Israeli strikes looking to take out the enewly named Hezbollah leader in Beirut….
Iran keepos trying it to have it BOTH ways….
The Relgious leader of the country threaten’s Israel, while the countries Foreign Minister and President try talking to ‘diplomacy ‘ with other Arab countries that ARE alined WITH America, which IS alined with Israel….
American fighter jets make renewed attacks against the Houthi’s in Yemen…
South Lebanon is a mess due to Israeli attack and ground action…..
The NY Times does a piece on the Israeli ‘Field Obcervers on the front lines of the countries border that told their bosses the Oct. 7 WAS coming….And where ignored…And worse?…..Are STILL ignored….
Trump knocking Biden on NOT wanting to attack Iran’s nuclear power plants….
On Friday, the aftermath of Israel’s overnight bombardment of a Hezbollah stronghold near Beirut and the apparent expansion of the Israeli ground invasion in Lebanon’s south made a new framework for the fighting increasingly clear: Israel is taking the fight against Hezbollah to an entirely new scale.
Overnight, Israel carried out an airstrike in the Dahiya, a cluster of suburbs just south of Beirut, near where, just a week earlier, it had assassinated Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah. This time, Israeli warplanes targeted his presumed successor, Hashem Safieddine. It remained unclear on Friday whether Mr. Safieddine had been killed in the strike, which set off huge explosions and left part of the densely populated area known as the Dahiya a ruined landscape of jagged concrete, twisted metal and smoldering debris.
In addition to Israel’s systematic targeting of Hezbollah’s remaining leadership — whose movements Israeli intelligence apparently are still able to track — the country seems set to grow its ground operations in Lebanon’s south, where it is seeking to halt Hezbollah’s rocket fire into northern Israel. New evacuation orders Israel issued on Friday brought to 87 the total number of Lebanese communities whose residents Israel has told to leave.
Nearly a dozen of Israel’s soldiers have been killed in clashes so far, including two killed in northern Israel that the military announced on Friday.
Hezbollah began firing on northern Israel the day after the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attacks, in solidarity with its ally Hamas, leading to nearly a year of tit-for-tat strikes. But now, Israel appears prepared to wage a full-fledged war with the Lebanese militant and political group — a development that people in the region had long both feared and expected.
Growing, too, are concerns that Hezbollah’s backer, Iran, could be drawn more directly into a full-blown war with Israel.
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, warned on Friday of further strikes against Israel “if necessary,” speaking days after Iran launched nearly 200 missiles at Israel in retaliation for its killing of leaders of Iranian-backed groups. In a rare sermon in Tehran, he also memorialized Mr. Nasrallah, his friend and ally; praised the Oct. 7 attacks as “logical;” and, in Arabic, expressed solidarity with Palestinians and Hezbollah.
But even as he did so, Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, was in Beirut, appearing eager to convey Iran’s readiness to support a joint cease-fire in Lebanon and in Gaza. The contrasting diplomacy and defiance spotlighted Iran’s efforts to assert its regional power while limiting damage to its land and people.
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Biden takes questions: President Biden made a surprise appearance at the White House briefing room on Friday, where he was asked about his suggestion on Thursday that U.S. officials were considering whether to support Israeli strikes on Iranian oil facilities. “The Israelis have not concluded how they, what they’re going to do in terms of a strike,” he said, adding that if he were in the Israelis’ shoes, “I would be thinking about other alternatives.” He added that he still planned to speak with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel.
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Hezbollah fire: Air-raid sirens sounded on Friday across much of northern Israel as Hezbollah continued to fire rockets at the region. Israel’s military said around 100 rockets had been launched as of early afternoon, but the authorities did not immediately report casualties or significant damage.
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Displacement in Lebanon: Many people have fled Beirut, deeming it, after two weeks of intense bombardment, unlivable. Over 1.2 million people have been displaced across the country, according to Lebanese authorities. Around 235,000 people have fled from Lebanon into Syria over the past two weeks to escape Israeli bombardment, the U.N. migration agency said.
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Hospital damaged: Medical staff members were injured by Israeli shelling at the Martyr Salah Ghandour Hospital in southern Lebanon late Friday, according to Lebanon’s state-run news agency. The Lebanese Red Cross said it was working to evacuate the wounded from the hospital, which had already been forced to suspend operations as a result of the Israeli offensive.
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American death: The State Department said it was “aware and alarmed” about reports of the death in Lebanon of Kamel Jawad, an American citizen. His family said in a statement this week that Jawad, who was from Dearborn, Mich., had been killed in an Israeli airstrike. In its statement on Friday, the State Department said that it was “working to understand the circumstances of the incident.”….
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The United States Central Command said on Friday that it struck Houthi targets in Yemen, including “Houthi offensive military capabilities,” in an effort to secure international waterways.
The Iranian-backed Houthi militia in Yemen has been striking ships in the Red Sea in solidarity with Hamas, another Iranian-backed militia, since last year, disrupting commercial shipping. Central Command said on social media that it struck 15 targets in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen.
“These actions were taken to protect freedom of navigation and make international waters safer and more secure for U.S., coalition, and merchant vessels,” the post said.
The Houthi-affiliated al-Masirah TV reported four strikes on Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, seven on the port city of Hodeidah and at least one strike on Dhamar, south of the capital….
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Israeli women military field observers who where ignored by their country in predicting the Oct 7 Hamas surprise attack…Unarmed…The NY Times tell’s their story….
They are the eyes of the military along Israel’s embattled borders, monitoring multiple screens around-the-clock to supply reconnaissance that guides forces on the ground. They flag changes in routines of the men they observe and investigate intelligence alerts sent from above.
But a year after the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attack, these young women say Israel is still not doing enough to reckon with the kind of threats that exploded across its southern frontier on that awful morning, when gunmen streamed across the border from the Gaza Strip. Field observers near Gaza were among the first to sound the alarm about Hamas’s preparations for a large-scale attack, and among the first to be killed and kidnapped during what turned out to be the deadliest day — and largest intelligence failure — in Israel’s history….
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The field observers said they were confident that something big was about to happen because they understood their enemies. They knew their names and faces, as well as the intimate rhythm and routine of their days. But when the women tried to send alerts up the almost exclusively male chain of command, they said, they were told they didn’t have access to the full picture. Superiors said that the observers’ posts offered limited visibility and that there was no way they could connect the dots.
“It is a male army, where the ‘girls’ are seen as hysterical, where the commanders say, regularly, ‘If you continue to send these alarms, you will be put in jail,’ ” said Gili Yuval, who served as a field observer in the early 2000s, when Israel dismantled its settlements in Gaza and pulled its forces.
Since Oct. 7, she has spearheaded a loosely organized network of current and former observers that provided such basics as food and clothes to victims in the immediate aftermath of the attack, when the state was mostly absent, and helped to foster a sense of sisterhood and community….
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Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari insisted at a January news conference that “observers are among the most important roles in the security of the state of Israel, and it will continue to be.” He said the army was committed to correcting its “failure” to protect them.
But field observers and their families — echoing the pain across this angry, grieving nation — have lost faith, threatening the social contract that is at the heart of Israel’s national identity.
“We are willing to do a lot for our country,” Erez said. “But the IDF has broken its fundamental oath.”…..
Trump on Iran’s Nuclear Power plants as target’s?
Former President Trump slammed President Biden for saying that Israel should not target Iranian nuclear sites, arguing the commander-in-chief’s remark was “not the right answer.”
“I mean, that’s the craziest thing I’ve ever heard. That’s the biggest risk we have. The biggest risk we have is nuclear,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News’ correspondent Bill Melugin right before his rally in Saginaw, Mich., on Thursday….
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The GOP nominee criticized Biden and his current political rival, Vice President Harris, on Tuesday, suggesting the attack would not have occurred if he was the commander-in-chief and that if Harris wins in November, the “world goes up in smoke.”
“I’ve been talking about World War III for a long time, and I don’t want to make predictions because the predictions always come true,” Trump said. “But they are very close to global catastrophe. We have a nonexistent president and a nonexistent vice president who should be in charge. But nobody knows what’s going on. She was at a fundraiser in San Francisco.”….
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