{"id":597479,"date":"2026-05-07T00:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T00:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=597479"},"modified":"2026-05-07T00:05:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T00:05:00","slug":"israel-attacks-beirut-for-first-time-in-nearly-a-month-assassination-raid-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=597479","title":{"rendered":"Israel Attacks Beirut For First Time In Nearly A Month Assassination Raid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Israel Attacks Beirut For First Time In Nearly A Month Assassination Raid<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>The Lebanon ceasefire seems definitively off, as the capital of Beirut has come under heavy attack on Wednesday, with Israeli officials describing the military action as a <strong>targeted assassination of a top Hezbollah commander<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Israeli forces have targeted Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs for the second time today, causing a loud explosion and extensive damage,&#8221; <em>Al Jazeera<\/em> reports. &#8220;The Israeli army confirmed the attack and said that it was targeting a commander of Hezbollah&#8217;s Radwan Force.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/israelijets.jpg?itok=FKwzQ4y6\" data-link-option=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/israelijets.jpg?itok=FKwzQ4y6\"><\/a><\/p>\n<figure role=\"group\" class=\"caption caption-img inline-images image-style-inline-images\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"78b7527e-ce32-4157-a69c-6b5c08b8f9d9\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/israelijets.jpg?itok=FKwzQ4y6\" width=\"500\" \/><figcaption><em>IAF file image<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>This marks the first day in nearly a month that Israeli jets have bombed Beirut, given the relative period of calm during a US-mediated ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The IDF has just struck in Beirut the commander of the Radwan Force in the Hezbollah terror organization to <strong>eliminate him<\/strong>,&#8221; an Israeli statement has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Defense Minister Israel Katz says that Radwan Force operatives <strong>&#8220;were responsible for firing [rockets] at Israeli communities and harming IDF soldiers.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No terrorist has immunity, Israel\u2019s long arm will reach every enemy and murderer. We promised to bring security to the residents of the north. This is how we act, and this is how we will continue to act,&#8221; the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has also confirmed that he ordered the military to carry out the killing. Al Jazeera provides some further details <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/liveblog\/2026\/5\/6\/iran-war-live-trump-says-hormuz-operation-paused-amid-us-tehran-talks?update=4550860\">as follows<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Israeli warplanes targeted an apartment with<strong> three missiles in the vicinity of Haret Hreik in the southern suburbs of Beirut<\/strong>, NNA reported.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Jets were also reportedly flying at a very<strong> low altitude over the Bekaa Valley<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This strongly suggests Lebanon is on the brink of once again entering full-fledged fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. Already a conflict has been raging in the far south, but now Israeli forces seem to be expanding to a total aerial operation once again.<\/p>\n<p>The conflict goes back to the wake of Oct.7, 2023 and Gaza war. But Hezbollah&#8217;s entry was also renewed following Trump&#8217;s Operation Epic Fury. Hezbollah had successively joined the fight both related to the Palestinian and the Iranians.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">As reports circulating that Iran and the U.S. inch closer to a possible framework to end the war, Israel hits Beirut\u2019s southern suburb in a serious breach of the ceasefire. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lXuvPnXOtL\">pic.twitter.com\/lXuvPnXOtL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ali Hashem \u0639\u0644\u064a \u0647\u0627\u0634\u0645 (@Alihashem) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Alihashem\/status\/2052080067551887593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 6, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If Israel returns to unleashing a series of massive bombing waves on the capital Beirut, which\u00a0<strong>many ordinary Lebanese have chaffed at<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; it could have serious repercussions for the ultra-fragile Iran ceasefire across the Gulf.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" lang=\"\" class=\"username\" xml:lang=\"\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Wed, 05\/06\/2026 &#8211; 20:05<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/israelijets.jpg?itok=FKwzQ4y6\" title=\"Israel Attacks Beirut For First Time In Nearly A Month Assassination Raid\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel Attacks Beirut For First Time In Nearly A Month Assassination Raid The Lebanon ceasefire seems definitively off, as the capital of Beirut has come under heavy attack on Wednesday, with Israeli officials describing the military action as a targeted assassination of a top Hezbollah commander. &#8220;Israeli forces have targeted Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs for the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=597479\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Israel Attacks Beirut For First Time In Nearly A Month Assassination Raid<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":597465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19,10,21,12,11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cancel-culture","category-censorship","category-civil-liberties","category-election-integrity","category-equal-justice","category-free-speech","category-religious-freedom","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=597479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/597465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=597479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=597479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=597479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}