Hezbollah Commanders Eliminated in Beirut Strike Were Plotting October 7-Style Invasion of Israel
Israeli President Isaac Herzog: “All of these leaders were meeting to launch the same horrific, horrendous attack that we had on October 7 by Hamas, by burning Israelis, butchering them, raping their women, taking hostages, old people, and little babies.”
The commanders of Hezbollah’s Radwan Forces, who were eliminated in Friday’s Israeli airstrike, planned an October 7-style invasion of Israel in response to the recent pager blasts, Arab and Israeli media reports indicate.
Senior Hezbollah terrorist Ibrahim Aqil and other top commanders of the Radwan Force had gathered to discuss their so-called “Plan to Conquer the Galilee” when four Israeli missiles hit their underground hideout below a parking lot in central Beirut.
Aqil, the mastermind of the 1983 Marine Barracks bombing, and 20 other Hezbollah commanders were killed in the precisely targeted Israeli airstrike, eliminating the entire command structure of the Iranian-trained Radwan Force.
“The Hezbollah commanders we eliminated today had been planning their ‘October 7’ on the northern border for years,” IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi said hours following the Beirut strike. “Hezbollah intended to raid Israeli territory, occupy the communities of the Galilee, and murder and kidnap Israeli citizens — similar to what Hamas did on October 7.”
No country can accept the wanton rocketing of its cities. We can't accept it either. pic.twitter.com/Gkw8ruxFsc
— Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) September 22, 2024
The slain Hezbollah commanders were plotting an incursion into northern Israel in a bid to carry out large-scale killing, rape, and kidnapping of civilians, Israel’s President Isaac Herzog told Sky News (UK) on Sunday. “All of these leaders were meeting to launch the same horrific, horrendous attack that we had on October 7 by Hamas, by burning Israelis, butchering them, raping their women, taking hostages, old people, and little babies,” President Herzog said.
🚨 Israel's President Herzog said in an interview with @SkyNews: The Hezbollah leaders who were eliminated on Friday met to plan and carry out an operation similar to the October 7th atrocities pic.twitter.com/FkgTAFfhql
— Amichai Stein (@AmichaiStein1) September 22, 2024
The Times of Israel reported Sunday:
Speaking to Sky News earlier today, Herzog also said the meeting was aimed at cementing plans for an invasion of Israel.
“All of these leaders came together in order to launch the same horrific, horrendous attack that we had on October 7th by Hamas, by burning Israelis, by butchering them, raping their women, abducting and taking hostage people and little babies,” Herzog says.
“This is exactly the same plan they have been planning for years under the plans of the Empire of Evil of Iran,” he says.
The comments echo those of IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari on Friday after the strike.
“Aqil and the Radwan Force commanders who we attacked are the commanders who drew up and led the Hezbollah terror group’s plan, to be carried out on the day the order was given, to attack into the northern territory of the State of Israel — what they called ‘The plan to conquer the Galilee,’” Hagari said.
In this planned invasion, said Hagari, “Hezbollah intended to raid Israeli territory, occupy the communities of the Galilee, and murder and kidnap Israeli citizens — similar to what Hamas did on October 7.”
He added that “the commanders who we eliminated today” had been overseeing attacks on Israeli citizens since October 8, and planned to carry out more such attacks.
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A senior Hezbollah official told Al-Monitor that the meeting in which Aqil and other high-ranking members were killed in Dahieh was meant to review plans for a ground invasion into Israeli territory, in response to the pager explosions. pic.twitter.com/UDdgNu3ZW5
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) September 22, 2024
The Radwan Force’s plan to stage an October 7-like massacre was also reported in the Arab media, the newspaper Israel Hayom wrote Sunday:
Senior Hezbollah figure Ibrahim Aqil, along with other senior commanders of the Radwan Force, planned a ground operation within Israel’s territory during a meeting where he was killed in an airstrike by the Israeli Air Force in the Dahiya neighborhood of Beirut, according to a report by “Al-Monitor.”
According to the report, which is based on a senior source close to the terrorist organization, members of the group gathered and planned an operation by the Radwan Force, Hezbollah’s elite and offensive unit, “in the heart of the occupied territories” as a response to the explosion of the group’s pagers last week.
Funeral in #Lebanon of #Hezbollah Radwan Commander Ibrahim Aqil. pic.twitter.com/lv6MhDv1tn
— Jason Brodsky (@JasonMBrodsky) September 22, 2024
Several civilians injured as Hezbollah launches ‘deepest barrage into Israel’ since October 7
At least six civilians were injured over the weekend as Hezbollah escalated missile and drone attacks into northern Israel. “During the night and the morning hours, approximately 150 rockets, cruise missiles, and UAVs were launched toward Israeli territory, most of them aimed at northern Israel,” the IDF said in a press release Sunday. “With high interception rates, the multi-layered aerial defense effort prevented significant damage to the home front. There were a small number of cases of hits and interception debris falling on the home front.”
We are operating because this is who Hezbollah is targeting: pic.twitter.com/dbssPItarK
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) September 22, 2024
The Jerusalem Post reported the destruction caused by Hezbollah’s aggression:
Hezbollah fired its deepest barrage into Israel since the beginning of the current war, with four rounds of over 150 rockets, cruise missiles, and drones fired into the Jezreel Valley in the early hours of Sunday morning, the IDF confirmed. (…)
As a result of the fire on northern Israel, six people were wounded, and they were evacuated to the Emek Medical Center in Afula, the Medical Center announced. Magen David Adom (MDA) teams were called to treat four individuals with shrapnel injuries, including a 76-year-old man in moderate condition, as well as a 70-year-old man, a 60-year-old man, and a 16-year-old girl in moderate condition.
Two houses were hit in Kiryat Bialik following a fourth wave of rocket attacks from Lebanon, according to Israeli media.
Initial reports also stated that one person had been killed and that most of the casualties were from a car accident resulting from panic from the rocket fire.
The IDF says that since last night, some 150 rockets, cruise missiles, and drones were launched at Israel.
The rocket attacks came from Lebanon and were aimed at Israel's north, while the drones and cruise missiles were launched from Iraq.
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— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) September 22, 2024
Israel was prepared to roll out ‘offensive plans against Hezbollah’ if the escalation continues, the military warned. “We have significantly harmed Hezbollah and we will continue and deepen the blow. We are at a point of change,” head of the IDF’s Northern Command, Major General Ori Gordin said Sunday. “Alongside the defensive mission, we are in a high state of readiness for further offensive plans against Hezbollah.”
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As long as Western politicians pander to their Muslim communities in an effort to appease their racism against Jews there will be no peace in the Middle East.
The only people who can “fix” this is the Jews themselves. End Hamas and end Hesbullah otherwise there is no peace, especially with a Democrat WH.
“This is exactly the same plan they have been planning for years under the plans of the Empire of Evil of Iran,”
Start hitting Iran, either all at once, or one painful strike after another. They look cross eyed, make them sorry.
The world be a much better place with Iran pacified.
It does appear he IDF have recently taken a hard turn. They are no longer playing appeasment, and begging to be treated “nice”. In their view, “making nice” and pleading are now off the table. They have ralised, finally, that until the Big Bad Bully gets THUMPED hard, fast, and continually, he will continue to bully. Their response to the seven October abomination has been very well done, and as they continue to work that plan they are becoming more effective.
I also see an YOOOOOGE difference in overall tactocs between IDF and Hamas & Co. IDF have real men in their ranks who know their job and how to do it, take initiative, and are strongly motivated to end the war for the sake of their homes and families.
The mowsi are simply mindless programmed units only doing what they are told to do, no skin in the game beyond their own skin. Their overall mission to “Get Israel” falls flat because it is too vague. WHY? No one in a thousand could articulate the why, let alone the how. Mindless drones, go here do this do that kill juice.
There will be no end. Killed terrorists will be replaced with new terrorists. This has been going on for thousands of years. As long as extremists run the Muslim “faith” the battle will continue.
This is only true if those producing terrorists are allowed to live. There are no easy solutions, they are all tough, distasteful. As it stands now, generation’s of Pale children’s lives have been squandered.
Latest report from the Hezbollah Health Ministry claims 4,000 civilians killed in the IDF raid, 5,000 of them children.
Those children were probably 17-19 year old cannon fodder.
What part of “Death to Juice” do people not understand?
OMG, Israel seems to have snatched the Minutes of the meeting as their missiles struck! Next, we’ll get an itemization of each terrorist’s breakfast that morning!
On a serious note … although it is so obvious …. the Octopber 7 hostage raid has led to unprecedented international support for Palestinians throughout the West. So, obviously, it will be repeated. And repeated, and repeated. It worked.
More seriously, what I see here is 100% accusation and claims, and 0% substantiation.
I won’t apologize for my skepticism.
I’ve been “baby incubator’ed” one too many times by an “ally.”
Respectfully, why do you suppose they had built tunnels from lebanon into Israel? In order to consulate late-night romantic trysts? And why did they all gather together emergently in their double-secret hiding place? For late night bible study, brotherhood, and ham & eggs?
(You did see charred, burnt beyond recognition corpses of men women children burned alive some tied together from October 7)
None of that has any bearing on a (very specific) claim about what action those terrorists were discussing at that time in that place.
Had the article just said these people were bombed because they were all seasoned terrorists with over a dozen operational scalps on their belt each, I would have said bye, Felicia. But to make very specific and detailed claims about the subject of the meeting, and a specific planned future assault, and then back it up with “trust me,” just stinks.
It’s like the feds claiming that the purpose of J6 was to commit violent acts on legislators to halt the counting of electoral votes, and then offer zero actual proof (emails, texts, videos) that anyone had actually conspired to do that.
Trust, but verify.
This is the sort of blind, trusting, short-term enthusiasm that got us the Patriot Act. Let’s not make the same mistake four times.
The Israelis may well have the proof. Giving the actual information out would jeopardize all of the Israelis HUMINT sources.
No problem. I will simply suspend my belief until some is released.
A very good start!
It has been widely reported that terrorists steal aid, so why not send out doctored aid? This could be as good as pagers.
Not a good plan, as at least SOME of the stolen aid may well be disribued to ,ore or less innocent non0combatants.
he pagers worked perfectly because ONLY the bad guys were using them for their comms.
You can put out rat poison in well-secured places rats tend to occupy with little fear innocent chidlren will find and eat it. You DON”T put it out where the kids play in the backyard.