It's hard to overstate just how extensive Hezbollah's war-infrastructure is in South Lebanon.
One tunnel here or there may not sound like much. But just yesterday, the IDF said it destroyed two vast Hezbollah tunnel systems near Qantara: roughly 2 km of underground infrastructure, up to 25 meters deep, with some 30 rooms and 30 shafts, weapons, bunk beds, and shafts connected to rocket-launch positions aimed at Israel.
Read much of the coverage in the global media since (and before) the ceasefire and one could be forgiven for thinking Israel is in southern Lebanon out of sheer territorial ambition.
But that framing collapses entirely once you take a look at what Israel is actually finding on the ground.
This infrastructure is technologically advanced, labor-intensive, and extremely expensive. All of it built with one explicit purpose: to launch cross-border attacks at Israel's sovereign territory.
And according to independent reporting, these tunnels were built over decades with direct Iranian guidance and funding, “to Iranian standards,” (per: IDF) as part of Hezbollah’s plan to use southern Lebanon as a staging ground for attacks on northern Israel.
That’s the obvious context which is so often missing from coverage of Israel's operation in Lebanon. Hezbollah doesn't just have “fighters” in southern Lebanon. It has spent years turning the area into a fortified military zone with tunnels, launch sites, weapons caches, observation posts, and Radwan Force infrastructure embedded within (and under!) civilian terrain.
Israel isn’t simply bombing empty hills or random villages. It is trying to dismantle a war machine built by one of the best-funded non-state militias on earth. Intelligent observers of this conflict would do well to recognize this fact.
RIP Officer John Bartholomew (38)
Father of 3. Husband. KiIIed in Chicago by a felon on parole with 20+ arrests, Alphanso Talley.
Judge Lyke released him multiple times.
That's a lie. But hey, if you curse a lot, maybe people won't notice that you promote stealing, murder, terrorism, and communism from your multimillion dollar mansion while zapping your dog.
"זה היה הכבוד הכי גדול שלי להגן עליכן ועל המדינה".
אלה היו המילים האחרונות של רס"ב אברהים ח'רובה לתצפיתניות בחמ"ל לפני שנפל.
אברהים הגשש של מוצב נחל עוז הוא אחד מגיבורי השבעה באוקטובר, וקיבל המלצה לעיטור העוז.
באותו בוקר כשהמחבלים פשטו על המוצב איברהים יחד עם חיילים נוספים עמדו להגן על החמ"ל בזמן שמחבלי הנוחבה ניסו לחדור פנימה. איברהים הוביל לחימה עיקשת על דלת החמ"ל, בשלב מסוים התנהלה שיחה בינו למחבלים בערבית, המחבלים ניסו לשכנע אותו להיכנע אך הוא השיב שלעולם הם לא ייכנעו. אברהים חיסל מחבלים רבים מאוד ונלחם עד הכדור האחרון כשבזכות גבורתו בקרב הזה יש חיילים שהצליחו לברוח בחיים מהחמ"ל ולהינצל.
זה סיפור מטורף על ערבי בדואי מוסלמי שהקריב את חייו כדי להציל חיים של יהודים- הוא סמל השותפות והערבות ההדדית. איברהים הוא סמל הגבורה וההקרבה, והסיפור שלו צריך להילמד ולהיזכר לדורות.
אללה ירחמו יהי זכרו ברוך גיבור ישראל🇮🇱🕯
שנהיה ראויים.
Oz came out of the tank alive. He tried to grab the terrorist’s grenade - and was shot.
He was kidnapped to Gaza - and over two years later he returned to his final resting place in the sacred soil of the Holy Land.
Sgt. Oz Daniel was only 19.
Remember our heroes.
Didn't drive her car at an ICE agent.
Didn't try to obstruct an ICE operation.
Was just walking down the street when an illegal alien killed her in cold blood.
And Democrats do not care.
🚨 BREAKING: Major antisemitic arson attack in Golders Green, London destroys all ambulances (at least 4) of Hatzola Northwest — a volunteer Jewish emergency service providing 24/7 medical aid. @Breaking911 has seen footage of the attackers.
Gold Star wife here.
When ISIS killed your wife, you supported going after the people responsible. You understood exactly why we were fighting and never called it “Israel’s war.”
My husband, Alan, was killed by Iranian proxies in Iraq. And now, after decades, the fight is finally leading back to the number one state sponsor of terrorism in the world.
You understood it when it was your loss. Now you’re minimizing it when it’s mine.
You don’t get to redefine this war just because it’s not your grief anymore.
Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard:
“If you think you can target the Jewish community in this county or anywhere in this state, you're wrong. We’re not only gonna stand in front of them to protect them — we’re coming for ya.”
HERO.
You know what? When there are terrorist attacks in the US by extremists I’d prefer that the same politicians and podcasters who egg them on with non stop inflammatory rhetoric and by endorsing Hamas rallies and who refuse to condemn phrases like “Globalize the intifada” and who blame everything on Jews don’t then try to act surprised or sympathetic when these attacks happen. It’s insulting and you’re not fooling anybody. I’d rather Mamdani be more like his wife who probably already smashed the like button a billion times and threw a party at Gracie Mansion. At least she owns it. Give me the straight forward hatred rather than the hypocrisy.
@nntaleb While we can’t predict black swans - we CAN predict that @nntaleb will come out with a wildly anti semitic conspiracy theory to explain something complex.
Can’t even say the word Jews - disappointed in you Nassim. Gone soft!
A little girl in a bomb shelter in Israel is going from dog to dog and petting them to make them calmer, as they are afraid of the sirens and explosions.
I love this.
Heartbreaking. Iran murdered this entire family today in a missile hit in Beit Shemesh.
May Am Israel comfort their grieving relatives and friends.
BDE”. 💔
I asked Army 4-star General Odierno when I was a 1-star why we did nothing while Iran killed many Americans in Iraq. In all, Iran killed 609 Americans in Iraq. He said he was prevented in doing so so by the President. Today, justice was delivered. I wish it was 15 years ago.
Remember, “Palestine” has the right to carry out terrorists attacks forever because of things they (falsely) claim happened decades ago.
But the the US has no right to take out a regime that has taken hostage and murdered Americans for decades.
Makes sense.