Israel News for 8-7-2024
News Update
Israel is still waiting for an Iranian-Hezbollah military response to the assassination of Hamas leader Haniyeh in Tehran last week. U.S. intelligence sources say that an attack may be launched on Thursday or Friday, after today’s Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) meeting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said in a public address that “Israel’s waiting is part of our response” and “the battle is also psychological”. Meanwhile, Israel launched airstrikes at Hezbollah targets in Lebanon and Hezbollah launched a large rocket barrage at Kiryat Shemona and other places in the north.
Contrary to reports yesterday, Hamas has said that Yahya Sinwar will succeed Ismail Haniyeh as the new head of the political bureau. [It’s a hard job to fill, given the life expectancy. But Sinwar doesn’t have much to lose at this point. He’ll be leading Hamas to hell from his hiding place deep inside a hole somewhere under Gaza.]
According to a report in the Washington Post today, the Biden administration was surprised and outraged by the assassination of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran. [That’s the equivalent of being surprised and outraged at the killing of Al Queda leader Osama Bin Laden. The U.S. should be working with Israel to destroy the Hamas terror organization instead of pressuring Israel to sign a ceasefire agreement with them and let their army of 14,000 armed terrorists remain on Israel’s border, preparing for the next October 7th. Instead of bullying Prime Minister Netanyahu into giving up the fight, President Biden should be sending a clear and direct message to the Iranian leader that if the Iranians attack, the U.S. will wipe out their nuclear program — which is an existential threat to the entire world.]
Israel struck several sites from where Hamas has launched rockets at southern Israel including Sderot this week. The launch sites were located near humanitarian aid distribution warehouses.
