The Times of Israel publishes Tuesday’s progress as they unfold.
Police told the user that a fake Facebook profile calling for the murder of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu belongs to an Israeli woman living abroad who has not resided in Israel for a long time.
The government opened an investigation after the false profile, under the so-called Dana Ron, published that the prime minister is expelled “only by force … dictators are only shot in the head!”
It is not yet known what action officials plan to take as opposed to the woman in the profile. Police did not say where the expat in the world lived.
After conflicting initial reports, Lebanese officials are now suggesting that the explosion was caused by highly explosive confiscated materials rather than fireworks.
Lebanon’s Director-General of Public Security Abbas Ibrahim said: “The garage contained highly explosive fabrics confiscated years ago. Talking about fireworks is ridiculous.”
“I can’t predict what the investigation will reveal about the reasons for the explosion,” Ibrahim adds.
Local media reports the materials were seized off a ship and stored at a warehouse at the port.
“What we saw looked like Hiroshima or Nagasaki. It’s absolutely unprecedented in Lebanon’s history,” says Beirut governor Marwan Aboud.
“I have never seen such widespread destruction. This is a national catastrophe. This is a disaster for Lebanon. We’re already living through days where we can barely keep going. And now this…I don’t know how we’re going to recover from this,” Aboud tells Sky News before bursting into tears
Lebanese President Michel Aoun has called an emergency cabinet meeting.
— with Aaron Boxerman
Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab announces that tomorrow, Wednesday, will be a national day of mourning for the victims of the explosion in Beirut’s port.
Media reports say Diab’s daughter, wife and several advisers were lightly injured by damage to his residence.
A Lebanese journalist tweeted that Beirut’s crowded hospitals are pushing back other people, unable to cope with the number of wounded.
She retwated a Beirut resident saying, “People are dying before my eyes because the hospital can’t settle for more patients.”
– Jenan Moussa (@jenanmoussa) 4 August 2020
The first explosion in the port, according to the official al-Manar television of Hezbollah, began with an electric spark.
Beirut Governor Philip Boulos said a team of lifeguards had been sent to deal with the fire. The first fire, which burned for several minutes, was a much more powerful moment of explosion that destroyed near buildings and broke windows throughout the city.
The explosion of the moment, according to Lebanese customs director Badri Daher, caused through “nitrates”.
Firefighters are still missing, Boulos said, lost under the rubble in the collapsed port.
Lebanese media reported that dozens of others were killed and many injured, there was no official confirmation of the death toll.
– Aaron Boxerman
Israeli authorities deny that the Jewish state has been involved in major explosions in Beirut, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Lebanon’s most recent reports imply that initial explosions at the port could have fired fuel tanks that caused the massive secondary explosion.
– with Judah Ari Gross
The Ministry of Health reported that the national number of coronavirus instances was greater than 75,825, adding 25,435 active instances. Since midnight, 1,009 more people have been diagnosed.
Knowledge shows that in the last 24 hours, since last night, 1,723 people were shown to be wearing coronaviruses.
Of the patients, 342 are in a severe condition (99 fans), 146 are in a moderate condition and the others have mild or no symptoms.
So far, 15,917 have been made today.
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.
One video shows destroyed cars, shattered glass and blasted 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 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.
“It shows that America’s nuclear deterrence is safe, reliable, reliable, and effective,” the Air Force said in a statement.
– AFP
It doesn’t say how many were killed.
Others wounded walked down the street, while outside Clemenceau Medical Center, dozens of wounded, many covered in blood, rushed to the center, adding children.
— 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 Beirut’s port says he witnessed people wounded on the ground and widespread destruction in central Beirut.
Lebanese media transmitted photographs of others trapped under the rubble, some bloodied, after the big 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,” one resident tweeted, writing: “A massive deafening explosion has engulfed Beirut. I heard it for miles.”
Online photographs of a Lebanese newspaper show burst windows, scattered furniture and demolished interior panels.
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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 struggles to say the word Yosemite (pronounced Yoh-sem-it-ee), instead saying the word as if he’s trying out some street-speak on a Jew.
— C J (@TweetrHandle) August 4, 2020
Larry Johnson, a former NFL running back who played seven seasons for the Kansas City Chiefs, tweeted multiple times to his more than 147,000 followers over the weekend that a Jewish “cabal” is involved in “Human Trafficking, Sex Trafficking, Pedophilia, Ritualistic Child Torture, Perversion, Human Sacrifice/Murder.” And on Monday, he showed no signs of apologizing.
Johnson framed one of those tweets as a response to Max Kellerman, the Jewish co-host of ESPN’s “First Take” show, who said on the air recently that “Jews do not have a plan for world domination.” Kellerman was responding to social media posts by another NFL star, DeSean Jackson, who last month posted a quote he attributed to Adolf Hitler accusing Jews of having a “plan for world domination.” Jackson subsequently removed the post and apologized.
African Americans overwhelmingly underperform in the area of:
Human TraffickingSex Trafficking Pedophilia Ritualistic Child Torture PerversionHuman Sacrifice/Murder
…than the Jewish cabal @maxkellerman said don’t exist.
— Larry Johnson (@2LarryJohnson7) August 2, 2020
On Saturday, Johnson posted a video of Alan Dershowitz speaking to the pro-Israel organization Stand With Us in which the attorney said, in part, “We have earned the right to influence public debate, we have earned the right to be heard.”
Johnson’s accompanying tweet accused Jews of seeking to conceal “a lucrative market in pedophilia, human trafficking, child sex trafficking & torture.”
On Monday, Johnson noted the attention his tweets had garnered, posting: “I angered ‘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.
Pro-Hezbollah network al-Mayadeen says: “According to preliminary information, the explosion at the port is not a terrorist attack.
Meanwhile LBCI Lebanon News and Hezbollah’s al-Manar both concur that the cause was a fireworks stockpile.
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 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
Syria’s al-Watan newspaper claims that the four people killed by the border fence in Sunday night’s security incident were “four citizens walking in the village close to the ceasefire zone, when they were targeted by Israeli shelling.”
The Israeli army has said the four were militants who crossed the border and planted bombs to attack Israeli troops.
Local sources tells al-Watan that among the “martyrs” was one Faisal al-Saeed, a local official in Syria’s ruling Ba’ath 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’s Office says Benjamin Netanyahu did not hear when a supporter called out “Death to leftists” as he visited 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.
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 chief Rabbi David Lau, the two write that force-feeding is one of the most shocking forms of animal abuse. In a separate letter, they remind the Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef of a ruling given by his late father, Sephardi Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, against the practice because of the suffering it causes and the doubts raised that liver produced in such as way is ritually fit for consumption.
France is still the main producer and consumer of 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 some 270 prisoners are “still on the loose”, the official says. “Most of those who escaped are from ISKP,” he says, referring to Islamic State’s Afghan branch, known as the Islamic State in Khorasan Province.
— AFP
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited a falafel shop in Ramle earlier, asking owners if they had received government assistance for their business and if customers 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 comply with standards for the production of effective vaccines after Moscow announced its goal of starting to generate COVID-19 vaccines quickly.
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.
When asked about progress in Russia, WHO lobbied for all candidate vaccines to go through the full stages of testing before they were implemented.
“There are established practices and guidelines,” WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier told UN journalists in Geneva. “Any vaccine … [or drug] for this purpose must, of course, be subjected to all other tests and tests before allowing its deployment,” he says.
– AFP
Diaspora Affairs Minister Omer Yankelevich (Kakhol lavan) visits settlements in the northern West Bank region and meets with leaders.
Meeting with Samarita Regional Council chief 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.”
Although Kakhol Lavan’s leaders have officially declared that they have the plan of annexation, they have made such statements with reservations that this deserves to be done only with the agreement of Israel’s neighbors, which is almost impossible without a bilateral peace agreement.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warns the terrorist organization Hezbollah and others after Israeli forces said they had foiled through militants to infiltrate from Syria.
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 phone and now we hit the dispatchers. We’ll do whatever it takes to protect ourselves. I recommend you all, 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 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.”
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. “.
Mixed with the happiness of the new immigrants’ arrival are grim descriptions by some of rising anti-Semitic sentiments in France, and the difficulty of displaying Jewish symbols in public.
Lionel Giuili, 41, said he did not experience any violence, but “if, for example, while I was sitting and eating in my store and I heard someone enter the store, I automatically took off my kippah. Neither I nor my children walked around the street with Jewish symbols… I feel free in Israel, and I no longer have to hide my Jewish identity. This reflex I developed that made me take my kippah off and put it in my pocket will no longer be necessary as I will be living 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 an opinion prepared for the government, the council warns “the virus has recently been circulating more actively, with an increased loss of distancing and barrier measures” since France emerged from a strict two-month lockdown 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 a possible “resumption of circulation of the virus at a high level” by autumn 2020, after the August summer holidays.
– 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 new coronavirus have been on an upward trajectory in the Islamic Republic since its last months 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 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-based member of an Iranian militant opposition group in exile was abducted by Iran while staying in Dubai, his family says.
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.
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 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 hint at the source of the coronavirus outbreak after an attack on the country through two UN agency experts, the Foreign Ministry said.
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.
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 says he opposes further mass handouts to the public amid the coronavirus pandemic, amid reports Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking just that ahead of the High Holiday season next month.
Speaking to 90FM radio this morning, Katz said, “I don’t think we’re going to do this … I’m not aware of something like 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.
Police told the user that a fake Facebook profile calling for the murder of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu belongs to an Israeli woman living abroad who has not resided in Israel for a long time.
Authorities opened an investigation after the fake profile, under the name Dana Ron, posted that the premier should be ousted “only by force… dictators are removed only with a bullet to the head!”
It is not yet known what action officials plan to take as opposed to the woman in the profile. Police did not say where the expat in the world lived.