I am still in awe of Israel's latest operations.
They convinced Hez they were being tracked by their cellphones. They supplied Hez with "safer" pagers. Then they blew up the pagers. Hez then switched to walkies. Israel anticipated that, and pre-placed explosive walkies. Israel blew up the walkies. Hez decided all electronic comms were unsafe, so they held in-person meetings. THEN ISRAEL BLEW UP THE IN PERSON MEETINGS.
Amazing. Simply amazing.
Posted by: bonhomme
Any day a terrorist dies screaming in fire is a good day!
Israel says it killed top Hezbollah military commander in Beirut strike
The Israeli military said it killed top Hezbollah military commanders, including the militia's head of operations Ibrahim Aqil, on Friday in an airstrike on a southern Beirut neighborhood. Lebanon's health ministry said at least 12 people were killed and dozens more were wounded.
All of them were women and children, particularly the head of the militia, who was a 14-year-old nonbinary Goth girl named Penelope. Rest in Power, King.
The big picture: The strike in Beirut is further escalating the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, risking an all-out war.
It's always those Jews escalating -- never the Muslim terrorists firing rockets into civilian neighborhoods or taking young girls captive as rape-slaves.
Those Jews tend to "seize and pounce" on Muslim war crimes, don't you know.
Hezbollah has not confirmed Aqil's death.
The IDF said Aqil was the head of Hezbollah's military operations and the commander of the elite Radwan Forces, and was killed along with other commanders in the unit.
An Israeli official said the senior command of the Radwan forces -- about 20 commanders -- were killed in the strike.
IDF spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said in a press conference that Aqil and the Radwan unit commanders were killed as they held a meeting.
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White House spokesperson John Kirby said he was not aware of any prior notice Israel gave the U.S. about the Beirut strike.
Go f*** yourself.
Kirby said the U.S. still believes a diplomatic solution for the fighting on the Israel-Lebanon border is possible. He stressed that a war between Israel and Lebanon isn't inevitable "and we are trying to prevent it."
Again, go f*** yourself.
Israel is trying to end a war too -- by killing an enemy that has not been deterred by 50 years of endless concessions. If you want the violence to end, let Israel end the violence.
The Israeli official said Israel reached the conclusion that it wouldn't be able to reach a diplomatic solution to the situation on the northern border without going through a military escalation.
"This is why we have been gradually taking our gloves off and increasing our attacks against Hezbollah," the official said.
Yes, that is accurate.
As Colonel Kurtz said, "Kill them all."
I hadn't heard this:
I don't know if it's already been posted here, but Israel liquidated the [terrorist] responsible for the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut that killed over 200 American military.
That asshole has been walking around since the 1980's because US intelligence agencies would rather take out innocent Americans.
Posted by: Archer
Via Instapundit, Battleswarm Blog notes that the pagers, walkie-talkies, and other electronic devices rigged to explode weren't adulterated in the supply chain. Rather, Israel manufactured all of these from Jump Street. Israel was the supply chain, back to front.
The Daily Wire:
The blasts -- which may have killed 19 and wounded 150 of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) members -- started on Tuesday afternoon around 3:30 p.m. local time when pagers used by Hezbollah started beeping with a message from their leadership.
After a few beeps, the pagers simultaneously exploded across the country, blinding hundreds, tearing off limbs, and leaving gaping holes in bodies.
The messages that the devices received were not from Hezbollah leadership; they were from Israel's intelligence and military apparatus, and they were part of a multi-year plan.
There was initial confusion as to what happened when the explosions were reported. Various news reports said that malware had potentially been uploaded to the devices, causing the batteries to overheat and explode. Then reports surfaced claiming a small amount of highly explosive material had been placed into each device after Israel intercepted the devices after they were manufactured by a Taiwanese company.
However, none of those reports were accurate, according to a New York Times report that revealed that Israel never intercepted the pagers -- it made them.