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© Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Israel fires on Lebanon after rocket attack in the heaviest exchange since truce with Hezbollah
By BASSEM MROUE and WAFAA SHURAFA BEIRUT, Lebanon©2025 GPlusMedia Inc.
23 Comments
WA4TKG
Businesses as usual, did anyone really believe this was going to stop?
TaiwanIsNotChina
-2 ceasefires for Trump.
NB
The Palestinian Arabs could have avoided all their disasters, from the Naqba onwards. They could have opted to live a prosperous life together and side by side with the Jews. In their own state of Palestine, as well as in the mixed state of Israel. However, their mad extremist terrorist leaderships teach them to be addicted to one idea only: Itbakh el Yahud (butcher the Jews). And they are willing to die for this "holy" sake.
theFu
Hezbollah are terrorists. They cannot be trusted. There's no way to deal with them, ever.
Same applies to Hamas and all Iran-connected militant groups like the Houthis too.
GuruMick
Fu...it is Israel breaking the ceasefire agreement.
NB...you reference "Naqba " as a time when Palestinian and Israeli could have begun to live together.
You do know "Naqba " means "catastrophe " dont you.
ohara
There is no intention on the part of Hezbollah or Hamas to reach any kind of peace agreement with Israel, there is only duplicity and ill will from Hezbollah and Hamas.
WoodyLee
Watch this well orchestrated interview of Mr. Witkoff by Tucker Carlson, outlining Gaza Future as Trump sees it.
Mr. Witkoff stated that while he was visiting Israel Border with Gaza he was shown a video presented by an Israeli IDF general showing "" Mass Rapes and one beheading "" by Hamas Fighters that took place during the Oct. 7th attack without any proofs or conformation !!?? No one has seen these Videos so far !!?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acvu2LBumGo
WoodyLee
OCCUPATION really SUCKS.
GuruMick
From Times of Israel. Witkoff is Trumps appointed "statesman " for ME
Witkoff on Tucker Carlson podcast...Hamas is not ideologically intractable , they will negotiate
IDF had 200 plus airstrikes on Gaza, Syria, Lebanon. ...
Trumps letter to Iran seeking some kind of verification process to confirm nuclear program is not for weapons.
Funny, thats what Trump tore up.
Mass protests in Israel against Govt.
Many saying "democracy at risk ".
WoodyLee
Mr. Witkof stated that Israel's airstrikes will continue until Hamas releases all hostages and Disarms.
Hamas will have NO FUTURE in Gaza based on his statements.
GuruMick
Woody...yeah I read that about the video.
"Mass rapes " claim demolished.
Israeli Police asked for survivors to come forward. None did.
Israeli Police mandated hospitals provide evidence of any survivors seeking treatment.
None provided.
No released hostage has spoken of rape.
File this claim under the "40 beheaded babies " nonsense.
Dehumanisation of Arabs the ploy.
Jews accused of raping Aryan women at the time just before WW2. More rubbish ...now Jews using the same techniques as Nazi
Rape claims are stock in trade to smear an adversary.
Used against Black Americans , more recently Trump used it against Latinos from Mexico entering illegally.
"They are rapists ..."he said.
Any video coming from IDF is totally suspect until seen widely and critiqued.
Fos
In March 2025 it is frankly appalling and utterly unjustified that we see this manipulation of propaganda on a daily basis on this forum from the State of Israel, a master of deceit, to keep disseminating disinformation to influence public opinion.
A reminder to our readers, for the sake of truth
Who broke the ceasefire more recently? Israel
Fact: once again what is going on in Gaza is the most documented genocide in history. Palestinians are being intentionally massacred by Israel IDF, starved, and stripped of everything needed to sustain human life.
Who is illegally occupying Palestinian territory against UN resolutions for decades, way before the Hamas attack on the 7th of October 2023 took place? Israel
Fact: Israel has built about 160 settlements housing some 700,000 Jews since it occupied the West Bank in the 1967 Middle East war. The settlements are considered illegal under international law.
The list cold go on for much longer.
Which begs the question again, are the economic interests in Wall Street, Washington and Tel Aviv, so significant that this huge amount of innocent Palestinian people need to be sacrificed?
Why is Israel's protracted impunity keep being tolerated?
WoodyLee
@ GuruMick,
Yes I knew it, Steve also knew that the Video was a Propaganda produced by the IDF, even Tucker felt wait a minute but then Steve repeated the same statement to stop Tucker. so sad to see Mr. Witkoff drop this LOW.
Hamas has NEVER raped any of it's captives and that is a fact Hamas has NEVER beheaded any of it's captives either, if that was the real case Israel will show it to the world which did NOT happen.
WoodyLee
Hams might disarm and disappear but in few years we will have a new resistance movement and the cycle will continue until this Miserable Occupation ENDS.
WoodyLee
Witkoff Can't be an honest peace broker or mediator since he has already sided with Israel's Propaganda.
GuruMick
...people critical Israel are not anti Jewish .
Hundreds of thousands of Israelis protesting Israeli Govt.
As for videos, the problem is the plethora of fake claims made by Israel from day one.
Mostly all debunked. Now all claims are suspect. Why believe anything Israeli IDF or Govt. says.
Israel also had the "Pallywood " claims as well, minimising injuries to children .,, replaying scene footage from a drama series, claiming this footage showed "crisis actors " in Gaza. Shabby. Everything verifiable in this age .
BTW Hezbollah not claiming responsibility for rockets recently fired...who do the IDF know who to bomb ?
Billot
We all remember the hospital hoax too yes?
When Hamas claimed 500 killed when a missile struck a hospital in the early days of the war?
Turned out to be a dozen lol
And the missile?
Why it turned out it was launched by palestinian islamic jihad LOL
They can't even AIM their own missiles lol
The Gazans launch missiles AND THEY HIT THEMSELVES
Of course that doesnt stop some from eating up the nonsense and posting it here lol
Billot
Fortunately Israel is not only defending itself valiantly in this war (on 7 fronts),
They now have a powerful ally in the current US administration.
Trump sees through the lies of Hamas and their enablers.
Knowing full well that what happens in Gaza can happen elsewhere (west, be warned!)
We can only pray that the Gazan arabs are safely removed to Egypt (who has decided to finally accept 500,000 gazans), so that Israel can prosecute its war against Hamas with great haste.
Israel had its hands tied behind its back by the prior US administration.
Now we will see them fight the way they fought against Hezbollah: with precise force, and immense speed.
Hamas, now devoid of much of their leadership, will soon see an end
And with Gazans in Egypt, they will then become Egypt's problem, not Israel's!
Billot
What a fascinating relationship to facts you have, lol
Beyonce is the queen of spain: FACT!
You see, placing the word "fact" before a statement does not make it so, lol
As for Oct 7, it will be long remembered as the day Israel again awoke to the horrors perpetrated by the 14th century Islamic homicidal maniacs who are their neighbors
FORTUNATELY, Israel is capable of defending herself against barbarity.
They WILL prevail.
The only loser in this conflict are those who initiated it: Iran and its proxies, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, etc
Oh and the Gazan people, who of course elected Hamas and would do so again and again, as shown by poll after poll after poll. Fortunately, Israel will not allow the gazans to destroy the jewish spirit in the middle east
GuruMick
PM and Defence Minister of Israel indicted by ICC on charge of war crimes.
"These things dont happen in a vacuum "
Billot
The lead ICC judge, Karim Khan, is himself being investigated for sexual assault, and he sped up the indictment to draw attention away from his own misdeeds lol
https://apnews.com/article/war-crimes-international-criminal-court-sexual-misconduct-metoo-7519d876decb945aafc2215756df19b2
That says everything you need to know about the moral character of the ICC lol
Fos
Amazing and frankly sad how the reach of Netanyahu, a master of deceit, wanted by the ICCJ, extend to Japan through the above representative, to forge lies and secure their historical profits in the financial markets. Lets all remind the readers the barbarism of the Israeli settlers in the occupied territories of Palestine and the mass killings of Israel IDF, over 60.000 people amongst which 70% are innocent children and women.
This is the kind of messenger that the civilized world has to flag
Billot
What's so incredibly impressive is the mindblowing effectiveness and accuracy of Israeli strikes against Hamas.
In all of recorded history, no urban combat civilian to combatant death ratio has ever been as low as in the Gazan war. Possibly as low as 1:1. In Ukraine it's closer to 5:1, in Mosul 3:1.
This is due to one fact: the remarkable precision of the Israeli defense forces.
If Hamas had its way, given that they launch rockets from hospitals, from kindergardens and always from civilian areas, then all of Gazan civilians would be dead.
Fortunately, the Israeli military can not only defend itself, it can also defend Gazan civilians!
This is precisely how all militaries should conduct themselves.
Fortunately, Bibi Netanyahu is in charge. He is able to withstand the tide of nonsense and get the job done!