The Times of Israel publishes Tuesday’s progress as they unfold.
Reuters reports that at least 10 bodies were taken to hospitals after the explosion in Beirut, breeding and safety sources.
Other videos are coming in from Beirut, the devastation appearing through the explosion at the port.
A video destroyed cars, damaged glass and cookie furniture on a street.
– (@beniyazfaiz) 4 August 2020
Another shows ruin on a city road.
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) August 4, 2020
A video of the offices of The Daily Star newspaper, destroyed through the surprise wave.
Ghada Alsharif (@GhadaaSharif) 4 August 2020
Apparently addressing rumors that the cause of the blast in Beirut was an Israeli strike on Hezbollah weaponry, sources close to Hezbollah tell Lebanon’s OTV “there is no truth” to such claims.
The scale of the explosion and the destruction caused in its wake led some to consult reports that the fireworks outlets were the explosion.
The United States effectively tested an unarmed Minuteman III (ICBM) intercontinental ballistic missile, a directed release from an airborne command center, according to the Air Force.
The missile was launched at 12:21 a.m. from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, travelling 6,700 kilometers (4,200 miles) over the Pacific Ocean before landing in the sea near the Marshall Islands.
“The test demonstrates that the United States’ nuclear deterrent is safe, secure, reliable and effective,” the Air Force says in a statement.
— AFP
Lebanon’s Health Minister Hamad Hasan says the explosion in Beirut has caused “a very high number of injuries” and massive damage.
Al-Manar TV now “a series of deaths” in the Beirut explosion.
It doesn’t say how many were killed.
A security source told AFP that two explosions shook the city’s port and wounded dozens.
An AFP correspondent at the site said each and every store in Hamra’s grocery shopping district was damaged, with all windows destroyed, broken windows and many cars destroyed.
Others wounded walked down the street, while outside Clemenceau Medical Center, dozens of wounded, many covered in blood, rushed to the center, adding children.
The destroyed were abandoned in the street with their airbags inflated.
– with AFP
Opposition leader Yair Lapid, leader of Yesh Atid-Telem, lashed out at the prime minister after Benjamin Netanyahu previously advised him to lead the public protests opposed to him.
“Netanyahu again accused me of encouraging the protesters. It’s not an accusation, it’s a compliment. Yes, I do. Moreover, Israel’s greatest and most odious instigator deserves not to reproach us.”
An Associated Press photographer near The port of Beirut said he witnessed other people wounded on the floor and widespread destruction in downtown Beirut.
Lebanese media transmitted photographs of others trapped under the rubble, some bloodied, after the big explosion.
The giant explosion in Beirut’s port domain was felt in giant parts of the city and some neighborhoods lost electricity.
“Buildings are shaking,” one resident tweeted, writing: “A massive deafening explosion has engulfed Beirut. I heard it for miles.”
Online footage from a Lebanese newspaper office shows blown out windows, scattered furniture and demolished interior paneling.
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– SkyNews (@SkyNews) August 4, 2020
– AP and AFP
U.S. President Donald Trump has a special position at his center for The Semites, it turns out that the “yo-Semites” in particular.
On one occasion at the White House to point out the Great American Outdoors Act, a conservation bill, Trump said, “When young Americans … look at the redwoods of Yosemite, their love for the country is growing.”
But he strives to pronounce the word Yosemite (pronounced Yoh-sem-it-ee), as if he were looking to communicate on the street about a Jew.
– C J (@TweetrHandle) August 4, 2020
Larry Johnson, a former NFL ball-bearer who played seven seasons for the Kansas City Chiefs, tweeted his more than 147,000 fans over the weekend that a Jewish “clique” is concerned about “human trafficking, sex trafficking, pedophilia, child ritual torture, perversion, human sacrifice/murder.” And on Monday he showed no apology symptoms.
Johnson insanified one of the tweets in reaction to Max Kellerman, the Jewish co-host of ESPN’s “First Take,” who recently told the air that “Jews don’t have a plan for global domination.” Kellerman responded to social media posts by another NFL star, DeSean Jackson, who last month released a quote that attributed Adolf Hitler accusing Jews of having a “plan of global domination.” Jackson then deleted the message and apologized.
African Americans perform lowerly in the following areas:
Trafficking in people Trafficking in Sex Pedofilia Perversion Ritual Torture Child Sacrifice/ Human Murder
… That the Jewish clique @maxkellerman said it existed.
– Larry Johnson (2LarryJohnson7) August 2, 2020
On Saturday, Johnson released a video of Alan Dershowitz addressing the pro-Israeli organization Stand With Us in which the lawyer stated, in part, “We have earned to influence the public debate, we have earned to be heard.”
Johnson’s accompanying tweet accused Jews of building “a lucrative market for paedophilia, human trafficking, child sex and torture.”
On Monday, Johnson noted that his tweets had accumulated and published, “I have angered the rabbis from here to Israel.”
JTA
Lebanese media says many people are trapped under rubble, with dozens already being taken to hospitals in Beirut’s downtown following the explosion at the city’s port.
Meanwhile, al-Mayadeen now says “the thing that exploded in the Beirut port now seems to have contained oil.”
A new video appears to show fireworks sparks amid initial explosions at the site, ahead of the primary secondary explosion.
— SV News ???? (@SVNewsAlerts) August 4, 2020
Lebanese media reports imply that the explosion in Beirut was an accident, not an attack of any kind.
The pro-Hezbollah al-Mayadeen network states: “According to initial information, the explosion at the port is a terrorist attack.
Meanwhile LBCI Lebanon News and Hezbollah’s al-Manar both concur that the cause was a fireworks stockpile.
A new video shows a small mushroom cloud at the site.
[H.T @IntelCrab]
— Aleph א The Reaper (@no_itsmyturn) August 4, 2020
Another video from a Beirut street shows exploited foliage, cars covered in dust and smoke in the air, all the result of the city’s harbor explosion.
— Elie W. Fawaz (@ElieFawaz) August 4, 2020
There are initial reports of a massive explosion in the port of Beirut, the Lebanese capital.
The cause of the explosion is unclear without delay, a Lebanese network says it would possibly have been a stash of fireworks.
Journalists say their windows exploded miles away.
It’s transparent if there were any casualties.
Here are two of the incident and its aftermath.
– Timur Azhari (@timourazhari) 4 August 2020
— Disclose.tv ???? (@disclosetv) August 4, 2020
Syrian newspaper al-Watan says the other 4 people killed through the border fence in Sunday night security incident were “4 citizens walking in the village near the ceasefire zone when they were attacked by Israeli bombings.”
The Israeli army said the four militants were militants who crossed the border and planted bombs to attack Israeli troops.
Local resources tell al-Watan that among the “martyrs” is a Faisal al-Saeed, a local leader of Syria’s ruling Baath party.
Al-Watan belongs to Rami Makhlouf, formerly one of Syria’s richest men and a confidant of President Bashar Assad.
– with Aaron Boxerman
The prime minister said Benjamin Netanyahu had not heard a follower call the Leftists “Death to leftists” while visiting a falafel shop in the city of Ramle.
Netanyahu, who accused the left of ignoring the incitement against mass protests in recent weeks, tweeted: “I’m glad the left has heard. I am consistent: I condemn incitement and violence on all sides, whether it’s outdoors. house demonstrations left and on the streets.
He adds: “I expect Yair Lapid, Aymen Odeh and leftist leaders to condemn incitement and threats of murder at the protests they are leading against me.”
Odeh and Lapid, in particular, lead the protests opposed to the Prime Minister.
Israel Prize laureate Rabbi Daniel Sperber and Prof. Yael Shemesh of Bar Ilan University’s Bible Studies Department ask the Chief Rabbinate to reverse a decision by its council to allow the most stringent level of kosher certification — Mehadrin — for imported goose and duck liver (foie gras), on animal welfare grounds.
Such gavage banned in Israel in a 2003 law that entered into force in 2006.
In a letter to Ashkenazi’s chief rabbi, David Lau, the two write that gavage is one of the most shocking bureaucracies of animal abuse. In a separate letter, the Sephardic Chief Rabbi Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef is reminded of a resolution made through his vanquished father, The Sephardic Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, opposed to practice due to the suffering it causes and the doubts the liver produces in this way. is ritually specific to the consumer.
France tops the main manufacturer and foie gras.
– Sue Surkes
Three micronesian sailors stranded on a small island in the remote western Pacific were rescued after Australian and American fighter jets a giant “SOS” they had scribbled on the beach, authorities said.
The Australian Defence Force said the men were discovered Sunday on the small island of Pikelot, about 190 kilometers (115 miles) from where they had sailed three days earlier. The men derailed and ran out of fuel in a seven-metre (23-foot) boat between two of the more than six hundred islands and atolls that make up Micronesia.
Alerted through the Pacific Coordination and Rescue Center in Guam, U.S. and Australian army aircraft joined the search for missing shipment and their SOS message on Sunday.
A helicopter sent from Australia’s HMAS Canberra flew to the island with food and water and discovered the 3 men in condition.
– AFP
The Afghan government is searching for some 270 detainees, most commonly Islamic State fighters, who remain in the giant after escaping a fatal criminal raid.
At least 29 other people were killed when Islamic State gunmen attacked the Jalalabad facility on Sunday, with intense fighting lasting into the afternoon.
More than 1,300 inmates tried to escape, a senior Afghan security official tells AFP on condition of anonymity, but most were either swiftly re-arrested or surrendered when surrounded by security forces.
But about 270 prisoners are “still released,” according to the official. “Most of those who escaped are from ISKP,” he says, referring to the Afghan branch of Islamic State, known as the Islamic State in Khorasan Province.
– AFP
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited a falafel store in Ramle before, asking if they had gained government help for their businesses and whether consumers were returning.
As he walked away backers cried out “Bibi we love you,” and other supportive comments, while one shouted out “Bibi, death to all leftists! Leftists are bastards, Bibi, death to the left!”
Netanyahu has been accused through rivals and critics of fostering divisions and hatred among Israeli political camps. There are now several headlines in the Hebrew media that Netanyahu did not respond to those comments or condemned them. We note that the Prime Minister was already about 20 metres away at the time of the incendiary comments, and he probably would not have listened to them. .
Hebrew speakers can judge for themselves:
— ישכר זלמנוביץ (@Isachar1495) August 4, 2020
The World Health Organization urges Russia to comply with standards for the production of effective vaccines after Moscow announced its goal of starting to generate COVID-19 vaccines quickly.
Russia said yesterday it aims to launch mass production of a coronavirus vaccine in September and turn out “several million” doses per month by next year.
Asked about the developments in Russia, the WHO stresses that all vaccine candidates should go through the full stages of testing before being rolled out.
“There are established practices and there are guidelines out,” WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier tells reporters at the United Nations in Geneva. “Any vaccine…[or medicine] for this purpose should be, of course, going through all the various trials and tests before being licensed for roll-out,” he says.
— AFP
Diaspora Affairs Minister Omer Yankelevich (Kakhol lavan) visits settlements in the northern West Bank region and meets with leaders.
Meeting with the head of the Samarie Regional Council, Yossi Dagan, Yankelevich said: “Judea and Samaria are the lands of our ancestors. Some other people communicate about those benefits in terms of benefits and costs.
“We’ll have to strain that this is our land, we won’t have to be ashamed to say it,” he says. “The application of sovereignty deserves to be, in the end, our objective, under the right conditions.”
Though officially Blue and White’s leaders have said they support the annexation plan, they have couched such statements with caveats that this should only be done with the support and agreement of Israel’s neighbors — a virtual impossibility without a bilateral peace accord.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warns the Hezbollah terrorist group and others after Israeli forces said they thwarted an infiltration attempt from Syria by militants.
The military announced late Monday that it had struck targets in Syria after the militants tried to plant explosives in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights. Israel struck the four suspects, who were believed to have been killed.
Netanyahu, its scale at an army base, said Israel would not hesitate to take further action.
“We hit a cell phone and now we hit the dispatchers. We’ll do whatever it takes to protect ourselves. I recommend it to everyone, adding Hezbollah to this,” he says.
– with agencies
Immigration and Absorption Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata yesterday greeted 140 new immigrants from France as they arrived at Ben Gurion Airport despite the coronavirus pandemic.
The flight was arranged by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.
“By 2020, we will welcome more than ten thousand olim from all over the world,” Tamano-Shata said. “It’s a wonderful privilege for me … manage alyah at this difficult time.”
He added: “I congratulate our brothers and sisters in France, who are Zionists and are full of love for this country. each and every Jew should know that the gates of this country are open, even in the event of an emergency or crisis. “.
To the delight of the arrival of new immigrants, there are grim descriptions of some of the developing anti-Semitic sentiments in France and the display of Jewish symbols in public.
Lionel Giuili, 41, said he hadn’t been subjected to any violence, but “if, for example, while I was sitting and having dinner in my tent and hearing someone walk into the store, I would automatically take off my kipá. Neither I nor my children walked down the street with Jewish symbols … I feel loose in Israel and I no longer have to hide my Jewish identity. This reflection that I developed that made me take off my kipá and put it in my pocket will no longer be obligatory because I will live in Israel
France could “at any moment” lose control over the spread of the coronavirus, the government’s COVID-19 scientific council warns as official data shows the first rise in intensive care patients since April.
In a government-ready opinion, the council warns that “the virus has recently circulated more actively, with greater distance loss and barrier measures” since France emerged from a strict two-month block in May.
“Balance is fragile and can replace the course at any time towards a less controlled situation like in Spain, for example,” he says.
And the council warns of an “imaginable resumption of the virus flow to a higher level” until the fall of 2020, after the summer holidays in August.
– AFP
Iran confirms more than 2,700 new COVID-19 infections, their largest number in a day in more than a month, as the Ministry of Health asks for a fine for others without masks.
Deaths and infections from the novel coronavirus have been on a rising trajectory in the Islamic Republic since hitting a months-long low in May.
This has led Iran to make masking locked up mandatory and reimposing the restrictions that have been gradually introduced since April to reopen the economy.
Despite the rule, you can still notice other unmasked people in internal department stores and banks in capitals, and state television accuses them of doing so.
– AFP
Knesset Internal Affairs and Environment Committee chairwoman Miki Haimovich (Blue and White) and Likud’s MK Katrin Shitrit-Peretz submit a private bill backed by 17 other lawmakers to help environmental and wildlife groups in their bid to get hunting “for sport” banned, and the fines for illegal hunting increased.
The bill provides for prison sentences to be raised from 1-2 years to four years and for fines to be increased from a ceiling of NIS 150,000 ($44,000) to NIS 900,000 (just under $265,000).
An estimated 2,000 “sports” hunters are authorized through the Israel Nature and Parks Authority. In addition, there are thousands of cases of illegal hunting resulting in the deaths of up to 1000 gazelles, which are endangered in Israel, and plenty of porcupines, hares and birds.
The Wildlife Protection Act has not been up-to-date since 1955.
— Sue Surkes
A California member of an exiled Iranian opposition organization kidnapped through Iran while in Dubai, his circle of relatives said.
Jamshid Sharmahd’s alleged cross-border hijacking appears to be corroborated by cell phone location data, shared through his circle of relatives with The Associated Press, suggesting that he was taken to neighboring Oman before traveling to Iran.
Iran did not say how it stopped Sharmahd, the announcement of his arrest took a stand in the context of covert movements through Iran amid high tensions with the UNITED States over the cave of the Tehran nuclear deal with global powers.
Iran accuses Sharmahd, 65, of Glendora, California of planning a 2008 attack on a mosque that killed 14 people and wounded over 200 others, as well as plotting other assaults through the little-known Kingdom Assembly of Iran and its Tondar militant wing. It aired an interview of him on state television — footage that resembled many other suspected coerced confessions broadcast by the Iranian government in the last decade.
A bill that will amend the law to make it easier for importers to bring a wider range of electrical goods into the country passes its first reading in the Knesset.
The amendment, proposed by the Energy Ministry, frees importers from the cost and bureaucracy of having special laboratories confirm the energy efficiency of appliances new to the Israeli market.
The manufacturers’ energy efficiency specifications will be sufficient.
— Sue Surkes
China and the World Health Organization are discussing plans to trace the origin of the coronavirus outbreak following a visit to the country by two experts from the UN agency, the foreign ministry says.
Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told reporters that experts had conducted “preparatory consultations on cooperation in clinical studies on virus studies” during his two-week stay, which ended on Sunday.
Their talks touched on research in the areas of population, environment, molecules, animal traceability and transmission routes of the coronavirus, as well as plans for further scientific research, Wang says.
Both parties also studied the animal source imaginable, the intermediate host and the direction of coronavirus transmission to “prevent and control the epidemic more effectively”.
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Finance Minister Israel Katz said he opposed the massive new distributions to the public amid the coronavirus pandemic, amid reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to make before next month’s holiday season.
Speaking to 90FM Radio this morning, Katz said: “I don’t think we’re going to do this … I’m not aware of any of that and I don’t think it’s going to happen.”
The government began this week to distribute subsidies to the maximum of Israeli citizens, depending on the scenario of their circle of relatives and the number of young people they have, the ones who earn the most.
Larry Johnson, a former NFL ball-bearer who played seven seasons for the Kansas City Chiefs, tweeted his more than 147,000 fans over the weekend that a Jewish “clique” is concerned about “human trafficking, sex trafficking, pedophilia, child ritual torture, perversion, human sacrifice/murder.” And on Monday he showed no apology symptoms.
Johnson insanified one of the tweets in reaction to Max Kellerman, the Jewish co-host of ESPN’s “First Take,” who recently told the air that “Jews don’t have a plan for global domination.” Kellerman responded to social media posts by another NFL star, DeSean Jackson, who last month released a quote that attributed Adolf Hitler accusing Jews of having a “plan of global domination.” Jackson then deleted the message and apologized.
African Americans perform lowerly in the following areas:
Trafficking in people Trafficking in Sex Pedofilia Perversion Ritual Torture Child Sacrifice/ Human Murder
… That the Jewish clique @maxkellerman said it existed.
— Larry Johnson (@2LarryJohnson7) August 2, 2020
On Saturday, Johnson released a video of Alan Dershowitz addressing the pro-Israeli organization Stand With Us in which the lawyer stated, in part, “We have earned to influence the public debate, we have earned to be heard.”
Johnson’s accompanying tweet accused Jews of building “a lucrative market for paedophilia, human trafficking, child sex and torture.”
On Monday, Johnson noted that his tweets had accumulated and published, “I have angered the rabbis from here to Israel.”
JTA