Israel announces ground offensive and pursues its criminal activities
Featured image: Israeli tanks at the Lebanese border. Source: Al Jazeera
This morning, Israel announced the beginning of a ground offensive in southern Lebanon. Tanks were seen close to the Israel-Lebanon border. The Israeli military ordered the evacuation of 25 villages in souther Lebanon, still without having made any kind of declaration of war. Although first, UN troops deployed at the border and Hezbollah denied Israeli forced having crossed the border, the invasion is now confirmed by most sides. Hezbollah denies the ground offensive so far.
This joins the long list of crimes committed by the State of Israel, in the whole region of Middle East in general, and in Lebanon in particular. According to recent reports, more than 80 children have been murdered by Israel during this criminal aggression. The Lebanese Ministry of Health has released its daily report indicating that 95 individuals have lost their lives and 172 have sustained injuries in the past 24 hours due to the Israeli aggression. Among the attacked targets by Israel there is the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh, which is a very densely populated camp, with more than 130,000 people living there.
On the other hand, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) stated that it should be a concentrated and “limited” and not a large-scale offensive. Even Hassan Nasrallah had said shortly before his assassination, he would “invite you to come to Lebanon” and that it would be a great opportunity for the Lebanese resistance. But Israel is aware of that as well as of the mountainous terrain between the border and the center of the country, and fearing to lead another asymmetric war, they remain focusing on air strikes that are direct and coward assaults on the whole population.
The Lebanese resistance is also responding to the Israeli aggression by launching several missiles on Tel Aviv.
There were several drones sent from Yemen, of which, according to Ansar Allah, two reached their targets, in Tel Aviv and Eilat. and Hezbollah attacked again the Mossad headquarters in the suburbs of Tel Aviv with rockets.
On the other hand reportedly Iran has launched an unknown number of missiles at Israel this evening, on Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
Meanwhile Yankee imperialism displays the most extreme hypocrisy by, on the one hand stating that they want a ceasefire and it has to be “right now”. Joe Biden is in charge to express the “deep concerns” about the escalation in the region. On the other hand, in one statement signed by the president of the US, issued by the White House, US government praised the murder of Hassan Nasrallah and stated that “The United States fully supports Israel’s right to defend itself against Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis and any other Iranian-supported terrorist groups.” By stating that, Yankee imperialism makes very clear the respect they have for the so-called international laws and the laws of war, defending in practice the right of a country to attack another one. Also now the White House issued a new statement, ordering US military to shoot down Iranian missiles.
