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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

IDF ramps up strikes in Lebanon, and reportedly in Syria, amid ongoing attacks on north

2024-01-01

[IsraelTimes] Hezbollah deputy chief warns fighting won’t stop till Israel ends Gaza Strip campaign; Netanyahu says activity aimed at restoring security to north

The Israel Defense Forces carried out ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s on southern Leb
Leb

...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...
Sunday as it ramped up responses to fire on northern Israel by the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group. The IDF has ratcheted up attacks in recent days, as the military aims to push the terror group back from Israel’s northern border.

Recent days have also seen several airstrikes in Syria attributed to the IDF, believed to be part of efforts by Israel to prevent 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 the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate ~~Jews~~ ~~Zionists~~ Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
from supplying arms to Hezbollah amid the ongoing skirmishes.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said military action against Lebanese Hezbollah is needed to restore security to the north. Meanwhile,
...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio had his hands full of angry bleached blonde...
Hezbollah’s deputy commander warned that quiet will only return if Israel ends its war in the 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 an 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...
Strip, where it is battling the Hamas
Hamas

...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
terror group.

Israeli Air Force fighter jets pounded Hezbollah sites in southern Lebanon on Sunday morning, the military said. According to the IDF, the targets in the village of Ramyeh included military buildings and other infrastructure belonging to the terror group. It said Hezbollah "operates from the area of the village, which is used as a terror center for the group to observe and carry out terror acts."

The IDF said Hezbollah has launched missiles at Israel from Ramyeh, while "exploiting the civilian population in the village area and using it as a human shield."

On Sunday, Hezbollah claimed at least three attacks on IDF positions on the Lebanon border.

The night before, IDF strikes also hit Hezbollah positions in Aamra and Khiam, close to the Israeli border. One of the sites was used to fire an anti-tank missile at the Galilee on Saturday, the IDF said.

The northern border has become increasingly volatile as Iran-backed Hezbollah fires rockets at northern Israel and carries out attacks along the border, saying it is acting in support of Hamas. Tens of thousands of northern residents have been displaced to other areas of Israel due to the incessant rocket fire.

In public remarks at the opening of the weekly cabinet meeting Sunday, Netanyahu said, "We are acting to restore security to the north and to return residents to their homes. That requires continuing the fighting there at the moment. If we don’t achieve that [security] through diplomacy we will achieve it through military means."

Economy Minister Nir Barkat, who has in the past clashed with Netanyahu over how the combat in Gaza is being conducted, challenged the prime minister, saying that "there is a feeling that the actions in the north are being carried out according to the lines of thinking of October 6," Kan news reported. Barkat was referring to the attitude held in the defense establishment before October 7 that Hamas was deterred from carrying out a significant attack on Israel, which allegedly led officials to dismiss signs of the impending assault.

Barkat urged a stronger response to Hezbollah’s provocations, saying, "If there is not a clear victory the residents won’t go back and we will have lost the north. We need to wake up now and change the equation."

One war at a time, Your Ministerness. The IDF and the Israeli economy both are not set up to manage a two front war.

Netanyahu rejected his criticism, saying: “We are attacking far more than is thought.” He did not offer further details.

Naim Qassem, deputy director-general of Hezbollah, was quoted in Lebanese media Sunday saying Israel will not be able to allow residents to return to their homes in northern Israel so long as the Gaza war is ongoing. He said Israel will not achieve anything without halting its campaign in Gaza, and warned that “the continued harm to Lebanese citizens will lead the response to be stronger.”

The mayor of Kiryat Shmona, a key border area town, said residents will not return to their homes until Hezbollah has been pushed back from the northern border.

“Nearly 90% of the city’s residents have evacuated and are scattered throughout the country,” Avichai Stern told Kan.

“As long as the Radwan Unit is on the border, we will not return to our homes,” he said, referring to the terror group’s elite unit that has trained for an invasion of Israel.

Since October 8, Hezbollah-led forces have attacked Israeli communities and military posts along the Lebanese border on a near-daily basis, with the group saying it is doing so to support Gaza amid the war there.

The skirmishes on the border have resulted in four civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of nine IDF soldiers. There have also been several rocket attacks from Syria, without any injuries.

Hezbollah has named 134 members killed by Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon but some also in Syria. In Lebanon, another 19 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and at least 19 civilians, three of whom were journalists, have been killed.

IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said Friday that Hezbollah’s deployment in southern Lebanon “no longer looks the same as it did on October 6, and it will never be the same again.”

Good. Carry on.

“Widespread” strikes were carried out against Hezbollah sites in Kafr Kila on Saturday morning and afternoon, the IDF said.

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