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Post by sevenofnine on Jul 30, 2024 12:23:25 GMT -5
Breaking news via CNN international Israel says it has launched a strike in Beirut, Lebanon, targeting a Hezbollah commander that it blamed for a deadly attack in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. A loud explosion was heard in the southern suburbs of Beirut Tuesday, according to Hezbollah-run Al Manar TV agency. The area is a populous part of Beirut and a stronghold of the Iran-backed militant group. edition.cnn.com/2024/07/30/middleeast/beirut-explosion-hezbollah-stronghold-intl-latam/index.html |
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Post by sevenofnine on Jul 30, 2024 13:51:31 GMT -5
BUT OF Course they responsible Israel claims responsibility for strike in southern Beirut 7 min ago Israel wanted to send “a very strong message” with Beirut strike, senior Israeli official says From CNN's Jeremy Diamond Israel wanted to send “a very strong message” with Tuesday’s strike in Southern Beirut, but hopes to avoid further escalation, a senior Israeli official told CNN. edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/lebanon-beirut-explosion-07-30-24/index.html“We don’t want this to escalate into a wider war and ultimately whether this escalates or not very much depends on how Hezbollah reacts now,” the official said. |
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Post by sevenofnine on Jul 30, 2024 13:52:14 GMT -5
BOO HOO Iran Iran condemns deadly Israeli strike in Beirut suburbs The Iranian Embassy in Lebanon condemned Tuesday’s Israeli strike on Beirut. “We condemn in the strongest terms the cowardly and sinful Israeli aggression that targeted the southern suburb of Beirut, which claimed the lives of a number of martyrs and wounded,” the embassy said in a post on X. Lebanese state news agency NNA reported that a edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/lebanon-beirut-explosion-07-30-24/index.html |
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Post by sevenofnine on Jul 30, 2024 13:52:46 GMT -5
Why of course DUH! Israel’s strike in Beirut raises the stakes with Hezbollah From CNN's Tamara Qiblawi in Beirut The last time Israel struck the Lebanese capital was in January, when it killed a senior figure from Hamas, the Palestinian militant group it has been warring with in Gaza since the October 7 attacks. It was a precise strike that took out an office in a building and caused little damage outside of that. Why today’s strike is significant: Tuesday night’s attack on a senior Hezbollah commander in southern Beirut is of a different caliber, marking the largest Israeli escalation with the powerful Lebanese militant group since October 8. Months of tit-for-tat attacks between Israel and Hezbollah had largely been confined to areas near the border between Lebanon and Israel. That changed over the weekend, when a rocket attack killed 12 young people in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Israel and the US blamed Hezbollah for the strike; the group denied responsibility. Israel had vowed to punish Hezbollah for edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/lebanon-beirut-explosion-07-30-24/index.html |
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