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, responding to rumors that the cause of the explosion in Beirut was an Israeli attack opposed to Hezbollah’s weapons, resources near Hezbollah told the Lebanese OTV that “there is no truth” in those 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 introduced at 12:21 p.m. from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, traveling 6,700 kilometers (4,200 miles) over the Pacific Ocean before landing at sea near the Marshall Islands.
“It shows that America’s nuclear deterrence is safe, reliable, reliable, and effective,” the Air Force said in a statement.
– AFP
Lebanese health minister Hamad Hasan said the explosion in Beirut had “a very large number of injuries” and enormous 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.
Destroyed cars were abandoned in the street with their airbags inflated.
— with AFP
Opposition leader Yair Lapid, head of Yesh Atid-Telem, lashes the prime minister after Benjamin Netanyahu suggested earlier that he is leading public demonstrations against him.
“Netanyahu has again accused me of encouraging protesters. That’s not an accusation, it’s a compliment. Yes, I support them. Besides, Israel’s greatest inciter and hatemonger shouldn’t reproach us.”
An Associated Press photographer near Beirut’s port says he witnessed people wounded on the ground and widespread destruction in central Beirut.
Lebanese media carried images of people trapped under rubble, some bloodied, after the massive explosion.
The loud blast in Beirut’s port area was felt across large parts of the city and some districts lost electricity.
“Buildings are shaking,” tweeted one resident, while another wrote: “An enormous, deafening explosion just engulfed Beirut. Heard it from miles away”.
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:
Human TraffickingSex Trafficking Pedophilia Ritualistic Child Torture PerversionHuman Sacrifice/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 say many other people are trapped under the rubble, and dozens have already been taken to hospitals in downtown Beirut after the explosion at the city’s harbor.
Meanwhile, al-Mayadeen now says that “what exploded in Beirut’s port now turns out to contain oil.”
A new video appears to show fireworks sparks amid initial explosions at the site, ahead of the primary secondary explosion.
– SV News ???? (@SVNewsAlerts) 4 August 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 agree that the cause is an arsenal of fireworks.
A new video of a small mushroom cloud on the site.
[H.T @IntelCrab]
– Aleph – 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 preliminary reports of a huge explosion at the port of Lebanon capital Beirut.
The cause of the explosion is unclear without delay, a Lebanese network says it would possibly have been a stash of fireworks.
Journalists say glass windows in their homes exploded from 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) 4 August 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 is owned by Rami Makhlouf, formerly one of Syria’s richest men and a close 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 added: “I hope that Yair Lapid, Aymen Odeh and left-wing leaders will condemn incitement and threats of homicide for their protests against me.”
Odeh and Lapid, in particular, lead the protests opposed to the Prime Minister.
The winner of the Israel Prize, Rabbi Daniel Sperber and Professor Yael Shemesh of the Department of Biblical Studies at Bar Ilan University, are asking Chief Rabbiate to revoke the resolution of his council to allow the strictest point of kosher certification – Mehadrin – for imported goose and duck foie gras, for reasons of animal welfare.
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 detainees tried to escape, a senior Afghan security official told the AFP on anonymity status, but the maximum was arrested or temporarily handed over 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, supporters shouted “Bibi, we love you” and other supporting comments, while one shouted “Bibi, dead to all leftists! Leftists are bastards, Bibi, the death of 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:
– זלמנוביץ (Isachar1495) 4 August 2020
The World Health Organization urges Russia to follow the established guidelines for producing safe and effective vaccines after Moscow announced plans to start swiftly producing COVID-19 jabs.
Russia stated its goal of starting mass production of a coronavirus vaccine in September and producing “several million” doses consistent with the month through 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 (Blue and White) tours settlements in the West Bank’s northern Samaria region and meets with local leaders.
Meeting with Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan, Yankelevich says: “Judea and Samaria are the lands of our forefathers. Some people talk of these places in terms of benefit and cost.
“We must always stress that this is our land, we should not be ashamed to say it,” she says. “Applying sovereignty should eventually be our goal, 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 army announced Monday night that it had hit targets in Syria after militants attempted to plant explosives in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights. Israel hit the 4 suspects, who were reportedly killed.
Netanyahu, its scale at an army base, said Israel would not hesitate to take further action.
“We hit a cell and now we hit the dispatchers. We will do what is necessary in order to defend ourselves. I suggest to all of them, including Hezbollah, to consider 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 organized through the International Alliance 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.”
She added: “I congratulate our brothers and sisters from France, who are Zionists and full of love for this country… every Jew should know that the gates of this country are still open, even during 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 may simply “at any time” lose the spread of coronavirus, warns the government’s COVID-19 clinical advice, as official knowledge shows the first build-up 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.
“The balance is fragile and we can change course at any time to a less controlled scenario like in Spain for example,” it says.
And the council warns of a possible “resumption of circulation of the virus at a high level” by autumn 2020, after the August summer holidays.
– AFP
Iran confirms over 2,700 new COVID-19 infections today, its highest single-day count in more than a month, as the health ministry calls for those without masks to be fined.
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 prompted Iran to make wearing masks mandatory in enclosed spaces and reimpose restrictions lifted gradually since April to reopen the economy.
Despite the rule, people without masks can still be seen inside the capitals’ shops and banks, and state television often criticizes them for doing so.
— AFP
Knesset Committee on Internal Affairs and Environment Miki Haimovich (Kakhol lavan) and Likud deputy Katrin Shitrit-Peretz are filing a personal bill subsidized by 17 other lawmakers to help the environment and teams in their attempts to ban hunting “for sport.” and fines for illegal hunting have increased.
The bill states that criminal judgments will be higher from 1 to 2 years to 4 years and fines will be higher than a maximum limit of NIS 150,000 ($44,000) to NIS 900,000 (only $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 65-year-old Sharmahd of Glendora, California, of making plans for a two-hundred-eight attack on a mosque that killed 14 others and wounded more than two hundred, as well as planning additional attacks through the Assembly of the Kingdom of Iran and its tondar activist wing. He broadcast an interview with him on state television, photographs that resembled many other alleged forced confessions transmitted through the Iranian government over the past decade.
An invoice that will change the law for importers to bring a greater diversity of electrical products to the country is passing its first reading in the Knesset.
The amendment, proposed through the Ministry of Energy, frees importers from the burden and bureaucracy of having special laboratories to verify the power of new household appliances in the Israeli market.
Manufacturers’ power specifications will suffice.
– 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 spokesperson Wang Wenbin tells reporters the experts conducted “preparatory consultations on scientific research cooperation on virus tracing” during their two-week stay, which ended Sunday.
His interviews focused on studies in population spaces, the environment, molecules, animal traceability and coronavirus transmission pathways, as well as additional clinical curriculums, Wang said.
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”.
Ap
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.
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 introduced at 12:21 p.m. from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, traveling 6,700 kilometers (4,200 miles) over the Pacific Ocean before landing at sea near the Marshall Islands.
“It shows that America’s nuclear deterrence is safe, reliable, reliable, and effective,” the Air Force said in a statement.
— AFP