Live coverage shot of border with Lebanon.
Looks like it is kicking off Hezbollah just released a statement regarding their air attack with rockets

defense minister gallant discussing situation across the entire country the next 48 hours

question whether this is just a tussle with Hizbullah after smashing their first strike capability or if now Iran will eventually join in

Israel discovered Hezbollah’s attack plans a quarter of an hour before they launched and preempted it with 40 airstrikes. https://t.co/VkhGIryzlE

— Aleph א (@no_itsmyturn) August 25, 2024

as heard in this video

the best thing about Israel is their women and their birds.

great birds - much prettier singing birds than in the USA

Hizbullah probably not ready to first get taken out before they could even get off their first missiles

of course the Biden Administration will not even discuss the fact

that 12 hours ago Hamas rejected a "ceasefire" for the 234th time

LMCane said:

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as heard in this video

the best thing about Israel is their women and their birds.

great birds - much prettier singing birds than in the USA

Hizbullah probably not ready to first get taken out before they could even get off their first missiles

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so , when I had it open I hear multiple bombs going off and also rockets going off and being shot down.
I know in the 6 day war Israel destroyed the Egyptian Air Force at the beginning of the day during rush hour traffic so even pilots trying to get to the base couldn't get there to get up in the air and so the planes were easy targets on the ground. Bird singing sounded nice, I'll admit.

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LMCane said:

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as heard in this video

the best thing about Israel is their women and their birds.

great birds - much prettier singing birds than in the USA

Hizbullah probably not ready to first get taken out before they could even get off their first missiles

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so , when I had it open I hear multiple bombs going off and also rockets going off and being shot down.
I know in the 6 day war Israel destroyed the Egyptian Air Force at the beginning of the day during rush hour traffic so even pilots trying to get to the base couldn't get there to get up in the air and so the planes were easy targets on the ground. Bird singing sounded nice, I'll admit.

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Hizbullah has 100,000 rockets and missiles so just depends how many the IAF could strike right as they were about to launch

so far, Hizbullah only using short range rockets along galilee and golan heights

nothing like a missile or cruise missile or ballistic missiles from Iran

but I see Iranian airspace is clearing from their western side, they usually always fly right along the Iraq border down to the Gulf of Arabia now all planes have moved to the east

no planes up in Israel except one El Al and one ISRAIR both with no destinations listed

probably going to pick up weaponry from someplace

Aircraft type (Q4)

Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton

BLKCAT now up and moving around Eastern Med off the israeli coast

US NAVY

Jordanian airspace will be more telling.

I'd expect IDF, Jordanian, and US forces to have free run of Jordan's airspace if Iran gets feisty in a couple hours like some of the analysts have been saying post a hez attack.

Well that was quick.

Flights to and from Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv have Resumed.

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) August 25, 2024

I lived in Tabuk Saudi Arabia from 1980-1983. IDF F15 would routinely practice low level raids and do touch and go against the Saudi AF in Tabuk. When IDF bombed the Iraq Nuclear Plant the radars in Tabuk were turned off due to "maintenance". No one in the ME wants to mess with Israel in anything other than minor altercations.

Mossad intelligence sources in Lebanon are likely far greater and more reliable than in Gaza. 2/3 of the Lebanese population does not like Hezbollah. Even a lot of the Shia who do only like them for their social welfare programs. Plenty of canaries.

According to the New York Times, Israel’s Pre-Emptive Strikes this morning on Southern Lebanon were aimed at Hezbollah Long-Range Missile Launchers that had been Programmed to fire on Tel Aviv at 5:00am, with all of the Launchers being Targeted and Destroyed by Airstrikes. pic.twitter.com/BCAzhUKYwc

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) August 25, 2024

These guys look like someone pissed in their wheaties, seeing their launchers go boom.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/s/WIzrXztJes

Hizbullah had planned to fire 500 missiles and rockets into Tel Aviv at 0500 Sunday morning.

after all their forces were blasted at 0450 by the Israeli Air Force they ended up firing 300 rockets into galilee

and the only deaths were these chickens

Hezbollah announces that they successfully hit Israel’s military facilities in today’s attack.

The military facility was apparently disguised as a chicken coop.

The chickens were trained as fierce fighters. pic.twitter.com/SWsuGi6IV5

— AG (@AGHamilton29) August 25, 2024

it would be such a boss move for Netanyahu in his next press conference to stand in front of this flag.

"we honor our dear departed members of the Chicken Division who died valiantly from 600 Hizbullah rockets"

This picture has been circulating widely across the Arab and Muslim world under the headline 'Breaking News: Hezbollah has changed its flag,' which now suggests that Israel has won the war against Hezbollah. Israeli chickens stood firm, while Hamas terrorists hid like rats. pic.twitter.com/dwneW2Hy1c

— Amjad Taha أمجد طه (@amjadt25) August 26, 2024

War. Damn. Chicken.

(with apologies to the good folks over at Auburn)

father of 11 from the Bedouin Arab village of Rahat in the south rescued by Shayetet 13 the Navy SEAL commandoes

TODAY: One hostage rescued from Gaza by Israeli special forces pic.twitter.com/AZKwmMJLgW

— Trey Yingst (@TreyYingst) August 27, 2024

I am sure these hostages are thinking:

"this helicopter better not f@#$@#$ crash after what I have been through!"

Body camera video shows rescued hostage Qaid Farhan al-Qadi boarding an Israeli helicopter. pic.twitter.com/wpTSRhqbGY

— Trey Yingst (@TreyYingst) August 27, 2024

He looks to be in too good of shape for being a hostage compared to most of the others.

Who on earth approved this and how high was everyone in their chain of command? https://t.co/QIKE2ptmak

— Timothy E Kaldas (@tekaldas) August 22, 2024

US psyops running ads on Tinder. Guys out there tying to get laid in the middle of a war and some pimple faced kid in Tampa up in their business. Should be off limits under the Geneva convention.

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Who on earth approved this and how high was everyone in their chain of command? https://t.co/QIKE2ptmak

— Timothy E Kaldas (@tekaldas) August 22, 2024

US psyops running ads on Tinder. Guys out there tying to get laid in the middle of a war and some pimple faced kid in Tampa up in their business. Should be off limits under the Geneva convention.

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I think it is kind of genius. Makes any of those guys with a cell phone think twice about who may be tracking where they are and what they are doing through the apps on their cell phone.

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He looks to be in too good of shape for being a hostage compared to most of the others.

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He may have been treated better once they found out he was a Bedouin Arab and not an Israeli Jew.

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he says that Hamas shot him in the leg when he refused to tell them where the jews were hiding

he lost several kilos of weight

No idea but comments claim that was 5 years ago.

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JFABNRGR said:

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He looks to be in too good of shape for being a hostage compared to most of the others.

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He may have been treated better once they found out he was a Bedouin Arab and not an Israeli Jew.

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he says that Hamas shot him in the leg when he refused to tell them where the jews were hiding

he lost several kilos of weight

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I didn't say he was treated well. But what they did in the early moments of Oct. 7 may be different than how he was treated over the next 300+ days. Doesn't really matter either way. I just hope the Israelis didn't leave any of his captors alive.

If on Tinder you have "Taliban" as your occupation, does it just show you photos of goats?

Hit 'em with the old pause for polio. Oldest trick in the book.

IDF 'wipes out five terrorists including top commander' in mosque shootout as UN calls for 'immediate' end to Israel's biggest West Bank offensive in 20 years | Daily Mail Online

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Israeli special forces say a terror group commander was among five people killed in a shootout at a mosque in the occupied West Bank yesterday, amid the biggest operation there in two decades.

The Israel Defense Forced (IDF) said Mohammed Jaber, known as Abu Shujaa, a commander in the Islamic Jihad militant group in the Nur Shams refugee camp, was killed along with other members of his group as they hid in the building.

The large-scale military campaign, launched on Tuesday night into Wednesday, is still ongoing and has seen raids across the north of the territory, including in the governorates of Nablus, Tulkarem, Jenin and Tubas

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When I visited the West Bank two years ago, I could tell that American influence was on the rise, because the graffiti stenciled on the walls in Bethlehem no longer depicted fighters holding AK 47s.

They were now holding M16s.

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Hit 'em with the old pause for polio. Oldest trick in the book.

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Popped 'em with the old P4P.