That’s been pretty well established. They bombed Saudi facilities within about 10km of the Grand Prix venue while the F1 event was running a few years back. All it would’ve taken was one miscalculation and the rest of the world would’ve had ample reason to wipe the Houthi off the face of the earth.
I think we’re well past scandals in this is respect. Disgustingly is probably better to use. At this stage it’d be a bigger scandal should Israel pull their troops back and send in at least a loaf of bread…
So after Israel went full James Bond with exploding pagers, walkie talkies, etc. They followed it it up in the last couple days with one of the biggest bombing campaigns seen in the region (outside of Palestine), launching approximately 1,500 air strikes in 48 hours across Beirut and Lebanon, killing in excess of 550 people.
It comes following Hezbollah launching approximately 800 rockets into Northern Israel following the pager/walkie talkie bombs.
Israel has mentioned theyre preparing for a possible ground offensive into Lebanon
It seems kinda unlikely. AJE reporting they’ve called up two regiments, far less than they used in Gaza, and Hezbollah is a much bigger kettle of fish in more difficult terrain.
Now Israel is claiming to have killed Nasrallah with a strike on Beirut. No comment from Hezbollah yet.
It’s just perplexing just how much the Israelis are managing to get away with. I mean strikes smack bang in the middle of Beirut in extremely densely populated areas. There’s reports that up to 1,000,000 Lebanese have now been displaced by Israeli attacks. When are people just going to say enough is enough? America formally requested Israel install a ceasefire with Hezbollah, which they’ve refused. Surely that’s the point that the US turns around and says “if that’s what you want, do it with your own weapons.”
It’d be a huge hit towards Hezbollah at this stage though. Considering the fact that they’ve already had some many injuries from the pagers and now losing their leader. Can see them floundering over the next few months as they try to rebuild. You would assume most of those that had pagers and were injured are senior individuals
Yet still approved another billion dollar arms package just last week.
Seems counter-intuitive…here’s a bunch of bombs for your fighter jets, but can ya just stop bombing plz & ty.
So Israel has launched a limited invasion, a “special military operation” if you will into Southern Lebanon with the aim of clearing Hezbollah positions from the border.
Lebanese Army and UN Peacekeepers have pulled back and withdrawn from the area.
Israel claimed that they’re only trying to clear the section of border and not a full scale invasion/occupation of Lebanon. We’ll see…
Good think there’s peace keepers there to keep the peace…
Does anybody seriously believe them at this stage?
An expert on AJE is characterising this as a “probe” to see how fierce Hezbollah will be able to resist after the campaign of leader assassinations. So far it just seems like special forces involved. If Hezbollah are disorganised and unable to resist, we might well see a full scale occupation again. But they’d need to draw up more forces than they currently have and it would continue to tank the economy to keep all of their reservists called up in general, their credit rating is getting dangerously low…
I can’t see Israel able to commit to a long term occupation of both Gaza and Southern Lebanon as well as all the stuff they’re doing in the West Bank. The terrain in Southern Lebanon is extremely rocky and mountains, would be almost impossible for Israel to properly control. If they go in further north, they’ll also start to come up against regular Lebanese forces which will cause further problems, they’ll also lose the protection of the Iron Dome and face potential worse losses
Iran just hit Israel VERY hard. Dozens of ballistic missiles have hit targets
Sauce? Everything I’m seeing shows it was successfully defended, with the only confirmed casualty so far being a Palestinian in the West Bank hit by falling missile shrapnel.
Saw a lot of video footage of a lot of explosions on the ground.
The SMH reporting that they were all intercepted with the only casualty a poor bloke in the West Bank getting hit by falling shrapnel
Looks like they targetted military bases rather than civilian targets.
AI video software is really being tested by the various people putting b propaganda out there around this issue. Plus straight up old fashioned pretending something that happened years ago is showing something else.