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Israel launches preemptive strikes in Lebanon as Hezbollah fires back hundreds of rockets | CNN

www.cnn.com Israel launches preemptive strikes in Lebanon as Hezbollah fires back hundreds of rockets | CNN

The Israeli military said about 100 of its fighter jets “struck and destroyed thousands of Hezbollah rocket launcher barrels” across dozens of launch sites from Lebanon on Sunday.

Hezbollah said the “first phase” of its strikes against Israel “ended with complete success,”claiming that it launched 320 rockets and a barrage of drones toward Israel.

Hezbollah said it carried out strikes towards Israel in response to the killing of top military commander Fu’ad Shukr last month in the southern suburbs of Beirut, a populous neighborhood that is also the Iran-backed group’s stronghold.

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Deliberately antagonizing sovereign states. That's awesome. We should give them more weapons. /s
Fuck zionists in their stupid asses.
- Unless you're in Iran, you're not giving them any weapons
  
  say what now
  
  Do you think these rockets were made in the industrial powerhouse that is Lebanon?
  
  Lebanon is zionist?
  
  Do you think it were zionists that fired these rockets?
  
  Fuck zionists in their stupid asses.
  this is the comment that we are replying to. are you lost?
  
  Nah just a hasbara account trying to play off and make Israel look like the victim
  
  Why did you cut out the rest of that comment?
  
  oh you're just farming interactions. got it
  
  Israel attacked Lebanon first by bombing civilian targets in Lebanon.
  It's amazing how that seems to be the only thing Israel is good at, these days; killing civilians.
  
  Not true
  
  200,000 Palestinians would disagree.
  Also before you repeat the braindead response (seriously, that script needs to be updated) of "but those numbers are from Hamas" that number is from the Lancet medical journal.
  Edit: Changed 'your' to 'that' as I wasn't trying to imply that it was Fizz@lemmy.nz's scipt, but it read like I was.
  
  Palestinians are not relevant they will agree with any anti isreal statement regardless of truth, Hamas is not relevant this article is about Israel and Hezbollah. I don't know what you think you replied to.
  The headline states isreal stikes first and people here are interpreting that as isreal crossing the line and starting a conflict. But this strike from Israel's comes after constant fighting between the two parties since Oct 8. Where Hezbollah (which is supported by the Lebanon) fired first on Israelis(in Israeli occupied territory) knowing that it would kick off a conflict. Now we are almost a year down the line and we are seeing the compounding results of back and forth escalation.
  
  Hezbollah is targeting military targets in the north of Israel to support Gaza against Israel's war of extermination. Those military targets ate almost all entirely the sensors for the various Iron Dome systems. Israel is now mostly blind in the north after 10 months of slow attrition against the sensors.
  Israel bombed southern Lebanese civilian targets in a supposed preemptive strike against Hezbollah's response to Israel's assassination of a general in a civilian area.
  This matches with their behavior in Gaza. If they can't react militarily against military targets, they target civilian populations for 'deterrence'
  Know what the definition of terrorism is?
  Committing violence against civilians to accomplish political change.
  Israel is a apartheid genocidal terrorist regime.
  
  Do you have a link? I'd like to have this handy for special occasions.
  
  https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01169-3/fulltext
  To be fair, their number is an estimate of around 186,000. However, that was before polio and explicitly states that their estimates are if there are no pandemics or escalations. It was also published in early July, so given the current destruction of hospitals, continued decimation of Gaze, and passage of time I think it 200,000 is probably pretty reasonable.

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