Hezbollah’s extensive tunnel world
Since the IDF entered Gaza after October 7, we’ve seen many photos and videos of the vast underground network there. Now that the IDF is in southern Lebanon, it has discovered an even more sophisticated network of tunnels. In Gaza, Israel found the tunnels after Hamas’ attack on southern Israel. In Lebanon, Hezbollah was still in the readiness stage for a massive and deadly invasion of northern Israel:
According to IDF spokesman Brig. Gen. Daniel Hagari, the complex was designed for a Radwan battalion to arrive, suit up, then head into Israel on foot and on motorbikes.
IDF forces captured the complex late last week and found anti-helicopter missiles, mortar shells, rifles and other munitions.
One of the operatives was holed up in the bunker, and was killed by the Air Force.
Some of these tunnels were right next to UN posts in the region:
Note that preparations with Iran for the October 7 attack by Hamas began in the first year of the Biden administration. No coincidence.
Also, the US has issued this threat – to Israel:
The Biden Administration’s warning to suspend arms to Israel unless the “humanitarian situation” in Gaza improves is deeply disturbing. Israel strongly denies that any crisis exists and works daily to ensure a fully adequate food supply to Gaza. Though I’ve spent my career…
— Michael Oren (@DrMichaelOren) October 15, 2024
More:
Notably, the letter from U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was addressed to Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, bypassing Netanyahu.
The letter demands that Israel take concrete steps to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza within 30 days. In addition to ensuring regular aid transfers, the U.S. also calls on Israel to allow Red Cross visits to Palestinian detainees and to halt Knesset legislation that would prevent the Palestinian aid agency UNRWA from operating in Israel.
The deeper implication of the Blinken-Austin letter is that if Israel does not address the humanitarian crisis in northern Gaza within 30 days, it could face a severe arms crisis, as the U.S. continues to delay shipments of heavy bombs. Failure to meet the U.S. demands could jeopardize the continuation of military aid, which requires approval from both Blinken and Austin.
It seems it was a mistake for Israel to trust the US. But for a long time, support for Israel was bipartisan. That ended with Obama, and the Biden administration (otherwise known as Obama’s third term) has continued the confrontational hostility, which has increased in this election year in order to placate the Democrats’ very large left flank.
What about Red Cross visits to Israeli hostages? Just sayin’…
Given how many UNRWA employees have been revealed to be Hamas members, I would find the Knesset legislation to be more than appropriate.
Speaking of the UN: the UN troops in southern Lebanon were supposed to ensure that Hezbollah was disarmed. Didn’t work out, did it? Israel needs to destroy Hezbollah armaments and infrastructure in southern Lebanon. To that end, UN troops should clear out.
There is no way on earth that the UN personnel in Lebanon and in Gaza (and probably higher up in the UN food chain) did not know what Hezbollah and Hamas were doing re: tunnel construction.
And any reasonable person would have asked why these tunnels were being constructed.
Why the USA gives one penny of US taxpayer money to the corrupt UN truly escapes me.
And the response of Obama / joke Bidet / Cackler Harris is, well, to put pressure on Israel to ease up.
Having the USA as an ally is a coin flip. Depending upon who is occupying the presidency, existing policy can be flipped about in a heartbeat.
https://x.com/Kredo0/status/1846577849203089843
Sen. Cotton’s one page letter is at the link. Dude is pissed.
The Orcs usually live underground …
Hezbollah’s tunnel system is the product of a complicated alliance consisting of Obama/Biden, Iran, North Korea, and Hezbollah.
Obama/Biden gave the money to Iran. Iran paid North Korea to provide engineering, design, expertise, and instruction. The quadrilateral of evil?
Lots has been written about this.
Here’s a link to one example: https://tinyurl.com/2mcyvyps
Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it’ll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.”
Isn’t that a sweet childhood memory? (cough)
https://humanevents.com/2010/08/19/obama-muslim-call-to-prayer-one-of-the-prettiest-sounds-on-earth/
A tiny bit of good news from the Lebanon front:
https://x.com/sentdefender/status/1846637151565631717
If that doesn’t do it for ya, how about Bix Beiderbecke playing In a Mist?: https://youtu.be/J2_Ai8dgBko
How about flooding the tunnels with CO2? Cheap, and will either kill the effers or flush them out.
sdferr,
They’ll just figuratively give the middle finger to Cotton.
I suppose it would be difficult to estimate but I’d be curious how much Hamas and Hezbollah have spent on their tunnels and how much it would cost to reconstruct them.
Some local Muslims might find it informative to consider how much better their lives might have been if that money hadn’t gone to Jihad against the Jews and had been spent on their own people instead.
Physicsguy. How about propane, followed by a squib?