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SvennoJ on 16 February 2024
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Hezbollah has no plans of backing down. Escalating tensions.

Hezbollah says it hit Israeli army site in Shebaa Farms

Hezbollah says it targeted an Israeli army facility in Shebaa Farms in the occupied Golan Heights with missiles. Casualties were inflicted, it said without elaborating. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said in a televised speech earlier his armed group would respond to Israeli attacks overnight and in the early morning that killed three people. “The enemy will pay the price of spilling their blood in blood,” he said.

Hezbollah and Israel have engaged in near-daily exchanges of fire since the outbreak of the war on Gaza. The violence has intensified this week amid fears of an all-out war between the two sides.

Israel could have avoided killing civilians: Hezbollah chief

The head of Lebanon’s Hezbollah says Israel’s “aggression” that has killed several civilians in southern Lebanon was intentional. Hassan Nasrallah said in a televised speech that his group’s response to Israel’s attacks would be an “increase in resistance”.

“The enemy could have avoided killing civilians in southern Lebanon,” Nasrallah said. Five children were among 10 civilians killed in the Israeli attacks on Wednesday, the deadliest day for Lebanese civilians in four months of hostilities across the Lebanon-Israel border.

“The enemy will pay with blood” for every woman and child killed by cross-border fire, Nasrallah warned. Hezbollah’s “precision-guided missiles can reach … Eilat”, a resort town on Israel’s Red Sea coast, he added.

Charges of hate and war crime denial brought against German politician


Volker Beck

Pro-Palestinian activists have filed criminal charges against a German politician for suspected incitement of hate and denial of war crimes in Israel’s war in Gaza. The charges against Volker Beck, a former member of parliament and head of the German-Israeli Society, were brought by Palestinian solidarity groups Palestine Speaks and Jewish Voice for Just Peace in the Middle East.

“This is the first step in holding public figures who publicly make genocidal statements legally accountable,” a statement on Instagram said. The groups cited Beck’s statements on social media, in opinion pieces and media interviews in which he expressed support for Israel’s war on Gaza. Beck rejected the claims as “nonsense”.

“There is no genocide in Gaza, and I do not advocate genocide. These people have a disturbed relationship with the rule of law,” he said.




3 killed, 4 wounded in shooting attack in southern Israel

The death toll from the attack has risen. Tension has surged in the region as Israel continues to pound the Gaza Strip.

Israel’s police commissioner Kobi Shabtai declined to respond to questions on the identity of the shooter, who was also killed, saying an investigation of the incident was still in preliminary stages. “This attack reminds us the entire country is a front and the murderers, who come not only from Gaza, want to kill us all,” said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “We will continue to fight until total victory."

National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said the incident “proves again that weapons save lives”. He pledged to increase the distribution of firearms to civilians.

“This was a predictable development of the situation on the ground. The tension has been brewing in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, since October 7. More than 7,000 Palestinians have been detained, almost 400 Palestinians killed by Israeli soldiers and settlers,” said Nour Odeh, a Palestinian political analyst based in Ramallah.

“The situation was being described as a pressure cooker, and now we’ve seen just how that pressure would explode in a very deadly and tragic manner. The writing was on the wall, and anyone who didn’t see it just didn’t want to.”




More double standards, those 400 Palestinians killed by the ISF and Settlers don't get any of this

US envoy to Israel ‘appalled’ by deadly attack at bus stop

Jack Lew, US ambassador to Israel, says he’s “appalled” by the “terror attack” that targeted civilians at a bus stop in southern Israel. “I offer my sincere condolences to the families affected by this tragedy. Such senseless terrorism is absolutely abhorrent,” he said.

Palestinian Authority calls for binding sanctions on Israel

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has taken more than two million Palestinians hostage without providing the necessities for them to survive, the foreign ministry says. “International demands and appeals to protect civilians will not work unless they are accompanied by deterrent international measures and sanctions,” it said in a statement.

“Netanyahu continues to disregard international demands and resolutions, and continues to kill our people, starve them, thirst them and destroy their homeland to push them to emigrate.” It also called on the international community to adopt binding UN resolutions that will force the Israeli aggression to stop.