Illustrative image. (The Israeli Defense Forces)
Intense Israeli strikes targeted the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, over the night of October 3 and 4, with reports suggesting that Hezbollah’s most senior leader was targeted.
Axios reporter Barak Ravid cited two Israeli sources as saying Hashem Safieddine was the target. The New York Times also reported that the strikes targeted a meeting that Safieddine was attending with other senior Hezbollah leaders in an underground bunker
Safieddine, the head of Hezbollah’s executive council, is presumed to be the successor of Hassan Nasrallah following his assassination in the southern Beirut suburbs of Dahieh on September 27.
The Israeli Defense Forces issued several evacuation orders for buildings in Dahieh, a known stronghold of Hezbollah, during the intense overnight attack. However, the military has not yet commented on the reports alleging that Safieddine was targeted.
Hezbollah is also still silent over reports alleging that Safieddine was targeted. Previously the group refuted reports alleging that he was appointed as its new secretary-general.
The confrontation on the Lebanese-Israeli border first broke out after the start of the war in the Gaza Strip, with Hezbollah and its allies launching near-daily attacks in support of the Palestinian enclave. Israel escalated its attacks on Lebanon starting from September 17 and on September 30 it launched a ground offensive in the country.
Overall, the confrontation between Hezbollah and IDF has so far resulted in 26 civilian deaths in Israel and the occupied Syrian Golan Heights as well as the deaths of at least 31 soldiers and security officers. On the Lebanese side, more than 2,000 people have been killed, including more than 500 members of Hezbollah.
Israeli strikes killed at least 37 people and wounded more than 151 others on October 3 alone, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.
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i don’t know what these guys were expecting. this is war, no joke. and this war is taking place on an industrial scale. everything israel does is highly professional. for example, the false flag attack on october 7. every agency, including egypt, has noticed that something big is about to happen, but mossad still holds the official story that they were “surprised.” naturally. they were so surprised that two years before october 7, they planted bombs in pagers and radios.
but you know how it goes. the idiots on the israeli side have their unshakable truth, and the even bigger idiots in all the islamic states around them have also their own version of truth, even more unshakable and 100 times stupider than the israelis one. when someone comes along and says, guys, you’re all dumb as rocks , they slap you from the left and right. so do what you want, but don’t complain that you weren’t warned in advance.
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móst recent damage ássesment rèports indicate over 3 dozėn f35, f15, several irondome batteries & awacs were inutilized, destroyėd, writén off +expense1/2 bilion of misile interceptrs. wìth ân estimatėd cóst of +$4billion. is the most costly strike ever inflicted on us taxpayers in 1 day. the tiny welfare funded banana republic of israel is a bottomless pit that will literally bankrupt the usa financially & morally.
3 dozen f35s? even if its 3 dozen aircraft. i call bullshit. can you share a source? it sounds too good to be true.
“móst recent damage ássesment rèports indicate over 3 dozėn f35, f15, several irondome batteries & awacs were inutilized, +expense1/2 bilion of misile interceptrs.” nice calculation. the problem is that the fed is printing all this money, and the more interceptors israel wastes, the more money gets. at the expense of pensioners in the eu, it must be said. money doesn’t count for jeeews. what counts is that they will seize all of gaza, west bank, half of lebanon and neutralize iran.
unicef: 690 children wounded in lebanon in six weeks
but but but according to the mainstream, this is not genocide. it is justified. right of defence. i’ve read it in all the mainstream media, it’s on tv, it’s on the internet, so it must be true. i think you have overlooked something really important. how pr and sociology work, for example. i understand. in illiterate countries like lebanon, they have no clue what sociology is, and as for mathematics, it ends up somewhere around 72 guaranteed virgins in the heavens. it explains everything.