War Archive 2023 10/08 Monitoring the Israel and Lebanon War

[Sharma Ji]

Oh bhai there is the Lebanon/ Israel war thread on the other forum. More than 300 pages long.

So much info on that since Oct 7th last year when Hezb started its campaign against Israel.

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Dholan dekho kya karda

he gon end those wars, bro ! .. all of them

 

[Saif]

Netanyahu says ready to implement Israel-Lebanon ceasefire

Ceasefire accord goes to full Israeli cabinet later

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Netanyahu says ready to implement Israel-Lebanon ceasefire

Photo: Collected
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• Ceasefire accord goes to full Israeli cabinet later​
• Hezbollah has been set back decades, Israeli PM says​
• Israel has shaken Beirut 'to its core', says Netanyahu​
• Israel demands UN enforcement, zero tolerance for infractions​

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday he was ready to implement a ceasefire deal with Lebanon and would respond forcefully to any violation by Hezbollah, declaring Israel would retain "complete military freedom of action".

In a television address, Netanyahu said he would put the ceasefire accord to his full cabinet later in the evening. Israeli TV reported that the more restricted security cabinet had earlier approved the deal.

The accord, clearing the way for an end to a conflict that has killed thousands of people since it was ignited by the Gaza war last year, was brokered by the United States and France and was expected to take effect on Wednesday.

"We will enforce the agreement and respond forcefully to any violation. Together, we will continue until victory," Netanyahu said.

Netanyahu said there were three reasons to pursue a ceasefire: to focus on the threat from Iran; replenish depleted arms supplies and give the army a rest; and to isolate Hamas, the militant group that triggered war in the region when it attacked Israel from Gaza last year.

"In full coordination with the United States, we retain complete military freedom of action. Should Hezbollah violate the agreement or attempt to rearm, we will strike decisively."

Netanyahu said Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran and allied to Hamas, was considerably weaker than it had been at the start of the conflict.

"We have set it back decades, eliminated ... its top leaders, destroyed most of its rockets and missiles, neutralized thousands of fighters, and obliterated years of terror infrastructure near our border," he said.

"We targeted strategic objectives across Lebanon, shaking Beirut to its core."

US President Joe Biden was set to deliver remarks at the White House at 2:30pm EST (1930 GMT).

ISRAEL RAMPS UP AIRSTRIKES

Despite the diplomatic breakthrough, hostilities raged as Israel dramatically ramped up its campaign of airstrikes in Beirut and other parts of Lebanon, with health authorities reporting at least 18 killed.

There was no indication that a truce in Lebanon would hasten a ceasefire and hostage-release deal in devastated Gaza, where Israel is battling Palestinian militant group Hamas.

The Lebanon ceasefire agreement requires Israeli troops to withdraw from south Lebanon and Lebanon's army to deploy in the region, officials say. Hezbollah would end its armed presence along the border south of the Litani River.

Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib said the Lebanese army would be ready to have at least 5,000 troops deployed in southern Lebanon as Israeli troops withdraw, and that the United States could play a role in rebuilding infrastructure destroyed by Israeli strikes.

Not everyone in Israel supports a ceasefire. Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, a right-wing member of Netanyahu's government, said on social-media platform X the agreement does not ensure the return of Israelis to their homes in the country's north and that the Lebanese army did not have the ability to overcome Hezbollah.

"In order to leave Lebanon, we must have our own security belt," Ben-Gvir said.

Israel demands effective UN enforcement of an eventual ceasefire with Lebanon and will show "zero tolerance" toward any infraction, Defence Minister Israel Katz said earlier on Tuesday.

In the hours before the announcement, Israeli strikes smashed more of Beirut's densely-populated southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold. The Israeli military said one barrage of strikes had hit 20 targets in the city in just 120 seconds, killing at least seven people and injuring 37, according to Lebanon's health ministry.

Israel issued its biggest evacuation warning yet, telling civilians to leave 20 locations. Israeli military spokesperson Avichay Adraee said the air force was conducting a "widespread attack" on Hezbollah targets across the city.

The Iran-backed Hezbollah has kept up rocket fire into Israel.

The UN rights chief voiced concern about the escalation of bloodshed in Lebanon and his office said nearly 100 people had been reported killed by Israeli airstrikes in recent days, including women, children and medics.

Israel has dealt Hezbollah massive blows since going on the offensive against the group in September, killing its leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and other top commanders, and pounding areas of Lebanon where the group holds sway.

Over the past year, more than 3,750 people have been killed in Lebanon and over one million have been forced from their homes, according to Lebanon's health ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants in its figures.

Hezbollah strikes have killed 45 civilians in northern Israel and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. At least 73 Israeli soldiers have been killed in northern Israel, the Golan Heights and in combat in southern Lebanon, according to Israeli authorities.​

 

[Lulldapull]

Iran needs to launch a huge attack on the Israeli's and demolish whatever's fukkin left they're holding onto for dear life. Iran must break Israel's back and leave it crippled before anything gets on the paper.

Its a great initiative to demolish long held taboos like invincibility, jhootta Semite religion and Hollywood filmain being shoved down our throat narratives.

Iran's totally in a position of strength and should demolish all this make belief world of gypsy nonsense!

 

[Krishna with Flute]

Israel Targeted 20 Hezbollah targets in 120 second. releases the video.

MSN

 

[Saif]

Thousands in Lebanon head home as Israel-Hezbollah truce takes hold

Tens of thousands of Lebanese displaced by the war between Israel and Hezbollah headed back to their devastated towns and villages as a ceasefire took hold on Wednesday...

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Thousands in Lebanon head home as Israel-Hezbollah truce takes hold
Agence France-Presse . Beirut, Lebanon 28 November, 2024, 00:56

A woman looks at the rubble in Beirut’s southern suburbs on Wednesday, as people returned to the area to check their homes after a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah took effect. | AFP photo

Tens of thousands of Lebanese displaced by the war between Israel and Hezbollah headed back to their devastated towns and villages as a ceasefire took hold on Wednesday.

Under the terms of the deal that brought the war to a halt, the Lebanese military started reinforcing its presence in the country’s south, where Hezbollah has long held sway.

The war escalated after nearly a year of cross-border fire initiated by the militant group in support of its Palestinian ally Hamas, whose attack on Israel in October last year sparked the war in Gaza.

It killed thousands of people in Lebanon and triggered mass displacement on both sides of the border.

Israel shifted its focus from Gaza to Lebanon in September to secure its northern border from Hezbollah attacks and dealt the movement a series of heavy blows.

The Iran-backed group has emerged from the war significantly weakened and still mourning the killing in an Israeli air raid of its long-time leader Hassan Nasrallah.

Hezbollah lawmaker Hassan Fadlallah said on Wednesday that his group was cooperating on the Lebanese army’s deployment in south Lebanon.

There is ‘full cooperation’ with the Lebanese state in strengthening the army’s deployment, he said, adding that the group has ‘no visible weapons or bases’ there and that ‘nobody can make residents leave their villages’.

The road from the Lebanese capital to the south has been congested since the early hours, with thousands of people heading home.

AFP journalists saw cars and minibuses packed with people carrying mattresses, suitcases and blankets, with some honking their horns and singing in celebration, with Hezbollah supporters declaring the truce a victory.

‘What we feel is indescribable,’ said one Lebanese driver on the road to the south. ‘The people have won!’

Others, however, voiced quiet desolation.

Returning to his home in the southern town of Nabatiyeh, Ali Mazraani said he was shocked by the extent of the devastation from the raids.

‘Is this really Nabatiyeh?’ he said. ‘All our memories of Nabatiyeh have disappeared, and we can’t recognise our own town.’

In Lebanon, more than 9,00,000 people fled their homes in recent weeks, according to the UN, as Israel pounded the country, focusing in particular on areas where Hezbollah holds sway.

Lebanese parliament speaker Nabih Berri called on the displaced to go back to their homes despite the devastation.

‘I invite you to return to your homes return to your land,’ said Berri, who led mediation efforts on behalf of his allies in Hezbollah.

Prime minister Najib Mikati urged Israel to respect the terms of the truce and said Lebanon was turning the page on ‘one of the most painful phases that the Lebanese have lived in their modern history’.

Lebanon says at least 3,823 people were killed in the country since exchanges of fire across the border began in October 2023, most of them in recent weeks.

On the Israeli side, the hostilities with Hezbollah have killed at least 82 soldiers and 47 civilians, authorities there say.

The final hours before the truce took hold at 4:00am (0200 GMT) on Wednesday were among the most violent particularly for Beirut, with Israeli strikes hitting areas including the busy commercial district of Hamra.

Hezbollah, too, continued to claim attacks on Israel all the way up to the start of the truce.

The Israeli and Lebanese militaries have both called on residents of frontline Lebanese villages to avoid returning home immediately.

Hezbollah-backer Iran welcomed the end of what it called Israel’s aggression in Lebanon, while Hamas said it was ready for a truce in Gaza.

The truce in Lebanon, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, would permit Israel to redirect its efforts back to Gaza, where it has been at war with Hamas since October of last year.

‘When Hezbollah is out of the picture, Hamas is left alone in the fight. Our pressure on it will intensify,’ Netanyahu said, adding that Israel would also focus on ‘the Iranian threat’.

Iran is the main backer of both Hezbollah and Hamas and has fired two barrages of missiles and drones at Israel since the outbreak of the war in Gaza, in response to attacks attributed to Israel.

US president Joe Biden announced the ceasefire agreement on Tuesday.

Under the deal, Israeli forces will hold their positions but ‘a 60-day period will commence in which the Lebanese military and security forces will begin their deployment towards the south’, a US official said.

Then Israel will begin a phased withdrawal without a vacuum forming that Hezbollah or others could rush into, the official said.

The United States is Israel’s key ally and military backer, and Biden hailed the deal as ‘good news’ and a ‘new start’ for Lebanon.

He said that the United States, with the support of France and other allies, would help to ensure the deal is implemented.

Netanyahu thanked Biden for his involvement in brokering the deal, under whose terms Israel will maintain freedom to act against Hezbollah should it pose any new threat.

On Wednesday, an AFP journalist saw Lebanese troops and vehicles deploying in two areas of south Lebanon.

‘The army has begun reinforcing its presence in the South Litani sector and extending the state’s authority in coordination with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon,’ the military said in a statement, referring to areas south of the Litani River in southern Lebanon.

While the mood in Lebanon was of joy tempered by devastating loss, in Israel there was no indication of a return en masse of the 60,000 people forced to flee their homes by Hezbollah’s fire.​