Israel invades Lebanon

The guy tries so hard, but he's let down by the continuity errors in the set design. It's basic stuff, really, no excuse at this point.

Everything in the house is damaged, covered in plaster/concrete dust & debris from being shelled except the military items. He picked up and waved around very clean and shiny green helmet, and gestures at pristine duffel bags and like new flak jackets that fell? on top of a blown in door? (How’s that happen?)
Even the boxes of grenades and sniper rifles in the ruined living room are pristine and remarkably sitting on top of pieces of debris blown in and ceiling chunks.

My DH is a crime scene investigator and he thinks Hagari’s videos are going to become classics. (Hagari is the same guy who told us a calendar in Al Shifa was a Hamas guard roster.)

In this video clip Daniel Hagari was saying that all the cache of Hezbollah weapons were for Hezbollah’s planned, 7 Oct style raid on Israel called “Conquer the Galilee”.

When did we first start hearing about this planned Hezbollah raid? Does its discovery coincide too neatly with the present Israeli operations of invading Lebanon?

Before, we knew of the constant rockets fired on Northern Israel by Hezbollah that started Oct 7, meaning Israelis could not return home, and that Hezbollah said they would stop when there was a ceasefire in Gaza.

Israel’s motive for going into Lebanon, and the assassinations, I had thought, was to stop Hezbollah rockets so Israelis could get home. No reports mentioned before that there was a planned Hezbollah Oct 7 style raid imminent so Israel was going in order to dismantle that.

Not that I disbelieve Hezbollah could plan such a raid.

Were there previous reports of a planned raid others heard about?

Oh, here we go again. Recycle that excuse to flatten southern Lebanon.

That is very worrying. Arms dealers will just see it as money while people end up in an endless cycle of troubles and death.

video from idf account where Daniel Hagari, idfs spokesman, says that every house in is a terror base

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/6mYWm28Ae6GXUymH/?mibextid=UalRPS

A worrying turn

The Russian arms dealer Viktor A. Bout is trying to broker a deal with Houthi militants in Yemen, according to Western officials.

The negotiations between Mr. Bout and the Iran-backed group have been in progress for some time, but no deal has been completed and no arms have been transferred, the officials said.

The strikes right now in Lebanon!! Total carnage!

Haaretz

UN peacekeepers' HQ and nearby positions in southern Lebanon have been repeatedly hit amid recent escalation along the Blue Line, UNIFIL said, adding that two peacekeepers were injured by Israeli tank fire. Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto said that firing on UNIFIL bases was "totally unacceptable" and clearly flouts international law.

From CNN news:
CNN teams in Beirut reported earlier that many Israeli strikes have hit without warning and that Israel sends evacuation orders by text in the middle of the night, when most people are asleep.

Perhaps the IDF only make their decisions to strike at the last moment, in the middle of the night, so cannot send an earlier evacuation order to sleeping Lebanese.…perhaps?

Simon Harris (Taoiseach)commented on it today before his meeting in the US with Joe Biden calling it " the most disgusting thing" and pretty despicable ".

No worries. Ive seen a few different references as to his job. His comment doesn't seem to have made the news in the US though

Sorry I had seen him mentioned somewhere else which didn't say anything further then former Trump advisor.

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"Brodsky is a Senior Fellow at the Gold Institute for International Strategy, a think tank based in Washington DC, and a former Director of Policy at the Jewish Policy Center.

He is also currently working as an advisor to two Republicans running for the US Congress in Minnesota, Dalia al-Aqidi in and John Nagel.
Al-Aqidi has distanced herself from Brodsky’s comments, but Nagel is yet to comment."

We all answer to somebody.

Bbc

A man and a woman have been killed in Kiryat Shmona, a border town in the north-east of Israel, according to Israel's emergency service, MDA.
Israel's military says 20 rockets were fired into the area.
Kiryat Shmona is Israel's northernmost town, which our correspondent visited last month.It's the other side of Israel from Haifa, where rockets were reportedly fired into earlier today.

Answer to who though? He's a former Trump advisor so I'm assuming no longer involved in US government

What the hell is wrong with these people? The US Neocons have so much to answer for.

Oh my goodness wtf?

That's not something that you accidentally say, or say in the heat of the moment. I hope he has to answer to this.

Fear and destruction are tools that weak people use to control others.

God help the people of Lebanon.

Good grief he's a charmer. Thankfully the IDF have moved from the area where UN peacekeepers were stationed

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/peace-adviser-calls-israeli-troops-33847422.amp

This lovely guy has very strong views on the Irish in Lebanon. Note his job. Advisor to the White House on Israeli Palestinian issues. Sounds very impartial.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/10/1155451

the guardian

Hezbollah has instructed fighters not to target Israeli forces near a UN peacekeeper base in the Lebanese border town of Maroun al-Ras, according to a statement by one of the group’s field commanders given to Lebanon’s Al Mayadeen broadcaster on Monday.
In the statement, the group accused Israelof using the peacekeepers as human shields, Reuters reported.

I’ve seen the pic but as it wasn’t on an official account I didn’t share it. They’ve been harassing pacemakers to leave the area. Wonder why they don’t want them … maybe they don’t want witnesses of them breaking the law?

My Irish cousin sent this to me earlier, also an image from Instagram (I'm not on insta) of an IDF tank with gun pointing at the Irish UN post. I hope it's just intimidation tactics and that they won't dare attack the Irish troops. Mind you Israel do whatever they want these days with no accountibility.