Illustrative image. (The Israeli Defense Forces)
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) ramped up strikes against Lebanon on September 28, following the assassination of Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah.
In a statement, the military said that it struck overnight several Hezbollah rocket and missile manufacturing sites at the eastern Beqaa Valley, as part of efforts to prevent the group from arming itself.
Iran would smuggle Hezbollah weapons and components over Lebanon’s eastern border. The shipments would head to the manufacturing sites, where Hezbollah would build various weapons, including precision missiles, according to the statement.
The IDF said in an earlier statement that a total of 140 strikes hit targets of Hezbollah across Lebanon since the start of the day.
The targets included rocket launchers and buildings where the group stored munitions, including anti-ship missiles in the Lebanese capital, Beirut.
In another statement, the IDF announced that it struck buildings where Hezbollah stored weapons and other infrastructure of the group.
From its side, Hezbollah fired several barrages of rockets at the settlements of Katzrin, Maalot, Metsova, Rosh Pina, Sa’ar and Kabri as well as at Ramat David Air Base in northern Israel. Some of the rockets were intercepted. Still, multiple hits were reported by Hebrew media.
The confrontation between Israel and Lebanon broke out after the beginning of the war in the Gaza Strip last October, with Hezbollah and its allies launching near-daily attacks against the IDF in support of the Hamas Movement and other armed factions in Palestinian enclave.
The IDF escalated its strikes against Lebanon earlier this week to a level not seen since the war of 2006. In response, Hezbollah expanded its attacks deep into northern Israel.
The recent assassination of Nasrallah shows that Israel is serious about going to war against Lebanon. More escalation is to be expected.
All in all, the confrontation has so far resulted in 26 civilian deaths in Israel and the occupied Syrian Golan Heights as well as the deaths of at least 22 soldiers and security officers. On the Lebanese side, at least 1,640 people have been killed, including more than 500 members of Hezbollah.
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i’m sure many countries have supported (one way or other) israel, i mean west, pro west and brics countries!
my prophecy came true ! 🚀💥☄ may israel keep on the path of peace and reconciliation with its neighbors.
the jewish supremacists know its all or nothing as their us patron has to make room for china. they’ve had a good run perpetuating us imperialist propaganda and terrorizing their neighbors for almost one hundred years, but their usefulness is just about at an end.
too many muslim countries are happy now,
you are right. we are happy that allah is helping us destroy the forces of evil against the sunni muslim world. russians are fighting and dying in ukraine, expending the bombs they might have used on a sunni muslim country like syria, turkiye, etc. israel and hezbollah and killing each other with the weapons they would have used to kill thousands more sunnis in syria, palestine, iraq, yemen, etc. i like this.
what happened to hezbollahs massive man power and missile arsenal? the cowards in tehran are restraining hezbollah from unleashing an all-out war on israel, fearing that it will invite israeli strikes on iran and therefore, compel the mullahs to join the war. iranian leaders are extremely cowardly. hezbollah has more balls than iran. the fact they are still exercising restraint means iran is putting the brakes on them. to the mullahs, israel won’t stop even after u.s. election.
israel is an outpost of the very worst people in the us empire, jewish supremacists. iran is a single country that has been the target of an economic blockade launched by the most powerful empire in history, the only ones that have ever used nuclear weapons to terrorize a civilian population. should the iranians put their heads on the block for the us to deploy their jewish supremacist executioners?
the wind bag talked sent hez drones filming 4k hi def videos which where meant to be a warning to israel
all those warnings all those bullshit new rules and red lines nasralla was a mason is he even dead today tonight haifa is again a sleepy town does tel aviv have trading area stock market section of town everything is sleepy in tel aviver town home of the synagogue of satan
all them weapons all them innocent folks up in smoke high level lockstep with low level; cull