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Lebanese armed group Hezbollah fired a salvo of rockets onto northern Israel on Monday in response to at least three of its members being killed in Israeli shelling on Lebanon.

The exchange of fire marks a significant expansion of the conflict between Israel and Palestinian militants to the Israeli-Lebanese border further north. Iran-backed Hezbollah and Israel fought a brutal month-long war in 2006.

Hezbollah in a statement on Monday said it had fired rockets and mortars on two Israeli military posts in the Galilee. The Israeli military said it identified a number of "launches" from Lebanon into Israel, without any injuries. It said it was responding with artillery fire onto Lebanon.

Hezbollah said in consecutive online statements that three of its members had been killed in Israel's "aggression" on southern Lebanon on Monday afternoon. Two Lebanese security sources told Reuters two more Hezbollah members were killed.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Stupid move by Israel to open a second war on two fronts and then escalate this one.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago

Is it? Or does the threat of being surrounded give Netanyahu free rein to do whatever the fuck he wants and demand massive support from the West? Seems to me like Netanyahu knows exactly what he’s doing. He’s canny and savvy, that’s the only reason he’s been PM for so long, so I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s riling up the tensions in an effort to get Western ground troops to enter the war and help with the genocide.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Not really. Israel has the best ally in the world; the U.S. They'll be fine.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yah but our house is in disarray right now and we also really poor so probably not the time for more wars in the ME...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Don't be silly, there is always money for war

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

The U.S. bungled Iraq and Afghanistan, they’re not going to be much of an asset in this type of war.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 11 months ago

Buddy, ISRAEL opened second front??! Not hizballa that fired artillery across the border?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Hezbollah and Israel fought a brutal month-long war in 2006 and have traded sporadic fire over the border since then while avoiding a major conflict.

The man was killed on Monday in Israeli shelling into southern Lebanon prompted by a cross-border raid claimed by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group, which has been fighting alongside Hamas since it launched its surprise attack on Israel on Saturday.

Some residents of southern Lebanon said they were leaving homes along the border with Israel amid heavy shelling that had so far pounded the outskirts of towns and villages.

A series of incidents over the past months had already elevated the risk of escalation along the Lebanon-Israel border before the last days of fighting in Israel and Gaza.

Israel's Army Radio gave the location as being near Adamit, across from the Lebanese border towns of Aalma El Chaeb and Zahajra.

A spokesperson for the U.N.'s peacekeeping mission said its head Major General Lazaro was "in contact with the involved parties, urging them to exercise maximum restraint."


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