Israel says Hezbollah was planning another 10/7 type attack
I can well believe it. The Radwan forces Israel killed had plans:
In a statement, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Daniel Hagari said Aqil, a senior commander in Hezbollah’s elite Radwan forces, was killed alongside senior operatives in the group’s operations staff and other Radwan commanders.
Hagari said they “were gathered underground under a residential building in the heart of the Dahiyah neighbourhood [in southern Beirut], hiding among Lebanese civilians, using them as human shields”.
The IDF spokesman added that the individuals killed were “planning Hezbollah’s ‘Conquer the Galilee’ attack plan, in which Hezbollah intended to infiltrate Israeli communities and murder innocent civilians”.
The plan was first reported by the Israeli military in 2018, when the IDF said it was blocking tunnels dug by Hezbollah to penetrate Israeli territory and kidnap and murder civilians.
So they knew that type of strike was possible, from Hezbollah? As early as 2018?
This may be one reason we haven’t heard too much protest from Washington:
In April, Washington said it was searching for Aqil, also known as Tahsin, and offered financial rewards to anyone with “information leading to his identification, location, arrest and/or conviction”.
Did the pager explosion smoke him out, as it were? I heard somewhere that he had been wounded and briefly hospitalized from his pager. Did that lead Israel to learning his whereabouts, and help them track him?
In other news (hat tip: commenter “sdferr”), more terrorists were killed:
IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari says the two terrorists who likely murdered hostages Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Eden Yerushalmi, Ori Danino, Alex Lobanov, Carmel Gat, and Almog Sarusi in a tunnel in the southern Gaza Strip were killed by Israeli forces.
“A day after the murder of the hostages, forces with the 162nd Division identified two terrorists emerging from a nearby tunnel in the Tel Sultan area, and killed them in an exchange of fire,” Hagari says in a press conference.
“After we investigated the findings from the tunnel and equipment from the terrorists, we found DNA and several items that belonged to the terrorists that we killed,” he says.
Hagari says that the findings reveal that the two terrorists were inside the tunnel where the six hostages were murdered, during the murder.
“We are checking their involvement in the murder,” he adds.
But of course Palestine is being rewarded by the UN:
Despite a raging war against Hamas terrorists in Gaza, and escalating violence between Israeli forces and terrorists in the West Bank, the U.N. General Assembly took the unprecedented step during its September session of seating a representative of the Palestinian Authority among member nations for the very first time. This new right was bestowed on the P.A.’s delegation, even though it is not a full member of the international body, nor does it rule the Gaza Strip, where about 40% of Palestinians live. …
The State of Palestine has held an observer-only status in the United Nations since 1974. In 2012, its status was upgraded from an “observer entity” to a “non-member observer state.” The United Nations adopted a resolution in May 2024 that granted new rights to the State of Palestine, excluding voting. Among the U.N.’s procedural rights that were granted to the Palestinian leadership beginning with this session were:
The right to sit among full member states.
The right to be elected as officers of the General Assembly.
The right to make motions, and submit proposals and amendments.
The right to speak on agenda items beyond issues related to the Middle East.
Next to Iran, the UN is the greatest booster of the Palestinians. The UN may even be equal to or exceed Iran in that regard.
Israel says Hezbollah was planning another 10/7 type attack
Israel could have pressed the button on the Hezbollah pager attack at any time.
They did it now.
This is part of a larger, serious strategy.
They seem to have used to to get the leadership together and then eliminate them. Looks like a good plan.
This Is the Most Deliciously Devious Part About Israel’s Exploding Pager Attacks
The link is to an Arabic language doc. The pager deaths given in the Twitter link are much larger (879 versus 10-30) than what has been reported in the press. Which is accurate? Does anyone here read Arabic?
Regarding the efficacy of the UN, recall the 2006 ceasefire agreement, where the UN told us that southern Lebanon would not have Hezbollah armaments. That agreement was honored more in the breach than in the observance.
The Instapundit overnight open thread had the following from a google translate or something
“ 980 Dead
– 131 Iranians
– 79 Yeminis
– 19 other nationalities
– 291 in leadership positions
– 307 in leadership positions [ I’m not sure what the translation error is that lists this twice the same way. ]
but from the below it’s probably just party members.
– 8 women
– 5 children
– 39 non-party dead (bystanders?)
602 Critically wounded
– 49 Iranian
– 21 Yemini
– 14 other nationalities
– 84 party leaders
– 429 party members
– 1 women
– 3 children
– 1 non-party (bystander)
509 blinded
– 491 totally blinded
– 18 partially blinded
2187 amputees
– 436 double amputees (both an upper and lower limb)
– 1308 upper limb
– 101 lower limb
– 344 finger
1735 genital injury
– 906 Total inability [ unplanned sex change? ]
– 613 permanent loss of function [ castration? ]
– 216 partial loss that didn’t require removal
1693 less critical injuries
– 799 moderate
– 894 minor”
A good days work, Arab networks sans Al Jazeera, have little time for Hezbollah’s antics, of course the Sunni islamists are nearly as problematic
Tony Badran says that “leaked” supposed Hezb document is an obvious fake. Obvious to experienced Hezb/Lebanon experts, is implicit. Tony says the language in the thing isn’t what Hezb uses. So, caution is warranted.
“…This may be one reason why we haven’t heard too much from protest from Washington…”
Well, um, er, except that “Biden” is an ally of Hezbullah, along with other Iranian assets/proxies/pals…such that “he” MUST tread very carefully here—IOW, “he” must give certain impressions to certain groups of people at certain times.
Austin has found it “necessary” to pay a visit to Israel at this time—and SURPRISE! has been mouthing what seem to be reasonable, supportive words.
Hey!Totally believable!!! (Except that…see above…)
N.B. Be VERY, VERY WARY of “Biden” spouting “reasonable” and “supportive”—honeyed—words.
No, scratch that. Let’s try this:
Do not believe ANYTHING that “Biden” says, declares, pledges or promises (well, with the exception of “TRANSFORMATION”…).
On that “leaked” Hezbollah casualty document: I just looked at it. The numbers on it are not written in Arabic. Not too convincing.
The symbols in columns 1 and 5 are how numbers are commonly written in Arabic.
https://www.linguanaut.com/learn-arabic/numbers.php
The brilliance of Israeli intelligence service in dealing with Hezbollah just makes me wonder even more how the hell did they screw up on October 7 in the South? For that, heads need to roll. By the way as you well know, I am not a fan of Donald Trump at all. I think that one of the greatest things he ever did was order the killing the Soleimani fellow. Soleimani was planning a five front simultaneous attack on Israel, which had it gone well its aim was to completely destroy the country. Attacks were going to come from Lebanon, from Gaza, from the West Bank, from East Jerusalem, and hopefully for him from inside Israel by Israeli Arabs.
the gliders, were training in beirut, the gazan attacks were breaches like the water pumps that nasser bought to breach the levies in sinai
Miguel Cervantes you mean Sadat not Nasser.