Israel is planning a major escalation in its war against Hezbollah in the next 48 hours after a purported rocket attack that killed 15 in a Druze village.
“We are approaching the moment of an all-out war against Hezbollah and Lebanon,” Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said shortly after Saturday’s strike.
The attack “crossed all red lines, and the response will be in accordance.”
Israel has accused the Lebanon-based Hezbollah of carrying out the deadly strike on Saturday and threatened a strong response. The Israeli cabinet is meeting later Sunday to discuss its course of action, hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned from his visit to Washington.
Hezbollah said it had nothing to do with the deaths but claimed responsibility for a series of other attacks in the area on Saturday, including launching a Falaq-1 rocket at an Israeli military site a few kilometers from the strike scene. Israel’s military said that an Iranian-made Falaq-1 hit the soccer field on which the children and teenagers were playing, and that it was launched from the vicinity of Chebaa, a southern Lebanese village.
The Saturday strike also injured around 40 people, according to the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office.
The rocket carried a 50-kilogram—or about 110 pounds—warhead, an unusually heavy payload, Israel’s military said.
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This was Israel's intention from the beginning— using October 7th to systematically dismantle Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran.
@NomineeRubyForward2yrs2Y
That's fine. If they are doing our dirty work for us that's a positive development for foreign relations.
@BearAbigailRepublican2yrs2Y
Precisely. Plus they just killed 14 soccer playing Druid children in the Druid Protectorate Zone of Israel. Israel should take a chunk of southern Lebanon and hand it over to the Druids as their new Nation, and then Israel can provide the Druids military protection.
WW3 false flags coming right before elections
Their plan is to eradicate Hamas, significantly diminish Hezbollah, and to disable Iran’s nuclear program.
They seek to reset Gaza to the status quo before 2006 and South Lebanon to before 2000.
Then establish a security pact with the Gulf states, Egypt, Jordan, and the US.
@PepperFrankDemocrat2yrs2Y
Unpopular opinion, but if they don’t drag America into the conflict then I don’t care what happens to Hamas, Hezbollah, or Iran
Why should anybody in the West care what happens to Islamic states or terrorist/paramilitary groups?
You side with Islam and Muslims groups far too often to be considered Catholic.
As long as America isn’t dragged into the conflict, then nobody here should care what happens to some backwater Islamic country
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@CommittedIguanaGreen2yrs2Y
Wrong their intention isn't to dismantle Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran. They want to dismantle LEBANON, PALESTINE and IRAN. They called this demonic project "the great israel". Moloch's chosen demons. The real terrorists.
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