A large-scale escalation has taken place on the contact line between Israeli forces and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.
On September 1, the Israeli military launched several shells at unidentified targets in Shebaa Farms, located in the Israeli-occupied area. An Israeli drone also dropped several incendiary grenades at Bestrah in the Lebanese-controlled part of Shebaa Farms.
In response to these attacks, Hezbollah destroyed an Israeli military vehicle near the Avivim military post in Upper Galilee with an anti-tank guided missile. The Lebanese group said that the attack was carried out by a unit named after Hassan al-Zabib and Yasser Dahir, two of the group’s fighters who were killed in Israeli airstrikes on the Syrian capital of Damascus in August.
Hezbollah said that several Israeli soldiers were killed or injured in the attack. However, Israel denies these claims.
In their turn, Tel Aviv forces launched over 100 artillery shells and employed helicopters to attack southern Lebanon.
The escalation on the contact line is the logical continuation of the previous aggressive Israeli actions in the region, including attacks on Beirut and Damascus. Experts say that the current Israeli political leadership is intentionally escalating the situation in order to gain the upper hand in the upcoming parliamentary election.
On August 31, a new ceasefire entered force in Syria’s Greater Idlib marking another attempt of the participants of the Astana format (involving Syria, Turkey, Iran and Russia) to de-escalate the situation in northwestern Syria via diplomatic measures.
The one-sided ceasefire was announced by the Russian Defense Ministry on August 30 and confirmed by the Syrian Armed Forces on August 31. However, the Syrian military said that the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) would use its right to retaliate to any ceasefire violation by terrorists.
Earlier in August, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and other radical groups rejected a similar ceasefire and immediately started violating it. This led to the resumption of the SAA advance in northern Hama and southern Idlib and to the liberation of Khan Shaykhun.
According to local sources, the new round of the ceasefire in the southern part of the Idlib de-escalation zone is not expected to last long. The main reason is the behavior of the so-called opposition. Immediately, after the start of the ceasefire, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham shot down a Syrian unmanned aerial vehicle monitoring the ceasefire regime.
On September 1, Syrian newspaper al-Watan reported that Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham and its so-called Salvation Government in Greater Idlib could be soon dissolved as part of the Russian-Turkish agreement on the Idlib zone. According to the report, the terrorist group is now involved in talks with the Turkish-backed National Front for Liberation with the mediation of Turkish-backed Faylaq al-Sham. Nonetheless, even if Hayat Tahrir al-Sham officially dissolves, the terrorist threat in Idlib will not be removed because all of its commanders and members remain in the area.
On August 31, at least 7 SAA soldiers were injured in an improvised explosive device explosion which hit their bus in the area between Eastern Ghariyah and al-Karak in eastern Daraa. Pro-government activists said that ISIS cells in southern Syria were likely behind the attack. On July 17, 5 SAA soldiers were killed and several others were injured in a similar attack near the town of al-Yadudah in western Daraa.
As the main point of tensions moved to Greater Idlib, cells of ISIS and other radical groups have taken advantage of a decrease in the scale of anti-terrorist operations in southern Syria to increase their own activity in the region.
Parece que tudo foi combinado com o Hezbollah. “Vocês atacam,nós revidamos o local de onde veio os ataques e tudo volta ao que era antes”. Acho que não foi só eu que engoli isso. Eles parecem que aceitaram o que o Irã rejeitou no seu território.
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Google-translated (Mod):
“It seems that everything was combined with Hezbollah. “You attack, we fight back where the attacks came from and everything goes back to what it was before.” I think it wasn’t just me who swallowed it. They seem to have accepted what Iran rejected on their territory.”
“Hezbollah’s response strategy was imposed by Netanyahu’s bad luck”
https://ejmagnier.com/2019/09/02/hezbollahs-response-strategy-was-imposed-by-netanyahus-bad-luck/
How exactly does the drone malfunction make any difference? What am I missing?
The entire comment is a citation from another site – – – LTSD. (s)
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From Magnier’s article:
“Had Netanyahu not been unfortunate, Hezbollah’s situation would have been harder to explain- if its Secretary General had decided to retaliate against Israel for the killing of its militants in Syria, dragging Lebanon into a possible war with Israel. He would not have enjoyed the support of the pro-US Prime Minister Saad Hariri and many other members of the government of his political stance who stood up for Hezbollah’s right to retaliate against Israel. Netanyahu’s suicide-drone tactic would have survived for some time, in the process, destroying many of Hezbollah’s military capabilities without being punished, and with no trace left behind.
Today, any possible explosion of Hezbollah warehouses will directly accuse Israel. The capture of one of Netanyahu’s drones has created a historical precedent, where no other official in Israel can adopt this policy. They will have to abide by the rules of engagement and refrain from hitting any Hezbollah target in the short and medium term unless specifically aiming for war.”
Somebody from the Lebanese side has to fight back. It’s too bad the full government of Lebanon is unwilling to do its job, so it comes down to a fraction, Hezbollah, to assume the full responsibility instead.
I am curious to see what unconventional tricks Hezbollah has to deal with a full Israeli & USAF air assault? While Saker & others have pointed out Hezbollah is not a full conventional army, from my observations Hezbollah is being forced to act as a full-time government to provide the services a normal government normally provides:
*Healthcare
*Poverty alleviation
*National defence
Can anybody provide examples of guerilla air warfare, apart from Yemeni air-to-ground drones, that Hezbollah can use?
Dick Lenning: “Hezbollah is being forced to act as a full-time government to provide the services a normal government normally provides: *Healthcare *Poverty alleviation”
That’s because Beirut is a famous Banker’s Capital — like London. If you don’t have money you don’t count. There’s no such thing as society — there’s only Society; the Society of pearls and diamonds and thousand dollar suits. A country where businessmen run politics and politics is a family business.
Whereas the Reverend Nasr’Allah is a man of God: he serves Allah the compassionate, the just, the protector of the poor.
Allah must be better than YWYH. Last time I looked the local Baptist church car park was full of top line Audi, BMW and Mercs (not to mention the price of all them fancy hats).
Here’s the anti-tank weapon hit on the Israeli vehicle. It comes at the end of the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=66&v=V0CrenMMiUE
If there were no casualties, the Israelis were using remote controls to drive their vehicle, because it got blasted big time.
There was a large secondary explosion also. Hard to believe anyone survived.
The zionazian-gay freakshow are taking their propaganda to ludicrous extremes to hide the fact they suffered casualties. This propaganda is no doubt directed at the general israeli public.
Video: IDF Claims Evacuation of Injured Troops After Hezbollah Strike Was Staged
https://sputniknews.com/military/201909021076701126-idf-posts-video-of-allegedly-staged-evacuation-of-injured-troops-after-hezbollah-strike/
Someone noticed the obvious:
“The IDF claims have raised questions on social media, including by a Reddit user in a thread discussing the videos, wondering what the point is of staging an evacuation (allegedly to pacify Hezbollah), and then telling the world it was staged.”
;-D
RT also has the story, with some additional info.
Psy-warfare? Claims of ‘staged’ IDF evacuation of wounded clash with video released by Hezbollah
https://www.rt.com/news/467795-israel-lebanon-staged-wounded-idf/
Larchmonter445, the secondary explosion was a 2nd ATGM fired from a different angle, to guarantee the hit. It’s possible that the the first ATGM hit in front of the vehicle, and the 2nd ATGM made the kill. Nice work by Hezbolla.
‘No Red Lines’: Hezbollah Leader Nasrallah Announces ‘New Phase’ in Targeting Israel
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201909021076707619-no-red-lines-hezbollah-leader-nasrallah-announces-new-phase-in-targeting-israel/
“Hassan Nasrallah has issued a stark warning to Israel, saying that if it attacks the group’s positions, all Israeli “borders and forces will be at risk”.
In what he described as a clear “message” to Israel, the Hezbollah leader said that the latest escalation of tensions marked the “start of a new phase”, adding that the Lebanon-based movement “no longer” has red lines. He also vowed to attack “deep inside” Israel if the movement was targeted again.
He vowed that Hezbollah would “do everything to prevent” attacks of that sort in the future, arguing that the time when Israel could bomb Lebanon was “over”. The movement’s leader went on to say that they had entered a new phase in the long-standing conflict with the Jewish state.”
The israelis seek to set the Mideast on fire. This isn’t “an election ploy”, as stated in the Southfront article, but instead, a logical move. Their war against Syria is failing, their planned war against Iran isn’t going anywhere. So time to sprinkle some petrol, strike a match and play victim in order to rekindle the war for israel lust in the colonies, that as of late, seems to be rather lackluster.
Some confusion about the next moves from the Adrian Darya:
Iranian oil tanker previously seized in Gibraltar to dock just north of Syria
https://mobile.almasdarnews.com/article/iranian-oil-tanker-previously-seized-in-gibraltar-to-dock-just-north-of-syria/
Several Turkish Vessels ‘Approaching’ Iranian Oil Tanker Sought by US – Source
https://sputniknews.com/world/201908311076690629-iran-tanker-turkey-ships
Naughty, naughty Turks…
Meanwhile, a few fays ago, Erdogan was in Russia…
‘Will you pay?’ Putin treats Erdogan to ice cream at MAKS 2019 Air Show
https://www.rt.com/news/467389-putin-erdogan-ice-cream-maks/amp/
“Russian President Vladimir Putin treated his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan to an ice cream as the world leaders took in the sights at the Moscow International Aviation and Space Salon (MAKS 2019) on Tuesday.”
Those bad, bad Turks…
And those devious Russians, ice cream is a Russian secret weapon:
“Russia using ice cream as a secret diplomatic weapon isn’t exactly a new tactic. Earlier this summer President Putin gifted Chinese President Xi Jinping a box of Russian ice cream for his birthday. Xi had once confessed his love for the Russian desserts, telling media in 2016 that he asks for them every time he visits.”
To be fair, poor Erdogan probably didn’t realize the danger he was in.
;-D
Western media shills squeal in unison: “Vladimir Putin is (horror) weaponizing ice cream!!!!”
LOL.
The plan is starting to reach the public domain.
Turkish Politician Claims East Syria Safe Zone Move by Ankara to Drive US, Kurds Apart
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201909031076708163-turkish-politician-claims-east-syria-safe-zone-move-by-ankara-to-drive-us-kurds-apart/
“Turkey is taking tactical steps to drive the United States and Kurdish groups apart. The United States has lost in Syria and it has become harder for them to defend the PKK. The creation of the safe zone is also a tactical move so that the United States abandons the PKK,” Perincek said.
He added that Ankara would be better off cooperating with Moscow, Damascus, Tehran, and Baghdad, and outlined a five-point plan, which included surrender of all Ankara-supported groups in Syria in return for an amnesty from Damascus, followed by joint efforts by Russia, Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria to clear the region from Kurdish and other armed groups, creation of conditions for return of Syrian refugees and ending of the United States’ interference in the region.”
Solid basis for moving forward between Turks and Syrians. What was not stated in the article is that zionazia has been steadily moving kurds into regions in eastern Syria to force the demographics. Familiar strategy zionazia has used repeatedly to reinforce the power of their colonial proxies groups. Returning the imported kurds to their former regions will undo this zionazi strategy.
I saw on YT that IOF were using BANNED WHITE PHOSPHORUS to repel Hezbollah attack! IOF keeps repeating the same tactics yet the world seems to be blind. I also sees that IOF is doing more or less a bait to see how fast is the response of Hezbollah army in case on full invasion (which probably will not happen in near future). Israel is playing with fire in already volatile front, soon they will be burned!
Hezbollah attacked Israel military position with a missile, Smoke is rising from Israeli military positions around Avivim on the border with Lebanon. Hizbollah fulfilled their claims that Hizballah will take revenge on Israel aggression in Lebanon.
Former US Ambassador: Netanyahu is in a state of panic
Netanyahu “frantically called US President Donald Trump after Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif
made a surprise visit to France during the G7 summit in a bid to stop the American leader from
meeting with Tehran’s top diplomat.”
By Jonas E. Alexis —— September 3, 2019
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2019/09/03/former-us-ambassador-netanyahu-is-in-panic/