Israel and Hezbollah carried out tit-for-tat airstrikes throughout Wednesday. Scores of Hezbollah missiles were fired at northern Israel and a drone strike against a military site near Golani Junction hit some 21 miles from the border.
Israeli military reported damage but no injuries from the explosives-laden drone, but more noteworthy is the fact this is the deepest strike into Israeli territory since the current war began in October.
Most Hezbollah strikes against Israel have been to within 9.3 miles of the border. Showing a capacity to strike this much deeper into Israel means many sites, previously thought relatively safe, are within range of attack.
Israel responded to the drone strike with several strikes into northeastern Lebanon, hitting the towns of Nabi Chit and Brital in the Bekaa Valley. This too was a very deep strike, some 51 miles from the border itself.
Israel commonly attacks targets in and around the city of Baalbek in the northeast. The area, not far from the Syria-Lebanon border, is seen as having an active Hezbollah presence with an eye toward smuggling arms into the country.
The attacks come a day after an overnight Israel strike against a target in Tyre, destroying a vehicle and killing two Hezbollah members, including a commander named Hussain Ibrahim Meki.
Hezbollah’s strikes were seen as retaliation for the deaths of their members, and Israel’s strikes against Lebanon were retaliation for the unusually deep drone strike.
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Anyone have insight as to how many IDF units are tied down on Northern Front ?
This report is idiotic. It is well known that Hezbollah has a missile arsenal with long-range capability, able to hit any target anywhere in Israel. So it is no surprise that Hezbollah could hit the reported targets. Hezbollah has been relying mostly on ATGM (AntiTank Guided Munitions) so far which have a shorter range and conserving their long-range precision-guided missiles for later in the coming war, as part of their process of “escalation dominance.”
Also, Hezbollah strikes are not “in retaliation” for anything except the Gaza genocide. They are specifically directed against Israeli military targets, especially Iron Dome installations – one was hit just the other day – while Israeli strikes are usually targeted against Lebanese civilian concentrations. Hezbollah is thus gaining strategic advantage while the incompetent Israeli military are achieving nothing – just as in Gaza.
Right on cue, Bernhard at Moon of Alabama quotes Nasrallah in Alastair Crooke’s article as “Sayed Hassan Nasrallah, as the spokesman for the unity of Resistance Fronts, has made clear that the aim of the Resistance is to exhaust ‘Israel’.” Which is exactly what I’ve been saying. While Nasrallah holds out the hope that Israel will “recant” without a major war, neither Bernhard nor I see that as likely.
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