OH wait, that is Top Hezzbo Operatives!
my bad.
On me
Posted on 08/06/2006 9:08:16 AM PDT by do the dhue
JERUSALEM, Israel -- The Israeli government announced today that it captured a key Hezbollah operative during commando raids deep into Lebanon, and that it was currently holding twenty Hezbollah fighters as prisoners-of-war.
Over the past week, Israel has conducted two deep-penetration operations behind enemy lines, to attack Hezbollah positions in Tyre and Baalbek where they believed civilians might also be present.
Stung by international criticism that it has bombed civilians by accident in Lebanon, "we have preferred to risk the lives of our own soldiers than to kill innocents," military sources told NewsMax.
The Israeli cabinet met this morning in Jerusalem to get intelligence and operational briefings on the fighting.
Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin, head of Israeli Military Intelligence, told the cabinet that one of the twenty Hezbollah fighters captured during the commando raids over the past two weeks was a mid-level Hezbollah operative who was personally involved in planning and carrying out the July 12 kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers.
The cross-border kidnapping, and Hezbollah's rocket strikes against Haifa later the same day, were the events that sparked the current fighting.
Cabinet sources told Newsmax that Israel was "hitting all trucks coming from Syria" in an effort to prevent Syria and Iran from resupplying Hezbollah in Lebanon.
"Iran is supporting Hezbollah in every way possible, including intelligence and operations," the sources said. Iran was also providing Hezbollah "with intelligence on Israel," they added.
Until now, the Red Cross has not visited any of the 20 Hezbollah captives, the sources said.
Syria has placed its military forces on high alert. To avoid an accidental clash that could lead to war, "Israel has let Syria know that it has no intention of attacking Syria," the prime minister's office said. "We have had no reaction from the Syrians."
However, the official said "we know of no reduction" in arms shipments from Syria to Hezbollah.
"Syria and Iran are working in conjunction" to supply Hezbollah with weaponry and to keep the terrorist organization from collapsing faced with the Israeli military onslaught.
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah "is now hiding in a bunker," lessening his ability to meet with other Hezbollah leaders.
Israeli military intelligence believes that Lebanese public opinion toward Hezbollah has shifted in recent days. "Instead of being seen as the defender of Lebanon, Nasrallah is now seen by Lebanese as the destroyer of Lebanon," Maj. Gen. Yadlin told the cabinet this morning.
In the deadliest attack in the war to date, more than ten Israeli civilians were killed when a Hezbollah rocket hit the Kfar Giladi kibbutz this afternoon, just south of Metulla, on Israel's border with Lebanon.
"It was a direct hit on a crowd of people," Maj. Gen. Dan Ronen, the chief of the northern police command, told Israel Army Radio.
Rockets also crashed into Haifa and Nahariya along the coast, and into a half dozen smaller cities along the Lebanese border in the north, according to the Jerusalem Post.
Is this the ranking Hizbu they captured earlier this week?
Well, the article describes the captured operative as "mid-level", not "top". The title is hyped.
(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em Down Hezbullies.)
A thread scrolled by a couple days ago. Probably from the raid on Baalbek HQ (hospital).
It may be a different raid. There have been several.
Great Screen Name BTW
A blatant war crime on the part of the Israelis.....
I've been saying this for days because it's inevitable that the Lebanese, who already resent Syria's meddling and Hizbollah's swaggering well-armed militia that's a state within the state, will turn on Hizbollah who took action that brought war without the consent of the Lebanese and for the benefit of Iran and Syria. The Lebanese would have to be consumed with a Buchanan like obsession with the Jews to not see through Hizbollah and its masters. Ideas have consequences, as the old conservative saying goes, and Hizbollahs idea that it can lose a war without any or that it will be saved by the Europeans before it loses, are about to be shattered by reality.
Pffffft! Do what you gotta do Israel! We support you!
20 Hezbollah captives
Take no prisoners that you will be forced to "release" later to "make peace"
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Has the Red Cross visited and reported on the condition of the Israeli soldiers that were captured?
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