These days when I come back online after being offline the entire Jewish Sabbath, I worry about what I am going to find out when I read the latest news.
But this time around, I was actually looking forward to reading the news, given that I heard from some friends in the synagogue Shabbat morning that we had taken out arch Hizbullah terrorist Hassan Nasrallah.
And the news was even better than expected, since it confirmed we also eliminated senior Hizbullies:
Long-time Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and other top commanders of the terror group were killed in a massive Israeli airstrike on their underground headquarters in the Lebanese capital of Beirut, the Israel Defense Forces announced Saturday morning as Israel sought to dramatically upend the year-long conflict.
Hezbollah confirmed his death several hours later.
The announcement came as the Israeli military ramped up its airstrikes against Hezbollah assets in Beirut and other areas in Lebanon, hours after Nasrallah was struck at the terror group’s main headquarters, leaving parts of the Lebanese capital shrouded in smoke and dust.
Israel has eliminated much of the Hezbollah terror group’s most senior leadership in recent weeks.
In a statement, the IDF said that alongside Nasrallah, the commander of Hezbollah’s so-called Southern Front, Ali Karaki — who survived a recent assassination attempt — was also killed in the Friday afternoon strike, along with other top commanders in the terror group.
Nasrallah was targeted by dozens of bunker-busting bombs dropped by Israeli Force fighter jets while at Hezbollah’s main headquarters in the southern suburbs of Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold known as the Dahiyeh.
The headquarters was located underground, beneath residential buildings in the Dahiyeh, the IDF said, later announced that the name of the operation was called “New Order.”
“The strike was carried out while the top brass of Hezbollah were at their headquarters and engaged in coordinating terror activities against the citizens of the State of Israel,” the military said.
Army spokesman Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani said the airstrike targeting Nasrallah was based on years of tracking him, along with “real-time intelligence.” He said Israel confirmed the death through various types of intelligence, though he declined to elaborate.
Hezbollah confirmed his death on Saturday afternoon.
“Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary General of Hezbollah, has joined his great, immortal martyr comrades whom he led for about 30 years,” Hezbollah said in a statement.
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IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi after the assassination of Nasrallah said Israel would reach anyone who threatened the country and its citizens.
“The is not the end of the tools in the toolbox. The message is simple, to anyone who threatens the citizens of the State of Israel, we will know how to get to them,” he said.
I am not alone in being happy the world has been rid of this evil terrorist. And I am not just speaking about fellow Jews and Israelis. There are plenty in the Arab world too, especially Syrians, given his fighters sided with Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces, even as the rest of the Arab world ostracized him.
Not to mention ordinary Iranians:
Of course, not everyone is thrilled at these latest developments, not least the antisemites and terror-supporters of the world:
This would normally be the time I whip out this meme I created:
But it is somehow no longer appropriate.
There’s that’s better.
Now repeat after me: You reap what you sow and this sow has now met the reaper!
