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Massive strike in Beirut just now as Israel pounds Beirut following Hezbollah rocket fire at central Israel, IDF hit more than 160 targets across Leb
2024-10-24
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Nice secondaries.
Another major Hezbollah weapons or missile/rocket cache.
IDF pounds Beirut after Hezbollah’s Simhat Torah eve rocket fire at central Israel

[IsraelTimes] State media reports six buildings leveled in strikes on Lebanese capital; Hezbollah-linked broadcaster says it vacated office that was targeted without evacuation warning

Leb
...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. 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? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
state media reported 17 Israeli strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, with six buildings leveled and the vacated offices of a Hezbollah-linked broadcaster hit on Wednesday, after the Lebanese terror group fired rockets at central Israel as the country began marking the Simhat Torah holiday.

AFPTV footage showed a massive explosion followed by smaller blasts in the southern suburbs following an Israeli army evacuation warning for the area, where Hezbollah holds sway.

The official National News Agency (NNA) reported at least 17 Israeli raids, marking one of the most intensive nights of strikes targeting the area in the past month. Six buildings were destroyed around the suburb of Laylaki, NNA said, calling the raids "the most violent mostly peaceful in the area since the beginning of the war." The strikes came shortly after the Israel Defense Forces’ Arabic-language front man, Avichay Adraee, issued evacuation warnings on social media platform X.

There was no warning, however, for a strike that hit the Jnah neighborhood in southern Beirut that targeted an office the pro-Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
TV channel al-Mayadeen said it vacated.

"Al-Mayadeen holds the Israeli occupation accountable for the attack on a known media office for a known media outlet," said the pan-Arab broadcaster, which is aligned with Hezbollah. The strike killed one person and maimed five others, according to Lebanon’s health ministry. The name of the person killed was unknown.

The office was hit by two rockets and "completely destroyed" in the strike, which sparked a blaze inside, NNA reported.

Al-Mayadeen’s office is located near the former premises of the Iranian embassy in Beirut and close to a Lebanese army checkpoint.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that Israel uncovered a plot by Hezbollah to attack via underground tunnels involving jeeps and missiles, telling French broadcasters CNews and Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
1 that had the plan succeeded, such an assault would be been more damaging than the October 7, 2023, Hamas
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
onslaught.

"A hundred meters, two hundred meters from the border we found tunnels, tunnels that were preparing an invasion of Israel, an attack even greater than on October 7," Netanyahu said, according to a simultaneous translation provided by the networks.

"With jeeps, with cycle of violences, with rockets, with missiles. They were planning an invasion."

Netanyahu had told French daily Le Figaro earlier this month that the Israeli army found Russian cutting-edge military hardware in Hezbollah arms caches.

IDF says it hit more than 160 targets across Lebanon in past day
[IsraelTimes] The Israel Defense Forces say that the warplanes attacked more than 160 Hezbollah targets in Lebanon over the past day.

The IDF says that several of the strikes were coordinated by ground forces operating in southern Lebanon, killing dozens of terror operatives.

Among the targets hit in the strikes were rocket launchers and Hezbollah military buildings and infrastructure.

Troops on the ground also uncovered several large weapons caches, including anti-tank missiles, mortars and rifles.
Posted by:Fred

#5  ^@2 motion detector
Posted by: KBK   2024-10-24 21:29  

#4  The good old days are gone.
Posted by: Dale   2024-10-24 19:01  

#3  Still it makes no difference. Fighting goes on.
Posted by: Dale   2024-10-24 18:43  

#2  and then there's the fool in the building at the lower right who turns the lights on to see what's happening
Posted by: Mercutio   2024-10-24 09:03  

#1  IDF pounds Beirut after Hezbollah’s Simhat Torah eve rocket fire at central Israel
Posted by: Skidmark   2024-10-24 01:20  

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