Hezbollah Unit in Tyre Trapping Civilians To Use As Human Shields
Ha'aretz security guy Ze'ev Schiff has an article up on the Hezbollah cell based in Tyre - the one that's been bombing Haifa since the war began and that killed two Israeli civilians today:
We can say without a doubt that the war of attrition against the city of Haifa and its residents is a tale of two cities: Tyre in Lebanon versus Haifa in Israel. The Hezbollah unit deployed in Tyre and its environs has been bombarding Haifa with Syrian rockets and upgraded Iranian-made Katyushas. If this unit is not destroyed, it will continue to target Haifa. As such, it is odd that the Israel Defense Forces ground operation that began Sunday was not immediately directed against the threat from Tyre.
By the end of the article, he answers his own implicit question - the IDF is loath to really go after Hezbollah's infrastructure in Tyre because Hezbollah has been keeping Lebanese civilians in the city. This is consistent with what Hezbollah's been doing all over Lebanon - setting up barriers and roadblocks so that civilians are placed in the way of Israeli attacks on Hezbollah. So yesterday, obviously the British Foreign Office minister condemned Israel for endangering Lebanese civilians.
We can say without a doubt that the war of attrition against the city of Haifa and its residents is a tale of two cities: Tyre in Lebanon versus Haifa in Israel. The Hezbollah unit deployed in Tyre and its environs has been bombarding Haifa with Syrian rockets and upgraded Iranian-made Katyushas. If this unit is not destroyed, it will continue to target Haifa. As such, it is odd that the Israel Defense Forces ground operation that began Sunday was not immediately directed against the threat from Tyre.
By the end of the article, he answers his own implicit question - the IDF is loath to really go after Hezbollah's infrastructure in Tyre because Hezbollah has been keeping Lebanese civilians in the city. This is consistent with what Hezbollah's been doing all over Lebanon - setting up barriers and roadblocks so that civilians are placed in the way of Israeli attacks on Hezbollah. So yesterday, obviously the British Foreign Office minister condemned Israel for endangering Lebanese civilians.
