Rockets slam into Beirut in strike targets top Hezbollah commander as hundreds are killed

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Israeli missiles slammed into the Lebanese capital of Beirut in a strike said to be targeting a senior Hezbollah commander this afternoon, after the southern suburbs were buffeted with hundreds of missiles.

Hezbollah commander Ali Karaki was the target of strikes late Monday as Israeli attacks edge deeper into Lebanon, according to a security source speaking to Reuters.



Shelters for civilians fleeing the bombardment in the south were quickly set up in Beirut as Israeli attacks killed 274 people, including 21 children, and injured more than 1,000, according to Lebanese authorities.



Harrowing video showed salvoes of IDF missiles hitting villages in the south, near the border with Israel. But as residents fled north, traffic caught in gridlock near Sidon was hit by a 'strike' landing 'about 200 metres' from Sky News reporters.

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Beirut this afternoon ^^

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Rockets launched from Lebanon towards Israel today ^^^^


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Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system engages as rockets are launched from Lebanon


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Turkey was among those to warn that Israel's attacks into Lebanon could push the region deeper into 'chaos'.

'Israel's attacks on Lebanon mark a new phase in its efforts to drag the entire region into chaos,' the foreign ministry said in a statement, after Israeli raids on Hezbollah strongholds in southern and eastern Lebanon.
The Iranian proxy group has continued to fire rockets into Israel in recent days, including long-range missiles for the first time in the escalating conflict, with the Israeli Prime Minister warning the group: 'Whoever hurts us, we will hurt him more'.

In an indication that the region is sliding ever-closer to an all-out war, Benjamin Netanyahu added that his country faces 'complicated days' and called on Israelis to stay united as the campaign in Lebanon unfolded.

'I promised that we would change the security balance, the balance of power in the north - that is exactly what we are doing,' he said in a message issued following a situational assessment with top brass at the military headquarters in Tel Aviv.

Israel is aiming to 'broadly neutralise' the threat posed by Lebanon's long-range missiles, according to veteran analyst Ehud Ya'ari.

He told the country's Channel 12 that the militant group - proscribed as terrorists by the UK, US and others - has built up an arsenal of long-range missiles over the past 18 years, adding that the air force 'won't be able to destroy every missile.'
Israeli missiles rain down on Beirut and southern Lebanon

 

I member that back in late 50's I believe it was that my next
older broyther who was usnavy electronics tech was wounded
in the hip in lebanon....so I guess that skirmish is still goin on....
 

Continuous war is senseless. Israel should meet with Hezbollah and the other Arab players and negotiate a long term peace for all! Palestine should be allowed by Israel to form its own state and then a population exchange could be allowed where Palestinians living in Israel should be allowed to move to the new Palestinian state and Jews living in the Arab state would be allowed to move to Israel. A war without end benefits no one!
 
Mitch86 said:
Continuous war is senseless. Israel should meet with Hezbollah and the other Arab players and negotiate a long term peace for all! Palestine should be allowed by Israel to form its own state and then a population exchange could be allowed where Palestinians living in Israel should be allowed to move to the new Palestinian state and Jews living in the Arab state would be allowed to move to Israel. A war without end benefits no one!
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Palestinians would never accept that. They want to destroy Israel and will accept nothing less. So, in response, Israel is destroying Palestine and now Lebanon.

Israel is dealing with completely irrational people. It's like the U.S. and Japan in WWII. Even after the first nuclear bomb, they still wouldn't surrender. It took another bomb and an invasion from Russia to get them to finally give up.

But Israel doesn't want Palestinians or Lebanon to surrender; it just wants them to stop attacking Israel! That doesn't seem like too much to ask.
 
Packerjohn said:
People love war; the news media loves war and the owners of industry love war too because wars are great money makers. I'm a pacifest so I don't even read about it and never watch war movies. My choice!
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You are so right. But I'm not sure of the people. The majority of them who is influenced by the mass media which promote war, this may be true. But at least in my country Germany there is a small minority of about 20 per cent, who don't like war.
 
Mitch86 said:
Israel should meet with Hezbollah and the other Arab players and negotiate a long term peace for all!
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Hezbollah is not a country or region that would "sit down and negotiate." Hezbollah is a terrorist organization and they will never EVER "play nice." If they pretend to want to cooperate, they are planning a massive massacre in the background... always been like that, always will be. Can't wish away reality.
 
Mitch86 said:
Continuous war is senseless. Israel should meet with Hezbollah and the other Arab players and negotiate a long term peace for all! Palestine should be allowed by Israel to form its own state and then a population exchange could be allowed where Palestinians living in Israel should be allowed to move to the new Palestinian state and Jews living in the Arab state would be allowed to move to Israel. A war without end benefits no one!
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Israel has tried! 'Death to Israel' is not an acceptable negotiation.
 
George1959 said:
You are so right. But I'm not sure of the people. The majority of them who is influenced by the mass media which promote war, this may be true. But at least in my country Germany there is a small minority of about 20 per cent, who don't like war.
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actually it would be interesting to hear what the German people think of this war....
 
CallMeKate said:
Hezbollah is not a country or region that would "sit down and negotiate." Hezbollah is a terrorist organization and they will never EVER "play nice." If they pretend to want to cooperate, they are planning a massive massacre in the background... always been like that, always will be. Can't wish away reality.
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Exactly. There is no truth telling in war.
 
If only the Jews created an independent state in South America instead of Palestine as they were considering back in the 1800s, they'd be a lot better off, as would the world.

Historically, it makes sense for it to be where it is, since they are the indigenous people of that region and they had their own country right there some 2500 years ago — long before there was anything known as Muslims or Arabs. They thrived in that region until they were mascaraed by the Romans in 70 AD.

But practically, they'd be much better off in South America. Many Jews did immigrate to Argentina and Brazil during the early 1900s... probably some other countries down there to get away from the antisemitism taking hold in Europe at the time, but they've assimilated and many have given up their traditions and culture altogether.

Maybe part of it was because it was just easier to get to Palestine than South America from Eastern Europe. Many Jews actually made the journey on foot, much like people are fleeing violence in Central America and walking to the United States. People can withstand enormous hardships when they are fleeing oppression and trying to find a better life.
 
hollydolly said:
actually it would be interesting to hear what the German people think of this war....
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That's a very interesting question. The politically left people are for the people in Palestine and against Israel. The conservative and even right people are for Israel and their right of self-defence.
 
I'm sure this is all reasonable and fair and that no collator damage occurs (ie. Innocent men, women and children).
 
George1959 said:
That's a very interesting question. The politically left people are for the people in Palestine and against Israel. The conservative and even right people are for Israel and their right of self-defence.
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I can't answer for the whole of the "left". However, I can say, far too many innocent people are being either killed, or impoverished by this conflict that was started with the Israeli government. I do not blame the Israeli people, it's their government that order the strikes.

I also do not think this is a left and right matter, it's an American v. the rest of the world issue. For Americans, it's your tax dollars killing these people. I assume they are content with this. Biden is President right now, so I'm not sure that fits with the left/right narrative.
 
Rose65 said:
I actually think that could be. All the lives lost, such destruction. While Russia and Ukraine is another terrible conflict. I read 70,000 Russians are dead. I can't cope with those figures. Does mankind never learn?
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what is just as concerning when you think of these figures who have been killed in conflict, is that no-one but their families notice their gone. What I mean by that is they don't make a hole in the population of their relative countries, which just goes to show how over populated the world is... and it needs war and plague ( cornonovirus).. to keep the numbers down..
 
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hollydolly said:
which just goes to show how over populated the world is... and it needs war and plague ( cornonovirus).. to keep the numbers down..
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and what is so weird is that even though we hear that the planet can't sustain the current population and needs to drop by several billion people, simultaneously there is an outcry about low birth rates. It would be so much more logical to celebrate the low birth rate as the nicest way to drop population, but alas apparently our economic systems would prefer lots of children and lots of death thru war and sickness.
 
Religion makes people irrational because it's belief in things that, in all likelihood, are not true; their beliefs are not substantiated by evidence or logic, and that makes believers anxious, which is why so often, they try to force their beliefs on others through violence and other means. Many of them are willing to sacrifice their own lives for their "god." They're more than willing to sacrifice their own lives and even the lives of their families for their beliefs, and one of their beliefs is that they should dominate the world.

Israel, on the other hand, is primarily a secular state. They do have their share of religious zealots, but the government is secular, and that's why they've thrived. The tech industry is huge in Israel including semiconductors and software. More than half of the population has gone to college or tech school. There is no forced indoctrination of religion on children — not by the government, at least. Hassidic parents probably do, but they're a small percentage of the population.
 

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