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Reports say hezbollah has never claimed this attack, when did they claim it? Normally when hezbollah strikes somewhere they always take credit.
It was also in an area with a mostly druze arab population which does not serve in the idf. Hezbollah has no reason to strike there.
This has many indications of a false flag.
Druze serve in the IDF.
Edit: Although it's true that Druze in the Golan are different than the rest of the Druze in Israel, in that some of them don't serve.
Speaking with reporters at Majdal Shams, Israeli military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said that forensics showed the rocket was an Iranian-made Falaq-1.
Hezbollah had earlier announced firing a Falaq-1 missile on Saturday, saying it had targeted an Israeli military headquarters.
It hit an area where people do not serve in the IDF.
Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said that forensics showed the rocket was an Iranian-made Falaq-1.
Daniel Hagari is the man that has lied about everything in Gaza for months. If it was an Iranian missile I expect to see proof.
It hit an area where people do not serve in the IDF.
This was generally true before the Syrian civil war. Things have changed since.
Haaretz article about it
All kids lives matter.
Uh-oh, time to kill 15,000 more civilians
Oh you try to exterminate an entire ethnic group and they refuse to die peacefully, what ignominy
Sorry, kids. It looks like you were born in the wrong country to deserve any sympathy or basic human decency.
What a monster.
Do you say the same thing when bombs fall on Palestinian hospitals?? I'm not happy about this, but I'm not happy about killing another 50,000 innocent people to avenge them.
Terrible. They have been raining down rockets in Israel since Oct. 8 and no one talks about it. There are 200,000 internally displaced Israelis and sometimes it feels like no one cares.
Both the escalation on the southern Lebanon border and the resulting displacement have received a lot of media coverage. Hezbollah has kept saying that this is to keep IDF from being all focused on Gaza and that they would stop if a ceasefire is reached. Until about three month ago both Israel and Hezbollah have been trying to keep the level of escalation low.
This has changes as Israel attacked Beirut and threatened to turn it into "another Gaza" and boasting about how they could destroy all of Lebanon. Netanyahus government has aimed to escalate the war there, to draw in the US and other western allies.
Now whether we will see the full escalation now remains to be seen. Hezbollah is a whole different league compared to Hamas in terms of weapons and fighters.
What Beirut attack? I didn't hear about that.
i'm sorry. The attack on Beirut already happened in January. https://apnews.com/article/lebanon-beirut-explosion-suburbs-hezbollah-israel-2a43fe948e8cb49c64b34bb963d77f64
I must have mixed it up with the attack on Damascus in April.
The threat of turning Leba non into another Gaza also was from that time https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israel-s-netanyahu-threatens-to-turn-northern-lebanon-into-gaza-amid-escalation-with-hezbollah-/3103473
Since then the rethoric has picked up significantly over the past months, and again with extensive international coverage of a potential escalation into Lebanon.
Hardly an "attack on Beirut." According to this it was an attack on a Hamas commander near Beirut.
How is Hezbollah attacking Israel 'to keep them busy' supposed to keep things from escalating?
The level of engagement remained on the low and the "unwritten rules of engagement" like keeping things within a few kilometers of the border used to be upheld by both IDF and Hezbollah
So as long as Hezbollah is only shelling those 100.000 people living closest to the border, Israel should consider it a friendly ping-pong match?
I fail to see your point. There is more displaced Lebanese and much more Lebanese killed by Israel since Oct. 7. Considering displacement overall, adding in the 2 million displaced in Gaza, the attempt to put the blame on Hezbollah fails completely.
On September 1 1939 Germany invaded Poland. On September 3, France, the UK and other UK affiliated states declared war on Germany. I hope it is obvious, that this does not put the blame of escalation on France and the UK.