Israel Preparing for Direct
Strike on Iran
From zionist press. No organisation that uses deception to rule can be called 'honest'. Israel, though, is brazen.
Israel in counter-terror mode: Beirut
drone attack was targeted
assassination. Strikes on Lebanese
Beqaa. Drone hits PMU convoy
26
August, 2019
In
its exclusive account of the Aug. 25 drone crash in Beirut, DEBKAfile
can reveal its real objective: the targeted assassination of a
Hizballah’s senior operational liaison officer with Al Qods chief
Qassem Soleimani, Iran’s supreme Mid East commander. That operation
matched in significance the Israeli aerial operation outside Damascus
which preempted an imminent Iranian drone attack.
It
is no wonder that Hizballah chief Hassan Nasrallah looked pale and
shocked when he threatened to punish Israel in a speech on Sunday
afternoon.
The
drone attack, according to DEBKAfile’s military and intelligence
sources, was the first targeted assassination Israel has ever
conducted by air over a main street in Beirut. Soleimani later called
it “insane.” The first of the two drones was unarmed on a
reconnaissance mission to track the movements of the targeted
high-profile Hizballah officer on Mouawad Street in the south Beirut
Shiite district of Dahya.
Posh
shops which attract tourists line one side of this street. On the
other, are located top secret lodgings used by Middle East terrorist
bigwigs associated with Iran when they spend time in the Lebanese
capital – Yemeni Houthi rebel chiefs and heads of the Palestinian
Hamas and Islamic Jihad, to name a few. The occupants of these
carefully hidden residences tend to stay out of sight, among them the
targeted Hizballah officer.
The
first drone was sent Saturday night to pinpoint his whereabouts.
Liquidating
this important link in the chain between Iran and its senior proxy in
his hidden lair was planned to drive home to Soleimani and Nasrallah
that Israel was on to this key figure and knew where to find him. The
first drone therefore flew dangerously low over Mouawad Street and
was therefore easy prey for a young local boy to throw a big rock and
bring it crashing down, a feat of which he boasted later. The IDF
thereupon lofted a second drone over the street. This was packed with
explosives. Its target was not the Hizballah media center as
generally reported, but a car outside the building next door. No
sooner had the Hizballah officer targeted for assassination stepped
into that car when it was hit by the armed drone that was programmed
to home in on him.
If
Israel maintains the momentum of the last 48 hours, the operation on
Mouawad Street, no less than the air strike on a villa housing
Iranian drones south of Damascus, may turn out to be the opening shot
of a new war offensive against Iran and its proxies before their
plans of aggression get going in earnest.
On
Sunday, the IDF continued to push forward.
The
powerful pro-Iranian Iraqi Hashd al-Shaabi militia, or Popular
Mobilization Forces (PMU), blamed Israel for the deadly drone attack
that day on two trucks driving past the Iraqi border town of Al Qaim
on their way to the Syrian border. At least 10 militiamen were
killed, including a senior officer, in what the PMU called a “blatant
attack with air cover over the area from American planes, in addition
to a large balloon to monitor the area near the site of the
incident.”
DEBKAfile
reports that the target was the PMU’s 45th Battalion which is
responsible for carting Iranian arms from Iraq to Syria and on to
Hizballah in Lebanon.
Early
Monday, Lebanese media reported that the Israel Air Force attacked
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) targets in the
Bekaa region near the Syrian border. This attack came after three
Palestinian rockets were fired from Gaza at Sderot and other nearby
communities. Two were intercepted by Iron Dome and the third exploded
harmlessly on a road. However, flying shrapnel showered down on the
4,000 people attending a festival in Sderot. At least 16 people were
injured in the panic.
Israel quietly warns Beirut:
Powerful response would
greet an attack on Golan or
Galilee
26
August, 2019
Jerusalem
conveyed tough back-channel warnings to Beirut on Monday, Aug. 26,
that any attacks on the Golan or Galilee would bring forth a powerful
Israeli counter punch. It was delivered to Hizballah’s Hassan
Nasrallah and Lebanon’s military commander Maj. Gen. Joseph Aoun,
DEBKAfile’s exclusive military and intelligence sources disclose,
by UNIFIL commander Maj. Gen. Stefano Del Col.
This
step was taken on in an effort to prevent the cycle of tension
surrounding Israel’s preemptive weekend operations in Lebanon and
Syria from veering out of control. On Monday, Lebanese President
Michel Aoun on Monday described Israeli attacks on Beirut’s
southern suburb of Dahya and the eastern border region as a
“declaration of war.” He said: “We are entitled to resort to
our right to defend our sovereignty, independence and territorial
integrity.”
In
a series of back-door diplomatic responses on Monday, Israel informed
Nasrallah that so long as Hizballah waged war on Israel from Syrian
soil, his followers would share the same fate as the IDF has meted
out in hundreds of operations to Iranian and other proxy forces.
The
message to the Lebanese commander pointed out that in another round
of hostilities, Israel would have no option but to wipe out
Hizballah’s vast rocket arsenal, inevitably causing “massive
damage to Lebanon.”
Israel’s
warnings to Lebanon were accompanied by corresponding Trump
administration diplomacy in Beirut. US Ambassador to Beirut,
Elizabeth Richard, in an urgent face-to-face meeting with President
Aoun called after he accused Israel of a declaration of war issued a
warning. She cautioned him that if he persisted in his support of
Hizballah and its leader, Washington would conduct “a reassessment”
of its annual military aid program for the Lebanese army.
Syrian
President Bashar Assad, for his part, has kept on insisting that he
knew nothing about the Akraba base set up by Al Qods and Hizballah
south of Damascus for holding armed Iranian drones ready to attack
Israel. They were primed for launching when they were destroyed by
the Israeli air force on Saturday night.
Assad
accordingly issued a new directive banning the launching of missiles
against Israel from Syrian territory. DEBKAfile’s sources note,
however, that, typical of the Syria leader, this ban did not mention
other anti-Israel operations such as intrusions by ground forces or
UAV attacks.
The
flurry of secret diplomacy took place amid high military tension in
northern Israel, where IDF forces, on a state of readiness on the
Syrian and Lebanese borders since Saturday, were boosted by a large
influx of armored and artillery units. The Lebanese news agency
reported early Tuesday that the contested Shaaba Farms pocket was
brilliantly illuminated overnight by IDF contingents and explosions
were heard from this lofty enclave that sits on the junction of the
Israeli, Syrian and Lebanese borders.
Hezbollah preparing ‘calculated strike’ against Israel: report
Al Masdar News
27 August, 2019
BEIRUT, LEBANON (9:20 P.M.) – Lebanon’s Hezbollah is preparing to carry out a “calculated strike” against Israel in retaliation for an attack on one of their compounds near the Syrian capital on Saturday, the Reuters News Agency reported.
Citing a source lose to Hezbollah, Reuters said that Hezbollah was preparing a reaction that “is being arranged in a way which wouldn’t lead to a war.”
“The direction now is for a calculated strike, but how matters develop, that’s another thing,” they added.
In addition to their strikes in Damascus, the Israeli military also carried out attacks in the southern suburbs of Beirut and eastern region of Lebanon.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned Hezbollah, Syria, Iran, and Lebanon about taking any retaliatory measures against his nation’s forces.
However, it should be pointed out that Hezbollah does not publicly discuss their attacks, so not much information is available regarding such an operation.
Furthermore, if an attack is carried out by Hezbollah, it would likely target the Israeli forces in either the occupied Golan Heights, occupied Sheba’a Farms, or Upper Galilee region.
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