from Press TV
A senior commander of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah has been assassinated in an Israeli airstrike on southern Lebanon.
Wissam Hassan al-Tawil was killed when the strike hit the vehicle transporting him in the village of Khirbet Selm on Monday.
The commander served with Hezbollah’s elite Radwan ground force.
Israel has been desperate in its ground invasion of the besieged Gaza Strip since early October. The regime has achieved no objectives in Gaza, killing more than 22,000 people notwithstanding.
Southern Lebanon has also been tense ever since, with Hezbollah and Israeli forces exchanging fire across the border on a daily basis.
On Monday, another Hezbollah member was also killed in an Israeli airstrike on the village of Majdal Selm...
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Still intent on taking southern Lebanon they are, which they tried in 2006 remember, because they want the Litani R. shown, about 30-40 km north, inside the Lebanon south border.
ReplyDeleteBack then, there might have been just basic video surveillance drones used, certainly not the array of so many available now all kinds, uses, warheads, etc.
But the hezzies then had the russian Kornet two-stage anti-armor missile, which could easily smoke a Merkhava tank and did many.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/images/israel/BlueLine.jpg
meanwhile, something many have been pondering since day1, how are those f-35's getting thru completely unchallenged 90+ days now, not even any basic G-A MANPAD missiles eg Stinger ever seen used yet?
Nobody thot ahead to store at least a few dozen in those hundreds of miles of gaza u/g tunnels!?
https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2024/01/07/3019190/palestine-to-obtain-air-defense-weapons-one-day-iranian-general
article today on these very tunnels.
Deletehttps://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/01/08/717831/Gaza-tunnels-make-Israel-victory-less-certain