[Ynet] Lebanese sources reported Thursday that Hezbollah's cross-border strike on Wednesday was intended to hurt a senior IDF officer. They claimed the size of the convoy pointed to the fact that a high-ranking Israeli was present and thus the cell, which included no more than five holy warriors, decided to open fire.
The sources claimed that the operation was planned for earlier but was postponed. Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah's speech, which had been planned for Sunday, was also delayed to Friday in coordination with the incident.
| They did kill a captain and a sergeant, which is nothing like an Iranian general plus a Hizb'allah princeling. And all of Lebanon is angry at how close they brought the country to war with Israel. Still, they tried. Kind of like how Hamas tried to hit Israel on all fronts with an uprising in the West Bank, an overwhelming rocket/missile barrage, and mass kidnappings and murders along the Gaza border, but instead ended up with a hundred thousand homeless, and Egypt furious enough to shut the border tight. Hizb'allah's little "triumph" didn't even stop this kind of thing: |
Report: IAF conducting flights over Sidon in Lebanon
[Ynet] Lebanese media reported on Thursday that the IAF was conducting flights over Sidon - Leb's 3rd largest city. The media outlets reported that Israeli warplanes and drones were conducted flights over the area. |