...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...that his group is "prepared for the possibility of expanding the war" with Israel, a day after the fiercest escalation since the beginning of festivities.
Hezbollah will meet "escalation with escalation, displacement with displacement, and destruction with destruction," Qaouq warned.
At least 10 non-combatants were killed and several others were maimed in Israeli
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s Wednesday across south Lebanon. The airstrikes followed the death of an Israeli soldier and the wounding of seven others in a rocket attack on the Israeli army’s northern headquarters in Safad, some 12 kilometers away from the Lebanese border.
Hezbollah has not grabbed credit for the attack but many of its officials have vowed a response to the killing of civilians.
The cross-border violence has killed at least 254 people on the Lebanese side, most of them Hezbollah fighters but also including 38 civilians.