BREAKING NEWS: Israeli strikes near Syrian Border!

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NORTHERN ISRAEL (CNN) -- The Israeli military engaged in fierce fighting Tuesday with Hezbollah forces just across the border with Lebanon, and the Lebanese Army reported Israeli aircraft struck targets near the Syrian border.

Israeli aircraft hit "several" targets near the northeastern Lebanese town of Baalbeck, the Lebanese army reported.

The army also reported heavy helicopter traffic east and west of the town. The Arab-language television network Al-Arabiya said it appeared the Israeli army was attempting to drop in soldiers.

The Israel Defense Forces had no comment on the reports.

Israeli forces also waged a firefight with Hezbollah forces in the town of Aita Al-Shaab in southern Lebanon, and warned residents almost 20 miles inside the country to leave the area. (Watch Israeli bombardment pound Aita Al-Shaab -- 3:09)

Israel hit the town with heavy shelling and 500-pound bombs, and the sound of gunfire exchange could be heard. (Watch Israeli troops move toward Lebanon's border -- 2:26)

Israel Defense Forces said its troops had killed or wounded 20 Hezbollah forces in battles Tuesday.

Hezbollah said four of its forces died in the fighting.

In Tayba, the IDF said it has taken control of several strategic positions that have been used by Hezbollah fighters to launch missiles at northern Israel over the past two weeks. (See where the fighting is taking place)

Israeli police reported 14 cross-border strikes hitting northern Israel on Tuesday, including two with Katyusha rockets and 12 with mortar shells.

Israel says it has killed 300 of the estimated 2,000 Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon during its three-week offensive.

"Hezbollah has taken a serious beating, and that is why the pressure of a ground offensive will produce the expected results," Israeli Justice Minister Haim Ramon said Tuesday on Israeli Channel 10.

A Hezbollah spokesman says 43 of its fighters have been killed, Reuters news service reported.

The IDF said Tuesday that three of its soldiers were killed and 25 wounded in the fighting in southern Lebanon. Five other soldiers were wounded on the Israeli side of the border when they were hit by a mortar shell, it said.

Ramon's announcement came after Israel's Security Cabinet approved an expansion of the ground campaign against Hezbollah.

While Hezbollah attacks into northern Israel have subsided in the past two days, Ramon said the Lebanese militia has increased the number of rocket launches from areas north of the Litani River -- about 20 miles from the border -- where the Israeli military has asked residents in two locations to evacuate.

Labor Party lawmaker Danny Yatom told The Associated Press that Israeli ground forces could go up to the Litani River.

The goal is "to control the area, to kill as many Hezbollah terrorists as possible and to destroy as many rockets and launchers as possible, in order to minimize the capabilities of Hezbollah," Yatom, a reserve general and former chief of the Mossad spy agency, told AP.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Israeli forces were weakening Hezbollah daily and that no cease-fire would come until Israel was safe from a future war.

"Every additional day is a day that drains the strength of this cruel enemy," Olmert said in a speech Tuesday. "Every extra day is a day in which the [army] reduces their capability, contains their firing ability and their ability to hit in the future."

Other developments pointed to a lengthening of the 20-day-old conflict.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday directed his country's military to heighten its readiness, the state news agency SANA reported.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad held the United States and Britain responsible for the bloodshed in Lebanon, AP reported.

"The U.S. and Britain are accomplices in all crimes committed by the occupying Zionist regime and have to answer to these crimes," he said in a speech, drawing shouts of "Death to America" from the crowd in northeastern Iran.

President Bush said Monday there could be no cease-fire until Hezbollah was reined in and called on Iran and Syria to stop aiding Hezbollah. (Watch Bush call for 'a cease-fire that will last' -- 3:22) (Full story)

Aid process difficult
Meanwhile, the United Nations said it has not had much success getting aid into southern Lebanon during Israel's self-declared 48-hour lull in fighting.

"We did not achieve much," spokesman Khaled Mansour said. The U.N. asked Israel to allow three convoys through with about 30 trucks, but Israel denied permission for two of them, he said.

The European Union on Tuesday said it approved $64 million in humanitarian aid for Lebanon, and EU foreign ministers, meeting in emergency session Tuesday, called on Israel and Hezbollah to agree to an "immediate cessation of hostilities" followed by international efforts to get agreement on a sustainable cease-fire. (Full story)

The conflict began July 12 when Hezbollah captured two Israeli soldiers and killed three others in a cross-border raid.

As of Tuesday, 557 Lebanese civilians and soldiers have died and 2,128 have been wounded in the conflict, according to Lebanon's Internal Security Forces.

Israel has reported 54 deaths, including 19 civilians killed by Hezbollah rocket attacks.
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Question is: Will Syria fight back as Assad has proclaimed or let Israel run all over Northeast Lebanon?
 
Syria will not "fight back". Israeli planes can strafe Syrian airspace like an alien invasion from Hades.
 
If Syria decides to declare open war on Israel and use its regulars, not just fund some guerrillas then I doubt Israel will waste money on 'leaflet' warnings before they really unleash there arsenal.
 
Yes of course, leaflets are a waste of time. They should go right away and bomb away babies and old people and create a million refugees......again.
 
Salaam,

i think that since the Isrealis and the US are saying that the Iran and Syria are supporting HEzbollah.

Perhaps they should listen and do it.

Syria and Iran should simultaneoulsy bomb Israel,it's airporta nd air force field.Wihout the air attack israel cant do anything much.

So to Syria and Iran,wait for the Israel to attack first then destroy all military target in Israel.
 
Syria will do nothing until they are attacked.

The Isralies had better be careful they do not "accidently" hit Syria :giggling:
 
The Isralies had better be careful they do not "accidently" hit Syria
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I think Israel should just go right ahead and tear apart Syria, then move onto Iran and finish the job that Ahmadinejad started.

That's the only way peace can come about - one side MUST be eradicated completely, and it seems Israel is doing a better job of laying her enemies to rest.

First Gaza.
Now Lebanon.
Then Syria.
Finally Iran, and maybe Iraq once sovereignty is fully granted.

HOORAH! Peace is around the corner.
 
Syria and Iran should simultaneoulsy bomb Israel,it's airporta nd air force field.Wihout the air attack israel cant do anything much.
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Before they got the first airplane off the ground Israel's Nuclear Silo's would open.

Israel has stated many times that if the Arab World is about to destroy them ever, they will unleash there whole Nuclear Arsenal on the Arab World... That is something no one wants to see. Iran and Syria realize this. Iran and Syria will never attack Israel unless Israel attacked them. Maybe if Iran gets the Nuke they will strike first, but Israel I believe will not allow Iran to get the Nuke.

Oh wait.... Israel has no Nukes cough. cough.
 
I think that no matter what our opinions are about Israel, we need to be aware that the Israelis are not stupid. I doubt if Israel will do anything that they have not prepared for and have taken the worse possible scenarios into consideration.

I can not imagine them entering into any conflict they do not see themselves as being capable of handling. Even without help from the US or even if needing to go against the US.

It is a gross error to underestimate Israel's capability to conduct war.
 
lavikor201 said:
Before they got the first airplane off the ground Israel's Nuclear Silo's would open.

Israel has stated many times that if the Arab World is about to destroy them ever, they will unleash there whole Nuclear Arsenal on the Arab World... That is something no one wants to see. Iran and Syria realize this. Iran and Syria will never attack Israel unless Israel attacked them. Maybe if Iran gets the Nuke they will strike first, but Israel I believe will not allow Iran to get the Nuke.

Oh wait.... Israel has no Nukes cough. cough.
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thats y pakistan should come at our side and nuke isreal preemtivly if isreal considers nuking anybody.
hopfully soon musharf will be deposed inshaAllah
 
Vahid said:
thats y pakistan should come at our side and nuke isreal preemtivly if isreal considers nuking anybody.
hopfully soon musharf will be deposed inshaAllah
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Do you have any idea as to what a Nuke hitting Israel would also do to Palestine, Jordan, Lebannon, Syria and Egypt. A nuke is not a weapon you use within 2,000 miles of yourself or your allies. You are looking at an immediate 100% kill radius of about 50 miles, and significant numbers of kills within a thousand miles for the next several months. Plus the after effects and destruction of the land will continue beyond the lifetime of anybody living today. It is a weapon that destroys not only the enemy indescriminatly, but also friends and allies for several generations.

Nukes are not a safe toy for children or other small creatures.
 
Woodrow said:
I think that no matter what our opinions are about Israel, we need to be aware that the Israelis are not stupid. I doubt if Israel will do anything that they have not prepared for and have taken the worse possible scenarios into consideration.

I can not imagine them entering into any conflict they do not see themselves as being capable of handling. Even without help from the US or even if needing to go against the US.

It is a gross error to underestimate Israel's capability to conduct war.
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agree ! But I really always like to highlight the fact, that Israel really did not want this war !
 
Woodrow said:
Do you have any idea as to what a Nuke hitting Israel would also do to Palestine, Jordan, Lebannon, Syria and Egypt. A nuke is not a weapon you use within 2,000 miles of yourself or your allies. You are looking at an immediate 100% kill radius of about 50 miles, and significant numbers of kills within a thousand miles for the next several months. Plus the after effects and destruction of the land will continue beyond the lifetime of anybody living today. It is a weapon that destroys not only the enemy indescriminatly, but also friends and allies for several generations.

Nukes are not a safe toy for children or other small creatures.
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Yes i understand what you’re saying, but what if we don’t do anything than they nuke us? that would mean 100s of millions of Muslims dead rather than 1000s from the fallout (or using a mini nuke... Israel very small anyway)

lets hope it doesn’t come to that though
 
Vahid said:
Yes i understand what you’re saying, but what if we don’t do anything than they nuke us? that would mean 100s of millions of Muslims dead rather than 1000s from the fallout (or using a mini nuke... Israel very small anyway)

lets hope it doesn’t come to that though
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Yes, let us do that
 
Vahid said:
thats y pakistan should come at our side and nuke isreal preemtivly if isreal considers nuking anybody.
hopfully soon musharf will be deposed inshaAllah
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What kind of whack job forum did I join!? Are you seriously talking about nuking Israel?! And kill millions of innocents?! I was told by muslims that muslims are not terrorists, and now I see on this forum you talking about nuking people?! Your cracked! Seriously, get help. You need it.
 
ok wild bill but its ok that over 500 lebanese are dead most are women and children, hey war is not fair as many members muslim and non muslim alike have said on here but dont go throwing the word terrorist around thats pretty lame and old by now
 

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