the Main Department of Unmanned Aerial Systems "Fenix," units of the National Guard of Ukraine, and units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for their professional and courageous actions. Always ready to repel the enemy's assault through joint efforts!

First Corps Azov of the National Guard of Ukraine

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//The Wire//2300Z April 7, 2026// //ROUTINE// //BLUF: MAJOR ATTACKS REPORTED AT SAUDI CHEMICAL FACILITIES. AMERICAN/ISRAELI FORCES TARGET SOUTH PARS FACILITY IN IRAN. TERRORIST ATTACK REPORTED IN TURKEY. PRESIDENT TRUMP ANNOUNCES TWO-WEEK CEASEFIRE IN IRAN. ARSON ATTACK REPORTED AT WAREHOUSE IN CALIFORNIA.// -----BEGIN TEARLINE----- -International Events- Iran: This morning widespread targeting of railway bridges began in earnest, along with petrochemical facilities which have been persistently struck over the past few days. This morning the South Pars Gas processing facility was struck again, resulting in large fires throughout the facility. Saudi Arabia: Last night major Iranian strikes were reported at the Jubail Industrial Complex. Several fires were reported at the refinery itself, along with chemical production facilities to the southwest of the main facility. SABIC Chemical has indefinitely shut down all 26x manufacturing facilities within this industrial city as a result of the attacks. Analyst Comment: This attack was a big deal as SABIC Chemical is a major producer of ethylene, polyethylene, caustic soda, benzene, and many other petrochemicals necessary for the production of plastics. The Jubail Industrial City complex produces roughly 7% of all of the petrochemicals on planet Earth, and the majority of this industrial zone is still on fire. Bahrain: Vehicle traffic across the King Fahd bridge was suspended due to an expected counterattack from Iran, however after a few hours the bridge was re-opened. Sporadic closures of the bridge network have been reported over the past few days, usually in conjunction with drone sightings. Strait of Hormuz: The chokepoint remains closed to American-aligned vessels, which was demonstrated overnight by two LNG carriers which attempted to make the crossing before eventually turning back. Kuwait: Sentinel satellite imagery from this morning confirmed that American bases throughout the nation have continued to be targeted, with large structures at Camp Arifjan confirmed destroyed. UAE: Fires (which are not the normally observed gas flaring operations) continue burning at several major oil refinery complexes following substantial Iranian attacks a few days ago. Buhasa Oil Refinery, Asab Degassing Station, and the Habshan Gas Processing Complex were all targeted by Iranian drones and missiles, with all of these facilities remaining offline or degraded due to damage sustained. Persian Gulf: One merchant vessel was reportedly struck with an unknown munition in the vicinity of Kish Island this afternoon. Turkey: A terror attack was reported at the Israeli consulate in Istanbul, after three gunmen conducted a small arms attack at the facility. Two police officers were wounded after the assailants initiated the attack by firing into the guard shack outside the facility. Due to the heavy police presence already on site, the attackers were neutralized quickly, with two being killed immediately and the third being severely wounded. -HomeFront- California: This morning a warehouse fire was reported at the industrial sector of Ontario in San Bernadino County. The fire rapidly became a 6-alarm structure fire as the warehouse was mostly serving as storage for paper products, which resulted in the structure being a total loss. Local authorities have stated that this fire is being considered to be an act of arson, and one person was arrested at the scene in conjunction with the investigation. North Carolina: Details have come to light regarding two separate stabbing attacks that took place in Wilmington on Sunday morning. Authorities initially responded to a street fight on North Front Street, in the vicinity of bars and pubs which are normally host to social gatherings on the weekends. Shortly after the bars began to close around 2:00am, a street fight was reported, which resulted in a stabbing incident. A few moments later, a separate stabbing incident was also reported one block to the south, also on North Front Street. Analyst Comment: Videos of the attack are circulating on social media, which don't add much context other than indicating these events were very kinetic and graphic. What caused the initial fight is unknown, however several people were severely wounded as a result of the attack. -----END TEARLINE----- Analyst Comments: This morning President Trump continued to reiterate the American stance on the war in Iran specifically, clearly, and deliberately stating that "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again". Just a few moments ago, President Trump posted a statement on social media, indicating that a ceasefire is in place for the next two weeks. As this statement was just issued, how this is going to work out remains unclear. Considering the gravity of the statements that have been made over the past few days, the future remains uncertain. On the one hand, President Trump's statement alleging a ceasefire appears to be a de-escalation, but on the other hand the United States broke her own self-imposed moratorium on striking civilian targets several times over the past few days, so the world (but especially Lloyd's of London) are probably going to be hesitant to trust anything President Trump says. Concerning the tactical situation on the ground, President Trump's earlier post on social media is probably going to result in an entire culture fighting to the last man (if it comes to it) because they think that their adversary seeks to eradicate their existence entirely. Using the most poignantly apt example of Japan during WW2, when an adversary is pushed into a corner, bad things happen on all sides. The same thing is happening right now throughout Iran, regardless of what President Trump posts on social media. Whether the ceasefire will break tradition and actually remain in place is anyone's guess, considering that no one's rhetoric is entirely trustworthy at this point. Airstrikes already began earlier today targeting bridges and logistical infrastructure around the country, so unless the situation changes drastically airstrikes are likely to continue throughout the night regardless of what (if any) diplomatic efforts are made. Analyst: S2A1 Research: Disclaimer: No LLMs were used in the writing of this report. //END REPORT//

S2 Underground

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💢 REPORT | Israel Violating Ceasefire on Day One, Killing 3 Civilians and Pushing Into Villages in Lebanon In the first 24 hours after the U.S.-Iran deal was formally announced, Israel has repeatedly violated the U.S.-backed Lebanon ceasefire, killing civilians, shelling towns, and attempting ground incursions across south Lebanon despite the agreement’s stated clause of halting fighting “on all fronts, including Lebanon.” 🔸 The dead: ➤ Ismail Allam was killed in Yater (Bint Jbeil) in an explosion whose cause, whether an Israeli strike, unexploded ordnance, or another suspicious object, remains under investigation. L’Orient Today described him as the first person killed in Lebanon since the deal took effect overnight. ➤ An Israeli drone later struck a car at the Kfar Tibnit roundabout, killing a person whose body was reportedly left unrecognizable, according to L’Orient Today. ➤ Earlier, an Israeli drone dropped a stun grenade on civilians walking toward Mansouri (Sour), killing one person and wounding several others. 🔸 A journalist targeted: ➤ Press TV correspondent Hadi Hoteit was wounded in Kfar Tibnit after an Israeli drone dropped a grenade that exploded less than a meter from him while he was reporting. Speaking from the hospital, Hoteit said Israel had deliberately targeted him. Video appears to show deliberate targeting as well. ➤ Lebanon’s photojournalists’ syndicate later urged journalists not to rush back into frontline areas, warning that “nothing is guaranteed.” 🔸 Ground incursions and clashes: ➤ Hezbollah said it “repelled” an Israeli force, including an excavator and two Merkava tanks, advancing from Arnoun toward Kfar Tibnit at around 6:15 p.m., using guided missiles and Ababil attack drones. ➤ Drop Site sources in the south reported Israeli forces attempting to push into Bra’shit, with tanks audible and a massive explosion reported in the village. Israeli troops were also said to be positioned near homes on the outskirts toward Beit Yahoun and Kounine. ➤ Israeli soldiers advanced and carried out sweeping fire toward Bouyout al-Sayyed near a UNIFIL position in the Sour district 🔸 Shelling, drones, and blocked roads: ➤ Israeli artillery struck the Ali al-Taher hills and a road near Zawtar al-Sharqieh, while the army detonated a large explosive device in Aita al-Jabal and, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency and Drop Site sources, detonated car bombs on the Haris-Tibnin road. ➤ Quadcopter drones were reported “dropping bombs,” while roads around Haris, Kafra, Haddatha, and Tebnine were described as too dangerous to travel. The Lebanese Army closed multiple roads and warned displaced residents not to return to border villages. 🔸 The toll and the backdrop: ➤ Lebanon’s Health Ministry said Israeli attacks over the previous 24 hours killed 15 people and wounded 82, bringing the toll since March 2 to 3,798 killed and 11,781 wounded. ➤ Israeli leaders also made clear they do not consider themselves bound by the agreement. Netanyahu said the army would remain in Lebanon “as long as necessary” and, according to Israeli media, told Trump that Israel “does not consider itself bound by the Lebanon clause.” Defense Minister Israel Katz and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich likewise vowed to continue military operations, with Smotrich calling for the campaign in Lebanon to be intensified.

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//The Wire//2300Z March 27, 2026// //ROUTINE// //BLUF: GULF WAR CONTINUES AS SHIPPING COMPANIES MAKE DEALS WITH IRAN. WAR IN LEBANON REMAINS INTENSE AS IDF NEARS LITANI ON THE EASTERN FRONT. AIRSTRIKES REPORTED AT TWO IRANIAN URANIUM PRODUCTION FACILITIES.// -----BEGIN TEARLINE----- -International Events- Middle East: Offensive actions and targeting efforts by all sides were temporarily degraded last night as a major storm system descended on the region. A supercell storm system similar to a cyclone descended on the UAE last night, with severe flooding and high winds being reported throughout Dubai. After the weather cleared, major Iranian targeting efforts were reported throughout the region. Port facilitates were struck in Kuwait, and a large fire was observed at the parking apron used by American aircraft at Prince Sultan Airbase in Saudi Arabia, with the smoke plume being visible on Sentinel satellite imagery from this morning. Iran: This morning American/Israeli forces struck multiple nuclear production facilities. The Arak Heavy Water Facility (which was struck years ago) was struck again this morning, and the Yellowcake Refinery in Ardakan was also struck. Analyst Comment: The risk of radiological release at either facility is low, as Arak was not functional and Ardakan was not host to enriched Uranium itself. However, monitoring will continue as radioactive dust is likely to contaminate the local area to some degree, and time will tell how these threats develop as the strikes continue. Lebanon: Israeli forces continue their advance north toward the Litani River, as FPV drone attacks by Hezbollah become more significant. Two drone attacks on Israeli armored columns were reported last night, along the eastern axis of advance. Israeli forces along the eastern front have made the most progress toward the river, with IDF units being observed in the town of Taybeh this morning. Analyst Comment: Hezbollah's media group claims that a total of 21 Merkava tanks have been destroyed so far this campaign, however as always these numbers are usually overinflated. Concerning tank casualties, it's incredibly difficult to tell from a video clip if a vehicle was actually penetrated or not, and most of the clips provided by Hezbollah conveniently cut away before the tank's Trophy countermeasure system is activated. This means that counting destroyed/disabled tanks is mostly a wash. However, from the clips and reports on the ground, this is not an easy fight for the Israelis either. Anti-Tank Guided Missile attacks are a mainstay of Hezbollah, and these attacks have been effective in making the Israeli advance more costly than expected. -HomeFront- Iowa: Last night a major egg farm burned down in Corwith. The Hawkeye Pride egg production facility caught fire shortly after 6:00pm yesterday evening, which resulted in significant damage to the egg farm. Hawkeye Pride is one of the largest cage-free egg producers in the United States, and the extent of the damage to the henhouses has not yet been determined. California: Yesterday evening a blackout was reported in Orange County, mostly affecting the areas of Carlsbad and Encinitas, as well as areas south of Escondido. The cause of the electrical outage has not yet been reported, but services were mostly restored for many customers by sunrise. Florida: Following up on the recent IED threat to MacDill Air Force Base, two individuals have been identified as the culprits of the attack. Ann Mary Zheng and her brother Alen Zheng (both Chinese nationals) have been indicted on charges of emplacing the IED at the visitor's center on March 10th before it was discovered by authorities on March 16th. Mary Zheng was arrested on Wednesday after returning to the United States, while her brother remains in China. -----END TEARLINE----- Analyst Comments: Many nationstates have made their deals with the Iranians to allow their shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, however due to the complex nature of a war being undertaken throughout the region, it's still a tenuous journey for commercial companies. Cargo is beginning to flow to China, Japan, and India but the volume of shipping through the Strait remains severely below normal levels. Iranian targeting efforts have proven to be effective, and vessels are not transiting the Strait at all, without prior coordination with Iranian officials, which schedule vessels to transit to Larak Island for inspection, before continuing through the Strait. At the current rate, the handful of ships that make it through each day are not nearly enough to stop very serious things from happening. Complex systems are beginning to be impacted quite significantly now that the war in the Middle East (and the subsequent halt to maritime traffic throughout the region) has been going on for one month. Diesel rationing is well underway in some parts of Australia, and limited unrest has been reported throughout Southeast Asia as gasoline shortages spread throughout the region. Just as with the start of the war in Ukraine, it will probably take several more months for international markets and supply chains to settle in to some sort of reliability. However since this conflict involves a major maritime choke point, it's very likely that even though many nations are attempting to re-route supply chains as best they can, disruptions are likely to continue for a while. Analyst: S2A1 Research: Disclaimer: No LLMs were used in the writing of this report. //END REPORT//

S2 Underground

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🚨 OPERATIONAL UPDATE: ISRAEL U.S. WAR WITH THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC - Reporting Window: 3/9 - 3/10 • Hezbollah fighting intensifies around Khiam in southern Lebanon • Iranian cluster warhead missile kills one civilian in central Israel • Bahrain refinery strike triggers force majeure amid Gulf escalation • Oil briefly spikes toward $120 as Hormuz threats escalate The last 24 hours did not bring de-escalation. Instead they clarified the next phase of the war. Israel and the United States continue pressing deeper into Iran’s military infrastructure while Iran attempts to widen the battlefield through Hezbollah, Gulf energy pressure, and regional instability. The result is a war that may involve smaller missile salvos than the opening days, but is becoming broader, more economically strategic, and more dangerous regionally. Below is the operational picture. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✈️ STRATEGIC AIR CAMPAIGN OVER IRAN Israeli and U.S. strikes continued targeting military and strategic infrastructure inside Iran. Recent targets reportedly included: • missile infrastructure near Tehran • military aviation sites around Mehrabad Airport • IRGC logistical facilities • missile production and sustainment infrastructure Large explosions and fires were again reported near Tehran and around Mehrabad. But the most important shift is strategic, not tactical. The campaign increasingly appears aimed at preventing Iran from regenerating missile capability, not just destroying launchers currently in use. If the opening phase of the war was about suppressing immediate missile attacks, the current phase looks more like a systematic attempt to dismantle the infrastructure required for Iran to rebuild those forces. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚀 IRANIAN MISSILE ATTACKS ON ISRAEL Iran continued launching missiles toward Israel over the last 24 hours. However, the pattern of attacks continues to evolve. Recent observations indicate: • roughly 6–8 missile waves during the day • smaller salvos than earlier in the war • cluster munitions used to widen impact areas The most serious incident occurred when an Iranian cluster warhead missile struck central Israel, killing one person and injuring others. Cluster warheads disperse multiple submunitions over a wide area, meaning even a single missile can create several impact zones. Salvo trend: Early phase of the war • large coordinated barrages • dozens of missiles launched simultaneously Current phase • smaller groups of missiles • more frequent launch windows • cluster payloads increasing damage footprint This suggests Iran still retains strike capability, but the launcher network enabling large barrages is likely under increasing pressure. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚔️ THE LEBANON FRONT: KHIAM BECOMES A FLASHPOINT The most notable battlefield development of the last 24 hours came from southern Lebanon. Fighting around the border town of Khiam intensified, with Hezbollah claiming direct hits on multiple Israeli Merkava tanks during clashes. While battlefield claims remain contested in real time, the fighting represents closer-range contact than most of the cross-border exchanges seen earlier in the war. Israel also confirmed the death of a second soldier in Hezbollah fighting in southern Lebanon. At the same time, Israel continued strikes on Hezbollah command centers and the Al Qard al Hassan financial network, which is used to fund Hezbollah activity. Why this matters: This front is no longer limited to rockets and airstrikes. It is increasingly showing signs of direct tactical engagement. That makes Lebanon potentially the most dangerous front of the war right now. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌍 IRAN IS PUSHING THE WAR INTO THE GULF Iran continues attempting to export the war into the broader region. The most significant development was a drone strike on Bahrain’s Bapco refinery, which forced the facility to declare force majeure on shipments. The refinery disruption followed earlier damage to desalination infrastructure in Bahrain. At the same time: • drone and missile alerts continued in Saudi Arabia and the UAE • Gulf air defenses remained active across multiple states Iran has also issued explicit threats regarding oil exports and the Strait of Hormuz, declaring that if the war continues it could prevent oil shipments from leaving the region. This reflects a clear Iranian strategy: If Tehran cannot win militarily, it will attempt to raise the economic cost of the war globally. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📉 GLOBAL MARKETS REACT Energy markets responded immediately to the Gulf escalation. Oil prices briefly surged toward $120 per barrel, reflecting fears that attacks on Gulf infrastructure or shipping lanes could disrupt global energy supply. Even when prices later stabilized, markets made clear they now see the Iran war as a systemic energy risk, not just a regional conflict. That gives Tehran a potential leverage point. Iran’s leadership appears to believe that threatening global energy stability could pressure Western governments to push for a ceasefire. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🧭 THE WAR IS SPREADING ALONG THE PERIPHERY Beyond Iran and Israel, several additional fronts remain active. Recent developments include: • strikes on pro-Iranian militia positions in Iraq • tensions involving Kurdish regions near the Iran-Iraq border • diplomatic reactions following attacks on Gulf states The pattern increasingly resembles a regional pressure network, rather than a single bilateral war. Iran does not need every proxy front to win. It only needs enough instability across multiple fronts to complicate U.S. and Israeli strategy. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 WHAT MATTERS MOST RIGHT NOW Three developments define the war in the past 24 hours. 1️⃣ The Lebanon front may now be the most dangerous battlefield. The fighting around Khiam suggests Hezbollah is capable of imposing real tactical costs. 2️⃣ Iran is expanding the conflict through energy and Gulf instability. Strikes on refineries and desalination infrastructure show Tehran’s willingness to escalate economically. 3️⃣ The air campaign is shifting toward long-term denial of Iran’s missile capability. Israel and the U.S. appear increasingly focused on preventing Iran from rebuilding its strike infrastructure. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ END OF REPORT

Inside_Israel_Intel

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🚨 OPERATIONAL UPDATE: ISRAEL U.S. WAR WITH THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC Reporting Window: March 20, 2026 – March 22, 2026 (through 12:00 PM ET) • Mar 22, early morning (≈03:00–06:00 local / Mar 21, 8:00–11:00 PM ET): Iran launched ballistic missiles at Arad and Dimona, causing mass casualties and exposing a failed interception near one of Israel’s most sensitive strategic zones • Mar 21–22: The U.S. escalated Hormuz posture, with threats to strike Iranian power plants and active operations against Iranian maritime assets • Mar 21–22 overnight: Israel conducted another wide strike wave across Iran, hitting arms production, intelligence, and command infrastructure in Tehran and beyond • Mar 21–22: Lebanon intensified again, with Hezbollah rocket fire killing an Israeli civilian near Misgav Am and Israel expanding strikes and demolition operations south of the Litani • Mar 20–22: Gulf energy damage from Ras Laffan strikes was quantified, confirming long-term disruption to global LNG supply The last 48 hours were defined by a shift in both geography and escalation logic. The war is no longer moving in a single direction at a time. Southern Israel, the Gulf energy system, Tehran, and southern Lebanon all saw meaningful activity within the same window. At the same time, Washington moved from coalition pressure to direct deterrence language, while Israel continued to expand its strike envelope inside Iran. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚀 SOUTHERN ISRAEL: A NEW AXIS OPENED (MAR 22 EARLY HOURS) Mar 22, ~03:30 local time (Mar 21, ~8:30 PM ET): Iranian ballistic missiles struck Arad and Dimona, marking the most sensitive geographic shift of the war in this window. Reuters reported dozens wounded in both locations, including a direct hit on a residential building in Arad and additional injuries in Dimona. Israeli reporting placed total casualties in the 80+ range in Arad and dozens more in Dimona. The IDF confirmed at least one missile was not intercepted, and the failure is under investigation. This matters because: • Dimona sits near Israel’s nuclear research complex • This is the first major southern-axis strike of this scale in the war • It reflects longer-range Iranian missile capability being used in this phase Why this matters: Iran has now demonstrated it can pressure north, center, and south simultaneously, not sequentially. That changes the defensive problem for Israel. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ HORMUZ: FROM DETERRENCE TO ACTIVE ENGAGEMENT (MAR 21–22) Mar 21–22: The Hormuz front moved into a more explicit operational phase. Reuters reported that Trump threatened to strike Iranian power plants within 48 hours if Hormuz is not reopened. Iran responded by threatening retaliation against U.S. and Gulf infrastructure. At the same time, Israeli and U.S. reporting confirmed: • A-10 aircraft targeting Iranian fast-attack craft • Apache helicopters engaging one-way attack drones • CENTCOM releasing footage of direct strikes on Iranian naval assets Why this matters: This is no longer just a naval presence or escort mission. It is an active suppression campaign against Iran’s ability to disrupt the strait. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔥 IRAN: STRIKE CAMPAIGN REMAINS BROAD AND SYSTEMIC (MAR 21–22 OVERNIGHT) Mar 21–22 overnight (Tehran local time): Israel conducted another wide strike wave inside Iran. Times of Israel reported strikes on: • arms production facilities • intelligence headquarters • military command nodes in Tehran Additional reporting and open-source tracking showed: • activity in Parchin, Arak, Isfahan, and Kerman • maritime-linked targets including Bandar e Lengeh • continued pressure on internal regime infrastructure Israeli leadership also reiterated that Iran can no longer: • enrich uranium • build missiles at scale Why this matters: This is not a tactical cleanup phase. It is an ongoing effort to deny Iran’s ability to regenerate military capacity. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇱🇧 LEBANON: PARALLEL PRESSURE CONTINUES (MAR 21–22) Mar 21 evening – Mar 22 morning: The northern front remained active in both directions. Times of Israel reported: • Hezbollah rocket fire killing a civilian near Misgav Am • sustained fire into northern Israeli communities Reuters reported Israel responded by: • striking bridges over the Litani River • ordering accelerated demolition of frontline homes and crossings • expanding operations in southern Lebanon Open reporting also showed: • continued Israeli strikes in Beirut’s southern suburbs • Hezbollah maintaining intermittent fire despite losses Why this matters: Israel is moving beyond reactive strikes and attempting to reshape the southern Lebanon battlespace, while Hezbollah still retains the ability to impose cost. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🛢 GULF ENERGY WAR: DAMAGE IS NOW LONG-TERM (MAR 20–22) Mar 20–22: The Gulf energy story shifted from disruption to structural damage. Reuters reported that strikes on Qatar’s Ras Laffan LNG complex have: • taken 17% of Qatar’s LNG capacity offline • created a 3–5 year recovery timeline • disrupted supply chains across Europe and Asia Additional reporting and open-source tracking showed: • continued fires and damage assessments • warnings from Tehran that strikes will intensify if energy targets are hit Why this matters: This is now a durable global energy disruption, not a short-term market shock. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌍 GEOGRAPHIC EXPANSION: THE WAR IS NOW FULLY MULTI-AXIS Across this window, the war touched: • Southern Israel (Dimona / Arad) • Central Israel (cluster impacts) • Northern Israel (Hezbollah fire) • Tehran and central Iran (strike waves) • Hormuz (active U.S. engagement) • Gulf energy infrastructure (long-term damage) Additional reporting also noted: • missile activity toward Diego Garcia • effects spilling into Jordanian airspace Why this matters: The war is no longer shifting from front to front. It is now active across multiple fronts simultaneously. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 WHAT MATTERS MOST RIGHT NOW 1️⃣ Iran has expanded its strike geometry. Southern Israel is now fully in play alongside central and northern zones. 2️⃣ The Hormuz fight is now operational, not theoretical. The U.S. is actively targeting Iranian maritime and drone capabilities. 3️⃣ Israel is still widening the target set inside Iran. The campaign remains focused on long-term degradation, not short-term disruption. 4️⃣ The Gulf energy war has become structural. Ras Laffan damage confirms this is now a multi-year impact on global supply. Bottom line This reporting window shows a war that is becoming simultaneously broader and deeper. More fronts are active at once. More sensitive targets are being hit. And both sides are now operating in ways that suggest they are preparing for a longer and more complex phase, not a near-term resolution. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ END OF REPORT

Inside_Israel_Intel

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🚨 OPERATIONAL UPDATE: ISRAEL U.S. WAR WITH THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC Reporting Window: 3/22 to 3/23 • Iran fired additional cluster munition barrages into central Israel, with damage reported in Holon, Bat Yam, Or Yehuda, Safed, and the Jerusalem area, while another overnight launch triggered alerts in the Jerusalem corridor and south. • Israel widened its Lebanon campaign by destroying the Qasmiya bridge over the Litani and accelerating demolitions of homes and crossings in frontline villages. Reuters and AP both treated that as a major escalation. • Overnight strikes hit Tehran and a wider arc of Iranian military infrastructure, with your wire tracking blasts in east and northeast Tehran, Karaj, Yazd, Khorramabad, Bushehr, Bandar Abbas, and near Parchin, while the IDF publicly announced a broad wave of strikes on regime infrastructure in Tehran. • The Hormuz front remained the strategic center of gravity, but AP reported that Trump extended his deadline by five days rather than moving immediately to strike Iranian power plants. Iran simultaneously threatened Gulf power and water infrastructure if attacked. The last 24 hours were more concrete than conceptual. The most important story was not a new grand theory of the war. It was a set of specific events that showed how the conflict is now functioning day to day. Iran kept using cluster style ballistic attacks to create wider damage zones inside Israel. Israel moved from hitting Hezbollah targets to physically reshaping southern Lebanon. And inside Iran, the strike map widened again overnight with visible pressure on Tehran, missile infrastructure, coastal nodes, and internal security sites. At the same time, the anticipated U.S. move on Iranian power plants did not happen yet, which makes the immediate next window as important as the one just completed. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚀 IRANIAN MISSILE ATTACKS ON ISRAEL Iran continued missile launches into Israel, but the operational detail that matters is how these attacks are being configured. Times of Israel live coverage reported fresh damage in central Israel from cluster munitions or fragments, while Jerusalem Post live coverage tracked shrapnel and fragment strikes in central Israel and additional impacts farther north. Ynet also highlighted two lightly wounded in Bat Yam and a partly collapsed building in Holon from the same general wave pattern. That matters because the attacks are no longer just about how many missiles Iran can fire. They are about how much disruption each missile can create. A single cluster warhead can turn one penetration or one imperfect interception into several impact points. Your wire also tracked this in real time, including central Israel damage and a later overnight launch that sent alerts toward Jerusalem and the south. One specific point worth noting is that today’s Israeli home front story was not dominated by mass casualties. It was dominated by repeated local damage events, scattered fragments, and shelter disruptions. That makes the attacks feel smaller than earlier war barrages, but not less operationally relevant. They are being used to sustain pressure while Iran’s launcher network remains under strain. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇱🇧 LEBANON: ISRAEL MOVED FROM STRIKES TO TERRAIN DENIAL The biggest concrete change on the northern front was Israel’s continued move toward physical denial of Hezbollah movement rather than just attritional fire. Reuters reported that Israel struck the main bridge on the southern Lebanese coastal highway and ordered the destruction of homes near the border and bridges over the Litani River. AP reported the same bridge strike and framed Katz’s order to include all Litani crossings as a meaningful broadening of the target set. That means the Lebanon front is no longer just a story of rockets and retaliatory airstrikes. Israel is trying to reengineer the battlespace itself. Destroying crossings, flattening frontline structures, and reducing usable approach routes all point to the same objective: make it harder for Hezbollah to return south in meaningful strength even if the current phase of fighting slows. Reuters explicitly described Lebanese criticism that these measures look like pre invasion preparation and collective punishment. There was also an important corrective detail today. Times of Israel and Ynet both reported that the farmer killed near Misgav Am was not killed by Hezbollah fire after all, but by errant Israeli artillery shelling intended to support troops in southern Lebanon. That matters because it changes the factual record of one of yesterday’s most emotionally resonant northern incidents. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✈️ STRATEGIC AIR CAMPAIGN OVER IRAN Open source intelligence reported explosions and reported hits in east and northeast Tehran (shown in attached video), Hakimieh, Lavizan, Tehranpars, near the Parchin mountains, Karaj and Fardis, Khorramabad, Yazd, Bushehr, Bandar Abbas, and other sites. The IDF later publicly announced that it had launched a broad wave of strikes on regime infrastructure in Tehran. Mainstream coverage supported the broader pattern even where every individual site was not independently confirmed one by one. AP’s live coverage described explosions in Tehran and widening Israeli activity, while Times of Israel’s liveblog tracked the announced broad strike wave in Tehran. The strike set also appears to have remained mixed. This was not just about launchers. Open source reporting referenced possible targeted assassinations in Khorramabad and Tehran, missile site damage in Yazd, busier strike activity around coastal and port areas like Bandar Abbas and Bandar Deyr, and pressure near Parchin. Even where some of those claims remain open source rather than fully confirmed by Reuters or AP, the overall pattern is clear: the campaign remains broad, multi city, and focused on degrading the regime’s ability to keep fighting, not merely blunting the next launch. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌍 GULF FRONT: STRIKES, INTERCEPTIONS, AND INFRASTRUCTURE THREATS The Gulf front stayed active, but the most important part of today’s story was not one giant headline strike. It was the persistence of Iranian pressure and the hardening response from Gulf states. AP reported that Iran threatened to mine the Persian Gulf and target regional energy infrastructure as Trump’s deadline neared. Reuters reported that Iran threatened to hit Gulf power plants and the systems powering U.S. bases if Iranian power infrastructure were attacked. Open source intel tracked the practical side of that pressure in real time. It logged interceptions and alerts in Bahrain, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia, including reported UAV interceptions in eastern Saudi Arabia, missile and drone interceptions by the UAE, and multiple reports of explosions or sirens in Bahrain. Those details are useful because they show the Gulf story is still not abstract diplomatic signaling. Air defenses are still being used. Another development worth mentioning is market stress. Reuters’ earlier energy reporting remains relevant here because Gulf attacks have already damaged major oil and gas facilities in several states, and the International Energy Agency chief warned that the current situation is worse than the oil crises of the 1970s. Your wire separately tracked comments from Fatih Birol about reserve releases and Hormuz as the key pressure point. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ HORMUZ: THE BIG DECISION DID NOT HAPPEN YET This was probably the single most important strategic update of the day. The expected U.S. strike on Iranian power plants did not occur in this reporting window. Instead, AP reported that Trump extended the deadline by five days, temporarily holding off on those strikes. That is a real development, because it changes the immediate pacing of the war and means the next reporting window matters more than expected. That does not mean the Hormuz crisis eased. Quite the opposite. Reuters reported that Iran threatened retaliation against Gulf power and water infrastructure and warned it could mine all Gulf shipping lanes if attacked. AP similarly reported threats against electrical plants and broader Gulf systems. So the practical reality is that the strategic center of gravity remains Hormuz, but the execution timeline shifted. This also helps explain why this report feels operationally busy but strategically suspended. Lots happened. But the one action that could have forced a dramatic phase change was deferred. That makes the present moment feel less like de escalation and more like a pause before a possible infrastructure war phase. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 WHAT MATTERS MOST RIGHT NOW First, today’s report is really about concrete battlefield mechanics, not broad narrative drift. Iran kept using cluster style missile attacks to widen disruption inside Israel even without restoring early war salvo size. Second, Israel’s Lebanon campaign moved another step away from reactive fire and toward deliberate terrain denial. The destruction of the Qasmiya bridge and orders to strike Litani crossings are specific, visible evidence of that shift. Third, the Tehran centered air campaign remained expansive and geographically wide overnight, and open source reporting was useful here in showing how broad the strike footprint was beyond the handful of locations that got top billing in mainstream coverage. Fourth, the most dramatic expected U.S. move did not happen yet. Trump extended the deadline, which means the next 24 hours are now more consequential than the last ones. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ END OF REPORT

Inside_Israel_Intel

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This is probably one of the best known segments of gun camera footage depicting a B-17 interception and has been featured in countless documentaries, but the raw footage is worth examining in detail in its entirety. 0:00 As the Bf 110 pilot fires an initial burst, ineffective due to insufficient deflection, puffs smoke can be seen coming from the bomber's ventral ball and tail turrets as the gunners return fire. This fails to dissuade the attacking pilot who continues to approach his target. In the distance the main bomber formation can be seen. The combat box was no doubt an effective tactic in terms of maximizing firepower and protection, and there was a significant effort made to break up these formations, such as for example using Werfer-Granate 21 rockets. The Luftwaffe used a system of points to award decorations on the Western Front detailed below and it's worth noting that the "Herausschuss" - for example damaging a B-17 sufficiently that it would separate from the formation - is given the same value and shooting down a single-engined fighter, this gives some idea of its importance and what a challenge it was considered to be. Downing a four-engined bomber already separated from the formation was less laudable than separating it in the first place as can be seen below: - Abschuss (Destroyed) Single-engined plane destroyed: 1 point Twin-engined plane destroyed: 2 points Three-engined plane destroyed: 3 points Four-engined plane destroyed: 3 points - Herausschuss (Separation) Twin-engined plane damaged: 1 point Three- or four-engined plane damaged: 2 points - Endgueltige (Final Destruction) Final destruction of a damaged twin-engined plane: 0.5 point Final destruction of a damaged four-engined plane: 1 point For some reason, perhaps due to previous damage or mechanical trouble, this particular B-17 was unable to keep up with the rest of the squadron and has therefore found itself singled out for attack. Even as the footage starts there appears to be some damage around the top of the vertical stabilizer. 0:22 As the Bf 110 settles on the B-17's 6 o'clock, the tail gunner continues to return fire with no apparent effect. The attacking pilot also pulls the trigger and starts landing concentrated hits on the B-17 with debris flying off. This illustrates the mechanism by which the German high capacity "Minengeschoss" shells were effective. Unlike armor piercing incendiary projectiles that needed to strike critical components like engines, fuel tanks and crew members in order to being an aircraft down, these explosive shells would detonate within a few inches of penetrating the aircraft skin and blow off parts of the aircraft structure itself, either making it unflyable or tearing open fuel tanks beyond what self-sealing systems could protect against. Judging by the footage the shells are from 20mm cannon, with the high explosive rounds each containing almost 20 grams of high explosive. At the 30 second mark a shell impacts the wing outboard of the #4 engine and the size of the hole made by this single impact is clearly visible. There is a good number of strikes landing around the tail gun position but it still appears to fire briefly, then falls silent after a couple of further cannon shell impacts by about the 40 second mark. 0:53 The ventral ball turret starts to rotate with the guns pointing straight down as another burst of cannon fire hits the aircraft in the #3 engine nacelle and wing root. This is the position the ball turret would need to be in for the gunner to exit his post and enter the fuselage. It is possible that he was preparing to bail out. At the one minute mark a shell impacts the ball turret directly and blows off a panel. A small fire has also started in the trailing edge of the port wing. 1:08 Now at point blank range, the Bf 110 pilot continues to rake the bomber with cannon shells, walking his fire across the fuselage and port wing. The bombers engines appear to continue functioning and from this angle the shells would be detonating in the aircraft structure well before reaching them. As the Bf 110 closes in the damage to the B-17 becomes more apparent. The rear fuselage and starboard wing are riddled with holes and the starboard horizontal stabilizer is in tatters. The tail gunner's bullet resistant window appears to have been shattered by a direct hit. The port waist gun hangs upwards as it would if no one was holding it, although there does appear to be some movement on the starboard gun. With the attacking fighter having been able to approach to bomber at such close range with impunity, it is clear that the gunners are either dead or incapacitated. It's also worth nothing that the Bf 110's rear gunner would have been equipped with a MG 81 Z twin-barreled 7.92mm machine gun with a rate of fire of over 50 rounds per second, and he would doubtless have taken the opportunity to add to the B-17 crew's misery as his aircraft overtook the bomber. Unfortunately the exact date and location and therefore the identity of the crew involved appears to have been lost to history, but this remains one of the most harrowing gun camera clips ever filmed and a poignant illustration of the horrors young men faced in the skies over Europe during the Second World War.

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🇪🇸|#Spain | This is not a migration crisis. It is a multi-front war orchestrated by the Mossad and the CIA and executed by Morocco against a nation that refuses to become an imperial vassal. This is not a wave of migration, it is a carefully orchestrated geopolitical attack. The people flooding the Ceuta border are not refugees; they are being used as human battering rams to punish a government that refused to bow to Washington. When Spain refused to serve as a launchpad for the U.S. war on Iran, Washington, Tel Aviv, and Rabat joined forces to weaponize the North African border. 🎯 The Real Target is Spain not Migrants On July 30, 2026, thousands of migrants predominantly young men flooded into Ceuta, Spain’s enclave in North Africa. Between 1,500 and 2,000 migrants arrived in just a few days, representing roughly 2% of Ceuta’s population. At least nine people died while attempting to swim across. But why now? Why Ceuta? Because Spain said "No." Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez refused to allow the U.S. to use two military bases in southern Spain; #Morón and #Rota to attack #Iran. Spain also refused to let ships carrying weapons to Israel dock at its ports. Spain recalled its ambassador to Israel. Spain recognized the State of Palestine. In short, Spain refused to act as a submissive puppet of the empire. The punishment - Morocco opened the floodgates. 🗺️ Who Opened the Floodgates? An Invisible Hand at Work The same thing happened in 2021. At that time, Morocco retaliated against Spain by relaxing border controls, allowing about 8,000 people to pour into Ceuta. Now, the script is playing out again but on a larger scale and with more sophisticated tools. On the Moroccan side, the auxiliary forces responsible for border security voluntarily withdrew as the crowds passed through. This was coordination not loss of control. And the timing is no coincidence too. Spain is approaching an election. A migration crisis is the perfect weapon to undermine the incumbent government, a classic tactic of the Mossad and the CIA. 🔪 The Bigger Game is the Struggle for the Strait of Gibraltar This migration crisis is merely one move in a much larger game. The real prize is the Strait of Gibraltar, a chokepoint through which approximately 10% of global maritime trade and around 100,000 vessels pass annually. In January 2026, Israel and Morocco signed a joint military action plan. Israel now supplies at least 51% of Morocco's missiles. With Israeli support, Morocco is massively expanding its drone production; it has deployed the Israeli "Spyder" air defense system and is locally manufacturing the Israeli SpyX loitering munition (kamikaze drone). A joint maritime surveillance center is currently being established on Morocco's northern coast. A U.S. report identifies the Israel-Morocco arms deal as a turning point in the balance of power within the Strait of Gibraltar. Morocco even proposed to Trump that the U.S. bases at Morón and Rota be relocated from Spain to Morocco. A Spanish general admitted: "Morón Air Base will sooner or later be moved to Morocco." Washington, Tel Aviv, and Rabat are acting in concert to push Spain out of the Strait of Gibraltar and replace it with a compliant Morocco. 💀 The "Multinational Force" in Gaza: Morocco's Ultimate Role Meanwhile, Morocco is emerging as a key implementer of Israel's post-war plans for Gaza. For the first time, Morocco will host training exercises for a multinational force expected to number around 20,000 troops. Approximately 30 Moroccan military officers have already entered Gaza to conduct on-the-ground reconnaissance. Morocco is expected to deploy around 500 soldiers to Gaza. Israeli officials now describe Morocco as Israel's most important security partner on the African continent. A nation that uses "support for Palestine" as its diplomatic calling card is now becoming an instrument of military enforcement for Israeli control over Gaza. ⚡ The Complete Chain of the Plot Here is the full picture: 1. Spain says "No": Refusing U.S. bases, Israeli arms shipments, and unconditional support for Israel. 2. Morocco opens the floodgates: Thousands of migrants pour into Ceuta, creating a crisis to punish Spain. 3. Israel supplies weapons: Missiles, drones, and air defense systems transforming Morocco into a regional military power. 4. The US provides cover: Washington supports Israel-Morocco military cooperation and tacitly condones the weaponization of migration. 5. The Strait of Gibraltar is the prize: a strategic waterway controlling 10% of global maritime trade. 6. Gaza is the ultimate goal: Morocco playing a "peacekeeping" role in Israeli-occupied Gaza.

Aprajita Nafs Nefes 🦋 Ancient Believer

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THE TRUTH ABOUT OCTOBER 7TH: Reports confirm that Netanyahu, the Mossad and the IDF deliberately allowed the October 7th attack by Hamas to take place. They knew one year in advance of the attack and did nothing to stop it. They deliberately stood down during the attack allowing many more innocent Israelis to be slaughtered in order to get domestic and international support for war in Gaza and Iran. HOW DID OCTOBER 7TH HAPPEN? On October 7th, Hamas was able to carry out its shocking terror attack against Israel, despite Israel’s intelligence, military and security apparatus commonly considered the best in the world. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu himself tweeted and quickly deleted a statement denying any foreknowledge of the October 7th attack. “Under no circumstances and at no stage was Prime Minister Netanyahu warned of war intentions on the part of Hamas" the tweet said, before it was promptly deleted. Why did Netanyahu’s team delete that tweet? Because in fact he did have intelligence that there would be an attack by Hamas and tried to hide this from the world. Foreign security services, Israeli security services and the Israeli public all knew that Hamas was planning a violent, cross-border incursion where they would attempt to over-run and attack the kibbutz communities in southern Israel and take prisoners back to Gaza. And they also knew when. But it happened anyway. Why? Ten days before the attack, and then again three days before the attack, Egypt intelligence officials passed “repeated warnings” to the highest levels of Israel’s government. In one of these warnings, Egypts premiere intelligence minister General Abbas Kamel personally called Netanyahu and warned that Hamas was about to do “something unusual, a terrible operation.” Unnamed Egyptian officials told YNET News that they were shocked by Netanyahu’s “indifference to the news.” But Israel didn’t have to trust or believe Egypt, because actually, most of the warnings of the October 7th attack came from Israeli civilians and the Israeli military itself. The civilians and soldiers who brought these emergency warnings to the military were ignored and in some cases, strangely enough, threatened with legal action. In 2022, the IDF, through confidential sources, or spies, in Gaza, actually obtained the detailed Hamas Al Aqsa Flood attack plans. Codenamed “Jericho Wall” by Israel, the excursion plan called for a barrage of rockets to begin the attack and for gunmen to pour into Israel en masse via para-gliders, on motorcycles and on foot and take hostages back into Gaza, all of which happened on October 7th. Hamas followed the blueprint that Israel already had with shocking precision. So Israel had the attack blueprints, but were they taken seriously by the IDF? Yes, the plans were diligently studied. A presentation on the planned attack was given to senior officers in the IDF’S Gaza division. The presentation concluded with this sentence: “This invasion constitutes the gravest threat that IDF forces are facing in the defense of Israel” So in response to this, did Israel’s security establishment beef up and enhance their surveillance of Hamas militants on the other side of the border? No, stunningly, they actually did the exact opposite. They decided to entirely stop monitoring Hamas’s handheld radio traffic. Because they saw it “as a waste of effort” even though during that same time in 2022, Israelis living in the kibbutz communities near the Gaza border, most of whom have some type of military training due to Israel’s mandatory IDF service laws, were, according to Israeli media, picking up clear evidence that Hamas was “practicing the breaching of the fence and conquering kibbutzim and seizing hostages and destroying everything in their path.” Then, In April 2023, 6 months before the attack, again according to Israeli media, the IDF “restricted the ability” of Israelis living near the border “to monitor Hamas’ wireless traffic.” In September 2023, less than a month before the attack, the head of the IDF’s “Devil’s Advocate” intelligence unit, which challenges prevailing narratives within Israel’s military, twice alerted senior decision-makers in both the army and political spheres about Hamas’ plans for a large-scale cross-border military operation. He reiterated these warnings in person at Intelligence Branch strategic assessment sessions on September 26th and 27th. Just days before the attack. So it was clear to everyone that Hamas wasn’t only planning to do something horrible, but it was also clear what that horrible and evil thing was. According to a female IDF soldier who spoke to Israel’s channel 12 news program, she was constantly trying to warn her superiors about the gravity of Hamas training exercises. She was threatened with legal action. “We were told that if we continue to harass on this issue, you will stand trial.” So, Egypt knew, the Israeli military knew, and the Israeli civilians knew. Yet, two days before October 7th, the Israeli military took two entire commando brigades, or around 100 soldiers, away from the the soon to be breached locations of the Gaza border and sent them to the other side of the country, to the West Bank village of Huwara despite no Hamas presence being in Huwara and despite there being giant Israeli dance parties taking place right along the same border fence where violent, escalating and obvious Hamas drills of breaching and kidnapping were taking place. According to Israeli media reports, Lt. Col. Sahar Fogel, an operations officer at the IDF’s Gaza Division, opposed the approval of the Nova Party based on the last minute nature of its event application and the intensifying Hamas drills at the border and because if something were to happen, more soldiers were on holiday. It was the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. The Lt. Col. explained his opposition to the party’s approval to his superiors. He was instructed to allow the event. Israeli Newspaper Haaretz reported that other Gaza division officers privately “told of irregular conduct and pressure surrounding the approval of the party.” In February 2024, Elkana Federman, the head of security for the Nova festival gave an interview to Israel’s Channel 14 where he made a statement that hasn’t been reported on by any American media. “I had a guard at the festival who had served in the Re’im Division [near Gaza border], and a week before the festival he sent me a voice message, basically warning me, saying, ‘Elkana, something is going to happen over Sukkot. I just wanted to let you know, there are a lot of warnings, I passed the voice message on to local IDF officials and they told me everything was all right.” The Hamas attacks were violent and brutal. They have been likened to tragic events such as September 11th and the Holocaust, so it comes as a surprise that Benjamin Netanyahu and members of his Likud party have at times described the attacks as somewhat of a political gift. Nissim Vaturi, a member of Netanyahu’s Likud party in the Knesset, referred to the attack as sort of gift from God because they are being used to justify the current ongoing war, stating: “We were meant to fight this war against Hamas, as is happening now, and luckily for us it came from the heavens.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu explained that Israel didn’t have domestic or international support to invade or destroy Gaza. He said the October 7th Hamas attack solved both of those problems for him, stating “We couldn’t get the domestic consensus to make a definitive solution to the problem of Hamas. That is, no one would agree across the Israeli public to go in and basically destroy Hamas, go throughout Gaza and destroy Hamas. We didn’t have the international consensus either; nobody would understand why we are doing it. Both conditions were created because of the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7th.” Did the Israeli military, the Israeli intelligence community, and the political leadership of Israel allow this ghastly attack to happen to justify wiping out the population of Gaza? The evidence proves, yes. WHERE WAS THE IDF? During the October 7th attacks what did the Israeli military do? For hours they did nothing, it was a deliberate military stand down order. It's important to remember that Israel is just slightly bigger than the size of the state of New Jersey. But for some reason, once the Hamas attacks began, the time it took the Israeli army and rescue teams to arrive, fight and rescue Israelis at the different kibbutz communities and sites being attacked took anywhere from 4 hours to more than 20 hours. The New York Times has reported: “Thousands of soldiers were less than 40 minutes from the towns that were under attack.” A video that Israeli media obtained from an army helicopter, corroborated by Israeli survivors, prove that there were more than 500 Israeli soldiers directly outside of the Kibbutz entrance, fully armed, with Humvees and tanks but it took 10 hours for those soldiers to show up. Avital, a survivor of the Be’eri attack, described to Haaretz: “500 soldiers stood outside, with equipment and vehicles. I remember yelling at them, ‘We’re being slaughtered, come in, save us and no one said anything.” So why did it take so long for help to arrive? Haaretz reported: “At 7 A.M., the party organizers called Lt. Col. Elad Zandani, the man tasked with approving the festival and told him that terrorists were shooting the partygoers. He suggested that they fend for themselves. The first IDF forces arrived at the party scene at 3 P.M., that’s an 8 hour response time for one of the most efficient, capable and well militarized security forces in the world operating in a country the size of New Jersey with their Gaza division only a few miles away. And what makes this even more strange? Around 4 hours into the Hamas assault, at 10:46AM, Israel was already launching operations and bombing targets inside of Gaza. So, if Israel could begin an offensive attack into Gaza within 4 hours, why did it take more than 6 hours and in most cases more than 10 hours and even 20 hours in some cases to mobilize inside of their own country to stop the ongoing attack and to defend the lives of their own people? The New York Times quoted Ben Zion, an Israeli military reservist who spoke to Israeli media. He said his unit voluntarily left central Israel in a convoy at 1:30PM, they got together and left for the south on their own. He expected to see the roads packed with soldiers and equipment and armored vehicles heading south. “The roads were empty!” he recalled in an interview. Roughly seven hours into the fighting, he turned to the reservist next to him and asked: “Where’s the IDF?” The brutal and deadly Hamas terrorist attack of October 7th is so central to justifying Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza that Israel is actually outlawing questioning the October 7th government narrative. Israelis who spread information counter to the October 7th government narrative, which the Israeli Knesset calls “falsehoods and propaganda” could face up to 5 years in prison. Between the abundance of concrete evidence that suggests Israeli military allowed October 7th to happen by ignoring dozens of reliable and specific warnings, threatening soldiers with legal actions who tried to warn their military superiors and taking troops away from the area of the Gaza border that was attacked and now evidence that suggests there was some type of military stand down order in place on October 7th, it is important to ask, what was October 7th and what kind of war is the United States supporting? WHAT IS THE HANNIBAL DIRECTIVE? Images and videos of burnt cars, blacked and charred bodies and incinerated homes in southern Israel were plastered on every phone screen and television after the October 7th Hamas attack. The images and videos were used by the Israeli government to justify the military’s heavy handed tactics in their ongoing war against Hamas, But were all the images and videos actually the result of the Hamas attack? Innocent Israeli civilians were brutally killed by Hamas on October 7th, but there is evidence that proves the IDF killed their own Israeli citizens in what is known as the Hannibal Directive. To understand what the Israeli military did to their own civilians on October 7th, you have to understand the political aspirations of Hamas and what the goal of taking hostages is, it is political leverage. There are over 10,000 Palestinians in Israeli jails. 3,000 of whom haven’t been to trial or charged with a crime. When militant groups manage to capture Israeli civilians or soldiers it gives them leverage to force a prisoner swap and get some of their people out of Israeli prison. For example, in 1986, Hamas managed to kidnap 3 Israeli soldiers and bring them to Gaza. They demanded 1,150 Palestinian prisoners in return for these soldiers. After this, the military drafted a secret field order to prevent future kidnappings. It was called the "Hannibal Directive." The directive gets its name from the Carthaginian general who chose to poison himself rather than allow himself to be captured alive by the romans. In 2003, strangely enough on October 7th 2003, three Israeli soldiers were taken hostage and brought into Lebanon. Following the activation of the Hannibal Directive, IDF attack helicopters fired indiscriminately on 26 vehicles thus ensuring the death of their own soldiers and therefore robbing Lebanese militants of the ability to demand Israel make concessions. The Last known application of the Hannibal Directive was in 2014. In Rafah. Hamas fighters managed to capture an Israeli soldier, Lt. Hadar Goldin. Instead of allowing the lieutenant to be used as leverage by Hamas, the military killed him. Dropping bombs, missiles and shells on the area he was being held, killing the soldier and also over 100 Palestinian civilians. The scale of the Hannibal Directive on October 7th was entirely different from those of the past. A retired Israeli air force general, Nof Erez, described it during a podcast with Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper saying “The Hannibal Directive was apparently applied at a certain stage, because at the moment they understand there is a kidnapping, they immediately say, ‘Guys, this is Hannibal.’ But the Hannibal we trained for all of the last twenty years, is for a vehicle we know at what point of the fence it enters, on what side it drives, and maybe even on which road it drives. This was a Mass Hannibal.” We know the Hannibal Directive means to kill your own, so what does “mass Hannibal” mean? A large mainstream Israeli media outlet reported: “In the week after Black Shabbat, October 7th, soldiers of elite units, at the initiative of the Southern Command, checked about 70 vehicles that remained in the area between the Otaf settlements and the Gaza Strip. These are vehicles that did not reach Gaza, because on the way they were shot by a combat helicopter, an anti-tank missile or a tank, and at least in some cases everyone in the vehicle was killed.” 70 vehicles and in some cases, everyone in the vehicle was killed. These are Israelis killed by Israel. Again, only reported on in the Israeli media. Tuval Escapa, is a member of the security team for Kibbutz Be’eri. He set up a hotline so kibbutz residents could communicate with the Israeli army. He told Haaretz that “the commanders in the field made difficult decisions, including shelling houses on their occupants” in order to eliminate would-be hostages as well the terrorists. They shelled entire houses. Do we hear this in the American mainstream media? That the Israeli military targeted and destroyed over 70 cars with hellfire missiles that were filled with Israelis and that they decimated entire Israeli homes with tank shells? A report in Haaretz on October 20th notes that the Israeli military also carried out an airstrike on their own military base, the Erez crossing. That base was filled with Israeli Civil Administration officers and soldiers at the time. An Israeli woman named Yasmin Porat gave an interview with Israel Radio that the military “undoubtedly” killed numerous Israeli hostages during gun battles with Hamas militants. IDF General Barak Hiram, prevented hundreds of troops from entering Kibbutz Be’eri for hours on October 7th, when he finally allowed the IDF to go in, he ordered tanks to fire on multiple homes. The tank shells killed at least 12 Israeli hostages and 3 children. Recently the UN published an investigation confirming several of these facts, namely, that the IDF had in fact activated the Hannibal Directive on October 7th stating “The Commission is aware of allegations that Israeli Special Forces used the “Hannibal Directive” to prevent the capture of Israeli civilians and their transfer to Gaza, even at the cost of killing them" The Commission documented one statement by an ISF tank crew, confirming that the crew had applied the Hannibal Directive. The Israeli military, Israeli civilians and the United Nations all admit to the IDF purposely killing their own on October 7th. How many? It’s hard to know the exact number, but the imagery of charred bodies and incinerated cars and homes are still being used to this day to manufacture consent and support for Israel’s ongoing assault of the Gaza Strip, where more than 47,000 Palestinians have been killed including 15,000 innocent children. ISRAEL'S FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR HAMAS: Israel and Netanyahu helped funnel over $1 Billion dollars to Hamas in order to keep Palestine from being recognized as a State. It was Netanyahu and Israel who helped create Hamas thinking that they could control them and would be able to use Hamas as an excuse for their continued military operations and occupation in Gaza. ISRAEL'S SECRET NUCLEAR WEAPONS: The front lines of the war between Israel and Hamas are expanding and moving beyond Gaza. Yemen’s Houthis intensified their involvement, going from simply attacking Israeli bound cargo ships to now navigating an armed drone over 1,200 miles, evading Israel’s Iron Dome defense system and managed to strike inside Tel Aviv causing a massive explosions. In addition to their ongoing war in Gaza, Israel has attacked or been attacked by Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Iran. Meanwhile, the U.S. continues to promise Israel unconditional and limitless support. But has anyone even asked if this support is LEGAL? According to the 1976 Symington and Glenn Amendments of the Armed Foreign Assistance Act, which is now a part of the Arms Export Control Act, the United States cannot give foreign aid, whether that’s economic or military, to any nuclear armed state that is not a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty, or the NPT, but the United States gives billions of dollars every year to Israel and according to all international arms organizations, Israel has anywhere from 90 to 400 nuclear warheads and Israel has not signed the NPT. So how does this legally happen? The United States and Israel simply pretend Israel does not have nuclear weapons, literally, that’s what’s done. It is called “Nuclear Ambiguity.” This nuclear ambiguity, which allows Israel to continue to receive billions from the U.S. and also operate and maintain their nuclear arsenal with absolutely no international oversight and zero regulation, is maintained and preserved through the threat of force. Due to a previously Top Secret gag order, all U.S. government agency employees and contractors are forbidden from discussing Israel’s nuclear weapons program. Even insinuating or mentioning information that’s already in the public domain is forbidden for all federal employees and contractors. It sounds hard to believe but let’s give an example: James Doyle used to work at Los Alamos National Laboratory as a nuclear security specialist. He violated this gag order. Doyle wrote an academic article arguing that Nuclear weapons do not do a good job at deterring countries from attacking one another, he wrote: “Nuclear weapons did not deter Egypt and Syria from attacking Israel in 1973, Argentina from attacking British territory in 1982 or Iraq from attacking Israel during the 1991 Gulf War.” A clear reference to Israel’s nuclear weapons. Doyle’s security clearance was promptly withdrawn, his home was raided, his computers were seized and he was fired from the Department of Energy. So apparently that’s how it works. In 2018, The New Yorker published a stunning report in which they discuss another way Israel’s nuclear ambiguity is enforced: secret presidential letters. According to former U.S. officials and former Israeli officials, every recent US administration since Clinton in 1993 has performed the same ritual as it came into office. They all agreed to undermine U.S. law by signing secret letters, brought to them by hand by their Israeli counterparts stipulating that they’ll never acknowledge what everyone knows: that Israel indeed has nuclear weapons. The National Archives is currently refusing to release the letters, arguing that even confirming their existence would violate the secrecy pact. So there’s a gag order that stops all federal employees and contractors from simply acknowledging Israel’s nuclear weapons and U.S. presidents sign secret letters promising not to acknowledge or pressure Israel to do anything relating to their proliferation status. That means asking questions like these are entirely off limits enforced by the threat of government violence or law fare. But all of this information leads to a series of questions: Where does Israel dispose of the toxic waste its program generates? Are Israel’s nuclear weapons ever used to coerce the U.S. into making adverse policy decisions? How about our allies? Besides apartheid South Africa, has Israel offered any of its nuclear weapons for sale to other foreign countries? To U.S. adversaries? Has Israel mounted nuclear weapons onto its German supplied Dolphin class submarines? Or their American supplied F-35 jets? No questions are allowed and what is the cost, the dollar amount, for Americans, of this “nuclear ambiguity” policy? To be exact, almost $240 billion dollars of military and economic aid has gone from the U.S. taxpayer since the passing of the Symington and Glenn Amendments. That’s far more than the United States spent rebuilding Europe under the Marshall Plan. And none of that quarter of a trillion dollars should have been allowed under U.S. law. That’s the price of keeping Israel’s secret. A quarter trillion and yet where is the International Atomic Energy Agency and international nuclear inspectors? The same ones who monitor every other nuclear armed country in the world? DOES ISRAEL PERSECUTE CHRISTIANS? Before the war, Israel’s Christian minority were already being targeted with dispossession and violence. In Jerusalem’s Old City, narrow streets line the ancient neighborhood and Jewish Israeli civilians spitting on and attacking Christian clergy members is commonplace in Israel. Evidence of this shows a video from a few days before October 7th of Christians in the Old City of Jerusalem carrying a cross while a group of Orthodox Jewish Israelis many of them children walk by and spit at the Christians. It’s become mainstream to believe Christians don’t belong in Israel and only Jewish people do. A few years ago, the mission, the Virgin Mary’s place of death, was attacked and vandalized by Israelis. The graffiti on the ancient walls read “Death to heretical Christians, the enemies of Israel,” and “May his name and memory be obliterated,” in reference to Jesus. According to Haaretz, at a Jewish school, the leader of an anti-assimilation group Bentzi Gopstien told students that it’s quote “mitzvah” or a “good deed” to burn and destroy Christian churches. Should Americans, especially Christian Americans be allowing billions of their tax dollars to be used to ethnically cleanse, attack and bomb Holy sites and Christian civilians? What has happened since Israel has launched its war against Hamas? Israel has displaced 2.4 million Palestinians in Gaza, 80% of the buildings and homes have been reduced to rubble, at least 45,000 Palestinians have been killed with 50% being women and children. In America, we’re told we should prioritize sending billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to Israel over dealing with our own issues here at home because Israel needs to be able defend itself. Well, it seems like what initially appeared as a defensive war, is appearing more like an offensive war with the expansionist goal of the permanent military occupation of the Gaza Strip. Did the Israeli military, the Israeli intelligence community, and the political leadership of Israel allow this terrible attack to happen to justify wiping out the population of Gaza, a genocide justified by an attack that Israel could have stopped had they wanted to.

Truth Justice ™

603,047 views • 1 year ago

By and large, the Israel Air Force (IAF) possesses the range and capabilities necessary to neutralize the IRGC-AF’s heavily fortified offensive missile infrastructure. This needn’t rely on GB 57 MOPs or similarly massive deep penetration munitions, but can primarily be achieved through precision strikes targeting tunnel entrances and launch openings, effectively rendering these sites temporarily unusable, provided pinpoint intelligence of the target sites is both accurate and sufficiently comprehensive. Logistically, sustaining 24-hour long-range sortie operations against IRGC-AF’s missile infrastructure depends on highly-coordinated logistics and a carefully executed refueling chain. Two Boeing 707 tankers in a single wave can supply over 180,000 kilograms of fuel (with 90,000 kilograms transferable fuel capacity each). An F-35 requires approximately 8,300 kilograms for a full tank. The combat radius of the IAF’s F-35I “Adir” which shares the performance characteristics of the F-35A Lightning II, is approximately 1,075 kilometers for an operational range exceeding 2,000 kilometers. The distance from the Negev, through the Golan, Syria, and southern Iraq is roughly half this distance (about 1,200-1,400 kilometers) depending on the operation’s design). So a single refuel at the push point near the border of western Iran furnishes the F-35I with a fresh combat radius of 1,075 kilometers enabling it to strike deep into Iranian territory. Each strike package, potentially comprising 10-12 F-35Is, equipped with internal dual-weapon bays with payload capacities of 1,850 kg (4,000 lbs), and can therefore engage 10-12 targets per wave, assuming both weapons are deployed per target and depending on the complexity of the strike sites and the tactical requirements of the mission. Advanced standoff weapons like the Popeye, Rampage, or Delilah, with ranges of 400-600 kilometers, permit the IAF to strike targets up to 1,300-1,500 kilometers inside Iran without overextending its aerial refueling chain. Although air defense systems such as the Russian-made S-300, the enhanced Chinese HQ-9, and potentially domestic systems like the Bavar-373 possess ranges of 200 kilometers or more, 300 kilometers or more safe-distance for critical high-value strategic assets like the IAF’s Desert Giants refueling platforms will affect the F-35I’s strike range, as always depending on operational design. The IAF possesses heavily modified F-15 Ra’am and F-16 Sufa for combat air patrol (CAP or “Yis’ar”) and suppression of air defense (SEAD or “Chihan”) missions to protect strategic assets like its refueling chain, and to disrupt and destroy air and ground defense systems. SEAD platforms and wild weasels may comprise 10-20 fighters of each sortie package depending on targeting and operational design. Israel’s approach would require a multi-layered defense penetration strategy leveraging both kinetic and non-kinetic SEAD tactics, such as electronic warfare and cyber operations, pivotal for disrupting IRGC-AF missile guidance systems and command and control networks before and during initial air strikes. Electronic attack platforms like the AGM-88 High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missiles (HARM) that can jam or spoof Iranian radars and communication system can shape the theater, providing a safer corridor for kinetic strike packages. Advanced standoff weapons, such as the AGM-142 Have Nap “Popeye” enhanced with an imaging infrared seeker to enhance its accuracy against high-value targets, the Delilah cruise missile designed for suppression of enemy air defenses (SEAD) and precision strike missions, and the Rampage, a supersonic, long-range, air-to-ground assault missile suited to overcome air defense systems with its speed and low radar cross-section and designed to strike high-value, well-protected targets with precision—all of which can be launched from significant stand-off distances. The IAF also employs state-of-the-art intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) and electronic warfare (EW) platforms like the Gulfstream 550 Shavit and Nachshon aircraft, as well as locally produced Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) ISR UAVs called the Eitans. These UAVs, which can operate continuously for 36 hours and are equipped with advanced signals intelligence (SIGINT) systems, provide critical real-time intelligence during operations. Each of these strategic assets require CAPs, so each sortie package may assign elements of 2 or more F-16s or F-15s for each aerial asset: EW, ISR, UAV and refueling aircraft, for a total of 10-20 fighter jets in air patrol missions depending on design. The CAPs elements’ size and weaponeering will depend on how heavily contested the airspace, that the IAF anticipates operating in, will be. Robust protection for these strategic assets is an integral component in the design and planning of such a mission, including the IAF’s logistics chain. Operationally, with a publicly disclosed total of 7 refueling 707s in the IAF’s Desert Giants Sqn 120, it can deploy 6 tanker packages of 2 707s in order to execute three waves of airstrikes four times per day, with an estimated average of six-hour intervals between each takeoff. Roughly speaking this breaks down to 90 minutes from base to near-border push point (ferry leg), 90 minutes of combat operations time including return to egress point (on-stage leg), 90 minutes RTB (return to base) including refueling assets en route, and 90 minutes refuel, maintain and rearm for the entire sortie package (reconstitution phase) at base. This equates to twelve strike packages delivered approximately every 2 hours around the clock for a virtually continuous presence at the push point, covering Imam Ali, Arak, Kermanshah, Isfahan and many other critical sites within Iranian territory. The F-15I Ra’am is highly modular in its fuel design possessing a combat radius of approximately 1,600 kilometers, and a much greater ferry range which can be extended through a menu of external and detachable fuel tanks, making it one of the most versatile long-range platforms in the IAF’s aviation fleet. Given its primary assignments in CAP and SEAD operations it can theoretically conduct the entire mission without any refueling or only partial refueling. Likewise the IAF’s heavily modified F-16I Sufa is equipped with conformal fuel tanks that can extend its range, increasing its fuel capacity compared to the baseline F-16 model by up to 7,700 kilos (17,000 lbs) of external fuel, contributing to an operational range of about 3,220 km (2,000 miles). Therefore, it too adds limited burden to the IAF’s refueling logistics. Assuming 7 minute refueling time for each IAF F-35I, two tankers can refuel 10-12 F-35I strike packages in 35-40 minutes en route to push point and again en route to base from rendezvous point post-on-stage. No additional time is required for these refueling operations as they may be seamlessly integrated into the ferry and RTB legs of the mission. Altogether, the IAF can hit somewhere in the ball park of 120-130 sites a day, severely damaging the IRGC-AF’s defensive and offensive capabilities within 72 hours. After three days, the IAF could theoretically strike about 450 sites. For heavily fortified targets with deep burial depths, requiring deeper penetration, the GB 31 (A2K) with BLU 137/B deep penetration warheads are suitable for the F-35Is and the GBU 72 (A5K) with BLU 138 deep penetration warheads can be deployed by the F-15I Ra’ams once sufficient SEAD ops are completed and closer to the borders of western Iran. Weaponeering, shuffling assets to suit allocation needs, and the overall designing of sortie package inventories, including formulating the necessary logistics, is an immensely complex challenge managed by highly trained personnel and assisted by advanced systems in what can only be likened to a dark opera of destructive power. Whatever the challenges, one thing remains certain. Israel always finds a way to defy gravity, alter realities on the ground (and in the air) and take the region by storm. As long as the IRGC-AF maintains its offensive missile capabilities it is liable to heavily target Israel’s airbases, critical military installations and civilian centers. Therefore, before Israel considers oil, nuclear, or any other strategic assets, it will need to knock the front teeth out this snake when it strikes. Israel might front-load its first strike to meet these objectives, coordinating all 3 waves in rapid succession shaped by Jericho II and III strikes tightly preceded by cyber, electronic warfare and internal sabotage operations. The IAF’s first strike will likely be designed to leave the IRGC-AF reeling and off-balance long enough for its fleet to reconstitute and launch the next set of waves. These are likely to then settle into a steady pace for at least 72 hours given the volume, geographic and strategic depth of their missile program. Below: "No one must sleep, for the stars will tremble. No one shall know my name as I vanish into the night."

dan linnaeus

138,950 views • 1 year ago

🚨 OPERATIONAL UPDATE: ISRAEL U.S. WAR WITH THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC - Reporting Window: LAST 24 HOURS • Iranian missiles struck Tel Aviv and northern Israel, causing injuries and structural damage • Israel expanded strikes across Iran, including Tehran, Tabriz, Isfahan, Bandar Abbas, and missile infrastructure sites • U.S.–Israel strikes hit senior PMF infrastructure in Iraq, killing key commanders • Reported strikes on Iranian gas infrastructure in Isfahan and Khorramshahr signal a potential shift toward energy targeting • Lebanon intensified with evacuations, Rashidiya strikes, and continued Hezbollah fire • Trump abruptly pivoted to negotiations with Iran and extended the Hormuz deadline, delaying a major escalation The past 24 hours were not defined by a single headline event, but by a combination of very real battlefield activity and a sudden political shift at the top level. On the ground, the war remained active across every front: Israel, Iran, Lebanon, Iraq, and the Gulf. At the same time, the expected U.S. escalation tied to Hormuz did not happen. Instead, Washington pivoted toward negotiations, with Trump claiming talks are close to agreement while Iran publicly denies that anything meaningful is underway. That combination, ongoing war with a simultaneous negotiation track, is new. And it matters. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚀 IRANIAN MISSILE ATTACKS ON ISRAEL Iran continued missile launches into Israel, with a clear pattern of split targeting between central and northern sectors. A missile hit in Tel Aviv injured several civilians and damaged nearby residential structures. Later waves triggered wide alert zones across northern Israel, including the Galilee, Golan, and confrontation line communities. Your outbox tracked these alerts across dozens of locations in real time. There were also additional impacts from fragments and debris, including a schoolyard hit and damage to homes in the north without mass casualties. This continues a trend seen over the last several days: • lower salvo size • wider disruption footprint • sustained daily pressure Iran is no longer relying on large coordinated barrages. It is maintaining pressure through frequency, geography, and effect per missile. At the same time, Israeli officials continue to investigate interception gaps, including earlier failures tied to THAAD systems, reinforcing that even a degraded Iranian launcher network can still produce meaningful results. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✈️ STRATEGIC AIR CAMPAIGN OVER IRAN The Israeli and U.S. strike campaign inside Iran remained broad, multi-layered, and geographically extensive. Mainstream reporting confirmed strikes on: • missile storage and production facilities • regime and intelligence headquarters in Tehran • additional infrastructure in Isfahan and surrounding regions Open source intel shows how wide this really was. Strikes or explosions were reported across: • Tehran (multiple districts including eastern sectors and Parchin-adjacent areas) • Tabriz • Khuzestan and Dezful • Bandar Abbas and coastal nodes • Yazd and missile infrastructure There were also multiple reports of targeted assassination strikes, destruction of missile-related infrastructure, and pressure on internal security nodes This matters because the campaign is not narrowing. It is hitting production, command, logistics, and leadership. This is a system-wide degradation effort, not a tactical suppression campaign. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE: THE WAR IS GETTING CLOSER TO THE GRID One of the most important developments in this window was the reported targeting of Iranian gas infrastructure. Reuters reported a gas company office and pressure reduction station hit in Isfahan and a pipeline feeding a power station in Khorramshahr struck At the same time, oil prices rose again as markets reacted to continued Hormuz disruption, uncertainty around negotiations, and risk of escalation into full infrastructure targeting Open source intel strongly corroborates these reports, with repeated references to the same targets and follow-on rhetoric about retaliatory strikes on regional power systems. This is the key shift. The war is moving from military systems toward civilian energy systems. Not fully yet, but clearly closer. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇮🇶 IRAQ: PROXY COMMAND STRUCTURE HIT The Iraq front escalated meaningfully. Reuters reported that strikes hit: • PMF headquarters in Anbar • a residence tied to PMF leadership Casualties included at least 15 fighters killed, dozens wounded, and the confirmed death of operations commander Saad al-Baiji. Open source intel confirmed this in real time, including militant messaging and follow-on threats against U.S. positions. This was not a minor militia strike. It was a hit on central PMF command infrastructure. That keeps Iraq as an active and important front, not just a background theater. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇱🇧 LEBANON: PRESSURE CONTINUES AND DEEPENS The Lebanon front remained highly active. Key developments included evacuation warnings north of the Zahrani River, Israeli strikes near Rashidiya and southern Lebanon infrastructure, and continued Hezbollah rocket fire into northern Israel. Open source intel tracked: • strike activity near Rashidiya refugee camp • additional targeted strikes in Bchamoun • repeated northern Israeli alerts Israel continues shifting toward targeting infrastructure, limiting movement, and shaping the battlefield. Hezbollah remains active, but increasingly constrained. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌍 WASHINGTON, TEHRAN, AND THE NEGOTIATION TRACK In a sharp pivot, Trump announced that the U.S. is now holding talks with Iran, the Hormuz deadline was extended, and discussions are “close to agreement”. From there markets reacted immediately with oil prices dropping and then global markets rallying. But the reality is far less clear. Iranian leadership denied meaningful negotiations, and then demanded compensation and guarantees as new conditions for an any agreement, including limiting U.S. presence in the Gulf There is also uncertainty about who the U.S. is even talking to. Reports suggest contact with Mohammad Ghalibaf rather than Mojtaba Khamenei, who has not been seen publicly. At the same time, there is a deeper shift: The U.S. may now be willing to end the war without full regime change. That is a major departure from earlier expectations. Meanwhile, Israel is trying to ensure any deal reflects its interests, with Netanyahu reportedly engaging directly with the administration. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 WHAT MATTERS MOST RIGHT NOW Three developments define the war right now. 1️⃣ The battlefield remains fully active across all fronts. Missiles, strikes, Lebanon operations, and Gulf pressure all continued in this window. 2️⃣ The war is moving closer to energy infrastructure targeting. Isfahan and Khorramshahr are early signals of a potentially much more dangerous phase. 3️⃣ Negotiations have entered the picture, but nothing is settled. The war is still being fought at full intensity even as diplomacy begins. Bottom line, this was not just another day of escalation. It was the first clear moment where war and negotiations are happening at the same time. That creates a new dynamic: • escalation is still real • pressure is still increasing • but the outcome is now less predictable than it was 24 hours ago Quick note... big thanks to Michael W for contributing to the open-source intel picture behind these updates. If you’re serious about following this war and the broader geopolitical landscape, he’s worth having in your feed. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ END OF REPORT

Inside_Israel_Intel

37,207 views • 4 months ago

Belarus has become Russia’s nuclear staging ground. Belarus has not been annexed. But functionally, it has already become part of Russia. Lukashenko has long existed only with the Kremlin’s permission. When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Lukashenko officially appeared to be a bystander - yet missiles and columns of tanks moved through Belarusian territory. Russia used it as its own operational zone. In March 2023, Putin announced the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons. In December 2024, Russia and Belarus signed the Treaty on Security Guarantees that legalized permanent Russian bases and legally included Belarus in Russia’s nuclear strategy. Since mid-2025, around 2,000 Russian troops have been permanently stationed in Belarus, including air defense and aerospace units. In December 2025, the Oreshnik ballistic missile entered combat duty near Krychaw. In May 2026, large-scale joint nuclear exercises were held: 64,000 troops, 200 missile launchers, 73 surface ships, and 13 submarines. The nuclear sharing agreement marks a departure from Russia’s long-standing position, as Moscow spent decades criticizing NATO’s nuclear-sharing arrangements. Now it is reproducing the same model it once condemned. The 2024 nuclear doctrine explicitly equated a conventional attack on Belarus with an attack on Russia - automatically creating conditions for a nuclear response. Control over the warheads officially remains with Moscow. But Putin stated that Lukashenko himself would select targets for Oreshnik deployed in Belarus. In other words, the Belarusian president would bear public responsibility for missiles launched by Putin. Now to the arsenal and the numbers. As of March 2026, Russia possesses around 4,400 nuclear warheads in total, of which up to 2,000 are assigned to non-strategic tactical forces. Belarus hosts Iskander-M - the 465th missile brigade in Asipovichy. Range: up to 500 km. Accuracy: 5-7 meters. Nuclear warhead: 10-50 kilotons. Vilnius is just 340 km away. Flight time: 3-4 minutes. NATO would have virtually no warning time. Oreshnik belongs to another category. Speed exceeds 14,000 km/h. Up to six independent MIRV blocks, each capable of deploying up to six sub-warheads. Range exceeds 5,500 km. Interception by modern air defense systems is almost impossible. From Belarusian positions, Oreshnik can reach an airbase in Poland in 11 minutes and NATO headquarters in Brussels in 17 minutes. Berlin, Ramstein, and Warsaw all fall within range. According to Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence, only three missiles had been produced at the time of deployment. One was used against Dnipro in November 2024. One was destroyed in Kapustin Yar during a joint operation involving Ukraine’s Security Service, Defense Intelligence, and Foreign Intelligence Service. The Kremlin plans to produce up to six missiles per year. There is also Lida airbase - just 40 km from the Lithuanian border. Modified Su-25 aircraft are capable of carrying nuclear bombs. The most dangerous problem is neither range nor speed. It is the impossibility of identification. Until the moment of impact, it is impossible to determine whether Oreshnik carries a nuclear or conventional warhead. Every launch is an automatic nuclear alarm regardless of the actual payload. This ambiguity is a strategic weapon no less important than the warhead itself. Now to the likely scenarios. ◾️ The most likely scenario is not total nuclear war. It is a "demonstration strike": a single low-yield tactical strike against a peripheral military base - for example, an airfield in Poland or the Baltics. The goal is not destruction but testing Article 5. The Kremlin’s logic: "You will not launch a nuclear response over a single tactical strike." ◾️ The second scenario is an Oreshnik strike against a NATO logistics hub: Rzeszów, Ramstein, Warsaw. Most likely with conventional warheads. But this cannot be confirmed before impact. Even a conventional strike under the carrier’s nuclear ambiguity could freeze weapons transit to Ukraine. Shock and fear of escalation alone would be a sufficient outcome for the Kremlin. ◾️ The third scenario is a strike on a nuclear power plant with a conventional warhead. A radiological effect without the formal use of weapons of mass destruction. Maximum psychological pressure on Europe. ◾️ The fourth: a new ground offensive against Ukraine launched from Belarusian territory under nuclear blackmail. NATO freezes, Ukraine becomes isolated, and the frontline shrinks by 400 kilometers. Finally, let’s turn to the West’s response - or the absence of one. No symmetrical nuclear response followed. NATO did not deploy nuclear weapons in the Baltics or Poland. The response remained conventional: additional brigades and expanded air defense. New START expired in February 2026. No new treaty exists. Verification of nuclear arsenals is effectively absent. The United States abandoned the "voluntary compliance with limits" proposed by Russia. Patriot and THAAD were not designed to intercept targets at Mach 10 with maneuvering flight trajectories. Kyiv directly called Belarus’s transformation into a "nuclear outpost" near NATO borders an unprecedented challenge to the global security architecture and a dangerous precedent that de facto legitimizes nuclear proliferation among authoritarian regimes.

Anton Gerashchenko

59,276 views • 2 months ago

🚨 BREAKING: An Entire Town In Brazil Witnesses The Capture Of 3 Live, Injured Aliens That Emerge From A Crashed Craft. One of the beings was apprehended by a soldier that died from a not-yet-seen before bacterial infection (according to his official autopsy and an on-record interview with the medical examiner). The being was then taken to the hospital and treated by a neurosurgeon who Is now going public for the first time🚨 Investigator James Fox (James Fox) just surfaced the most intensely-detailed account yet of the Varginha UFO case, an event involving a crashed craft, multiple non-human three fingered and toed beings, military intervention (from Brazil and The United States), and firsthand medical witnesses who did surgery on an alien in a hospital in Varginha, Brazil. All of this is in his upcoming movie, Moment of Contact: New Revelations of Alien Encounters. For the first time in the case’s history, James Fox gets a testimony from the head neurosurgeon of the hospital that did surgery on the being. He also interviews the examiner of the soldier that died from apprehending the being. Chris Ramsay (Chris Ramsay) will be doing a deep dive on this autopsy on Area52 in a couple of weeks. 1) The UFO Crash and Flight Path In January 1996, a large metallic, cigar-shaped object was tracked moving low over Minas Gerais, Brazil. Farmers, civilians, and a trained ultralight pilot independently described the same craft: silent, distressed, leaking white vapor, with a visible tear in its hull. The object ultimately crashed near Varginha, leaving a debris field spanning over a football field. 2) The Beings Multiple witnesses reported seeing up to three small beings emerge from the crash site. They were described consistently: short stature, large heads, almond-shaped red eyes, ridged foreheads, thin limbs, and a strong ammonia or sulfur smell that lingered for days. They were injured and fearful. 3) The Girls’ Encounter Three young women encountered one of the beings in an urban neighborhood just blocks from where a military capture later occurred. One of them, Katia, locked eyes with the being and described a silent plea for help. All three maintained their accounts for nearly three decades despite ridicule, intimidation, and literal attempts to pay them to recant. 4) Military Capture Brazilian military police officers Marco Chereze and Erico Lopes reportedly captured a living being with their bare hands and transported it in a vehicle. Lopes later threatened Fox’s crew when confronted, preemptively referencing “the ET” before being asked anything, a moment Fox describes as a tacit admission. 5) Hospitalization and Medical Testimony A senior neurosurgeon and hospital director at Humanitas Regional Hospital testified on camera that he was face-to-face with a living non-human entity for several minutes in the ICU. He described direct telepathic communication, overwhelming intelligence, and a sense of compassion from the being. He came forward only after surviving a heart attack and cancer, stating he could no longer take the truth to the grave. 6) The Death of a Soldier Officer Marco Chereze died weeks after the capture from a rare, aggressive infection. Forensic pathologists involved in the autopsy stated the bacteria behaved unlike any known terrestrial organism. They speculate the infection entered through a small scratch, possibly from the being itself. The autopsy report was initially withheld from Chereze’s family. 7) Men in Black Witnesses across the case reported intimidation by unidentified men in unmarked vehicles who knew intimate details about their lives and families and demanded silence. Similar patterns appear in cases worldwide, from Phoenix Lights to Rendlesham Forest to Calvine, suggesting a coordinated, rapid-response suppression apparatus operating beyond normal jurisdiction. 8) Corroboration Across Decades Fox connects Varginha to a global pattern: crashed craft, recovered beings, confiscated evidence, and witnesses silenced under threat. The consistency spans cultures, decades, and political systems, undermining claims of hoax or mass hysteria. 9) Why This Case Matters Varginha is not a single witness story. It involves civilians, doctors, military personnel, forensic reports, physical traces, and a clear timeline. If judged as a court case, Fox argues, the evidentiary threshold would already be met. If you want the most comprehensive, human, and unsettling account of a modern UFO crash with alleged living occupants, this episode documents it in full. And if you want the FULL STORY go watch James’ amazing, world-changing documentary - Moment of Contact: New Revelations of Alien Encounters. James' just broke the most important, corroborated and intense UFO crash in modern history. Full Episode 👇

Jesse Michels

292,473 views • 7 months ago