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Israel shifted its attention back to Lebanon on June 27, attacking a key facility of Hezbollah in the Beaufort Castle area in the south of the country.
In a statement, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said that the facility, a part of an underground Hezbollah site that was previously targeted, was being used by the group to “manage its fire and defense array.”
“In recent days, the IDF identified attempts by the Hezbollah terror organization to restore the site, and therefore the terror infrastructure in the area was struck,” the military said.
The IDF added that the “presence of this site and the attempts to reestablish it constitute a blatant violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon.”
Following the attack, the Lebanese Health Ministry announced that one woman was killed and 11 other people were injured in an Israeli strike on an apartment in the town of Nabatieh, located some seven kilometers to the northwest of Beaufort Castle.
The IDF, however, denied carrying out a strike on Nabatieh, instead blaming a Hezbollah rocket that was launched amid the strikes on the nearby facility.
“The IDF did not target any civilian building,” said the military’s Arabic-language spokesman Col. Avichay Adraee. “According to the information we have, the building was hit by a rocket projectile that was stored at the site, and was launched and exploded as a result of the airstrike.”
Videos posted to social networks did show dozens of secondary blasts at the targeted facility, which suggests that its underground structure was breached as a result of the Israeli attack.
Just a day earlier, a home in the southern Lebanon town of Houla, allegedly used by Hezbollah to observe Israel, was demolished by the IDF.
The home belonged to Ahmad Ghazi Ali, a Hezbollah operative killed in a drone strike in Houla a week ago, according to the military.
“The structure was used by the Hezbollah terror organization for military activity, including attempts to gather intelligence on IDF troops,” the military said in a statement, adding that “the terrorists’ activity in the structure constituted a clear violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon.”
The IDF said the demolition was carried out by the 769th “Hiram” Regional Brigade in what was described as “a special operation.”
Israel strikes have reportedly killed more than 180 members of Hezbollah since a ceasefire with Lebanon brokered by the United States came into effect on November 27. In addition, the IDF has refused to completely withdraw from southern Lebanon in line with the agreement, keeping troops at five strategic posts in the region.
Hezbollah has so far refrained from responding in any shape or form, likely to focus on reorganizing its ranks. For Israel, this may be an opportunity.
The recent attacks by the IDF suggest that Israel, which just completed an attack on Iran’s nuclear program, may be now preparing to renew the war on Lebanon.
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the united states and israel just completed an attack on the “iran’s nuclear program”. the jewish supremacist organized crime enclave in palestine and the us are in the midst of an ongoing murder campaign conducted against iranian leadership.
are i$rael and it’s mule patron launching these attacks from cyprus or greece?… someone told me bibi is still in the neighborhood because of what will happen to him when he examines the rubble in haifa and tel aviv…. they say he really digs the nicosia airport and the abandoned beach town for hiding.
nothing but terrorism. wherever there are shia muslims you’ll find a jew and a sunni conspiring to kill them.
85 percent of palestinians are sunnis.
the deepstate methodically planned conquest of the world. arab monarchies were in their bag. then they went after iraq in 2003 planning 2 keep it, then lost it, then created isis, took back iraq, went after syria almost had it, & lost it cause of russia, iran. eventually assad, iran, putin let their guard down & alqaeda took syria, so lebanon was easy. they got the free airspace 2 go to iran & attacked. if iran dont get nooks they will eventually fall too. russia ,china next
nobody’s guard was let down in syria. this is the final spam of us imperial overreach. the most powerful empire in history is in its downward phase and it is capable of inducing chaos on a grand scale as it descends.
these rabid zionists need to be put down!
russia is the successor of the byzantine empire and so constantinople and jerusalem belong to russia. the shroud of turin also belongs to russia because it was stolen from constantinople in 1204. iran and turkey will soon act as useful idiots for the russians when putin attacks israel. russian pride worldwide!
i hope they don’t end up like the byzantines.
you’re only supposed to huff the jenkem, don’t inject it.
my gut is telling me iran made a mistake by agreeing to such a quick cease in hostilities. israel/usa would never have asked to stop unless they were in serious trouble.
stopping the fight when your enemy is in serious trouble is always a bad idea.
iran is a great country, they could be so prosperous all it needs is new leadership, that old fool kamenei and company are a buch of idiots and need to go, then iran could have all the nuclear power they want.
i wonder if khamenei is a puppet of the west. that he and the pm were like the only two people not killed in the government is kind of suspicious. not to mention his ceasefire idea was stupid strategically and a gift to the israelis.
it wasn’t a gift to the jewish supremacist organized crime enclave in palestine. iran was not about to eliminate their attacker simply by continuing to fight.
new leadership like who that zionist son of the shah? fuck off asshole.
being openly assaulted by the us empire and it’s jewish supremacist chain dog means iran was in serious trouble. the fact that the jewish supremacist organized crime enclave in palestine yet again chutzpahed themselves into a corner doesn’t mean iran had the upper hand.
maybe hezbollah should have never agreed to a cease fire in 2006. john bolton told george bush, we’,ve got to stop this war or it will be a catastrophe for the state if israel.
i wish they had a catastrophe back in 2006. me and millions of starving palestinians as well.
the opponents of the jewish supremacist organized crime enclave in palestine agree to cease fires because they defending against attacks by the most vile asset of the us empire and are always in a precarious position due to the power imbalance favouring the jewish supremacists and their us golem.