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Southern Lebanon village destroyed, 3 Hezbollah emirs toes up, 3 UN observers ditto
2026-03-31

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🚨 SOUTHERN LEBANON: VILLAGE DESTROYED

“The village is on its way to complete obliteration.”

An Israeli flag now flies above the ruins of a Shiite village in southern Lebanon.

If Hezbollah does not disarm, should Israel permanently annex this land?

3 UN observers killed within 24 hours in south Lebanon, IDF says it’s investigating; 3 Hezbollah emirs toes up
[IsraelTimes] Probe to determine whether IDF or Hezbollah fire responsible, army says; 3 top Hezbollah operatives killed in separate IDF strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs

The UN observer mission in Leb
...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
said two of its personnel were killed Monday in the second deadly incident in 24 hours in the country’s south, where Israel and Hezbollah are fighting.

The United Nations
...the Oyster Bay money pit...
Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said two Indonesian observer force members were killed "when a kaboom of unknown origin destroyed their vehicle." Two other peacekeepers were maimed, one of them seriously.

Also in the south, Lebanon’s army said an Israeli strike killed one of its soldiers, while the IDF announced that three top Hezbollah operatives responsible for the coordination between the Lebanese terror group and Paleostinian terror organizations were killed in an Israeli strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs.

Lebanon was pulled into the Middle East conflict when the Tehran-backed terror group fired rockets at Israel on March 2 to avenge the killing of Iran’s supreme leader in the opening salvo of the US-Israeli war against the Islamic Theocratic RepublicIsrael has responded with broad strikes across Lebanon and a ground offensive in the south. Lebanese authorities say more than 1,200 people have been killed since the hostilities began, though, they don’t differentiate between civilians and combatants. The Israeli military has said that it has killed some 800 Hezbollah operatives.

UNIFIL said it had launched an investigation into Monday’s deaths, which came a day after another Indonesian peacekeeper was killed and three others maimed by a projectile, also of unknown provenance, that went kaboom! near a UNIFIL position.

Israel’s military said on Tuesday it was also investigating the two incidents "in order to clarify the circumstances and determine whether they resulted from Hezbollah activity or from IDF activity."

Jean-Pierre Lacroix, UN under-secretary-general for peace operations, strongly condemned "these unacceptable incidents," adding that "all acts that endanger the peacekeepers must stop."

Permanent Security Council member La Belle France said it was seeking a meeting of the body over the matter, while Spain also condemned the deadly attacks.

IDF: STRIKE KILLS HEZBOLLAH COMMANDERS WHO LIAISED WITH PALESTINIAN TERROR GROUPS
Also on Monday, two strikes hit Beirut’s southern suburbs, one targeting an apartment in the Bir Hassan district, according to an AFP photographer, who said Hezbollah button men then cordoned off the site.

The IDF said one strike in Beirut killed top Hezbollah commanders responsible for the coordination between the Lebanese terror group and Paleostinian terror organizations.

The military said the strike in the Lebanese capital targeted and killed Hamza Ibrahim Rakhin, the deputy commander of Hezbollah’s Unit 1800, along with the unit’s chief of operations and another operative.

"Unit 1800 is the unit responsible for coordination between the Hezbollah terror organization and Paleostinian terror organizations in Lebanon, 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 oppression and disproportionate response...
, Syria, and Judea and Samaria (West Bank)," the IDF said in a statement.

The military said that as part of his role, the deputy chief of Unit 1800 also oversaw the deployment of Paleostinian terror operatives in southern Lebanon to confront Israeli troops.

A Lebanese security source told AFP that three Hezbollah members were killed in the strike and three others were maimed.

An eyewitness who declined to be identified said victims were evacuated following the strike, which came after an Israeli army warning for parts of Beirut’s southern suburbs, where most residents have fled.

The building is located in a residential neighborhood packed with shops and commercial establishments, several of which were damaged, the photographer said.

In other strikes in Beirut on Monday, the IDF said, it bombed Hezbollah headquarters and command centers.

Hezbollah, meanwhile, claimed a series of attacks against Israeli targets in south Lebanon and across the border, including one targeting an intelligence base on the outskirts of Tel Aviv.

The terror group also claimed its fighters were engaged in "fierce festivities" with Israeli forces in south Lebanon’s Ainata.

Ten IDF soldiers have been killed in southern Lebanon amid fighting against Hezbollah, including four on Monday. Two civilians have been killed by Hezbollah rockets, and an Israeli civilian was mistakenly killed in the north by Israeli artillery shelling.

Hezbollah has been firing hundreds of rockets per day, according to the IDF. However,
today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday...
the vast majority of the daily rocket fire has been directed at Israeli forces operating in southern Lebanon, with only a few dozen projectiles crossing the border into Israel.

Israeli officials have said the IDF is establishing a demilitarized "security zone" in southern Lebanon up to the Litani River, until the threat of Hezbollah is removed.

The buffer zone would be controlled with surveillance and firepower, as well as ground troops in areas deemed strategically necessary, the military has said. Defense Minister Israel Katz has said he instructed the IDF to raze all buildings in the so-called "first line" of Lebanese villages close to the Israeli border, to ensure Hezbollah cannot use them to stage attacks on Israel.
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