"The World Needs To Know"
"It's a big part of northern Israel that are living life like hell.""I think everyone needs to know that this is what Hezbollah does. While we [the Israeli military] are aiming at military targets, they are ruining the everyday lives of Israelis.""They target civilians on purpose; they know they are civilians. That's the difference. The world needs to know."Ofri Eliyahu Rimoni, resident of Tel Aviv
Fires burn as a result of rockets launched from Lebanon into northern Israel, next to the city of Kiryat Shmona near the Lebanon border, on June 3, 2024 (Jalaa Marey / AFP) |
The
world has no wish 'to know'. The world's eyes are focused on Western
legacy media that prefers to take its news stories from sources such as
Al Jazeera, and any updates emanating from 'official' media sourced from
Gaza straight from Hamas or Lebanon, speaking for Hezbollah. That tens
of thousands of Israelis have been forced to evacuate their homes and
towns in Northern Israel because of rockets and missiles fired from the
Lebanon border into Israel by Hezbollah is of scant interest to the
world at large. They simply don't care 'to know'.
It
makes more gripping, more intensely interesting copy to report that the
Israel Defense Forces are bombing the Gaza Strip. The IDF takes extreme
measures in the hope that it can, as much as humanly possible in a war,
avoid civilian casualties. In the face of a reality where a terrorist
combatant army takes great pains to infiltrate crowded civilian
enclaves, where there is no concern over civilian vulnerability when
rocket launchers are deliberately placed near schools, hospitals,
mosques and densely-occupied apartment blocks.
Banking
on the IDF being loathe to fire back at the launching sites or tunnels
containing munitions, terrorist operatives or crowded enclaves, Hamas
infamously directly places Palestinians in the line of fire, exulting at
the deaths that result as collateral damage, using those deaths of
'women and children' as fodder for their claims of Israeli 'genocide';
the greater the number of civilian deaths, the more Western ire at
Israel, not Hamas is raised, with demands that Israel cease firing, not
that Hamas surrender its pledge of destroying the Jewish state.
Fire near Kiryat Shmona on the north (Hesder Yeshiva Union) |
"It seems this is the new method of the enemy: they see and hear what's happening -- they understand burning the north [of Israel] is more effective.""We're coming off a night of fires. And this morning another blaze started in the Yir'on Forest.""Our biggest fear is the fire spreading to Mount Meron. If that mountain ignites, all the communities of Meron, Safsufa, and the Galilee panhandle will be in danger."Guy Eyal, officer with the Golan Regional Council, northern Israel
Guy Eyal, the security officer (Merom Golan Regional Council) |
Much
of the northern stretches of the Galilee region is in danger, resulting
from the Lebanese, Iran-proxy terrorist group Hezbollah firing rockets
into Israel. Since October 8 when Hezbollah first began sending
incendiary devices across the border to distract Israeli troops from its
focus on the Gaza Strip following the October 7 terrorist attack on
southern Israel, Israelis in the north have been forced to evacuate to
safer areas in Israel, out of the line of Hezbollah fire.
Hezbollah's
attacks have become more frequent and more numerous, necessitating that
in the wake of a "swarm of drones" on Sunday from Hezbollah matters are
heating up considerably. Dozens of rockets were fired at a number of
northern Israeli communities; Katzrin, Margaliot and Kiryat Shemona
among them. The ongoing missile strikes continued into Monday, sparking
wildfires in the north. Close to 10,000 acres in Israel have been burned
in the last week alone.
"This is Hezbollah's new strategy -- intentionally firing on open areas to ignite fires and burn the north" stated Ilan Shochat, former mayor of Tzfat, a town in northern Israel.
"It was definitely not an easy night, but the whole country is at war now, so it's not just our communities. Of course, it's not simple, but the only culprit is the Hezbollah organization. I tell the government that we're strong, we'll stay here, and we'll give them support to defeat Hezbollah in the south and north.""True, there were massive fires last night, and it would have been better if the various authorities were better prepared. But this is what we have - we're at war, and we'll win it."Shai Golani, manager of orchards, Malkia
June 2024, Wildfire in Kiryat Shimona area, Israel Fire Services Photo |
Labels: Hamas Butchery in Southern Israel, Hezbollah-Iran Axis, Islamist Palestinian Terrorists, Israel, October 7
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