Israeli strike kills seven in south Lebanon as attacks intensify
It was deadliest Israeli attack in Lebanon since agreements reached in June led to a significant reduction in hostilities.
An Israeli air strike has killed seven people and wounded three in southern Lebanon, according to state media, as Israel intensified attacks across several towns and villages overnight.
Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) said the strike hit a house on the outskirts of Ansar, in the Nabatieh district, early on Saturday, destroying the building.
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Emergency teams from the Islamic Message Scout Association, the Islamic Health Authority and Lebanon’s Civil Defence were working to remove rubble and transfer the dead and wounded to hospitals in Nabatieh, the agency said.
It was the deadliest reported Israeli attack in Lebanon since agreements reached in June led to a significant reduction in hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah.
Strikes across southern Lebanon
NNA said Israeli attacks intensified early on Saturday, with a series of air strikes on the Ali al-Taher Ridge near Nabatieh al-Fawqa.
Two other strikes hit areas near the teachers’ training centre and the Husseini club in Nabatieh al-Fawqa, while the valley between Ansar and Zarariyeh was also hit in what the agency described as the first strike to reach this far into southern Lebanon since the ceasefire two months ago.
Closer to the border, Israeli forces destroyed several homes in Bint Jbeil and opened heavy machinegun fire towards houses along the Kounine-Saf al-Hawa road, according to NNA.
An Israeli air attack also hit the al-Mashaa neighbourhood in al-Mansouri shortly before midnight.
Violence has decreased since a United States-Iran memorandum of understanding in June and a subsequent US-sponsored framework agreement between Lebanon and Israel, but Israeli attacks and demolitions have continued in the south.
The framework calls for Hezbollah’s disarmament, the gradual withdrawal of Israeli forces and the deployment of the Lebanese army in southern Lebanon.
On Friday, Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem criticised the Lebanese authorities over the implementation of the framework, accusing them of pressuring the army while Israeli attacks continued.
“How can you accept this ongoing humiliation of the Lebanese army, exposing it to bombardment and Israeli pressures, instead of acting as its protectors?” he said.
If Only The Falastinos Had Accepted The Two State Solution in 1947, like the Yindians and Pakis did.
ReplyDeleteYes There Was Suffering, Sub-continent NAKBA, 100 Times Worse, Nobody Was Happy, But They Accepted The Two State Solution and MOVED ON.
Yindia is Today On The Brink of Becoming a Great Economic Power, and Pakistan is a Nuklear Power.
But Falastinos? Forever Unhappy, Forever Waging War. Never Wanting to MOVE ON. Oh Well, Suffer lah.
On This Day — August 14, 1947
The world accepted the partition of India that killed up to two million people and uprooted 15 million more.
It has never forgiven the Jews for accepting a far smaller partition that their enemies rejected and then tried to destroy by war.
In August 1947, the British rushed the division of the Indian subcontinent. Roughly 14–15 million people fled. Between one and two million were slaughtered. Trains arrived packed with corpses. Tens of thousands of women were raped or abducted.
The world treated this bloodbath as the tragic but inevitable birth of two nations. India and Pakistan were accepted as legitimate states.
That same year, the UN offered a far smaller partition for British Mandate Palestine. The Jews accepted it. The Arab states rejected it and launched a war to prevent the birth of any Jewish state in any part of the Land.
When that war ended, the Jews had a state. The side that chose war called their defeat at the hands of the wildly outmanned and outgunned Jews the “Nakba,” and has spent the next 78 years demanding the world treat the Jewish state’s very existence as uniquely illegitimate.
One partition produced rivers of blood and is remembered as history.
The other produced a Jewish state that survived and is treated as the permanent moral crime of the age.
This is not a double standard.
It is an Israel standard.
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