The Israeli military said about 100 of its fighter jets “struck and destroyed thousands of Hezbollah rocket launcher barrels” across dozens of launch sites from Lebanon on Sunday.

Hezbollah said the “first phase” of its strikes against Israel “ended with complete success,”claiming that it launched 320 rockets and a barrage of drones toward Israel.

Hezbollah said it carried out strikes towards Israel in response to the killing of top military commander Fu’ad Shukr last month in the southern suburbs of Beirut, a populous neighborhood that is also the Iran-backed group’s stronghold.

  • Hegar@fedia.io
    405·
    21 days ago

    ”pre-emptive" now means brutal and unnecessary violence designed to save the political career of a tyrant?

    Even CNN felt the need to scare-quote the term in the headline and the article, since it’s obviously a lie.

    • nonailsleft@lemm.ee
      217·
      20 days ago

      How is it not pre-emptive if Hezbollah was indeed setting up the ol’ rocket barrage?

      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        19 days ago

        How is it not pre-emptive if Hezbollah was indeed setting up the ol’ rocket barrage?

        Psst. How was Israel ready to launch a surprise war of aggression unless it was already setting up weapons?

        Remind me which countries get to arm weapons without alarming their neighbours and which don’t get to, again? I need to know which countries get secret violence advantages over the others.

        • nonailsleft@lemm.ee
          1·
          19 days ago

          Sure! If you can tell me a bit more on the ‘surprise war of aggression’ you’re referencing I’'ll be happy to comment

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    323·
    21 days ago

    Deliberately antagonizing sovereign states. That’s awesome. We should give them more weapons. /s

    Fuck zionists in their stupid asses.

    • oberstoffensichtlich@feddit.orgEnglish
      25·
      20 days ago

      Lebanon is barely sovereign as a huge chunk of their country is ruled by the terrorist Hezbollah militia.

      If Hezbollah could just chill and not attack Israel, nothing would happen in Lebanon.

      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
        11·
        19 days ago

        Lebanon is barely sovereign as a huge chunk of their country is ruled by the terrorist Hezbollah militia.

        Again, it seems some countries can be ruled by genocidal terrorists and it’s cool, but some can’t – can we get a list of which countries genocide’s cool in and which it’s not? It doesn’t appear that Hezbollah is anywhere on par with a genocidal land thief like Bibi.

        • oberstoffensichtlich@feddit.orgEnglish
          1·
          19 days ago

          Funny how you think a genocidal Islamist terrorist group is somehow the good guys. Of course your reason is that Israel is the most evil country in the world.

          • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
            11·
            19 days ago

            Nope. I think all genocidal nutjobs cloaking themselves under a religion to hide their cruelty and menace are evil nutjobs.

            That’s 👏 the 👏 fucking 👏 point 👏.

            Catch up.

  • SPRUNT@lemmy.world
    163·
    20 days ago

    Israel is using the American police defense of “I was scared so I had to kill them”.