I mentioned the Israel-Hezbollah/Hamas/Iran conflict in yesterday’s World News Roundup, well here’s some more info that came in after that piece went to press.
As I mentioned in yesterday’s piece, the IDF has been playing whack-a-mole with the Hezbollah leadership. Every time someone new is appointed to a leadership position, they get smoked. Since I last wrote about what Hezb and Hamass leaders got planted, several more have been killed.
Hashem Safieddine, who was named the head of Hezbollah after the untimely demise of Hassan Nasrallah got his comeuppance in an Israeli airstrike in early October. Naim Qassem, who was next in line seems to have fled Lebanon, and is currently unaccounted for.
Today we get news that the Hezbollah media relations – read main propagandist – Mohammed Afif was killed in an Israeli airstrike in downtown Beirut. Afif publicly and loudly bragged that Hezbollah was behind the drone strike that hit the residence of Israeli PM Bibi Netanyahu.
https://twitter.com/Osint613/status/1858115047047712926
It was only a matter of time before he got his 72.
It gets better. Iran, knowing that Trump takes office in 62 days, has instructed Hezbollah to seek a ceasefire even if it means retreating behind the Litani river.
If the name of that river sounds familiar and you’re wondering why, there’s a simple explanation. UN resolution 1701, dating back to the end of the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war, required Hezbollah to leave the region of Lebanon south of the Litani among other things. It also required the UNFIL to confiscate any weapons not belonging to the Lebanese Army. That included arms held by any militia or paramilitary group regardless of religion.