...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...
said, after weeks of skirmishes mainly limited to border areas since the Israel-Hamas
...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...war began.
Lebanon's National News Agency (NNA) said "an enemy drone targeted a pickup truck" on a farmland in the Zahrani area on Lebanon's coast, some 45 kilometers from the Israeli border, without reporting any casualties. Media reports said the pickup was targeted in a banana grove and that the driver escaped unharmed.
| Bummer. |
| Ah. I’d hoped for expat Hamasniks or Palestinian Islamic Jihadis, but a launchpad is better than nothing. |
yes we have no bananas
The frontier between Lebanon and Israel has seen daily exchanges of fire, mainly between Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah and Israel, since October 7 when attacks on Israel by Paleostinian Death Eater group Hamas sparked war.
Saturday's was the deepest Israeli strike on Lebanese territory since the latest hostilities began. It also came hours before Hezbollah chief Sayyed His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...
was due to make a televised address at 3:00 pm (1300 GMT).
The Lebanese Army prevented journalists from approaching the area, which is near the Zahrani power plant, one of Lebanon's ailing energy facilities.
The NNA reported Israeli attacks on areas near the border on Saturday, while an AFP correspondent in northern Israel reported apparent incoming rocket fire after air raid sirens sounded.
Hezbollah said it carried out two cross-border attacks on Israeli troops on Saturday, claiming they caused casualties.
At least 90 people have been killed on the Lebanese side in cross-border skirmishes since last month, according to an AFP tally, most of them Hezbollah combatants.
Six soldiers and two civilians have been killed on the Israeli side.