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Hezbollah Fires 1,307 Rockets Into Israel in August

CrossFireArabia
September 5, 2024

The Israeli military stated, Thursday, it detected 1,307 rockets and drones launched against from Lebanon in August alone.

This is the largest salvo of missiles fired against Israel from the Hezbollah group since the start of this year.

Israeli Army Radio reported that over 1,300 projectiles were launched from #Lebanon in August. According to the report, the number of rockets and drones fired from Lebanon into the occupied territories surged in August.

"Israel" recorded 1,307 incoming projectiles in August, the… pic.twitter.com/waICLdKvz2
— Al Mayadeen English (@MayadeenEnglish) September 5, 2024

In a statement, the Shin Bet domestic security service said around 42 rockets and drones were fired daily against Israel from Lebanon last month according to an Anadolu report.

According to the statement, 1,091 rockets were launched by Hezbollah from Lebanon in July, 855 in June, 1,000 in May, 744 in April, 746 in March, 534 in February, and 334 in January.

As for the Gaza Strip, the Shin Bet said 116 rockets were fired from the Palestinian enclave in August, down from 216 in July, 205 in June, and 452 in May according to the Turkish news agency.

Tensions spiked along Lebanon’s border with Israel amid cross-border attacks between Hezbollah and Israeli forces as Tel Aviv pressed ahead with its brutal onslaught on the Gaza Strip, which has killed over 40,800 people since last 7 October 2023 following an attack by the Palestinian resistance group Hamas into Israel in which around 1200 people were killed.

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Brik: ‘It is Not Hamas That is Collapsing But Israel’

CrossFireArabia
September 3, 2024

Retired Israeli General Itzhak Brik said if the Israeli forces “continue fighting in Gaza by raiding and re-raiding the same targets, not only we won’t bring Hamas to collapse, but we will collapse ourselves”.

In an opinion piece published by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, titled, “It Is Not Hamas That Is Collapsing, but iIsrael,” Brik said every day, Israeli forces in Gaza grow weaker while Hamas, “in contrast, has already replenished its ranks with 17- and 18-year-olds”.

BOMBSHELL: "IT'S NOT HAMAS COLLAPSING BUT ISRAEL"

■ Yitzhak Brik, former IDF Major General, argues that it is Israel, not Hamas, that is on the verge of collapse due to the prolonged conflict.

■ The stated goals of "bringing Hamas to collapse" and "freeing all hostages by… pic.twitter.com/LVmkc0rIYr
— Sulaiman Ahmed (@ShaykhSulaiman) September 3, 2024

Brik also noted many Israeli reservists are “no longer consenting” to being “redrafted again and again” and “conscripted soldiers are exhausted and are losing professional skills for lack of training”.

“Some argue that withdrawing army forces from Gaza after signing a hostage deal with Hamas would be the same as being defeated and surrendering…but this claim is grounded in a fundamental misunderstanding of what is taking place in the Gaza Strip.

It is fueled by clichés spread by the political and military echelons to justify their actions and gain public support and legitimacy to continue a failed war… it is those very same people declaring that a cessation of hostilities means our defeat and surrender who are bringing the military closer to collapse and the state to its downfall,” he added.

“Israel’s economy, international relations and social cohesiveness are severely damaged by this war of attrition against both Hamas and Hezbollah,” he said, adding the Israeli military “does not have enough forces to fight a multi-front war”.

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Tel Aviv Declares Emergency as 300 Hezbollah Rockets Land in Israel

CrossFireArabia
August 25, 2024

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant declared a 48-hour state of emergency across the country starting at 6 a.m. Sunday (03:00 GMT), after the military announced it was launching strikes in Lebanon to prevent a “major attack” by Hezbollah.

Galant’s office said in a statement that the declaration of a state of emergency allows the military to “issue instructions to the citizens of Israel, including limiting gatherings and closing sites where are relevant.”

Israel launched a series of intense airstrikes on southern Lebanon early on Sunday in what it said was a “preemptive” attack. Hezbollah said it has completed the “first phase” of the retaliatory attack on Israel with “a large number of missiles” in response to Israel’s killing of its commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut in July according to the Quds News Network.

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Hezbollah Attacks 15 Israeli Military Targets

CrossFireArabia
August 24, 2024

Hezbollah officials stated, Friday, it carried out 15 attacks targeting military sites in Israel as part of new and vigorous front on the Israeli-Lebanese borders.

The attacks marks the largest number of rocket launches by the Hezbollah group from southern Lebanon in more that 35 days.

Statements from the Shiite group have been rife. It targeted the Israeli army’s Malkieh site twice, Al-Sammaqa, Ruwaisat Al-Alam, and Hadab Yarin sites whith with what they called as “appropriate weapons” that include drones.

Hezbollah stated it attacked the surveillance and spy equipment in the army’s Meron base, the Ramim site and the Ein Zeitim military base in northern Israel with rocket salvos according to Anadolu.

The group said it also attacked a group of Israeli soldiers near the Metula military site, and another gathering in the vicinity of Talat al-Khazan area with artillery shells.

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🇮🇱🇱🇧 Hezbollah is now broadcasting live drone footage from the Haifa port as well as other military bases and sensitive Israeli locations

Israeli air defense systems and radars in the north of the country have been totally knocked out.

Israel's defense umbrella… pic.twitter.com/qdSOyC59wP
— Conlustro Research (@ConlustroR) August 24, 2024

Hezbollah pointed out as well that seven of its fighters were also killed in clashes with the Israeli army, Friday.

The new fatalities brought the total number of Hezbollah fighters killed in combat with Israeli forces since last October to 428, according to an Anadolu tally.

Earlier in the day, the Israeli army said Friday that around 20 rockets were launched from southern Lebanon toward the city of Safed and surrounding areas in the western Galilee region of northern Israel, causing several fires.

The rockets were detected as they were launched from southern Lebanon toward Safed and its vicinity, the Israeli army radio said on X.

The radio said that both the interception of the rockets and the impact of some of them led to fires breaking out in several spots in the Birya Forest, near the Ein Zeitim area in western Galilee.

It said that firefighting teams were dispatched to the site to extinguish the fires.

Footage shows Israel's Iron Dome system malfunctioning as a missile takes a U-turn mid-flight.#Israel #Lebanon #Hezbollah #Iran #Gaza pic.twitter.com/Dfkri5ptl7
— Muslim Voice (@MuslimVoice_eng) August 24, 2024

Meanwhile, sirens were activated in Sderot, Ibim, and Nir Am in the Gaza border region, marking the first such alert in three weeks, according to Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper.

Fears of a full-fledged war between Israel and Hezbollah have grown amid an exchange of cross-border attacks, and after the July 30 killing of senior Hezbollah commander Fouad Shukr in Beirut.

The escalation comes against the backdrop of the conflict in Gaza, where Israel has killed more than 40,200 Palestinians since the Oct. 7 Hamas incursion.

The military campaign has reduced much of the territory to rubble, and left most of the people homeless, hungry and prone to disease.

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Netanyahu is Leading Israel Into The Abyss – Ehud Olmert

CrossFireArabia
August 24, 2024

Ehud Olmert, former Israeli Prime Minister confirmed that Benjamin Netanyahu does not want to recover the Israeli prisoners in the Gaza Strip, and that the ceasefire negotiations may collapse. He warned the current Israeli prime minister is leading Israel to the abyss and a comprehensive war in the Middle East.

In a recent Haaretz article Olmert added, the continuation of the war in the Gaza Strip and its expansion in the north with Hezbollah will increase the chances of a comprehensive regional war with other parties like the Yemeni armed forces, and other groups supported by Iran in Syria and Iraq joining in.

According to Israeli ex-Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, "The Ben Gvirs and the Smotrichs" are "yearning" for an Iranian response, as massive as possible, that will lead to a regional war they could use for ethnic cleansing, to "force out all the Palestinians from the territories" pic.twitter.com/q2zyjmQuqK
— B.M. (@ireallyhateyou) August 8, 2024

He said such a scenario would pose a real threat to Israel, and a step that will lead to the deaths of many soldiers and settlers. He noted this will cause serious damage to the physical infrastructure inside Israel and to a real deterioration in its international standing.

He pointed out Netanyahu must choose between abandoning his declared goal of “absolute victory” and continuing the war and expanding it into a comprehensive confrontation on multiple fronts without a reasonable timetable to end it. He added that Israel is approaching a comprehensive war in great strides, and this is what Netanyahu, Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich want.

Olmert called on Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant, Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi, Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar, and Mossad chief David Barnea to jointly announce their resignations, as soon as Netanyahu thwarts negotiations to reach a ceasefire agreement in Gaza in the coming days.

"THEY ARE KILLERS, MURDERERS, TERRORISTS"

Ex- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says about Netanyahu and his Government:

"They are killers, they are murderers, they are terrorists." pic.twitter.com/3c7M9EFBg3
— Palestine and MENA Info Center (@PALMENA_IC) December 24, 2023

In a related context, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz said in its editorial that the prisoners that are being held in Gaza, now in their 11-month of captivity have “begun to slowly rot in Hamas tunnels, and have become secondary figures for Netanyahu.”

The newspaper pointed out that Netanyahu sometimes says that he is ready to negotiate, and other times he lengthens the Israeli delegation’s rope, and announces that he will be flexible, but suddenly he adds new conditions, revealing that he says in closed political salons that there is no ceasefire deal, and in the meantime more prisoners are dying according to the Quds News Network.