5 members of Hezbollah including a commander killed in Israeli strike in Syria
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Five members of Hezbollah, including a commander were killed in an Israeli strike in Syria on Sunday, Lebanese security sources said.
An Israeli helicopter fired two missiles in the Syrian province of Quneitra near the Golan Heights, Lebanese sources close to Hezbollah said.
AFP cited an Israeli security sources as saying the strike had targeted purported terrorists who were planning an attack on the Jewish state.
The IDF said in response that it does not comment on foreign reports and Syrian state media did not mention the attack.
The missiles reportedly hit near Quneitra, not far from the border with Israel.
"An Israeli helicopter fired two missiles on Amal Farms in Quneitra," Lebanese news channel Al-Manar said, adding that two reconnaissance planes were also flying over the area.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based group monitoring the civil war, said the missiles fired on Sunday targeted armed vehicles, citing local sources.
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Even though neither side want a war shit like this has the chance to snowball out of control.
Good riddance.
Syria is like a giant Lebanon. All these political factions with guns, tanks, and stuff. It's weird.
"Why blow up one terrorist organization when we can blow up multiple?"
I wonder if they'll target IS anytime soon.
[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;46960230]Syria is like a giant Lebanon. All these political factions with guns, tanks, and stuff. It's weird.[/QUOTE]
Lebanon was once a part of Syria
[QUOTE=download;46960075]Good riddance.[/QUOTE]
Hezbollah may be assholes but they're the only group in Lebanon that recognise the threat IS poses and are also powerful enough to prevent them from taking over Lebanon.
[QUOTE=agentalexandre;46965047]Hezbollah may be assholes but they're the only group in Lebanon that recognise the threat IS poses and are also powerful enough to prevent them from taking over Lebanon.[/QUOTE]
They're just [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah#Involvement_in_the_Syrian_Civil_War"]helping Assad oppressing and murdering his own people[/URL]. They were doing that since before ISIS showed up.
Apparently one of the Hezbollah men killed in the attack is the late Hezbollah leader's son Jihad Mughniyeh. So expect reprisals, probably against Israeli or Jewish civilians abroad.
[QUOTE]The son of slain Hezbollah military leader Imad Mughniyeh and four operatives were killed on Sunday when an Israeli helicopter fired missiles at his car in the Syrian province of Quneitra, near the border with Israel, Hezbollah official media confirmed.
Jihad Mughniyeh and the four others were killed when their convoy was hit. His father, who was on the United States’ most wanted list for attacks on Israeli and Western targets, was assassinated in Damascus in 2008. It is widely assumed that Israel planted the car bomb that killed him; Jerusalem has neither confirmed nor denied this.[/QUOTE]
[URL="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.637698"]http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.637698[/URL]
Holy shit. An Iranian general was also killed in that strike.
[URL="http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/hezbollah-gears-funeral-iran-condemns-israel-strike-28319092"]http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/hezbollah-gears-funeral-iran-condemns-israel-strike-28319092[/URL]
[QUOTE]Hezbollah prepared on Monday to bury its fighters killed the day before in what it said was an Israeli airstrike in Syria as[B] Tehran announced that an Iranian general also died[/B] with the six members of the Lebanese Shiite group.
The purported airstrike — neither confirmed nor denied by Israel — was a serious blow to Hezbollah, stretched thin and neck-deep in Syria's civil war where the group's Shiite fighters are battling alongside President Bashar Assad's forces, and could further ratchet up tensions in the Middle East.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=toaster468;46963634]Lebanon was once a part of Syria[/QUOTE]
No idea why this is getting disagrees, its a true statement.
[QUOTE=agentalexandre;46966290]No idea why this is getting disagrees, its a true statement.[/QUOTE]
It was [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanon#Civil_war_and_occupation"]occupied by Syria[/URL] for a while, yeah.
[QUOTE=ScumBunny;46966561]It was [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanon#Civil_war_and_occupation"]occupied by Syria[/URL] for a while, yeah.[/QUOTE]
Way before the Syrian occupation of Lebanon. During the times of the Ottomans, Lebanon was an area in Greater Syria. After 1918, Lebanon was part of the French mandate in Syria until 1920 when Syria was split into multiple regions, one of which was Lebanon.
Many Lebanese will deny it but there is no real difference between the Syrians and Lebanese in general. People in Tripoli in Lebanon speak a sub-dialect of Arabic which is essentially the same as coastal and western Syrian dialects. Beiruti and Damascene Arabic is also in their own category.
In terms of ethno-religious differences, there is again, not many. The only big difference is that the Christians of Syria are (or were) mainly Greek Orthodox whereas the sizable majority of Lebanese Christians are Maronite (there are still many Greek Orthodox in Lebanon from which part of my family comes from). The distribution of Muslims and Druze in Syria and Lebanon are of course different but there are sizable populations of each denomination.
This is the whole reason why Lebanon has the most Syrian refugees out of all neighbouring countries. Most Syrians feel at home in Lebanon as do most Lebanese in Syria (or what the country used to be).
[QUOTE=agentalexandre;46966815]Way before the Syrian occupation of Lebanon. During the times of the Ottomans, Lebanon was an area in Greater Syria. After 1918, Lebanon was part of the French mandate in Syria until 1920 when Syria was split into multiple regions, one of which was Lebanon.
Many Lebanese will deny it but there is no real difference between the Syrians and Lebanese in general. People in Tripoli in Lebanon speak a sub-dialect of Arabic which is essentially the same as coastal and western Syrian dialects. Beiruti and Damascene Arabic is also in their own category.
In terms of ethno-religious differences, there is again, not many. The only big difference is that the Christians of Syria are (or were) mainly Greek Orthodox whereas the sizable majority of Lebanese Christians are Maronite (there are still many Greek Orthodox in Lebanon from which part of my family comes from). The distribution of Muslims and Druze in Syria and Lebanon are of course different but there are sizable populations of each denomination.
This is the whole reason why Lebanon has the most Syrian refugees out of all neighbouring countries. Most Syrians feel at home in Lebanon as do most Lebanese in Syria (or what the country used to be).[/QUOTE]
I did not know that. Thank you.
I hope some day in our lifetime we'll manage to unfuck the neighborhood enough that I can maybe visit Lebanon, or even Syria.
It's insane that they're less than an hour's drive from here, and the only interaction we have with each other is with rockets.
[QUOTE=ScumBunny;46967228]I did not know that. Thank you.
I hope some day in our lifetime we'll manage to unfuck the neighborhood enough that I can maybe visit Lebanon, or even Syria.
It's insane that they're less than an hour's drive from here, and the only interaction we have with each other is with rockets.[/QUOTE]
I hope so too man. It sucks that we're pretty much forced to fight and suffer in the wars that our forefathers have left for us.
Okay, more information.
Supposedly Hezbollah and the Iranians where there on the Israeli-Syrian border to set up attacks along the border.
I don't know how reliable this source is.
[URL="http://www.aawsat.net/2015/01/article55340559"]http://www.aawsat.net/2015/01/article55340559[/URL]
[QUOTE]The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the slain Iranian belonged to the Revolutionary Guards. The group, which obtains its information from a network of activists on the ground, said the Israeli strikes hit two vehicles and a home. It said the fighters were in the area to plan attacks along the Israeli-controlled frontier.[/QUOTE]
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