عذبوهم و قاتلوهم نصرة لدماء اطفالنا و نسائنا و رجالنا

قاتلوهم ثرأ لدم الأمين

❗️ Initial reports of an Israeli targeted assassination in Syria

📸 Photo from the previous Israeli attack in Syria.

Another attack is reported now

⚡️ Flares over Rmaish and Aita al-Shaab.

There is no news about where the Israeli army actually entered Lebanon. No clashes.

🥀 Syria: The General Authority for Radio and Television mourns the broadcaster Safaa Ahmed, a martyr, as a result of the treacherous Israeli aggression that targeted the capital, Damascus.

❗️An Israeli airstrike on Ain al-Helweh Palestinian refugee camp in Sidon

📸 The attack attempted to target Fatah leader Munir al-Maqdah inside the camp. They failed to kill him.

Genuinely asking, I know the ground invasion will be very harsh and bloody on Lebanon

But genuinely curious, did they lose their way tonight? Like they announced raids to where and what? Near the border wall, took a photo, then went back to Israel?

They are probably testing defenses and all, but nothing happened on the Lebanese side.

Lebanon: The Israeli attack on Ain al-Helweh killed 2 siblings and 3 children

Syria: The Israeli attack on Damascus killed 3 civilians

Gaza: The Israeli attack on a school killed 6

All 3 attacks, in the same timeframe, in 3 different countries. All done by Israel using American weapons with American support

❗️Red alerts in the military zone in Metulla settlement

🇱🇧l🇮🇱 U.S. Secretary of Defense supports Israel's invasion of south Lebanon

In his call with Israeli defense minister Gallant, U.S. Defense Secretary Austin

“agreed on the necessity of dismantling attack infrastructure along the border to ensure that Lebanese Hezbullah cannot conduct October 7-style attacks on Israel’s northern communities.”

🇱🇧l🇮🇱 The intensity of the artillery shelling and the sounds of explosions increases, and sometimes decreases in the same place where it started yesterday afternoon.

Shelling is still concentrated in the Kfar Kila-Tel al-Nahhas axis, the Khiyam plain, and the southern outskirts of the city of Khiyam.

This is accompanied by heavy machine gun bursts fired from the adjacent Metulla settlement towards Lebanon.

❗️Red alert in Safad

🇱🇧l🇮🇱l🇺🇸 U.S. greenlights Israel's war in Lebanon

Senior White House figures privately told Israel that the U.S. would support its decision to ramp up military pressure against Hezbullah — even as the Biden administration publicly urged the Israeli government in recent weeks to curtail its strikes, according to American and Israeli officials.

Presidential adviser Amos Hochstein and Brett McGurk, the White House coordinator for the Middle East, told top Israeli officials in recent weeks that the U.S. agreed with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s broad strategy to shift Israel’s military focus to the north against Hezbullah in order to convince the group to engage in diplomatic talks to end the conflict, the officials told POLITICO.

Behind the scenes, Hochstein, McGurk and other top U.S. national security officials are selling Israel’s Lebanon operations as a history-defining moment — one that will reshape the Middle East for the better for years to come.

The thinking goes: Israel has obliterated Hezbullah’s top command structure in Lebanon, severely undercutting the group’s capabilities and weakened Iran.

Article by POLITICO

🇱🇧l🇮🇱 The Israeli army showed footage from inside Israeli of soldiers preparing for the ground attack.

However, nothing happened overnight

⭕️ Throughout the morning, Hezbullah took 6 attacks, targeting settlements and border areas in a first such intensity in 1-2 weeks

The attacks are meant to disrupt Israeli staging grounds

- Shtula with artillery
- Metulla with artillery
- Metulla with rockets
- Avivim with artillery
- Rosh Pina with rockets
- Duviv with Falaq-2
- Ramtha and Samaqa base

⭕️ And so, Hezbullah starts Khaybar operations, with the shout of "Labayk ya Nasrallah"

They announced they fired several Fadi-4 rockets towards Galilot spy base and Tel Aviv

☠ Some of the rockets were intercepted, and at least one impacted on Route 6 near Kafr Qasim

At least two Israelis were moderately injured.

📹 Aftermath of the Israeli attack on Bir al-Abed street in Dahyeh.

They attacked the religious TV channel Al-Sirat whose offices are there. Hezbullah issued a statement condemning this attack.

📹 Footage of another airstrike in the area of Dahyeh. Some of the attacks focused on civilian institutions affiliated with Hezbullah.

🇱🇧l🇮🇱 After Israeli arrogance to ease restrictions in Haifa, they are now installed again but also expanded deeper into this cancerous body.

It will now involve the following areas: Karmiel, Wadi Ara, Menashe, Samaria, Sharon, Gush Dan, Yarkon, Shefalah, Jerusalem and the Yehuda Lowlands:

– Education to be held only near shelters.

– Public gatherings are limited to 30 people in an open area.

– Private gatherings no more than 300 individuals in a building.

– All beaches are closed

–  Work will only take place is in areas near shelters.

Pointers by @Middle_East_Spectator