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Israel continues to escalate against Hezbollah in Lebanon, jeopardizing the ceasefire brokered by the United States last November.
The ceasefire was supposed to end the confrontation that broke when Hezbollah began launching attacks against the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in support of Hamas in the Gaza Strip a day after the surprise attack on Israel on October 7 of 2023. Israel, however, continued to launch strikes against the group and kept troops in five posts in southern Lebanon.
The IDF escalated its operations against Hezbollah in recent weeks, launching on March 28 its first strike against the Lebanese capital, Beirut, since the ceasefire entered into effect. Israel said that the strike was a response to two rockets that were launched from Lebanon at the settlement of Kiryat Shmona earlier in the day, although Hezbollah had denied responsibility.
The strike hit a building used by Hezbollah’s drone unit in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, according to the IDF.
Hezbollah refrained from responding, but this was not apparently enough to avoid further escalation by Israel.
The IDF struck the southern suburbs of Beirut again on April 1, this time killing Hassan Bdair, a senior commander of Hezbollah. Three other people were killed in the strike.
Bdair was allegedly a member of Hezbollah’s Unit 3900 and of the elite Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Hezbollah again showed restraint, but to no avail. An Israeli strike hit the coastal Lebanese city of Sidon early on April 4, killing Hassan Farhat, the commander of Hamas forces in the western sector of Lebanon. At least two other people were killed. The IDF said at the time that Farhat advanced “numerous attacks” on Israeli civilians and troops.
Israel escalated further on April 7, killing Muhammad Adnan Mansour, the commander of a local Hezbollah rocket unit in a strike on the southern Lebanese area of Taybeh. The next day, April 8, the IDF launched a strike against an alleged air defense depot of Hezbollah close to the northeastern Lebanese city of Baalbek.
As a result of Israeli pressure, a senior Hezbollah official told Reuters on April 8 that the group was ready to hold talks with the Lebanese president about its weapons if the IDF withdraws from southern Lebanon and stops its strikes.
This was not, however, good enough for Israel, which on April 9 accused Hezbollah of rebuilding a weapons manufacturing site in Beirut. The accusation is clearly meant to justify further escalation, including the renewal of attacks on the Lebanese capital.
All in all, the future of Hezbollah appears to be in limbo. With no way to deter Israel, the group could reorganize its forces on a much smaller scale, or even move away from the Iran-led Axis of Resistance.
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as soon as they hand over their weapons, isis will come for their daughters. and they too will bury their sons.
exactly that disarming will only give israel and hts free access to geno the shia and christians in lebanon. hts are israels pawns they wil do the dirty work for them.
handing over weapons would be a great idea, just ask the alawites how well it worked out for them.
if they hand over their weapons, isis will immediately come and drag their daughters to idlib and slaughter their sons like rabbits. i hope you understand now that it is not healthy to defend the sunnis of hamas because then the sunnis of isis come along. and hamas prefers hts to shiites…
hamas and hezbollah are the same and are always together. hts is a deceitful western cancer that killed the sunni people in majority. i say it as someone who is not sunni and who knows how things work.
we have to support hamas hezbollah and the other civilized structures no matter what.
it is very well known terrorist tactics, which goes “hand over weapon, and no one will do you no harm”. and what happens next is a genocide. we saw that many times in history. zio shit are not ones who is to be trused in any circumstances.
do you think hamas would help hts slaughter hezbollah members if trump threw hamas into syria?
hamas ? how are they going to get out of the gaza open air prison camp ?
i heard palestinians were actually fighting against assad in syria. so yes, it’s possible.
there were some, i bet they regret it now the dumb bastards.
they fought alongside al quaida at the beginning of the war when quatar payed them to do it. only after quatar struck a deal with russia and left the battle hamas retreated back to gaza and changed its course again and started acting hostile against isreal again. if the russians would have not persuaded quatar to pull out hamas would have been part of the forces that would charge at damaskus.
trump calls for us 2025 trillion dollar defense budget . israeli pirate mafia requests honored again ?
no good deed goes unpunished. the defend the sunnis in palestine from getting slaughtered. and the sunnis bang then by taking over their supply routes.
the quote from that 90s pop song popped into my head, “the irony and the agony, it’s killing me “
then why hezbollah has not fired not even a firecracker? where went the proud organization that defied idf for over an year? not even the killings is enough to break the truce? well, yes, they could give their arms and then end like with alawites. really, what’s this madnes?
every move they now make can only giver isreal more legitimacy infront of the rest of the world to slauther the shia in lebanon. just like the world is allways mentioning that the people beeing slaughtered now as beeing former assad supporters to imply their deserve it and its not as bad that al qaida is killing them.