3,000 Hezhollah fighters trapped may face Israeli M26 carpet bombing
Many Americans will be shock to learn that while the world is welcoming the end to the war in Lebanon, many Hezhollah resistance fighters remain trapped in positions in southern Lebanon unable to leave. Over 3,000 Hezhollah forces are being compressed into smaller and smaller areas by Israeli forces, as they are forced to wait for Lebanon and French forces to take over Israeli positions south of the Litani River. These Hezhollah fighters being targeted by deadly Israeli carpet-bombing GPS missiles United States made, M26 Multiple Launch Rockets. Each M26 rocket can take out a square kilometer. In the final days of the war, over 40 Lebanon’s were lost in one day of Israeli M26 carpet-bombing.
The French commander of UNIFIL, Maj. Gen Alain Pellegrini, told Associated Press that additional troops were needed quietly because the stability of the cease-fire was fraigile. The region is “not safe from a provocation, or a stray act, that could undermine everything.” On Tuesday, Israeli force killed 10 Hezhollah fighters because they looked threatening.
Fox News and other western media are reporting it may be a year before the international force in deployed to the region. The first element of the French Raid deployment force is still working out details with the UN in New York. According to the New Yorker, 8.14.2006, “Watching Lebanon” by Seymour M. Hersh “ Israeli intelligence estimated …Hezhollah had roughly five hundred medium-range Fajr-3 and Fajri-5 and a few dozen long-range Zelzal rockets: the Zelzals, with a range of about two hundred kilometers, could reach Tel Aviv. (One rock hit Haifa the day after the kidnapping.) “ To date there has not been a massive missile attack on southern Israeli cities.
A potentially ominous development that could lead to a further escalation of the conflict, Israeli special forces now fully operational north of the Litani River, M26 MLRS are positioned in southern Lebanon and are able to carpet bomb all of central Lebanon to the city of Beirut. In the event a military move is made by Israel to disarm the trapped southern Lebanon Hezhollah fighters, all hell could break out.
Lebanese displaced Shia streaming back in the southern region further complicates this situation.
The French commander of UNIFIL, Maj. Gen Alain Pellegrini, told Associated Press that additional troops were needed quietly because the stability of the cease-fire was fraigile. The region is “not safe from a provocation, or a stray act, that could undermine everything.” On Tuesday, Israeli force killed 10 Hezhollah fighters because they looked threatening.
Fox News and other western media are reporting it may be a year before the international force in deployed to the region. The first element of the French Raid deployment force is still working out details with the UN in New York. According to the New Yorker, 8.14.2006, “Watching Lebanon” by Seymour M. Hersh “ Israeli intelligence estimated …Hezhollah had roughly five hundred medium-range Fajr-3 and Fajri-5 and a few dozen long-range Zelzal rockets: the Zelzals, with a range of about two hundred kilometers, could reach Tel Aviv. (One rock hit Haifa the day after the kidnapping.) “ To date there has not been a massive missile attack on southern Israeli cities.
A potentially ominous development that could lead to a further escalation of the conflict, Israeli special forces now fully operational north of the Litani River, M26 MLRS are positioned in southern Lebanon and are able to carpet bomb all of central Lebanon to the city of Beirut. In the event a military move is made by Israel to disarm the trapped southern Lebanon Hezhollah fighters, all hell could break out.
Lebanese displaced Shia streaming back in the southern region further complicates this situation.
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