At least four people were killed and an unspecified number of others wounded when Israel carried out an airstrike against an occupied house in Sultaniyeh, in southern Lebanon. Among those killed was a leader in Hezbollah’s Radwan Force.
The commander was identified as Ali Ahmad Hassin and Hezbollah said he was “carrying out his jihadist duties” at the time of his death. The Radwan Force is Hezbollah’s elite commando unit.
A second Hezbollah man was slain, identified as local figure Abbas Jaafar, and a third Hezbollah figure remains unidentified. A fourth victim remains unidentified.
The airstrike targeted an occupied house in a residential community, badly damaging many surrounding homes. More than a dozen families were said to have lost their homes in the incident.
In addition to Sultaniyeh, Israeli reconnaissance aircraft were reported to target Ramia and Aita ash-Shaab with machine gun fire. No casualties have been reported as of now.
Israeli has been escalating attacks in recent weeks, with casualties nearly a daily occurrence and airstrikes almost always hitting and badly damaging residential areas. Some thousand homes are reported to have been damaged so far.
The UN issued a statement today warning about the continued escalation. It urges the two sides to step back and find a way to cease hostilities before the situation becomes more catastrophic.
The international community has been trying to broker a ceasefire, with hopes that Ramadan would be a chance for a deal to happen. With time running out on Ramadan, concern is that the escalation will get out of hand.
Israel is using flawed AI technology, called “Lavender,” to target Hamas and Hizbollah. Alistair Crooke reports: “Israeli journalist, Yuval Abraham reports in +972 Magazine in great depth how Israel has developed a AI machine (called ‘Lavender’) to generate kill lists in Gaza – with almost no human verification; only a “rubber stamp” check of about “20 seconds” to make sure the AI target is male (as no females are known to belong to the Resistance’s military).
The blatant extra-legality behind the Gaza ‘kill list’ methodology, as reported by Abraham’s various sources, can only be immunised and sheltered through normalising them as but one amongst a general pattern of illegalities – and in effect, claiming sovereign exceptionalism:
“[T]he Israeli army systematically attacks the targeted individual whilst in their homes — usually at night whilst the whole family is present — rather than during the course of military activity … Additional automated systems, including one, [callously] called “Where’s Daddy?” were used – specifically to track targets when they had entered their family’s residences… However, when a home was struck, usually at night, the individual target was sometimes not inside at all”.
“The result is that thousands of Palestinians — most of them women and children or people who were not involved in the fighting — were wiped out by Israeli airstrikes, especially during the first weeks of the war, because of the AI program’s decisions”.”
War is hell-Hamas should not have started one.
Who started is irrelevant, there is no excuse for ethnic cleansing and depriving civilians of food, water, medical care. That is why there is a Geneva Convention.
That’s his go to. “Genocide is justified” just sounds so crass so he reverts back to Oct 7th.
There hasn’t been too much publicity on MSM about this. The misuse of technology by the IDF for their war crimes should scare the heck out of everyone in the west. How long before such technology is used by law enforcement against the politically dissenting segments of society?
And the next day there will be another commander in his place. The idea that killing leadership makes any kind of real difference is ridiculous. It’s just another way of trying to justify killing anyone in the vicinity.
Not surprising as a loyal terrorist’s supporter you are opposed to killing terrorist’s leadership. Someday in the future you will read about Israel taking down Yahya Sinwar, that will be a sad day for y0u. Just like May 2, 2011 was.
As usual you missed the point of my comment. al Qaeda still exists, and we’ve killed more leadership than they had membership. Even the big guy, bin Laden. But once more you’re just too fucking stupid to comprehend anything so you once more bring out the unpaid Hasbara tripe.
You are correct,but that does not mean that murderers should go unpunished.
Except when Israel is doing the murdering, right? And I mean MURDERING as in making any of their enemies look like they’re jaywalking in comparison.