Esmail Qaani, the head of Iran’s Quds Force, and Hashem Safieddine, the frontrunner to replace Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, have not been heard from since the Israeli strike on Beirut late last week, according to reports.
Qaani travelled to Lebanon after the killing last month of Nasrallah in an Israeli air strike and had been incommunicado for more than a week, two senior Iranian security officials told Reuters.
A Hezbollah official said on Sunday that Israel was not allowing a search for Safieddine to progress after it bombed Beirut’s southern suburbs on Thursday.
Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, vowed victory to troops during a visit to forces along the border.
He said: “The whole world is amazed by the blows you are delivering to our enemies, and I salute you... Together we will fight, and together we will win.”
Israel meanwhile also launched a renewed air and ground offensive in Gaza overnight. The assault was thought to be the largest in months and underlined the ongoing difficulty of defeating Hamas a year after the Oct 7 attacks.
The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza said 26 people were killed in two strikes on Deir al Balah, targeting a former school and mosque that are now shelters for the displaced.
The Israeli military said they were Hamas command centres, intentionally hidden in civilian infrastructure.
In northern Gaza, Israeli troops launched an operation in Jabaliya after issuing an evacuation order thought to be the largest since the early months of the war.
ThatDucksWearingAHat on October 6th, 2024 at 18:49 UTC »
So apparently as long as you don’t do things in a typical military manner and spread things out amongst your populace you’re just unattackable because it will guarantee civilian casualties. Somehow that fault falls on the people fighting back not the people that set up their infrastructure to guarantee their people will be killed if their weapons and munition storages are attacked. Maybe they shouldn’t attempt to deter incoming attacks by putting their civilians up as the shield to their militant operations. Feel bad for the people unknowingly being used as pawns by dumb fuck religious extremists thinking they’ll make Israel disappear when all they are doing is hurting the people they claim to be champions of making sure the region stays a fucking disaster for future generations.
000trace00 on October 6th, 2024 at 18:03 UTC »
How dumb is Hezb. Why get involved with this at all? For 11 months Israel told Hezb this is what would happen. Just like Hamas - they push dead civilians as clickbait and PR. And the far left eat it up thinking Hezb “supports Palestine”. Had they bothered to research anything would have found out Hezb hates Palestinians. Nasrallahs first job was killing Palestinians.
abir_valg2718 on October 6th, 2024 at 17:15 UTC »
Still can't get over these headlines. How about
Israel strikes multiple Hezbollah weapon caches hidden in residential areas
Instead, they mention in passing, in the middle of the article:
By this point, there's an ungodly amount of videos from Lebanon showing secondaries and cook off, some of them are quite spectacular.
How in the world can you write something like "leading to suggestions ammunition stores had been hit"? Leading to suggestions? Seriously?
Everyone knows. It's deliberately, purposefully being downplayed by a lot of mass media.