Hezbollah
The elite Hezbollah unit’s blueprint for assault on the Galilee was the model for the Hamas mass murder attack on the northwestern Negev.
The former Israeli ambassador to the United States spoke to JNS at the Israeli-American Council summit in Washington.
Still, “whoever has a missile in the living room and a rocket in the garage will no longer have a home,” the Israeli premier warned.
The strike came less than 24 hours after the attempted assassination of Hezbollah’s No. 3 terrorist commander, Ali Karaki, in the same area.
The 25-year-old was hit by shrapnel during the rocket barrage.
Beijing will continue to stand on the “side of justice and on the side of Arab brothers, including Lebanon,” said Foreign Minister Wang Yi.
The Israeli Air Force struck more than 1,600 Hezbollah targets in Southern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley over the past 24 hours as part of the campaign.
“We obviously do not believe that a ground invasion of Lebanon is going to contribute to reducing tensions in the region, to preventing an escalatory spiral of violence.”
One image shows a long-range missile on a hydraulic system in the attic of a home in the Lebanese village of Houmine al-Tahta.
Israel’s government has approved the declaration of a “special emergency situation” countrywide.
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah “remains alone at the top,” said Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
Hundreds of launchers comprising thousands of launcher barrels have been destroyed in successive waves of Israeli strikes on Hezbollah’s rocket infrastructure.
