Lebanon warns of ‘new war’ as death toll from Israeli strikes rises

At least seven people killed across Lebanon in the largest Israeli escalation since the November 27 ceasefire.

ed note–as always, a tidal wave of important info that every war-weary Gentile with a vested interest in his/her own future survival needs to understand about all of this.

Firsto, ladies and Gentile-men, for those who are ‘newbies’ to all of this, understand the following basic and carved-into-stone fact–

ALL OF THE VIOLENCE AND UPHEAVAL THAT HAS BEEN THE CALLING CARD OF THE MIDDLE EAST FOR THE LAST CENTURY WAS A ‘DONE DEAL’ THE MOMENT IN WHICH THE JEWS MOVED BACK INTO THE REGION AFTER BEING DRIVEN OUT BY THE HAND OF A MERCIFUL CREATOR 2,000 YEARS AGO…

Please understand the following, ladies and Gentile-men…

As much as the Jews’ 2,000 year exile has been conceptualized as ‘punishment’ for their rejection and murder of Jesus Christ, the real reason for them being vomited out of the region is the same reason that a healthy body raises a fever and kills a dangerous hostile virus that enters its system.

Everywhere the Jews have gone, from ancient Egypt to ancient Persia to ancient Rome, the immunological reaction against them and against the obnoxious, aggressive, and violent anti-Gentilism that has been their signatured style since the days of Cain murdering his brother Abel has been the same.

Thus has it always been, and thus shall it always be…

What makes the present situation different from those other locales and long-past time periods is that the Jews, being the bandits, thieves and murderers that they are, and faithfully following the precepts of their Torah Judah-ism, are intent upon destroying and stealing every last millimeter of land in the Middle East for themselves, so that thousands-of-years-old nations with names such as ‘Lebanon’, ‘Syria’, Jordan’, ‘Egypt’, and, of course, how could we forget, ‘Palestine’, cease to exist and become ‘Greater Israel’.

Furthermore, as far as the Pirates of Judea are concerned, no one, not even an American President, is going to stand in their way of achieving what it is that they have been constitutionally and institutionally driven to do from the very moment that they crawled and clawed their way out of the netherworld below, and whatever impediments he may be inclined to put in their path in caging in this Apocalyptic beast will be met with the same nuclear and biological weapons that the Jews believe they are commanded to unleash in ‘cleansing’ the world of Gentiles.

Al Jazeera

The death toll from the series of Israeli strikes across Lebanon has risen to seven, the government said, as Prime Minister Nawaf Salam warned that his country was at risk of being drawn into a ‘new war’.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Israel Katz ordered ‘a second wave of strikes against dozens of Hezbollah targets in Lebanon’, the defence ministry said on Saturday, in the largest escalation since a November 27 ceasefire.

The group Hezbollah has denied responsibility for the launch.

Lebanon’s official National News Agency reported two children were among the five people killed in an Israeli strike during the day on the southern town of Touline.

In the coastal city of Tyre in southern Lebanon, an Israeli air raid killed at least one person, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry. Another Israeli attack in Qlaileh, southeast of Tyre, also wounded four people, according to the ministry.

The attacks on Saturday represent a major escalation by Israel. Tyre is one of the largest cities in southern Lebanon. Another strike was also reported in Zibqin, southeast of Tyre.

The Israeli military confirmed it was attacking what it said were ‘Hezbollah targets’ in this second wave of strikes.

Earlier on Saturday, Lebanon’s Salam warned Israel’s ‘renewed military operations on the southern border’ would bring ‘woes to Lebanon and to the Lebanese people’.

Hezbollah denial

The Lebanese group issued a statement denying any involvement in the series of rocket attacks on northern Israel from southern Lebanon.

In its statement, Hezbollah accused Israel of creating a pretext to renew its air attacks and reiterated its commitment to a ceasefire signed in November, which ended a year of war between the two sides.

After similar incidents in the past, Hezbollah would usually maintain silence and let the responsible party claim the attack. The official denial Saturday underscores the difficult situation the group is in amid internal and external pressures.

In Lebanon, Hezbollah is facing growing opposition from political foes, who have held it responsible for instigating the devastating Israeli offensive last year with its ‘support front’ for Gaza.

Defence Minister Michel Menassa has said the Lebanese army has begun investigating the circumstances of the rocket fire. He also called on the states sponsoring the ceasefire to ‘deter the Israeli enemy from its continued violations and attacks under flimsy pretexts and false pretexts’.

Protracted conflict

Saturday’s reported exchange was the first since Israel on Tuesday abandoned a separate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip with the Palestinian group Hamas.

Lebanon has blamed Israel for the protracted conflict after failing to withdraw from all Lebanese territory as stipulated in the ceasefire.

Under the deal, a January deadline was set for an Israeli withdrawal but Israel extended it to February 18. Since that time, Israeli soldiers have remained in five locations inside Lebanon and its military has carried out dozens of deadly strikes against supposed ‘Hezbollah targets’, often striking civilians.

On Saturday, Salam declared that ‘all security and military measures must be taken to show that Lebanon decides on matters of war and peace’.

In a separate statement, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun condemned ‘attempts’ to destabilise his country and reignite violence as he called for action to prevent a further escalation of the conflict.

Israel said the attacks were ‘in response to the rocket fire at Israel’.

In a statement, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he and Defence Minister Israel Katz instructed the Israeli military ‘to act forcefully against dozens of terror targets in Lebanon’.

Netanyahu said Israel was holding Lebanon’s government responsible for ‘everything taking place within its territory’.

Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr, reporting from Beirut, said there is ‘a lot of concern that the situation will spiral out of control’.

‘What we understand is Lebanese officials are holding talks with the US-led committee monitoring the ceasefire to try to de-escalate tensions,’ she said.

Gaza war spillover

The conflict in Lebanon has been the deadliest spillover of the Gaza war, rumbling across the border for months before escalating into a blistering Israeli offensive that killed several of Hezbollah’s top leaders and commanders, destroyed much of its arsenal and killed thousands of civilians.

Andrea Tenenti, the spokesperson for the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Lebanon also known as UNIFIL, has told Al Jazeera the situation remains ‘very concerning’.

‘We have been urging the parties to use maximum restraint,’ Tenenti said, adding there have been intense negotiations involving several stakeholders ‘to prevent any escalation of the conflict and of the tension – something that no one wants to see after 16 months of conflict in this region’.

The UNIFIL spokesperson also stressed that the peacekeeping mission, which itself came under attack from Israeli forces during the recent war,  intends to maintain its presence in southern Lebanon.

In an interview with Al Jazeera, political analyst Sultan Barakat of Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Doha warned that ‘as long as the Israeli occupation continues, … the resistance will continue.’