The aftermath of an Israeli airstrike on southern Beirut Tuesday
Jason Burke and William Christou – The Guardian Sept 24, 2024
Thousands of Lebanese people fled the continuing bombing in the country’s south on Tuesday as Israel said it was conducting “extensive strikes” on Hezbollah targets, including on the southern suburbs of Beirut, for the second day in a row and third time this week.
The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, vowed to maintain the offensive against Hezbollah and said the group’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was leading Lebanon “to the edge of the abyss” while world leaders meeting at the United Nations general assembly in New York called for the de-escalation of the conflict, which has claimed hundreds of lives this week.
“I say to the people of Lebanon: Our war is not with you. Our war is with Hezbollah,” Netanyahu said on Tuesday afternoon, speaking at an Israeli military intelligence base. “I told you yesterday to evacuate homes in which there is a missile in the living room and a rocket in the garage. Whoever [does not] will no longer have a home.”
The new strike in Dahieh, Hezbollah’s stronghold in the Lebanese capital, was typical of those which have targeted leaders of the group over recent months. A missile hit the top floor of an apartment building in the Ghobeiri neighbourhood, with images of the strike showing a collapsed roof with a large smoke cloud billowing from it.
Videos posted to social media showed crowds of people gathered in a rubble-filled street and badly burned human remains.
“This is the aggression of Israel. This is Israel! Don’t you see what they are doing to us? Despite all of this, we will wipe them from the earth,” a man screamed in the video.
Lebanon’s health ministry said in a statement that the “Israeli enemy raid on Ghobeiri in Beirut’s southern suburbs killed six people and injured 15”. Israel’s military said the attack had killed Ibrahim Muhammad Qubaisi, also known as Abu Issa, the commander of Hezbollah’s rocket and missile division.
Israel struck hundreds of Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon overnight and during Tuesday, with the death toll from the recent wave of attacks now nearing 560 people.
Hezbollah, which is sponsored by Iran, said it had targeted several Israeli military targets including an explosives factory about 35 miles (56km) into Israel and the Megiddo airfield near the town of Afula, which it attacked three separate times.
Officials in Israel said more than 50 missiles and rockets were fired from Lebanon into northern parts of the country on Tuesday morning, most of which were intercepted.
The fighting has raised fears that the US, Israel’s close ally, and Iran will be drawn into a wider conflict.
The EU’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, described the escalating conflict between Israel and Hezbollah as almost a “full-fledged war”, as world leaders gathered in New York for the opening of the 79th UN general assembly.
Israel’s UN ambassador said on Tuesday it was exploring “concrete ideas” for de-escalating the conflict. “As we speak there are important forces trying to come up with ideas and we are open-minded for that,” Danny Danon told reporters. “We are not eager to start any ground invasion anywhere … We prefer a diplomatic solution.”
But diplomatic efforts appear to have had little impact so far, with Lebanon recording more casualties on Monday than in any other single day since the 15-year civil war that started in 1975.
Israeli officials have said the recent rise in airstrikes on Hezbollah targets in Lebanon is designed to force the group to agree to a diplomatic solution, cease its own attacks on Israel or unilaterally withdraw its forces from close to the contested border.
Many experts and officials question the assumption that air power or other military operations can achieve such strategic aims. Others point out that Hezbollah has repeatedly pledged to stop firing into Israel if there is a ceasefire in Gaza.
About 60,000 people were evacuated from northern Israel in the days after the 7 October raid by Hamas into southern Israel that triggered the current conflict, and they have been prevented from returning by the ongoing exchanges of fire across the contested border with Lebanon. In Lebanon, approximately 100,000 people had been displaced even before the escalation of the conflict in recent days.
Yoav Gallant, Israel’s defence minister, has said the campaign of airstrikes will continue until the residents are back in their homes.
“This is the most difficult week for Hezbollah since its establishment – the results speak for themselves,” Gallant said. “Entire units were taken out of battle as a result of the activities conducted at the beginning of the week in which numerous terrorists were injured.”
The Israeli military said Israeli strikes had hit long-range cruise missiles, heavyweight rockets, short-range rockets and explosive drones.
Though Hezbollah has remained defiant, the groupwas already reeling from heavy losses last week when thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies used by its members exploded.
That operation killed 42 and wounded several thousand. It was widely blamed on Israel, which has neither confirmed nor denied responsibility.
In Lebanon, displaced families slept in shelters hastily set up in schools in Beirut and the coastal city of Sidon. With hotels quickly booked to capacity or rooms priced beyond the means of many families, those who did not find shelter slept in their cars, in parks or along the seaside.
Fatima Chehab, who came with her three daughters from the area of Nabatieh, said her family had been displaced twice in quick succession.
“We first fled to stay with my brother in a nearby area, and then they bombed three places next to his house,” she said.
Some people waited for hours in gridlocked traffic to get to what they hoped would be safety.
Issa Baydoun fled the village of Shihine in southern Lebanon when it was bombed and came to Beirut in a convoy of cars with his extended family. They slept in the vehicles on the side of the road after discovering that the shelters were full.
He rejected Israel’s contention that it hit only military targets.
“We evacuated our homes because Israel is targeting civilians and attacking them,” Baytown said. “That’s why we left our homes, to protect our children.”
The Israeli military has warned residents in eastern and southern Lebanon to evacuate ahead of its widening air campaign against what it said were Hezbollah weapons sites.
Israel and some analysts have said that Hezbollah has deliberately stored missiles and other armaments in homes or other civilian buildings to use local communities as a “human shield”.
Well-wishers in Lebanon offered up empty apartments or rooms in their houses to those displaced in social media posts, while volunteers set up a kitchen at an empty petrol station in Beirut to cook meals for the displaced.
In the eastern city of Baalbek, the state-run National News Agency reported that queues formed at bakeries and petrol stations as residents rushed to stock up on essential supplies in anticipation of further airstrikes.
Meanwhile, the border crossing with Syria saw big traffic jams as a result of people escaping from Lebanon to the neighbouring country.
The Alma Centre, a security research centre in Israel, said Hezbollah had launched more than 300 rockets deep into northern and central parts of the country in the past 24 hours. New alarms warning of rockets sounded in the northern Israeli towns of Kiryat Shmona and Margaliot late on Tuesday afternoon.
yes israel are trying to get involvement from iran
then they can call in the USA although polls say US service men have no wish to save israel after they did 9 11
Nutenyahu is playing for time and not wanting his arrest warrant to arrive
Iran must play it cool, Hezbollah could take in help from Turkey Egypt ot china where
tempers with the israeli genocide of arabs has tensions running very high
“The Israeli prime sinister, Benjamin setanyahoo!.
said KHassan , was leading Lebanon “to the edge of the abyss” while world leaders meeting at the United Nations general assembly in New York called for the de-escalation of the conflict.
This is the same scenario employed at all gatherings of the e-lite bureaucratic echelons of the world parliament and government.🇺🇳.the secret services cloaked up in the protester’s specific fashion style,attire and ideologal attitude.in the 90’s and early 2000’s,the ‘Black Bloc’would lead the riotous and televised protests at these gatherings.in this decade the un adopted the climate change ruminations of the ‘roman club’ in its charter.everytime these rioters would appear,as if on cue,to draw attention towards these assemblies of universal bureaucrats and herald their new weltanschauung.these riots would be televised to underscore the insanity of the nay-sayers.the youth was drawn and inducted by the senseless rioting ,wearing a cowboy bandana over your nose,like an outlaw.https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0045/8342/4046/files/cowboy-bandana_480x480.jpg?v=1620027832. Break things on your path ,shout at bypassers,. All with little police enforcement or the risk of being injured by a rubber bullet,or a water canon.or being beaten by the coppers.no they were faced by cameras of international media.these front men leading the riots in a fearless and unhindered manner, wearing shiny high grade military boots and bomber jackets.https://www.militarysurplus.eu/eng_pl_-US-Flight-Jacket-MA1-Mod-Black-17182_1.jpg.
“In the United States, militant anarchism lay largely dormant until the 1990s. Militant groups regained national prominence at the “Battle for Seattle” protests at the 1999 World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference. The previous year’s WTO ministerial in Geneva had been marked by riotous violence, but law enforcement saw the problem as “unique to Europe and highly unlikely to migrate to the U.S.”10 This proved to be a significant misreading. The raucous anti-WTO protests that gripped Seattle included a contingent of protesters bent on violent disruption…….”
“While no deaths or serious injuries occurred, the Seattle Police Department acknowledged that “tactically, it was taught a hard lesson by a well-trained and equipped adversary.”12. ” https://anarchistnews.org/content/behind-black-bloc.
Seemingly these rioters were against the un(o) ,but zooming in on their basis ideology ,they are ultra left .this is in total correspondence with the left communist course of the un(e).then why would they be rioting?because things are going too slow for their (mk)ultra-leftist mind.they were cheering on the bureaucracy for radical implementation of the new laws.out of this era came the modern climate crisis (scare) action generation of soyboys and asperger-gurls.
“wearing shiny high grade military boots and bomber jackets” .i had an immersed impression of the world back then.i never saw any leftist ,ultra or soft,with expensive high grade military boots.due to their pacified nature ,they can not fit those shoes and walk in them.these brutalist boots would clash with their ideological fashion. Their penny wisdom could never afford these path-makers. You could see authentic leftists wearing military surpluss boots from the cold war era.they would wear them until tear.https://www.surplusandlost.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/150408661-1229×1536.jpg.
they also wore german surpluss parkas. https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71EoGpx2FGL._AC_UL1500_.jpg. A bomberjack would be sacrilegious too for a leftist,as it is associated with skinheads,their mortal enemies.
IRAN in capital does not say that, that’s what Pezeshkian the new temporary president says!
You must understand nearly half of Iranians are not religious, worst half of the half are deeply westernized and liberal, everyday they watch the same crap westerners watch and they listen only to anti-Iran and and anti-Islam mass media. Henry Macow gets his stuff like Khomeini was an Indian from these Iranians! : )
Why Iran’s theocracy allows a guy like Pezeshkian which is still way better than Rohani become a president is for another topic. But he won the election even though relatively narrowly.
Just compare President Raisi with Pezeshkian and you’ll quickly see that there is a significant difference.
I posted here at the time of elections and explained the three main candidates and their differences:
Pezeshkian is the repeat of Rohani and Javad Zarif, they are poison for Iran; but still Iranian liberals and westernized people will choose him. (اصلاحطلب)
Qalibaf is a charismatic conservative (اصولگرا) who is backed by some heavy weights but is not as popular as he used to be among the religious people. IRGC and the Resistance Axis military commanders prefer him over Jalili because they want the same status-quo until Zion is destroyed, they don’t like major fundamental or even revolutionary transformations in Iran that Jalili might bring.
Jalili is not stupid to rush his transformations and fight corruption head on. He has grand plans some of which will transform Iran’s many sub-systems required in the second phase of Islamic revolution, including and ultimately the banking system. He is (انقلابی). Despite being clearly the best man for Iran, many afraid of Pezeshkian who worry about the sensitive global situation did a last day push for Qalibaf.
Regardless Pezeshkian had like ~16 million votes and Jalili had ~14 million and Qalibaf had ~3 millions.
Anyways US and Zion have learned that Pezeshkian being a president does not actually mean pulse for weakness from Iran’s theocracy! It is just the truth that Iran’s Supreme Leader is not a dictator and people’s vote matter. Khomeini the father of the Iran’s Islamic revolution in his wisdom of ولایت مطلقه فقیه explained what I can term as “Sacrifice of Power” in order to allow people to grow and become able to see what is good for them and this ensures stability and power of Iran in the long run.
Now many claim Supreme Leader himself has allowed such presidents, but this is absolutely not the case, this can be explained through historical evidence and the speeches of Khamenei but he is a Shia Imam (until the Mahdi receives the flag from him), so he can’t move ahead of his people and they have to wait until most catch up.
In our view Iran is passing divine tests to deserve Mahdi عج and so that is the ultimate goal which is not fixed by war! It is an internal issue, the rest of the world just understands how they don’t want bad leaders while Iranians are practicing how they should act under the best divinely ordained leader!
Interestingly at the core there is no concept of Freewill and Freedom, I’ll post about the Lexicon and Locution of the Resistance Axis again soon.
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Third paragraph from bottom of my other comment:
“Now many claim Supreme Leader himself has allowed such presidents, but this is absolutely not the case…”
I meant to say many think he is choosing the president and actually has the same viewpoint which is false.
“…….northern Israeli towns of Kiryat Shmona ,late on Tuesday afternoon.”. Ah sounds familiar …
(Not family)
From the 90’s stettl-ers that kept the news cycle spinning.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch_Goldstein. And the sheeple charged with hate , wanting to discharge the overload in terra.the circuit breakers exploded when highly dynamic rotors passed in between the twin ferrometalic poles.the sheeple 🐑🐏 rejoiced in world wide festivities, celebrating the kinetic feedback suffered by the current system,in an eye for an eye act of retribution,
This brief video from On Demand News says 700 UK troops are being sent to Cyprus, no doubt to back up Israel when it starts getting beaten. The US says it’s also sending troops to the Middle East to help US citizens escape the country. How does that work without sending them into Lebanon first?
Colonel Laurence Wilkerson says Israel wants to ruin Lebanon because they may have rights to some of that oil and gas off the east Mediterranean coast, plus they have water which Israel wants. It isn’t about crushing Hezbollah, who only came into existence long after Israel began attacking Lebanon. To claim otherwise would be like the Nazis claiming they occupied France to take on the French Resistance, when the Nazis came first and the Resistance was formed afterward.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu0IcU7pWfg
THANKYOU EAMON
Eamonn Holmes reacts to Phillip Schofield’s TV comeback
Story by Tina Campbell Evening Standard
Eamonn Holmes’ reaction says it all as TV co-star tears into Phillip Schofield
Eamonn Holmes shared his view on Phillip Schofield’s TV return with fellow GB News co-stars while discussing the subject on Wednesday’s episode of the breakfast programme.
The Northern Irish broadcaster, 64, has made no secret of the fact there is no love lost between him and his former This Morning co-star, 62. and does not agree with sex perversion aimed at kids
When Schofield announced that he was quitting the ITV daytime show after admitting cheating on his wife and family for over 30 years with young boys and sexually using with a much younger colleague,
on the promise of TV fame, Holmes took to social media to declare: “Schofield has finally been caught out.”
In his exposure, Holmes went on to brand his former employer ITV “the ministry of lies”.
It’s no surprise that he would have a reaction to Schofield returning to screens, despite vowing to stay out of the limelight.
Schofield totally denied sexually texting teenage black boys for sex, claiming he was just joking
and that the attacks on him were pure anti-semitism
Eamonn Holmes smiles and said viewers can always turn off the TV
Israel leader BenHumpin Nutty -Rat- Poo:
In next phase of our right to offend ourselves…
We will be searching pregnant women for hand grenades.
Just to be sure…we will operate on ALL pregnant women.
“LIAR”……Give it a break mate….one comment per article.
Re Kike-istan
Pretty obvious re: Nutty Rat Poo goals
Kosher BS is …”Israel has a right to defend istself. ”
The stoopid Goyim then cheer him on.
By Kosher logic..if there is ONE (alleged) Hamas or Hezbollah in a school or hospital etc…., then Israel has the right to bomb it.
The Kikes war is against civilians (as most wars are)
WW2 and all other wars were about slaughtering as many civilians as possible on both sides.
The Kikes then simply advance and steal even more land from Gaza and Lebanon.
Hezbollah and Hamas could surrender and/or ceasefire TODAY and Kikes would not stop till they acquire the lands they have planned to steal.
It is often said that the US will come in on Israel’s side if Iran attacks it, and that Russia will come in to support Iran.
I am sure that two sensible chaps like President Putin and his Iranian counter-part have sound contingency plans. A possibility I suspect is that if Iran hits Israel, it will hit so hard that the US will have no Israel left to defend. (We have heard that a lot of Russian seriously heavy stuff has already been transported to Iran.)
Netanyahu has got up the US nose, so he is preeminently disposable there. And Russia is more than likely to do the US a favour and finish off the freak Zelensky at last. That would (will?) make peace break out!
Leading Labour ministers including Angela Rayner and Rachel Reeves turned up for the Labour Friends of Israel “fringe” meeting at the close of the Labour conference. Hardly fringe. Zionists own them all. They have to suck up after Starmer’s slip of the tongue when talking about the hostages held by Hamas and said they need to release the sausages. Where had his mind drifted to? Breakfast repeating on him, maybe?
This meeting shows how out of touch they are, how much they are owned by Israel. The majority of the members are pro-Gaza and anti-genocide as is most of the country. To ignore all that shows they can’t be any more bought. Starmer says another £20K bung, a month’s access to a luxury London penthouse suite owned by their paymaster Lord Ali, was so their son could study for his O-Levels.
I wonder if their Jewish buyers keep themselves one step removed from the political graft by paying through Lord Ali as a conduit? A Muslim. So then it looks like a Muslim owns them not the Jews.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/rayner-reeves-lead-big-turnout-194718267.html
The Telegraph is reporting, ‘”Blow Iran to smithereens” if they are trying to have me assassinated, says Trump’. So they’re working on him. Looks like WW3 is our future with this prick or that other one.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/trump-briefed-real-specific-iran-012350517.html
This pattern of provoking neighbors without just cause has been a continual pattern since 614 AD, In this article by Israel Shamir, A Holocaust of Christians By Jews: 614 A.D.–An Untold Chapter of History dated MAR 4, 2017 states,
The rest of the article makes for an interesting read. The Jews mercilessly murdered 60,000 to 90,000 Christians in Jerusalem. So barbaric were these murders, that the Persians executed all the Jews. Today, they have not even respect for the dead, desecrating the graves of Arab dead in Palestine.
These strikes on Lebanon appear to be a repeat of the IDF’s actions 28 years ago. The book, The Synagogue of Satan, The Secret History of Jewish World Domination by Andrew C. Hitchcock states:
If this isn’t enough, to demonstrate their lack of human remorse, they also booby-trap children’s toys, a war crime. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/what-kind-booby-traps-has-israel-used-lebanon by Alex MacDonald, 19 September 2024:
For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is greedy for gain; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely. They have healed also the hurt of My people* lightly, saying: ‘Peace, peace’, when there is no peace. Jeremiah 6:13-14 (Jewish Publication Society)
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. John 8:44 (KJV)
There’s already a precedent set for Iran, just do what the Yangees and Euroscum have settled for in the hinterlands…. or Ukraine if you prefer…
Arm them and send advisors..supposedly on the sly…
Of course this wont happen, just yet and if at all…because of course you are watching a play, a performance…because just like the Russkies the Mullahs are playing their role… which seems to be, get shafted and threaten the blob garrulously and repeatedly….the WW will be a scripted ‘beast’….but no so ‘Great’…(they can’t even decide which flavour of ‘Islam’ is the baddy)…
and will probably be directed by him from a plush Californian office surrounded by Langley scriptwriters… and why not ?
everything else is….