Wiki Background of the Unit ambushed in the video Arch linked:

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97th Netzah Yehuda Battalion
גדוד נצח יהודה‎
Current
commander Lt. Col. Lior Doft[1]
The 97th Netzah Yehuda Battalion (Hebrew: גדוד נצח יהודה, transl. ’Judah’s Victory Battalion’), previously known as Nahal Haredi (הנחל החרדי) is a battalion in the Kfir Brigade of the Israel Defense Forces. The purpose of the unit is to allow Haredi Jewish men to serve as combat soldiers in the Israeli military by creating an atmosphere conducive to their religious convictions in the strict observance of Halakha.[2] The battalion has been accused of human rights violations against Palestinians, including killing unarmed civilians, killing suspects in custody, and torture.[3][4][5]
Despite the original purpose of the battalion being to accommodate Haredim who wish to serve in the military, as of 2012 the majority of the unit (60%) is drawn from Dati Leumi (Religious Zionist) community, specifically those as part of the Hardal sub-group. Though the Hardalim and Haredim share some similarities, the two remain distinct communities, and are both halakhic and ideological opposites on many important issues, most importantly Zionism.[6][7] Many Haredi leaders publicly denounced the creation of the battalion in 2006, particularly Rabbi Aharon Shteinman, who disowned the unit entirely.[8]
Since the unit’s creation, it has attracted many members of an extreme Hardal settler group called the Hilltop Youth who are infamous for establishing illegal outposts on Palestinian land that have no legal basis in Israeli law.[9] By 2022, the Netzah Yehuda battalion has experienced at least a half-dozen controversial cases involving its soldiers, resulting in jail time, discharge, or harsh criticism for assaulting or killing innocent Palestinians.[10] In December 2022, Netzah Yehuda was removed by the IDF from its traditional posting in the West Bank to a border posting in the Golan Heights where the unit would be less exposed to Palestinians.[11][12]

Posted by: exile | Aug 27 2025 7:43 utc | 303

RT
@RT_com
Hamas releases up-close footage of DEADLY Beit Hanoun ambush
IDF troops lured into ambush zone with gunfire, then hit with POWERFUL explosives
Israelis retreat under gunfire, with five soldiers killed
Video (3:04)
https://x.com/RT_com/status/1960376081296261273

Posted by: Menz | Aug 27 2025 8:39 utc | 305

RE: “If he was British, the appropriate place for Huckabee instead of an embassy would be Broadmoor.*** Why does the USA appoint such raving nutcases?”***
Posted by: Cynic | Aug 26 2025 16:34 utc | 268
What else do they have?
No logical, rational or law-minded person could “defend” USReal at this time, so that leaves the “Huckabees” …
Which by the way, I find hilarious that he would go and blather his nonsense to Ultra-Orthodox, basically calling them antisemites. Along the lines of Tom Barracks “animalistic” and “here’s how I demand you behave” stuff.
But yeah, this is all they got left, scraping bottom of barrel for mouthpieces and it’ll get worse as more mouthpieces jump ship.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Aug 27 2025 10:57 utc | 307

US Envoy Lectures Lebanese Journalists (&vid)
https://www.rt.com/news/623563-us-envoy-animalistic-middle-east/
“US Ambassador to Turkiye and Special Envoy to Syria Tom Barrack told journalists from the podium of the Presidential Palace in Beirut that their ‘animalistic’ behaviour highlights the core problems of the region…”
‘Ugly American’ diplomacy at its best.

Posted by: John Gilberts | Aug 27 2025 11:47 utc | 309

Now for something a little different but, I believe, related.

Danish PM Mette Frederiksen apologises to 4,500 Greenlandic Inuit subjected to forced contraception until 1992
Campaign sought to reduce Inuit birth rate under Danish rule
Decades later, only words remain: ‘I am sorry’

https://x.com/RT_com/status/1960706834068549926
It’s not just Jews. It’s not just Zionists.
It’s a racist and supremacist Empire that is literally inhuman.
“European values…”

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 27 2025 14:59 utc | 311

It appears that some American contractors at the GHF (the bogus food aid distribution people) might have been involved in the killings of the 5 journalists in Gaza. A source for one of the journalist’s stories was interrogated about who had written the story (it had been published anonymously) and where he was. This happened just a couple of days before the strike that killed him and other reporters.
I’m going to post the entire article if it will take, because there is lots of info in it, some of it new today.

US contractors at a Gaza aid centre interrogated a source of Middle East Eye journalist Mohamed Salama seeking information about his identity and whereabouts before he was killed, MEE can reveal.
Salama was killed alongside MEE reporter Ahmed Abu Aziz and three other journalists on Monday morning as they responded to an attack on Nasser hospital in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis. The two strikes killed 20 Palestinians overall, including medics and first responders.
Days before, a source for one of Salama’s major investigations for MEE told him that they had been briefly detained at an aid distribution centre by US security contractors guarding the site.
There, the source said, they had been interrogated about the identity of the reporter behind the story. Salama worked on the story anonymously for security reasons.
“The source would not have been in contact with me unless they thought something was deeply wrong,” Salama told colleagues at the time.
When asked if he felt safe knowing he was being pursued for his work, Salama replied: “We journalists are never safe in Gaza.”
Middle East Eye asked Safe Reach Solutions and UG Solutions, the two US security firms working at the aid distribution sites, whether they were involved in the source’s interrogation.
MEE also asked if their employees were passing intelligence to Israel on the identity of Palestinian journalists such as Salama.
They had not replied by the time of publication.
Israel has maintained a total siege on Gaza since March, only allowing a modicum of food to enter after monopolising aid distribution through the Israel- and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), sidelining the UN.
Since the GHF began operating in May, at least 1,760 Palestinians have been killed while seeking aid, according to the UN.
The UN says that most of those were killed by the Israel military, which monitors the hubs, but several former employees of the contractors guarding the sites have come forward in recent weeks saying they witnessed both Israeli soldiers and their US colleagues shooting at Palestinians.
The GHF has repeatedly denied that aid seekers have been shot at its sites.
Middle East Eye asked the GHF and Israeli military for comment. The GHF called the allegation that the source was interrogated at one of its sites “absurd and completely false”.
Israeli media tells a different story
Since Israel’s genocide in Gaza began 22 months ago, Salama has contributed video and written reports for Middle East Eye and Al Jazeera that have attracted international attention.
When the BBC pulled a documentary profiling a Palestinian boy in response to an intense pro-Israel campaign earlier this year, Salama interviewed the 13-year-old who had found himself at the centre of a British media storm as well as a war.
In March, he also reported on a mass grave containing the bodies of 15 medics, who had been bound and then shot in the chest, back and head. Salama was one of the very first to publish details about the apparent Israeli massacre and speak to the victims’ relatives.
Earlier this month, Salama identified a frail 10-year-old boy who a whistleblower said had been gunned down while trying to receive food at an Israeli- and US-backed GHF aid centre.
He discovered that Abdulrahim “Amir” al-Jarabe’a’s family had not been told he had been killed or received his body.
International condemnation has been mounting in response to the journalists’ killing, which was captured on live television.
In response, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the incident as a “tragic mishap”.
The Israeli military said that Golani Brigade troops were targeting a camera used by Hamas, providing no evidence or explanation for the second strike 15 minutes after the first.
Meanwhile, military sources have been painting a different picture to the Israeli media.
Channel 14, a right-wing outlet known to be supportive of Netanyahu’s government and the war, reported military sources as saying the attack killed “terrorists disguised as journalists”.
The sources said that soldiers targeted a Hamas “terror headquarters” in Nasser hospital.
“According to the current security concept, any place where terrorists operate, whether it used to be a school or a hospital, becomes a legitimate target,” the report said.
Soldiers involved in the strike told Channel 14 that “the attack was approved and coordinated with the senior command, and they knew about it before it was carried out”.
Similarly, news site Maariv reported that “the shooting was carried out after receiving approvals from the command levels”.
Following Netanyahu’s framing of the incident as a “mishap”, senior Israeli military officials reiterated to Channel 14: “We support the soldiers – they acted as required.”
Israel has killed 246 Palestinian journalists in Gaza since October 2023. Often it attempts to discredit the victims by falsely accusing them of ties to Hamas.
More than 62,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel since the war began.
“>https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-contractors-gaza-pursued-mee-journalist-his-killing

Posted by: teri | Aug 27 2025 15:39 utc | 313

Iran making a noose for its own neck, by letting this lot back in, we all know the head of the IAEA Grossi, is a Mossad agent.
“Iran’s foreign minister has confirmed the arrival of inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) following a months-long hiatus.
Abbas Araghchi, however, said their presence does not mean the resumption of full cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog.
Speaking to reporters in Tehran on Wednesday, the foreign minister said the entry was authorized by Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) and limited to overseeing the fuel replacement process at the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant.
He said under a recent parliamentary law, all cooperation with the IAEA must be approved by the SNSC.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 27 2025 16:07 utc | 315

The USA wouldn’t know how to act kind or civil, or express tolerance, much of what ails the world today is down to belligerent US foreign policies – sadly though Lebanon is a US puppet state.
“Insulting racial taunts by an American regional envoy against Lebanese journalists have sparked a whirlwind of criticism among countless social media frequenters, including anti-colonial activists and prominent Lebanese figures.
President Donald Trump’s envoy on Syria and Ambassador to Turkey, Tom Barrack touched off a constant torrent of outrage on Tuesday after he told the journalists trying to ask him questions during a press conference in Beirut to “be quiet” and stop being “animalistic.”
“Act civilized, act kind, act tolerant,” he added”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 27 2025 16:27 utc | 317