UPDATE: Hezbollah Rockets Kill Two; Aim Exploding UAV at Israeli-Occupied Kindergarten - Video Update
Lethal Iranian steel rain since the morning over northern, central Israel; nat'l airport temporarily stops flights.
BREAKING - 17:00 IST: two dead in direct hit on Nahariya-area agricultural site:
Details are still unclear, but there are two confirmed deaths—men in their 40s—and at least two wounded from a 10-rocket barrage fired by Hezbollah in Lebanon into northern and central Israel Tuesday afternoon. (2nd CCTV clip credit, Motti Ganon).
One rocket that caused the fatalities slammed down near Nahariya, and the second, which wounded two men in their 30s, hit an agricultural area to the east.
Flights at Ben-Gurion Airport were temporarily stopped, and incoming aircraft were rerouted to avoid salvos aimed at the densely-populated Gush Dan region, which includes the airport and Greater Tel Aviv, Jewish Breaking News said, quoting local sources.
Earlier—among dozens of rocket and exploding UAVs launched into Israel since the morning—a drone hit a playground of an occupied kindergarten near Haifa:
Just to be clear: this was a guided vehicle, remotely aimed by its operators, likely somewhere in Beirut's southern Dahiya neighborhood—the Iranian-backed terror proxy's stronghold—and intentionally steered to dive at and detonate upon a kindergarten full of children 🚸 in the Haifa Bay area city of Nesher. That point is crucial, as I'll explain below.
Thank God—despite the lack of a warning siren (which the IDF Home Front Command is investigating)—the alert staff—among them, the heroic Sarah Yasur—apparently heard the loud buzz of the approaching aerial munition and rushed their children to safety in the Mamad (protected area) just in time:
While the occupants of the special-needs facility were all physically unharmed - imagine safely and effectively getting them into the safe room and shutting h the steel door, and the acute mental trauma they and their families are, and will be processing for who knows how long. Imagine the city of some 27,000, and all of the surrounding communities dealing with this daily—because they have been; this was just yesterday, Monday, Nov 11 in a nearby town:
Intense Hezbollah Rocket Barrages Wound Across Galilee: Haifa, Safed Area
Multiple salvos slammed into homes and vehicles, spattering hot shrapnel.
Update: literally as I'm trying to complete this update—more red alerts in the vicinity—this time “statical” rockets, aimed to statistically bomb a vicinity, and not a precise location like a UAV—just so we'll all understand that this isn't a one-off event:
Meanwhile, lets contrast and compare, class:
“IDF Spokesperson in Arabic in evacuation warning for 14 villages in southern Lebanon: ‘You must evacuate your homes immediately and move north of Nahr al-Awli. Anyone who is in close proximity to Hezbollah operatives, its facilities or its weapons is endangering his life." (via reporter Sapir Lipkin)
A short time later in that same presumed Beirut locale where the UAV drivers are at their consoles and joysticks, the IDF—as per its policy both in Lebanon and Gaza—dropped flyers (and, likely, sms messages, as has also been regularly done in many similar circumstances) warning presumed non-combats to evacuate several precise locations containing Hezbollah assets:
And then, a short time later, this happened:
And this:
PS: ever wonder how the “random” photographer always seems to know where to set up and film these airstrikes? Pro tip: be a Hezbollah asset embedded with the non-combatants and tell the murder squads to clear out while you film the aerial kabuki, and make sure to get good camera angles as you await the ambulances to collect the civilian Lebanese human shields.
Postscript: I take no joy in noting the tragic and unintentional deaths and maiming of the innocent as a result of the Israeli bombardment of terror nodes nested among the hopefully uninvolved in Lebanon, Gaza or elsewhere to deter and end a seven-front war imposed upon us.
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