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2024-09-27 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Israel kills Hezbollah drone chief in Beirut, rockets fly at north as truce rebuffed
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[IsraelTimes] IDF confirms ‘precision’ strike in Hezbollah stronghold, and hitting arms shipment on Syria-Lebanon border; Beirut says nearly 2 dozen Syrians killed in attack on Baalbek-area village
An Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM! ...
killed a senior Hezbollah leader in a strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs on Thursday afternoon, the military said, with fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed terror group showing little sign of slowing as an international bid to secure a ceasefire appeared to fall apart.
Sources said the strike in the Hezbollah stronghold of Dahiyeh targeted the head of Hezbollah’s aerial forces, largely responsible for the terror group’s drone fleet along with cruise missiles and aerial defenses.
A Lebanese security source close to the group confirmed that the attack had been aimed at a Hezbollah commander, AFP reported.
An "Israeli strike targeted the commander of Hezbollah’s drone unit, Mohammed Srur, known as Abu Saleh, whose fate is still unclear," the source said, requesting anonymity as they were not authorized to speak to the media.
Leb
...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...
’s health ministry said two people were killed in the attack.
According to the military, Sarour directed and commanded numerous various aerial attacks on Israel, including explosive-laden drones and cruise missiles. In recent years, the IDF says, he led Hezbollah’s drone manufacturing, and established sites in Lebanon where the terror group would build explosive UAVs, some of which were under civilian buildings in Beirut.
Sarour joined Hezbollah in the 1980s, and held various positions, including in the terror group’s air defenses, in the Aziz unit in the Radwan Force, and as Hezbollah’s attaché to Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
where he was involved in the Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth . Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
s’ aerial forces, according to the military. During the war he advanced numerous explosive drone attacks on Israel, as well as surveillance drones, the IDF says.
The attack marked at least the fourth time Israel has targeted the group’s top commanders in recent days, including a Tuesday strike on rocket and missile chief Ibrahim Qubaisi and a Friday attack on Ibrahim Aqil, the head of Hezbollah’s military operations. Both were killed.
Also Thursday, Israel said its warplanes had pounded targets across southern Lebanon and on the Syria-Lebanon border, and Hezbollah fired dozens of projectiles at northern Israeli cities.
A volley of some 45 rockets toward the coastal Israeli city of Acre Thursday morning ended a rare 19-hour lull in Hezbollah fire at northern Israel that had briefly bolstered hopes for an internationally brokered halt to the fighting. The IDF said several of the rockets were intercepted and the rest landed in open areas. Videos showed some projectiles splashing into the Mediterranean Sea.
Another 10 rockets were fired at Kiryat Shmona a short time later, the IDF said, and Hezbollah claimed it fired volleys of Falaq-2s at the city.
A single rocket launched toward Safed around the same time was swatted down by air defenses, the army said.
No injuries or damage were reported in the attacks.
Earlier, Lebanese officials said an overnight Israeli airstrike on a building housing Syrian workers and their families killed up to 23 people near Baalbek on the Lebanon-Syria border, marking one of the deadliest single strikes reported in the intensified air campaign against the Hezbollah terror group. Ali Qusas, the mayor of Younine, said most of the dead in the strike on a three-story building in the town were women and kiddies. Lebanon is home to around 1.5 million Syrians who fled civil war there, though thousands of Lebanese have fled to Syria in recent days.
There was no comment on the strike from Israel, which said it hit around 75 Hezbollah targets overnight in southern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley, a Hezbollah stronghold near the Syrian frontier. The targets included terrorists, military buildings and weapons depots, the army said, publishing footage of the strikes.
The army said later Thursday it had also carried out a strike on the Lebanese-Syria border targeting a shipment of weapons slated to be used against Israel. Lebanese transport minister Ali Hamieh said the strike hit the Syrian end of a small bridge that provides a crossing into Lebanon. He did not immediately know whether the crossing was still usable.
Israel says it takes pains to avoid civilian casualties, warning Lebanese to leave areas where Hezbollah could be housing weapons before launching its intensified campaign on Monday, which largely targeted residential buildings. The IDF accuses Hezbollah of using civilians as human shields by hiding missiles and other weapons in homes.
On Wednesday, it published before-and-after images of homes it had struck in recent days in the villages of Maifadoun, Houmayri, Baraachit and Tayr Debba, which it said showed evidence that Hezbollah had stored munitions and rocket launchers inside them.
Israel says it has carried out sorties against over 2,000 Hezbollah targets in Lebanon since Monday, aiming to halt nearly a year of rocket attacks on northern Israel that the group began launching on October 8 in support of Hamas
 ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
Hezbollah says at least 512 of its fighters have been killed since fighting began on October 8. The IDF believes this toll to be much higher.
Over 600 people have been killed in Lebanon since Monday, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry, which does not differentiate between civilians and combatants.
Over 22,000 people have crossed from Lebanon to Syria amid flare-up — Syrian sources
[IsraelTimes] Syrian security sources say more than 22,000 people have crossed from Lebanon into Syria via two border crossings this week, as Israeli airstrikes pound Lebanon amid attacks on Israel by the Hezbollah terror group.
“More than 6,000 Lebanese and around 15,000 Syrians” have entered through the main Jdeidet Yabus border, known on the Lebanese side as the Masnaa crossing, one security source says, requesting anonymity, while a second security source reports that “around 1,000 Lebanese and some 500 Syrians have passed” through a second crossing.
IDF: Jets struck some 220 Hezbollah targets in Lebanon today, including rocket launchers, weapons depots
[IsraelTimes] Israeli fighter jets struck some 220 Hezbollah targets in Lebanon today, the IDF says.
The targets included buildings used by the terror group, rocket launchers used in attacks on northern Israel, weapon depots, and operatives, according to the military.
The strikes were carried out in both southern Lebanon and the Beqaa Valley.
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