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| [RT] Israel bombs targets in Lebanon |
| 2024-07-28 |
| [RT] The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has confirmed that it carried out airstrikes against multiple targets in southern Lebanon. This came after Israeli officials vowed to retaliate after 12 people were killed when a rocket hit a football field in the occupied Golan Heights. The attacks were reported by multiple news outlets in the early hours of Sunday. According to Al Jazeera, explosions were heard in the coastal city of Tyre and several villages along the Israel-Lebanon border. Later, the IDF said in the statement that its air force “struck a series of Hezbollah terror targets” overnight, “both deep inside Lebanese territory and in southern Lebanon, including weapons caches and terrorist infrastructure in the areas of Chabriha, Borj El Chmali, and Beqaa, Kfarkela, Rab El Thalathine, Khiam, and Tayr Harfa.” Tensions flared up on Saturday when a rocket struck the Druze village of Majdal Shams. The Israeli government blamed Hezbollah for the attack, the victims of which were mostly children. The Lebanon-based group rejected the accusations. The UN special coordinator for Lebanon, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, and the commander of UN peacekeepers in Lebanon, Aroldo Lazaro, released a joint statement on Sunday, calling for “the parties to exercise maximum restraint and to put a stop to the ongoing intensified exchanges of fire.” The escalation “could ignite a wider conflagration that would engulf the entire region in a catastrophe beyond belief,” they said. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #8 I was trying to be subtle, Frank G, though it’s not one of my strengths. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2024-07-28 23:21 |
| #7 Cielito Lindo |
| Posted by: Frank G 2024-07-28 22:49 |
| #6 |
| Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452 2024-07-28 22:35 |
| #5 Feast or famine? ;-) Egypt beguiling, A timeless land! But breadless? [crocodiles smiling] |
| Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452 2024-07-28 22:33 |
| #4 It’s been a while since anyone went for Haiku around here. :-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2024-07-28 22:15 |
| #3 Erdogan's Turkey? Fat fig dropped from minaret: "So far, so good." [splat] |
| Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452 2024-07-28 22:13 |
| #2 Come, my dear Cielito Lindo — you know intimately what ACA Joe has or has not posted. But I quite agree with you — it’s so cute that his excellency, President Erdogan in his rôle as Sultan Recep Tayip Erdogan I (“the much beloved”), reared up on his hind legs to announce a thing that even the most hate-filled of Israel’s enemies know to be utterly impossible. He should be careful though, that his people do not come to call him the Turkish version of Epimanes, like the fourth Antiochus of the Seleucid line. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2024-07-28 22:10 |
| #1 I wish this could be contained for just a few months until Israel has deployed the iron beam technology. Of course as long as I am wishing, I wish Israel had been prepared for the Oct 7 Hamas attacks. How different things would have been if 1700 Hamas attackers had been eliminated with, say, fewer than a dozen civilian deaths. |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2024-07-28 09:19 |