Israeli Fighter Jets Buzz Hezbollah Chief Nasrallah’s Beirut Funeral
Israel’s Defense Minister Katz: “Whoever threatens to destroy Israel and attacks Israel – this will be his end.”
Israeli Air Force jets buzzed the funeral of Hezbollah terror chief Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon’s capital Beirut. “Israeli fighter jets were seen flying at low altitude over Beirut on Sunday during the funeral of Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed by Israel,” the Israeli news website YNET reported Sunday.
Israeli Air Force jets over Beirut During Hassan Nasrallah’s Funeral
📸@IDF pic.twitter.com/73iOsQyns9
— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) February 23, 2025
Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz on Sunday confirmed that the IDF planes were flying over Nasrallah’s funeral procession as a reminder to any terrorist wanting to harm the Jewish state. “Planes currently circling in the skies of Beirut over Hassan Nasrallah’s funeral are sending a clear message: Whoever threatens to destroy Israel and attacks Israel – this will be his end,’ Katz said.
The Israeli show of force over Beirut was accompanied by airstrikes on terrorist targets in Hezbollah-dominated western and southern Lebanon. “A short while ago, the IDF conducted a precise intelligence-based strike on a military site containing rocket launchers and weapons in Lebanese territory, in which Hezbollah activity was identified,” the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a press statement Sunday.
Today is Hassan Nasrallah’s funeral.
Today the world is a better place.
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) February 23, 2025
Hezbollah’s attempts to regroup and rearm in southern Lebanon was a violation of the ceasefire agreed by Israel in late November 2024, the IDF warned. “These activities of the Hezbollah terrorist organization are in violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon and constitute a threat to the State of Israel and its civilians,” the Israeli military declared. “The IDF will continue to operate to remove any threat to the State of Israel.”
Thousands of terrorists and their sympathizers appeared panicked as a formation of IAF jets buzzed the funeral gathering in an open-air stadium.
Hezbollah terrorists looked panicked as Israeli jets buzzed Nasrallah’s funeral. pic.twitter.com/2RF0Gkh1gQ
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) February 23, 2025
The Israeli news website Arutz Sheva reported the Defense minister’s warning to Hezbollah:
Defense Minister Israel Katz referred to the Israeli Air Force planes circling in the skies over Beirut during the funeral of former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah saying that this sends a clear and unambiguous message to the terrorist organization.
“The Israeli Air Force planes that are now circling in the skies over Beirut over Hassan Nasrallah’s funeral are conveying a clear message: whoever threatens to destroy Israel and attacks Israel – that will be their end,” Katz said.
He added: “You will specialize in funerals – and we in victories.”
Nasrallah was eliminated in an airstrike on Hezbollah’s underground headquarters in the heart of Beirut in September 2024.
Nasrallah, who led the Iranian proxy terror group Hezbollah for over 32 years, was eliminated in an Israeli airstrike in September 2024. Israel targeted Nasrallah after Hezbollah waged a cross-border terrorist campaign for over a year following Hamas’s October 7 massacre.
If you think about it, Israel is holding a victory parade right above Beirut. pic.twitter.com/QeHNvER1f8
— 𝗡𝗶𝗼𝗵 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗴 ♛ ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) February 23, 2025
Netanyahu halts the release of terrorists unless Hamas ends deranged hostage handover ‘ceremonies’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ‘indefinitely’ halted the release of at least 600 Palestinian terrorists unless Hamas stops staging deranged hostage release ‘ceremonies’ in Gaza.
“In light of Hamas’s repeated violations, including the ceremonies that humiliate our hostages and the cynical exploitation of our hostages for propaganda purposes, it has been decided to delay the release of terrorists that was planned for yesterday until the release of the next hostages has been assured, and without the humiliating ceremonies,” Prime Minister Netanyahu said in a statement Sunday.
In light of Hamas's repeated violations, including the ceremonies that humiliate our hostages and the cynical exploitation of our hostages for propaganda purposes >>
— Prime Minister of Israel (@IsraeliPM) February 23, 2025
The delay in freeing Palestinian terrorists, many of whom are serving multiple life sentences for their murderous crimes, could derail the hostages-for-terrorists deal, which will culminate in a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and may leave Hamas in control of the enclave.
According to the BBC, the “indefinitely delaying the release of more than 600 Palestinian prisoners [is] another potentially major setback in the ceasefire process.”
Phase one of the three-stage hostages-for-terrorists deal is set to end on March 1, when Hamas is expected to hand over the bodies of four hostages murdered in Gaza captivity.
The Times of Israel reported:
Israel is indefinitely delaying the release of Palestinian prisoners who had been slated to be freed Saturday as agreed in a hostage release deal with the Hamas terror group, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office says in a statement.
“In light of the repeated violations by Hamas — including the ceremonies that demean our hostages and the cynical use of our hostages for propaganda purposes — it has been decided to delay the release of terrorists planned for yesterday until the next release of hostages is guaranteed, and without the degrading ceremonies,” a statement from the Prime Minister’s Office reads.
The statement could trigger Israel’s withdrawal from the ceasefire deal following the release of 25 living hostages and the bodies of four others, but with another 63 people still in Gaza, at least two dozen of them still alive.
Four more bodies are slated to be released on Thursday in exchange for more prisoners, in the last planned transfer of the first stage of the agreement.
There are currently no arrangements for another release of living hostages beyond a framework deal whose details remain to be hashed out and whose future remains very much in doubt.
The move comes after Hamas held ceremonies for the release of five Jewish hostages Saturday, even forcing two still-captive Israelis to watch and record a propaganda video. A sixth hostage, who is not Jewish, was released without fanfare.
The disturbing display reached its lowest point when Hamas on Thursday handed over the dead bodies of four supposed Israeli hostages: 83-year-old Oded Lifshitz, Shiri Bibas, and her two young boys.
Hamas erected a special stage and played joyful music on loudspeakers for the grotesque transfer, with dozens of masked terrorists filming the caskets. Thousands of cheerful Gazans, including children, showed up for the macabre event.
Israeli forensic examination later found that the Bibas brothers, Ariel (five-year-old ) and Kfir (nine-month-old), were murdered by Hamas terrorists with their bare hands. The Gaza-based terrorist group had handed over the body of a random Palestinian woman in place of their mother Shiri Bibas, in a desperate bid to cover up her brutal murder.
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Should have broken the sound barrier when flying over the funeral. Also should have dropped leaflets.
I would also have sent in drones and taken out known terrorists in the crowd. Missed opportunity.
Napalm would be better, Hassan Nasrallah wants company.
Or a JDAM or two.
I think the IDF has the capability to send those leaflets via a text to all of the savages attending his funeral.
Notice that we have one of those savages down voting.
Perhaps next time there is a funeral for a Hamas terrorist, instead of fighter jets, they could do a fly-over with a Cessna pulling a brightly colored banner with a big smiley face on it. Okay, it may be a bit too cruel, adolescent and mean-spirited, but I think it’s been well-earned by the Gazans.
Was this Gaza or Lebanon?
Hezbollah not Hamas. Lebanon not Gaza. Unless you were talking in the abstract.
Buzz? MOAB would have been a better option, but I’m silly that way.
Same for me.
Have you experienced the sound of an afterburner as a fighter disappears into the heavens?
Intimidation is a great deterrent, and a low-level supersonic pass would have accentuated the point.
There is no bargaining with these savages.
“Intimidation is a great deterrent”
The thousands of people who turned out for the funeral didn’t seem very intimidated by the possibility that the IDF would massacre them. (An act that the regulars in this comment section would have applauded, apparently.)
As you applaud the Jew haters, apparently.
Sorry; my bad. I forgot that here, in the LI comment-section echo chamber, it really is necessary to explain that “objection to massacring Arabs” does not automatically equal “support for Jew-haters”.
Yes, your bad. You go out of your way to make it gratuitous. The act of a loser. You support the baby killers. See how easy the game is to play? In this case, however, you have shown where you stand, and it sounds like the people singing off key, in your own echo chamber of false virtue.
When you only chime in to advocate against killing terrorists…
“Echo chamber?”
LOL. The proprietors of this fine establishment still allow you and JR to still post here, don’t they?
Need a tissue?
Stop whining, concern troll.
You’re not objecting to massacring Arabs, though.
You’re being a concern troll about killing all of the terrorists in Gaza. Which includes vast numbers of the “civilians” – who really aren’t.
So, we slam you every time you show up to play the victim card for an entire nation of terrorists.
I would have applauded it, because everyone at that funeral was guilty. They all support Hizballah, and that makes them all share its guilt.
Unfortunately the IDF lawyers and the Israeli legal dictators don’t share that opinion.
A people, for better or worse, are always responsible for their leaders. They either put them there, neglect to remove them when they are able to do so, or allowed themselves to be put in a position (usually by allowing themselves to be disarmed) that makes it impossible for them to remove them. In any event, the people are responsible.
The nature of this particular event at least assured that those who attended it share in the guilt by giving active support, and were not those merely guilty as part of the collective.
We can hope that Israel changes their approach. A large loss of life and property has always been how wars end.
The roar of the burner would be punctuated by the shock wave. Doing it with an F-15 disappearing vertically in the heavens would add to the effect.
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That is what I am referring to, an F-15 rolling vertically out of sight.
A very stupid stunt.
Perhaps for a Palestinian sympathizer with scant understanding from far far away.
More of an unsubtle reminder of relative power and the current forbearance by Israel in choosing, at this time, not to utilize their full military might.
I wonder how many at the funeral were injured by the rocks that were thrown at the jets, as they returned to Earth.
Des
But murdering innocent Israeli hostages is perfectly okay with you, right?
The sanctimonious clown was nowhere to be found on the 4 or 5 articles regarding the “Palestinians'” disgusting ceremony this week, but here is lecturing everyone about the poor, little Arab terrorist supporters.
I bet he lives in Dearborn and is Arab, speaking of Dearborn, they will be a problem.
He claims to be “serving” in a Latin American country.
A very retarded post.
Why? I’m not a pilot; is there something particularly dangerous about that maneuver?
Not as stupid as your stunts.
His stunts are not cunning.
Good opportunity wasted to test bunker buster bombs we just gave Israel.
Save those for the right targets. Sounds like a waste to use bunker busters when there are no bunkers to bust.
Fuel-air would be the correct tactical approach.
napalm or white phosphorus is cheaper. Israel is already accused of using the latter so might as well make the accusation accurate.
A fitting tribute.
Describes your comments.
Target rich environment could have really got more bang for the buck. Everyone at that funeral were there to see the terrorist mastermind. In my mind they’re all terrorists and should have been wiped out completely to the last.
I can only see two valid reasons to be there.
Children of the deceased and other close family members are obligated to honor their dead, no matter how evil.
The other is to make sure the mamzer is really dead.
I love the fact that it was a missing man formation.
This is what cluster bombs are for.
When the time comes, do not concern yourself with the “thousands of cheerful Gazans, including children, showed up for the macabre event.”
Well it was in Lebanon. Same difference though.
I have an idea for Top Gun 3