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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Hezbollah commander among 10 dead in Israeli strike on Nabatiyeh

2024-02-16

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[An Nahar] A Hezbollah commander, two other fighters and seven non-combatants were killed in an Israeli strike in south Leb
...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 Nabatiyeh, a security source said Thursday, raising the toll from a raid a day earlier.

The deaths brought to 10 the total number of civilians killed in Israeli strikes on Wednesday, the highest such toll since cross-border hostilities began in October, further raising fears of a broader conflict between Israel and turban group Hezbollah.

The Hezbollah commander, Ali al-Debs, had already been targeted and maimed in an Israeli dronezap in the southern Lebanon city of Nabatiyeh on February 8, the security source said, requesting anonymity as they were not authorised to speak to the media.

Two other Hezbollah fighters who were on the ground floor with Debs and "seven civilians from the same family" on the building's first floor were also killed in Wednesday's strike on the building in the city, the source added.

Hezbollah announced Thursday that three of its fighters including Debs had been killed, without specifying where they had died. It had said two members were killed on Wednesday.

The Israeli army said Wednesday a soldier was killed in unclaimed rocket fire from Lebanon and that its jets carried out strikes on Lebanon.

The official National News Agency had previously identified five of the dead civilians in Nabatiyeh as Hussein Barjawi, his two daughters, his sister and his grandson. His wife and niece were also killed.

Emergency responders pulled a boy alive from the rubble, it added, while another relative and at least six other people were taken to hospital.

The agency said the Israeli strike was carried out by "a drone with a guided missile".

- ISRAEL CONFIRMS KILLING -
The Israeli military on Thursday confirmed it had killed a Hezbollah commander, his deputy and another fighter in an air strike in Lebanese territory.

Ali al-Debs and the other two fighters were killed Wednesday night "in a precise air strike" carried out by an Israeli army aircraft on, the military said in a statement, describing the residential building in Nabatiyeh as "a Hezbollah military structure".

- RISING TOLLS -
An AFP photographer said the ground and first floors of the three-storey residential building were hit, with pieces of furniture strewn among the rubble.

Also Wednesday, the NNA said Israeli warplanes targeted a house in south Lebanon's Sawwaneh, killing three members of the same family -- a Syrian woman and her child, aged two, and stepchild, 13.

The Israeli military and Hezbollah have been trading near daily cross-border fire since the Israel-Hamas
Hamas

...a regional Iranian catspaw,...
war began in October.

Fears have been growing of another full-blown conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, which last went to war in 2006.

The Shiite Moslem group on Thursday claimed attacks on Israeli "spy equipment" and a barracks, while the Israeli military said fighter jets struck "dozens" of Hezbollah targets in south Lebanon.

Hezbollah chief Sayyed His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...
is due to speak on Friday, his second such address this week.

The cross-border violence has killed at least 259 people on the Lebanese side, most of them Hezbollah fighters but also including 40 civilians, according to an AFP tally.

40 / 299 = 93% bad guys, if I got the math right. Pretty good shooting, IDF!

On the Israeli side, 10 soldiers and six civilians have been killed, according to the Israeli army.

So about 18 to 1? For God so loved the Jews that he put them where their enemies are... (go for it, dear Reader — fill in the blank.)

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