International Hezbollah ‘enters battle of reckoning’ with Israel as world powers urge restraint

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Both sides engage in significant escalation in conflict, prompting UN to say region is on ‘brink of imminent catastrophe’

Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem and William Christou in Beirut

Hezbollah has said it has entered an “open-ended battle of reckoning” with Israel after launching a series of rocket attacks on the north of the country as world powers implored both sides to step back from the brink of all-out war.

In a significant escalation of the conflict, Israeli warplanes carried out their most intense bombardment in almost a year across southern Lebanon, while Hezbollah responded with its deepest rocket attacks into Israel since the start of the Gaza war.

The events prompted the UN secretary general, António Guterres, to warn of the risk “of transforming Lebanon [into] another Gaza”.

During a funeral for a top commander killed along with 44 other people in an Israeli strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs on Friday, Hezbollah’s deputy secretary-general, Naim Qassem, said on Sunday that an “open-ended battle of reckoning has started”. “Threats will not stop us,” he said. “We are ready to face all military possibilities.”

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As Israeli warplanes pounded border villages and more than 100,000 residents fled northwards, politicians in Beirut called for de-escalation to avoid a war as authorities said four people had been killed and nine injured over the weekend. But the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, was also trenchant in his rhetoric.

“In the last few days, we have inflicted on Hezbollah a sequence of blows that it did not imagine. If Hezbollah did not understand the message, I promise you it will understand the message,” he said.

“No country can tolerate shooting at its residents, shooting at its cities, and we, the state of Israel, will not tolerate it either … We will do everything necessary to restore security.”

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said early on Sunday that hundreds of rockets had been fired into Israel from Lebanon, with some landing near the northern city of Haifa. They said rockets had been fired “toward civilian areas”, pointing to a possible escalation after previous barrages had mainly been aimed at military targets.
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Six people were reported to have been injured.

The UN’s special coordinator for Lebanon, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, said in a statement on X: “With the region on the brink of an imminent catastrophe, it cannot be overstated enough: there is NO military solution that will make either side safer.”

As she wrote, the Israeli health ministry urged hospitals in northern Israel to transfer their operations to facilities with extra protection from rocket and missile fire. Rambam hospital in Haifa would transfer patients to its secure underground facility, the ministry said.

Dr Noam Yehudai of the Tzafon Medical Center, said staff were preparing the sheltered areas to receive patients. “We are discharging patients whose medical condition allows for safe discharge to their homes, cancelling all elective surgeries until further notice, while urgent and oncological surgeries continue as scheduled,” he said.

Sarah Kiperwas from Krayot said: “I heard a big blast around 6.30am. From our balcony, I could see flames and then they told us that someone got hurt. I am 68 years old and I have lived in this neighbourhood all my life. This is the fourth time in my life that my city has been hit. This time I believe it will be harder than the others. Hezbollah had been there for almost a year waiting to make our lives impossible. But we are ready to fight and finish it.

“No one in the world would stand by if the enemy continues to bomb us.”
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In Lebanon, a relentless week of attacks has made the conflict impossible to ignore. Three children and seven women were among those killed by the Israeli strike on Beirut on Friday that targeted the top Hezbollah leader Ibrahim Aqil, Lebanese authorities have said.

His assassination followed a wave of attacks earlier in the week in which walkie-talkies and pagers commonly used by Hezbollah members exploded, killing 42 people and wounding more than 3,000. Israel is presumed to have been behind the operation, though it has not officially claimed responsibility.

The sudden, brutal nature of the attacks shattered whatever sense of safety Lebanese people had felt. “It was the first time that I felt that the war is around us, that we’re not safe any more. We don’t know where the next Israeli attack will be. I’m avoiding gatherings or unknown areas,” said Amal Cherif, a 52-year-old activist and resident of central Beirut.

The fighting between the IDF and Hezbollah militants is taking place in parallel to the unrelenting conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

Seven people were killed on Sunday when an Israeli airstrike hit a school in western Gaza City that had been housing hundreds of displaced people, Palestinian health officials said.
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Eleven months into the war, the death toll among Palestinians has passed 41,000, according to health authorities in the territory. Most of the dead are civilians and the figure amounts to nearly 2% of Gaza’s pre-war population, or one in 50 people. The conflict was triggered by Hamas’s 7 October attack on Israel, in which 1,200 people were killed and about 250 taken hostage.

World powers moved at the weekend to call for a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. The White House national security spokesperson, John Kirby, said escalating the conflict was not in Israel’s best interest.

Washington was saying this “directly to our Israeli counterparts” and believed “there can be time and space for a diplomatic solution here and that’s what we’re working on”, he told ABC.

The EU called for an “urgent ceasefire” and “renewed intense diplomatic mediation efforts”, a message echoed by the UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, who noted the “worrying escalation”.

Addressing the Labour party’s annual conference, Lammy said a ceasefire would facilitate “a political settlement, so that Israelis and Lebanese civilians can return to their homes and live in peace and security”.
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Guterres, however, said the language used by both sides indicated a lack of desire to explore peace. “It is for me clear that both sides are not interested in a ceasefire. And that is a tragedy, because this is a war that must stop,” he told CNN.

Watch your tongue or have it cut from your head
Save your life by keeping whispers unsaid
Children roam the streets now orphans of war
Bodies hanging in the streets to adore
Royal flames will carve a path in chaos

Bringing daylight to the night (night)
Death is riding into town with armor

They come to take all your rights
Hail to the King
Hail to the one
Kneel to the crown
Stand in the sun

Hail to the King
(Hail, hail, hail)
(The King)
Blood is spilt while holding keys to the throne
Born again but it's too late to atone

No mercy from the edge of the blade
Dare escape and learn the price to be paid
Let the water flow with shades of red now
Arrows black out all the light (light)
Death is riding into town with armor
They come to grant you your rights
Hail to the King



https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ng-with-israel-as-world-powers-urge-restraint
 
Let them bang.

The only way this gets any settlement is it gets so fucked up that both sides get tired of it. Especially the river to the sea folks. Once they admit Israel's right to to be then they can talk and Israel can be made to talk.
 
They soon will taste that Israel isn't Ukraine.
Unlike Ukraine with loud talking during 30 years about militarization while actually doing deMilitarization in real life....
Israel had did real militarization during 60 years in row with vigor. And they obviously does have famous nukes and not only nukes.
While I don't support stuff Israel had did vs Lebanon during 50 years in row. Tolerant and business oriented Lebanon might had been good trade partner for Israel and even some form of business hub. In old times Beirut was really multicultural area concerned how to earn more money. Mosques, churches, sinagogas on the same street, markets etc.
 

Fears of all-out war rise as Israel and Hezbollah step up attacks​


BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — Lebanon’s Hezbollah launched over 100 rockets into northern Israel early Sunday in response to ramped-up Israeli attacks that killed dozens of people in Beirut, including a veteran leader of the militant group.

During the funeral Sunday of that Hezbollah commander, Ibrahim Akil, Hezbollah’s deputy leader Naim Kassem declared that the group is now in an “open-ended battle of reckoning” with Israel, and he vowed to prolong the misery of those displaced from the country’s north.
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The Hezbollah rocket barrage overnight sent thousands of people scrambling into shelters. The Israeli military said rockets had been fired “toward civilian areas,” pointing to a possible escalation. Hezbollah says its attacks have been aimed at military targets.

The barrage came after an Israeli airstrike in Beirut on Friday killed at least 45 people, including one of Hezbollah’s top leaders as well as women and children. The militant group was already reeling from a sophisticated attack that caused thousands of personal devices to explode just days earlier.

https://apnews.com/article/israel-h...ptember-2024-a593f6b84bb83a70480169bc94965e9a
 
Leave them to it, please.

I don't want to see a decade worth of attacks in civilised lands to 'avenge' whatever Western countries do.
 
Tbh I think everyone should just stay out of this and let the chips fall where they may at this point. At least Lebanon can fight back somewhat.
By 'stay out' do you mean the US should stop arming Israel?

Israel has done everything it can to start this war, and I think it has to happen now. I really hope Israel does not force the US to join and even attack Iran.

Let's hope the war is short and Hezbollah and the IGF maul each other and civilians and infrastructure on both sides remain somewhat safe.

Any good analysis on if Hezbollah overwhelmed/evaded the Iron dome or just got lucky with the attack?
 
By 'stay out' do you mean the US should stop arming Israel?

Israel has done everything it can to start this war, and I think it has to happen now. I really hope Israel does not force the US to join and even attack Iran.

Let's hope the war is short and Hezbollah and the IGF maul each other and civilians and infrastructure on both sides remain somewhat safe.

Any good analysis on if Hezbollah overwhelmed/evaded the Iron dome or just got lucky with the attack?
hezbollah has been firing at israel daily since 10/7. clearly in an effort to avoid conflict.....
 
By 'stay out' do you mean the US should stop arming Israel?

Israel has done everything it can to start this war, and I think it has to happen now. I really hope Israel does not force the US to join and even attack Iran.

Let's hope the war is short and Hezbollah and the IGF maul each other and civilians and infrastructure on both sides remain somewhat safe.

Any good analysis on if Hezbollah overwhelmed/evaded the Iron dome or just got lucky with the attack?


This would also mean Hezbollah not being armed by Iran. Everyone staying out means everyone - including those on the side you support. That's how it works, if at all.
 
Tbh I think everyone should just stay out of this and let the chips fall where they may at this point. At least Lebanon can fight back somewhat.
Too late for that. If it wasn‘t for Cuckmerica‘s unlimited support, Israel could be in deep shit. Not sure they could deal with Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran at once. But Cuckmerica would nuke Tehran if it came to that.
 
This would also mean Hezbollah not being armed by Iran. Everyone staying out means everyone - including those on the side you support. That's how it works, if at all.
My point was that Israel would need to make a serious attempt at making peace if the US stopped arming it for the first time since it started colonizing the ME.

But yes an unarmed Hezbollah alongside an unsupported Israel would be a good thing.

Too bad zionists elite still have their deathgrip on the US.
 
My point was that Israel would need to make a serious attempt at making peace if the US stopped arming it for the first time since it started colonizing the ME.

But yes an unarmed Hezbollah alongside an unsupported Israel would be a good thing.

Too bad zionists elite still have their
deathgrip on the US.
How would Isreal even make peace? Renounce their faith ? These people hate eachother deep down to their core. It's not happening .
 
How would Isreal even make peace? Renounce their faith ? These people hate eachother deep down to their core. It's not happening .
Negotiate in good faith for the first time. Stop ethnic cleansing and committing genocide.Stop stealing land in the WB. Stop kidnaping, raping, and torturing Palestinian civilians. Just a couple thoughts.
 
Negotiate in good faith for the first time. Stop ethnic cleansing and committing genocide.Stop stealing land in the WB. Stop kidnaping, raping, and torturing Palestinian civilians. Just a couple thoughts.
Hamas and Hezbollah want to eradicate Israel. There's nothing to negotiate. Hezbollah has been shooting rockets at Israel for a year. Time's up.
 
Negotiate in good faith for the first time. Stop ethnic cleansing and committing genocide.Stop stealing land in the WB. Stop kidnaping, raping, and torturing Palestinian civilians. Just a couple thoughts.
Lmao on what planet is any of that going to stop Arabs from Hating jews? They won't stop until every last jew has been slaughtered, it's their mission. Your negotiating with a bunch of 8th century barbarians.

I'm not trying to absolve Israel of responsibility , but you can not negotiate in "good faith" with these people
 
Tbh I think everyone should just stay out of this and let the chips fall where they may at this point. At least Lebanon can fight back somewhat.
"Staying out of it" would mean the US would need to cease supplying Israel with funding and arms, which is something I fully support.

The Genocidal Terrorist State of Israel must be stopped.
 
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