Israeli official confirms plan for locals to run ‘humanitarian pockets’ in Gaza

Zeitoun district in Gaza City, largely cleared of terrorists, eyed for pilot run as Jerusalem seeks the ‘right people to step up’; Hamas official dismisses idea

Israeli official confirms plan for locals to run ‘humanitarian pockets’ in Gaza

Zeitoun district in Gaza City, largely cleared of terrorists, eyed for pilot run as Jerusalem seeks the ‘right people to step up’; Hamas official dismisses idea

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-official-confirms-plan-for-locals-to-run-humanitarian-pockets-in-gaza/

Cyber Attack Takes Francis Howell Schools, Mo., Offline

A Missouri school district northwest of St. Louis moved to remote learning on Tuesday and Wednesday after unexpected activity disrupted the district's network. The district is without Internet for the rest of the week.

A cyber attack disrupted Francis Howell schools' computer systems, Superintendent Kenneth Roumpos said in a message to the district's community Wednesday.

All Francis Howell schools moved to remote learning on Tuesday and Wednesday after the district said "unexpected activity" caused problems with the district's network. Law enforcement has been notified after malware was used to "encrypt certain systems."

Students will return to school on Thursday, but they will not have Internet access for at least the rest of this week.

"We notified federal law enforcement and engaged third-party computer specialists to investigate the source of the attack and confirm any impact on our systems and information," Roumpos wrote on Wednesday.

A spokesperson for the FBI's St. Louis office said the FBI does not confirm or deny the existence of an investigation and would not confirm if a report had been received.

A district spokesperson said they did not have any information to share about the attack other than what was in Roumpos' message.

Over the past two days, district staff has checked on safety systems such as key fobs, building intercoms, exterior door intercoms, fire alarms, HVAC systems and more, Roumpos wrote.

"Though our schools will not have Internet access for instructional purposes for at least the remainder of the week, we are confident that we have the appropriate workarounds in place to keep our buildings secure …" Roumpos wrote.

Francis Howell is the latest school district in the St. Louis area to fall victim to cyber attacks.

In 2021, malware prevented Rockwood School District from accessing files on certain systems. At the time, the district described the disruption as a "data privacy incident."

Last June, a Russian ransomware gang called "CLoP" said it hacked the University of Missouri as part of a global cyber attack.

https://www.govtech.com/education/k-12/cyber-attack-takes-francis-howell-schools-mo-offline

A Bridge Under Construction in the Darien Gap Will Soon Provide an ‘Easier and Less Dangerous’ Path to the United States: Congressional Candidate

Mara Macie, a small group of journalists, and a few others arrived in Panama last Thursday to get a first-hand look at the Darien Gap between Colombia and Panama—a place largely considered one of the world’s most dangerous migration routes.

The group was led by Michael Yon, a former Army Green Beret, war correspondent, and expert on the unabated migration crisis happening south of the U.S. border. Macie, who is running for U.S. Congress in Florida’s 5th Congressional District, said she is “very concerned” about the number of people coming through Central America to cross the southern border of the United States.

Often desiring to reach the United States, she said, migrants from all over the world cross the Darien Gap. In 2023, a record reported number of migrants—over 520,000—crossed the jungle that stretches between Colombia and Panama.

The first camp Macie visited, Lajas Blancas, received 1,300 new migrants over the course of the day. Most individuals she encountered came from Venezuela, while many others were from Africa, Afghanistan, Iran, and China. “When I [spoke to migrants and] asked about their final destination, a minimum of 95 percent of them said the United States,” she estimated.

Mammoth numbers of people are arriving at the camps to purchase $60 (USD) bus tickets that will take them from the Darien Gap through Costa Rica, she said, noting that “people are literally begging for money to get a ticket.”

Without the ability to fund their travel, others choose to make their northern journey by foot. Many receive maps printed by various non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to help guide their trek to the United States. Macie said the maps are also posted at many of the camps.

Travel is dangerous, especially through the jungle of the Darien Gap. “In Yaviza, the Pan-American highways ends, which leaves no highway from Colombia to Panama,” she explained. “The Darien gap is the area where the roads on either side [of the countries] do not meet.”

“But the Panamanian government is building a bridge in Yaviza, connecting the two, making it easier and less dangerous for migrants to have a clearer path to immigration,” she pointed out.

Macie warned, “[America] does not have the capability of sustaining the influx it faces now, much less the one to come when the bridge is complete.”

A Crisis Indeed

After her weeklong stay in Panama, Macie said that simply referring to the massive flow of people to the United States as a “migration crisis” is an understatement. What she also witnessed was a “massive humanitarian crisis.” And with that, she called out non-governmental organizations (NGOs) for “claiming to be working [in the region] for humanitarian reasons [while showing little proof] of doing anything humanitarian.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/bridge-under-construction-darien-gap-will-soon-provide/

This is Rothschild owned!

French prosecutors seek trial for Lafarge cement group over terror financing

The company paid nearly €13 million to middlemen to keep its Syrian cement factory running in 2013 and 2014, after other French firms had pulled out of the country.

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https://www.lemonde.fr/en/police-and-justice/article/2024/02/09/french-prosecutors-seek-trial-for-lafarge-cement-group-over-terror-financing_6509750_105.html

The French National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office (PNAT) requested on Friday, February 9, that cement maker Lafarge and nine individuals be brought before the criminal court on charges of financing terrorist groups, due to its activities in Syria in 2013 and 2014. It is also for violating international embargoes prohibiting payments to terrorist entities such as the Islamic State group and the Al-Nosra Front, according to the charges seen by Le Monde.

Lafarge has been part of Swiss building materials conglomerate Holcim since 2015. It has acknowledged that in 2013 and 2014 it paid nearly €13 million to middlemen to keep its Syrian cement factory running, long after other French firms had pulled out of the country. But the company contends that it had no responsibility for the money winding up in the hands of groups allegedly including Islamic State.

But in a PNAT filing seen by AFP, prosecutors took a different view. The company "either intended the funds to be used entirely, or in part, towards the objective of committing terrorist acts, or was aware that this was how they would be used," they wrote.

Lafarge pulled its foreign staff from the Syrian site in 2012 but kept local workers in place until 2014, when the site was evacuated just before Islamic State took it over.

Several Syrian staff and NGOs – Sherpa and the European Center for Consitutional and Human Rights – filed a legal complaint against Lafarge, and France's judiciary opened a probe in 2017.

Last month, France's top appeals court ruled that Lafarge and the former managers could be charged with complicity in crimes against humanity over the pay-offs. Prosecutors are still investigating those accusations. However, the court threw out an earlier charge of endangering the lives of others, saying French law could not be applied to Syrians working in the factory.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/police-and-justice/article/2024/02/09/french-prosecutors-seek-trial-for-lafarge-cement-group-over-terror-financing_6509750_105.html

>>20458837

Doctors Without Borders urgent update on #Gaza to UN Security Council

https://youtu.be/08FEiBklxsA

>>20458900

It's not down

It appears to being under DDOS attack

>>20458921

Hmmm looping out on me still

Everything else is running fine

>>20459026

Netanyahu's puppy speaks, how do you know little marco?

Armenia ‘suspended’ security pact with Russia – PM

Nikol Pashinyan says his decision was motivated by the simmering conflict with Azerbaijan

Armenia has de facto suspended its participation in the key security agreement with Russia, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said, citing the continuing tensions with its neighbor and arch-rival Azerbaijan.

In an interview with France 24 that was published on Thursday, Pashinyan said that his country has grown dissatisfied with the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), a six-member bloc founded shortly after the breakup of the Soviet Union.

“We believe that, in Armenia’s case, the treaty has not been implemented, especially in 2021-2022, and it couldn’t go unnoticed,” Pashiyan explained. “We have suspended our participation in this treaty. We’ll see what happens next.”

Armenia began refusing to attend certain CSTO events and military drills last year. Pashinyan said in the past, however, that Yerevan had no plans to formally cut ties with the bloc. He urged the bloc and its leader Russia, however, to back Armenia during its conflict with Azerbaijan and condemn its “aggression” in the region.

https://www.rt.com/russia/592986-armenian-suspends-pact-russia/