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Israel said to strike base of Palestinian terror group deep inside Lebanon
2019-08-27
[IsraelTimes] Reports say bombing targeted the Hezbollah-allied PFLP ‐ General Command in the Bekaa Valley near Syria border; no comment from IDF.

Arabic media claimed early Monday morning that Israeli aircraft had carried out an Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
on a base belonging to a Paleostinian terrorist group deep inside Leb, amid a dramatic spike in tensions.

The reported strikes came just hours after Hezbollah leader His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...
vowed to shoot down any Israeli aircraft violating Lebanese airspace.

The reports said the strikes hit a base belonging to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine ‐ General Command (PFLP-GC), a Syria-based terrorist group that fights alongside Syrian dictator Bashir al-Assad.

The base is located in the Bekaa Valley in eastern Leb, near the border with Syria.

Videos posted on social media showed explosions accompanied by heavy anti-aircraft fire.

A front man for the group told the Saudi-owned al-Hadath news channel that the "Israeli bombing in the Bekaa did not achieve its objectives," but gave no further details.

There was no comment from the IDF. In past cases where Israel reportedly carried out strikes in the Bekaa Valley, it appeared to be to stop the transfer of advanced arms from Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
to Hezbollah, via Syria.

The PFLP-GC ‐ not to be confused with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine, from which it split in 1968 ‐ was responsible for a number of vicious terror attacks in Israel in the 1970s and 1980s, including one against a school bus in northern Israel, which killed nine children and three adults.

The PFLP-GC largely went underground in the late 1980s, working behind the scenes with the Leb-based Hezbollah terror group, but it reemerged in 2011 with the outbreak of the Syrian civil war.

The reported strike follows the bombing of an Iran-linked base in Syria on Saturday that Israel said foiled a plot to launch kamikaze drones into Israel, a drone attack on a Hezbollah office in Beirut and an attack on an Iran-linked militia in Iraq, both on Sunday.
An Nahar adds:
Israel carried out night raids on Monday at military positions of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC) in the Eastern Mountain Range opposite the Bekaa town of Qusaya

It has positions in the eastern region of Bekaa, as well as in Al-Naaemeh just south of Beirut.

Qusaya is only about five kilometers (three miles) from the Syrian border.
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