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2024-01-22 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Hezbollah operative killed in IDF strike in Lebanon, but main target said to survive
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[IsraelTimes] Hezbollah operative killed in IDF strike in Leb, but main target said to survive
A Hezbollah operative was killed in an apparent Israeli dronezap 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...
on Sunday, the terror group confirmed, although a security official said the target was a high-level commander who survived. The drone attack was carried out early on Sunday afternoon in the southern Lebanon village of Kafra, located in the Bint Jbeil district, a known Hezbollah stronghold. The car was said to have been traveling close to a Lebanese army checkpoint at the time of the attack. A short while after the incident, Hezbollah confirmed the death of Fadl Ali Salman, saying that he was "killed on the road to Jerusalem," which is a phrase the terror group uses to refer to operatives killed in its conflict with Israel.
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A Lebanese security official told AFP that a senior commander he was protecting "escaped death." A source close to Hezbollah also confirmed to the news agency that a Hezbollah fighter had been killed, but denied that a high-level official had been the target of the strike. Both sources spoke on condition of anonymity for security concerns.
According to the security official, the Hezbollah commander was in a vehicle with three other people, behind the car that was hit.
Israel did not claim responsibility for the dronezap or comment on it.
However,
facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable...
on Sunday evening, the IDF said it had carried out two waves of strikes against Hezbollah targets in the southern Lebanon village of Markaba earlier in the day. The sites hit by fighter jets in Markaba include a military building, observation posts, rocket launch positions, and other infrastructure belonging to the terror group, the IDF said.
It also stated that it had carried out additional strikes, using tank shelling and aircraft, in other areas of southern Lebanon, hitting a Hezbollah command center and another building used by the terror group.
The area in which the strike against Salman was carried out has been targeted with frequent strikes in recent weeks as Israel responds to near-daily attacks launched by Hezbollah and allied Paleostinian groups in southern Lebanon.
On Saturday, an alleged Israeli strike on a vehicle in the port city of Tyre killed a member of Hezbollah who was later identified by the terror group as Ali Haderaj. Public broadcaster Kan reported that Haderaj served as a coordinator between Hezbollah and Hamas
...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
in Lebanon on matters of electronic warfare and air defenses.
Bint Jbeil has been a known Hezbollah stronghold for decades, and during the 2006 Second Lebanon War, much of it was destroyed amid battles with Israeli forces as they tried to wrestle control from the terror group.
Separately Sunday, an anti-tank missile was fired at the northern Israel community of Avivim, directly striking a residential building. Nobody was injured in the attack, although the building sustained damage. Hezbollah grabbed credit for the incident.
International figures, including US special envoy Amos Hochstein and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken
 ...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm...
, have been dispatched to the region in recent weeks in an attempt to cool the tensions along the Israel-Lebanon border, but seemingly to no avail, with neither side backing down from their stated position. Hezbollah has maintained that it will continue to fire rockets at Israel until there is a full ceasefire in 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 ...
, where fighting began after Hamas massacred some 1,200 people and seized 253 hostages from inside Israel on October 7. The Iran-backed terror group has claimed that its campaign on Israel’s northern front has aided the Paleostinian cause by stretching Israeli forces and by forcing thousands of civilians to flee from their homes.
Figures shared by the IDF on the 100th day of war, a week ago, showed that in the months since October 7, more than 2,000 projectiles have been launched by Hezbollah and armed Paleostinian groups along the Lebanon border.
Six civilians have been killed on the Israeli side, including a septuagenarian and her son who were killed last week when an anti-tank missile slammed into their home in Kfar Yuval. In addition to the civilian deaths, nine IDF soldiers and reservists have been killed.
Across the border, Hezbollah has named 164 members who have been killed in the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon along with some in Syria. An additional 20 operatives from other terror groups in Lebanon have also been killed, as well as 19 civilians, three of whom were journalists. 
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