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Cake day: January 5th, 2025

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  • Israel Has Destroyed 67 Percent of Gaza’s Cemeteries

    The cemetery in al-Mawasi Gaza that was dug up by ‘israel’ yesterday.

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    In a detailed statement issued on Friday, the ministry noted that since the start of the war in October 2023, occupation forces had either completely or partially destroyed roughly 40 out of Gaza’s 60-strong cemeteries.

    It further denounced Israeli forces for perpetrating a new crime by storming the historic Turkish cemetery in the al-Mawasi area west of the city of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza.

    According to the ministry, Israeli tanks and bulldozers rolled into the site at dawn on Thursday, demolishing graves and exhuming corpses.

    The ministry condemned the outrage as “a scene that transcends the limits of humanity and [is] devoid of all religious and international values and norms,” noting that occupation forces had not only destroyed graves, but also “stole the bodies of martyrs and the dead.”

    The assault coincided with Israeli forces demolishing camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) encircling the cemetery, uprooting hundreds of families, who had sought refuge there from relentless bombardment.

    The ministry stressed that such coordinated attacks deepened Gaza’s already catastrophic humanitarian crisis.




  • So they didn’t blow up the ugly nazi tower? Unfortunate indeed. Its still a legendary image and strike though.

    The mosque thay they are showing in that thread is a different mosque than the Independence (Istiqlal) mosque that I pointed out. I did a little digging and I speculate that they built these government municipal buildings in the early 21st century right next to three historic mosques to deter Hezbollah from striking them…

    The “rocket building” is less than 20 meters away from another mosque. Red marks are two of the mosques (Zahir Umar and Jurayneh) and the yellow circle is where the missile hit.

    Istiqlal Mosque is like 200 meters from the building.

    Even if its not the exact building hit, I still stand by my initial statement. It seems Tasnim news lied about the F-35’s which is very unfortunate and it seems the Iranian air defenses were caught completely by surprise on June 13 (basically equivalent to the pager operation) and a few other concerning things… but the narrative that “Iran’s missiles arent actually precision” is something I have seen in too many Emirati and Zionist rags and I am going to have a knee-jerk reaction against it.

    (We all saw multiple videos of hypersonic missiles threading the needle between residential buildings to strike air defenses and other incredible feats.)

    Thanks for investigating more, it gave me the chance to learn something new.





  • US turning shipping containers into missile systems

    https://asiatimes.com/2025/07/us-containerized-missiles-steathy-firepower-high-strategic-cost/

    Palletized field artillery launchers (PFAL) that can be concealed on trucks, railcars, or ships.

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    The US military’s turn to containerized missile launchers reflects a push for stealthy, mobile firepower that complicates targeting and enables rapid deployment but comes with operational, legal, and political concerns – especially regarding their use on allied soil and civilian cargo vessels.

    This month, The War Zone identified a prototype launcher known as the palletized field artillery launcher (PFAL) at Fort Bragg, after it appeared unannounced in footage from US President Donald Trump’s June visit.

    Currently owned by US Special Operations Command (SOCOM), PFAL can fire most munitions in the multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) family – such as 227 millimeter guided rockets and Army tactical missile system (ATACMS) – from two pods housed in a standard container, though it cannot launch the precision strike missile (PrSM).

    Concealable on trucks, railcars, or ships, PFAL supports the Army’s strategy to complicate adversary targeting. Originating from the US Department of Defense’s Strike X program, it also informed designs for future uncrewed systems like the autonomous multi-domain launcher (AML).

    Containerized launchers like PFAL offer operational benefits– concealability, rapid mobility and modular integration across partner platforms. Yet their covert nature also introduces tactical weaknesses, legal risks and political complications. While these systems enhance deterrence through ambiguity and dispersion, they risk civilian targeting, escalation and backlash from host nations wary of entanglement.

    In remarks delivered at a June 2025 event hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), US Army Pacific Commander General Ronald Clark stated that such systems “literally operationalize deterrence,” likening them to “a needle in a stack of needles” due to their ambiguous electromagnetic signatures and visual resemblance to civilian containers.

    He emphasized that their dispersed posture enables US forces to hold Chinese targets at risk across the Indo-Pacific, while avoiding traditional launcher vulnerabilities.

    In a June 2025 Proceedings article, Rear Admiral Bill Daly and Captain Lawrence Heyworth IV emphasized advantages of modular, containerized payloads: low cost, ease of production and quick scalability. They noted that mounting them on unmanned or optionally manned vessels increases survivability and complicates targeting. A standardized interface allows for rapid reconfiguration, while adaptability enables distributed maritime operations with flexible firepower suited to near-peer conflicts.