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🌷 Earlier today, the mother of Hezbullah's SG was buried in Beirut, after a large funeral attended by many.

The mother of his eminence is also the mother of an official in Amal Movement, making the funeral for both parties.

Sayyed Saffieddine, Head of Hezbullah's executive branch, led the prayers and was accompanied by various officials.
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📷 The head of the Future Movement, Ahmad Al-Hariri, attended the funeral in a show of friendship despite political differences.

A remarkable move from his side.
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🌷An old interview with Em Hassan answering after she was asked about her situation.

She smiles and says of course I don't have any bodyguard nor a special car. And continues to say she only sees him every 7-8 months barely.

📝 Being away from family is such a sacrifice, for her and for him. To heavens and all its gardens.
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🌷 Wissam who was martyred today, is the brother of another martyr from two months ago, Hussein.

Hussein was not in combat, a civilian, and was killed in an Israeli attack on his home.

Brothers on the righteous path on this ending earth, united together in God's most beautiful heavens.

https://news.1rj.ru/str/LebUpdate/39818
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📷 Three Israeli airstrikes target the village of Mays al-Jabal.
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🗣️ Hezbullah mourns the martyrdom of two of its heroes on today's attack on Hula

🌷 Tarek Bassam Awad, 2003
🌷 Hussein Salman Mustafa, 2004

They were born and raised in Hula, and were only visiting their village when the murderous Israeli army targeted them.
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📝 A rumor I once heard that one of those who participated, was a reservist who was annoyed from his commanders for putting him far from the frontline, wanting action.

They kept telling him wait, wait. On that day, he was one of those who pressed the button to trigger this historic ambush.

☠️ And a side note, this area had ambushes set and detonated on several occasions, as it was the only path terrorists could use to move between their two areas of control.

One was this one, and it was a big score.

https://news.1rj.ru/str/Middle_East_Spectator/6759
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⚠️ Dozens of casualties in an Israeli airstrike that targeted the tents if civilian in Rafah.

Dozens of men, women, and children burned to death.
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🌷 Apocalyptic scenes in Rafah tonight after an attack by the murderous Israeli military.

Israeli security officials confirm that the IDF attacked this evening in the Tel-e-Sultan area in west Rafah, close to the time when the incident was reported in which dozens were killed.
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☠️ Earlier tonight, Hezbullah ambushed an Israeli Merkava tank near Qafwa base on the Lebanese border.

The statement claims the tank burned.
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📹 The Israeli military released additional footage of their attacks on Lebanese houses, alleging to target military infrastructure.

🌹 Yesterday, 5 members of Hezbullah, including non-combtanats were killed. Additionally 2 Lebanese civilian men, in a targeted drone strike.
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🔻 As part of their response, Hezbullah attacked with an ATGM a house used by the Israeli army in the settlement of Margaliot.

Some damages were caused.
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📷 Picture of a house in the Metulla settlement, which was severely damaged after being hit by an anti-tank missile fired from southern Lebanon last Thursday.

🚨 About 46 alerts were sounded through the last month in Metulla
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⚠️ An Israeli targeted assassination near Salah Ghandour hospital in Bint Jbeil.

This is 4th such attack in the last 48 hours.
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📷 The attack took place at the entrance of the hospital near the security checkpoint.
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🌹 The Israeli murderous attack on the hospital entrance in Bint Jbeil killed the civilian Ali Wazani.

10 other civilians were injured.
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📷 A bit earlier, an Israeli attack targeted Aitaroun.

Ambulances were dispatched.
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🔴 Using WhatsApp helps the Israeli army pick targets in Gaza

In April 2024, +972 Magazine journalist Yuval Abraham revealed the existence of Lavender ⁠AI: a system that automatically picks bombing targets. Lavender collects information on most of the 2.3 million residents of Gaza through a system of mass surveillance, then assesses the likelihood that each particular person is active in Hamas or PIJ, giving almost every single person in Gaza a rating from 1 to 100.

The article said that the current commander of Unit 8200 wrote in a guide book for Lavender ⁠AI that the features being used to select targets include “being in a WhatsApp group with a known militant, changing cell phone every few months, and changing addresses frequently.”

“The sources told +972 and Local Call that, during the first weeks of the war, the army almost completely relied on Lavender.” Israel has deployed additional automated systems, e.g., ‘Where's ⁠Daddy’ signals when a target has entered his family home.

Last week, The Intercept wrote that many WhatsApp employees fear that Israel has been using a vulnerability based on traffic analysis. According to their assessment: “[Deep Packet] Inspection and analysis of network traffic is completely invisible to us, yet it reveals the connections between our users: who is in a group together, who is messaging who, and (hardest to hide) who is calling who”... [A typical threat is due to peer-to-peer calls between users, which can be disabled on Telegram since many years ago but on WhatsApp only since Nov ⁠8, 2023 ⁠!]

And worse
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⋯ It is possible that WhatsApp's parent company is collaborating with Israel to help it fight ‘terrorism’.

In his blog, Paul Biggar, founder of Tech For Palestine, asks “whether [the Israeli forces] get this information from Meta”⁠ directly? “Why has Meta not released their transparency report for the 2nd half of 2023? [...] Will Meta immediately rescind access to any WhatsApp information from the Israeli government, army, and law enforcement?”

He recalls that Meta's “Chief Information Security Officer, Guy Rosen, is their most senior policy decision maker. He is Israeli, lives in Tel Aviv, and was in Unit 8200. Unit 8200 is the Israeli NSA and is the department that built and runs Lavender. Insiders tell me that Rosen is the person most associated with the anti-‘anti-zionism’ policies, and is also responsible for the suppression of Palestinian content.”

Mark Zuckerberg, Meta founder and CEO, has been a “significant supporter of Israel's propaganda”. For example, he donated $125k to ZAKA - one of the groups that created Oct ⁠7 false atrocity propaganda.

On a separate note, WhatsApp's servers store user metadata: social graphs and connection data, this could be tapped by U.S. intelligence under the FISA/PRISM programs, and part of it shared with Israel.
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📹 The Israeli army released footage of their terrorist attack on Bint Jbeil hospital entrance.

The attack killed Ali Wazani, reportedly a civilian from Shaqra village.

This is the second time they release footage of a drone strike on civilian in the past 24 hours. Yesterday's attack killed two civilians in Aita al-Shaab.
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📹 Hezbullah issued a statement announcing they fired tens of rocksts towards Israeli settlements in response to increased Israeli aggression on Lebanese villages.

They attacked:
🔻 Meron settlement
🔻 Safsofa settlement
🔻 Tsefon settlement

Additionally they attacked a house in Metulla.
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