Saturday
Yom Shabbat
1 Cheshvan 5785
November 2 2024
UPDATE 5:00 PM ISRAEL TIME
*The past hour has seen the absurd spectacle on Israeli television of a Hezbollah drone flying back and forth over northern Israel eluding all attempts by the IAF to shoot it down. It was finally intercepted eight minutes ago.
*It has been another day of heavy Hezbollah missile and drone barrages striking the Lebanese border communities as well as the Galilee region:
16:42 Bat Shlomo; 16:16 Shlomi, Mitzvah; 15:53 Shlomi, Mitzvah; 15:05 Kiryat Shmona, Upper Galilee; 14:15 Margaliot; 13:59 Margaliot; 13:57 Meshgav; 13:38 Tzfat; 12:45 Akko; 12:37 Upper Galilee, Mt. Hermon; 12:03 Avivim; 11:05 Kiryat Ata, Shafaram; 10:08 Dovev; 9:16 Kiryat Ata, Shafaram; 8:21 KIryat Motzkin; 08:16 Malila; 08:08 Ziv Bridge, Asher; 07:15 Kiryat Biyalik, Kiryat Motzkin, Kiryat Yam; 07:01 Mt. Hermon, Upper Galilee; 06:51 Tzfat, Biriya; 02:17 Tira, south Sharon,
More than 30 missiles were in the 13:57 barrage alone.
The IDF Spokesman this morning:
“Yesterday (Friday), the IDF struck in the area of Tyre and eliminated the terrorists Mousa Izz al-Din, the commander of Hezbollah’s forces in the coastal sector, and Hassan Majid Daib, Hezbollah’s artillery commander in the coastal sector who was responsible for the projectile fire toward the Haifa Bay on Thursday. These Hezbollah terrorists were responsible for firing over 400 projectiles at Israel over the last month alone.
Over the past day, the IAF struck more than 120 terror targets belonging to both Hamas and Hezbollah. These included anti-tank missile launching sites, terrorist operatives, terror infrastructure sites, weapons storage facilities, and command centers in Lebanon.
IDF soldiers are continuing to conduct limited, localized, targeted raids against Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon. The troops operated against Hezbollah’s infrastructure in the area, located weapons, and eliminated terrorists in cooperation with the IAF.
In Gaza, IDF soldiers continue operational activity in the area of Jabaliya where dozens of terrorists were eliminated in aerial and ground activity. In Rafah and central Gaza, the troops operated to eliminate terrorists, dismantle terror infrastructure, and locate weapons.
*An Israeli special force of more than 25 soldiers (sailors and divers) carried out a landing operation on the Batroun coast in northern Lebanon and kidnapped Emad Amhz, an senior in Lebanon (and Hezbollah’s) naval force yesterday morning.
Why he was kidnapped and not eliminated is unknown.
*Yesterday, the IDF struck in the area of Tyre and eliminated two terrorists:
– Mousa Izz al-Din: The commander of Hezbollah’s forces in the coastal sector.
– Hassan Majid Daib: Hezbollah’s artillery commander in the coastal sector who was responsible for the projectile fire toward the Haifa Bay on Thursday.
These Hezbollah terrorists were responsible for firing over 400 projectiles at Israel over the last month alone.
*Elsewhere in Lebanon, the IDF eliminated a senior Hezbollah commander named Ali Nawaf Yazbek, described as “the commander-in-chief.” No further details are available at this time.
And so it has gone on this Shabbat in Israel
and of course, Shabbat is not quite over yet . . .
A student from Malawi, who had worked with an Israeli health volunteer in his country battling AIDS, came up to us as we walked down the street in the UC-Davis Picnic Day Parade and wanted to carry the Israeli flag.