Israel strikes Hezbollah ‘military compound’ in Lebanon

Daily Telegraph, February 23, 2024

Event

Palestine Red Crescent Society ambulance hit by an Israeli airstrike in Khan Yunis on 7 October 2023.

A Hezbollah “military compound” in Lebanon has been hit by an Israeli strike amid ongoing cross-border fire as tensions intensify in the Middle East.  Hezbollah claimed that two paramedics affiliated with the group and one of their fighters were killed in a “direct” attack on a civil defence centre in Blida, southern Lebanon.  The Hezbollah-affiliated Islamic Health Committee said the attack caused

“the destruction of the health centre as well as a number of ambulances”.

Aftermath of the Al-Ahli Arab hospital explosion, 18 October 2023

Late on Thursday, the Israeli army released a statement saying that it had identified fighters

“entering a Hezbollah military compound in the area of Blida”.

“Fighter jets were scrambled and struck the compound where the terrorists were identified,”

it said. The violence on Israel’s northern border has sparked fears of another full-blown war between Israel and Hezbollah like that of 2006.

Comment

In recent days, Israel has attacked deeper into Lebanon with a series of airstrikes that have killed Hezbollah fighters, some of them senior officers, and several Lebanese civilians. On February 19, Israel staged airstrikes against two warehouses in Ghaziyeh, just south of Sidon and some 50 kilometers (31 miles) north of the border. Despite the intensifying violence of recent weeks, the fighting between Hezbollah and the Israeli military still falls well short of reaching a threshold that could precipitate war.

However, the Bible says that Hezbollah will be drawn into the conflict and ultimately, completely destroyed. Psalm 83 says that the inhabitants of Tyre will align themselves in a confederacy of people who want to destroy Israel. The region of Tyre is the stronghold of Hezbollah. But the Psalm says that the fate of these enemies of Israel is total destruction. This is the inner ring war that happens before Russia descends for a spoil.

Bible quote

They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. 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;  (Psalm 83:4-7)

Weekly World Watch, Andy Walton