The following are some of this week's reports from the MEMRI Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM) Project, which translates and analyzes content from sources monitored around the clock, among them the most important jihadi websites and blogs. (To view these reports in full, you must be a paying member of the JTTM; for membership information, send an email to jttmsubs@memri.org with "Membership" in the subject line.)
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On April 23, 2024, to mark 200 days of war between Israel and Hamas and additional Palestinian factions in Gaza, caused by Hamas perpetrating its Al-Aqsa Flood campaign from the Gaza Strip, the war media Telegram channels of Hizbullah, the Houthi Ansar Allah movement, and the Iran-backed militias in Iraq released an official joint summary of those organizations' operations against Israel in support of Gaza, perpetrated on "the assistance fronts" from Lebanon, Yemen, and Iraq.
On April 16, 2024, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning the popular pro-Palestinian chant, "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free," as antisemitic.
On April 17, 2024, a pro-Al-Qaeda media outlet published a one-page statement in Arabic praising the April 15 stabbing of Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel at a church in Wakeley, in Sydney, Australia by a 15-year-old, and the April 10 stabbing in Bordeaux, France, in which one person was killed and another injured.
On April 18, 2024, the pro-Hizbullah Lebanese daily, Al-Akhbar, reported that the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) took a series of precautionary measures in anticipation of the possibility that Israel would strike back to retaliate for Iran's attack of April 14.
Hizbullah Brigades Militia Denies Resuming Attacks On U.S. Forces
On April 21, 2024, several rockets were fired at the Kharab Al-Jir base in northeastern Syria, which houses U.S. troops.
On April 18, 2024, the press office of Qais Al-Khazali, the Secretary General of Iran-backed Iraqi Asa'ib Ahl Al-Haq Movement received a delegation from the Yazidi community of Sinjar, in northern Iraq.
On April 17, 2024, a Telegram channel affiliated with Iran-backed militias in Iraq published a letter sent by Ismail Haniyeh, the Qatar-based political leader of Hamas, to the channel.
On April 19, 2024, Iran said it had shot down three quadcopters that had launched inside its borders the night before, targeting the central province of Isfahan which houses the main nuclear facilities at Natanz.
On April 20, 2024, an explosion occurred at the Iraqi Popular Mobilization (PMU) Kalsu base south of Baghdad, in the north of Iraq's Babul Governorate.
April 24, 2024, marked 200 days since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war. On the occasion, Yemen's Ansar Allah Houthi movement issued statement reaffirming its support for Palestinians and calling for further escalation against Israel.
On April 24, 2024, Houthi Ansar Allah's Armed Forces spokesman Yahya Sare'e released a statement, in English and Arabic, claiming that the group’s naval forces carried out an "accurate" naval missile attack against the American ship Maersk Yorktown in the Gulf of Aden.
On April 18, 2024, the Islamic State (ISIS) released issue 439 of its weekly newsletter, Al-Naba'.
Issue 437 of Islamic State (ISIS) weekly Al-Naba', published on April 18, 2024, includes an "exclusive" article reporting on the ISIS Somalia Province's advances against Al-Qaeda affiliate Harakat Al-Shabab Al-Mujahideen (Al-Shabab) in northeastern Somalia.
Islamic State Syria Province Claims Killing 20 Pro-Assad Regime Militiamen In Attack East Of Homs
On April 20, 2024, the Islamic State's (ISIS) official A'maq News Agency published a statement reporting that according to "military sources," on April 18, ISIS operatives carried out an ambush against a vehicle belonging to the pro-Assad regime Al-Quds Brigade militia in the desert of Al-Sukhnah, east of Homs.
Pro-Islamic State (ISIS) Media Outlet Published Third AI-Generated Video News Report
On April 22, 2024, a pro-Islamic State (ISIS) media outlet published a video news report generated by artificial intelligence (AI).
On April 23, 2024, a pro-Islamic State (ISIS) media outlet published a poster soliciting Monero cryptocurrency donations.
On April 21, 2024, a pro-ISIS media outlet released a statement claiming that "the infidel intelligence agencies" have established two new fake accounts, explaining that the agencies managed to take control of one of the outlet's Facebook accounts and used it to spread links to the fake accounts.
In recent days, pro-Islamic State (ISIS) media groups, including those that distribute official ISIS media in Arabic and in translations to other languages, have begun to create accounts on the TeleGuard messaging app.
An article in the latest issue of an English-language monthly magazine published by a media outlet linked to the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), which defines itself as a supporting entity for the Islamic State (ISIS), criticizes Islamist groups for collaborating with unbelievers and tyrants to support the status quo in Islamic countries.
The latest issue an English-language monthly magazine published by a media outlet linked to the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), which defines itself as a supporting entity for the Islamic State (ISIS), features a long article that is Part Two in a continuing series on online security that teaches jihadi fighters about issues involving maintaining security online.
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In a Pashtu-language video, the Islamic State Khurasan Province (ISKP) criticized the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA, i.e., the Afghan Taliban) for developing diplomatic relations with India while ignoring crimes against Muslims in India.
On April 18, 2024, Shahada News Agency, the official outlet of Al-Qaeda's affiliate in Somalia, Harakat Al-Shabab Al-Mujahideen (Al-Shabab) reported that the group had recently released three videos documenting students in southwestern and southern Somalia attending shari'a (Islamic laws) schools which are sponsored by the group. The video showed a group of children and teenagers participating in the contests.
On April 21, 2024, Al-Sahab, the official media outlet of Al-Qaeda general command, published a one-page statement in Arabic, extending its condolences to the Qatar-based Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh, who lost his three sons and grandsons in an Israeli strike in Gaza on April 10.
On April 23, 2024, the Al-Zallaqa Media Foundation, the media arm of Al-Qaeda's affiliate in the African Sahel, Jama'at Nusrat Al-Islam Wal-Muslimeen (the Group for Support of Islam and Muslims – GSIM), published a statement reporting "massacres" by the Malian army and the Russian-backed Wagner private military company (PMC) against dozens of "innocent, defenseless civilians" in western Mali.
On April 22, the Telegram channel a newly formed entity, which identifies as an Idlib-based independent Islamic Syrian organization which advocates for the implementation of Islamic law across all of Syria, issued a statement reiterating the four demands enshrined in its founding charter, foremost the ouster of Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) leader Abu Muhammad Al-Joulani.
Syrian Opposition Outlet: Turkey Deploys More Than 300 Syrian Fighters To Niger On Combat Mission
On April 21, 2024, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), which is affiliated with the Syrian opposition, reported that Turkey had deployed 300 Syrian fighters to Niger on a combat mission.
In a recent article in an Urdu-language daily, a Pakistani scholar examined several fatwas issued from the leading madrassas in Pakistan and India, saying that shari'a forbids the sale and purchase of cryptocurrencies.
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On March 8, 2024, Hizb-ut-Tahrir Afghanistan released a Dari-language article criticizing the U.S. State Department for holding a meeting on Afghan women's economic empowerment and calling it a disguise for American interference in the internal affairs of Afghanistan.
