AUGUST 26, 2024

FIRST ROUND OF RETALIATION 

Hezbollah had just completed the first round of retaliation against Israel for the killing of Commander Fuad Shukr  when it launched an all-out massive attack with hundreds of missiles at dawn on Sunday deep into the occupied Palestinian territories; Israel had to declare an emergency and is on high alert with a shutdown of Ben Gurion Airport, and the closure of beaches in Haifa, while panic is spreading across Israel as air raid sirens sound, and prime minister Netanyahu is rushed to an underground bunker; Hezbollah leader Sayyed Nasrullah confirms the primary target of Operation Arbaeen was the central Glilot base of Israeli military intelligence Aman and Unit 8200, located near Tel Aviv, while the second target was the air defence base in Ein Shima, situated 75km from Lebanon and 40km from Tel Aviv and these were targeted primarily based on their being a military installation, directly related to the killing of martyred Shukr, located deep inside the occupied territory and close to Tel Aviv; the initial phase of the operation was focused on targeting sites and barracks in northern occupied Palestine with the 340 rockets intended to exhaust and deplete the Iron Dome and interceptor missiles resulting in the dismantling of 11 IDF military bases, thus paving the way for phase two where swarms of drones were sent toward the two primary targets, Nasrullah explained; on the Israeli military’s claim, which Netanyahu endorsed, that it destroyed thousands of missiles and missile launchers in a pre-emptive strike, the Hezbollah leader said this is false, as no rocket or drone launch pad was hit before the operation, and the enemy did not have any intel, and all its raids an hour before the operation were the result of the natural movement of the fighters on the ground, adding: “We are facing a false Israeli narrative and its intelligence failure”, stressing the Israeli claim about bombing strategic and precision guided missiles are “sheer lies”, as the Resistance did not use such weapons in the operation, although this does not mean the Resistance would not use them in the near future; he further pointed out the sites targeted by the occupation forces on the outskirts of towns were either empty or had been long evacuated at the request of martyr Fuad Shukr.


 

 

DID IRAN COORDINATE WITH HEZBOLLAH? 

Hours before Hezbollah fired ‘over 300 rockets and drones’, Major General Salami, chief of Iran’s elite IRGC force, on the night of August 24 said, ‘You’ll hear good news about revenge’, and the following morning, Hezbollah launched a massive rocket and drone blitz on Israel, while the Iran-backed Islamic Resistance in Iraq also launched a fresh drone strike towards the Israeli port city of Haifa on the same day of August 25 aiming at a ‘vital target’ of Israel in the southern city; analysts say this could mean Iran is co-ordinating the response, but leaving all the details of the planning and execution of Operation Arbaeen totally in the hands of Hezbollah and the Iraqi resistance; meanwhile Israeli media reported that an Israeli naval sergeant was killed and two others were wounded aboard a Super Dvora Mark III-class patrol boat when the vessel – the latest generation of the Dvora family of fast patrol boats or fast attack craft (FPB/FAC), equipped with a state of the art thrust vectoring control Articulated Surface Drives (ASD) while holding various armaments, from automatic grenade launchers, AGM-114 Hellfire missiles, SPIKE NLOS missiles, and 30mm cannons in its armoury – was struck by shrapnel off the northern coast of occupied Palestine near Nahariya during Hezbollah’s retaliatory strikes early Sunday; the shrapnel allegedly came from an Iron Dome missile that had attempted to intercept a Hezbollah drone, according to the Israeli occupation army’s claim.


 

 

US POWERLESS TO DEFEND ISRAEL IN HEZBOLLAH STRIKES 

The Sun.com, a US online edition of The Sun, Britain’s largest newspaper (it takes two Anglo Saxons to tango), reported on the arrival of a squadron of 12 of the latest Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor fighter jets in Israel on the night of August 24 amid the threat of a retaliatory attack by Iran and its regional allies; their arrival was seen as a final warning to Iran and Hezbollah to back off from threatening northern Israel, ostensibly with the “noble” objective of preventing Iran from starting World War Three – when the actual aggressor is Israel who had transgressed international laws and infringed Iran’s sovereignty by the terrorist act of assassinating Hamas negotiator Ismail Haniyeh – by patrolling skies around Israel’s borders and hammering any missile threat from Iran; the US online news portal was obviously indulging in psy-op warfare on behalf of Israel when it describes the undetectable (stealth) Raptors as the world’s most advanced warplanes, carrying six radar-guided, medium-range air-to-air missiles, short-range Sidewinder rockets, and 480-round Gatling guns that can decimate ground forces; it turns out the Raptor became irrelevant and of little help to the defence of Israel when the Hezbollah’s retaliation came, which gels very well with what Hezbollah leader Nasrallah says that the enemy (Israel) did not have any intel, as it is very dependent on US intel; apparently the US too has no intel to spare Israel, and so an important implication of this intelligence failure is that without Iran/Hezbollah telegraphing the date and time of its retaliation in contrast to the April 13 strike, the US is powerless to do anything despite projecting power and force in the Mediterranean by saturating the seas and skies with aircraft carriers, missile submarine and stealth fighter jets, which will only cause the bankruptcy of the US as these warships and fighter jets are akin to a massive grounded planes of an airline where costs keep piling upon piling the longer they are grounded.


 

 

THE ZIONIST DIMENSION OF FRANCE’S ARREST OF TELEGRAM CEO AND FOUNDER

Anti-Israel hackers have published extensive amounts of classified data as Israel continues its struggle to contain leaks, Turkiye-based Anadolu Agency reported, citing the Israeli daily Haaretz; the cyber-attacks that started on October 7, 2023, have targeted several entities, involving tens of thousands of sensitive documents and emails stolen from Israeli institutions, including military and defence contractors, hospitals and government ministries and even the Justice Ministry; Israel’s cybersecurity infrastructure has been overwhelmed by the scale of the breach, the “true extent of the damage to Israel’s security and economy is not yet fully known”; American commentator Jackson Hinkle also mentioned that anti-Israel hackers have published the information on Telegram and the founder of the Telegram messaging app, Pavel Durov, who had “refused Israel’s request to censor them,” was detained by the French authorities; meanwhile Israel has tried to mitigate the damage through legal steps and direct talks with tech giants like Google, Amazon and Meta, however hackers have been using decentralized hosting services and “onion domains” which obscure the source of the data and obstruct takedown efforts.

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