Tensions continue to rise on the Lebanon-Israel border today, with Israel carrying out airstrikes against northeastern Lebanon, not far from the Syrian border, leveling a warehouse containing food and killing at least two people.
Officially, Israel says the two airstrikes targeted Hezbollah sites and were in response to rocket fire earlier in the day. Lebanese security officials say 20 people were wounded in the attack and at least 9 remain hospitalized.
Earlier, Hezbollah fired some 100 rockets against targets in northern Israel, saying they were aiming for a pair of army bases in the occupied Golan Heights. There was no word on what was hit in the rocket fire, but alarms were reportedly heard in both Golan and Galilee.
Hezbollah said the rockets were retaliation for an Israeli attack near the city of Baalbek, also in northeastern Lebanon. The strikes were reported Monday night as hitting a former Hezbollah building.
In addition to strikes in northeast Lebanon, Israel reported airstrikes against the southern region as well, saying they hit at least three rocket launchers that were the source of some of the Hezbollah fire.
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir responded in anger to the rocket fire, complaining that Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant should’ve started the war already. He concluded his comments demanding “war, now!”
Gallant has talked up a war in Lebanon and suggested any deal in the Gaza Strip would involve an escalation against southern Lebanon. The international community has been trying to negotiate a truce along the Lebanon border.
This may prove difficult, as analysts are arguing that the Netanyahu government is keen to keep the war going, in Lebanon if not in Gaza, as a way to protect the PM’s power.
Ben-Gvir is apparently out of the loop. Netanyahu is temporizing with his ‘assault on Rafah’ to give Biden time ‘persuade’ al Sisi into accepting the 1.5M.
al Sisi is not going to do it for political and financial reasons.
Please change the title. It should be: The United States Strikes NE Lebanon, Killing 2 and Wounding 20.
The Likud started the current round of hostilities with its 2.Oct brutal assault on the Al-Aqsa Holy site.
Then the Likud ordered the IDF to massacre 400+ Israelis on 7.Oct.
Then the Likud forced the 23 IDF brigades to attack Gaza. The IDF casualties exceed all prior wars combined. The poorly trained and led IDF conscript and weekend warrior units were decimated. Now only 3 brigades of regulars remain in Gaza. These regulars are now outnumbered, outgunned, and losing badly. All the IDF seems capable of is Blind Rage atrocities against women and children.
And now the Likud wants to send the battered IDF conscripts and weekend warriors into Lebanon ????
It’s almost as if the Likud is Israeli‘s own worst enemy
“you know, it’s amazing. You are 100% wrong.
I mean, nothing you said has been right”
– Kermit the frog
Israel has border control and uncontested air supiority. It can slaughter and starve the helpless Gazans. And that’s the whole point. They want the territory. Otherwise -the 10/7 Reichstage Fire, et. al., you’ve got it right.
Helpless? Not according to Peace.
“Border control”-Hamas seems to be very good at smuggling in weapons”
“now outnumbered, outgunned, and losing badly” Well if that is true, than from a Gaza point of view, there is no reason to have a cease fire. Just finish off the IDF. That can’t cost more than another 30,000. A cheap price to pay for a great victory over Israel.
Genociding 200,000 civilians in Blind Rage atrocities is a sure sign that the IDF is defeated.
See – The Rape Of Manila