Hezbollah losses continue to mount today. The group has published a statement mourning the deaths of four fighters, Talib Balhas, Ali Melhem, Muhammed Mazeh and Islam Zalzali. The four were killed by Israeli fire. pic.twitter.com/BVun716oA2
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KABOOM!...
s on Hezbollah sites in southern 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...Friday, apparently killing four members of the Iranian-backed Lebanese terror group. The strikes came in response to earlier rocket fire from Lebanon.
Two sites hit by fighter jets in the village of Beit Lif were being manned by Hezbollah operatives, the IDF said. Another site was struck in Deir Aames.
Hezbollah named four members killed "on the road to Jerusalem," its term for operatives slain in Israeli strikes.
Their deaths bring the terror group’s toll to 171 since October 8.
Earlier Friday, several rockets were fired from Lebanon at the Mount Hermon area in northern Israel with the IDF responding by shelling the launch sites with artillery.
Later, an IAF fighter jet struck a building used by the terror group in Bint Jbeil. On Thursday night, another building was struck in Khiam, the military said earlier.
Hezbollah has been trying to harm Israel’s aerial defenses with attacks in the Mount Hermon area.