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Al-Mayadeen TV broadcast a report on the Gaza attack tunnels dug by the Al-Mujahideen Brigades, the military arm of the Palestinian Mujahideen Movement, a group that splintered from Fatah.
The destruction of significant Syrian air defense systems is a painful blow, and a message regarding what might come next in the event of another escalation.
IAF planes reportedly came under fire from as many as 25 anti-aircraft missiles from four different types of Russian-made air-defense systems. IAF was retaliating after an Iranian drone penetrated Israeli airspace.
According to Israeli military assessments, however, the LAF is increasingly coming under the sway of the Iranian-backed terror organization Hezbollah, which dominates Lebanon politically and militarily.
Tensions between Israel and Hezbollah-Iran have risen sharply this week, following the discovery of an Iranian program to set up weapons factories on Lebanese soil, for the manufacture of missile guidance systems.
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot warned that the Hezbollah terror group is becoming an increasingly strong “military presence.”
In a rare contribution by an Israeli official to Arab media, IDF spokesman Brig.-Gen. Ronen Manelis warned in a op-ed on a Lebanese opposition website that a war could break out between the two countries if Iran and Hezbollah’s presences in the country continue to grow.
Once hailed as the “Paris of the Middle East,” Beirut is now looking more like Tehran than Western Europe.
The Gaza-ruling Palestinian terror group Hamas is investing considerable resources into establishing terrorist infrastructure in Lebanon, Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Friday.
