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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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Israeli Army Loses Deterrence, Decisiveness – Expert

CrossFireArabia
August 26, 2024

Military expert Dr Nidal Abu Zeid said the success of the Qassam Brigades in launching an M90 missile towards Tel Aviv after 324 days of war and coinciding with Hezbollah’s bombing of the Glilot intelligence base, confirms the Israeli occupation is now missing the two most prominent features of the Israeli combat doctrine: Deterrence and decisiveness.

Abu Zeid added to Jordan24 that the resistance in Gaza has begun to impose the form of the combat equation, raise and lower the intensity of the fighting as it wishes and impose time and place on the enemy.

He said this means its is succeeding in stripping the occupation of its initiative element.

The strategic expert explained the resistance is still focusing on what is termed as the geographical triangle extending from Tel al-Hawa to Khan Yunis and Yula to Tel al-Sultan in Rafah, and is confining the Israeli military operations to this area.

This, he says has greatly exhausted the occupation forces, especially in light of the combat methods followed by the Palestinian resistance groups.

In this situation, Abu Zeid pointed out this type of fighting means the Israeli army can do two things:

The first is to accept the decision at the political level to continue fighting and this will inevitably leads to the collapse of their offensive posture in Gaza as a result of their losses and the shattering of their military units organizational structure, including its 162nd Armored Division and the 98th Paratroopers Division, now fighting for 224 days nonstop. The second is for the Israeli army to stop fighting and withdraw from the Gaza Strip under the weight of losses.

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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.

BREAKING News:

🇮🇱🇱🇧 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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1091 Rockets Land on Israel in a Month

CrossFireArabia
August 23, 2024

Hebrew sources reported Friday morning that 1091 rockets were launched from Lebanon towards northern Israel last month alone.

The sources pointed out that this was three times as much as those that landed in Israel at the start of 2024 according to Khabrini.

Hezbollah has joined the fight against Israel ever since the latter launched a war on the Gaza Strip after 7 October, 2023.

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‘Israel Will Collapse in a Year…’ – Ex-General Brik

CrossFireArabia
August 22, 2024

Retired Israeli General Yitzhak Brik warned in an article published in the Jewish daily Haaretz that Israel will collapse within a year if the war of attrition against Hamas and the Lebanese Hezbollah continues.

Brik, nicknamed the “Prophet of Wrath” in Israel because he predicted an attack by thousands of Palestinian militants on the settlements surrounding the Gaza Strip similar to the Aqsa Flood Battle added that Defense Minister Yoav Galant is beginning to realize that if a regional war breaks out due to the failure to reach a Gaza agreement, Israel will be in danger.

Yitzak Brik
"aku sdh bertemu 6x dngn netanyahu dn kesanku adlh dia menyadari Hamas tidak bisa habisi, tpi dia ttp menyatakan bhwa israel akan ttp berperang utk memuaskan ekstrimis-ekstrimis yg duduk dikabinet koalisi dan pemilihnya" pic.twitter.com/dt2HnlDa3q
— AzaadiForGaza🔻 (@TunggalWar51509) August 17, 2024

“I assume Galant now realizes that the war has lost its purpose, we are drowning in the Gaza quagmire and losing our soldiers there without any chance of achieving the main goal of the war, which is to topple Hamas,” said.

He stressed all paths at the political and military levels are leading Israel to the abyss whilst stressing that replacing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his extremist partners could save Israel from an existential spiral that could soon reach the point of no return.

With American support, Israel has been waging a devastating war on Gaza since7 October, leaving more than 133,000 dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing, amid massive destruction and deadly famine.

In disregard of the international community, Israel continues the war, ignoring the UN Security Council resolution to stop it immediately, and the International Court of Justice’s orders to take measures to prevent acts of genocide and improve the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza according to JO.24.