Israeli Eliminates Entire Hezbollah Special Forces Command in Beirut Airstrike
Also, massive Israeli airstrike on southern Lebanon, thousands of Hezbollah rocket launchers destroyed.
A single Israeli airstrike on Friday eliminated the entire command structure of the terror group Hezbollah, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) disclosed in a press statement Saturday. This is undoubtedly the most devastating blow to the Iran-sponsored terrorist militia in its 40-year history.
On Friday afternoon, Israeli fighter jets targeted an “underground” terrorist hideout “in the heart of Hezbollah’s stronghold in Beirut,” the IDF revealed.
The prime target of the strike was Ibrahim Aqil, head of Hezbollah’s terrorist operations and mastermind of the deadly 1983 bombings of the U.S. embassy and Marine Barracks in Beirut.
Well, it took 40 years but we finally got some new photos of top Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Aqil.
Aqil, a US designated global terrorist who had a $7 million bounty on his capture, was killed earlier today in an Israeli airstrike.
Aqil had the blood of hundreds of Americans… pic.twitter.com/3uMA04Q4H7
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) September 20, 2024
Apart from Aqil, the airstrike killed 15 other commanders of Hezbollah’s Radwan Force and several other terror operatives, thereby taking out the entire leadership structure of Hezbollah’s terrorist fighting force, an infographic posted by the IDF on X shows.
Hezbollah’s military chain of command has been almost completely dismantled after a dozen significant terrorists including Ibrahim Aqil were eliminated yesterday.
We will continue operating against any terrorist organization that poses a threat to our civilians on all fronts. pic.twitter.com/F2Ewyx4WdL
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) September 21, 2024
“IAF jets, guided by the Intelligence Directorate, targeted and eliminated Ibrahim Aqil, head of operations and commander of the Radwan Force of the Hezbollah terrorist organization, during a meeting with Radwan Force commanders in the Dahieh neighborhood of Beirut,” the Israeli TV channel i24NEWS reported Saturday. “Additionally, 15 other Hezbollah terrorists were eliminated in the strike, including senior commanders in the Radwan Force chain of command.”
“Among the terrorists eliminated, was Abu Hassan Samir, who served as the head of the Radwan Force training unit. He held various positions within the terrorist organization and was commander of the Radwan Force for a decade until early 2024,” the Israeli military disclosed in a press release Saturday.
Hezbollah announced this morning the Death of Two more Officers that were Killed in yesterday’s Precision Strike by the Israeli Air Force on the Suburbs of Beirut; meaning that since Monday, Hezbollah has Lost at least 60 Officers and Fighters, as well as a Senior Leader of the… pic.twitter.com/EfqyAkY7O9
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) September 21, 2024
The slain Hezbollah “commanders had been leading and planning the Radwan Force’s attack and infiltration plan into Israeli territory for years, to be executed when given the order,” the IDF statement revealed. “Additionally, senior officials in the organization and within the Radwan Force headquarters were eliminated.”
They were also responsible for relentless rocket and drone attacks that forced tens of thousands of residents in northern Israel to flee their homes since October 7. “Aqil and the commanders eliminated in the strike were responsible for planning, advancing, and executing hundreds of terrorist operations against Israel, including the planning of Hezbollah’s murderous scheme to raid the communities of the Galilee,” the IDF said.
Following the October 7 massacre, Hezbollah –in a bid to back Hamas — fired more than 8,000 rockets on towns and cities across northern Israel. The terrorist strikes killed dozens of Israeli civilians, including 12 children, at a soccer field in the Golan Heights.
Friday’s precise and devastating strike leaves Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah lonely at the helm of a hollowed-out terrorist organization. The strike came a day after Hezbollah suffered two deadly waves of pager and walkie talkie blasts that decimated the rank and file of the Shia-Jihadist group. in late July, an Israeli airstrike in Beirut killed Hezbollah’s ‘number 2’ terrorist Fuad Shukr.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:
Our goals are clear, and our actions speak for themselves.
— Prime Minister of Israel (@IsraeliPM) September 20, 2024
IDF conducts massive airstrike, destroys thousands of Hezbollah rocket launchers in southern Lebanon
After losing its top command, Hezbollah suffers fresh blows to its terrorist build-up in southern Lebanon.
The IDF on Saturday afternoon destroyed thousands of Hezbollah rocket launchers in a massive coordinate airstrike. “Israeli fighter jets struck some 180 Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon in the past few hours, taking out thousands of rocket launcher barrels,” The Times of Israel reported citing military sources. “The military says the rocket launchers were primed for imminent attacks on Israel.”
As the IDF carries out airstrikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon, sirens warning of incoming rocket fire sound in numerous towns in northern Israel. pic.twitter.com/ooGZAtIT3b
— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) September 21, 2024
The IDF revealed the details of the strike in a press release:
Approximately 180 targets and thousands of launcher barrels were dismantled: the IDF completed a number of strikes in southern Lebanon
Following the sirens that sounded throughout the past day in the areas of the Upper Galilee, Golan Heights and Safed area, approximately 90 projectile launches were identified crossing from Lebanon into Israeli territory.
Over the past hour, the IAF struck thousands of launcher barrels that were ready for immediate use to fire toward Israeli territory.
Additionally, IDF artillery struck a number of areas in southern Lebanon.
The Israeli military says that approximately 180 targets and thousands of launcher barrels were dismantled in Lebanon.
Following the sirens that sounded throughout the past day in the areas of the Upper Galilee, Golan Heights and Safed area, approximately 90 projectile launches… pic.twitter.com/JPPReypMM9
— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) September 21, 2024
Gaza: IDF eliminates senior Hamas intel operative, several other terrorists
The IDF on Saturday continued its counter-terrorism strikes in Gaza, destroying a Hamas commander centre and eliminating several terrorists in a series of airstrikes. “Over the past hour, with the direction of Southern Command and IDF intelligence, the IAF conducted a precise strike on terrorists who were operating inside a Hamas command and control center in the Gaza City,” the Israeli military said in a statement Saturday.
As is often the case, the Hamas commander center was located in an abandoned school. Hamas uses schools, mosques, and hospitals to conceal and shield its terrorist infrastructure. “The command and control center, which was embedded inside a compound that previously served as the Al Falah School, was used by Hamas terrorists to plan and carry out terrorist attacks against IDF troops and the State of Israel,” the military noted.
While Hamas embedded its terrorist base in a former school, Israel took all possible measures “to mitigate the risk of harming civilians, including the use of precise munitions, aerial surveillance and additional intelligence,” the IDF assured.
A separate Israeli strike took out Hamas’s senior intelligence operative and several other terrorists.
“In an IDF intelligence-based strike, the terrorist Muhammad Mansour, a Hamas operative who acted as a source of technological knowledge in Hamas’ military intelligence system, was eliminated,” the military announced Saturday. “Additionally, a number of Hamas terrorists who led terror attacks against IDF soldiers were also eliminated.”
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From the liver to the feet.
IDF can’t be beat!
FAFO. So satisfyingly Old
SchoolTestament.I wonder if anyone in Hezbollah is saying “this price we keep paying is totally worth supporting our brothers in Hamas”?
Or if they are saying to themselves “why the fuck are we supporting Hamas after their October 7 genocide? It’s costing us too much!!!”.
Or if those lower down the food chain are looking up at their leadership cast, who are living in absolute comfort in Qatar and Iran as billionaires, wondering if the price they keep paying is worth it?
Nope. They’re as lost as ANTIFA and Jewish American Democrat voters. Maybe more so.
good do it before the usa elections
b/c if the cheating for kamaa campain ( sic) is successful
the hate towards israel will intensify via the propaganda omar led machine
Sudden spike in medical insurance and life insurance rates.
Something kills me. Their car insurance rates aren’t doing very well either.
Something TELLS me ..
Israel not only does much better economically, it does better militarily.
Average IQ 115 vs IQ 82 might account for bot.h
Ridiculous statement, evidencing the bigotry referred to previously.
IQ numbers are all over the map. According to Business Insider, citinf WorldData.Info, in 2024, the countries with the five highest average IQ scores:
108: Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea
105: China, Japan, Taiwan
101: Iceland, Macau, Switzerland
100: Austria, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, United Kingdom
99: Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Estonia, Finland, Germany, New Zealand, Sweden
https://www.businessinsider.com/guides/health/average-iq?op=1
https://wwwc.worlddata.info/iq-by-country.php
To think Israel’s success is merely a function of IQ shows little knowledge of the actual conflict.
Look up Ashkenazi Jews.
More than half of Israeli Jews are NOT Ashkenazi, however, which any genius should know.
They pick smart people for leadership. There are a lot of them available owing to the 115 mean. 115 isn’t unusually smart but if you go up 3 or 4 standard deviations there’s still a good population up there off of that mean. A mean IQ of 82 leaves you not particularly smart even after several standard deviations up, for their leadership.
Vietnam and Afghanistan disprove the notion.
The FACT is that you asserted a falsity, then qualified, and now qualify further. That’s because your theory is off, no matter how you pretend you can prove it.
You fail to consider the most obvious factors. Yet you obsess over IQ.
Who make up less than half the Jewish population of Israel.
for the worlddata site you wrote “wwwc.”; it should be “www.”; otherwise you can’t view the site
Typing not a forte,
https://www.worlddata.info/iq-by-country.php
99 to 108 isn’t all over the map. As for the world data… take a look at Africa. Sadly, extrapolate that to the US with its IQ average. Genetics plays a significant role. As Jordan Peterson pointed out from US military records, 10% of the population are untrainable morons.
If you take a look, you will see there are discrepansies in rankings.
Anyway, those cited above were only the top five, to show that Israel was not among them or 115 as was asserted. Indeed, no country is at 115.
There’s a problem in that IQ is defined as mean 100 and standard deviation 15. But for what population?
Recently, and briefly, US blacks went to 92 and the US mean went up to 100, suggesting that they had been using the legacy US population before (US blacks 86, US mean 98) and had decided to recalibrate with the new population, which would move everybody towards the defined mean of 100. Now it’s back with the old legacy US population again, at least in google.
If you have in one country several different populations, then the distribution of IQ is no longer normal (bell curve), for example it might have three peaks instead of one, representing blacks, whites and Asians. So I think they wanted to go back to using the legacy US population as a fixed standard so that all the probabilities worked out correctly again.
One interesting calibration is that they ask guy questions and girl questions in the right proportion so that men and women have the same average IQ.
oops, 3 and 5 ought to be 3 and 4; 5 and 7 ought to be 5 and 6; for blacks and whites. Palestinians and Jews is 3 and 5, 5 and 7.
And that’s old data from BEFORE the invasion.
Is that material? Does IQ sway based on events?
The collective IQ of a group certainly does, when you tank it by importing large numbers of outliers.
Hence the old joke about, “Why don’t you go back home to California, and raise the IQ of both our states?”
In public policy IQ matters in two ways.
1. The mean IQ. This shows up as disparate impact. Something’s wrong with our society because blacks don’t do as well on the average as whites. Well, it’s just mean IQ, not our standards. Blacks take it as proof of oppression and have a chip on their shoulder about it, which guarantees that they won’t do well even without an IQ difference. Understanding that an average IQ difference happens and here’s how to deal with it (act white) to make society “fair” again.
2. No blacks in important occupations – this is the effect of the mean on the smart tails. A 5 sigma black is only a 3 sigma white, in intelligence. 5 sigma is very rare, 3 sigma is pretty common. So a job requiring a 5 sigma white smartness will require a 7 sigma black, which never happens, if you just hire on smartness. This too looks like oppression and is taken as proof of it. Once again handicapping blacks by a chip on the shoulder.
I think Jews very much have higher IQ’s than 92% of the world
Brains has a lot to do with their success’s in all of life’s relms
Conflict is not all of life’s realms, however. and Israel’s advantage is not because of high IQ, but the threat they face,
That is what stupid people have in common. They are incapable of thinking through the downside of pissing off smart people. The movie “Strawdogs” was very instructional on this concept. And for those not watching “Slow Horses,” Jackson Lamb has clearly spent some time in the field.
And you trust the data?
Relatively.
Consanguineous marriage is a problem in many Muslim communities. But, it’s a particular problem in Gaza (a third or more of all marriages are between 1st cousins) and it’s a problem in Lebanon among the Muslim population with an estimated 30% of all marriages taking place between 1st cousins. There are a number of sociological implications in this, not the least of which is the downward pressure it places on a population’s IQ.
There’s a reason why marriage between 1st cousins is culturally taboo in most European cultures. Inbred stupidity is the reason.
While what you say is accurate, there are other factors that have more bearing in the conflict with Israel, such as faith and corruption, than average IQ of people that are not in charge of economics or the military.
In charge is one thing… but leaders need reliable people to be led… not idiots who set their car bombs to the wrong time zone so they blow up while they are still driving them.
Actually, there is little evidence that marriage between 1st cousins lowers IQ overall in subsequent generations. There is evidence that IQ is linked to relatively rare alleles which, if present in one genetic line, can combine to lower IQ. The problem is that there is very scant research into this area due to taboo’s in the scientific community.
Here is an interesting paper: “Effect of inbreeding on IQ and mental retardation”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC392897/
I will give you the “money shot” or summation of the statistical analysis if you or others don’t care to read the entire thing as the math gets fairly dense.
“We could hardly ask for better agreement, which supports the assumption that the decline of IQ with inbreeding is entirely due to rare, recessive genes”
Your figures are not correct not even at the sight you link to. I can find other places that have the average IQ in Israel anywhere from 95 to 106. Regardless, they are still 10pts or more over any other mid east country.
115 IQ are Ashkenazi Jews, Israel’s overall IQ is lower than America. There are many ethnic groups of Jews.
To find them all in one place at one time is amazing.
Nasrallah and the generals in both Lebanon and Iran must not be sleeping too well these days.
Two weeks ago, they would have used Zoom, but… They used the discount version Boom! instead.
The Gulf Arab states must be quietly cheering as they know Iran is the source for all these terror networks. More to come I hope and please don’t tip off our State Dept or any other DC agency..
Congratulations, Israel! Although why they were all in one place is a puzzle. Guess they couldn’t do Facetime on their phones …
They can’t. They’ve been having some difficulty with their electronics lately.
Almost like that was level 3 of the chess game.
I think the word they are looking for is “funnel.”
Smug and overconfident that Israel couldn’t fight back while working on 2 fronts.
They damn near got killed just doing ButtTime.
Outstanding! It’s about god damn time that Israel struck back.
Eliminate a dozen here, eliminate a dozen there. Pretty soon you’re talking real elimination.
Thank you to IDF.
Thank you to Bibi.
Thank you to any nonIsraelis who have contributed in this effort.
Blessings to all of you.
Thank you above all to the Master of the Universe.
Related, on the 3,000 pagers, on Twitter: According to a leaked document from Hezbollah intelligence, 879 died in pager explosions, out of which 291 senior commanders. 509 were blinded, and 1735 “injured in their reproductive organs”, out of which 906 “total damage” and 613 “permanent function damage”.
If this is true, it makes more sense than just the 12 dead that I have otherwise seen reported. However, specific counts by type of injury and function seems a bit improbable in this time frame.
David’s new cordless sling!
Genderqueers! lol
It is obvious these terrorist will stop at nothing to crush Israel. They are too stupid and have no other lives except war and hate. It’s also obvious to Israel that if any group, including Iran, gets a nuclear weapon they will use it with no regrets. I know the Mossad has very good info on Iran’s production of Uranium but I wonder how they will react when it becomes critical. If ever the Middle East needed Trump it is now!
I just want to say that i never saw this coming.
In a million years, I never would have imagined that this kind of thing could be accomplished.
I am not much of a praying man, but I pray for further unexpected positive developments, and who knows , maybe even a period of peace and cooperation among former adversaries in the region.
— to the benefit of all. Wouldn’t that be some thing.
“In a million years, I never would have imagined that this kind of thing could be accomplished.”
I want the movie rights. This will be bigger than all the Mission Impossibles and the Alan Turing movie combined!
Oh, damn — I forgot who runs Hollywood. 😝
Wouldn’t it be remarkable if Hassan Nasrallah could be captured alive, and then delivered to MAJDAL SHAMS for questioning and disposition.
Mossad has probably known where every one of these people were for years. Smug terrorists are delusional about their power.
Hezbollah attacking Israel signed their own death warrants as Israel now had justification to retaliate.
Somebody ought to put together a list a list — just a straightforward non-melodramatic list — of what Hezballah has done since its formation.
Let the world see it all in one place.
I’d bet money that the vast majority of Americans have no idea. No idea at all.
Been looking for a good example of
FAFO
Found it!
I wonder if 7 Oct was the stick that poked the hornet’s nest.
I wonder as well if those celebrating this date by various nefarious acts on campuses nationwide realize that they too have now been identified
Beasts pee upon them.
Three hours later, just got it.
Rest in pieces a-holes.
“1735 “injured in their reproductive organs”,
Now that’s what I’m talking
About!
Luckily, we have a new crop of doctors well versed in gender-maiming care.
From SNL when it was funny:
Knock knock.
Who’s there?
Ka
Ka who?
Ka-whom lol
Interesting how the FJB administration is curiously quiet about these developments.
Joe doesn’t know because the news hasn’t yet hit Sesame Street.
Strangely, same for Jill.
Good article with some background:
“Three thousand beepers exploded this week, killing a bunch of Hezbollah terrorists and some innocents. Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon lost an eye in the attack.
After that attack, Hezbollah began using walkie-talkies, and they exploded.
When the terrorists decided to meet in person in Lebanon Friday, someone bombed the meeting.”
Also, Israel apparently did not tamper with the Hezbollah devices that exploded, but manufactured them as part of an elaborate ruse. And “the best part of the story—if you hate Islamo-Nazi terrorists, anyway—Hezbollah paid for its own rigged and exploding pagers.”
https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2024/09/21/this-may-be-the-most-ingenious-part-about-israels-exploding-pager-attacks-n4932717
Knew where they’d be and when they’d be there. Gotta be scary.
Almost one year later, Blinken and Sullivan are still saying “diplomacy” will work? Are they delusional or completely clueless.
Israel is leading the fight against terrorists and terrorism for all of the world’s people who prefer peace and freedom. Thank the LORD for Israel’s courage and willingness to do what everyone else is unwilling to do.
I wonder how much of this happened because they had no choice but meeting face to face because they could no longer trust their radios or pagers?