For the first time since the beginning of the Gaza War in October, Israel fired against targets in the Bekaa Valley, near the eastern city of Baalbek in Lebanon. At least two people were killed, reportedly Hezbollah members, and several others were wounded.
Israeli comments on the matter suggest they targeted trucks in the attack, while Hezbollah said the strikes hit a pair of buildings, one of them a warehouse belonging to a Hezbollah organization, and the other an empty three-story building.
The attack came following Hezbollah shooting down an Israeli drone over southern Lebanon earlier in the day. One of the missiles fired at the drone was reportedly intercepted, though Hezbollah ultimately brought down the UAV.
According to Lebanese officials, the wounded in the Baalbek attack included not just Hezbollah affiliates, but civilians and members of the Lebanese military. Two of the casualties included a soldier and his four-year-old child.
The Baalbek attack sparked a flurry of attacks between Israel and Hezbollah, with Hezbollah firing some 60 missiles across the border, which reportedly “targeted the base in the occupied Golan Heights.”
There was no word of the damage done by the missile fire yet, although there was a report of a single Israeli settler injured when missile fragments from an anti-tank missile resulted from the fire.
Israel responded to the attacks from southern Lebanon with the assassination of Hezbollah member Hassan Salami, who was killed in the village of Majadel by a missile fired from an Israeli fighter jet.
Israel claims that Salami was in charge of firing rockets from southern Lebanon into northern Israel. Hezbollah confirmed Salami’s death but did not comment on his ranking or responsibilities as a member.
MP Mohammed Raad, a leader in Hezbollah’s political faction, issued a statement in the wake of the attack warning of “severe consequences” if Israel miscalculates the situation. He said Hezbollah would continue to operate within the boundaries of deterrence.
Israel will attack Rafah on March 10. No one will be allowed to enter the mosque that Israel wants to destroy to build another temple. Let’s see what the reaction of the Arab world will be. Hezbollah may fire off several thousand rockets in the direction of Tel Aviv. Hopefully, they don’t target chlorine and bleach manufacturing plants. Would be pretty devastating. This is not good.
Ramadan is in less than two weeks, and Bibi announced extra security measures at the Al Aqsa mosgue….I wonder if they are emboldened enough by western support to do some kind of destruction there.
The end of Ramadan would be the end of Israel…!
Great, so are the barbarians in the IDF going to destroy those huge ancient monuments there too? They have zero respect for human life, the environment (where is the environmentalist’s outrage?) or cultural antiquities. Sisi better watch out or they will bomb the great pyramids, saying they are just positive Sinwar is hiding out there.
Israel is so nice. Everything it does is good. Since they’re “Co$en,” God is stamping away like in the used car commercials, stamping without verifying: Approved. Approved. Approved….
Oh, they want that WW3 so bad.
It does seem a mentality of rather dead than multipolar.
1918: Ben-Gurion laid out his vision of what the border of Israel would look like in a coauthored book that was written in Yiddish and published in the United States in 1918. In addition to what is today Israel, Ben-Gurion vision included the Occupied Territories, southern Lebanon up to the Litani River, part of southern Syria, a large part of Jordan, and the Sinai Peninsula. (The Israel Lobby, John Mearsheimer, P-384n60)