Having beat down Hamas, with HUGE collateral damage in Gaza….
Israel is now going at the same against Hezbollah in Lebanon….
This seems to be the Israeli plan of beating the Iran based proxies into submission , at least for a longer time if history is any guide…
And?
I’m going out on a limb….
Iran should be getting a bit worried….
Israel HAS gone after it in the past…..
(Don’t fool yourself….Biden and the Middele East other leaders ain’t happy with wreckagae and deaths left behind…But ARE behind the mop up of the Iran trouble making in Israel and OTHER places…)
Oh?
The Biden admin is sending some more US forces to the region….
( The number’s mentioned is ‘dozens’)
At the UN in New York….
World leaders urge an end of the fighting….
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Israel’s military carried out more strikes on Tuesday against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, including in the densely populated neighborhoods south of Beirut, after hundreds of people were killed the previous day in the deadliest barrage of Israeli attacks there in decades.
One strike Tuesday near Beirut, in an area known as Dahiya where Hezbollah is the dominant power, hit a six-story building, according to Lebanon’s state-run news agency, and sent a plume of smoke above the Lebanese capital. Lebanon’s health ministry said that six people had been killed and 15 others injured.
The Israeli military claimed the strike had killed Ibrahim Mohammad Qobeisi, identified as a senior Hezbollah commander who oversaw Hezbollah’s missile apparatus. It wasn’t clear how Israel had confirmed his death, and Hezbollah did not immediately comment on the claim.
Hezbollah also continued to fire at northern Israel, but most of the rockets were intercepted as sirens and explosions were heard in several communities. The strikes have unnerved the Middle East, sparking fears of an all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah as the fighting in Gaza continues with no clear prospect of a truce. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Israelis that they were headed into “complicated days.”
The Israeli military said it had struck 1,600 targets in Lebanon related to Hezbollah, the militant group backed by Iran, on Monday. Panicked by the scope and intensity of the attacks, civilians fled southern Lebanon and sought the relative safety of Beirut, clogging the main roads leading into the capital.
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The pace of Israeli strikes appeared to surpass that seen during the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah, in which more than 1,000 Lebanese people were killed over a month.
Here is what else to know:
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Commander targeted: An Israel airstrike in Beirut on Monday aimed to kill Ali Karaki, a member of Hezbollah’s top leadership, according to three current and former Israeli officials. Hezbollah said in a statement that he was alive. Israeli strikes in recent months have killed other members of Hezbollah’s top leadership.
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Automated calls: People in Lebanon received text messages and automated calls warning them to move away from Hezbollah’s weapons caches. That drew criticism from rights groups, which argued that Lebanese civilians would have no means of knowing where military targets were located. Lebanon’s information minister accused Israel of “psychological warfare.”
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U.N. meeting: France’s foreign minister said his country was requesting an emergency Security Council meeting on the situation in Lebanon, as world leaders gathered for the United Nations General Assembly this week.
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U.S. troops deploy: The Pentagon said it was sending dozens of additional U.S. troops to the Middle East. About 40,000 American service members are stationed in the region….
image…Traffic Monday in Sidon, Lebanon, as people flee their homes. The Israeli military urged evacuations in areas it says are linked to Hezbollah operations. (Mohammed Zaatari/AP)
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