🥀 Head of Hezbullah's media relations Hajj Muhammad Afif today:

"We are in Karbala, Lebanon. Our Hussein was killed first for a reason we do not know yet"

In his speech today to media, Afif said we aren't people to create defeat.

He stressed that our understanding as a resistance to success and triumph is making sure the enemy fails to achieve its objects; adding that not resisting is defeat.

✍ Israeli war objectives is to return settlers to the north, disarm Hezbullah and push it beyond the Litani, make Hezbullah crumble as a force, ensure IDF can continue to operate in Lebanon, etc

🇱🇧 Afif added that the Israeli army will not win this war by killing our women and children, and that Lebanese opponents and rivals in politics should show some human decency and at least condemn the Israeli massacres of civilians in Lebanon.

He discuses other points.

📸 Several Israeli attacks targeted Kfarjouz in Nabatieh city. Attacks before were reported in Kafruman

Hajj Abdul Qadr is in this photo which was released by Hezbullah's military media today to commemorate 11/11

In this video, just a week before Abdul Qadr was martyred, he looks tired, burdened, lost in emotions of loss and missing his friend and the yearning for the heavens.

He talks about his visit to a scholar recently, describing how his heart is being shredded with every martyr.

He talks about how he feels lonely, losing all the companions he had during Hezbullah's first days. He quotes Imam Ali who one day called on, and said where are all my companions, who were also martyred.

🥀 He said this before the martyrdom of Sayyed Hassan, and most of the entire Hezbullah leadership, and likely before the pager attack. Imagine us now, and how we feel.

📹 Israeli airstrikes targeted Tyre city in Al-Masakin area near Srour gas station. There were casualties.

🇮🇱l🇺🇸 CEO of Oracle, Zafra Katz:

"Why am I here? Because the nation of Israel is alive. We are here because it is still the most amazing, innovative and important country in the world."

📸 New Israeli airstrikes in Srifa and Batoulieh

🥀 The attack in Tyre killed 3 and injured 5 others

⭕️ Hezbullah released footage of their ATGM attack using an Almas on an Israeli bulldozer used to demolish civilian houses.

The 3 bulldozers as usual, demolished and then were leaving the Lebanese territory towards Israel.

The Almas successfully hit the Israeli vehicle, the driver cabinet exactly, put it on stop, and burned it down.

The Israeli army and media didn't acknowledge the event, didn't acknowledge any injuries or death, and pretended nothing happened.

What's more remarkable is that Hezbullah had an AT crew and another crew being able to monitor the movement on the border wall in Kafrkila after 1.5 months from Israeli army activity there. Then send this footage to military media.

Being able to stay there with the absence of civilians and normal life to merge with, is extremely difficult.

❗️A few minutes ago sirens sounded in northern Tel Aviv suburbs after long range rocket fire from Lebanon

⭕️ At the same time Hezbullah miliary media had this message scheduled:

"Every missile that reaches Tel Aviv forces 2 million settlers to go down to shelters"

His Eminence the Secretary-General of Hezbullah Sheikh Naim Qassem

📹 Three ballistic missiles were fired from Lebanon and likely intercepted.

Sharpnel caused some fires in Nahariyya and Tel Aviv

✍ I'll cover today's news that I didn't, in about an hour or so.

I'll make sure to limit them to few posts to avoid spam, as they are old now and some already read them elsewhere. Excuse me.

📹 Closeup to the possible impact of Fadi rockets or sharpnel in Nahariyya. Possible casualties.

Fadi rockets are usually fired to engage AD before sending the ballistic missile. However Fadi is intercepted by the Iron Dome, while Nasr is by David's Sling.

📸 The Israeli air defense systems were fired from an area close to Lod airport.

🇱🇧l🇮🇱 About 10 Fadi rockets were fired during the operation of ballistic launch towards Tel Aviv.

The IDF acknowledges they didn't intercept all.

There are two deaths reported in this impact in Nahariyya. Unclear yet if Israelis carcasses, Arabs, or foreign workers.

🇮🇱l🇱🇧 Magen David Adom says two settlers have been killed in a rocket attack on Nahariya.

In Kibbutz Kabri, MDA says another two men in their 30s were lightly hurt by shrapnel in another impact.

🇮🇱 Israeli media:
"Katz saying we won against Hezbullah was unnecessary in my opinion"

🇮🇱l🇱🇧 It's as if the IDF knows nothing but lies.

Statement: "intercepted or in open area"

Finished yesterday reading this book by Ami Ayalon, the former director of the Shen Bet and a ex-commander of the Navy.

It was a short 280 page book, took barely 3 days. Wanted to highlight what one can understand from it:

Unlike what the book noscript might sound, it wasn't a confession book nor one of a dissident to Israel and looking to end the Israeli occupation.

Rather, it was a book by someone who understood the war much better than many Israelis and reached to a conclusion that to ensure the survival of the state of Israel, they have to forfeit the maximalist goals of biblical lands and accept a compromise that will be enough to give hope to Palestinians and contribute in ending violence as a way for them to achieve basic human rights.

It also was noticable for me the lack of details of operations he did, and the lack of boasting about his kills. Usually they'd do this in their memoirs. But the more I read into his personality I noticed it wasn't about the lack of boasting, but the lack of humanization to whom he killed or contributed in killing.

They were nobodies, not worth mentioning, they are "human animals". But later on he learned to humanize who isn't fighting Israel, who isn't trying to kill Israelis, who isn't willing to defend themselves about what he himself acknowledges as: Israeli terror, Israeli occupation, Israeli degradation, Israeli mistakes.

He finally tries with some Palestinians to find a certain formula, to create a two-state peace that ensure Israel's survival.

A two state, because a one state solution will happen only in two cases. if Palestinians merge and Israel loses its Jewish majority, this would be a catastrophy. Or if Israel fully occupies the remaining Palestinian territory and forces the Arabs to live without rights and in a real apartheid. Then Israel would be in a worse condition.

He makes it clear he's Zionist, his parents are Romanian and illegal immigrants from the first wave of settlers. Makes sure he doesn't attack those right-wing settlers in Gaza and West Bank, because they are there doing what his parents once done, it's in the land promised by God.

He is living a crisis, and this book is not a memoir as much as it is him attempt to write down the chaos he feels is in his brain.

How to be a Zionist, true to his parents and culture, and to be human and what is being done to the Palestinians in the name of Zionism and God.

There is lots more, but no one is interested in a detailed review.

Finally, he shows that no matter left or right, everyone in Israel fooled Arafat, promised him with everything and gave him nothing, never saw Palestinians as partner in possible peace and always sold lies about a possible deal to buy time.

Arafat was screwed, by his approach and by the Israelis. Finally, Ayalon highlighted something important.

No one in Israel ever cared about the Holocaust until they needed it as an excuse. Most Israelis abandoned their history in diaspora for 2 thousand years and they came here assumed they are just back a few months after they were expelled.

They reshaped their past, and controlled the narrative to take control of the present and future. Israelis will not change that without a disaster, and the more crimes they do in Gaza will only deepen how far they are far from any humanity

We see this today in Gaza and Lebanon. He foreshadowed how the level of crimes will soon stripped Israelis of any humanity.

And END.