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IDF reports Nasrallah killed in overnight strikes

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Scirocco · 28/09/2024 09:17

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c981g8mrl8lt

Nasrallah has been the head of Hezbollah for a long time and is/was very close to Iran. That's a heck of a blow to strike on Iran if confirmed.

Link to BBC live page.

Israel-Lebanon latest: Israeli military says Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah killed in overnight strike on Beirut

The Israel Defense Forces say they killed Nasrallah and other Hezbollah commanders in strikes on Friday. Hezbollah is yet to comment.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c981g8mrl8lt

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rumblegrumble · 01/10/2024 09:01

Custardcream84 · 01/10/2024 06:35

Yes and if an army invades your country and your land it is absolutely self defence to resist. It is justifiable in every single international law just like the French resistance and just like in Vietnam and in many other countries who have been invaded by an occupying force.

I hope everyone who is cheerleading this or is impassive towards this has a fraction of what they wished on the Lebanese and Palestinian people happen to them.

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Yes and if an army invades your country and your land it is absolutely self defence to resist.

Oh good, we finally agree I see :)

rumblegrumble · 01/10/2024 09:11

mids2019 · 01/10/2024 07:03

I think people have become a little wary of terrorist propaganda recently and so the press are keeping away from hyperbolic statements from Jihadi supporters which is a good thing so far. I think there is a bitterness amongst some that they have seen Hezbollah so ruthlessly weakened so far and certainly without mass casualties that could have occured. Instead of as stabilising the region is there a possibility the defeat of Islamist terrorism in this scale could later the balance of power in the middle East for the better? How many left wing journalists refer on the brink of terrorists sympathy when trying to bring their own perspective to this war?

There may also be some embarrassment - and rightly so. We sent half the world to Afghanistan and Iraq and look what happened, Israel is making us all look pretty incompetent...

Frontofgarden · 01/10/2024 09:35

rumblegrumble · 01/10/2024 09:11

There may also be some embarrassment - and rightly so. We sent half the world to Afghanistan and Iraq and look what happened, Israel is making us all look pretty incompetent...

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Israel is making other countries look incompetent?? Are you having a laugh? Israel is looking like an out of control terror state that is hellbent on killing as much as they can get away with! Much of the world is looking at Israel with disgust

ToBeDetermined · 01/10/2024 20:00

mids2019 · 01/10/2024 06:53

It's interesting that no one has got out the genocide line for Lebanon yet as although there has been civilian death no one of more has said that the current war equates to anything like genocide. In fact there have been no international laws broken in terms of an international conflict. There have been no calls for the ICC to investigate what seem to be series of specific targeted attacks against a global terrorist network.

Hmm, the pager and walkie talkie attacks have been referred for investigation to the ICC and ICJ by the UN OHCHR as a “terrifying violation” of international law.
“Simultaneous attacks by thousands of devices would inevitably violate humanitarian law, by failing to verify each target, and distinguish between protected civilians and those who could potentially be attacked for taking a direct part in hostilities."
“Such attacks could constitute war crimes of murder, attacking civilians, and launching indiscriminate attacks, in addition to violating the right to life,” the experts said.
Humanitarian law additionally prohibits the use of booby-traps disguised as apparently harmless portable objects where specifically designed and constructed with explosives – and this could include a modified civilian pager, the experts said. A booby-trap is a device designed to kill or injure, that functions unexpectedly when a person performs an apparently safe act, such as answering a pager.
“It is also a war crime to commit violence intended to spread terror among civilians, including to intimidate or deter them from supporting an adversary,” the experts warned. “A climate of fear now pervades everyday life in Lebanon,” they said.”
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/09/exploding-pagers-and-radios-terrifying-violation-international-law-say-un

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