Skies Above Beirut Fill With Smoke As Israel Rains Missiles on Hezbollah Strongholds


Missiles are still in the air across the Middle East this Friday as the joint U.S.-Israeli offensive against Iran persists. In response, Iran is striking back, launching attacks on at least 12 different nations as the regime struggles to maintain its grip on power.

Israel has now shifted its focus towards targeting Hezbollah militants, who are backed by Iran, in Lebanon. The capital city of Beirut is engulfed in smoke following a series of Israeli airstrikes.

The conflict has escalated from a state of “imminent” action to active engagement. Israeli forces are currently intensifying their bombardment on Hezbollah strongholds.

In related developments, a startling revelation has come to light:

Israel continues to pound Hezbollah strongholds at this hour.

The Israeli strikes in Dahiya, a commercial and residential area of Beirut that is a stronghold of Hezbollah, were the most intense since a cease-fire in late 2024. At least three buildings collapsed, and thousands who live in the area have been displaced to other parts of the capital. Hezbollah claimed a string of attacks on Friday against Israeli forces in Lebanon, and the Israeli military said that five soldiers were severely wounded by projectile fire.

The translation from Grok:

This is how Hezbollah’s stronghold in Beirut looks today.

What the Iranian regime built over 40 years of exported terrorism.

Rubble.


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Hezbollah is both a Lebanese political party and a militant group — designated as a terrorist organization by the United States and many other nations — formed in 1982 after a civil war and an Israeli invasion. They are considered proxies of Iran and are part of the Axis of Resistance, the collection of nations and groups that hate Israel, the U.S., and Saudi Arabia and their influence in the region.

They frequently lob missiles and drones at Israel and are a deadly thorn in the side of the Jewish state. They also have committed numerous acts of terrorism, and it was a Hezbollah suicide bomber who carried out the horrific truck bomb attack in 1983 on U.S. Marine barracks that killed 241 service members.

1996: 19 U.S. airmen killed at Khobar Towers.

Click on the tweet above to see many more of the terror acts the twisted group has carried out.

Now they’re the target:

There are many leftists on social media right now screaming that Israel’s ultimate goal is to create a “greater Israel” and that this conflict isn’t about defense, but is about Israel’s desire for hegemony in the region. They would be wise to remember dozens of events like this one:

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