A portrait of the two assassinated Hezbollah leaders, Hassan Nasrallah and Hashem Safieddine, amidst the rubble after an Israeli strike, Sunday, April 27, 2025, in the southern suburbs of Beirut. (Credit: Mohamad Azakir/Reuters)
It was an unprecedented attack that Israel carried out on Sunday against the southern suburbs of Beirut. True, two strikes had already hit, at the end of March and the beginning of April, the outskirts of the capital, despite the "cease-fire" in effect since November. However, this time, the strike was not in response to fire from Lebanese soil. It was, rather, an attack that allowed Israel to remind both Hezbollah and the Lebanese state of the rules of the game. According to the Arabic-language spokesperson of the Israeli army, Avichay Adraee, Sunday’s strike hit "a facility housing precision missiles of Hezbollah that posed a threat to Israel’s security," seeing it as "a blatant violation of the cease-fire agreement between Israel and Lebanon." In other words: disarmament in the south of the Litani is not...
It was an unprecedented attack that Israel carried out on Sunday against the southern suburbs of Beirut. True, two strikes had already hit, at the end of March and the beginning of April, the outskirts of the capital, despite the "cease-fire" in effect since November. However, this time, the strike was not in response to fire from Lebanese soil. It was, rather, an attack that allowed Israel to remind both Hezbollah and the Lebanese state of the rules of the game. According to the Arabic-language spokesperson of the Israeli army, Avichay Adraee, Sunday’s strike hit "a facility housing precision missiles of Hezbollah that posed a threat to Israel’s security," seeing it as "a blatant violation of the cease-fire agreement between Israel and Lebanon." In other words: disarmament in the south of the Litani is...
