Israel Warplanes Bomb Baalbek
Israeli warplanes bomb the city of Baalbek in eastern Lebanon, Monday, in one what is described as one of the worst days of the war on the country
Israeli warplanes bomb the city of Baalbek in eastern Lebanon, Monday, in one what is described as one of the worst days of the war on the country
An Israel airstrike targets the southern district of Beirut. Israeli warplanes have been targeting Hezbollah positions since Monday morning.
The Israeli army states it targeted a total of 11,000 Hizbollah positions all around the country according to Israel’s Channel 14.
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant claims Israel destroyed what Hezbollah built in 20 years.
Lebanese group Hezbollah fired rockets at an Israeli military industrial complex in Haifa on Monday, marking the second attack on the northern city since the current conflict began last 7 October, 2023.
The group said dozens of rockets were launched at Rafael Electronics Company north of Haifa, as well as the reserve headquarters of the Northern Corps and logistics base of the Galilee Formation in the Ami’ad camp.
Israeli Channel 13 reported that five illegal settlers sustained minor injuries from shrapnel after rockets were fired from Lebanon toward northern Israel.
This was the second time Hezbollah targeted military sites in Haifa, having previously fired missiles at the city on Sunday.
The rocket fire came as at least 100 people were killed and more than 400 others injured, including children, women and medics, in intensive Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon since Monday morning, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.
The Israeli army confirmed that its warplanes struck more than 300 targets across Lebanon this morning.
Tension has mounted between Hezbollah and Israel following a deadly airstrike on Friday that killed at least 45 people, including children and women, and injured dozens in Beirut’s southern suburb.
Hezbollah confirmed that at least 16 of its members, including senior leader Ibrahim Aqil and top commander Ahmed Wahbi, were killed in the Israeli strike.
The attack came days after at least 37 people were killed and over 3,000 others injured in two waves of wireless communication device explosions across Lebanon according to Anadolu, the Turkish news agency.
While the Lebanese government and Hezbollah blame Israel for the explosions, Tel Aviv has not denied or confirmed its involvement.
Hezbollah and Israel have been engaged in cross-border warfare since the start of the Israeli war on Gaza, which has killed over 41,400 people, mostly women and children, following a cross-border attack by Hamas on 7 October last year.
The Ministry of Health in Lebanon announced that “100 people were killed and more than 400 injured as a result of Israeli raids on various areas in eastern and southern Lebanon. In turn Hezbollah stated it bombed Haifa and the Galilee with missiles.
Israeli warplanes launched more than 250 raids on various areas in eastern and southern Lebanon this morning, Monday.
Al Jazeera’s correspondent said the raids targeted the towns of Mays al-Jabal, Aitaroun, Houla, Taybeh, Markaba, Bani Hayyan, Jabal al-Rayhan, the heights of Iqlim al-Tuffah al-Tiri, Bint Jbeil, Hanin, Zawtar, and the Nabatieh region in southern Lebanon.
After the Hezbollah missiles that targeted Israel’s Ramat David base and airport with Fadi I and Fadi II missiles, social media activists circulated a picture of Yoav Galant with the question: Who is Fadi?
Returning to the picture, it turned out it was Israel’s Defense Minister, who is being constantly threatened with dismissal, visited the Ramat David Base on 18 September and which Hezbollah bombed.
Galant announced then that the “the center of gravity is moving north,” and said: “We are shifting forces, resources, and energy to the north.”
Since Hezbollah launched its missiles, the most frequently asked question has been: Who is Fadi, the name bearer of those missiles?
The truth is that these missiles, despite many views on the social media, were named after Fadi Hassan Al Tawil, who was born on 10 May, 1969 in West Beirut, and originally belonged to the southern town of Khirbet Silm.
Al Tawil joined the ranks of the resistance in 1982, and participated in several resistance missions, from surveillance, reconnaissance, and ambushes, deep inside the “occupied strip”.
He was martyred during the series of the “Badr Al-Kubra” military operations carried out by the Islamic Resistance against the military positions of the Israeli occupation forces and the Antoine Lahad Army (South Lebanon Army that cooperated with the Israeli occupation to control southern Lebanon) on 30 May, 1987.
His body remained on the battlefield for eight days before being removed and buried. He is the brother of the Hezbollah commander Wissam Al-Tawil, who was killed in southern Lebanon during Hezbollah’s support for the resistance in Gaza in the current “Al-Aqsa Flood” battle.