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2024-10-17 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Latest on Israel’s invasion of Lebanon: IDF captures 9 towns, bombs Latakia and Nabatieh, blows up massive South Leb Hezbollah HQ
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Israeli strike on Lebanese municipality building kills 16 in Nabatieh
[GEO.TV] The mayor of a major town in south 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...
was among 16 people killed when an Israeli Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
destroyed its municipal headquarters in the biggest attack on an official Lebanese state building since the Israeli air campaign began.

Lebanese officials denounced the incident, which also maimed more than 50 people in Nabatieh, a picturesque provincial capital, saying it was proof that Israel's campaign against the Hezbollah gang was now shifting to target the Lebanese state.

The Israelis "intentionally targeted a meeting of the municipal council to discuss the city's service and relief situation" to aid people displaced by the Israeli campaign, caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said.



Posted by Fred 2024-10-17 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11163 views ]  Top
 File under: Hezbollah 

#1 5 Israeli soldiers were reportedly killed and 15 others injured in Lebanon.

There is nothing in Israeli press - which means it's a lie.
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-10-17 00:55||   2024-10-17 00:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Some 30 rockets fired from Lebanon at north; drone downed over Mediterranean
Posted by Skidmark 2024-10-17 02:49||   2024-10-17 02:49|| Front Page Top

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