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2020-08-27 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

UNIFIL urges Israel, Hezbollah to exercise ‘restraint’ after Israel shot hundreds of flares, rockets and missiles

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened Lebanon hours after Israeli forces fired dozens of fluorescent and phosphorous bombs at Lebanese border towns, causing fires but no human casualties.

Army Says 13 Missiles, 117 Flares and 100 Shells Fired at Lebanon
[AnNahar] The Lebanese Army on Wednesday said 13 missiles, 117 flares and 100 shells were fired by Israel overnight at Lebanese border areas.

"After midnight, helicopters belonging to the Israeli enemy targeted posts belonging to the Green Without Borders environmental NGO with three missiles at the outskirts of the town of Ramya and eight missiles at the outskirts of the town of Aita al-Shaab, in addition to two missiles that were fired from the Tal al-Raheb post at the outskirts of the aforementioned town," the army said in a statement.

"A post for the aforementioned NGO was also targeted in the Aitaroun national reserve, which sparked a blaze in it," the army added.

The military also said that Israel had earlier in the night fired 117 flares and around 100 explosive and incendiary shells at the outskirts of the Lebanese towns of Mays al-Jabal, Houla, Maroun al-Ras and Aitaroun, which resulted in several forestfires and damaged a house and a goat farm.

The Israeli army said Wednesday that attack helicopters overnight struck observation posts of

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border after shots were fired at Israeli troops operating in the area.

The Israeli army said no Israeli forces were maimed, and there were no reports of casualties in Lebanon.

A Hizbullah front man declined to comment.

Another member of the group, who spoke to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief the media, said no Hizbullah positions were hit. He said shrapnel hit a structure belonging to Green Without Borders, an environmental NGO that Israel says is an arm of Hizbullah, allegations denied by the bad boys.

The Hizbullah member would neither confirm nor deny that an attack had been launched from Lebanon.

The Times of Israel adds:

According to the IDF’s initial investigation of the incident, at 10:40 p.m. on Tuesday Hezbollah snipers fired two shots from a small arms weapon at combat intelligence troops operating near the Israeli community of Manara near the Lebanese border. The shots, fired from 200-300 meters (660-990 feet) away, missed their target, hitting a nearby object.

In response, Israeli artillery fired a number of flares and smoke shells into the air as troops searched the area for potential border breaches. A short while later, Israeli aircraft bombed a number of Hezbollah observation posts near the frontier, the military said.

In response to the sniper attack, Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan submitted a request to the UN Security Council to strengthen UNIFIL’s mandate, allowing it to more effectively enforce UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the 2006 Second Lebanon War and demanded all armed groups besides the Lebanese military remain north of the country’s Litani River. Under its current mandate, UNIFIL is not able to enter private property without permission, which Erdan said makes the peacekeeping force “neutered” as it is not able to ensure Hezbollah is not building up arms and forces in private homes and land.

In his request, Erdan included a map of southern Lebanon marked with locations where Hezbollah has fired anti-tank guided missiles and built cross-border attack tunnels, as well as known “Green Without Border” facilities and areas where UNIFIL has been barred from inspecting.

“Green Without Borders” is an environmental group that has long been suspected of being a front for Hezbollah’s military wing.

The IDF on Wednesday evening said it was remaining on high alert following the border clash with Hezbollah.

Israel has long accused Green Without Borders of serving as a front for Hezbollah’s military wing, constructing observation posts near the border that are used by the group’s operatives and planting trees in strategic locations to block Israeli surveillance cameras. Though the United Nations and UNIFIL have not confirmed a direct link between the two organization, they have acknowledged some connection between the two, including the fact that an attack against Israel by the terror group last September was apparently launched from a GWB site in southern Lebanon.

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#1 OK. No more flares.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-08-27 04:25|| 2020-08-27 04:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Maybe use artillery rounds instead?

Posted by gorb 2020-08-27 05:38|| 2020-08-27 05:38|| Front Page Top

#3 Ooh! 117 Flares, that sounds scary.

Posted by magpie 2020-08-27 16:54|| 2020-08-27 16:54|| Front Page Top

#4 Flares are to look for snipers and infiltrator teams IIUC

Posted by Frank G 2020-08-27 17:02|| 2020-08-27 17:02|| Front Page Top