Israel Renews Deadly Attack on Lebanon as War Rages On, Video Surfaces
- Israel intensified military action in southern Lebanon, targeting Iranian Quds Force commanders
- Israeli strikes on Tehran's oil facility mark significant escalation in the Iran-US/Israel conflict
- Missile attacks in Kuwait resulted in the deaths of two border guards amid ongoing regional hostilities
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Beirut, Lebanon - Israel renewed its assault on southern Lebanon early Sunday, March 8, including targeting commanders of the Lebanese branch of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force.
This occurred after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised “many surprises” for the next phase of the ongoing Iran-US/Israel war.
Source: Twitter
Iran: Israel renews Lebanon assault
The Israeli military said in a statement that it would “not allow Iranian terrorist elements to establish themselves in Lebanese territory."
The latest strikes in Lebanon followed an Israeli attack Saturday, March 7, on an oil storage facility in Tehran, which sent up pillars of fire that could be seen in Associated Press video as a glow against the night sky.
It appeared to be the first time a civil industrial facility had been targeted in the war. State media blamed “an attack from the U.S. and the Zionist regime” at the site that supplies the capital and neighbouring provinces in the north.
Elsewhere, Kuwait authorities said two border guards were killed when a swarm of missiles and drones hit the Gulf country. The Interior Ministry said only that the guards were killed “while performing their national duty.” No other details were available.
Israeli airstrikes killed eight people in southern Lebanon, the Lebanese Health Ministry said, and local media reported that an Israeli drone hit a hotel in Beirut, killing four and wounding 10 others. The deaths come on top of at least 47 others killed Saturday in Israeli strikes.
A video showing the aftermath of the attack can be viewed below via X:
'Separatism will strengthen Iranian government' - Analyst
However disdainful of their government in Tehran, most Iranians are wary of Trump’s courting of Iranian Kurdish groups, said Alex Vatanka, a fellow at the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C.
Many Iranians interpret the US president’s phone calls to Kurdish leaders and his social media posts as suggesting that Donald Trump seeks not the liberation of Iran, but its fragmentation.
Source: Twitter
Vatanka said:
“What Iranians are by and large hearing is not regime change in Tehran, not this glorious move to a secular democracy and so forth, but basically the dismantling of Iran."
Talk of separatism, from the Kurds and other minority groups like Baluchis, Ahwazi Arabs and Azeris, “is going to undermine that bigger effort aimed at the regime and it will demoralise the opposition.”
Vatanka said that territorial losses in Iranian Kurdish areas or perhaps three Iranian islands claimed by the United Arab Emirates would rally Iranians around the flag if not the authorities, against foreign interference.
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'War: God's end-time prophetic plan
Legit.ng earlier reported that popular YouTube Bible teacher Pastor Allan Parr claimed that the war in Israel is part of God’s end-time prophetic plan.
In a 'prophetic' message, Pastor Parr outlined seven key points supporting his claim.
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