Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia fired dozens of rockets at northern Israel on Saturday, warning that the barrage was its initial response to the targeted killing, presumably by Israel, of a top leader from the allied Hamas group in Lebanon’s capital earlier this week.
This from newsmax.com.
The rocket attack came a day after Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said that his group must retaliate for the killing of Saleh Arouri, the deputy political leader of Hamas.
Nasrallah said:
[I]f Hezbollah does not retaliate for Arouri’s killing in its stronghold south of Beirut, all of Lebanon would be vulnerable to Israeli attack.
Odds are this will be proven to be faulty logic as quickly as the IDF retaliates for Hezbollah’s foolishness, likely killing Nasrallah in the process.
Nasrallah appeared to be making the case for a response to the Lebanese public, even at the risk of escalating the fighting between Hezbollah and Israel. But he gave no indication of how or when the militants would act.
Hezbollah said Saturday that it launched 62 rockets toward an air surveillance base on Mount Meron and that it scored direct hits.
The Israeli military stated that approximately 40 rockets were fired toward the area of Meron, but made no mention of a base. The Israeli military confirmed it struck the cell that fired the rockets.
The escalating cross-border exchanges came as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken began a Middle East trip to try to prevent the Israel-Hamas war—now in its 14th week—from spreading across the region.
Blinken was in Turkey on Saturday for meetings with the country’s president and foreign minister. It’s Blinken’s fourth Middle East trip in three months.
Final thoughts: Israel is doing what they believe must be done. Meanwhile international criticism is expanding, America’s degree of worry is compounding, and The Regime is foundering uselessly—as evidenced by recent explosions in attacks in the Red Sea, Lebanon, Iran, and Iraq and The Regime’s failure to appropriately respond.
