Illustrative image. (The Israeli Defense Forces)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on September 22 that Hezbollah will “get the message” after a large rocket attack by the group hit deep into northern Israel.
“Over the past few days we hit Hezbollah with a string of strikes that it didn’t imagine,” Netanyahu said in a video statement. “If Hezbollah didn’t get the message, I promise you, it will get the message.”
Hezbollah fired in the early morning more than a hundred heavy rockets at Ramat David Air Base and a military-industrial complex of the Rafael Advanced Defense Systems in the Zevulun area. Both are located just under 50 kilometers from the border of Lebanon.
Hebrew media reported that a teenager was killed when he crashed his vehicle as sirens sounded during the attack, and at least three people were injured as a result of the rocket fire.
The Israeli military launched dozens of strikes against southern Lebanon before and after the attack, hitting rocket launchers and other targets of Hezbollah. Two fighters of the group were killed.
“We are determined to return our [displaced northern] residents safely to their homes. No country can tolerate [rocket] fire at its residents, [rocket] fire at its cities,” Netanyahu stressed. “The State of Israel cannot tolerate it either.”
Netanyahu also promised that Israel “will do everything necessary in order to restore security” along its border with Lebanon.
Separately, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said that Hezbollah was “beginning to feel some of our capabilities,” vowing that Israel will continue to operate against the group in order to allow displaced residents of northern Israel to return to their homes.
“Hezbollah has begun to feel some of the capabilities of the Israel Defense Forces… and we are seeing the results,” Gallant said during a tour of the Israeli Air Force’s command and control room this morning.
“These moves will continue until we reach a situation where we safely return the residents of the north to their homes. This is the goal, this is the mission, and we will do everything necessary to meet it,” he added.
Hezbollah said that its latest attacks were carried out in response to recent intense strikes on southern Lebanon as well as a retaliation to the September 17 and 18 sabotage attack that targeted communication devices used by its members across Lebanon.
The sabotage attack killed 39 people and left more than 3,450 others wounded. At least 45 others were killed, including Hezbollah top military commander Ibrahim Aqil, when Israeli strikes hit the southern suburb of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, on September 20. The group is yet to respond to the assassination.
The clashes on the Lebanese-Israeli border first broke out after the start of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip last October, with Hezbollah and its allies launching nearly-daily against the IDF in support of the Palestinian enclave.
So far, the clashes have 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, more than 900 people have been killed, including 500 fighters of Hezbollah and over 150 civilians.
Overall, Israel appears to be planning to launch a full-on war against Hezbollah Lebanon in order to make up for its failure in Gaza.
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the pager attack sugar high wore off. back to reality for the settlers. there is no way those 100k settlers are coming back to northern israel until the war in gaza stops.
why do americans support the zionist occupation of the holy lands allowing the killers of christ the psychological dominance over christianity and islam. this will allow the evil ones to eventually rule the world. the zionists have perverted christianity.
those americans are satanic.
it has something to do with black friday and the subsequent foundation of the fed. but i am sure fact checkers will tell you this is a conspiracy theorie so ist must just happen to be that the interests of every important polititian and businessman in the usa align with those people coincidently.
keep hitting air bases. iaf, they are the lifeblood of israel. shut down every one of them. when hitting forward bases, take out towers and cranes mounting sensors, that takes out both. leaving towers makes replacing sensors easier. hit haifa and their petro tanks. israel is target rich. co-ordinated attacks on same targets will be more effective.
were those hits real hits or just a firing in the general direction and not hitting anything kind of hits? when isreal hits we get numbers of dead people and destroyed buildings when arabs fire misiles on isreal we just get “they fired missiles at x”.
iran still hasn’t retaliated for the assassinations of high ranking officials.
they’re being smart about it, retaliation is delivered in little packages, over a long period of time, coming in a slow, painful way with gradually increasing intensity.
why declare war on israel now when its strong, when you can grind them down until their weak and stripped of resources.
hezb just increased the range of their attacks, instead of one big strike we will see these little attacks on a daily basis now.
same reason why china has not yet attacked taiwan. they let the fools fight the west for them and stay unharmed.
yadda yadda yadda it’s just going to go on and on for ages. it’s like a cheque in the mail. tommorow tommorow