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in southern Leb
...The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else?...
Saturday killed a Hezbollah operative, the military announced, as it continued its recent policy of targeting construction vehicles it says are being used by the terror group to rebuild positions.
The operative was operating heavy machinery in the village of Kfar Dounine, in an attempt to restore Hezbollah infrastructure in the area that had been destroyed during the fighting last year, the IDF said.
The army said that the "terrorist’s activities constituted a violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon. "
The Lebanese health ministry confirmed one person was killed in the strike.
"The Israeli enemy’s airstrike on a vehicle... resulted in one martyr," the health ministry said in a statement.
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported that it was a dronezap that "targeted an excavator with two missiles on the Kfar Dounine-Deir Kifa road".
Israel has destroyed hundreds of construction vehicles and other pieces of heavy machinery in recent weeks, in what it says is a policy aimed at eliminating Hezbollah’s ability to rebuild its infrastructure in southern Lebanon.
On Friday, the IDF said it killed a Hezbollah operative who was driving in the southern Lebanon town of Khirbet Selm. According to the IDF, the individual was involved in restoring Hezbollah military capabilities in the area.
IDF BUSTS WEAPONS SMUGGLERS
Later Friday, the army foiled an attempt to smuggle weapons from Syria into Lebanon in the Mount Hermon area, it said in a statement released Saturday.
Troops of the 810th "Mountains" Regional Brigade and field interrogators of the Intelligence Directorate’s Unit 504 detained several suspects near the peak of Mount Hermon during the overnight operation, the military said.
According to the IDF, the suspects were trying to smuggle grenades, handguns, RPGs and ammunition into Lebanon.
The suspects were taken for further questioning.
The IDF has been deployed to nine posts inside southern Syria since the fall of the Bashir
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Terror of Aleppo ...
regime in December 2024, mostly within a UN-patrolled buffer zone on the border between the countries. Two posts are on the Syrian side of Mount Hermon.
Troops have been operating in areas up to around 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) deep into Syria, aiming to capture weapons that Israel says could pose a threat to the country if they fall into the hands of "hostile forces," especially Hezbollah.
Immediately after Hamas
..always the voice of sweet reason...’s October 7, 2023, attack on Israel that triggered the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
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disproportionate response...
war, Hezbollah began launching rockets at Israel in support of its Paleostinian ally.
Months of exchanges escalated into all-out war in September 2024, during which Hezbollah chief His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
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and many other top leaders were killed, before a ceasefire was eventually reached.
Weakened by the war and still facing regular Israeli strikes despite the truce, Hezbollah is now under internal and international pressure to hand over its weapons, with the Lebanese army having drawn up a plan to disarm it.