Category: Rockets

Hizballah launches rockets, drones into Northern Israel in largest attack since October 7

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SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/06/hizballah-launches-rockets-drones-into-northern-israel-in-largest-attack-since-october-7; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes:

Hizballah, along with Hamas, is an Iranian proxy. The key player is obviously Iran, which is being emboldened, not just by unity among the Muslim ummah, but by the weakness of the Biden administration. The one positive thing that America has done was veto the application of “Palestine” for full membership in the UN in mid-April. Iran and its proxies still view America as an ally of Israel.

In a report by Foreign Affairs:

Iran understands that Israel is a nuclear state with superior conventional capabilities and that war with Israel would ultimately mean war with the United States. Israel, for its part, knows that a larger conflict with Iran would compel Hezbollah to fire many more missiles at Israeli cities and military facilities. Still, if a tenuous truce between Iran and Israel is to be held, Washington must remain deeply engaged.

At a deeper level, it also comes down to America versus Iran, a nightmare scenario for the Biden administration as it faces upcoming elections.

The latest Hizballah attack, described as the largest since October 7,  is testing the Biden administration’s resolve in the war on Gaza. So far, the administration has waffled, which sends the message to Iran and its proxies to continue advancing. Iran’s acting Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani has warned Israel against attacking Lebanon. But Israel has proven that it will defend itself.

“Residents of the North are used as cannon fodder’: Local leaders respond to Hezbollah’s barrage,” by Yael Halfon and Maya Gur Arieh, Jerusalem Post, June 13, 2024:

Following multiple rocket sirens and hostile aircraft alerts sounded in northern Israel on Thursday afternoon, local leaders responded to the barrage and lack of government response.

Moshe Davidovich, head of the Mateh Asher Regional Council, said, “The North is attacked continuously and non-stop." The residents of the north are used as cannon fodder for Nasrallah’s whims, and the Israeli government is falling asleep while standing.”

“We demand the government present an immediate plan to maintain the security of northern residents. It was also decided that if such a plan is not presented by the beginning of July, we will take a series of steps to be announced later.”

Lobby 1701, a group representing thousands of northern residents, also responded to Thursday’s Hezbollah barrage, stating, “The Israeli government is endangering the settlements of northern Israel." Destruction, fires, and not a word from the government.”

Israel-Hamas war: Hezbollah terrorists fire heavy rockets at IDF | LiveNOW from FOX

The militant Hezbollah group downed an Israeli drone over southern Lebanon and fired heavy rockets at an Israeli military base. Hezbollah continues to target militants and civilian homes. Meanwhile, Israeli Defense Forces continue to push on Gaza's city of Rafah. Hezbollah fighters struck a Hermes 900 Kochav drone while firing along the Lebanon-Israel border. According to Israel war room, Hezbollah fired missiles at Israel on Sunday, with sirens sounding in northern Israel. Israeli Defense Forces fired at Hezbollah terror targets in southern Lebanon on Sunday. IDF warned civilians to remain in bomb shelters. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on X, 'Israel's conditions for ending the war have not changed: The destruction of Hamas' military and governing capabilities, the freeing of all hostages and ensuring that Gaza no longer poses a threat to Israel.'

Iran: As rockets hit Israel, parliamentarians scream ‘Death to America,’ ‘Death to Israel,’ hail ‘warriors of Islam’

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SEE:https://www.jihadwatch.org/2024/04/iran-as-rockets-hit-israel-parliamentarians-scream-death-to-america-death-to-israel-hail-warriors-of-islam; republished below in full, unedited, for informational, educational, & research purposes: 

Time for Old Joe to send them another $10 billion. That’ll fix everything.

Note also that they congratulate the “warriors of Islam.” The foes of Israel constantly frame the conflict in Islamic terms, while Western analysts constantly ignore the Islamic aspects of it. Find out why this is so damaging in The Palestinian Delusion.

“Iran’s Majles Members Celebrate Report of Missile and UAV Attack against Israel with chants of ‘Death to America! Death to Israel!,'” MEMRI, April 14, 2024:

On April 14, 2024, IRINN TV (Iran) aired footage of Iran’s Majles members celebrating the first reports of a missile and UAV attack against Israel. The Majles members chanted “Death to America!”, “Death to Israel!”, and “Congratulations to the warriors of Islam!”

Gaza human shields: Rockets inside girl’s bed, weapons transferred inside baby strollers

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SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/11/gaza-human-shields-rockets-inside-girls-bed-weapons-transferred-inside-baby-strollers;

Republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, & research purposes.

Jihadists will use any means, and go to limitless lengths — no matter how immoral and abusive — to accomplish their goals. The propaganda war in Gaza being waged by Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other jihadists includes the use of human shields for the explicit purpose of racking up the tally of the dead so that the large number of casualties can be used against Israel for propaganda purposes. For Hamas, dead civilians, including children, means more “martyrs” and more supporters globally. 

Hamas has been issuing open calls for Gazans to serve as human shields since the start of Operation Swords of Iron. But the practice isn’t new. It has been a longtime strategy of the Palestinian jihad. For example, a Palestinian mother was caught teaching her son that “we were not created for happiness. In my eyes, you are meant for Martyrdom!”

“Rockets inside a girl’s bed: IDF reveals more evidence of Hamas’ use of civilians,” Israel National News, November 16, 2023:

Rockets were found inside a bed in the children’s bedroom inside the house of a Hamas terrorist during operational activity carried out by the troops of the 551st Brigade. The terrorist was a part of a Hamas terrorist cell in Beit Hanoun.

During the operational activity, the troops uncovered a significant amount of weapons, including rockets, explosive devices, and dozens of kilos of explosives.

The weapons were subsequently destroyed by the forces.

In addition, the IDF discloses a recorded conversation between two Islamic Jihad terrorists, in which the terrorists describe how weapons are transferred inside baby strollers…..

Forty drone and rocket attacks launched at U.S. forces by Iranian-backed militias in three weeks

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SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/11/forty-drone-and-rocket-attacks-launched-at-u-s-forces-by-iranian-backed-militias-in-three-weeks;

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It’s now laid bare for the whole world to see: the Palestinian “resistance,” funded by Iran, and openly supported by the Muslim Brotherhood and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, is all about Islam. Israel was left with no choice but to defend itself from attempts to obliterate it by Hamas, the Palestinian Authority and surrounding jihadist groups. A confrontation between Iran and the US is already escalating. America is sliding toward the brink.

In the last three weeks, “at least 40 separate drone and rocket attacks have been launched at U.S. forces by Iranian-backed militias in Iraq and Syria.” One of the attacks was caught on camera in the tweet below:

Biden has now found himself in a situation where he can no longer afford to appease the Islamic lobbies with which he made a pact. Normative Islam is supremacist at its core, and will not compromise, as America and the West now face off against the jihadis in what was an inevitable battle. Israel’s battle in Gaza against Hamas will not stop with Israel. Islam seeks a global caliphate, and Israel, being the tiniest, lone non-Muslim state in the conquered Middle East, stands as an affront to Islam. Hence the persistent attacks by Arab states, which began upon Israel’s founding. Even before that, Jewish immigration to the homeland of the Jews was violently “resisted” by Muslims.

Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary for the Middle East Dana Stroul confirmed: “Hamas has been using civilians as human shields, has blocked the delivery of humanitarian aid, and continues to hold at least 200 civilians.” And that the “department’s commitment to Israel’s right to defend itself from terrorism is ‘ironclad.’”

It isn’t new information that Hamas has been using human shields, while the Palestinian Authority teaches and hails “martyrdom.” Palestinian children even attend jihad summer camp.

It isn’t only the Muslim Brotherhood offshoot Hamas that is being fought. Islam and jihad conquest are central to this escalating Gaza battle.

“US forces under fire in the Middle East as America slides towards the brink,” by Phil Stewart, Idrees Ali and Ahmed Rasheed, Reuters, November 9, 2023:

WASHINGTON/BAGHDAD, Nov 9 (Reuters) – A defective drone in Iraq may have helped keep America from being dragged deeper into a widening Middle East conflict.

The drone, which was launched at the Erbil air base by an Iranian-backed militia before sunrise on Oct. 26, penetrated U.S. air defenses and crashed into the second floor of the barracks housing American troops at about 5 a.m, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

But the device laden with explosives failed to detonate and in the end, only one service member suffered a concussion from the impact, said the officials, who asked to remain anonymous to speak freely about the attack. The U.S. had got lucky, they added, as the drone could have caused carnage had it exploded.

The incident was among at least 40 separate drone and rocket attacks that have been launched at U.S. forces by Iranian-backed militias in Iraq and Syria over the past three weeks in response to American support for Israel in the Gaza war, according to Pentagon data and the two U.S. officials….