Israel
Caught Using White
Phosphorus On Lebanese
Village & US Coalition
Kills
100 In Prison Camp
Lebanon after anti-tank
missile lands near Israeli
border town
RT,
1
September, 2019
The
Israeli military has reportedly engaged in a cross-border exchange of
fire, after an anti-tank missile – said to have come from Lebanon –
landed near an Israeli border town.
"A
number of anti-tank missiles were fired from Lebanon towards an
Israel Defense Forces base and military vehicles. A number of hits
have been confirmed," the IDF said in a statement on Sunday,
adding that the Israeli military is "responding with fire
towards the sources of fire and targets in southern Lebanon."
An
IDF spokesman said later in the afternoon that while hostilities
appeared to be over, Israeli forces remain on alert.
Tensions
between Israel and Lebanon have increased, following a series of
Israeli drone excursions into Lebanese territory.
Earlier
on Sunday, the Lebanese military said an Israeli drone violated
Lebanon’s airspace and dropped incendiary material, sparking a fire
in a pine forest near the border.
In
late August, the Lebanese Army said it opened fire on Israeli drones
that “breached” its airspace near the southern border.
The
alleged attack was preceded by reports of two Israeli “suicide”
drones that crashed near the Lebanese capital last week. It’s
believed that the drones were attempting to target Hezbollah
facilities.
Hezbollah
has vowed to retaliate, saying that such attacks will “not be
tolerated” and that “Israel must pay a price.”
The
United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon, meanwhile, urged
“restraint,” a similar call to the ones it made following each
preceding escalation.
With
the situation along his country’s southern border deteriorating,
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri on Sunday called US Secretary of
State Mike Pompeo and an adviser to French President Emmanuel Macron,
asking for their intervention. Hosting Hariri in Washington two weeks
ago, Pompeo pledged US support to “credible state institutions
inside Lebanon,” while Hariri called a US-proposed maritime border
solution between Israel and Lebanon “credible.”
In
dealing with Lebanon, the US has walked a line between supporting the
country’s government, and sanctioning Hezbollah, whose political
wing is represented in the Lebanese parliament. Hezbollah’s
military and political wings are considered a terrorist organization
by the United States, but not in Russia and the majority of European
countries.
Images have surfaced recently which show the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) using crash-test dummy mannequins as props near the Lebanese-Israeli border.
Ali Shoeib, a Lebanese reporter for Al-Manar outlet, posted two photos taken at the Lebanese-Israeli border which depict dummies used as props to make their IDF vehicles appear manned.
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هذه الفضيحة كفيلة بإسقاط رؤوس كبيرة في جيشكم !! لأنها تدل عن "غباء وحمق"
لأنكم لم تتعلموا بعد انكم بمواجة رجال لديهم من الحكمة والحرفية والشجاعة والإيمان مايكفي لهزيمتكم !!#انضبوا
وضبوا تماثيلكم .. هالحركات حتى الأطفال بلعبة الغميضة ما بيعملوها
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Shoeib tweeted, “Stop the jokes,” stressing that the use of dummies by Israeli forces exposes their “‘stupidity and foolishness,” and adding that, “because you have not learned that you are facing men that have the intelligence, professionalism, courage, and faith to defeat.”
Beirut-based media outlet Al Masdar News noted that this comes at a time of extremely high tensions between the two neighbors:
“The placement of the dummies along the Lebanese-Israeli border comes at a time when both sides are on high alert over a potential conflict. Last Saturday, the Israeli military attacked a Hezbollah compound in the Aqraba area of Damascus; this resulted in the death of five Hezbollah military personnel. Israel would later deploy two unmanned aircraft to the southern suburbs of Beirut, with one of them being a suicide drone that later caused significant damage to Hezbollah’s media center. The Israeli forces would not stop there, they also targeted a base belonging to the Syrian-backed Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC) in the Beqa’a Governorate of eastern Lebanon.”
The notable escalation in tensions coincides with Israel’s upcoming election run-off, where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fights for his political survival.
https://21stcenturywire.com/2019/08/29/idf-mannequin-challenge-why-are-israeli-forces-using-dummies-at-lebanese-border/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/netanyahu-no-israelis-so-much-as-scratched-by-hezbollah-fire/
https://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2019/Sep-01/490855-current-hostilities-with-hezbollah-apparently-over-israeli-military.ashx
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