| Reported first thing Saturday morning: |
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...at the Mount Meron area of northern Israel, the IDF says.
Despite the widespread sirens, no drones or rockets were fired at any other areas of the north, it adds.
There are no reports of injuries in the rocket barrage.
Hezbollah claims responsibility for rocket barrage fired at northern Israel
[IsraelTimes] Hezbollah claims responsibility for the rocket barrage from Leb on Mount Meron in northern Israel earlier.
In a statement, the terror group claims it targeted an Israeli military installation in the area with 62 projectiles.
It says the attack is "an initial response" to the alleged Israeli killing of Hamas
...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
official Saleh al-Arouri in Lebanon last week.
| And then at noon: |
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says fighter jets carried out strikes on two "significant" military compounds belonging to Hezbollah in Leb, in response to the terror group’s attack on northern Israel today.The sites, according to the IDF, housed infrastructure used by Hezbollah’s air defense unit
The IDF says fighter jets and other aircraft hit further Hezbollah sites in southern Lebanon’s Rab El Thalathine, Ramyah, Meiss el-Jabal and Ayta ash-Shab.
The targets include Hezbollah cells, rocket launch positions, a command center and other infrastructure used by the terror group, according to the IDF.
Several missiles were fired by Hezbollah in the last few hours at Yiftah and Avivim, with no reports of injuries.
The IDF says Hezbollah also fired a surface-to-air missile at an Israeli military drone over Lebanon, which did not hit.
Israeli strikes reported in Lebanese village 40 kilometers from border
[IsraelTimes] Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon hit the outskirts of Kouthariyeh al-Siyad village, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the border, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency says, adding that there are casualties.
Such strikes deeper inside Lebanon have been rare since the border fighting started nearly three months ago.
NNA also says Israeli forces shelled border areas, including the town of Khiam. Israel’s army has no immediate comment.
Hezbollah announces 2 more of its fighters killed in fighting along border
[IsraelTimes] Hezbollah announces the deaths of two more fighters, bringing the number of operatives in the Lebanese terror group who have been killed in the ongoing cross-border skirmishes with Israel to 152.
Lebanon’s Jama’a Islamiya says it fired two volleys of rockets at Kiryat Shmona
Lebanon’s Sunni Islamist Jama’a Islamiya says it fired two volleys of rockets at Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel.
| This is apparently the third attack they’ve claimed since Hamas erupted on 10/7. According to the internet are groups in Egypt and Indonesia with the same name, dedicated to bringing about the caliphate. |