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| 2024-08-25 | ||
| [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Israeli jets have launched airstrikes in Lebanon after their military said Hezbollah was preparing to fire rockets and missiles towards Israel. Israeli military spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said: 'In a self-defense act to remove these threats, the (Israeli military) is striking terror targets in Lebanon, from which Hezbollah was planning to launch their attacks on Israeli civilians. Hagari warned Hezbollah would 'soon fire rockets, and possibly missiles and drones' into Israel. Shortly after their announcement, Hezbollah announced they had launched an attack on Israel with a large number of drones in retaliation for the killing of one of its commanders, Fuad Shukr. Shukr was wiped out by an Israeli airstrike after being lured toward the top of a building in Beirut. Hezbollah said the attack was targeting 'a qualitative Israeli military target that will be announced later' as well as 'targeting a number of enemy sites and barracks and Iron Dome platforms.' It said the strikes were an initial response to the killing of Fouad Shukur, a top commander with the group, in a strike in Beirut's southern suburbs last month. An intelligence official told The New York Times that Israel's preemptive attack was aimed at missile launchers that had been programmed to fire at 5 a.m. local time towards Tel Aviv. The official told the outlet that all the launchers that had been targeted were destroyed, and that Israel was anticipating a harsh response from Hezbollah. Sirens began sounding in northern Israel soon after the warning from the Israeli military, and additional sirens later joined in across the north. Lebanese media reported strikes in the country's south without immediately providing more details. Social media footage showed what appeared to be strikes in southern Lebanon. Israel's Ben Gurion International Airport outside Tel Aviv began diverting incoming flights and delaying others due to takeoff Sunday after the Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon. In his statement, Hagari added: 'We can see that Hezbollah is preparing to launch an extensive attack on Israel, while endangering the Lebanese civilians. 'We warn the civilians located in the areas where Hezbollah is operating to move out of harm's way immediately for their own safety'. Hagari didn't provide additional details on the intelligence he cited. While the IDF X page added: 'Hezbollah has just launched over 150 projectiles from Lebanon toward Israeli territory. We target terrorist infrastructure, they target civilians.' Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said he and his defense minister, Yoav Gallant, were managing the latest operation from military headquarters in Tel Aviv. Gallant declared a 'special situation on the home front,' and Netanyahu's Security Cabinet was set to meet later Sunday morning. A spokesman for the National Security Council, Sean Savett, said President Joe Biden was 'closely monitoring events in Israel and Lebanon'. Savett said: 'At his direction, senior U.S. officials have been communicating continuously with their Israeli counterparts.
Fears have been high in recent weeks that the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip would spill over into a regional conflict. This was only exacerbated after the killing of Hezbollah commander Shukr and the suspected Israeli assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. Shukr, who was responsible for the 1983 massacre of 241 American and 58 French troops in a Beirut bombing, was killed on July 30, along with his wife, two other women, and two children. 80 people were also injured in the strike, which was attributed to the IDF. The Wall Street Journal revealed that Shukr received a call from someone who told him to go from the second floor of the building he was in to his apartment on the seventh floor. A Hezbollah official told the newspaper that he was easier to target on the higher floor. The official added that the call likely came from someone who had breached the terror group's communications network, adding that Israeli intelligence had likely beaten its counter surveillance measures through better technology and hacking capabilities. Shukr, long known as the 'Ghost' because of how rarely he was seen in public, is believed to have first gone into hiding after he helped plan the 1985 hijacking of a TWA flight from Athens to the US. Haniyeh, who had escaped the horrors of the war in Gaza while residing in Qatar, travelled to Iran to attend the inauguration of new Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian earlier this month. Israel appeared to seize the chance to hit Haniyeh, attacking his residence in Tehran in the early hours of the morning and killing the Hamas leader along with a security guard. The assassination, confirmed by both Hamas and Iranian authorities, marks the most high-profile killing since October 7.
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| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #8 Video link |
| Posted by: 3dc 2024-08-25 17:02 |
| #7 Netanyahu vows more 'surprising blows' after Israel thwarted 'thousands' of Hezbollah rockets: 'Not the end' |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-08-25 13:17 |
| #6 not sure how typical Hezb sites look like but I'm guessing one setup would contain about 20 missiles, two launchers and, when active, a 3 person launch crew another guess is that if the IDF hadn't done the preemptive strike, the number of rockets fired would have been more like 600-1000 |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2024-08-25 09:55 |
| #5 Israel attacks targets in Lebanon to thwart Hezbollah's prepared strikes: IDF |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-08-25 06:27 |
| #4 By the numbers: The attack on Hezbollah so far |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-08-25 02:13 |
| #3 ^😎 |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-08-25 02:03 |
| #2 Hezbollah no doubt didn’t want to interrupt the anti-Bibi protests, Grom. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2024-08-25 01:44 |
| #1 Gods of copybook headings are visiting Lebanon. p.s. There was no sirens in Tel Aviv, so far. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-08-25 01:22 |