*UPDATE* Israel Confirms Deaths of Hezbollah Commander and Deputy of Missile Unit, Nasrallah Fate Unknown
Iran vows to ‘replace the martyrs’ as Israel decimates Hezbollah’s terrorist leadership.
**UPDATE 7:17PM ET (by Mary): The Israeli Air Force confirmed Israel struck and killed two major Hezbollah members. Translated via Google:
Fighter jets attacked and killed the terrorists Muhammad Ali Ismail, the commander of Hezbollah’s missile unit in southern Lebanon, and his deputy, the terrorist Hossein Ahmed Ismail. With them other Hezbollah commanders and terrorists were eliminated.
The terrorist Muhammad Ali Ismail is responsible for many acts of terrorism from his sector towards the territory of the State of Israel, including rocket launches towards the territory of the State of Israel and the launch of a surface-to-surface missile towards the center of the country last Wednesday.
Their assassination joins the assassination of the head of Hezbollah’s missile and rocket array, the terrorist Ibrahim Muhammad Kabisi, and the assassination of other senior officials in Hezbollah’s missile and rocket array.
The IDF will continue to act with strength and determination against the terrorist organization Hezbollah, to harm and eliminate the senior members of the terrorist organization.
מטוסי קרב תקפו וחיסלו את המחבלים מחמד עלי אסמאעיל, מפקד יחידת הטילים של חיזבאללה בדרום לבנון, ואת סגנו, המחבל חסין אחמד אסמאעיל. איתם חוסלו מפקדים ומחבלים נוספים של חיזבאללה.
המחבל מחמד עלי אסמאעיל אחראי על מתווי טרור רבים מגזרתו לעבר שטח מדינת ישראל, בהם שיגורי רקטות לעבר שטח…
— Israeli Air Force (@IAFsite) September 27, 2024
***Previous reporting…
While the fate of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah remains unclear following an airstrike in Beirut, Israel is anticipating an attack from Iran and its terror proxies, news reports suggest.
“Israel braced itself for potential retaliation from Hezbollah in Lebanon, as well as from Yemen and Iran,” the British newspaper Guardian reported Friday night. “After the Beirut strike, Hezbollah said it bombed Safed, a city in north Israel, with a rocket salvo “in response to Israeli attacks on cities, villages and civilians.” Israel’s home front command has urged residents of Golan Heights, Safed, Merom HaGalil to stay near protected areas.”
“Iran’s embassy in Beirut said the airstrike represented ‘a dangerous game-changing escalation that changes the rules of the game’ and warned that its perpetrator would be ‘punished appropriately.'” the UK newspaper added. “Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis said they targeted Israel’s cities of Tel Aviv and Ashkelon with a ballistic missile and a drone in support of Gaza and Lebanon. The Israeli army said it had intercepted a missile that was fired from Yemen after sirens and explosions were heard early in the day.”
Israeli source says Israel is going to war; supreme leader Khamenei reportedly convenes emergency session of Iran's security council. via @N12News
— Israel Radar (@IsraelRadar_com) September 27, 2024
The IDF was assessing the outcome of the strike, the Jerusalem Post reported mid-night Friday:
Following the strike on Beirut on Friday, IDF Spokesperson R.-Adm. Daniel Hagari announced that they were still investigating the status of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and would update as soon as possible.
“We used a highly precise strike to target Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was hiding in civilian buildings in the Dahiya neighborhood of Beirut.”
Israeli military spokesperson Daniel Hagari issued a statement saying the IDF will begin attacking strategic Hezbollah infrastructure. The results of the attack in Beirut are being investigated. There is no change in Home Front Command's directives.
— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) September 27, 2024
Iran vows to ‘replace martyrs’ as Nasrallah’s fate unclear
With growing speculations about Nasrallah’s whereabouts, the Iranian regime vowed to ‘replace the martyrs’ as Israel decimates Hezbollah’s terrorist leadership.
The Times of Israel reported:
Ali Larijani, an adviser to Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei, tells Iranian state television that “any leader of the resistance will be replaced.”
“The resistance has strong leaders and cadres, and every leader who is martyred will be replaced,” he says, following the Israeli strike on a Hezbollah command center in southern Beirut targeting the Iran-backed Lebanese terror group’s leader Hassan Nasrallah.
IDF urges residents to evacuate Beirut’s Hezbollah stronghold
The IDF is urging the residents of Hezbollah’s Beirut stronghold Dahiyeh to evacuate immediately as it plans to carry out further strikes on terrorist group’s command structure and weapons depots.
The IDF is calling on Lebanese civilians near several buildings in the Dahiyeh suburb of Beirut, a known Hezbollah stronghold, to evacuate immediately.
Col. Avichay Adraee, the IDF's Arabic-language spokesman, publishes maps alongside the announcement, which call on civilians to… pic.twitter.com/YzHgVlSzlu
— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) September 27, 2024
The Sky News (UK) reports:
The Israeli military has said it is striking weapons that belong to Hezbollah in southern Beirut.
In a statement, the Israel Defence Forces said the “targeted strikes” were taking place in the Dahieh area of the Lebanese capital.
It said the weapons were being stored beneath civilian buildings in the area.
BREAKING: Senior Israeli officials report PM Netanyahu’s trip to the UN General Assembly “was part of a diversion” to lead Nasrallah into believing he was safe while the PM was in New York. pic.twitter.com/zdVkUq6nnK
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) September 27, 2024
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Iran will specifically target Jewish population centres and incite Palestinians to murder Jews…and the world will suddenly become awfully quiet.
Israel would then have to go nuclear on Iran – literally.
I would highly doubt it.
It would depend on the circumstance. If Iran gets the bomb, all bets are off.
So pretty much like every other Friday.
Twitchy is reporting the IDF has gone to the media to tell them Hezbullah has an opening for a new leader.
Fingers crossed they are right!
Sooner or later we are going to have to resolve the issue of the mullahs that Jimmy Carter allowed to come to power. If we are reading the tea leaves correctly, the current regime will be out of office in January. So this means that Iran has to act before the strong horse comes back into office.
There’s a certain persuasion that comes with telling the Iranian that if they dare do something drastic to Israel that there are x number of boomers under the ocean within range that will return them to elemental status.
That’s why they supposedly have 5+ teams in the United States to try and assassinate President Trump.
“ Iran’s embassy in Beirut said the airstrike represented ‘a dangerous game-changing escalation that changes the rules of the game’”
Changes the rules? What rules are those? The ones that say Hezbollah can launch rockets into Israel every day with impunity while Israel cannot respond? These rules need changing!
This is a very dangerous time for Iran. While Israel does not possess any meaningful expeditionary capability or even a strategic air force (in a modern sense), it has the ability to hit Iran, hard. It demonstrated this ability when Israel hit Yemen several months ago; Yemen’s southern coast is further from Tel Aviv than Tehran is.
Without its proxies (that Israel is currently systematically dismembering at the moment) being able to effectively hit Israel in any kind of sustained, effective manner, Iran becomes exposed. If there’s a betting market on the lifespan of Iran’s nuclear weapon’s program, now would be the time to short it particularly if Iran makes the mistake to strike Israel again. I think that’s exactly what Netanyahu is hopping they do.
hoping, not hopping…although Bibi might dance a little jig if Nasrallah has gone over the rainbow.
Southern Beirut is being hit by more airstrikes right now. Heavy bombing with lots of secondaries and huge pillars of smoke. The IDF is really hitting Hezbollah hard.
Rather large explosion with the color of the smoke… stored explosives?
That rusty red color. Maybe it’s the color of the soil there. They did hit underground sites and disturbed many tons of soil in the blasts. Or like you mentioned, maybe explosives that cooked off. I don’t know.
Pumpkin-spice flavored explosives…
There are huge secondary explosions and rockets cooking off. Southern Beirut is lit up like a Christmas tree tonight. The live cam footage I’m watching is amazing.
Khomeini: it was just a flesh wound
Nasrallah: No comment
I believe that Israel is hoping to provoke Hezbollah into something that can be called a declaration of war within the next month. I – suspect – that failing to get that they may invade Lebanon anyhow. The timing is right.
The Israelis have done a nice job of decapitating the Hezbollah senior leadership and incapacitating the ‘Officer’ corps. This, of course, only provides a temporary advantage; strategic planning and organization are disrupted and it will take some months to reorganize effectively but that advantage is wasted if it is not used soon.
Further I think an October invasion will find the U.S. essentially paralyzed because of the political situation, Declaring support for either side will hurt the Democrats with some of their voters. So, it’ll be more calls for cease-fires and negotiations and that’d be all unless -forced- by Iranian actions.
But Iran would be hesitant to wade in directly because Trump might win and come to Israel’s support and so the Mullahs would also sit on the sidelines. In the meantime Israel has a month to stomp the stuffing out of Hezbollah.
Resolution UN 1701, Israel and Hezbollah were to pull back from the boarders of Lebanon, only Israel did
Hezbollah launches its rockets and attacks Israel from its boarders. Israel has very right to defend itself from a Oct 7 Hezbollah style
The UN failed to enforce THEIR edict
What a surprise
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