IDF says no damage or casualties caused after Lebanese militant group launches explosives as Safed base
Israel and Hezbollah edged closer towards full scale war on Tuesday, as the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group launched explosive drones at a key Israeli command base, declaring the attack part of its response to recent high-level Israeli assassinations in Lebanon.
Hezbollah announced it had launched “a number of explosive attack drones” at the Israeli northern military command base in Safed, the first time it has targeted the site.
As air raid sirens sounded across northern Israel on Tuesday, Israeli aircraft, drones and artillery struck multiple targets inside southern Lebanon, including a strike on a car during the funeral of a senior commander in the group’s elite Radwan force who had been killed the day before.
Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati – a Sunni businessman and politician who describes himself as “liberal” and is not part of Hezbollah – said that while his country was open to negotiations, it was being threatened with war.
Wow, a drone hits a base and then we say closer to war? I seem to have read the balance differently. I thought the Israeli bombings of safe zones etc. might be the far more significant issue.
What? Israel isn't the aggressor state. Israel has been subject to outright attack by surrounding Muslim nations four times since its creation BY THE UNITED NATIONS. They've also been subject to smaller-scale but never-ending terrorist attacks for decades. That whole dynamic is also why Lebanon is a failed state controlled by Hezbollah, which is an internationally recognized terrorist group like Hamas. If Israel didn't defend itself as robustly as it does, the Jews there would have been wiped out decades ago.