Reuters mourns Hezbollah terror group

[SteveG]

They are an extremist terror group whose genocidal purpose is murder Israel and all Jews and have seized control of the entire country of Lebanon while acting a heavily armed proxy for Iran.

SO NATURALLY REUTERS IS IN TEARS FOR HEZBOLLAH.

Death toll among Hezbollah fighters could be several thousand, sources say
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-eas...024-11-27/

BEIRUT, Nov 27 (Reuters) - With the bodies of its fighters still strewn on the battlefield, Hezbollah must bury its dead and provide succour to its supporters who bore the brunt of Israel's offensive, as the first steps on a long and costly road to recovery, four senior officials said.

Hezbollah believes the number of its fighters killed during 14 months of hostilities could reach several thousand, with the vast majority killed since Israel went on the offensive in September, three sources familiar with its operations say, citing previously unreported internal estimates.

One source said the Iran-backed group may have lost up to 4,000 people - well over 10 times the number killed in its month-long 2006 war with Israel. So far, Lebanese authorities have said some 3,800 people were killed in the current hostilities, without distinguishing fighters from civilians.

Hezbollah emerges shaken from top to bottom, its leadership still reeling from the killing of its former leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and its supporters made homeless en masse by the carpet bombing of Beirut's southern suburbs and the destruction of entire villages in the south.
With a ceasefire taking hold on Wednesday, Hezbollah's agenda includes working to re-establish its organisational structure fully, probing security breaches that helped Israel land so many painful blows, and a full review of the last year including its mistakes in underestimating Israel's technological capabilities, three other sources familiar with the group's thinking said.

[special]

Seems like an accurate reporting of what happens in the filed. Doesn’t seem like mourning.

[SteveG]

Hezbollah is an authoritarian Islamic supremacist terror group. Reuters is doing their best to minimize this and paint the usual 'gung-ho' weeping women, wreckage pix.

You will also notice that in the first post, they refer to Israel CARPET BOMBING Beirut, when in fact they tightly targeted Hezbollah facilitates and issued WARNINGS to all the inhabitants to clear the area. (In other words...Reuters is pushing a huge bald-faced lie.)

(the inspiring story continues...)
Hezbollah has indicated it intends to keep its arms, dashing hopes of Lebanese adversaries who predicted the pressures generated by the war would finally lead it to hand them to the state. Hezbollah officials have said the resistance - widely understood to mean its armed status - will continue.

Hezbollah opened fire in support of Palestinian ally Hamas on Oct. 8, 2023. Israel went on the offensive against the group in September, declaring the aim of securing the return home of 60,000 people evacuated from homes in the north.

Despite the resulting devastation, Hezbollah's Fadlallah said the resistance put up by its fighters in south Lebanon and the group's intensified rocket salvos towards the end of the conflict showed Israel had failed.

[special]

we can read Reuters.com and BBC.com, no need to do all this hard wok to post here, Steve. You do more harm than good.

[SteveG]

What harm? I'm pointing out that Reuters is not only lying to you, but is using their service as propaganda.

How come no one else is reporting the targeted hits in Beirut as carpet bombing. (Maybe because they weren't)

as a bonus, here's the 'weeping woman' shot from the same article. Reuters never fails to deliver.


staged. why is she standing there with the ruins artfully displayed in the background?

[special]

ceasefire my ass... ceasefire, but stay away from your homes? WTF?



The Israeli military said the ceasefire was violated after what it called suspects, some in vehicles, arrived at several areas in the southern zone.

Hezbollah lawmaker Hassan Fadlallah accused Israel of attacking people returning to their villages in south Lebanon. The Israeli military has urged residents of towns along the border strip not to return yet for their own safety.

Israeli tank fire hit six areas within that border strip on Thursday morning, striking Markaba, Wazzani and Kfarchouba, Khiyam, Taybe and the agricultural plains around Marjayoun, state media and Lebanese security sources said.

[SteveG]

special wrote:
ceasefire my ass... ceasefire, but stay away from your homes? WTF?



The Israeli military said the ceasefire was violated after what it called suspects, some in vehicles, arrived at several areas in the southern zone.

Hezbollah lawmaker Hassan Fadlallah accused Israel of attacking people returning to their villages in south Lebanon. The Israeli military has urged residents of towns along the border strip not to return yet for their own safety.

Israeli tank fire hit six areas within that border strip on Thursday morning, striking Markaba, Wazzani and Kfarchouba, Khiyam, Taybe and the agricultural plains around Marjayoun, state media and Lebanese security sources said.

and yet, you post stuff from Reuters (without a link). Here, let me help
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-eas...024-11-28/

You are pretty accusative for a guy whose posts routinely feature blind links to the BBC.

[SteveG]

special wrote:
we can read Reuters.com and BBC.com, no need to do all this hard wok to post here, Steve. You do more harm than good.

Is that why in the very next post here, you post a link and story from the BBC?

[special]

Steve G. wrote:
[quote=special]
we can read Reuters.com and BBC.com, no need to do all this hard wok to post here, Steve. You do more harm than good.

Is that why in the very next post here, you post a link and story from the BBC?
Just trying to keep you company, so you don't feel lonely

Seriously, it's one thing posting the subject and a link to a BBC article, it's not like I am pasting entire articles with pictures.

[Tiangou]

Steve G. wrote:
You will also notice that in the first post, they refer to Israel CARPET BOMBING Beirut, when in fact they tightly targeted Hezbollah facilitates and issued WARNINGS to all the inhabitants to clear the area. (In other words...Reuters is pushing a huge bald-faced lie.)

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/02/middleeas...index.html

Israeli military dropped bombs in ‘lethal proximity’ of at least 19 Lebanese hospitals, CNN analysis finds...

Israel said the strike hit a Hezbollah target, though the area was not covered in Israeli military evacuation orders for locations with alleged links to the Iran-backed group in the south of Beirut. At least 18 people, including four children, were killed and 60 injured in the residential building some 70 meters away from the hospital, Lebanon’s health ministry said.

Lebanon’s health sector has been in the thick of a ferocious Israeli air assault as Israel and Hezbollah trade fire in an ongoing war, with the country’s south and Beirut’s southern suburbs hardest hit. In the first month of its all-out air offensive in Lebanon, which began on September 23, Israeli strikes damaged 34 hospitals, killed 111 emergency medical technicians (EMTs), and hit 107 ambulances, according to data compiled by the Lebanese health ministry.

...CNN’s analysis only looked at airstrikes verified in publicly available imagery or declared in Israeli military evacuation orders between September 23 and October 23. That sample is smaller than the more than one thousand Israeli strikes estimated by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), a crisis monitoring organization, to have hit Lebanon over the course of the month and so has likely produced a conservative estimate of hospitals within a dangerous or lethal range.

"Carpet Bombing"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpet_bombing

Carpet bombing, also known as saturation bombing, is a large area bombardment done in a progressive manner to inflict damage in every part of a selected area of land.

What part of the definition do you disagree with?