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 8, 2024, on Lebanese Hizbullah’s Al-Manar TV website, Hizbullah Deputy Secretary-General Na'im Qasem released a pre-recorded video of himself delivering a speech, to mark the first anniversary of the Al-Aqsa Flood attack, which was on the previous day.
On October 8, 2024, Hizbullah released two videoclips summarizing its operations and “achievements” in its war against Israel over the past year, as part of its “assistance to the Palestinian people and its courageous resistance, and in the defense of Lebanon and its people.”
On October 7, 2024, Lebanese Hizbullah's Al-Manar TV website shared photos and a two-minute, 22-second video, shown for the first time, documenting Hizbullah's elite Radwan unit.
On October 6, 2024, across official Houthi media channels, Houthi leader Abd Al-Malik Badr Al-Din Al-Houthi released a video of an hour and forty-nine-minute-long speech to mark the first anniversary of the October 7, 2023 Al-Aqsa Flood attack. In his speech, Al-Houthi stated that the Al-Aqsa Flood operation was necessary due to the Israeli “aggression” and “the 105 years of occupation.”
For the one-year anniversary of Hamas' October 7, 2023 invasion of Israel, the pro Al-Qaeda Al-Ra'd Media Foundation published three posters marking the event, in Urdu, Pashto, English, and Persian-language versions.
On October 7, 2024, the pro-Al-Qaeda Bayt Al-Maqdis media group published a 24-page booklet compiled by prominent supporter Sandar Al-Ghafiqi titled "The Al-Aqsa Flood: Glory of the Muslims and Defeat of the Oppressors."
Commemorating the one-year anniversary of the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attack against Israel, Iran-backed militias in Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, and Syria continue to release statements, posters, and infographics celebrating the attack and threatening further escalation.
Commemorating the one-year anniversary of the Hamas-led October 7 attack against Israel, Iran-backed militias released statements celebrating the occasion, and accusing the United States, Western leaders, and Arab regimes of supporting Israel's military operations in Gaza and Lebanon.
On October 7, 2024, several jihadi clerics shared posts on Telegram commemorating the first anniversary of the Hamas-led attacks on Oct. 7, 2023, in which approximately 1,200 Israelis were killed and 250 others abducted.
On October 3, 2024, the London-based Rai Al-Youm online daily published an "exclusive" report claiming that the Joint Operations Room of Palestinian Resistance Factions in the Gaza Strip, in coordination with the Lebanese Hizbullah Operations Room, has begun consolidating plans "to escalate the resistance, in all its aspects, for the next phase," and explaining that the coordination between the two military rooms has become closer and "extraordinary."
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.
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 October 7, 2024, Hamas military spokesman, Abu Obeida, delivered 25-minute video speech marking the one-year anniversary of the October 7, 2023, attack against Israel.
On October 7, 2024, multiple Palestinian militant groups, as well as Lebanese Hizbullah, issued statements marking the first anniversary of Hamas' "Al-Aqsa Flood" invasion of Israel early on the morning of October 7, 2023, in which militants belonging to Hamas and other Palestinian factions killed 1,200 people and abducted 251 to the Gaza Strip, 97 of whom remain in captivity.
On October 2, the pro-Hamas Telegram channel Al-Mutared, which describes itself as "the voice of the resistance against the Zionist occupation," published a new series of posters, praising Hamas's October 1 shooting attack in Jaffa, Tel Aviv, saying it comes within a series of several "heroic operations" executed in the "historically significant month of October," including the most recent October 7, 2023 surprise attack against Israel.
On October 7, 2024, the Palestinian "Mujahideen Brigades" issued a statement claiming full responsibility for what it described as "qualitative double shooting and stabbing operation that was carried out inside the central bus station in Beersheba, Israel on October 6."
In One Week, Islamic Resistance In Iraq Claimed 19 Attacks Against Israel
From October 1-7, 2024, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella group of Iran-backed militias in Iraq, issued eight statements claiming responsibility for 19 separate attacks targeting both the northern and southern regions in Israel.
On October 7, 2024, a Telegram channel linked to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) shared a post suggesting that Tehran plans to counter any Israeli attack by targeting Israel's nuclear facilities and infrastructure.
On October 2, 2024, a Telegram channel linked to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) published an article discussing the implications of Iran's October 1 missile attack on Israel and suggesting some future scenarios that Teheran might consider if Israel responds to the attack.
On October 1, 2024, Lebanese Hizbullah announced the start of "Operation Khaybar," its response to Israel for the killing of its secretary-general, Hassan Nasrallah.
On October 3, 2024, Iran-backed Yemen's Ansar Allah Movement (Houthis) published on Telegram a three-minute animated video depicting a drone attack on Tel Aviv, Israel's second-largest city.
Between September 30 and October 3, 2024, Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi Ansar Allah movement (the Houthis) claimed responsibility for a series of drone and missile attacks on Israel, one of which was reportedly carried out with a new, long-range, surface-to-surface Qods 5-type missile, and also for what it alleges is the eleventh interception of “an American MQ-9 aircraft” in the airspace above Yemen’s Saada Governorate.
Islamic State East Asia Province (ISEAP) Claims First Operation In Philippines' Sarangani Province
On October 8, 2024, the Islamic State East Asia Province (ISEAP) published a statement claiming that on October 5, operatives of the group shot and killed a member of the "Crusader" Philippine army in Tokawal, the Philippines' Sarangani province.
Following Iran's October 1 missile attack on Israel, Islamic State (ISIS) supporters published posts mocking the attack and the celebrations surrounding it.
On October 8, 2024, an anti-Islamic State (ISIS) channel on an Al-Qaeda-operated published a post claiming that recent months had seen a "severe financial decline.”
On October 4, 2024, the Islamic State (ISIS) released Issue 463 of its weekly newsletter, Al-Naba', which featured an editorial titled, "Dotting The I's."
On October 3, 2024, the Islamic State (ISIS) released Issue 463 of Al-Naba', its weekly newsletter.
In a Dari-language booklet, the Islamic State Khurasan Province (ISKP) accuses the Saudi government of promoting indecency in the "land of revelation," especially by organizing concerts and criticizes Islamic religious scholars for doing what the royal government tells them to do.
A lead article in the current issue of the "Voice of Khurasan," an English-language monthly magazine published by Al-Azaim Media Foundation, a media outlet linked to the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), which defines itself as a supporting entity for the Islamic State (ISIS), seeks to incite Kashmiri youths to rise up and wage "armed jihad" against Indian security forces in Jammu & Kashmir and reminds them that Pakistan-backed jihadi groups are "the real traders of the Kashmir issue."
A key article in the current issue of the "Voice of Khurasan," an English-language monthly magazine published by Al-Azaim Media Foundation, a media outlet linked to the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), which defines itself as a supporting entity for the Islamic State (ISIS), argues that Qatar subdued the Afghan Taliban to work practically as a militia for the United States in the fight against the Islamic State, and as part of a "spider's web" upholding the global system of unbelief.
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.
Following the October 6, 2024, triple-suicide operation targeting a military base housing Malian troops and members of the Russia-backed Wagner Group (PMC) in Mali's Timbuktu region, the Al-Zallaqa Media Foundation, the media arm of Al-Qaeda's affiliate in the Sahel, the Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims (GSIM), released a statement and photos highlighting the scope and significance of the operations.
On October 6, 2024, the Al-Zallaqa Media Foundation, the media arm of Al-Qaeda's affiliate in the Sahel, the Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims (GSIM), reported a suicide operation on a military base housing Malian troops and personnel of the Russia-backed Wagner Group (PMC) in Mali's Timbuktu region. The group also claimed responsibility for rocket attacks which targeted the military airfields of Gao and Timbuktu.
On October 4, 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], released a statement claiming that on October 3, GSIM operatives countered an attempt by the "khawarij" to advance toward the village of Zinda, in Mali's Gao region.
On October 2, 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 photoset showcasing fighters who recently joined the group.
On October 7, 2024, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) claimed a sniper fatally shot a member of the Security Belt forces, the military wing of Yemen's UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC), in the Al-Buqayrah area in Yemen's Abyan Governorate.
On October 4, 2024, Al-Qaeda's affiliate in Somalia, Harakat Al-Shabab Al-Mujahideen (Al-Shabab) issued a claim via its official Shahada News Agency that its fighters had carried out an ambush in the Waninle area, on the outskirts of El Dher, in central Somalia's Galgudud province.
A channel on the Al-Qaeda-operated Rocket.chat server reported on in-fighting between media operatives of the Islamic State (ISIS) and accused the group's Media Diwan of failing to effectively arbitrate the conflict.
On October 1, 2024, seven civilians were killed in a shooting attack in Jaffa, Tel Aviv, perpetrated by two armed Palestinians from Hebron, in the West Bank.
On October 3, 2024, Hizb-ut-Tahrir Pakistan issued a statement, lamenting, during the year since the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack in Israel, the inaction by the governments of Muslim-majority countries against Israel, which it said has led "the Jewish entity" to kill Muslims in Lebanon and Palestine.
In the current edition of its bulletin "Manzil," Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Mohammad Khurasani says that TTP has won the narrative war in Pakistan and that TTP mujahideen executed more than 100 attacks in the first ten days of September 2024.
According to a Dari-language media report, about 2,000 jihadi fighters are undergoing training at a former CIA base in Khost province of Afghanistan.
In a Pashtu-language article, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (the Afghan Taliban regime) criticized Australia, Canada, Germany, and the Netherlands for their decision to initiate legal action in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against the Afghan Taliban rulers for their large-scale violation of the rights of girls and women.
On September 24, 2024, the Presidential Palace of Afghanistan (ARG) published a Pashtu-language speech by Mullah Hibbatullah Akhundzada, the leader of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA, i.e., the Afghan Taliban), that he gave at a meeting with district governors, Islamic religious scholars, Taliban commanders, and other officials in Kunduz province.
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On the night of August 25-26, 2024, the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), a secessionist group fighting for the independence of Balochistan from Pakistan, launched Operation Herof ("Black Storm"), a series of coordinated terror attacks and suicide bombings on a Pakistani army camp, police stations, and other targets, killing dozens of Pakistani soldiers and police officers.
