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Israeli sonic booms rattle Lebanese capital after Hezbollah launches drones
2024-08-07
[ARABNEWS] Israeli warplanes swooped low over the Lebanese capital Beirut on Tuesday, setting off a series of sonic booms that rattled windows across the city minutes before the head of 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...
’s Hezbollah was set to give an address.

The loud booms sent residents rushing to open their windows to prevent the glass from shattering, or standing on their balconies to get a glimpse of the planes flying over. There was no comment from the Israeli military.

In the capital’s southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold, members and supporters of the Lebanese gang had gathered to watch a televised speech by its leader to mark the one-week anniversary of Israel’s killing of a senior military commander.

As he began, Sayyed
...Arabic term meaning your/his lordship. Groveling in His Exalted Presence is encouraged...
His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...>
said the sonic booms were intended to provoke those gathered for the memorial.

The strike that killed commander Fuad Shukr was the second time Israel had struck the southern suburbs in 10 months of hostilities between Hezbollah and the Israeli military that are taking place in parallel with 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...
war.

Hezbollah earlier on Tuesday said it launched a swarm of attack drones at two military sites near Acre in northern Israel and also attacked an Israeli military vehicle in another location.

The Israeli military said a number of hostile drones were identified crossing from Lebanon and one was intercepted.

Israeli medical officials said seven people were evacuated to hospital, to the south of the coastal city of Nahariya, one at death's door.

The Israeli military said an initial investigation indicated the injuries were caused by an interceptor that "missed the target and hit the ground, injuring several civilians." It said the incident was still under review.

Rooters journalists saw one impact site near a bus stop on a main road outside Nahariya.

The Israeli military said in a statement sirens sounded around Acre, but that turned out to be a false alarm. It said its air force struck two Hezbollah facilities in south Lebanon.

Fears are rising that the Middle East could tip into full-blown war following vows by Hezbollah to avenge Shukr’s killing, and by 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...
to respond to the liquidation in Tehran last week of the head of Paleostinian Death Eater group Hamas
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
A Hezbollah source told Rooters that "the response to the liquidation of commander Fuad Shukr has not yet come."

Earlier on Tuesday, four Hezbollah fighters were killed in a strike on a home in the Lebanese town of Mayfadoun, nearly 30 km (19 miles) north of the border, medics and a security source said.
Update from the Times of Israel at 1:00 p.m. ET:
Israeli fighter jets struck a building in southern Leb’s Yaroun where several operatives were identified, the IDF says.

According to the IDF, the Hezbollah operatives were spotted by troops of the Golani Brigade’s Reconnaissance Unit and a short while later an Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
was carried out.

Another Hezbollah site in Kafr Kila was also struck, the IDF adds.
Related:
Yaroun: 2024-07-03 Israel claims several strikes on villages in southern Lebanon
Yaroun: 2024-05-27 Israeli strikes kill eight people in southern Lebanon
Yaroun: 2024-05-11 Two civilians killed in Israeli strike on Tayrharfa
Related:
Kafr Kila: 2024-08-06 Two IDF soldiers moderately wounded in Hezbollah drone attack on north
Kafr Kila: 2024-07-30 Hezbollah moves missiles as region braces for IDF response to deadly Golan attack
Kafr Kila: 2024-07-14 Hezbollah fires rockets after Israeli strike on Lebanon
Posted by:Fred

#2  Eventually, Iran will attack a Jewish community center in some friendly country: Norway, Canada, California ...
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-08-07 12:38  

#1  
Posted by: Skidmark   2024-08-07 12:32  

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