...an Iranian satrapy currently 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...'s border, shortly after Israel carried out a dronezap on a pickup truck 45 kilometers deep into Lebanon.
In separate statements, Hezbollah identified the attacked posts as the Ramim barracks, the Hadb Yaroun area, the Hadb al-Bustan post and the al-Jirdah post. It also noted that the attack on Hadb Yaroun caused certain casualties after an Israeli armored infantry force was targeted.
The correspondent of Hezbollah’s al-Manar TV meanwhile suggested that Hezbollah used a heavy-caliber rocket to target the Ramim barracks, citing the rocket’s sound and smoke, "which resembled those resulting from hostile warplane strikes."
"Its explosion activated alert sirens in Margaliot and even in Kiryat Shmona, whose defenders mistook its large shrapnel for drones!!" the news hound added.
The Israeli army for its part said no drones had crossed into Israel but rather a rocket "that landed in an open area in the town of Margaliot," adding that it was firing retaliatory artillery shelling at the sources of fire in Lebanon.
Israeli warplanes meanwhile targeted the outskirts of the Lebanese border towns of Aita al-Shaab, Ramia and Marwahin, as Israeli artillery shelling pummeled the outskirts of Halta, al-Mari, Aitaroun, Maroun al-Ras, al-Labbouneh, Dhayra, Marwahin, Shanouh, Bastra and Kfarshouba.