Israel attacked Hezbollah targets in Lebanon from the air
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Israel attacked Hezbollah targets in Lebanon from the air

Israel Defense Forces
Lebanon

On September 19, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) bombed the facilities of the terrorist group "Hezbollah" in southern Lebanon.

Points of attention

  • Israel Defense Forces conducted airstrikes on Hezbollah facilities in southern Lebanon to eliminate terrorist potential and infrastructure.
  • Hezbollah's use of civilians as human shields has heightened tensions and worsened the situation in southern Lebanon.
  • The IDF is actively engaged in operations to secure the northern border with Lebanon and protect Israeli residents.
  • Recent incidents involving the hacking and detonation of Hezbollah fighters' pagers point to escalating tensions between Israel and the terrorist organization.
  • Chief of the General Staff Herzl Halevi approved a comprehensive defense and offensive plan in the 'northern direction' to ensure a high price for Hezbollah's actions.

Israel attacked Hezbollah facilities in Lebanon

The IDF said that the Israeli army is striking Hezbollah targets in Lebanon in order to "destroy Hezbollah's terrorist potential and infrastructure."

The terrorist organization "Hezbollah" has turned the south of Lebanon into a war zone. For decades, Hezbollah armed civilian homes, dug tunnels under them, and used civilians as human shields.

Lebanon

The agency added that the IDF is conducting operations to ensure security in northern Israel, allowing residents to return to their homes, as well as to achieve all other military objectives.

Videos of the consequences of Israeli airstrikes on militants in Lebanon appear online.

Also, Israeli F-16 planes fly over the capital of Lebanon, Beirut.

Operation Pager against Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon

On September 17, hundreds of Hezbollah fighters in Beirut and other cities were injured when their pagers, which they used to communicate, exploded. Lebanon believes the pagers were hacked and remotely detonated by Israel. 12 people died, including members of the Hezbollah group. It is also known about more than 2,700 wounded.

Citing a high-ranking informant in the Lebanese security agencies, Reuters reported that Israel's Mossad intelligence service planted a small amount of explosives in 5,000 Taiwanese pagers ordered by the Lebanese group Hezbollah a few months before the explosions.

On September 18, a series of explosions rang out again in Lebanon. Detonated wireless communication devices — portable radios and walkie-talkies of the Hezbollah group.

At a meeting of the IDF, Chief of the General Staff Herzl Halevi approved a defense and offensive plan in the "northern direction" from Israel, where Lebanon is located in particular. Halevi noted that "every time we work on a certain stage, the next two stages are already ready, on each of them the price for Hezbollah must be high."

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The Biden administration was furious and panicked over the sinking of the cruiser Moskva

Biden was afraid of Putin's reaction
Source:  The New York Times

On April 14, 2022, the Ukrainian military unexpectedly sank the missile cruiser "Moskva", the flagship of the Russian fleet. Only now it became known that this event actually shocked and frightened the team of former US President Joe Biden.

Points of attention

  • The Biden administration's concerns over the sinking of the cruiser Moskva reflect the delicate balance of power dynamics and political implications in the ongoing tensions between Russia, Ukraine, and the US.
  • The involvement of key military figures like Valery Zaluzhny and General Mark A. Milley in the history of US-Ukraine relations adds layers to the intricate web of international diplomacy and military strategies.

Biden was afraid of Putin's reaction

As journalists learned, in mid-April 2022, American and Ukrainian naval officers were conducting routine reconnaissance.

That's when they noticed something unexpected on their radar screens.

Then the Americans said, "Oh, this is "Moscow," and the Ukrainians immediately replied, "Oh my God. Thank you very much. Goodbye."

In fact, Ukraine destroyed the Russian flagship without consulting its American allies.

Americans were angry that the Ukrainians had not warned them about this; surprised that Ukraine had missiles capable of reaching the ship; and panicked because the Biden administration had no intention of allowing the Ukrainians to attack such a powerful symbol of Russian power.

Sinking of the cruiser "Moscow"

It is worth noting that in the early years of the war, relations between Ukraine and the United States were also complicated by tense relations between the then Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Valery Zaluzhny, and his American counterpart, General Mark A. Milley, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff.

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