Trump Nears Iran Deal As Hezbollah, Israel, And Reality Itself Complicate Things

President Trump is once again finding out that trying to bring peace to the Middle East is a little like herding cats or refereeing a bar fight where everyone has missiles and a theological grudge dating back 3,000 years.

On Sunday, Trump publicly warned Israel and Iran not to torpedo what he insists is an almost-finished peace agreement after Israel lit up Hezbollah targets in Beirut, because apparently nobody in that region can go 48 consecutive hours without setting something on fire or blowing something up.

“We are very close to a Deal that will bring peace to the region,” Trump posted on social media, before adding the kind of thing every exhausted parent has yelled from the front seat during a family road trip: “Let’s not blow it!”

Please let us not pretend that any so called peace deal will last very long when Islamic scripture [in this case, the Hadith] demands the killing of Jews:

Sahih al-Bukhari 2926 (Narrated by Abu Huraira):
"Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, 'The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say, "O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him."'"
Sahih Muslim 2922 (also narrated by Abu Huraira):
"The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: 'O Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him'; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews."

Smoke rose over Beirut after Israeli strikes reportedly hit Hezbollah infrastructure in the southern suburbs. Lebanon’s Civil Defense said workers pulled three bodies and six wounded people from the rubble, which is generally not the visual diplomats hope for while trying to finalize a peace agreement.

Naturally, Iran responded with threats, because Tehran treats military retaliation the way normal countries treat strongly worded press releases.

The emerging deal has reportedly left Israel less than thrilled. Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has been largely sidelined while Pakistan and other regional players helped move negotiations forward, which probably feels to the Israelis like being forced to watch strangers remodel your house while assuring you they definitely know where the load-bearing walls are.

Trump, who previously suggested the agreement could be signed Sunday, has reportedly been leaning hard on Netanyahu to cool things down in Lebanon while negotiations continue. Netanyahu, being Netanyahu, appears to have treated that advice the same way most people treat the “terms and conditions” page on a software update.

Following the Beirut strike, Trump spoke with Netanyahu and made it clear he was not exactly delighted with the timing and it made him look bad.

According to Axios and Fox News interviews, Trump directly questioned the Israeli prime minister about the operation after Israel said it struck Hezbollah targets in response to drone launches aimed at northern Israel.

The Israeli military claimed Hezbollah launched three projectiles and released footage showing smoke rising after impacts. Hezbollah, meanwhile, maintained its long-standing media strategy of saying absolutely nothing until everybody else has already spent twelve hours arguing online.

“It shook it up,” Trump said of the strike’s effect on negotiations, adding that the agreement’s signing was delayed several hours but remained on track.

That sentence pretty much sums up Middle East diplomacy in 2026: everyone agrees peace is close right before somebody launches explosives into a neighboring country.

Israel defended the strikes as necessary retaliation. “Israel will not tolerate firing into its territory,” Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz said in a statement.

Fair enough. That is generally how sovereign nations operate.

Meanwhile, civilians in Beirut’s southern suburbs were once again seen fleeing damaged neighborhoods after briefly enjoying what passed for “calm” in the region, which usually means only a few rockets a week instead of dozens.

The current conflict spiraled after Hezbollah fired missiles into Israel on March 2, shortly after the United States and Israel launched attacks on Iran. Since then, Israeli forces have pushed deeper into Lebanon than at any point in more than twenty-five years, which is the sort of escalation diplomats politely call “concerning” while privately stress-eating antacids.

Iranian officials reacted exactly the way you’d expect Iranian officials to react.

Parliamentary Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf warned on X that “if you lack the will and ability to fulfill your commitments, speaking of continuing the path is not possible.”

Translation: everybody keeps threatening peace while simultaneously threatening each other.

Gen. Mohammad Jafar Asadi added, “Without a doubt, these crimes will not go unanswered,” proving once again that no Middle Eastern conflict is complete without at least one official statement that sounds like it was generated by an angry action movie trailer narrator.

Qatari mediators reportedly traveled to Tehran Sunday to help finalize the agreement. Regional officials cautiously suggested the U.S. and Iran might actually be approaching a framework capable of halting hostilities and reopening the Strait of Hormuz, which global markets would appreciate very much because investors tend to dislike shipping lanes turning into active war zones.

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said the agreement could be signed Sunday, while Iranian officials suggested it may happen within days. Trump said the Strait of Hormuz would reopen immediately after signing.

The deal itself appears less like a grand peace treaty and more like the diplomatic equivalent of duct tape holding together a leaking garden hose. It reportedly creates a sixty-day framework for further discussions on Iran’s nuclear program, missile capabilities, frozen assets, and regional proxy activity, which means the hardest issues are essentially being postponed until later.

Under the current framework, the U.S. and Israel appear to have fallen well short of their original objectives of dismantling Iran’s nuclear and missile programs entirely. Critics have noticed this small detail.

Trump attempted to reassure skeptics Saturday by posting that once things calm down, the U.S. would “downblend and destroy” Iran’s enriched uranium either inside Iran or in the United States.

That may prove more complicated than posting it on social media.

According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran possesses roughly 440.9 kilograms of uranium enriched to 60% purity, which is alarmingly close to weapons-grade material. Iran continues insisting its nuclear program is peaceful, which ranks somewhere alongside “the stripper really likes me” on the list of claims that should probably invite further scrutiny.

Republican critics of the deal have already started circling. Some argue the agreement barely improves on the 2015 Obama-era nuclear deal that Trump himself withdrew from during his first term because he repeatedly called it “bad.”

Now Trump finds himself in the awkward position every president eventually reaches in foreign policy: discovering that campaign slogans are much easier than negotiating with regimes that sponsor armed militias while enriching uranium underground.

Still, if Trump somehow manages to keep Israel, Iran, Hezbollah, Pakistan, Qatar, global oil markets, and congressional Republicans from simultaneously detonating this agreement before the ink dries, it may qualify as the first genuine miracle the Middle East has seen in decades.

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IAF devastates Hezbollah: more destruction than 2024 pager attack

Hezbollah, that kooky, crazy, Iran-backed terrorist outfit, saw its command structure across Lebanon take one of the most devastating blows of the war on April 8.

Nearly simultaneously, explosions ripped through Beirut, the Beqaa Valley and southern Lebanon as roughly 50 Israeli aircraft hammered more than 100 Hezbollah targets, blowing many top terrorists into kibbles and bits.

These were not rocket launchers or weapons depots, according to the Israel Defense Forces. Instead, the IDF went after the nerve centers: command rooms, intelligence headquarters and the offices where Hezbollah commanders sat around planning their next round of murder, until shock and awe sent them straight to their celestial goat farm.

The strike marked a new phase in the war between Israel and the Hezbollonians, which kicked off March 2 after the scumcrumpets jumped in to help Iran the day after U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran and the killing of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Since then, Hezbollah has been lobbing rockets, drones and anti-tank missiles into northern Israel, and sometimes just down the road, while Israel has answered with ever-widening airstrikes and a ground offensive in southern Lebanon.

"Within only a minute, the IDF eliminated 250 Hezbollah terrorists in three areas simultaneously," the Israeli military said in a statement, adding that the assessment is still ongoing.

Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani, an IDF spokesman, told Fox News Digital the strike was the result of weeks of intelligence work.

Israeli intelligence agencies had tracked Hezbollah operatives as they shuffled between apartments, offices and safe houses across Lebanon, no longer loving death more than normal people love life.

"The timing had to do with the preparations," Shoshani said. "There was weeks of amazing intelligence."

Asked whether the operation showed Israel still has deep penetration inside Hezbollah despite months of war, Shoshani pointed to the sheer scale of the attack, and one might have noticed a tiny smile at the corner of his mouth.

"The fact that we were able to find 250 terrorists hiding in different locations in Lebanon, many of them in locations for recent weeks, eliminating them in real time, I think the capabilities speak for themselves," he said. The smile grew almost into a grin.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun condemned Wednesday's strikes because he is no fan of Israel and some might say he's a Jew-hating weasel.

"The scale of the killing and destruction in Lebanon today is nothing short of horrific," said United Nations Human Rights Chief Volker Türk. "Such carnage, within hours of agreeing to a ceasefire with Iran, defies belief."

But let us be perfectly clear: There is no active ceasefire specifically between Israel and Hezbollah as of mid-April 2026. Diplomatic talks between Israel and Lebanon have begun or are scheduled, but Israel has rejected pausing operations until Hezbollah is sufficiently degraded. Iran and some others argue the U.S.-Iran truce should extend to Lebanon; Israel and the U.S. disagree. One ceasefire does not translate to a different ceasefire with different operators.

Of course Hezbollah and other terrorist groups would never fire rockets at Israel in the sheer hope of killing Jews during an actual ceasefire, would they?

"This response will continue until the Israeli-American aggression against our country and our people ceases," Hezbollah said in a statement. It must have been backwards Wednesday when he said that.

The strike drew comparisons to the "beeper" operation back in September 2024, when thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah operatives exploded almost simultaneously across Lebanon and Syria in an operation widely attributed to Israel. Many men received transgender transformations when their device went off.

The blasts killed more than 40 people and wounded roughly 4,000, according to Lebanese authorities, while Hezbollah later admitted that about 1,500 fighters were taken out of action. That operation shattered Hezbollah's communications network and set the gold standard in Israel for a strike that actually changed the battlefield.

"The beeper had more . . .  effective injuries. That was the purpose of it," Shoshani said. "But both targeted hundreds of terrorists and within 60 seconds."

Like the beeper operation, he said, the April 8 strike was meant not just to kill terrorists but to throw Hezbollah into complete disarray and create a state of confusion.

"It was important to the aspect of creating disarray, of breaking their chain of command, breaking their command and patrol capabilities and kind of tilting the organization out of balance," he said. A former Israeli intelligence official, speaking on background, said the strike may not have reached the level of the beeper operation, but it appeared to hit an unusually broad layer of Hezbollah's middle ranks.

Hezbollah remains in shock from the blow, according to the former official, even if that has not yet shown up in a drop in its haphazard rocket fire.

But he cautioned against judging the operation only by the body count. The real measure, he said, is whether the strike changes the course of the war and leaves Hezbollah less able to operate.

The IDF said many of those killed were members of Hezbollah's Radwan Force, the group's most capable and best-trained combat unit, along with its intelligence apparatus, missile units and aerial Unit 127.

The Israeli military noted that most of the targets were embedded inside civilian areas where the IDF is inclined not to return fire when engaged in combat, unless it's known the civilians have evacuated."Most of the infrastructure that was struck was located within the heart of the civilian population," the IDF said.

Shoshani said Israel warned civilians to evacuate before the strikes, but Hezbollah simply moved its operatives into new civilian locations. They like to use schools and hospitals if available.

"When we gave the warnings for areas, civilians moved out, then Hezbollah saw that they moved out and started hiding behind civilians in new locations," he said.

Despite the hit, Israeli officials say Hezbollah remains a major threat. Shoshani said the group, which before the war possessed between 150,000 and 200,000 rockets and missiles, still has the ability to fire into Israel.

"They still are a real threat for our civilians," he said.

The strike comes as Israel and Lebanon opened their first direct talks in more than three decades at the U.S. State Department in Washington.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun has signaled willingness to discuss normalization and the eventual disarmament of Hezbollah, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted there will be no ceasefire until Hezbollah is dismantled and pushed back from the border.

Within hours of that diplomatic opening, Israeli warplanes struck Lebanon again and Hezbollah fired rockets into northern Israel.

Because that's how these people operate. Always.

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Iran strikes tanker off coast of Qatar, and Kuwait Airport and IDF kills 5 in Beirut attack

Iran hit a tanker off the coast of Qatar and Kuwait International Airport early Wednesday as Tehran remained unrelenting in its attacks on its Gulf Arab neighbors, while acknowledging for the first time that Washington had been in direct contact about a possible ceasefire.

Israel sounded warnings of incoming fire from both Yemen and Iran, while launching its own attacks in Lebanon that killed at least five people.

An airstrike on Tehran appeared to have hit the former US Embassy compound, which has been controlled by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard since the 1979 hostage crisis. Witnesses said buildings outside the massive compound had their windows blown out and that it appears the strike happened inside the walled facility.
A firefighter extinguishes a car at the site of Israeli airstrikes, in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, April 1, 2026.AP

With no sign of the war abating and more than 3,000 lives already lost, US President Donald Trump suggested it could be over within two weeks even as he moved to bring thousands more troops to the region.

No signs of Iran relinquishing grip on Strait of Hormuz shipping

Trump has been under growing pressure to end the war as Iran’s grip on shipping through the Strait of Hormuz and its attacks on regional energy infrastructure have sent gas prices skyrocketing to their highest level since 2022 and caused broad stock market fluctuations.

Iran throttled ship traffic through the strait, which leads from the Persian Gulf to the open ocean, after it was attacked by the US and Israel on Feb. 28. In peacetime, a fifth of the world’s oil transits the strait and the spot price of Brent crude, the international standard, is up more than 40% since the start of the war, trading at more than $104 a barrel.

The US has presented Iran with a 15-point plan aimed at bringing about a ceasefire, which includes a demand for the strait to be reopened. Iran’s own five-point response includes it retaining sovereignty over the waterway, and Trump on Tuesday suggested that the war could be brought to an end even with Iran still controlling the strait.

The US “will not have anything to do with” what happens in the Strait of Hormuz, instead telling reporters that the responsibility for keeping the vital waterway open would belong with countries that rely on it.
Firefighters and rescue workers work at the site of Israeli airstrikes, in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, April 1, 2026.AP

“That’s not for us. That’ll be for France. That’ll be for whoever’s using the strait,” Trump said.

It was not clear why Trump brought up France, since Europe receives very little oil shipped through the strait, with most going to Asian countries. The president plans a prime-time address on Wednesday.
Push for diplomatic solution showing little signs of progress

Trump, who has vacillated between insisting there is progress in diplomatic talks with Iran and threatening to widen the war, added that the US is “finishing the job” in Iran and predicted it will be “maybe two weeks, maybe a couple of days longer to do the job.”

Trump has warned that if a ceasefire is not reached “shortly,” and if the strait is not reopened, the US would broaden its offensive, including by attacking the Kharg Island oil export hub and possibly desalination plants.

Thousands of Marines and paratroopers have been ordered to the region in possible preparation for an assault in Kharg, though to reach the island by ship would mean transiting the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf, which Iran has threatened to mine.

In an interview with pan-Arab broadcaster Al Jazeera, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi acknowledged receiving direct messages from US Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff. He insisted, however, that there were no direct negotiations and said Iran has no faith that talks with the US could yield any results, saying “the trust level is at zero.”

He warned against any attempt to launch a ground offensive, saying “we are waiting for them.”

“We know very well how to defend ourselves,” Araghchi said.
Iran hits tanker off Qatar’s coast and attacks other Gulf states

Qatar was attacked with three cruise missiles early in the day, the Defense Ministry said. The country’s defenses intercepted two but the third slammed into an oil tanker off the coast, the Defense Ministry said. The 21-member crew of the tanker, contracted by state-owned QatarEnergy, were evacuated and no casualties were reported.

Israel’s rescue teams and residents take shelter as sirens sounds next to a site struck by an Iranian missile in Bnei Brak, Wednesday, April 1, 2026.AP

A fully-loaded Kuwaiti oil tanker came under attack off Dubai the day before, one of more than 20 ships attacked by Iran during the war.

In the United Arab Emirates, a person was killed when a drone was intercepted and debris hit him while he was working on a farm in Fujairah, one of the country’s seven emirates.

Bahrain sounded two alerts for incoming missiles, and said an Iranian attack had caused a fire at a business facility.

In Kuwait, the state-run KUNA news agency said a drone had hit a fuel tank at Kuwait International Airport, sparking a “large fire” that crews were working to control.

Two drones were also intercepted in Saudi Arabia, which has come under repeated Iranian attack, and air raid sirens sounded in Israel though there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.
Israel hits Iranian fentanyl plant and kills 5 in strikes on Beirut

In Iran, Israel said it had hit a plant producing fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid, to allegedly be used in a chemical weapons program. Iran acknowledged the strike on Tofigh Daru factory, but insisted it only supplied “hospital drugs” used for medical purposes.

The strike happened Tuesday, both the Israelis and the Iranians said.

Hospitals extensively use fentanyl to treat severe pain. But a small amount of the drug can be fatal.

Two men ride scooters past charred debris at the site of an Israeli strike in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, April 1, 2026.AP

Both Israel and the United States have alleged in recent years that Iran was experimenting with fentanyl in munitions.

In Beirut, at least five people were killed in an Israeli strike on a Beirut neighborhood. Lebanon’s Health Ministry said another 21 people were wounded.

Israel invaded southern Lebanon after the Iran-linked Hezbollah militant group began launching missiles into northern Israel days after the outbreak of the wider war. Many Lebanese fear another prolonged military occupation.

More than 1,200 people have been killed in Lebanon and more than 1 million displaced, according to authorities. Ten Israeli soldiers have also died there.
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In Iran, authorities say more than 1,900 people have been killed, while 19 have been reported dead in Israel.

Since the Iran war began, 13 US service members have been killed and 348 wounded, six seriously, according to US Central Command.

More than two dozen people have died in Gulf states and the occupied West Bank.

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IDF soldiers send 20 Lebanese terrorists to their deaths in under a day

The IDF just took out Hassan Ali Marwan, commander of the Imam Hussein Division, in Beirut, about a week after they already dropped his predecessor. Boom. One less terrorist middle manager off the board.

Listen, folks, Israel Defense Forces soldiers mowed down over 20 terrorists and wrecked dozens of Hezbollah infrastructures during ops in Southern Lebanon on Wednesday. The military put it out there plain and simple.

In one case, these Hezbollah goons tried to launch an anti-tank missile at IDF troops. Big mistake. The soldiers hit back with a rapid operational response and eliminated five of them right then and there.

Meanwhile, the Israeli Air Force dropped in and took out two more terrorists. Clean work.Our guys on the ground confiscated a whole arsenal too, RPGs, anti-tank rockets, ammo, even a hunting rifle and other combat gear. Hezbollah's getting stripped bare.

"The IDF will continue to operate with determination against the Hezbollah terrorist organization, which chose to join the war and operate under the sponsorship of the Iranian terror regime. The IDF will not allow harm to Israeli civilians," the military warned. And they mean it.

On top of that, the IDF struck and destroyed two more bridges over the Litani River in Southern Lebanon. Defense Minister Israel Katz called it out: they were "being used to smuggle weapons and facilitate the movement of Hezbollah terrorists southward."

"This is a direct action against Hezbollah’s use of Lebanese state infrastructure to advance terror activity, and also a clear message to the Lebanese government: The State of Israel will not allow such a reality," Katz said.

"We will not permit any threat to Israeli citizens, and we will continue to act with full force until complete security is achieved in the north."

The IDF laid it out further: this Iranian terrorist proxy was using those crossings to move thousands of weapons, rockets, rocket launchers, all aimed at hitting Israel south of the Litani.They even released footage Wednesday, aerial and ground ops in Southern Lebanon as part of "Operation Roaring Lion." Troops have taken out dozens of Hezbollah operatives, blown up weapons depots, anti-tank positions, you name it, ever since Hezbollah started attacking Israeli territory "in defense of the Iranian regime." Yeah, right, defending Iran by targeting civilians. Classic.

And again, the IDF confirmed they killed Hassan Ali Marwan in Beirut, that Imam Hussein Division commander, right after his predecessor got the same treatment.This Iran-backed unit runs under the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force, pushing Tehran's agenda and launching attacks. Marwan was coordinating between the division, Hezbollah, and the Quds Force, overseeing missile, drone, and rocket launches straight at Israel.

Folks, this is what happens when you poke the bear long enough. Israel isn't playing games. They're dismantling Hezbollah piece by piece, commander by commander, bridge by bridge. And good riddance.

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IAF kills Hezbollah military chief in aggressive strike in Beirut

The IAF just dropped the hammer in Beirut like it's 2024 all over again, and the "ceasefire" that was supposedly holding turned out to be about as durable as a Twinkie in a time capsule.

In the most aggressive Israeli strike on Hezbollah since that November 2024 ceasefire we were all told would bring "calm," the IDF sent Hezbollah’s military commander, and second-in-command overall, Ali Tabatabai straight to whatever reward those jihadis think they're getting. Bahdahbing! Gone. Right in the middle of Beirut. Talk about a surgical strike by the IAF.

"Netanyahu ordered the strike on the recommendation of the Defense Minister and the IDF Chief of Staff," the Prime Minister's Office confirmed, because apparently Bibi decided playing nice while Hezbollah rebuilds its rocket arsenal for Round 387 wasn't on the agenda anymore, even though he likely knew the attack would accuse Israel of illegal aggression.

Hezbollah, in their usual tough-guy eulogy, confirmed the guy got his virgins and vowed that "they [the Mujahideen] will advance with strength and courage to overthrow all the projects of the Zionist enemy and its patron, America." Translation: they're really mad and promise to do something about it… eventually… when the timing is better… maybe after tea.

Three other Hezbollah terrorists ate the same missile for dessert, and the IDF made sure the message was crystal clear: rearm at your own peril.

Look, for the last year Israel's been playing whack-a-mole with low-level Hezbollah goons sneaking into the south or trying to rebuild rocket sites. Of course it was necessary, but those were the foot soldiers "caught in the act." 

Taking out Tabatabai, the actual military crap-weasel chilling in a hidden Beirut apartment, is a whole different ballgame. This is the guy who replaced the guy who replaced Fuad Shukr (killed July '24) and Ibrahim Aqil (killed September '24) after Nasrallah got turned into a crater. In other words, Israel just climbed another rung up the Hezbollah org chart and hit "delete."

And yeah, the IDF almost never hits Beirut anymore. Hasn’t in months. So when they do? Message received.

At the moment Hezbollah’s doing that thing where they huff and puff but haven’t launched the mother-of-all rocket barrages… yet. Israel’s bracing anyway—because even after getting its arsenal cut down from 150,000 rockets, Hezbollah still has tens of thousands left. That’s enough to turn northern Israel into a very bad day if they decide honor demands it.

Bibi, Defense Minister Katz, and the IDF brass laid it out plain: the “less aggressive” approach of the past year utterly failed to stop Hezbollah from rearming. The Lebanese Army got a gold star for pushing Hezbollah back from the border in early 2025… and then promptly ran out of steam when it came to actual disarmament outside the south. Shocker.

Top IDF officers are basically saying: if we don’t draw the red line right now, we’re looking at Hezbollah 2006 2.0—fully rearmed because the world looked the other way again.

Netanyahu’s office was blunt: “Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu ordered the strike on the recommendation of the defense minister and the IDF chief of staff.” And when some U.S. sources started whining they weren’t notified until the jets were already inbound? Bibi slapped that nonsense down hard:

“All the talk that ‘we must receive approvals for this’ from one source or another is simply an absolute lie,” Netanyahu told the security cabinet. “We operate independently of anyone… Israel is responsible for its own security.”

Preach.Bottom line: Israel just reminded everyone that “ceasefire” doesn’t mean “open season to rebuild your terror army.” Hezbollah’s new military chief lasted about a year. That’s gotta sting.

Now we wait to see if Nasrallah’s replacement-replacement-replacement decides dying for pride is worth another war Israel already proved it can win.

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Israel Katz: "What Israel did to Hezbollah, it will do to Tehran"

With a steely resolve that cuts through the fog of diplomatic nicety, Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz issued a thunderous warning to the Iranian regime on Thursday morning. Tehran, he declared, would meet the same fate as Hezbollah’s shattered remnants in Beirut.

 
"The Houthis will suffer heavy blows from Israel if they continue to fire at us," Katz proclaimed, his words a gauntlet thrown down to Yemen’s Iran-backed proxies.

Turning his gaze to the Jew hating mullahs in Tehran, he delivered a message as blunt as it was chilling: the "Iranian leadership that funds, arms, and operates the Houthi terrorist organization" can no longer hide behind its web of surrogates. "The era of proxies is over, and the axis of evil has collapsed," he stated, dismantling the myth of Iran’s untouchable reach.

Bigger gonads hath no man.

 
"You bear direct responsibility," he charged, holding Tehran accountable for its malign machinations. And then, with the clarity of a man who knows history judges the timid harshly, he vowed: "What we did to Hezbollah in Beirut, to Hamas in Gaza, to Assad in Damascus, and to the Houthis in Yemen—we will do to you in Tehran." 

This was no idle threat, but a promise etched in the rubble of Israel’s enemies.

In other words, FAFO, Iran.

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Israel Defense Forces strike Hezbollah missile depot in Beirut

Let us be clear: Israel is not playing games. The Jewish state has drawn a line in the sand, and it is one that Hezbollah, that malign proxy of Iran, would do well to heed. 

As the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office declared with unyielding resolve, “Israel will not allow Hezbollah to strengthen and to create any threat against it—anywhere in Lebanon.” No ambiguity there. No room for misinterpretation. This is a nation that knows its enemies and will not flinch in confronting them. They know if you give Hezbollah a time out, they will use it to regroup and rearm and strike again.

On April 18, 2025, the skies over Ghazieh, near Sidon, were choked with smoke, the aftermath of a reported Israeli strike. A few days later, on Sunday, the Israel Defense Forces delivered a hammer blow to Hezbollah’s ambitions, “forcefully” striking an arms storage facility in the heart of Beirut. The target? A stockpile of precision missiles in the Hezbollah stronghold of Dahiyeh, a place that fancies itself untouchable. 

The joint statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz left no doubt: this was a strike against “infrastructure in Beirut where Hezbollah’s precision missiles were stored, which posed a significant threat to the State of Israel.”

The message is unmistakable. “The Dahiya district in Beirut will not serve as a safe haven for the Hezbollah terrorist organization,” the Prime Minister’s Office stated. And why should it? Why should Israel tolerate a terrorist group arming itself to the teeth, plotting destruction from the shadows of Lebanon’s capital? 

The Lebanese government, complicit by its inaction, “bears direct responsibility for preventing these threats,” the statement continued. Quite right. If Lebanon will not rein in its resident jihadists, Israel will do what must be done. And it will do so without apology, as it pursues its “war objective to safely return the residents of the north to their homes.”

This is not mere rhetoric. On the same Sunday, the Israeli Air Force eliminated a Hezbollah operative near Halta, close to the Golan Heights. His crime? Advancing efforts to rebuild Hezbollah’s military infrastructure in violation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701. The gall of it—rearming and regrouping under the nose of a supposed ceasefire. 

That ceasefire, fragile as a bubble, took effect in November 2024, halting over a year of Hezbollah’s attacks launched in solidarity with Hamas, whose barbaric October 7, 2023, massacre in southern Israel lit the fuse for this conflagration.

Israel’s actions are not reckless; they are surgical, deliberate, and born of necessity, which cannot be said about Hezbollah nor Hamas.

The Beirut airstrike is but one piece of a broader campaign to choke Hezbollah’s entrenchment in southern Lebanon. The IDF’s resolve is ironclad: “The IDF will continue to act to protect Israeli citizens and sovereignty.” 

And so it must. For when a nation faces an enemy that dreams of its annihilation, hesitation is not an option. Israel fights not just for its survival but for the principle that no terrorist group, no matter how emboldened, can hold a nation hostage.

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IDF strikes Beirut for first time since ceasefire: anti-Semites fume

 The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) just dropped a hammer on Beirut, lighting up a Hezbollah hotspot in the Lebanese capital. This was the first time they’ve blitzed that town since a truce shut down over a year of slugging it out with the Iran-backed crew.

 
Israel’s war machine rolled into action Friday, zeroing in on a building in Beirut’s southern suburbs—a retaliation punch, they say, for rockets raining down from their northern neighbor. The IDF’s got their story straight: they were hunting a Hezbollah drone stash. Lebanon’s National News Agency backed it up, reporting, “Israeli warplanes struck the Hadath neighborhood in Beirut’s southern suburbs.” 

Meanwhile, Israel kept the heat on, pounding Hezbollah targets down in southern Lebanon like they’re settling an old score.

Over in Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron wasn’t having it. Standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, he called the Beirut strike “unacceptable,” growling that it’s the kind of move that “plays into the hands of Hezbollah.” He's obviously stupid or a terrorist sympathizer.

France, part of the ceasefire watchdog crew, is clearly itching to keep this powder keg from blowing sky-high again.

 
But Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz isn't backing down. He’s pointing the finger square at Lebanon’s government, saying they’re on the hook for this mess. His warning? “If there is no quiet in Kiryat Shmona and the Galilee communities, there will be no quiet in Beirut either.” Straight-up, no-chill vibes. 

The UN’s Lebanon point person, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, chimed in too, calling Friday’s cross-border fireworks “deeply concerning.” You can almost hear the collective groan—here we go again.

Hezbollah, though? They’re playing the “not me” card. 

The terrorist group denied any hand in Friday’s rocket show—or last Saturday’s, for that matter. They’re swearing up and down they’re still cool with the November ceasefire, the one that was supposed to cap off months of bloody chaos with Israel. And if you believe that, you might think chickens have lips.

Flashback: the group started lobbing rockets and shells Israel’s way right after Hamas kicked off their October 7, 2023, terror spree. That lit the fuse for all-out war—Israel hit back hard, turning Beirut into a punching bag and rolling tanks across the line. This, of course, pissed off the anti-Semite communities in Europe and the USA.

 
The truce deal was the off-ramp: Lebanese troops beefing up the south, Hezbollah pulling its fighters and toys out, and Israel easing back a bit. But with bombs dropping again, it’s looking like that ceasefire’s hanging by a damn thread. Stay tuned—this ain’t over.

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Huge bang in Beiruit by after renewal of fighting and Harris wants an Israeli slow-down

Hezbollah has been losing leaders and employees of terror faster than Kamala Harris can shake the oil out of a batch of Mickey Dees fries. 

Case in point, Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary general of Hezbollah, was assassinated on September 27th this year in an IAF airstrike in Beirut. Then we have Muhammad Hussein Srour who was killed in IDF operations, but no specific dates are known. He was the commander of Hezbollah's Aerial Command.

Ibrahim Muhammad Qabisi, like Srour, his exact date of getting IDF'd is unknown but he's as dead as Joe Biden's chances of running for President again if the Democrats behind the curtain rule that Harris needs to go. Qabisi was commander of Hezbollah's Missile and Rockets Force and died an ironic death.

Ali Karaki's name just rolls off your tongue and he rolled off into Jannah to meet whichever virgins, human or otherwise, are left for the plowing. It's mentioned in some posts that he was blown away alongside of Nasrallah on September 27, 2024, as did a dude named Hashim Safi al-Din.

But it looks like the Biden-Harris administration are tired of Israel winning. This American vegetable garden urged the Jewish State to cool their jets, both literally and figuratively. They don't want Israel to win the war against the Jew-hating genocidal maniacs, they want Israel to use proportional attacks so that the war never ends. And Harris has the balls to go along with this after the Islamic regime fired about 200 ballistic missiles into Israel on Tuesday. 

I know it's been used, but I have to ask: what would the US do if Canada or Mexico attacked Americans, raped, tortured and killed 1,200 of them, kidnaps over 250, and then began systematically launch rockets, ballistic missiles and drones in an attempt to indiscriminately kill Americans, simply because they hate Americans?

Correct. We would attack the crap out of them and destroy them until the threat is gone and the lesson has been learned.

Why are the puppet masters trying to get a step-down? Because the election is coming up and it's hurting them politically.

They used to call Beirut "the Paris of the Middle East." Now Paris is "the Beirut of Europe" and the world is upside-down and we have an election in a few weeks. If Harris wins, we will get a world we deserve, good and hard. 

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UPDATE: Was Nasrallah eliminated in IDF strike on Hezbollah's headquarters?

"Behold my finger. This is the only one I use on my nose!"

Hezbollah's chief Hassan Nasrallah was a schoolboy in the city of Tyre when he became enamored with terrorism and its concomitant killing of non-Muslims, especially the, um, you know, Jews. Over time he grew into a top Jew-hater which launched him into a career with Hezbollah [now known to some as the Hezballess after Israel's trojan horse strike on their communication devices killed 37 leaders and injured thousands more].

But after Israel's IAF launched an airstrike on the Hezbollah headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon, it's uncertain whether it sent Nazrallah to the 72 virgin-promised land. The idea that Israel was able to strike Hezbollah's central headquarters while the scumwafer was there is a cool development, because while these terrorists claim to love death more than normal people love life, the leaders do a lot of zigging and zagging when the rockets and bullets fly and are hard to find. 

"Pull my finger"

Nasrallah has been in Israel's crosshairs in recent years but his fate is unclear. He has been marked for death and Israel's intelligence agency, Mossad, is second to none when it comes to finding where the stink is coming from. 

There is nowhere in the battle against Hezbollah that Israel will not target and it's a good bet that their leaders are sweating profusely.

The strike was carried out by the Israeli air force’s 119th “Bat” Squadron, using an F-16i aircraft known as “Sufa” (Storm) in the IAF. The planes dropped tons of ordnance while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in New York City.

Hassan Nasrallah, at 64, has been Hezbollah’s head for forty years and is one of Israel’s most challenging enemies. While he didn't find Hezbollah, he was the POS who shaped it in his image.

If he was indeed killed in the airstrike on Friday, this will be a warning to anyone who follows in his sandal steps that their days are numbered.

UPDATE: It has been confirmed that Hezbollah's top dog, Nasrallah was blown to little bite size pieces while cringing in his bunker. While the airstrike was being flown, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke at the United Nationstahn.

To see the attack on X, you can go here: pic.twitter.com/L8NRVpbIRm

It was a true, FAFO moment and it shows us that Israel will do what it must to survive.

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Israel finally gives Hezbollah their comeuppance

Finally, after years of taking it on the chin from Hezbollah, the Israel Defense Forces have finally begun to kick some butt in Lebanon. But let's be clear, Israel did not do what the terrorists such as Hezbollah and Hamas do, which is to kill as many people, be they combatants or civilians or even babies. Israel warned the Lebanese people that all hell was going to be unleashed up the area where Hezbollah was storing weapons and munitions and strongly advised them to leave immediately. 

Most did.

Israel's response is totally justified, so much so that it should have come much earlier. Hezbollah, an Iran-sponsored terrorist organization that follows the radical precepts of Islamic jihad, has been firing rockets, missiles and drones into Israel for decades. For decades. Israel only responded the way any sovereign nation would respond, like we in the US would if Mexico was launching rockets at Texas or occupying parts of the southern border.

Israel not only has the right, but it has the duty to defend its people against their enemies.

So on Tuesday, an Israeli strike in Beirut killed a top Hezbollah commander, after striking hundreds of Hezbollah targets, the IDF confirmed.

The commander Ibrahim Muhammad Qabisi was in charge of Hezbollah's missiles and rockets force along with a few other commanders.

Israel has finally conducted five targeted airstrikes in Lebanon’s capital of Beirut since the start of the Israel-Hamas War. Three of those targeted airstrikes have come in the last five days and we have to ask, what took them so long?

On Friday, another airstrike in Beirut blew Ibrahim Aqil to smithereens. He headed the terrorist organization's operations and was commander of the Radwan Force. At this rate, Hezbollah will be running out of Ibrahims and Muhammads before long.

Israel and Hezbollah have been firing missiles at each other on Tuesday and the concern of an all-out war is on everyone's mind in the region. 

Israel military said it tracked about 100 projectiles fired from Lebanon at Israel while on Monday, Lebanese officials said a huge Israeli barrage killed at least 558 anti-Semites.

The latest strikes come as Hezbollah is feeling the pains of many of their terrorists missing their twigs and berries and other limbs, while some have died in the communication devices trojan horse attack. Lebanon blamed the attacks on Israel, but Israel did not confirm or deny its responsibility.

Modestly silent.

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USMC Commandant issues dire warning to terrorists on anniversary of Beirut barracks bombing

October 23rd was the 40th anniversary of the Marine Corps barracks bombing that killed 241 US military personnel, mostly Marines, in Beirut, Lebanon. 

The Marines were from the 1st Battalion, 8th Marines, of the 24th Marine Amphibious Unit. They had been sent to Lebanon as a peacekeeping force during the country's civil war.

Marine Corps Commandant General Eric Smith, spoke in Jacksonville, North Carolina to mark the deadly anniversary for America's military, and he spoke about current events regarding Israel's plans to invade Gaza in response to what Hamas and some Palestinians did on October 7th and members of the Democrat's so called Squad refuses to condemn.

American forces have been deployed to the region and have also been under rocket and drone attacks. There have already been multiple facilities and bases being targeted and the US has struck Iranian-funded military targets in Syria, killing a number of Hezbollah terrorists. 

Two carrier strike groups, the USS Eisenhower and USS Gerald R. Ford, are in the region, with their anti-ballistic missile defense systems also being deployed.

It all points to the Biden administration preparing for what could happen once Israeli forces storm the Gaza Strip: a total regional war. 

Hezbollah has vowed all-out war against Israel should they invade Gaza which naturally implicates Iran as well. US Marines could very well be deployed as boots on the ground, but that isn't a sure thing as yet. But Gen. Smith offered a dire warning to the terrorist scumbags: "[I]f you target us, someone else will be raising your children."

"I'll tell you this -- the 24th MAU, Marine Amphibious Unit -- there's a unit just like it today that's in the area," Smith said, referencing the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, which he said was "in the vicinity" of the Mediterranean and Red Sea in response to the conflict.

"They're there also to come in peace, if called, but they bring with them the weapons of war, if needed," Smith said to enthusiastic applause and war whoops from the crowd. "For those that are in the area, if that MEU has to go in, if you target them, someone else will raise your children."

U.S. officials have linked the 1983 attack to Hezbollah, an Iran-backed militant movement based in Lebanon. In a State Department commemoration Monday, the U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Dorothy Shea said that the attack was "conducted with Iran's support."

While the Jews in Israel suffered the worst losses in one day since the Holocaust, the 1983 barrack bombing caused the deadliest day for the United States Marine Corps since the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II. It's a horrible thing to have in common, but the other thing Israel and the USMC shares is the sentiment "Never Again."  

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BAHDAHBING! Hezbollah arms depot blows up in Lebanon

Beirut -- Hezbollah, an Iran-backed Shi'ite Muslim terror group used to have an arms depot in the southern part of Lebanon. But on Tuesday, it exploded in a glorious flash and bang that injured several people. [H/T Reuters]

The security source told Reuters the arms depot blast, which sent a huge column of black smoke into the sky, was caused by a “technical error," aka: total screwup.

The blast shook Ain Qana in south Lebanon, which is a political stronghold of heavily armed group whose sport is fighting the Jews in Israel.

This recent blast has further shaken the country after its worse crisis since the 1975-1990 civil war and since the enormous Beirut port explosion that killed 190 people in the capital on August 4th of this year.

Since the port blast, subsequent fires in the area and elsewhere around Beirut have broken out and caused panic there and across the country. Also, the country's economy is in a tailspin while those in political power have not yet come to terms with how they plan to form a new government, while trying to convince the Western World that things are honky-dory.

After the Beirut explosion, the government resigned rather than being mobbed, stoned and ultimately beheaded--it was a no-brainer.

Forming the new cabinet has hit a brick wall as Hezbollah and its main Shi’ite ally have demanded they name the finance and some other ministers.

Another security source told Reuters that Hezbollah had set up a security cordon around the recent blast site, about 30 miles south of Beirut, but the press were not allowed to approach the area due to whatever it is they have to hide.

Hezbollah had nothing to say publicly about the blast and their television channel, (which in this case is not associated with Al Gore's Al Jazeera) claimed in a newscast that the cause of the blast was not clear.

Security sources said there were several injuries without giving figures, so the number would probably range from 2 to 2,564. You never know the truth with Hezbollah.

A witness near the village said he felt the ground shake, rattle and he rolled on out of there as quickly as he could.

Video from the Al-Jadeed broadcast showed men walking around the scorched area littered with debris and damage to a house nearby showed the floor covered in glass and what appeared to be spilled ketchup or some other similar substance in a pool.

At least one fire was still burning in the location, the footage showed and people spoke in a foreign language.

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Beirut: huge explosion kills at least 10, injures dozens more

Smoke rises in Beirut, Lebanon August 4, 2020.
 (Reuters/Mohamed Azakir)

A massive explosion in Beirut's city center has killed at least 10 people, injured dozens more, and shattered windows in the area. The damage is widespread across Lebanon's capital.

The cause of the blast is still unknown according to Lebanese security and Lebanese Red Cross workers posted on Twitter that more than 30 of their teams were responding via ambulances to the scene.

Area residents report that windows have been blown out, balconies have collapsed and there is widespread destruction that extends for miles, even the airport which is about six miles from the blast site.

One anonymous witness [we'll call him Mohammad] told Reuters, “I saw a fireball and smoke billowing over Beirut. People were screaming and running, bleeding. Balconies were blown off buildings. Glass in high-rise buildings shattered and fell to the street.”

Photo: Fox News screen grab

"We are aware of the explosion and are concerned for the potential loss of life due to such a massive explosion," Capt. Bill Urban, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command, said in a statement to Fox News.

The cause of the blast is under investigation but Hezbollah is already in the limelight, multiple intelligence sources told Fox News.

“There are cars with dead people in the streets under rubble, and the medical infrastructure was already at full speed due to the pandemic and lack of supplies,” one source in the region said

Lebanon’s Health Minister Hamad Hasan told local broadcaster LBC that the explosion had caused a “very high number of injuries” and extensive damage.

An AP photographer near the port saw people wounded on the ground and widespread destruction in central Beirut. Some local televisions stations reported the blast originated inside an area where firecrackers were stored.

According to the BBC, the event occurred just days before a UN tribunal is expected to issue a verdict on four alleged Hezbollah terrorists accused of killing former Lebanon PM Rafic Hariri in a 2005 car bombing along Beirut's seafront.

Photo: AP

Some reports said there might have been a second blast Tuesday across the city near the Hariri family residence.



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Hezbollah says they have a 'super-duper baadaabing!' missile

Hezbollah's "Dancing Jihadis" 

Hezbollah took to Twitter on Sunday to tweet a photo of a new missile allegedly capable of destroying all military battleships and large portions of Katmandu, so please get rid of the sanctions "because it's killing us."

So name a military battleship and this missile can make toast out of it. 

The Hezbollah tweeter hiked up his loongie, removed naan from his beard and tweeted:

"Our new missile is capable of destroying all military battleships, killing all who are on board." 

What "Tweetin' Mahmoud" doesn't realize is that we have the capabilities to shoot down missiles and possibly even destroy them on their launchpads.

The brag-tweet comes one day after the USS Ramage, an American destroyer, docked at Beirut Port, marking the first time an American vessel docked in Lebanon in 30 years.

The ship was on a “goodwill visit to showcase the strong US-Lebanon relationship and a commitment to freedom of navigation,” according to a tweet posted by the US embassy. No Americans nor Lebanese jihadis were killed during the showcase.

According to Lebanon’s Daily Star, US Ambassador to Lebanon Elizabeth Richard said that the arrival of the destroyer is a political message, “assuring the depth of relations between Lebanon and the United States.”

While American ships evacuated US citizens from Lebanon during the Second Lebanon War in 2006, the visit was the first time that American forces have been in Lebanon since the Beirut Marine Barracks bombing in 1983 which killed 241, mostly United States Marines while they slept.

The Ramage has approximately 300 sailors [aka 'squids' who we respect] and had been previously deployed to support and provide ballistic missile defense to the U.S. Navy 5th Fleet's area of responsibility, which includes the Persian Gulf, Red Sea, Arabian Sea and parts of the Indian Ocean.

Equipped with self-defense capabilities in air, undersea and surface warfare, it can operate in a high-density, multi-threat environment, and would have no problem destroying a Hezbollah missile before it gets its big boy pants on.



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Iran's new missile production: thanks Barack

Photo: Reuters

Beirut -- (Reuters) Iran announced the start of a new missile production line on Saturday, according to their state media. This comes at a wonderful time as the terror nation still holds some of our people, and are not complying with the U.S.-Iran deal crafted by that crafty socialist and globalist, Barack Hussein Obama.

The Sayyad 3 missile has a range of up to 74 miles with an altitude capability of 16 miles, the Iranian defense minister Hossein Dehghan said at a ceremony while out to launch.

The missile can target infidel fighter planes, unmanned drones, cruise missiles and helicopters.

The U.S. put new economic sanctions on Iran last week over its ballistic missile program, saying that Tehran's "malign activities" in the Middle East undercut any "positive contributions" coming from a 2015 Iran [fake] nuclear accord.

The new sanctions signal the Trump administration seeks to put more pressure on Iran while keeping the [fake] agreement between the Shi'ite nation and six world powers to curb its nuclear program in return for lifting international oil and financial sanctions.

The U.S. was targeting 18 entities and people for supporting "illicit Iranian actors or transnational criminal activity".

The Trump administration said Monday that Iran was complying with the nuclear agreement but was in default of the spirit of the accord.

How can we possibly know that Iran is complying with the agreement? We have to give lots of notice before we go in and inspect, which gives them more than enough time to "hide the evidence" of noncompliance.

In spite of the fact that Trump called the Iranian deal "the worst deal ever" during his presidential campaign in 2016, and criticized Obama for negotiating such a bad deal, this is the second time he has said Iran was in compliance with the agreement.

Dehghan said at Saturday's ceremony that the recent $110 billion military deal between the U.S. and the Saudis during Trump's visit to Riyadh in May, was intended as a threat to Iran.

"We recently witnessed an immense purchase that some countries in the region paid as a ransom to America and they intend to bring weapons into the region, and this purchase was done with the goal of threatening Islamic Iran," Dehgham said, as per the website for state TV.


"Can I get an Allahu Akbar!"


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Hezbollah leader killed by his own men

Jerusalem -- Israel has determined that Hezbollah's top scumcrumpet commander, Mustafa Badreddine, was killed in Syria last May by rivals within the Shiite militant group, Israel's military chief Lt. General Gadi Eisenkot said Tuesday.

The announcement is an indication of a growing feud between Israel and Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed group sworn to Israel's destruction.

Hezbollah has over 100,000 rockets and missiles aimed at Israel and they are seen as a powerful enemy of the Jewish State. But Israel believes the group has been weakened and demoralized after fighting  alongside Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces in Syria.

Eisenkot said that the death of Badreddine illustrates "the depth of the internal crisis within Hezbollah," and also said that it reflected "the extent of the cruelty, complexity and tension between Hezbollah and its patron Iran."

One Israeli official said his country believes that the order to kill Badreddine was given by Hezbollah's leader, Hassan Nasrallah. 

Israeli intelligence believes Badreddine had been feuding with Iranian military leaders in Syria over the numerous losses his fighters suffered in battle. Both Iran and Hezbollah are backing Assad's government forces.

Hezbollah had no comment other than to say that Badreddine was killed as a result of insurgent shelling in Syria.

Badreddine was considered Hezbollah's top military official and was among five members on trial in absentia in the Netherlands for the bombing that killed Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri along with 21 others in Beirut in 2005.

Hezbollah doesn't want a confrontation with Israel right now because it's bogged down in the Syrian fighting and has lost hundreds of militants.


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