In his first gathering with foreign press since taking office in August, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian offered Israel an armistice amid worsening tensions gripping the Middle East, but at the same time warned Israel was attempting to instigate a broader conflict in the region.
Israel launched a massive attack on Lebanon on Monday killing 492 people, including 35 children, 58 women and two medics in over a thousand separate airstrikes.
Monday’s mass killing far outstripped the intensity of Israel’s 2006 invasion of Lebanon, during which 1,000 people were killed during an entire month.
Patricia Karam
Non-Resident Scholar, Lebanon Program
Patricia Karam
The Israel Defense Forces are ramping up attacks over Lebanon clearly designed to wholly destroy Hezbollah; having struck some 1,300 targets to date, the Israeli operation has killed at least 550, wounded over 1,800, and already displaced thousands, sowing widespread panic.
As Lebanon continues to bear the devastating brunt of the Israeli campaign, Hezbollah will be increasingly at risk of losing credibility with those who want revenge for the widespread destruction and those angry at the militant group for unnecessarily dragging them into war.
Hezbollah has announced the martyrdom of the great jihadist leader Hajj Ibrahim Aqil (Hajj Abdul Qadir) on the path to Jerusalem. He has joined the procession of his brothers among the great martyr leaders after a blessed life filled with jihad, work, wounds, sacrifices, dangers, challenges, achievements, and victories.
Tout a commencé le 7 octobre 2023 si on en croit la vulgate sioniste reprise généralement implicitement par la plupart des médias occidentaux. Il y a eu avant le 7 une période où chacun vivait sa petite vie paisiblement, les Palestniens dans la bande de Gaza, malheureusement sous la férule du Hamas, une bande d’antisémites avides de sang juif, et les juifs (sionistes) dans leurs petites villes ou villages de communautés pacifiques et industrieuses au centre desquels il ne manque que l’église pour que le Français moyen puisse le reconnaître comme sien.
Very few Jews realize that for more than 1.000 years, while the Ka’ba in Makka built by Prophets Abraham and Ishmael was polluted by idols, Jerusalem’s First and Second Temple – Bait ul Muqaddas—Beit HaMiqdash stood, and the Jewish festival of Hag Sukkot was celebrated as a Hajj, a pilgrimage festival.
In Biblical times the Hebrew letter g was sometimes pronounced g as in gym, and Hag was pronounced Hajj. The Hebrew word Hag comes from hagag to circle and the Arabic word Hajj literally means ‘to set out for a place’.
Source: Mayadeen TV (Lebanon)
Hizbullah Deputy Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem said in a speech during a September 22, 2024 funeral held for Hizbullah operations chief Ibrahim Aqil, a veteran Hizbullah operative who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut alongside several top commanders from Hizbullah’s elite Radwan Unit, that the United States is fully complicit in Israel’s aggression, crimes, and genocide and will not be able to convince anybody otherwise. He said that America is destined for destruction just like Israel and led the crowd in chants of “Death to America!” Qassem also said that the Zionists have “globalized the resistance in Palestine,” and “caused the elixir of resistance to develop in fetuses.” Qasem promised that the Lebanese front in support of Palestine will continue until the war in Gaza ends. In addition, he promised that the residents of northern Israel will not be able to return to their homes, that more Israelis will be displaced, and that the new phase of the conflict is called “the Battle of the Unsettled Score.” Moreover, he promised that Hizbullah will act “out-of-the-box” and will fight and kill the Israelis in places they do not expect.
Source: Online Platforms – “Spot Shot (Lebanon) on YouTube”
Hizbullah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah said in a speech that was posted to the Spot Shot YouTube channel on February 13, 2024 that Israel does not need human collaborators because people carry cell phones with them wherever they go. He said that Israel taps people’s cell phones and monitors their location, conversations, data, images, and families, whether they are at home, at work, or in the car. He said that Israel even knows in which seat in the car a person is riding in, and he called on the “brothers” throughout southern Lebanon to refrain from using cell phones, which he referred to as “lethal collaborators,” and to disable or bury them for weeks, months, or however long is necessary in order to protect their security, lives, and honor. He added that people cannot live without their cell phones, but that Islamic law prohibits this during a time of war because it endangers people’s lives.
Israel is bombing targets across many parts of Lebanon, striking senior militants in Beirut and apparently hiding bombs in pagers and walkie-talkies. Hezbollah is firing rockets and drones deep into northern Israel, setting buildings and cars alight.
Israel killed a top Hezbollah commander in an airstrike on Beirut’s southern suburbs on Friday, sharply escalating the year-long conflict between Israel and the Iran-backed group.
The target was Hezbollah’s operations commander Ibrahim Aqil, who served on the group’s top military body.