Event
Israel’s military says it responded with artillery fire after an anti-tank missile was launched from Lebanon. Some of the missile’s parts
“fell in Lebanon and some parts fell adjacent to the fence in the town of Ghajar in Israeli territory”,
a statement said. Lebanon’s state news agency reported that more than 15 Israeli shells hit the outskirts of the Lebanese villages of Kfar Shouba and Halta. So far no militant group has claimed they were behind the missile launch. The United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon, Unifil, urged all sides to
“exercise restraint and avoid any action that could cause further escalation”
on the frontier, where tensions have increased in recent months.
In April, the Israeli military carried out air strikes on targets it said belonged to the Palestinian militant group Hamas in southern Lebanon after more than 30 rockets were fired from there towards Israeli territory. It was the biggest such barrage from Lebanon since Israel and Lebanese militant group Hezbollah fought a war in 2006.
Comment
This incident came amid heightened Israeli-Arab tensions after Israel this week conducted one of its largest military incursions in decades in the occupied West Bank, targeting the Jenin camp, a Palestinian militant stronghold. Hezbollah, the powerful Iran-backed Lebanese group that controls southern Lebanon and has fought several wars with Israel. At some point this terror group will launch a massive attack against Israel when instructed to by Iran. It has an estimated 150,000 rockets in its arsenal. It’s stronghold is in the area of Tyre of Lebanon. Psalm 83 specifically mentions the “inhabitants of Tyre” as one of the peoples lined up in a confederacy against Israel. Amazing how accurate the Bible is – it doesn’t say Lebanon but the people of Tyre…
Bible Quote
For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee: The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes; Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre; Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.
Andy Walton
Weekly World Watch
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- Why Israel’s annexation of the West Bank should worry every human rights defender: self-determination as integral to basic human rights
- Signs of the Times – On manoeuvres
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