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🇮🇱🇱🇧⚡️NBC, citing an American official, reports that Israel has already begun reconnaissance operations and deployed sappers to carry out tasks such as making passages in the barriers.
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🇮🇱🇱🇧⚡️A Lebanese military source confirms to Al Arabiya TV that there are unprecedented Israeli tanks and vehicles on the other side of the border opposite Al Wazzani
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🇮🇱🇱🇧More photos of Israeli military equipment on the border with Lebanon.
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🇮🇱🇱🇧⚡️Lebanese Army has withdrawn from several positions on southern border, local residents, security source tell Reuters.
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🇮🇱🇱🇧The IDF has declared the area on the border with Lebanon a closed military zone, Israeli media reports.
Based on the assessment of the situation, a decision was made to establish a closed military zone in the area of Metula, Meshgav Am and Kfar Giladi. The IDF clarifies that entry into this zone is strictly prohibited.
Let us recall that American media reports that Israel may begin a ground operation in Lebanon within a few hours.
— 🇱🇧/🇮🇱 A short paragraph about Israel's upcoming ground offensive into Lebanon:
Everything the Israeli leadership is saying now, regarding the elimination of Hezbollah's capabilities, they also said in 2006 (quote above), and they still ended up losing the war.
Although a significant portion of Hezbollah's leadership has been eliminated, all of those high-ranking commanders have already been replaced. Hezbollah always knew that their commanders were at risk of assassination, and it's extremely naive to assume they would not have contingency plans for situations like these.
Besides this, Hezbollah is an assymetrical military force, its units operate mostly independently based on the initiatives of local field commanders. Even if there is no active central leadership (which isn't the case currently), the resistance will continue on the ground.
When it comes to Hezbollah's missile arsenal, Israel claims it destroyed more than half of the group's capabilities within the past week. However, this is likely exaggerated, as most of the airstrike targets were part of a pre-planned databank based on old or obsolete intelligence. Hezbollah is dynamic, it can move launchers around very quickly.
It's likely that Hezbollah's long-range and medium-range missile capabilities were affected to some extent by the recent strikes, but not enough for its missile threat to be fully neutralized. It should be noted that Hezbollah's strategic assets, such as ballistic missiles, are stored in hardened bases underground. Many of them are located in Syria and the Beqaa. When it comes to short range missiles, that's another matter; Hezbollah will simply never run out, they just have too much stuff.
Hezbollah's main disadvantage currently is Israel's superior air power and surveillance. They likely still have the weapons systems to carry out major missile attacks against Israeli cities, including Tel Aviv, but such large-scale attacks would require extensive planning and staging, and during the staging phase Israel would likely detect the accumulation of launchers beforehand and strike Hezbollah's launcher formations pre-emptively. This means Hezbollah currently has to resort to 'shoot-and-run' tactics, sporadically launching missiles from blind spots and immediately relocating to a different location.
Hezbollah's real strength lies in its ground combat in the South. Hezbollah is intertwined with the local population, almost every southern Lebanese village has a Hezbollah garrison of a few hundred to a few thousand fighters, which are commanded independently and are well-armed. Most importantly, they possess an advantage that Hamas does not; modern Iranian-made ATGMs, in extremely large quantities.
In 2006 we saw the villages of Bint Jbeil and Ayta al-Sha'ab resisting against the IDF for multiple weeks with only their local Hezbollah garrisons, in some cases only dozens of fighters against thousands of Israeli forces. The IDF was forced to leave both of these cities, taking a huge amount of losses. Hezbollah is much stronger now than in 2006, and it is better organized and better supplied. Israel is in for a hard battle.
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🇩🇪🇱🇧⚡️The German Embassy in Beirut has announced the Evacuation of Non-Essential Staff, the Families of Embassy Staff, as well as German Nationals that are considered Medically Vulnerable from Lebanon.
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🇮🇱🇱🇧⚡️Large crowds of Israeli soldiers are moving through gas stations and highway rest stops in northern Israel, while military armored vehicles and logistical trucks drive along the main roads, according to the New York Times
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🇮🇷🇷🇺 Mishustin arrived in Iran, where he will hold talks with the republic’s leadership, including President Pezeshkian.
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🇺🇦🇺🇸Zelensky visited the US to seek support in the war, but "his most important ally showed little interest."
This is the assessment of the Ukrainian President’s visit to the United States given by the Wall Street Journal.
"Zelensky has touted his so-called 'win plan' - an attempt to get more weapons and security guarantees from the U.S. and its allies to gain some leverage over Russia... but Biden administration officials, long wary of taking steps that Moscow might perceive as escalation, expressed skepticism and said they wanted more details," the newspaper reported.
The WSJ also writes that Biden "did not grant Zelensky's main request: permission to strike Russia with longer-range missiles."
These attempts by Zelensky indicate a dangerous development of the situation in Ukraine, the newspaper believes.
"Ukrainian troops are gradually losing ground... The main battlefield in the east is in its most serious situation in months, with Ukrainian troops facing superior enemy forces and under constant attack," the WSJ describes the situation.
🇺🇸As thousands of dockworkers are preparing to strike should a deal not be reached by the end of Monday, one business leader is questioning the union’s demand for a total ban on automation.
International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) on Sunday said its 85,000 members, along with "tens of thousands of dockworkers and maritime workers around the world," will hit the picket lines Tuesday "and strike at all Atlantic and Gulf Coast ports from Maine to Texas."
The union is demanding higher wages and a total ban on the automation at ports regarding cranes, gates and moving containers in the loading and unloading of freight.
Benchmark Capital's Bill Gurley reacted on social media to the union’s demands, writing that the federal government should step in if the union seeks a total ban on automation.
🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️Russian Armed Forces liberated Nelepovka in the DPR — Russian Defense Ministry
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🇮🇱🇱🇧⚡️ BREAKING: Israeli special forces have been carrying out small, targeted raids into southern Lebanon, gathering intelligence on Hezbollah ahead of a possible ground incursion that could come as soon as this week: WSJ
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🇺🇦Another Ukrainian blogger managed to escape from Ukraine. This time to Hungary.
He is happy that he was able to escape from Ukraine and advises everyone to experience the same emotions that arise when you manage to escape from the cage that Ukraine is. One of Zelensky's achievements is that people rejoice when they manage to simply escape from the concentration camp that was built.
🇷🇺🇺🇦 Footage of urban battles by fighters of the "Center" group of forces for Novogrodovka in the DPR, liberated on September 8.
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🇮🇱🇱🇧⚡️UNIFIL peacekeepers and Lebanese army forces are hastily leaving their positions on the border with Israel in anticipation of a ground invasion by the IDF.
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🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️The US military in the Middle East has also been put on heightened combat alert.
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🇮🇱🇱🇧⚡️Israeli artillery is relentlessly shelling Al-Wazani and Al-Khiam, while hundreds of tanks position to attack Lebanon
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🇮🇷🇮🇱Iran once created a unit to counter Israel, but its leader turned out to be a Mossad agent.
This was stated by former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, according to the Turkish publication Son Dakika.
"We created a unit to counter Israel, and the man who led it turned out to be a Mossad agent," he said.
It has previously been suggested that a mole in the Iranian leadership helped the Jewish state eliminate the Hezbollah leader .
🇷🇺🇺🇸Our pilots made a US Air Force pilot shit himself
The video shows a Su-35S flying next to a US Air Force F-16 that took off to intercept our Tu-95MS in the Alaska region.
"On September 23, 2024, NORAD aircraft conducted a safe and disciplined interception of Russian military aircraft in the Alaskan Air Defense Zone. The behavior of one Russian Su-35 was unsafe, unprofessional, and put everyone at risk - not something you see in a professional air force," U.S. Air Force General.
🇮🇱🇺🇸🇱🇧⚡️Israel has notified the US it intends to launch a limited ground incursion into Lebanon as soon as today, a US official tells BBC's US partner CBS
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🇷🇺🎖Vladimir Putin awarded the title Hero of Russia to war correspondent Yevgeny Poddubny
The title was awarded “for courage and heroism displayed in the performance of official duty,” the presidential decree states.
🇧🇾In Belarus, the readiness check of the Air Force and Air Defense Forces units has begun, — the Belarusian Defense Ministry.
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🇮🇱🇱🇧Israeli Defense Minister Galant in a conversation with armored fighters on the northern border: "The elimination of Nasrallah is an important step, but it is not the end - to return the residents of the north we will use all our capabilities, including you."
✍️Galant's words on the northern border with the armored fighters of the 188th Brigade are another clear signal - Israel is on the way to a ground invasion in southern Lebanon
🇱🇧🇱🇧🇮🇱❗️"Hezbollah" will continue to achieve its goals after the death of its leader, the leadership continues to function, the deputy head of the movement said
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🇮🇷⚡️Iranian Foreign Ministry: Regional countries can defend themselves from Israeli aggression, no need to send volunteers from Iran.
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🇮🇱🇱🇧The Financial Times reports how Israeli intelligence spent years gathering information to identify Hezbollah fighters, their locations and hierarchy.
For surveillance, military intelligence "AMAN" used spy satellites, drones, cyber hacking, surveillance cameras, as well as microphones from TV remotes and relatives' phones.
When a fighter was identified, his movements were entered into a database. Obituaries and funerals also helped identify his circle of acquaintances and senior commanders.
According to the publication, last year Israel was already ready to kill the movement's leader Nasrallah, but abandoned its plans due to US intervention.
🇷🇺🇺🇦Marines of the "North" group of forces have driven militants out of yet another long-term fortified position in the Kursk region.
The main points of resistance and firing points of Ukrainian formations were identified by aerial reconnaissance.
The footage shows Ukrainian Armed Forces equipment destroyed during the fighting and a captured stronghold.
🇷🇺❗️A series of sabotage attacks on energy facilities and attacks on law enforcement officers has been prevented in Ingushetia, the FSB reported.
Eight local residents were preparing the crimes. One of them offered armed resistance during detention and received injuries incompatible with life, the rest were arrested.
Explosives (with a capacity of about 10 kg of TNT), a grenade launcher, five machine guns, nine pistols, and 11 grenades were found at addresses and in hiding places.