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SvennoJ on 12 December 2024
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Israel says it targeted Hezbollah members in southern Lebanon

The Israeli army says it targeted a “number of Hezbollah” members in southern Lebanon who posed a “threat” to Israeli civilians. The army added that its troops remain deployed in southern Lebanon and will act in defence of the State of Israel.

Lebanon’s National News Agency reported earlier that an Israeli air raid in Khiam, southern Lebanon, killed one person and injured another. Israel has been carrying out near-daily attacks in Lebanon since its ceasefire with Hezbollah came into effect last month in violation of the truce agreement.

Earlier in December, Hezbollah launched one “warning attack” at an Israeli base in response to the Israeli assaults. But following the attack, Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem suggested that the group would leave dealing with Israeli violations to the Lebanese government.

Hezbollah and Israel reached a truce in November after more than 62 days of intense fighting that saw Israel bomb areas across Lebanon, killing more than 4,000 people.


Lebanese woman dies of injuries after Israeli air strike

Lebanon’s National News Agency reports that a woman, identified as Amal Dhaher, has succumbed to wounds sustained in an Israeli air strike on the southern village of Dibbine that had killed her husband and mother.

Israel bombed Dibbine earlier this week in violation of the ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah that went into effect in November.

AIPAC hails Israeli attacks on Syria

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) says Israel has destroyed 85 percent of Syria’s air defences “after more than a decade of work to try to evade” them.

The influential pro-Israel lobby group cited the Israeli military as saying that the country’s “air dominance could enable safer passage for Israeli jets to carry out a strike on Iran”.

“The US and Israel must work together to ensure this moment of uncertainty can become a moment of opportunity to weaken our adversaries, strengthen our shared security, and expand peace and normalization across the region,” AIPAC said in an email to supporters.

Israel has launched hundreds of air strikes across Syria since the fall of the al-Assad government.

That's all they see Syria as, being in the way. Cooperation doesn't even come into their minds.
Neighbors are there to be bombed and taken advantage of.