Israel took Hezbollah’s word for it that they were going to attack, so they started taking precautions. That means blowing things up. Things like missile factories. They also took out a whole bunch of personnel. They wounded several thousand rank and file terrorists with booby-trapped pagers and radios. When the rest started screaming for instructions, IDF vaporized most of the command staff in Lebanon.
Israel blasts Beirut
Israel claims several “senior Hezbollah figures, including a top military commander” were vaporized on Friday, “in an air strike on the Lebanese capital Beirut.” The radical Arabs, who’ve been rattling their sabers for weeks and lobbing rockets across the border for months, call that “a major escalation that has added to fears of an all-out war.”
Nobody but the IDF seems to realize that you can’t have a “partial” war. Not if you expect to win.
All Lebanese officials are admitting is that “at least 14 people were killed and dozens injured.” They don’t mention that most of them were ranking Hezbollah officers.
Israel “hit the densely populated Dahieh area, a stronghold of the Iran-backed group in the city’s southern suburbs.”
It was another hectic day for first responders in Beirut. The week started out with everyone’s pager exploding simultaneously. That operation blamed on Israel killed at least 11, seriously injured over 200 and wounded “tens of thousands.”
A few days later, while they having funerals for those killed by pager bombs, the walkie-talkie radios they were using as replacements exploded. Those killed more than 20 and again injured several thousand more soldiers. At this point, they’re afraid to pick up a flashlight.
Civilians as shields
One of the favorite tactics of goat humping terrorists across the Middle East is using civilians as human shields. That strategy doesn’t work against Israel. The Hezbollah commanders were gathered in a basement bunker under a residential apartment complex. Too bad for the neighbors.
“There were chaotic scenes as emergency teams rushed to the site of the attack, rescuing the wounded and searching for people believed to be trapped under the rubble.”
Things have been quiet in Beirut since July. that’s when Hezbollah’s military chief Fuad Shukr was killed.
A spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces reports that “Ibrahim Aqil, a senior commander in Hezbollah’s elite Radwan forces, was killed alongside senior operatives in the group’s operations staff and other Radwan commanders.” They were important strategically.
Their fatal mistake was an operation plan Hezbollah calls “Conquer the Galilee.” Israel got intelligence they were putting it in play. The IDF was already aware the plan calls for Hezbollah to “infiltrate Israeli communities and murder innocent civilians.” The Israelis have really good spies. They first found out about the idea in 2018, “when the IDF said it was blocking tunnels dug by Hezbollah to penetrate Israeli territory and kidnap and murder civilians.”
The U.S. can now scratch Aqil off our own most wanted list. “In the 1980s, Aqil was a member of the group that orchestrated the bombings of the U.S. embassy in Beirut and a marine barracks, killing hundreds of people.” Israel did us a favor on that one.
