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2024-11-19 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Woman killed in Hezbollah attack on north; 5 hurt by missile fragments near Tel Aviv
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[IsraelTimes] Victim, 41, declared dead after being pulled from 3-story building in Shfar’am; Beirut shuts schools; UN peacekeepers report attack, likely by ‘non-state member actors’
A woman was killed and at least 17 people were maimed in several rocket barrages fired by Hezbollah on Monday, as the terror group launched more than 100 rockets at northern Israel and one missile at the country’s center throughout the day.
The woman, identified as Safaa Awad, 41, was killed and 10 others maimed in the evening by a rocket that hit a three-story building in the northern town of Shfar’am after five projectiles were fired by Hezbollah at the Galilee. Medics said the woman was trapped inside the building and recovered by rescue services, but declared dead shortly afterward. The other people were lightly hurt by broken glass, according to first responders. The Magen David Adom emergency service said the woman was inside a "protected space" at the time of the attack. It was unclear if MDA was referring to a bomb shelter or some other kind of protected area in the building.
The Israel Defense Forces said interceptor missiles were launched to counter the attack, and it was investigating the impact.
Also on Monday night, five people were maimed, including one seriously, in the Bnei Brak and Ramat Gan area, following a Hezbollah missile attack on central Israel, medics said. MDA said it took a 54-year-old woman at death's door, another person in moderate condition, and three others in good condition to Beilinson Hospital. The victims were all hit by shrapnel, according to the emergency service.
The IDF said one missile was fired from 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...
in the attack, which was intercepted by air defenses. Fragments from the interception impacted between the two Tel Aviv suburbs, causing a fire and extensive damage to surrounding buildings and vehicles.
Earlier Monday, two people were maimed in separate rocket barrages targeting northern Israel, as the IDF continued to strike sites belonging to the terror group in Lebanon and Beirut shut down its schools. A 34-year-old man was lightly maimed by the blast of a rocket impact in the Western Galilee during one Hezbollah volley, medics reported. MDA said the man was taken to Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya. In a separate barrage, MDA said a 65-year-old woman was hit in the neck by shrapnel as rockets struck the area of Fassuta, a Christian Arab village. She was also taken to the hospital in Nahariya.
Another person was treated for acute anxiety, MDA added.
According to the IDF, many of the 100-plus rockets were intercepted or fell in open areas. Some of the rockets impacted in towns, causing damage to a building in the border city of Kiryat Shmona and a chicken coop in Margaliot, a moshav.
In addition to the rocket attacks, the IDF said Monday that it had shot down three drones launched from Lebanon at northern Israel.
Overnight and throughout the morning rocket sirens sporadically went off in Kiryat Shmona, the coastal city of Nahariya, and other communities in the Galilee Panhandle near the border with Lebanon.
Lebanon’s National News Agency reported new strikes early Monday on locations around south Lebanon, long a stronghold of Hezbollah. Local media said jets hit the Nabatieh area, which the IDF also attacked earlier this week. It came after a relatively rare night in which the IDF did not carry out strikes.
On Monday evening, Lebanese media reported an Israeli Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM! ...
in central Beirut. At least four people were killed and 18 others were maimed, according to Lebanon’s health ministry. The strike was reported in the Zuqaq al-Blat district, outside of Hezbollah’s Dahiyeh stronghold in southern Beirut.
Meanwhile,
...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter wished he had thought to pack sun block...
schools in Beirut were closed after Israeli strikes on the Lebanese capital the day before killed six people, according to local authorities, who do not distinguish between civilians and Hezbollah fighters. The IDF said it killed Hezbollah’s front man, Mohammed Afif, the latest in a string of top figures in the group slain in the war. Hezbollah confirmed his death and later said four other members of its media office were killed alongside him.
Sunday’s strikes hit districts of central Beirut that had so far been spared. The strikes prompted the education ministry to shut schools and higher education institutions in the Beirut area for two days.
Dozens of Hezbollah launchers and rockets were located and destroyed by reservists of the 226th Paratroopers Brigade during recent operations in southern Lebanon, the IDF said Monday.
The military said the reserve brigade has been operating in an area from which Hezbollah fired hundreds of rockets at Israel in the past year. The troops located several multiple-rocket launchers and mortar positions, along with caches of rockets and other equipment. They also located a tunnel system dug into a mountain in the area. Inside the tunnel, the troops found weapons, equipment, and food used by Hezbollah operatives, according to the IDF.
Caught between the two warring sides, UN peacekeepers reported Sunday that they were attacked, with minor damage caused but no injuries. In a post to social media platform X, the United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
Interim Force in Lebanon wrote that on Saturday a patrol involving French and Finnish peacekeepers in the village of Bedias encountered "a denial of freedom of movement from a group of individuals with at least one of them armed."
The patrol continued but an hour later, when it reached the village of Maarakeh, it was fired at about 40 times from the rear, "likely from non-state actor members."
The patrol reached the safety of a UNIFIL base in Deir Kifa, where it found some of its vehicles had been struck by bullets, though there were no injuries.
"It is unacceptable that UNIFIL peacekeepers while conducting Security Council-mandated tasks, are routinely targeted," UNIFIL said. "It is the responsibility of Lebanese authorities to ensure that UNIFIL peacekeepers can carry out their mandated tasks without fear or threats."
Nonetheless, it urged "all actors to ongoing hostilities... to avoid actions putting UN peacekeepers in danger." The peacekeepers have on previous occasions suffered deaths or injuries due to the fighting but have rejected an Israeli plea that they leave south Lebanon.
According to a Lebanese political source, US envoy Amos Hochstein was set to travel to the Lebanese capital Beirut on Tuesday for talks on a ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel. However,
man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them...
a diplomatic official clarified to The Times of Israel that as of Sunday night, no final decision had been made on Hochstein coming to the region, adding that a decision would be made based on progress in ceasefire talks.
Talk of another visit by Hochstein followed reports in Lebanese media that a positive response to the ceasefire proposal had been submitted. The New York Times
...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
reported over the weekend that Hezbollah’s Iranian backers had sent messages to the group saying that they supported an end to war. 
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