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Hezbollah has carried out two drone attacks against sites of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in response to the recent assassination of a member of Lebanon’s Islamic Group.
Ayman Ghatma, a member of the Islamic Group with links to the Palestinian Hamas Movement, was targeted with a loitering munition and killed while driving near the town of Khiara in the eastern Lebanese governorate of Beqaa on June 22.
The IDF said that Ghatma was responsible for supplying weapons to both the Islamic Group and Hamas and was also involved in advancing attacks against Israel.
The Islamic Group is the Lebanese branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. The party’s military wing, the al-Fajr Forces, has been launching attacks alongside Hezbollah and other allies from Lebanon against the IDF since the outbreak of the Israeli war on the Palestinian enclave of the Gaza Strip last October.
On June 23, Hezbollah announced drone attacks in response to the assassination. In two statements, the group said it struck the Beit Hillel barracks with a single suicide drone and launched a “squadron” of drones at a deployment point of the IDF’s 91st Divsion near the settlement of Ayelet HaShahar.
Hezbollah also launched rocket attacks against the border sites of al-Samaqa and al-Ramtha. These attacks were however carried out in support of the Palestinian people and resistance in Gaza, according to separate statements released by the group.
The IDF confirmed that a drone struck Beit Hillel after an interceptor fired by its air defenses failed to shoot it down. It also admitted that several drones attacked the deployment point near Ayelet HaShahar, with only one being intercepted. A soldier was seriously wounded in the attack.
Hezbollah and its allies have escalated attacks against Israel in support of Gaza in recent weeks. Senior Israeli officials threatened Lebanon with a military operation in response.
So far, the clashes on the Lebanese-Israeli border have resulted in ten civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of at least 15 IDF soldiers and reservists. On the Lebanese side, more than 500 people have been killed, including 330 fighters of Hezbollah and at least 90 civilians.
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the casualty figures although doubtful do show hezbollah’s intention is to degrade israel’s ability to defend against a mass missile/drone attack in the event of full blown war rather than to kill idf at this stage. israel has no strategic depth and the whole country is now open to attack. no wonder israelis are buying up cyprus.
a war of attrition is what it’s all about now. israel is already running out of ammunition. as evidence, it is no longer capable of countering drones and secondly, the news mentioned that netanyahu is angry at the usa, which does not provide enough ammunition. if the situation continues for even a year, israel will be really weak. and if, for example, trump is in power, the usa will not necessarily intervene.
hezbollah’s aim must be to reduce the leadership of the jews one by one, an efficient culling and the jews will be forced to flee for their miserable thieving lives! and 10 mill in gold fatwa onn netantahus head, dead or kicking alive in tehran!
the polish government signed agreements to take over jewish emigrants in the event of war. they will also receive polish passports and apartments
the polish government, secretly from its own citizens, also signed an agreement to send civilians forcibly conscripted into the army to the front in the event of war in israel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaj-wwdv3qw
hezbollah already won us nato and israel not smart they should have started war 8 months ago now hezbollah destroyed most of israel’s communications capabilities hezbollah will be the one invades if israel is dumb enough to try to fight the big dick lebanese all israel women will have to be bent over and bred so the strong lebanese dna can spread in the minds of their women and produce good offsprings so the world can live in peace
i think hibullah has digged a tunnel inside iron dome.
orcs thought they could enjoy a beach day while ukraine suffers…they learned differently…heheheh
russia is still intact. you retards have lost your sovereignty. how does it feel to be used and abused like a dildo by uncle scam?
putin soon to face very difficult choice. what to do when israel and hezbollah go to total war and iran joins. i think he’ll help israel.
nah he won’t
no way. what planet do you live on? russia and iran are brics countries, it goes beyond everything. without brics, the financial conditions to discipline the economy of the west and keep the gdp of brics higher than that of the g7 countries would disappear. russia is not a friend of israel, it only tolerates it in the same area, because they did not want war with each other. they are not friends.