Casualties have been reported at the Site of the Israeli Airstrike earlier at Hariri University Hospital in Downtown Beirut, with Civil Defense Teams searching through the Rubble for Survivors.
6:02 PM EDT -- Israel has begun massive air strikes against Lebanon, including hitting BANKS, Airports, Shipping Ports. All under the Israeli claim that "economic activity supports Hezballah."
By that logic, all of Lebanon could be bombed, including farms because maybe they feed Hezballah.
The Israelis are out of control. They need to be directly confronted and stopped.
The Spokesman for the Israel Defense Force, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari has announced that the Air Force will begin Widespread Strikes tonight against Banks and other Financial Institutions "linked to Hezbollah" in Lebanon.
Evacuation Orders for Lebanese Residents near these Institutions are expected to be announced soon.
MULTIPLE Lebanon sources all independently reporting a massive Israeli artillery barrage has begun across southern Lebanon!
Lebanese analysts believe Israel will establish a 20km zone inside southern Lebanon as the first primary goal of the invasion.
-- A Lebanese military source confirms that there are unprecedented numbers of Israeli tanks and vehicles on the other side of the border opposite Al Wazzani, Lebanon.
-- Israel's Deputy Chief of Staff: "The elimination of Nasrallah is not the end of the war, the coming days will be testing days."
-- Israel has notified the US it intends to launch a limited ground incursion into Lebanon as soon as today.
! ! ! FLASH ! ! !
GROUND INVASION OF LEBANON HAS BEGUN
Israeli troops are crossing the Lebanon Border by force:
Germany has begun the evacuation of its diplomats and their families from Israel and Lebanon. Iran has raised Black Flag of Mourning over over Shrine of Imam Reza; Israel has let it be known they intend to target Iran's Supreme Leader, and word is that Iran is readying troops to go into Lebanon in support of Hezballah.
That Germany is evacuating Diplomats and their families from Lebanon is self-explanatory. That they are also evacuating from ISRAEL is quite revealing. It gives everyone a sense of just how serious the developments actually are in the Middle East in the conflict between Israel and Hezballah.
When Israel utilized consumer electronic devices such as pocket-pagers, cell phones, and walkie-talkies, to be small bombs by adding explosive to their battery packs, then detonated them, killing hundreds and wounding thousands, it set in-motion what is likely to become an all-out war.
Yesterday, when Israel used 2,000 pound Bunker-Buster Bombs, dropped from fighter jets onto downtown Beirut Lebanon, which collapsed six apartment blocks, killing hundreds of Lebanese families in order to assassinate Hezballah leader Hassan Nasrallah, any good will the Israelis may have had in the Arab world, evaporated instantly.
The ongoing bombing of Beirut, and other places in Lebanon shows the situation is spinning rapidly out of control, and the fear in nations like Germany is that the entire Arab world may launch against Israel at the same time. As such, they're pulling Diplomats and families out as fast as they can.
Things are getting so dangerous now that even The U.S. State Department has ordered the departure of U.S. embassy personnel and their families in Beirut due to the "unstable and unpredictable security situation."
BLACK FLAG OF MOURNING
Iran has raised the Black Flag of Mourning at the Holiest site, the Shrine of Imam Reza. The Black Flag is a symbol to Muslims that official mourning is taking place over the assassination of Hassan Nasrallah of Hezballah.
On Saturday Hezbollah has finally issued confirmation via its Al-Manar television channel that Hassan Nasrallah, the Lebanese Shia group's leader for 32 years, has been killed in Friday's major Israeli airstrikes on the Dahieh suburb of Beirut.
The group said in the statement of the slain Secretary-General, "His eminence, the master of resistance, the righteous servant, has passed away to be with his lord who is pleased with him as a great martyr."
"The leadership of Hezbollah pledges ... to continue its jihad in confronting the enemy [Israel], supporting Gaza and Palestine, and defending Lebanon and its steadfast and honorable people," it added.
Israel has begun dropping leaflets into parts of Lebanon with a “very dangerous” barcode on them, according to Hezbollah’s media office.
As of 10:56 AM EDT on 18 September, numerous reports are flooding-in, saying electronic devices are AGAIN exploding in Beirut, and throughout other areas of Lebanon. It __appears__ this may be a "Round 2" of Israeli attack.
What makes these reports different from yesterday is that they are saying "electronic DEVICES"" (not necessarily just pocket-pagers) are exploding all over the city.
More info as I get it.
UPDATE 11:03 AM EDT --
Apparently, many of the devices exploding were left at home and in cars. Buildings and cars throughout Beirut are now erupting in fires after the devices explode:
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Today's bombing of literally THOUSANDS of people in Lebanon, by Israel, under the guise of attacking Hezbollah, is the single worst act of State-TERRORISM in our modern world. Israel has (again) violated the Geneva Convention.
Specifically, Article 51 , Section 4 (b) and (c) and Section 5 (b) of the Geneva convention were INTENTIONALLY violated.
These are crimes subject to the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice at the Hague in The Netherlands.
You can read Article 51 below. The Sections violated by Israel are highlighted:
Blogger's note: Israel cares not what International Law is for their Talmud sets their rules.
Several people are dead on the streets in Beirut after Israel hacked Hezbollah communication devices all across Lebanon, causing their batteries to explode!
UPDATE 11:48 AM EDT -- Lebanon's Health Minister has confirmed that 8 people have died and 2,750 have been injured as a result of the pager explosions across the country.
This man, driving his car while using the phone, had his fingers blown clean-off his hand when his phone detonated:
The Israeli Defense Force has commenced "pre-emptive" attacks against Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Israeli fighter jets can be heard roaring northward over Tel Aviv, as they move to bomb Lebanon.
This is a developing story happening now: 10:35 pm 24 August 2024. Updates to appear below . .
The entirety of the Lebanese capital and the whole nation has been plunged into darkness amid a crippling power outage which has been in effect since midday Saturday.
That's when the state power provider Electricité du Liban (EDL) announced in a statement that "the last operational unit at the Zahrani power plant was forced to shut down completely, due to the complete depletion of the plant's fuel oil reserves, resulting in a total power outage across all Lebanese territories."
The official statement identified that the shutdown affects "essential facilities such as the airport, port, water pumps, sewage systems and prisons."
