Posted on 08/27/2024 7:17:48 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Monday that 90% of the Hezbollah rockets that were intercepted Sunday were fired from civilian areas in southern Lebanon, a further violation of international law by the Iran-backed terror group.
In a statement, the IDF said:
Early Sunday morning, following the detection of preparations by Hezbollah to launch missiles and rockets aimed toward the north and the center of the State of Israel, the IDF struck Hezbollah targets that posed an immediate threat.
During the strike, about 230 launches and 20 aerial targets were identified crossing into Israeli territory.
The Hezbollah terrorist organization places its terrorist infrastructure in the middle of the civilian population while using Lebanese civilians as human shields. 90% of the launches were from the heart of a civilian area, near civilian facilities such as mosques, schools, UN sites, etc.
Hezbollah and Hamas, a Palestinian terror group, both follow the practice of hiding weapons among civilians so that if Israel attacks the weapons sites, there will be civilian casualties for which Israel will be blamed — even though intentionally exposing civilians to enemy fire is a violation of international humanitarian law by the terrorists.
Israel launched a preemptive strike targeting thousands of Hezbollah rocket launchers before the terror organization attacked. One of the targets of Hezbollah had reportedly been Tel Aviv. Hezbollah was seeking to avenge the death of its second-in-command, Fuad Shukr, killed by Israel last month. Shukr was also linked to the U.S. Marines barracks bombing in 1983 that killed 241 U.S. servicemen.
Hezbollah’s very presence in southern Lebanon is a violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701 of 2006, which requires southern Lebanon to be demilitarized.
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There are no civilian areas. Any civilians are used basically as human shields. The rest are not civilians..
Savages. Kill them all.
And their families.
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Mostly peaceful rockets?
There are no civilian areas. Any civilians are used basically as human shields. The rest are not civilians..
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I suspect that the lines between ‘civilian’ and ‘military’ are somewhat blurred in this case.
But also, it is no surprise. The flip side of the coin that is the use civilians as shields is that they also wouldn’t want to expose the location of their weapon’s caches.
So I would say for both those reasons, it’s no surprise at all.
Hide the assets, but also, if there is a retaliation on a launch site and there is civilian collateral damage, they can use it as propaganda material.
But, isn’t intercepting missiles a form of genocide?
The Hizzies will have to be wiped right off the face of the Earth, because once this heat is off, they'll retaliate against actual Lebanese, as well as continuing to build up for their next attack against Israel.
There are NO CIVILIAN AREAS THAT LAUNCH ROCKETS!
Hezbollah regards everyone in their occupied territories as non-civilian potential martyrs.
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