Sunday, March 3, 2024

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT SUNDAY 3/3/2024 NEWSDUMP WEEKEND US VP PUSHES GAZA CEASE-FIRE, RUSSIAN SECURITY OFFICIAL ACCUSES GERMANY OF PLOTTING WAR, ONE WEEK FROM NETANYAHU'S DEADLINE, US AIRDROP IN GAZA LURES CIVILIANS AWAY FROM ISRAELI ATTACK ZONES

 



(SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING FINAL POSTING AT NEAR MIDNIGHT EASTERN US TIME SUNDAY NIGHT)





                  LATE NEWS TONIGHT:





IN THE AFRICAN NATION OF BURKINA FASO JIHADIST ATTACKS ON THREE VILLAGES LAST WEEK WITH SOME 170 PEOPLE SAID TO HAVE BEEN EXECUTED...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)




US Vice-President Kamala Harris calling for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza.    


Harris also calling for more humanitarian aid to be allowed into Gaza by Israel with 'no excuses'.



She is set to meet Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz in Washington on Tuesday.



Gantz's US visit said to be disapproved of by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu according to leaks to Israeli media...SKY NEWS UK




DEPUTY RUSSIAN SECURITY COUNCIL CHAIRMAN DMITRY MEDVEDEV SEES A GERMAN PLOT FOR WAR IN THE LEAKED RECORDING OF GERMAN MILITARY OFFICERS.


THE OFFICERS DICSUSSING THE PROVISION OF LONG-RANGE TAURUS MISSILES TO UKRAINE.



GERMAN CHANCELLOR OLAF SCHOLZ ORDERING AN INVESTIGATION INTO THAT LEAK.




MAINSTREAM MEDIA TOUTING THE NOTION OF RUSSIAN ESPIONAGE...TASS RUSSIA



(Updated) Hundreds of prisoners (4,000 BBC News) freed in Haiti after gangs stormed the country's main prison.


The latest violence comes as Haiti's Prime Minister Ariel Henry is on an overseas trip seeking support for a United Natons-backed security force to deploy.



Journalists saw three corpses at the prison entrance which was wide open with no guards in sight...ASSOCIATED PRESS-ABC NEWS USA



ISRAEL CHOOSING NOT TO PARTICIPATE IN TALKS IN EGYPT INVOLVING HAMAS.



FAILURE TO PROVIDE A LIST OF HOSTAGES STILL ALIVE SAID TO BE BEHIND THAT.



ISRAEL'S PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU SPOKE WEEKS AGO ABOUT A DEADLINE ONE WEEK FROM TODAY (MARCH 10TH).



THAT DEADLINE COINCIDING WITH THE START OF THE MUSLIM HOLY MONTH RAMADAN.



IF THERE IS NO DEAL WITH HAMAS BY THEN ISRAEL WILL MOVE ITS GROUND FORCES INTO THE SOUTHERN GAZA CITY OF RAFAH...TIMES OF ISRAEL



SEVEN-YEAR OLD GIRL DROWNED WHEN A MIGRANT BOAT CAPSIZED IN NORTHERN FRANCE.


THE DEADLY INCIDENT HAPPENED IN A BODY OF WATER THAT LEADS TO THE ENGLISH CHANNEL...AL JAZEERA QATAR


In Pakistan a new Prime Minister acceptable to the powerful Pakistani military selected.



Shehbaz Sharif said to have gotten 201 votes in the National Assembly.


Omar Ayub of the Sunni Ittehad Council got 92 votes.   Those votes primarily from members elected as Independents in the recent election.



The Independents loyal to the jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan...TIME





At least 29 killed after torrential downpours in Pakistan.


Others injured as the heavy rains led to landslides.



Severe winter weather reported in both Pakistan and neighboring Afghanistan...


NEWS AGENCIES-TRT WORLD TURKEY (TURKIYE)




This weekend the Biden Administration touting a humanitarian airdrop into Gaza.   The operation carried out by the US Air Force and the Royal Jordanian Air Force...US CENTRAL COMMAND "X"...


Reaction from Palestinians in Gaza and beyond included the notions that the 38,000 meals dropped were too little and that the US needs to stop sending money and weapons to support Israel's war effort there...(CBC Radio News "The World This Weekend")...



                             (COMMENT, ANALYSIS)



If reports of near famine conditions in Gaza are accurate civilians will be drawn to the drop zones along the Mediterranean coast.


Any relief air drops by the US and other nations will help Israel by luring the civilian population away from areas Israel intends to attack in order to further destroy Hamas in Gaza.


Heavy civilian casualties have caused the image of Israel to be tarnished and fueled pro-Palestinian protests in the US, UK and other nations.




MASSIVE ISRAELI AIRSTRIKES FOLLOWING THAT FOOD AID DROP ON THE GAZA COAST.



SATURDAY NIGHT ATTACKS IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN GAZA...OSINTDEFENDER "X" (VIDEO EMBEDS)...


14 PALESTINIANS REPORTED KILLED IN THE SOUTHERN CITY OF RAFAH...TASS RUSSIA




AN ATTACK ON A MERCHANT VESSEL IN THE RED SEA OFF YEMEN LAST MONTH NOW CONFIRMED AS THE SINKING OF THE MV RUBYMAR...(News Agencies)




38 Ukrainian drones downed over Crimea early today by Russian air defenses...TASS RUSSIA



A DRONE ATTACK IN AND AROUND RUSSIA'S SECOND LARGEST CITY ST. PETERBURG THIS WEEKEND.


ALL ATTACKING UKRAINIAN DRONES SHOT DOWN...TASS RUSSIA...RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)



Violence against Indians in the United States highlighted in Indian media.



The murder of 34-year old dancer Amarnath Ghosh in St. Louis Thursday evening the latest such incident.


Ghosh, who was studying at Washington University, shot three times.



India's Embassy in the US condemning the 'reprehensible gun attack'...PRESS TRUST OF INDIA-TELEGRAPH INDIA






THE TOP SPY IN AUSTRALIA IS TALKING ABOUT A SPY RING IMPLICATING AN UNNAMED FORMER POLITICIAN WHO SERVED IN A PARLIAMENT.



THE COUNTRY NOT NAMED BY THE SPY CHIEF BUT IT APPEARS CHINA IS THE NATION LINKED TO THE ALLEGATION...ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA




CHINA URGING THE US TO STOP INTERFERING IN AFFAIRS IN HONG KONG.


CHINA'S FOREIGN MINISTER REACTING TO A US STATE DEPARTMENT STATEMENT SUGGESTING US CITIZENS AND BUSINESS WOULD BE HARMED BY NATIONAL SECURITY LEGISLATION IN HONG KONG.


CHINA SAYING THE TERRITORY'S NEWS NATIONAL SECURITY LEGISLATION WILL ENSURE ECONOMIC PROSPERITY AND PREVENT FOREIGN ATTEMPTS TO UNDERMINE CHINA'S RULE IN HONG KONG.


THE TERRITORY TURNED OVER TO CHINA BY THE UNITED KINGDOM IN 1997...XINHUA CHINA (USE ADVANCED SETTINGS)



              THE ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR

                                                    (UPDATED WHEN ABLE)





         THREE ISRAELI SOLDIERS KILLED IN GAZA



            MAARIV ISRAEL (TRANSLATION PROMPT)




                                 ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS




                                       TIMES OF ISRAEL




Israel reporting the Friday deaths of three soldiers in battle this weekend...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS



In other news....




On Saturday morning President Donald Trump with a slew of endorsements of incumbent Republican members of the US House.



Among them Lauren Boebert of Colorado who switched to run in Colorado's more Republican 4th District after representing the closely divided 2nd District in her first term.


Trump citing a list of issues in connection with endorsement saying Boebert "is a trusted America First fighter"...DONALD J. TRUMP TRUTH SOCIAL



THIS WEEKEND REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CONTESTS IN SEVERAL STATES WITH PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP THE OVERHWLEMING WINNER.


TRUMP TRIUMPHIANT IN MICHIGAN, MISSOURI AND IDAHO WHERE CAUCUSES WERE HELD...(News Agencies)





    THE UKRAINE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA

                                                         (UPDATED WHEN ABLE)



ATTACK ALERT IN RUSSIA'S BELGOROD REGION




UKRAINE SAYS SEVEN KILLED IN RUSSIAN DRONE ATTACK ON ODESSA


                   TASS RUSSIA ENGLISH NEWS FEED



       RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)



A missile attack alert in Russia's Belgorod Region today...TASS RUSSIA




Ukraine reporting seven killed and eight wounded when debris fell from a Russian drone during an attack...ASSOCIATED PRESS-CBS NEWS





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