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At least 11 people injured after projectiles reportedly fired from Lebanon into Israel | CNN (edition.cnn.com)

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From the photos on twitter, it looks like it hit the only soccer field in town, landing between the field and the playground next to it. Hezbollah first claimed the attack, but now that there are 10 kids dead, and another several dozen kids injured they've backpedaled on it.

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UPDATE: 10 dead, 6 in critical, 3 moderate, 4 light, and several dozen unadmitted injured people

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[-] EvilEyedPanda@lemmy.world 44 points 2 months ago

Uh-oh, time to kill 15,000 more civilians

[-] Foni@lemm.ee 16 points 2 months ago

Oh you try to exterminate an entire ethnic group and they refuse to die peacefully, what ignominy

[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Sorry, kids. It looks like you were born in the wrong country to deserve any sympathy or basic human decency.

What a monster.

[-] Foni@lemm.ee 11 points 2 months ago

Do you say the same thing when bombs fall on Palestinian hospitals?? I'm not happy about this, but I'm not happy about killing another 50,000 innocent people to avenge them.

[-] Eldritch@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

That's a straw man though. They didn't say anything about the children. There's children all over in the region being killed for no good reason. But people definitely don't have a reason to have sympathy for the state of Israel on this as a whole.

[-] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 months ago

They were born in a place where they can go to bunkers and remain safe until their military can mow down the other place fully including the children who unfortunately don't have the biggest military backing them up.

[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

All kids lives matter.

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Reports say hezbollah has never claimed this attack, when did they claim it? Normally when hezbollah strikes somewhere they always take credit.

It was also in an area with a mostly druze arab population which does not serve in the idf. Hezbollah has no reason to strike there.

This has many indications of a false flag.

[-] Billy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Druze serve in the IDF.

Edit: Although it's true that Druze in the Golan are different than the rest of the Druze in Israel, in that some of them don't serve.

Either way: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/nine-people-killed-rocket-hits-football-pitch-israeli-occupied-golan-israel-2024-07-27/

Speaking with reporters at Majdal Shams, Israeli military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said that forensics showed the rocket was an Iranian-made Falaq-1.

Hezbollah had earlier announced firing a Falaq-1 missile on Saturday, saying it had targeted an Israeli military headquarters.

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It hit an area where people do not serve in the IDF.

Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said that forensics showed the rocket was an Iranian-made Falaq-1.

Daniel Hagari is the man that has lied about everything in Gaza for months. If it was an Iranian missile I expect to see proof.

[-] Billy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

It hit an area where people do not serve in the IDF.

This was generally true before the Syrian civil war. Things have changed since.
Haaretz article about it

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Haaretz articles are hit or mis. This article is a massive miss. 4 paragraphs in and I'm still wading through the Israeli propaganda before clicking the red cross button.

[-] ApexHunter@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

More likely it was a rocket that failed / went off course.

[-] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago

THIS attack JUSTIFIES killing 100000 MORE Children!

[+] gedaliyah@lemmy.world -23 points 2 months ago

Terrible. They have been raining down rockets in Israel since Oct. 8 and no one talks about it. There are 200,000 internally displaced Israelis and sometimes it feels like no one cares.

[-] Tryptaminev@lemm.ee 25 points 2 months ago

Both the escalation on the southern Lebanon border and the resulting displacement have received a lot of media coverage. Hezbollah has kept saying that this is to keep IDF from being all focused on Gaza and that they would stop if a ceasefire is reached. Until about three month ago both Israel and Hezbollah have been trying to keep the level of escalation low.

This has changes as Israel attacked Beirut and threatened to turn it into "another Gaza" and boasting about how they could destroy all of Lebanon. Netanyahus government has aimed to escalate the war there, to draw in the US and other western allies.

Now whether we will see the full escalation now remains to be seen. Hezbollah is a whole different league compared to Hamas in terms of weapons and fighters.

[-] nonailsleft@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago

How is Hezbollah attacking Israel 'to keep them busy' supposed to keep things from escalating?

[-] Tryptaminev@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

The level of engagement remained on the low and the "unwritten rules of engagement" like keeping things within a few kilometers of the border used to be upheld by both IDF and Hezbollah

[-] nonailsleft@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

So as long as Hezbollah is only shelling those 100.000 people living closest to the border, Israel should consider it a friendly ping-pong match?

[-] Tryptaminev@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago

I fail to see your point. There is more displaced Lebanese and much more Lebanese killed by Israel since Oct. 7. Considering displacement overall, adding in the 2 million displaced in Gaza, the attempt to put the blame on Hezbollah fails completely.

On September 1 1939 Germany invaded Poland. On September 3, France, the UK and other UK affiliated states declared war on Germany. I hope it is obvious, that this does not put the blame of escalation on France and the UK.

[-] nonailsleft@lemm.ee -4 points 2 months ago

So if you start shitting in my front yard, and in response I start shitting in yours, you're saying the blame falls on me because after a few days you have more shit in your yard?

[-] Tryptaminev@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

You are conviently forgetting the whole aspect that it isnt your yard, but you stole it by murdering and driving out the family that used to live there. Now some of that family is in my house and other parts of the family are in the house next over, that you are currently setting on fire.

So yeah, that is you escalating shit in that analogy.

[-] nonailsleft@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago

I see you've moved on from "totally not escalating friendly shelling across the border" to "simplified one-sided recording of complicated history so actually everything they do is totally ok"

If that's your real argument, why even bother to start with the other?

[-] Tryptaminev@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

Hezbollah started limited attacks after Israel starting bombing Gaza. That was the level of engagement for many months. The understanding to keep it at that level changed with Israel escalating into Syria and Lebanon more and more, as well as the total annihilation they bring on Gaza.

You don't need to look at all of the "conflict". However the fundamentals are not complicated. Israel is a settler colonial state. It is found on and will be completed by genocide and ethnic cleansing of the population it is stealing the land from. This is what happened in what is today the US. This is what France tried in Algeria. And you find this again and again throughout human history.

You can engage in all sorts of debates as to who has shot first at what point, but this fundamental structure of the situation does not change.

Hezbollah made it clear they don't want an escalation and the way to end the fighting and the border is by Israel ending the genocide in Gaza. The same goes for the regime in Iran, which had to respond to Israels assault on the embassy, but they did so in a matter to show force, without causing relevant damage. The one escalating is Netanyahu, who hopes to draw all of the west into a total war in the middle east, because the support for his genocide is dwindling.

It is the mindset of a schoolyard bully, that always picks fights, to then call on his bigger brother to defend him. It would be funny, if it wouldnt be a genocidal maniac, that is set to put the lives of hundreds of millions of people at risk.

[-] nonailsleft@lemm.ee -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

As I said, you are in part driven by a simplified view of a complicated conflict. You might want to read up on some history to find out why jews chose to leave their homes in Russia, Europe, Northern-Africa and the Ottoman Empire to congregate in one small part of the latter, where some of them already lived. That's a bit different from, let's say, Morocco walking into the Western Sahara to plant their flag.

Iran is shipping munitions into Lebanon, which are then fired across the border on Israeli villages, but it's only escalation if they shoot back?

That's the mindset of the schoolyard bully that keeps spitting on someone and then says the other kid 'escalated' by kicking him in the nuts

[-] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago

You can't go in and kill people and take their homes and land because Europe didn't want to deal with their antisemitism. I love how every attempt to defend Israel through history always comes out worse. Imagine if I invited my family to come over and take my neighbor's house because someone completely unrelated to my neighbors was mean to them. The existence of nations like the US and the fact that Israel has some of the most dual citizenships in the world disproves the fact that they need their own ethnostate anyway.

[-] nonailsleft@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Why would you only talk about Europe and forget about Russia, the Middle East and Northern Africa?

[-] Timii@biglemmowski.win -4 points 2 months ago

Terrorist logic. Israel exists so everything they do is O-Tay

[-] TimeNaan@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

That's terrible but have you thought that the policies of your own state could be the root cause of it?

[-] Timii@biglemmowski.win -1 points 2 months ago

How dare they exist!

[-] TimeNaan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

What? The policies?

[-] sazey@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Nah, the resistance. It is anti-semitic to resist Israel's egregious policies.

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