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2024-11-18 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Hezbollah media chief killed in IDF strike on central Beirut
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[IsraelTimes] Mohammed Afif targeted at Syrian Ba’ath Party offices; military carries out new wave of strikes in terror group’s Dahiyeh stronghold; drone apparently launched from Iraq shot down
An Israeli Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM! ...
on a building in a central neighborhood of the Lebanese capital Beirut on Sunday reportedly killed the top front man for the Hezbollah terror group.
Two Lebanese security sources told Rooters that Hezbollah’s media relations chief Mohammed Afif was killed in the strike on the Ras al-Naba’a neighborhood. A Hezbollah official, speaking anonymously, confirmed this to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
The Israel Defense Forces did not immediately issue a comment on the strike.
Unlike dozens of other Israeli attacks carried out in Beirut this past week, the strike killing Afif was not carried out in the southern suburbs of Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold known as Dahiyeh.
The building where Afif was targeted housed the offices of the Syrian Ba’ath Party, Lebanese media reported. The IDF did not issue any evacuation warning before the strike, as it was an liquidation and did not target Hezbollah’s infrastructure.
Good to know. Afif had been especially visible after Israel’s military escalation in September and following the liquidation of longtime Hezbollah leader His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
...The late, lamented satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...>
, who was also killed in an Israeli airstrike.
Last month, Afif was forced to interrupt a presser in Dahiyeh after the IDF’s Arabic language front man, Col. Avichay Adraee, issued an evacuation order for residents of the area ahead of an airstrike.
"The bombing does not scare us, nor the threats," Afif said at the time. |Our will is firm and our determination is strong."
Also on Sunday, the IDF said it had completed a wave of airstrikes against Hezbollah targets in Dahiyeh. The targets hit by fighter jets included command rooms and other infrastructure, according to the military. Before those strikes were carried out, the IDF issued evacuation warnings to civilians in the area.
In recent days, the IDF has ramped up strikes against Hezbollah targets in Beirut with over 50 Hezbollah sites hit in the past week. One of the targets struck by Israeli fighter jets in Beirut on Saturday was an apartment formerly belonging to Nasrallah, according to the IDF. The military said Nasrallah was targeted at the home during the 2006 Second Leb
...an Iranian satrapy until recently 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...
War, and it was later rebuilt. The apartment was currently being used by Hezbollah for its activities, the IDF said.
Sunday’s strikes came after a barrage of some 20 rockets was launched from Lebanon at the Western Galilee and Haifa Bay area in the morning. According to the IDF, some of the rockets were intercepted by air defenses, while the rest struck open areas, causing no injuries.
The IDF also released footage on Sunday showing a Hezbollah weapons cache and tunnel being demolished by combat engineers in southern Lebanon. The site had been discovered by troops of the Kfir Brigade’s Haruv reconnaissance unit, who are operating in Lebanon under the Alon Reserve Brigade. It marked the first time in the unit’s history that it was operating in Lebanon. According to the IDF, during a raid in a southern Lebanon village, the troops found a tunnel shaft that led to underground infrastructure. Next to the shaft was a weapons depot, ammunition and a cycle of violence, which the IDF says "were prepared for an invasion" of Israel.
Three IDF divisions have been operating in southern Lebanon in recent days, as the military has expanded its offensive against Hezbollah.
Meanwhile,
...back at the desert island, Bert was realizing to his horror that he'd had only one bottle for one message, and he'd forgotten to include a return address...
the IDF reportedly removed roadblocks on the northern border which were set up to prevent civilians from driving on roads that were exposed to anti-tank missile fire from Lebanon. According to a Sunday morning report by Army Radio, all of the military roadblocks on the Lebanon border were removed in recent days, ahead of a possible return of the displaced residents of the north to their homes.
"The reality in the north has changed," IDF officials were cited by the radio station as saying.
"There are no longer places where you can’t drive. Bypass roads are no longer needed, and citizens can also drive on these roads," the officials were cited as saying, adding that this freedom of movement is due to the IDF having taken control of key areas in south Lebanon, thereby reducing the threat.
Some 60,000 residents were evacuated from northern Israeli towns on the Lebanon border shortly after fellow terror group Hamas
 ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
’s October 7, 2023, onslaught in southern Israel, amid fears Hezbollah would carry out a similar attack, and increasing rocket fire by the Lebanese terror group.
For months since October 8, 2023, Hezbollah-led forces attacked Israeli communities and military posts along the border on a near-daily basis, with the group saying it is doing so to support Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
amid the war there.
Hezbollah has since expanded its attacks to also target cities in central and northern Israel with rockets, in addition to the attacks on the border, though in recent days the IDF has seen a decrease in the number of attacks.
The attacks on northern Israel have resulted in the deaths of 43 civilians. In addition, 70 IDF soldiers and reservists have died in cross-border skirmishes and in the ensuing ground operation launched in southern Lebanon in late September. Two soldiers have been killed in a drone attack from Iraq, and there have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries.
The IDF estimates that some 3,000 Hezbollah operatives have been killed in the conflict. Around 100 members of other terror groups, along with hundreds of civilians, have also been reported killed in Lebanon.
Meanwhile,
...back at the desert island, Bert was realizing to his horror that he'd had only one bottle for one message, and he'd forgotten to include a return address...
on Sunday morning, the IDF also said a drone launched at Israel "from the east" — usually code for Iraq — was intercepted by air defenses over southern Israel. Footage posted to social media showed a cloud of smoke above a Bezeq antenna farm near Rehovot, apparently following the interception of the drone. There were no reports of injuries. Shrapnel from the interception sparked a small fire in the area.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the drone.
Lebanon says 11 killed in strikes on Tyre
[IsraelTimes] Lebanon’s health ministry says 11 people were killed and dozens were wounded in Israeli strikes on the Tyre region in the south of the country.
“The raids of the Israeli enemy on villages in the Tyre district have left 11 dead and 48 wounded,” says a ministry statement.
The region is a stronghold of the Iran-backed Hezbollah.
Lebanon says 2 killed in reported IDF strike in Beirut; al-Jama’a al-Islamiyya denies it was target
[IsraelTimes] Lebanon’s Health Ministry says two people were killed in a strike on the Mar Elias street in Beirut that was blamed on Israel.
The identities of the victims were not released.
Meanwhile, a lawmaker from Lebanon’s al-Jama’a al-Islamiyya, or Islamic Group denies a report on official media that the Islamist group aligned to Hamas and Hezbollah was the target of the strike.
Imad Hout tells AFP that “no center or institution affiliated with the group is located in the area targeted by the strike, and no member of the group was targeted.”
A Lebanese security source tells AFP that the strike hit an electronics store in the Mar Elias district, a commercial and residential area.
IDF artillery operating from within Lebanon for first time since launch of ground op
[IsraelTimes] For the first time since Israel launched its ground offensive against Hezbollah, forces from the IDF Artillery Corps have crossed the border and are operating inside southern Lebanon.
In recent days, the IDF says, the 282nd Artillery Regiment’s 411th Battalion crossed the northern border with its self-propelled M-109 howitzers and began to shell Hezbollah targets from within southern Lebanon.
The military says this increases its artillery range and allows better support for the ground troops battling Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.
Since the start of the ground offensive in late September, the IDF says, the 282nd Regiment has shelled thousands of Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon, including weapon depots, command centers, and rocket launching sites, and has killed hundreds of Hezbollah operatives.
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