Lebanon: Nearly half a million displaced – Israel decimates Hezbollah

Dramatic are developments in , with his armed forces launching new bombings on Wednesday morning (25.09. 24) in the Saadiyat region, near Beirut and the number of displaced by the blows against Hezbollah this week approaching 500,000. The number of Lebanese citizens who have turned into internally displaced is now 500,000 after the escalation of Israel’s bombing campaign against Hezbollah this week, revealed yesterday, Tuesday, (24.09. 24) the country’s Foreign Minister Abdullah Bu Habib. Already before the escalation, the very dead Israeli bombings from the day before yesterday Monday, Lebanon counted about 110,000 internally displaced. This figure is “approbably close to half a million now,” the head of Lebanese diplomacy said at an event organised by the Carnegie Foundation for international peace on the fringe of the UN General Assembly’s “high-level week”. New Israeli bombings in Lebanon Meanwhile, a source of the French Agency in Lebanese security bodies stated that Israel’s armed forces launched a bombing in the Saadiyat region, near Beirut, in the early morning hours, a few hours after a deadly blow to a southern suburb of Lebanon’s capital. “Israeli bombing struck Saadiyat”, about 20 km south of Beirut, and was aimed at a “storage”, stressed this source, which spoke on condition that it was not named, as it has not received approval of the hierarchy to speak to media. AFP reporters in the Lebanese capital broadcast that they heard a strong explosion. Hezbollah dead senior executive Hezbollah announced yesterday, Tuesday, that a senior officer of her military arm, Ibrahim Kubasi, was killed in an Israeli bombing which was launched in a southern suburb of Beirut, a stronghold of the strong Lebanese party supported by Iran. By an announcement she gave to the public, Hezbollah confirmed the death of “commander Ibrahim Mohammed Kubasi”, who “fallen witness to the road to Jerusalem”, in the expression generally used by the movement when referring to fallen by Israeli fire. The bombing in southern Beirut cost at least six people life and injured 15 others, according to Lebanese authorities. Earlier, Israeli armed forces reported that “mask aircraft of the air force eliminated yesterday in Beirut Mohammed Kubasi, commander of the network of missiles and rockets of the Hezbollah terrorist organization.” According to the Israeli army, Ibrahim Kubasi, who commanded various units, including one with precision missiles, became a target along with other Hezbollah unit strains equipped with rockets or missiles. Ibrahim Kubasi joined the Shia movement in the 1980s and had been assigned to various positions on his military arm, including that of the Badr unit commander. This latter is responsible for one of Hezbola’s three operations zones in southern Lebanon, according to the Israeli army. The bombing took place the next similar raid, aimed at another Hezbollah executive, in a southern suburb of Beirut, who had no victims, of what is known. This officer, Ali Karaki, is unharmed, according to his group. On Monday, heavy bombings launched by Israel swept southern and eastern Lebanon and resulted in at least killing 558 people, according to Lebanese authorities. This is the most heavy account of victims within a day after the end of the civil war in Lebanon (1975-1990). According to the Israeli army, 1,600 “targets” were affected, Hezbola’s positions, in southern Lebanon and Bekaa Valley (east), another stronghold of the movement that is near Tehran. The storm bombings followed hard blows to Hezbollah last week — the series of explosions of communications devices trapped with explosives, accounting for 39 dead and hundreds injured, and the Israeli bombing which cost the life to 55 people and decimated the leadership of the elite Radwan force, including the head of Ibrahim Aquil.