...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...
killed a woman and a girl on Wednesday, prompting Hezbollah to retaliate with rocket fire.
Hezbollah and Israel have been exchanging near-daily fire across the border since the Israel-Hamas
...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...war broke out on October 7.
Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said that Khadija Salman was killed and her daughter seriously maimed in an Israeli strike on the southern village of Majdal Zoun.
Requesting anonymity, a hospital source confirmed the woman had died and her daughter remained at death's door, adding that a maiden of tender years was also killed.
Rescue workers said several other people were maimed and rushed to hospital.
In the evening, Hezbollah said it fired several Katyusha rockets at the Matzuva kibbutz across the border in Israel "in response to Israeli attacks on villages and civilian homes" including Majdal Zoun.
Hezbollah also grabbed credit for 11 other operations against Israeli military positions on the border.
The cross-border exchanges since October have killed at least 271 people on the Lebanese side, most of them Hezbollah fighters but also including 42 civilians. On the Israeli side, 10 soldiers and six civilians have been killed, according to the Israeli army.
Last week, Hezbollah chief Sayyed His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...
vowed that Israel would pay "with blood," after 10 civilians, including seven members of one family, were killed in Lebanon's largest single-day corpse count so far. Five Hezbollah fighters were also killed.