Only a day after the Taliban took control of Kabul, videos of them enjoying the amenities of the city have gone viral. Some Taliban members were seen holding their guns while driving bumper cars and others are seen riding on merry-go-round horses. Another video shows them gleefully trying out exercise equipment.

The fire outside Jerusalem continues to burn for the third day on Tuesday, with 25,000 dunams of forest already scorched, more than the Carmel fire in 2010 which killed 44 people and burned 24,000 dunams of land. After Israel’s Fire and Rescue Services said on Tuesday that the fire is under control, the Israeli government withdrew its request for international help from its allies. However, Israel did accept an offer from the Palestinian Authority to assist and four firefighting teams began contributing to firefighting efforts on Tuesday afternoon. אני מבקש להודות ליו"ר הרשות הפלסטינית מחמוד עבאס, על היוזמה לשליחת כוחות כיבוי שהגיעו לסייע לישראל היום. הערבות ההדדית והצלת חיי אדם הם אינטרס משותף של כולנו.

Afghan reporter Nazira Karimi tearfully questioned Pentagon press secretary John F. Kirby at a press briefing in Arlington on Sunday, saying: “I’m very upset today, especially as Afghan women didn’t expect that overnight, all the Taliban would come.” “They took off my flag,” she said. “This is my flag. And they put their flag. Everyone is upset, especially women.” She also complained about President Ashraf Ghani, who fled the country on Sunday along with thousands of others, saying that she expected him to stay with the people. The plight of Afghan women left in the clutches of the Taliban is especially heartbreaking.

As was expected, the Biden Administration is beginning to blame the terrible scenes coming out of Afghanistan on anyone else but themselves. On Monday morning, White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan stood by the administration’s decision to withdraw troops by Aug. 31 on ABC’s “Good Morning America”, and placed blame for the speed of the Taliban takeover on the Afghan army for its decision “not to step up and fight for their country.” “What the president was not prepared to do was enter a third decade of conflict, flowing in thousands of more troops, which was his only other choice, to fight in the middle of a civil war that the Afghan army wouldn’t fight for itself,” Sullivan said.

The massive blaze that broke out outside Jerusalem on Sunday continues to burn on Monday, and regained strength in the afternoon due to rising winds, especially in Nachal Kisalon, Givat Ye’arim, Har Hatayasim and near the Eitanim hospital. The fire is spreading rapidly and Fire Commissioner Dedi Simchi ordered a general call-up of all firefighting forces nationwide and police are reportedly preparing to evacuate Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital. However, the hospital issued a statement saying they have no intention of evacuating patients and visitors and are in constant contact with Israel Police. Police had to re-evacuate hundreds of residents from Sho’eva, Givat Ye’arim, Kibbutz Tzuba, Ein Rafa and Ein Nakuba.

Thousands of people packed into the Afghan capital’s airport on Monday, rushing the tarmac and pushing onto planes in desperate attempts to flee the country after the Taliban overthrew the Western-backed government. U.S. troops fired warning shots as they struggled to manage the chaotic evacuation. Witnesses said that at least five people were killed at the airport but it is not clear if they were shot or were crushed by the crowd, Reuters reported. Some reported that Afghans tied themselves to the wheels of planes and then fell to the ground and were killed after the planes took off. The Taliban swept into Kabul on Sunday after President Ashraf Ghani fled the country, bringing a stunning end to a two-decade campaign in which the U.S. and its allies had tried to transform Afghanistan.

The sounds of air raid sirens were heard in Sderot and nearby areas early Monday afternoon after a rocket was fired into Israel from the Gaza Strip, sending residents running to their bomb shelters. It is the first rocket launched from the Strip since the end of Operation Guardian of the Walls in May. The IDF said that the rocket was intercepted by the Iron Dome. תיעוד: יירוט בשמי שדרות. פיצוץ נשמע בעיר@Itsik_zuarets(צילום: מירו אוחנה) pic.twitter.com/mf0NkJsPi0 — כאן חדשות (@kann_news) August 16, 2021 The rocket attack comes after numerous threats by Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror groups in recent days due to a lack of progress in an agreement to transfer Qatari funds into the Strip.

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Arab rioters “protesting” the already-evacuated Evyatar settlement in Shomron lit a wooden Magen Dovid with a swastika inside it on Motzei Shabbos. Arabs holding dozens of torches set the structure on fire. At the same riot, a sound barrel exploded, triggering a large explosion. The Arabs, who have been rioting in the area every night in recent months, also burned tires and hurled explosives, in what they call a “night confusion” riot, modeled after the Gazan “night confusion units” that carried out riots on the Gaza border in the past. No, this is not Charlottesville or Berlin 1930's. This is group of Palestinians setting fire to a structure in the shape of a Star of David and a swastika near the West Bank town of Beita. This is vile Jew hatred.

A huge fire broke out in a forest next to the Beit Meir moshav, near Jerusalem, just off the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway, on Sunday, causing a huge black cloud to hover over Jerusalem. A large number of firefighting forces and ten aircraft are struggling to subdue the fire which is spreading rapidly due to strong winds. According to a fire commander, this is the biggest fire in the Jerusalem hills in years. About 10,000 people, residents of six communities, including Beit Meir and the nearby areas of Givat Ye’arim, Ramat Raziel, Ksalon, Shoresh and Sho’eva have been evacuated from their homes. Security forces are also evacuating all patients and staff members at the Eitanim psychiatric hospital, located near Jerusalem in the Mateh Yehuda Regional Council.