The Israeli military said Hezbollah fired about 215 projectiles against northern Israel this morning, setting off sirens across the area and setting fires. Officials downplayed the large number, saying there were no injuries.
This may not be a one-time event, as Hezbollah official Hachem Saffieddine said at a funeral ceremony for Hezbollah commander Taleb Sami Abdullah, that the movement would intensify attacks in “severity, strength, quantity and quality.”
Abdullah was a senior commander in Hezbollah and the highest ranked officer to be killed in the past eight months of Israeli attacks. He was killed late on Tuesday in southern Lebanon.
Saffieddine said it was “natural” that Abdullah was a permanent target of Israel. Abdullah was brought to his hometown of Aadschit for a funeral and burial.
Israeli interceptors were activated in response to the intense rocket fire this morning, and Israeli Fire and Rescue Authority was deployed to extinguish brush fires caused by rockets hitting open ground.
Israel has been talking of their preparation for a very intense war with Lebanon, and Britain reportedly warned Lebanon this might be planned for mid-June. The escalations on both sides have been ongoing for weeks, if not months, and international efforts to prevent a full-scale war have so far failed.
Like I said – Hezbollah has escalation dominance. They have over 100,000 rockets and missiles (and are building more). They can drop hundreds of them on Israel daily for, let's do the math, 500 missiles a day = 200 days. If the actual figure is 150,000 (no one knows for sure), it would be 300 days (nearly a year.)
As I am on record for years, a war with Hezbollah means the Israeli population will be in bomb shelters 2×7, the Israeli infrastructure will be wrecked, the Israeli economy (already wrecked) will evaporate, the electorate will get pissed off at the government and vote them out in the next election (assuming Israel actually survives.)
This will happen if Israel decides to escalate much further.
Israel may be aware of this, but they probably know that US military personnel and weapons will come to the rescue, as they always do, for this backwards war criminal piece of ____!!!
Indeed – the IDFs pitiful performance against Al-Qassem underscores the need for the Likud to face reality. The Likud should accept the generous Palestinian offer of a lasting peace based on pre-1967 lines.
Once commit genocide, you can never go back. Israel is over.
" Israel is over" 9.5 million people living in Israel disagree with that.
Does that include the so-called settlers living on stolen land?
Likud should accept the generous Palestinian offer of a lasting peace based on pre-1967 lines LOL. That is not going to happen.
All or nothing ? That’s all the Likud offers ?
Israelis deserve better.
They can drop hundreds of them on Israel daily for, let's do the math, 500 missiles a day = 200 days. If the actual figure is 150,000 (no one knows for sure), it would be 300 days (nearly a year.)
And what would Lebanon look like after those 300 days?
And what would Lebanon look like after those 300 days? Gaza 2.0
That was my implication.
The Hezbollah rockets cannot be shut down by Israel Cotton Dome…!
So far, Hezbollah has avoided hitting areas that could cause critical damage and death. Were they to hit the plants that manufacture chlorine, etc. it would cause a lot of deaths in Tel Aviv. Israel prefers bombing rather than head to head battles against the "army of god". A game-changer would be Hezbollah obtaining the ability to knock drones and jets out of the air. I do believe that it Hezbollah gets the ability to do that, Israel, consumed by madness, just could use a tactical nuke. Or two. We know Israel is wanting so bad to nuke Iran. We have not been able to get Israel to stop doing anything, so, I doubt we could stop them from using their nuclear arsenal.
What sucks most, is that letting Netanyahu run wild wll escalate this conflict , possibly around the world. These zionists are insane with power, biden an Netanyahu would destroy the world to avoid defeat. We will all pay for Israel's crimes if our governments don't wake up soon.
" hit the plants that manufacture chlorine," That is pure nonsense. You don't know how chlorine is made in those plants and you don't how quickly chlorine will dissipate. Chlorine manufacturing can be shut off in seconds. Any chlorine gas released from a damaged cylinder in an open field will mix with the air (dissipate) and get diluted quickly. One would have to be very close to the damage cylinder to get hurt or killed.
And Hezbollah obtaining the ability to shoot down jets. Seriously, do you think the IAF would not destroy this ability before it ever became operational.