Yesterday one of Israel’s greatest preemptive attacks was pulled off in Lebanon.
Not to mention the private parts of quite a number of Hizbullah terrorists.
At least 9 people were killed and thousands were injured when pagers held by Hezbollah members across Lebanon exploded on Tuesday afternoon, in what appeared to be a widescale, coordinated attack attributed to Israel.
The unprecedented wave of explosions, which also reportedly killed and injured several people in Syria, sparked chaos in a region already on high alert for the outbreak of full-scale hostilities.
It came hours after Israel designated the halting of Hezbollah’s attacks one of its main war goals and announced that it had foiled an assassination attempt by the Iranian proxy group against a former senior official.
Lebanese Health Minister Firas Abiad said in an evening press conference that nine people were killed and 2,750 more were injured in the blasts, including some 200 people in critical condition.
Ambulances carrying Hezbollah members and others with bloodied limbs and faces streamed to hospitals for hours after the blasts, overwhelming health services.
Hezbollah announced the deaths of 12 members of the terror group on Tuesday — including some killed in separate Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon — and blamed Israel for the spree of pager blasts, promising to retaliate.
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Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani, was lightly injured by an exploding pager, Iran’s state-run media said.
“Paging Dr Hussein….cleanup on aisle 2.”
As Al Jazeera Arab television host Faisal Al-Kasim tweeted:
What happened today to Hezbollah can be classified as the largest preemptive strike in modern history, and can be compared to the strike that Israel previously directed against the Egyptian air force before the 1967 war. Today, Hezbollah has thousands of wounded leaders and members. If it entered a war today, its wounded would not find a single bed in any Lebanese hospital because the hospitals are now crowded with the injured. What’s worse is that it has lost the most important means of security and military communication. Checkmate
And he knows what he is talking about. He is the same guy who also once tweeted:
“For most Arabs, if they want to curse you, they will describe you as a ‘Zionist,’ even though they know that the most successful project in the current and last century is the Zionist project.”
“All of the Arabs’ projects, especially that of Arab nationalism, failed. So… before you use the term ‘Zionist’ as a curse, you must first come somewhat closer to what Zionism has accomplished and then we will talk.”
But back to the operation, while spectacularly successful, was not a 100% success:
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah was not hurt in the explosions, the group said.
Although I am guessing this is him right about now:
And he will likely have a whole lot more to cry about soon, as I do believe this is a precursor to an Israeli attack on Hizbullah in Lebanon.
Meanwhile, if this doesn’t get me invited on to Piers Morgan Uncensored I don’t know what will
Updates:
18/9/24 8:10: Important to note:
We specifically targeted just the terrorists.
