Written by Michael Thervil
Photo by Marwan Naamani/dpa/Getty Images
Yesterday Iranian backed militia group Hezbollah initiated its first phase of its retaliatory strikes on Israel for the assassination of one of its top political leaders Fouad Shukur in Beirut, Lebanon. We last reported that Fouad Shukur was killed in an air strike conducted by Israel, however, due to the latest reports that were obtained by a confidential source, Fouad Shukur, was not killed by an Israel airstrike.
In fact, there are two conflicting stories about what occurred on Tuesday July 30, 2024. On one hand it was reported that he was killed by a bomb that was premeditatedly placed in the building in which he was scheduled to be in due to a breach in his protection detail. This breach in his protection detail was due to Israel either bribing several personnel within his protection team or infiltrating the building itself. On the other hand, it was also reported that Hezbollah has neither confirmed nor denied that Fouad Shukur was killed during the incident.
Either way, Israel launched a preventative attack on the southern region of Lebanon to lessen the retaliatory blowback that they knew they were going to receive from Hezbollah’s rocket attack. Israel’s preemptive attack has led the world up to this point and as of yesterday Hezbollah launched over 300 Katyusha rockets and an unknown number of drones into the northern region of Israel. Three Hezbollah soldiers were killed during the battle with no casualties reported on the Israel side. Despite Israel’s failed preemptive attack on Hezbollah rocket and missile sites, Hezbollah was able to successfully target and hit multiple Israel military assets. Those Israel military assets include its Meron base, four Israel military sites within the Israel occupied Golan Heights, and 11 Israeli military bases and barracks.
Mainstream corporate media has reported that neither Israel or Hezbollah wants to widen the war in the region, and that may be true to some extent. But many geopolitical pundits see no other way that the war between the two will continue to exist without the war widening in the region. An all-out hot war is inevitable, even though both sides “pulled back” after the Hezbollah rocket attack.
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