2 Israeli Troops Killed, 7 Hurt in Hizbullah Operation in Shebaa
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Two Israeli soldiers were killed and seven wounded on Wednesday in a Hizbullah attack on a military convoy in the occupied Shebaa Farms.
The Israeli army announced that two of its troops were killed, while a spokesman said seven Israeli soldiers were “lightly-to-moderately wounded” in the attack.
Chief Israeli army spokesman Brigadier General Moti Almoz explained that the unrest unfolded when an anti-tank missile fired from the South struck an Israeli military vehicle that was traveling with other vehicles, reported Jerusalem Post.
No one was kidnapped in the incident, he added.
"This is not necessarily the last response," Almoz warned on Twitter.
The attack in the occupied-Shebaa Farms prompted Israel to shell areas in southern Lebanon in a significant escalation along the volatile border.
No Lebanese citizens were injured in the Israeli shelling.
According to al-Jadeed television, the Israeli army informed UNIFIL that it would not carry out further strikes in response to Hizbullah's operation.
The Israeli army said an anti-tank missile targeted the vehicle near Shebaa Farms, a disputed tract of land where the borders of Israel, Lebanon and Syria meet.
The army said the residents of the area were ordered to remain in their homes.
A high-ranking Israeli army official said six anti-tank missiles were launched at the convoy.
“Three of the missiles hit the IDF convoy and 1 hit a home in Ghajar,” the official noted.
The Israeli army identified its slain troops as 25-year-old Captain Yochai Kalangel, an officer in the Tsavar Battalion of the Givati Brigade, and Sergeant Dor Haim Nini, 20, a member of the same battalion.
Citing a preliminary military investigation, the Jerusalem Post newspaper said “at least five Kornet missiles were fired at the Israeli convoy from a distance of at least four kilometers.”
“A military D-max vehicle was the first vehicle hit in the attack, prompting all of those inside an IDF jeep behind it to quickly evacuate the vehicle before it too was hit with missiles. The subsequent injuries came from military vehicles nearby,” the Jerusalem Post added.
Images broadcast from the scene showed large plumes of white smoke billowing across the area and police sealed off several roads close to the border in northern Israel.
The Israeli army's chief of staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz convened an emergency meeting to evaluate the situation.
Following the missile attack, Lebanese security officials said Israel fired at least 50 artillery shells into Lebanon.
The officials said the shelling targeted the border villages of Majidiyeh, Abbasiyeh and Kfarshouba near the Shebaa Farms area.
Two sources told Agence France-Presse that more than a dozen shells had been fired on Lebanese border villages and that Israeli warplanes were flying over the area.
"At least 15 shells have been fired against five villages in the south," one security source said, adding that Majidiyeh was hardest hit.
A 36-year-old Spanish corporal from the U.N. peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon was killed in the exchange of fire, officials said.
The 10,000-strong UNIFIL mission said it had observed 11 rockets fired towards Israel from southern Lebanon and that Israeli forces "returned artillery fire in the same general area."
It said the precise cause of the peacekeeper's death was "as yet undetermined" and urged all sides to show "maximum restraint to prevent an escalation."
“At around 11:30 am this morning, UNIFIL observed six rockets launched towards Israel from the vicinity of Wazzani north of Maysat in the UNIFIL area of operations. The IDF returned artillery fire in the same general area,” UNIFIL said in a statement.
UNIFIL Commander Major-General Luciano Portolano was in immediate contact with the parties to help control the situation and prevent further escalation, it added.
“In the meantime, at around 1:30 pm five rockets were fired from the general area of Kfarshouba towards Israel. The IDF fired artillery rounds towards the source of fire,” UNIFIL said.
Portolano strongly condemned “this serious violation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701,” UNIFIL stated.
Lebanon's National News Agency said that Hizbullah retaliated to the Israeli attacks by shelling an area near Shebaa Farms.
Wednesday's developments came amid heightened tension after the January 18 Israeli strike against a Hizbullah convoy in Quneitra on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights.
The strike killed six Hizbullah members, including Mohammed Issa, a commander responsible for its Syrian and Iraqi operations, as well as Jihad Mughniyeh, the son of Imad Mughniyeh, a top Hizbullah operative killed in a 2008 car bombing in Syria which was blamed on Israel.
Senior Iranian general Mohammad Ali Allahdadi was also killed in the Israeli attack, which had prompted Tehran to warn Israel that it should "await destructive thunderbolts."
Hizbullah said in its claim of responsibility that it targeted several vehicles transporting officers and soldiers with missiles to avenge the Israeli raid on Quneitra.
The party's fighters from a group calling itself the "heroic martyrs of Quneitra” destroyed a number of Israeli vehicles and caused casualties among "enemy ranks,” it said in a statement.
Al-Manar TV said Hizbullah targeted nine vehicles, and that it had killed "a large number" of troops.
Following the operation, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tel Aviv was ready to react forcibly wherever it comes under attack.
The army "is ready to act with force on any front," he added, warning that Israel's response to any attack would be harsh.
In the evening, Netanyahu convened an emergency session with Israel's security chiefs to discuss options, his office said.
The premier "is at this hour convening a security situation assessment at defense headquarters in Tel Aviv," his office said, adding among those taking part were Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon, armed forces chief Lieutenant General Benny Gantz, and the head of the Shin Bet security service.
"Those behind today's attack will pay the full price," the statement quoted Netanyahu as saying, accusing Iran of using Hizbullah as a proxy along Israel's northern flanks.
Netanyahu also sent a warning to the Lebanese government of Lebanon and to Syrian President Bashar Assad from whose territories Wednesday's attack and Tuesday's rocket fire on the Golan Heights were launched.
"The government of Lebanon and the Assad regime share responsibility for the consequences of attacks originating in their territory against the state of Israel," he said.
Hardline Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Israel should respond to the attack "in a very harsh and disproportionate manner, as China or the U.S. would respond to similar incidents."
Israel's Yediot Ahronot newspaper meanwhile said "Hizbullah sent a message to Israel via the U.N. peacekeepers' commander in Lebanon on Wednesday night, saying the organization was not interested in further escalation and describing the ambush as 'an eye for an eye' revenge for a Jan. 18 strike in Syria."
Israel told the U.N. Security Council that it will exercise its right to self-defense after the Hizbullah attack.
Israeli Ambassador Ron Prosor urged the 15-member council to "unequivocally and publicly condemn Hizbullah" in a letter also sent to Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
"Israel will not stand by as Hizbullah targets Israelis," wrote Prosor.
"Israel will not accept any attacks on its territory and it will exercise its right to self-defense and take all necessary measures to protect its population."
Israel declared its northern and Golan region as a military zone in the wake of the Shebaa attack.
On the Israeli side, Israeli security sources said at least one house in the divided village of Ghajar had been hit but there was no immediate word on casualties.
Half of the village lies in Lebanon and the rest lies in the Israeli-occupied sector.
All roads to the village were blocked off by Israeli police, with a crowd of villagers anxiously waiting to get home to check on their families.
"Three houses were hit by rockets," said Hussein, 31, relaying what he had heard by telephone from relatives in the village of 2,000 inhabitants.
He said a number of villagers had been wounded but did not know how badly.
Other frantic family members argued with police to be allowed in to collect their children, who had been locked inside the village school for their own safety.
In 2006, Israel fought a bloody war against Hizbullah that killed more than 1,200 people in Lebanon, mostly civilians, and some 160 Israelis, mostly soldiers.
The Shebaa Farms area is a mountainous, narrow sliver of land rich in water resources measuring 25 square kilometers. It has been occupied by Israel since the 1967 Middle East war.
Since Israeli troops withdrew from south Lebanon in 2000, Shebaa has become an area of friction between Israel and Hizbullah.
G.K./M.T./Y.R.
28 January 2015, 12:29
1015
The terrorist party is intent on dragging us into another senseless war. I hope the response will be severe but I doubt it.
28 January 2015, 12:36
919
Didn't HA ministers just assure the cabinet in its last meeting a few days ago that it intends to keep the borders with Israel calm?! Just like in 2006 when Nassrallah said enjoy the summer and a few days later his party carried out an attack on Israel that led to a devastating war on Lebanon. Did HA consult with the government.... with the army that they so dearly love and respect.... with the people's representatives in Parliament. I am sure NOT. This a party that works against the good of Lebanon and its people.
28 January 2015, 12:51
1015
Just what we needed! Thank you hez zabala! Go fight from the Golan! Not LEBANON!!!
28 January 2015, 12:59
1023
i can assure you on the tomb of my son hadi and on the integrity of zeynib and the conscience of imamu ali that we are here to protect lebanon and not the shias.
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28 January 2015, 13:07
118
The Islamic Republic of Iran, its Mullahs, and its Revolutionary guards stand ready to support their brothers in faith in Lebanon against any Israeli aggression. The Republic is at the disposal of the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon for whatever it needs to defeat the Zionist enemy.
28 January 2015, 13:35
714
what support are you going to give us ? build bridges in Dhahiyeh , or send "clean " money !!?? stay away you Persian snakes
28 January 2015, 16:19
56
Parvi, you know well that you're talking BS, Iran will stay behind, Lebanese blood will spill again and when amid our rubbles and drenched blood, your little twit of a Sayed will announce another Celestial victory, then your Iran nits will come to Beirut to show some support. If only you can take your battle to Iran, or Syria, then for all I care may you, Iran, Hezbollah and Israel blow up to dust, who gives a rat's ass. Leave Lebanon in peace.
28 January 2015, 16:33
55
35 minutes ago Iran's Revolutionary Guard on Shebaa operation: We will stand by the resistance against the Zionists.
28 January 2015, 13:18
917
7 minutes ago Lebanese security source to Turkish Anadolu Agency: Hizbullah has evacuated its security positions in Beirut’s southerns suburb in preparation for a qualitative operation.
As usual the cowards run away and leave the people of Lebanon to take the brunt of Israel's response.
28 January 2015, 13:22
915
9 minutes ago Geagea: The army will bear the repercussions of the Shebaa Farms operations because it has not taken any decision over the matter.
The army has allowed this criminal militia to cross the border into Syria, allowed it to kill, and allowed it to control Lebanon. Geagea is 100% right here.
28 January 2015, 15:03
135
nice comment israeli.takfiri, but knowing you and geagea have a long history of hating the lebanese army and stabbing it in the back, do you think anyone will take you seriously?
28 January 2015, 15:37
711
The incredible credible flamethrower once explained his presence on naharnet:
"...flamethrower--
unlike people like you, I'm into conversing with the opposite side, which explains my presence on naharnet."
and his "conversing" clearly shows in all his posts. As usual, flamethrower has nothing to say, so it stalks, insults and spews useless one-liners with no argumentation at all..
28 January 2015, 16:43
47
@FT; whenever someone has an opinion that differs from you treat him of a traitor, voice of Israel or pro Isis. Bravo
28 January 2015, 15:05
135
threatening civilians? not surprising coming from an israeli, but you however, might end up very surprised. btw, weren't you on high alert in northern palestine? how did HA manage to whack your boys like this? dont you have super high tech gadgets paid for by US charity? guess they forgot to send the manuals in hebrew lol
28 January 2015, 16:06
45
This time we will see the destruction of Lebanon, but also the final end of Ebola.
28 January 2015, 17:24
27
threatening civilians? the only threat to lebanese civilians is hizbollaat dragging lebanon into this. they have men on the ground in syria, and they got hit in syria...the retaliation should come from syria, lebanon has nothing to do with this.
28 January 2015, 13:28
229
I told you people, the Quneitra attack will be avenged and this is only the beginning.
28 January 2015, 13:50
613
I believe you did tell us but no need to vote yourself up for that 4 times so far!
28 January 2015, 13:52
610
I repeat it for the 1000 time: Israel AND Ebola want the destruction of Lebanon.
28 January 2015, 14:46
513
Thank you Mystic for 'telling' us and enlightening us. But let us tell you this time that your hozb has just made a grave mistake and hell is gonna rain over your so-called moukawameh very soon. The 2006 war will seem like child play compared to what's coming next. So ready your F16 fighter jets and wait for the next strike. Oh wait, you don't have any kind of airforce! LOL
28 January 2015, 15:50
114
Sayed Hassan stands by his words, Israel is in panic now, and so is all their stooges in Lebanon. Geagea is in shock, just like the rest of M14 Israeli lovers, you didn't expect this to happen, guess what your demigod zionists are not untouchable as you thought.
If Israel decides to release their full airforce now all over Lebanon, then the Resistance will release rain of fire on Tel Aviv and the rest of Israel, Iron dome systems will not save them.
28 January 2015, 16:05
410
How dare you. Ayatollah ordered this to be done maximum by Monday. It's Wednesday!
28 January 2015, 16:13
114
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1095730940452454&set=vb.345180182174204&type=2&theater
28 January 2015, 16:17
49
Mystic Personally I don't see it going too far, at worst it will remain in the vicinity. The big showdown ya Mystic is yet to come, but what I know is this and I am saying it in indelible ink, that Hezbollah and Israel seem to share one ideal and just one ideal, that the TWO of you will never leave Lebanon and the people of Lebanon to live in peace. We cannot plan for our future, we cannot make any contingencies, nothing, because we have two screwed up entities that simply cannot leave us Lebanese some space or some peace. All this hullabaloo stuff coming from you is nothing but rants. We the people of Lebanon want NO war, nothing, so to Hezbollah I say, just the F**k out of our life, and same goes to your second half Israel. We have had more than enough, damn it!!
28 January 2015, 16:29
124
Phoenix my friend, I recall you wrote some days ago, that Sayed Hassans threats were empty. I warned you there would be a new war, you didn't seem to care, now suddenly you do.
I will write it to you now, as I said to all the cowards of Kataeb and LF etc. Most of you can always flee to America/Canada, that is what you are good for, and thats where most of you are based.
If you remain real Lebanese then you can stand by the Resistance and LAF in this battle for Lebanon, my hand is still extended to you.
If not, then it is you guys that can shoo off.
28 January 2015, 16:48
104
nice vid mystic, here's one for you ;)
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=934397119904287
28 January 2015, 21:58
01
Kataeb took on the entire Arab nations just in case you didn't read your history. We saw who ran leaving everything behind in 2006.
28 January 2015, 13:29
1016
bless anyone person, entity, organization, brigade or country that inflicts pain and suffering, death, torture, and destruction upon the iranian sectarian terrorist militia and its members, supporters or followers wherever they may be.
28 January 2015, 13:44
615
I think everybody already knew that nassrallah will do something crazy like this and risk our present and future once again. If anybody had any doubt about the identity of this traitor I believe this incident surely clears it up. He is an Iranian agent, A Syrian agent, a mean terrorist.
28 January 2015, 13:48
412
nassrallah is playing with fire ...who will he beg this time to go to the UN and beg for a truce.
28 January 2015, 14:19
512
you are either a comedian or insane. Who said "Laow Kuntou a3lam"? Was it Israel? Whose port and airport were under siege? You people have no shame left.
28 January 2015, 14:33
714
I am not siding with the enemy. I am criticizing your hizb actions that woke up the enemy and gave it an excuse to destroy my country in a similar way you invited the ISIL to attack Lebanon by going to Syria.
28 January 2015, 15:05
511
Dear Traitor,
No 1 fact : Ebola cannot destroy Israel.
No 2 fact : Ebola knows it cannot destroy Israel but claims the contrary.
No 3 fact : Ebola is the one who is the aggressor.
No 4 fact : Ebola wants Israel to destroy Lebanon.
No 5 fact : Ebola wants Lebanon to be destroyed to create an Islamic Republic.
28 January 2015, 15:37
114
doesnt matter where they attack from, israel will attack where they want, as usual. might as well attack from where they are strongest.
28 January 2015, 16:07
36
This time we will see the destruction of Lebanon, but also the final end of Ebola.
28 January 2015, 14:04
35
Who ordered a laou kountou a3lam? Got one brand new laou kountou a3lam, no need for a signature where do I park it?
28 January 2015, 14:06
512
Hizbullah can tolerate response because he already lives in dark caves . We don't and we don't need this response now you Persian traitors
28 January 2015, 15:07
135
the traitors are you who stand on the enemy side. we dont care what traitors want, and if you think we will sacrifice lebanon so scums like you can live in comfort think again.
28 January 2015, 15:30
37
We don't stand with the enemy. But YOU do stand with Ebola and Iran. YOU and your likes are traitors.
28 January 2015, 15:40
411
The secular atheist mouthpiece of hezballah aka as mowaten grabs every opportunity to defend the sectarian party of terror.
I wonder how he happens to be an atheist member of hezballah when Nassrallah says:
"
السيد الامين العام لـ”حزب الله”، فجأة ومن دون مقدمات، أطلق سهامه على الملحدين، واعتبر ما يرتكبه البعض باسم الدين والاسلام لا يبرر النزعة الى الإلحاد التي لاحظ انها بدأت تظهر في المجتمعات العربية، ولمّح الى ان خطر الالحاد لا يقل عن خطر التكفير."
28 January 2015, 17:28
37
"if you think we will..." are you a hizbollaat member? who gave you the authority to speak for the lebanese?
28 January 2015, 14:16
411
an exact repetition of 2006. A Heroic (cowardly) act by the so called resistance firing a guided missile at Israeli vehicles led to a devastating war on Lebanon.
28 January 2015, 14:48
37
Unbelievable! Why why why why? The country cannot bare being destroyed again. The Lebanese people sre tired of war, death and destruction. Why does the whole country need to be dragged into an unnecessary confrontation it does need, now or ever.
To those cheering on this "courageous" act of self destruction, think is it worth sacrificing people's lives because of your macho bravado act? What is wrong with this messed up logic and lack of reasoning? God help Lebanon. Hopefully a full blown war can be avoided.
28 January 2015, 16:17
123
they would have FT, really, only they were too busy cheering israel
28 January 2015, 14:52
39
Al-Manar TV said Hizbullah targeted nine vehicles, and that it had killed "a large number" of troops.
LOL more wishful thinking like the ship they claimed to have sunk in 2006 you know the one, the Hanit the one that is still serving in the Israeli navy..
28 January 2015, 14:57
28
Yes the Lebanese have seen lots of it in the past but I can honestly tell you I do not want to see anymore of it. We are sick of war and its awful consequences
28 January 2015, 15:05
46
No 1 fact : Ebola cannot destroy Israel.
No 2 fact : Ebola knows it cannot destroy Israel but claims the contrary.
No 3 fact : Ebola is the one who is the aggressor.
No 4 fact : Ebola wants Israel to destroy Lebanon.
No 5 fact : Ebola wants Lebanon to be destroyed to create an Islamic Republic.
28 January 2015, 15:34
56
So true. These are syrian areas. One more fact: the inhabitants want to stay part of Israel.
28 January 2015, 16:14
125
will you never stop lying, even when exposed a hundred times?
shebaa is lebanese, and everybody says so.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/un-tells-israel-place-shaba-farms-in-hands-of-unifil-1.225283
"Government officials in Jerusalem said the UN cartographer handling the matter in recent months has determined that the area is indeed Lebanese. The officials added that Syria and Lebanon also agree that the area is Lebanese. Therefore, the UN has said there is no reason for Israel not to relinquish control over the area."
28 January 2015, 16:15
115
anyone on lebanese land wanting to be on syrian or israeli land is free to pack up and go ti hell
28 January 2015, 15:42
47
FT the Syrian boy, we know that but do they
Michel Aoun: "The Shebaa Farms is a big lie; I am fully responsible for what I am saying. We can't adjust the map in accordance to our mood. Shebaa Farms are not Lebanese. 09/04/2002
Tony Nasrallah, press official at the FPM -
"We value the resistance and the role it played in freeing the Lebanese South," he said. "However, after the Israeli withdrawal, we noticed that the resistance became more of a Syrian card used to keep the Lebanese front insecure" he said, addressing the ongoing debate over the ownership of the Shebaa Farms. "Why did the resistance only remember Shebaa Farms after the Israeli withdrawal from the South?" he asked, claiming the area had been ignored since the time it was first occupied in 1967 until 2000." 03/11/2004
28 January 2015, 16:33
46
FT the Syrian boy, you are confusing me with the other Karim, your fake karim. The quotes are real and can be found in the Tayyar.com archive pages and elsewhere. They go back to a times when you were calling Michel Aoun, Tony Nasrallah and anyone who spoke against the Syrian hegemony and the illegal Islamic militia in Lebanon Zionists and traitors. I don't know maybe then you were still a youngin in the Damascus Mukhabarat academy earning your terrorist, kidnapping and torture degree while fellow activists, some college students and I were being beaten and arrested for the capital crime of peacefully demonstrating against the occupations.
28 January 2015, 17:11
72
Veritas...Its people like you who is making the world dislike the Israeli's
& see that maybe they are the brutal problem.
how can you justify posting such evil?
"I would like Israel to show no mercy and no restraint this time... Just annihilate every town, village, and street where these Iranian made cowardly terrorists hide"
I support Israel to have its own state & the Palestinians moved to their brothers vast open lands..eg..KSA,Jordan,Kuwait etc.
But you like to portray Israeli's as monsters who should kill kill kill.
very poor posting veritas...May God have mercy on people who cheer for killing & murder.
28 January 2015, 17:18
72
Will you accept the same if HA rain down rockets on civilians in Israel?
what an evil person with evil intentions.
28 January 2015, 17:21
56
hope you enjoyed today's victory veritas, i hear over a dozen zionist soldiers got fried today, maybe you can feed them to your takfiri pets, though i think they only eat it nayyeh
28 January 2015, 17:22
72
You can choose to be whatever you want, doesn't entitle you to wish total destruction upon a nation because you dislike it.
get a life you evil doer.
28 January 2015, 17:37
45
"What world? Third world countries sh*t holes? Or the left wings lunatics in Western countries?"
exactly! that EXACTLY the attitude that makes you an arrogant, despicable people
28 January 2015, 17:40
58
just watch how the votes will turn out when all is said and done. Flamethrower and his double mowaten will soon turn this thread into a divine victory for the terror party.
28 January 2015, 17:42
72
why do you care so much about the votes? ..its a giveaway when the first person worried about something is usually the person doing it.
28 January 2015, 18:13
44
This proves again that the filthy murdering militia cares not of Lebanon.
28 January 2015, 18:51
45
Oh my God guys, a couple Israeli soldiers killed; they respond with artillery, more retaliations from our Islamic mou2awame, they kidnap a couple Israeli soldiers, Israel invades Lebanon and drops 10,000 airstrikes, destroying the entire country, 100 IDF troops killed, no resistance fighters killed, and it shall be a divine victory for the mou2awame and the streets of Dahye shall become like Times Square on NYE, just complete pandemonium. "Hail our heroic martyrs!" they shout, and the chants continue all day, and at night people drink Laziza non-alcoholic beer in honour of the martyrs. Yes Hezbollah, your 30 days of conflict with Israel was real, it was bloody, your martyrs did not die in vain, rather their blood spells out the word "victory." Hail the resistance, and the Lebanese who don't support it are traitors!
28 January 2015, 19:18
38
I await the day when I will read ONE meaningful post, ONE counter argument, ONE credible or mature info from you, ...flamethrower-- , but alas!
28 January 2015, 19:55
25
It's sad, 2 foreign groups on land that's not theirs...and they're up to the same nonsense again...and the original people of the area will suffer yet again for their equally astounding arrogance.
28 January 2015, 21:10
21
...flamethrower-:
"about south africa"... "no we are not all equal, apparently."
By that rationale we could also say that Israel built a country and get what they want. meanwhile arabs are more than glad to massacre each other. So no we are not all equal, apparently?
28 January 2015, 21:12
00
In the late 60s and 70s Arafat's PLO terrorists used to claim legitimate right to conduct operations again the Zionist entity independent of the Lebanese state causing Israeli retaliation. When the Lebanese state tried to rain in Arafat's PLO terrorists they, supported by the Leftists, Syrian and Arab nationalists supported first by Nasser then by Hafez Assad and Muslims leaders, turned on the State destroying everything in their wake. Hezballah the new PLO; God save Lebanon.
28 January 2015, 23:02
11
I predict Israel will go after Hezbollah positions in Syria.
Previously, Hezbollah has specialized in asymmetrical warfare, for example:
1. Hiding among civilian population when sending rockets into non military targets.
2. Dressed as civilians when counterattacking the invading forces.
In this manner above, Hezbollah is a more difficult to target by conventional means.
Within the last 2-3 years however, Hezbollah is forced to fight more conventional warfare in Syria. This leaves Hezbollah assets more vulnerable to attacks from conventional air assaults (which the Syrian opposition is not capable of doing).
When Israel decides to strike at Hezbollah, they will find some easily identified targets in Syria.
28 January 2015, 23:25
01
@ Mystic, you are so funny, calling LF/Kataeb cowards.. They fought both palestinians and Syrians and resisted for 15 years without them even thinking of going into christians areas... Also they have protected many times chiites from slaughter in south Lebanon when palestinians militias were raping your women and children.
Also, before i forget the cheering when Israel entered Lebanon in 82, not to forget the hundreds of chiites agents of Mossad bought by Israel, from those big responsibles of Hezbollah that they themselves have admitted were breached. Not to forget the hundreds of families fleeing from the south in 2006 to others areas of Lebanon.
28 January 2015, 23:30
01
@ Mystic
This time, they know they will be welcomed no where, thats why Hezbollah sent a letter to Israel saying it doesnt want any escalation. It has his hands full from IS/nusra/etc... Israel and Hezbollah are opposites but working for the same interest, Israel wants Lebanon never to rise, and Hezbollah wants Lebanon under its control as a part of Iran.
you fools of Hezbollah are now learning real warfare in Syria that LF/Kataeb have acquired so long ago. fighting Israel is nothing on the ground, specially when u hide behind garbages in villages and shoot rockets from people's houses... Loving the courage.
28 January 2015, 23:31
01
@ Mystic
LF/Kataeb have resisted 100 days in Ashrafieh outnumbered against the powerful syrian army of Hafez and Palestinians factions, and so on with Zahle as well. You needed 2 month to take Qusayr with all your "men" firepower from planes helicopters tanks mortars of the syrian army against bunches of bearded drugged mentally ill cowards like IS. pfff, funny mystic, go back to your hole and enjoy the consequences of the undirect alliance of your clan with the zionist ennemy
29 January 2015, 00:21
41
So where are all the Salafis with their "not a single bullet across the border"? While Nusra is getting their diapers changed by Netanyahu himself.
