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 October 14, 2024, Deputy Secretary-General of Lebanese Hizbullah, Sheikh Naim Qassem, gave a televised speech in which he said that the group had entered a new phase in its ongoing operations against Israel.
On October 15, 2024, the official website of the Yemen-based Ansar Allah (Houthi) movement featured an article listing figures about the group's "General Mobilization" project, said to reflect the Yemeni people's "jihadi spirit" and determination to participate actively in the war against Israel.
On October 8, 2024, a program on Israel's right-wing Channel 14 TV showed the faces of several senior figures in Iran and the armed groups it backs with targets on them, suggesting that Israel considers them candidates for elimination.
On X (formerly Twitter), a user routinely expresses his support for both Hamas and Hizbullah.
On October 15, 2024, the military media of Lebanese Hizbullah published 110-second-long video on Telegram threatening Israel's northern city of Haifa with catastrophic strikes, stating that the attacks would turn the city into a disaster area, as shown in the video.
Lebanese Hizbullah released aerial surveillance footage of Israeli military and industrial sites near Haifa, while warning that the group can target anywhere in the country.
On the evening of October 13, 2024, a drone launched by Lebanese Hizbullah hit a base of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Golani Brigade near the town of Binyamina, in north-central Israel.
On October 14, 2024, the Hizbullah-affiliated Al-Mayadeen Telegram channel published a statement by Hizbullah's Media Relations Office condemning The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) for dispatching a journalistic team accompanied by soldiers from the Israeli Defense Forces to villages in southern Lebanon, calling the step a violation of Lebanon's sovereignty.
In One Week, Islamic Resistance In Iraq Claims 24 Attacks Against Israel
From October 8-14, 2024, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq issued dozens of statements claiming responsibility for 24 separate attacks targeting Israel with drones and other aircraft.
On October 14, 2024, the military media of Lebanese Hizbullah published a 90-second video on Telegram promoting its military capabilities, including a type of drones revealed by the group for the first time.
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On October 9, 2024, the Lebanese An-Nahar daily published a brief report quoting "intelligence sources" who said that Lebanese Hizbullah had recently received Russian drones and that several experts were training the group's operatives in their use.
Between October 7 and 10, 2024, Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi Ansar Allah movement (the Houthis) claimed responsibility for a series of drone and missile attacks on a number of targets in the Jaffa area adjacent to Tel Aviv in central Israel, and in the Eilat area in Israel’s south. They also claimed to have carried out a drone and missile attack on “an American” oil tanker in the Red Sea and a missile attack on a commercial vessel in the Indian Ocean.
On October 14, 2024, on Yemen Wrath, one of its official Telegram channels, the Houthi Ansar Allah movement posted a 90-second video that summarizes its military and other activities during the year since the Al-Aqsa Flood attack.
On October 12, 2024, the pro-Hizbullah Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar published an article detailing threats from officials in Yemen's Iran-backed Ansar Allah Movement (the Houthis) to launch naval operations against Israel.
On October 13, 2024, on its Telegram channel, the Iran-backed Iraqi Sarkhat Al-Quds Brigades militia (formerly Ashab Al-Kahf) posted a two-minute video which included aerial photographs of a series of infrastructure and energy facilities in Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States, and on the Jordan-Israel border which, it claims, assist Israel economically and logistically in its war in Gaza and in Lebanon.
On October 10, 2024, Iraqi Hizbullah Brigades Spokesman Abu Ali Al-Askari published a statement on Telegram threatening to attack Israel and U.S. bases and interests in Iraq and the region - if Hizbullah were targeted by an Israeli strike, or if Iraqi air or lands were used to strike Iran.
After an Israeli television broadcast portrayed Iraq's Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani, the top Shi'ite cleric in the country, as a potential target for assassination, a Telegram channel, which is affiliated with Iran-backed Iraqi militias, published a one-minute video on October 8, 2024, showing an elite force getting ready to launch a raid.
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In recent days, there have been several reports in various Arab media outlets claiming that commanders of Iran-backed militias, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Lebanese Hizbullah, and Iraqi militias, have relocated from Syria and Lebanon to Iran or Iraq, out of fear of being targeted in Israeli airstrikes.
On October 12, 2024, the Shahada News Agency, the media arm of Al-Qaeda's affiliate in Somalia, Harakat Al-Shabab Al-Mujahideen (Al-Shabab), issued a statement claiming that Al-Shabab operatives shelled a military base of Kenyan African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) forces, in the city of Kolbiyow, near the Kenyan border in Somalia's Juba province, while American officers and soldiers were present.
On October 9, 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 in Arabic refuting remarks by the Malian government's Director of Information and Public Relations (DIRPA), saying that such false statements and its "criminal pattern" of attacks against civilians are a desperate reaction to the Malian forces' "defeat" at the hands of GSIM mujahideen.
On October 8, 2024, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) published a statement claiming that the previous day, the group carried out an IED attack against a military water tanker of United Arab Emirates (UAE)-backed forces in Al-Buqayrah, Yemen's Abyan governorate.
On October 10, 2024, the Islamic State (ISIS) released Issue 464 of its weekly newsletter, Al-Naba', which featured an editorial titled, "Behold, We Are Monitoring Your Aspirations Closely."
On October 10, 2024, the Islamic State (ISIS) released issue 464 of Al-Naba', its weekly newsletter. The issue featured several "exclusive" photos documenting attacks in Nigeria, Syria, and Iraq.
On October 14, 2024, Islamic State Mozambique Province (ISMP) claimed that its fighters detonated two IEDs on patrols of the Mozambican and Rwandan armies, between Manica and Nambala villages, in Macomia, in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province, disabling an armored vehicle and injuring several soldiers.
On October 10, 2024, a pro-Islamic State (ISIS) outlet published a post on Telegram claiming that "Jews" had "completely annihilated" 902 Gazan Muslim families, leading to the extinction of their surnames.
On October 8, 2024, an anti-Islamic State (ISIS) channel on the Al-Qaeda-operated Rocket.Chat server published a post claiming that recent months had seen a "severe financial decline" in ISIS's Mesopotamia office, which oversees the group's operations in Iraq.
In recent months, the Islamic State Khurasan Province (ISKP) and its former high-ranking member Abdul Rahim Muslim Dost, who is now a member of the Afghan Taliban have criticized each other publicly.
In a Dari-language book, the Islamic State Khurasan Province (ISKP) accuses Iran of oppressing Sunni Muslims and argues that Iran and the Shi'ites across the world value Karbala in Iraq more than they value Jerusalem.
In a recent article, Afghan Taliban's official website Alemarah accused Pakistan of, since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in mid-August 2021, destabilizing the Taliban government by "assisting invaders in destabilizing, destroying, and invading our country."
On October 8, 2024, a website linked to the Afghan Taliban intelligence service published a Pashtu-language report saying it has received a list of Pakistani religious scholars and political leaders whom the Islamic State (ISIS) plans to eliminate.
On October 6, 2024, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) issued a statement denying claims on social media that it had offered to engage in talks with the Pakistani government, saying that there is no possibility of any kind of negotiations at the present.
On October 4, 2024, Hizb-ut-Tahrir Pakistan issued a statement accusing Pakistan's Defense Minister Khawaja Asif of showing weakness on the Kashmir issue and warning that such a stance would further strengthen the American-led global system, as U.S. strengthens India and Israel.
