Israel strikes central Hezbollah HQ in Beirut, IDF says
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Via: vic-eldred • 3 months ago • 12 commentsBy: Michael DorganTrey Yingst (Fox News)
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The Israeli Defense Forces carried out a "precise strike" on the central headquarters of Hezbollah in Beirut, Lebanon, the IDF announced Friday.
IDF spokesperson Rear admiral Daniel Hagari said the headquarters were intentionally built in the heart of the Dahieh in Beirut under residential buildings "as part of Hezbollah's strategy of using Lebanese people as human shields."
Video and images show plumes of smoke rising over Beirut following the Israeli strikes. Witnesses say they heard multiple strikes.
Fox News has learned the target of the attack was Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. It is unclear if Nasrallah was struck.
Smoke rises, after what Hezbollah's Al-Manar tv says was an Israeli strike, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon, Sept. 27, 2024. (Reuters)
Hezbollah's al-Manar television reported that four buildings were destroyed and there were many casualties in the multiple strikes, which marked a major escalation of Israel's conflict with the heavily armed, Iran-backed Hezbollah.
Security sources in Lebanon said the attack targeted an area where top Hezbollah officials are usually based. It was the heaviest attack in Beirut in almost a year of conflict between Hezbollah and Israel.
IDF spokesperson Rear admiral Daniel Hagari announcing the strikes.(IDF)
"On Oct. 8, Hezbollah started attacking Israel after almost a year of Hezbollah firing rockets, missiles and suicide drones at Israeli civilians," Hagari said.
"After almost a year of Israel warning the world and telling them that Hezbollah must be stopped, Israel is doing what every sovereign state in the world would do if they had a terror organization that seeks their destruction on their border, taking the necessary action to protect our people so that Israeli families can leave their homes safely and securely."
Fox News has learned the target of the attack was Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, pictured in a televised speech in January.(REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir)
The strikes hit Beirut shortly after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to continue Israel's attacks on Iranian-backed fighters in Lebanon in a closely watched United Nations speech, as hopes faded for a ceasefire that could head off an all-out regional war.
The fighting between Israel and Hezbollah has drastically escalated over the last month as the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has begun targeting the terrorist network's hot spots and military storage units, all of which are strategically embedded within civilian villages.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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I think we all kind of knew what was coming when the Mossad took out their communications.
And we see them, just like Hamas, on the world stage playing the victim.
They place innocent people around them to gain sympathy from an easily fooled world.
And those who don't grasp how terrorists actually operate buy into the bullshit.
At the university the terrorists are defined as "the oppressed."
Remember those low IQ people I mentioned on another article? The very same that believe that line of bullshit.
Agreed.
They have seen that the psychological propaganda war has been an outstanding victory for Hamas, so why wouldn't they? Has it not given the world-wide bleeding hearts an excuse to release and expose their covert prejudices because of what they consider to be a legitimate cause? Why just Israel? Why are there no marches, big protests and demonstrations in support of the killed, wounded and displaced in Ukraine, or Sudan? After all, the media revel in being able to indicate that there have been more than 40,000 deaths, but nobody admits that half of them were Hamas militants and supporters, and the other half happened because whether they agreed to it or not they were used as human shields, or did not heed Israel's warnings.
I firmly believe that a century ago people weren't so naive.
Which people? The western ones? Personally, I blame the internet. I think it gives people with bad intentions a massive audience, influencing so many who are incapable, perhaps never educated, to be discerning, to be capable of critical thinking. I blame the media. When I was editor of my university weekly newspaper there was a media prize of the least biased newspaper. For obvious reasons that prize is no longer given to any medium. As well, broadcasters that could be trusted to tell the truth, and who would even seek out the truth and the righteous, like Walter Cronkite, no longer exist. Yes, there are a lot of reasons why times have changed.
Good work
Today Beirut, tomorrow Tehran.