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Israeli Media: We Are Waging a ‘War of Brains’ With Hezbollah

CrossFireArabia
October 15, 2024

Israeli media revealed new details about the circumstances of the attack that targeted a military building in the Binyamina area south of Haifa. Israeli military analysts and experts said the incident casts doubt on the ability to intercept Hezbollah drones, and that the army is waging a war of brains with Hezbollah.

Military affairs correspondent Itai Blumenthal of Channel 11 said that the two drones that targeted the building in the base arrived via the northern maritime zone, where one of them was intercepted near the city of Nahariya, while the other disappeared from the field of view of Israeli fighters and helicopters just before hitting the building.

Blumenthal confirmed that the drone did not fire missiles, noting that this type of drone is known to the Israeli army and is manufactured in Iran and is available to Hezbollah, which raises further questions about the army’s ability to effectively detect these drones in the current war.

In the same context Nir Dvori, military analyst for Channel 12 said that this incident caused great disappointment, especially since the recent period witnessed some progress in the army’s ability to intercept drones. He added this incident completely turned the picture upside down, and revealed the gaps in the Israeli defense system.

A war of brains

Dvori explained this war of brains is witnessing a continuous development of capabilities on both sides. He added the Israeli army is working to improve its interception capabilities, while Hezbollah continues to develop the low-flying and high-speed techniques of its drones, which makes it more difficult to detect and shoot them down.

For his part Eitan Ben Eliyahu, former commander of the Israeli Air Force, confirmed that there is a war of minds taking place in real time between Hezbollah drone operators and soldiers operating Israeli detection and interception systems.

He described this battle as similar to a computer game, with each side trying to outdo the other in real time.

Yossi Yehoshua, a military affairs analyst for Channel 24 and Yedioth Ahronoth, pointed out that last deadly incident added to a series of injuries sustained by Israeli soldiers in the past two weeks since the start of the ground operations in Lebanon.

He said hundreds of soldiers were injured as a result of the use of anti-tank missiles, mortar shells, and drones by Hezbollah.

A surprise attack on the Golani Brigade training camp, located about 80 kilometers deep in southern Lebanon, Sunday, resulted in the killing of four soldiers and the wounding of 67, including eight in critical condition. The Israeli Army Radio described this attack as the deadliest incident against the army since the start of the current war.

Israeli media reported at the time that the drone fired a missile at the training camp, before crashing into the dining hall inside the camp, where soldiers were eating according to Al Jazeera.

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Sirens Blast All Day in Israel

CrossFireArabia
October 14, 2024

Sirens blasted all over north and central Israel, all day Monday, creating much havoc with people running up-and-down ready-made shelters.

In total sirens sounded in more than 194 towns, cities and locations in Israel with graphic posts of the sound blasts as the army reported that up to two million Israelis went down to shelters.

⚡️BREAKING: Missile sirens sounded all across Tel Aviv, central and northern Israel. Initial reports of Explosions in Tel Aviv. pic.twitter.com/Ww6rBZAeNJ
— Suppressed News. (@SuppressedNws) October 14, 2024

It started since early morning with the social media counting the number of sirens that went off registering first at 122, 182 and the latest being 194 and even 200.

In one case, videoclips showed Ben Gurion Airport; there, and at one point, flights were suspended and were not allowed to land. It was reported by Israel’s Channel 12 that one El Al flight had to quickly divert and continued circling over the Dead Sea.

And there was another videoclip of passengers on one plane huddling between the seats and the isles while the siren blast outside on the runway.

These siren blasts went off as Hezbollah rockets came in batches on different locations in Israel and at different times.

However big sirens blasts went off with warnings that ballistic missiles were being fired at the Tel Aviv area coming from Lebanon.

Everyone, Tuesday, is covering the missiles starting first with Israeli newspapers and websites like Walla which has been on the lookout to warn Israelis.

Missiles landing on Israel has never stopped since 23 September when Israeli warplanes begun to pound southern Lebanon up to the southern district of Beirut, seen as an Hezbollah stronghold and occasionally on the north of Lebanon.

Here, Tuesday, for example, Israeli warplanes bombed a building that was sheltering displaced people from the Christian village of Aitou were 18 people were killed.

Since the war on Lebanon where 1.2 million people have been displaced Hezbollah adopted a tit-for-tat strategy of “if you bomb us we will bomb you.”

The sirens and rockets have never stopped since Sunday night, reaching a new height when a squadron of missiles and drones landed on Haifa, including a military base south of the city in Binyamina where at least four were killed and 67 soldiers were injured according to Israeli army sources.

Today the number of missiles that have landed on Israel from across the border are register between 100 to 200 per day. It is estimated that 10,000 rockets and missiles were fired on Israel since 7 October, 2023 but the number could be much higher.

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States ‘Not Serious’ on Stopping The Genocide

CrossFireArabia
October 13, 2024

Despite ongoing Israeli war crimes and deliberate massacres of civilians in Gaza and Lebanon, as well as increasing global solidarity against the Israeli occupation, there remains a lack of genuine pressure on Israel to cease its genocide.

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Hezbollah Strikes Led to The Evacuation of 300,000 Israelis

CrossFireArabia
October 8, 2024

Hezbollah stated that its fighters carried out 3194 military operations against Israel since 8 October, 2023.

In a statement, received by Quds Press, Tuesday, it stated that “our operations led to the evacuation of 1,000 settlements and the displacement of more than 300,000 settlers.”

And since last 23 September, the Israeli forces expanded the scope of the genocide they were committing in Gaza since 7 October, 2023 to include most of Lebanon’s regions, including Beirut, through airstrikes with unprecedented violence and intensity, as well as a land offensive in the south of the country despite international warnings and UN resolutions.

And according to the official figures, 2044 people were martyred and 9,678 injured since the beginning of the aggression on Lebanon on 8 October, 2023.

In return, Hezbollah is responding to the aggression by launching rockets, drones and artillery shells targeting military positions and settlements throughout occupied Palestine.

And the Israeli occupation army, supported by the United States and Europe, has continued its war on Gaza for a whole year, where its planes bombarded the vicinity of hospitals, buildings, towers, and homes of Palestinian civilians and destroy them above the heads of their inhabitants, and have prevented the entry of water, food, medicine, and fuel.

The continuous aggression of the occupation of Gaza led to the martyrdom of more than 41,965 martyrs, and the injury of more than 97,590 others and the displacement of 90% of the population of the Strip, according to the United Nations organization.

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Israel Army Deploys For Lebanese Invasion

CrossFireArabia
October 8, 2024

The Israeli army deployed a fourth division, Tuesday, for its ongoing ground invasion of southern Lebanon.

A military statement said the army’s 146th Reserve Division began ground operations in the western sector of southern Lebanon according to Anadolu.

Three other divisions – the 98th, 36th, and 91st – are already operating in the central and eastern sectors of southern Lebanon.

Israel has mounted massive airstrikes across Lebanon against what it claims Hezbollah targets since 23 September, killing more than 1,250 people, injuring 3,618 others, and displacing more than 1.2 million people.

The aerial campaign was an escalation in a year-long cross-border warfare between Israel and Hezbollah since the start of Tel Aviv’s brutal offensive on the Gaza Strip that has killed nearly 42,000 people, mostly women and children, since a Hamas attack last year.

Despite international warnings that the Middle East region was on the brink of a regional war amid Israel’s relentless attacks on Gaza and Lebanon, Tel Aviv expanded the conflict by launching on Oct. 1 a ground invasion into southern Lebanon.