Israel At War: Iran Steps Up Delivery of Advanced Weaponry To Hezbollah Terror Group
Ynet News: “Advanced weapons include precise missiles, surface to air missiles and air defenses transported mostly via Damascus airport which has come under repeated strikes attributed to Israel.”
Iran is stepping up weapons supply to Hezbollah as the pro-Iranian terrorist militia drags Lebanon into a conflict with Israel. While the Israeli military is engaged in a large-scale ground operation against Hamas in response to the October 7 massacre, Tehran is flying in heavy weaponry to Hezbollah though Syria, Israeli media reports suggest.
In recent weeks, Israel conducted a series of air strikes aimed at eliminating Iranian terror operatives and disrupting the weapons supply though Syria. “Advanced weapons include precise missiles, surface to air missiles and air defenses transported mostly via Damascus airport which has come under repeated strikes attributed to Israel,” the Israeli news website Ynet reported Friday.
Airstrikes reported in Eastern Syria tonight. Note the secondary explosion. pic.twitter.com/tg2G5nUtU9
— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) December 30, 2023
The Israeli military is responding to increased Hezbollah cross-border strikes by targeting launch sites in terrorist-controlled southern Lebanon. “IDF repeatedly strikes south Lebanon after several rounds of Hezbollah rockets,” The Times of Israel reported. “Sirens again blared on Friday afternoon after several rockets were fired at northern Israel, three of which crossed the border, according to the IDF. The military said it was striking the launch sites in response.”
Ynet published the details of ongoing Iranian weapons supply:
Iran was set to deliver sophisticated weaponry to Hezbollah in Lebanon in preparation for an expanding confrontation with Israel, including precise weapons, mostly rockets, missiles and drones, to be used against Israeli cities and sensitive sites.
The frequent strikes on Syria in recent days, attributed to Israel, were for the most part intended to thwart such transfers from Iran, that were meant to increase the number of precise missiles, anti-tank missiles and air defenses including the Iranian made surface to air 358 missiles also called SA-67) that can intercept drones, planes low flying aircraft and missiles, available to Hezbollah.
Iran had already supplied its Lebanese proxy with a substantial stock of missiles which have been used by Hezbollah against Israeli drones recently but have thus far failed to shoot any down. Israel has been able to intercept the 358 missiles using its air defenses.
The revelation comes as Hezbollah continues to fire rockets and mortars into northern Israel, forcing the IDF to open a second front amid an ongoing Gaza ground offensive.
The military is in a state of “very high readiness” to respond to Hezbollah’s growing aggression, the IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi assured Friday. “Our first task is to restore security and the sense of security to the residents in the north, and this will take time,” Halevi said.
Since October 7, the IDF has been training reservists and regular soldiers for an armed conflict in the north, the military disclosed.
IDF corners Hamas leadership in southern Gaza stronghold of Khan Yunis
As the Israeli ground offensive in Gaza entered its ninth week, the military appears to have cornered Hamas’s top leadership in the southern terrorist stronghold of Khan Yunis. The Israeli soldiers on the ground are mopping up the terrorist hideout, eliminating Hamas jihadis in tunnel-by-tunnel and house-by-house combat.
“Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) air and ground personal have continued their attacks against Hamas terror targets in the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis, according to Israeli media on Friday evening,” the Israeli TV channel i24NEWS reported. “Top IDF officials believe that the leadership of Hamas in Gaza are currently hiding in tunnels spread across the southern Gaza Strip.”
What's inside the tunnels in Hamas’ general headquarters: pic.twitter.com/6RbCcimdbv
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) December 29, 2023
The battle to rid Gaza of Hamas rages on across the terrorist-held enclave. “IDF troops are continuing to operate in the different areas of the Gaza Strip. The troops are engaging in fierce battles with terrorists,” the Israeli military disclosed in a press release on Saturday morning.
IDF troops eliminated dozens of terrorists in Gaza over the past day. In the space of three hours, Israeli aircraft struck at least 15 armed terrorists in Gaza City. In Shejaiya, troops eliminated a terror cell and a terrorist armed with an RPG. pic.twitter.com/DxeVkuPDtT
— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) December 30, 2023
The IDF on Saturday disclosed the ongoing operations across Gaza:
During IDF activity in Shejaiya, ground troops located a terrorist cell operating adjacent to the forces, and a terrorist armed with an RPG. The troops directed an IDF aircraft that struck and eliminated the cell.
During IDF activity in Gaza City over the past day, the troops, in coordination with aircraft, killed dozens of terrorists. In the space of three hours, four incidents of terrorist identifications occurred and the IAF struck over 15 armed terrorists. Additionally, battles took place where further terrorists were killed.
During IDF activity in Beit Lahia, two Hamas military compounds were dismantled by the troops, who had located numerous weapons, explosive devices, guns, military equipment, communication devices in the compounds prior to the strike.
In additional activity in the area, two hostile observation operatives were identified in a compound located adjacent to the remaining troops in the area. After confirming the identification of the terrorists, IDF tanks struck the compound where the observation operatives were identified and killed them.
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This is not going to end well
This started under the Carter Admin … first with the Shah and later the embassy. The Left doesn’t realize that after the Saturday and Sunday people are dealt with, those that aren’t Friday people will suffer the same fate.
If the Muslims ever “dealt with” enough of the Saturday and Sunday people so they were no longer the focus of Muslim attention, there would be Friday people killing Friday people – Sunni v. Shi’ite, being insufficiently strict v. being so strict that living in the modern world is impossible, and often just plain old power struggles.
Another poster suggested that the response to Iran if they provoke a Lebanon war was to take out Iran’s electoral grid and cripple its water supply by destroying or severely damaging dams.
It seems both could be accomplished without distracting from the IDF effort in Gaza.
It is possible though far from probable that such a disruption could jeopardize the Mullah’s control in Iran. Since they currently have total control of the country any additional support for the regime probably doesn’t change the threat equation.
If this was done incrementally, they would still have some control, if it was all out, they would be moved back to stone age living conditions and no longer a threat. Maybe we could experiment with space based kinetic weapons, say dropping a ton or more of tungsten at a time. This kind of weapon would transcend nukes, and it would not release any radioactivity. Can anyone think of a better place than Iran to test this?
Rods From Gods is a swell idea. I am holding out for a pure fusion weapon, brought to you by the Lawrence Livermore National Ignition Facility.
@ Mauiobserver
The CPR/Mullah axis took out our electoral grid in 2020; the Israelis are preparing to take out Iran’s electrical grid.
Yep typo don’t think elections matter much in Iran. TBD sin the US.
In the US
The world needs a no day people, dead Hamas and Pales. I assume that Israel is taking tunnels the hard way in order to gather intelligence about unintelligent people. Maybe that precludes flooding and burning them out.
But it does not preclude setting off thermobaric devices at the entrance of many tunnel openings at the same time. Most of the air would be sucked out of those tunnels. That would leave a lot of suffocated terrorists. and intelligence intact. This sounds like a win-win to me.
I do not get why flooding the tunnels, destroying their usefulness, has not gotten greater priority, as that would seem to minimize civilian and IDF casualties. Maybe difficult logistical problems?
I wondered about this, maybe they want to gather intelligence, flooding or burning them out would destroy almost all intelligence. Burning the alive would be poetic, considering what was done to so many Israelis. Napalm is easy to make and their deaths in that manner justified. A peek into hell before their arrivals.
Possibly logistics, possibly concern for the remaining hostages.
Ask the US Army people that fought in Vietnam how easy it is to wipe out armed enemies hiding in a well-built tunnel system. There were dozens of concealed ventilation shafts, so if thermobarics to suck out the air worked at all, they would have improved the ventilation by sucking fresh air into the tunnels. Blowing carbon monoxide, tear gas, or an explosive gas mixture into the tunnels only affected the parts near the entrances – the VC built water traps to block gases (dips in the tunnels filled to the ceiling with water, so you had to dive and swim a few yards). If the tunnel builders don’t like that, it’s not that hard to make gas-tight doors – especially with the access to modern building supplies Gaza has.
In the end, the best way the US Army with its vast Cold War resources could find to deal with the VC tunnels was to give a man a flashlight, a knife, and a pistol, and send him crawling down the tunnel. Mostly they used the knife because shots or flashlight beams gave away their presence. And since this was soon after Castro’s takeover of Cuba and the Korean War, we usually had volunteers who wanted to go knifing Commies in the dark.
Since the 1979 Iranian revolution, Presidents Reagan and Trump were the only American presidents to take the Iranian regime seriously as a manifestly belligerent, malignant and evil state actor and an unabashed terrorism sponsor.
Decades of indefensible and emasculated dhimmitude have seen the U.S. obsequiously kowtowing to, appeasing and showing deference to a multitude of Muslim terrorist outfits and their state sponsors (e.g., pre-MBS Saudi Arabia, Iran and Qatar). This destructive attitude reached its nadir during the tenure of the execrable narcissist, incompetent and dunce, Obama, who was incapable of criticizing Muslim supremacists, terrorists and Islamofascists, much less condemning the supremacist and totalitarian ideology of hate that animates them. Biden continues what the wretched Obama started, deferring to and empowering Iran at every opportunity.
A reckoning with Iran, Qatar and the rest of the Muslim terrorist group-supporting states, is long overdue.
How many of us have the badge of honor conferred by JR-Thad Travis rage?
I don’t get the “JR-Thad Travis” reference — can you explain it? Thanks. 🙂
WWIII… Coming to a town near you
Did that $6B check from biden clear the bank in qatar for iran?
Hezbollah is presently attacking the northern border area even though it has the capabilities to hit anywhere in Israel. Are they just putting on a good show but don’t want to provoke Israel in a full out war? Or are they waiting for more weapons and the right time? Seems that while Israel is busy in Gaza would be the right time. I think they realize that Israel has weapons, not being used in Gaza, for use in Lebanon that will destroy them quickly. In addition, Hezbollah will be fighting a two front war as Christian Lebanon is sick and tired of them. My bet: Hezbollah will tell Iran to F off.
I think they are doing just enough to show the Arab world they are helping their brothers out without provoking a full on reply from Israel.
I suspect that part of the reason for this is their surprise at just how hard the Jews have gone at Hamas? Fear created through strength, in this case the Jews carrying out their promise the kill Hamas once and for all, seems to have kept Hesbollah at bay least they suffer the same consequence.
Iran trying to formulate a all out Islamic war against Israel
Also staying nicely out of direct fighting