War updates

The pause in rocket fire is over; Hizbullah’s letting fly at northern Israel again.

Hizbullah resumed its attacks against northern Israel on Thursday afternoon as 8-10 rockets fired at northern Israel landed in the Galilee region. No injuries or damage were reported.

In total, about 40 rockets have been fired at Israel on Thursday. A total of 116 rockets were fired by Hizbullah at Israel on Wednesday.

Earlier, a series of rocket attacks near Moshav Avivim on the Israeli-Lebanese border sent residents into bomb shelters.

Ground troops fought today, and are fighting again as I write this post.

A day after two IDF soldiers were killed, ground troops were sent across the Lebanese border in the same sector Thursday afternoon in order to engage Hizbullah guerillas that were firing mortar rounds towards Moshav Avivim.

Fighting took place near the Lebanese village of Maroun a-Ras, adjacent to Avivim but on the Lebanese side of the border.

Soldiers operating in Maroun a-Ras reported finding rocket launchers, explosives and other munitions and weapons in a mosque there.

Whoops, there goes one of those war crimes that nobody’s calling Hezbullah on again.

Ehud Olmert agreed to the creation of a “humanitarian corridor” in Lebanon.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, along with Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Defense Minister Amir Peretz decided Thursday to allow for the creation of a humanitarian corridor between Lebanese citizens, wishing to flee Lebanon, and Cyprus.

Watch for its use by Hezbullah terrorists. In fact: Count on it.

Not everyone in Lebanon wants Hezbullah stopped.

The Lebanese Minister of Defense warned Israel Thursday that if IDF ground forces are sent into southern Lebanon, Lebanese troops will fight along with the Hizbullah against Israel.

So much for the “innocent” Lebanese army being targeted, hm?

Chipmunk Cheeks is still alive. Damn.

After a few days of silence Hizbullah Chief Hassan Nasrallah again positioned himself against the camera – this time to the Al-Jazeera Arab television network.

During the interview Nasrallah denied any harm to the Hizbullah leadership , and added that he would refuse to release the two kidnapped IDF soldiers unless Israel releases prisoners.

I really held out little hope that the IDF had gotten that lucky that fast.

Rassan Bin Jido, the Al-Jazeera reporter who interviewed Nasrallah, was unable to identify the place to which he was led.

The curtains in the room in which the interview was conducted were closed, making it difficult to identify the place in which the interview was held. The reporter added that Nasrallah acted naturally and calmly.

Here’s where you really need James Bond, or at least, James Bond technology. But all the Al-Jazeera reporters, and you’ll get your rat in a hole.

Russia opened its hypocritical trap again:

Russia sharply criticized Israel’s onslaught, now in its ninth day, sparked when Hezbollah militants captured two Israeli soldiers. Moscow said Israel’s actions have gone “far beyond the boundaries of an anti-terrorist operation.”

Wait a minute, have 100,000 Lebanese civilians been rocketed into submission, their cities destroyed? Whoops, no, that was Chechnya, and the culprit was Mother Russia. STFU, Putin. Israel is aiming at terrorists, not civilians. You were aiming for civilians. STFU, hypocrite.

Watch a newscast (in English) on the JPost.