Hezbollah carried out its heaviest blitz against northern Israel in three weeks of fighting, on Wednesday, firing more than 190 rockets and raising doubts about Israeli claims that its military capability has been severely damaged.
The barrage by the Shiite fundamentalist militia came after a deep penetration raid into Lebanon by Israeli helicopter-borne commandos in which five people identified as Hezbollah activists were seized.
One missile reportedly left a one and a half metre crater in an olive grove near Fakua village in Palestinian Authority territory in the West Bank, 42 miles south of the Israel-Lebanon border in the deepest strike yet by a Hezbollah rocket.
We have noted before, but it bears repeating, the bullshit propaganda claims are now redundant in the face of the increased ability to to get verifiable facts out of war zones.
Despite massive airstrikes on anything moving in Lenanon, Hezbollah are still well and truly armed.
Hezbollah said it was a long-range missile called Khaibar One, named after a battle in which the Prophet Mohammed defeated Jewish tribes. Intelligence experts have said the long-range missiles are of Iranian manufacture.
Well they might be, but they have been stored well in advance of Hezbollah goading Israel into this insane conflict.
On the other side:
Lebanese security sources said at least three low-ranking members of Hezbollah were among those seized. But Hezbollah denied they belonged to the group. Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, decribed the captured men as "tasty fishes".
This truly the other side, because Hezbollah don’t see individuals as important in their struggle.I dare say they will quite happily write off any fighters lost to the Israelis and truly believe they are of no consequence.
Just like the ‘at least 643 people, the majority civilians, have been killed in Lebanon and 55 Israelis have died during the conflict’.
While Olmert has stressed that the war is a blow to terrorism and is changing the face of the Middle East for the better, Israeli political scientist Zeev Sternell wrote in the daily Haaretz that it constitutes the biggest failure in any of the wars since Israel was established in 1948.
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It would be nice to see just who (predominately?) in Israel dies from that rocket fire. Jews, Christians, Muslims...?
I doubt that Hezbollah care. conversely I doubt if Israel cares who dies in Lebanon.
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