Fresh Sunday reports say that Israel’s military has made its deepest plunge into Lebanon in nearly three decades, having captured a strategic crusader castle site and UNESCO World Heritage Landmark, Beaufort castle.
It was last captured in 1982, when the IDF later pushed all the way north to occupy portions of Beirut. The army posted photographic proof via its Arabic spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, who issued an image on X showing Israeli troops walking outside the castle. An Israeli flag has also been raised over the stone fortress complex.
The castile overlooks the Litani River, which Israeli forces have been pushing north of, and has stood for nearly 1,000 years – and was at various times used by Crusader knights, Saladin’s Jerusalem army, the Mamlukes, and Ottomans. In the 1980s, fighters from the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) even occupied it for a time. The name Beaufort is Old French for “beautiful fortress.”
Soon the heels of the historic site’s capture, the IDF repeated a warning to everyone south of the Zahrani, saying they must evacuate or else face the possibility of coming under attack and thus death or injury.
“Anyone present near Hezbollah elements, facilities or means of combat endangers their life,” an IDF spokesman said. The castle appears to have been shelled by the IDF before the final ground assault.
According to more details via The Times of Israel:
Troops took over territory in the Beaufort Ridge and Wadi Saluki stream area and expanded strikes north of the Litani River after the Hezbollah terror group fired multiple rockets and drones at Israel on Saturday afternoon and evening, forcing schools near the border with Lebanon to close on Sunday.
Footage from Sunday morning showed Israeli and IDF flags flying over the citadel, a strategic medieval Crusader-built fortress with symbolic importance in the history of Israel’s military entanglements in Lebanon. Shelling was audible and smoke rose from the surrounding area.
The fortress, also known as Qalaat al-Shakif, commands sweeping views of the Galilee Panhandle in northern Israel, as well as the Nabatieh area in southern Lebanon, making it a position of considerable strategic value.
The day prior to the takeover, northern Israel had come under heavy Hezbollah rocket and drone attack. These rocket waves have been stepped up as it’s become clear the Lebanon ceasefire has effectively collapsed.
The past week has seen hundreds of projectiles fired on southern Lebanon. Gong back to early March, over 3,180 Lebanese have been killed, with more than 9,000 wounded – according to Lebanese health officials. The figures do not distinguish between armed combatants or civilians.
Critics of Israel have warned that Netanyahu is trying to sabotage Trump’s efforts to find a final peace deal with Iran. The Israelis have long worried that Washington could in the end settle for a ‘bad deal’ – or one that doesn’t ensure the complete destruction of Iran’s nuclear program and highly enriched uranium.
The US-mediated truce was really only something that was meant to prevent Israel from bombing Beirut and other government centers once again.
Washington has been trying to put the pressure on the Lebanese government and national army to finally disarm Hezbollah – but this has remained unrealistic as the army is weak and underfunded (ironically in part due to limitations imposed by the US).
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That’s a lie. If you are going to spew propaganda, get it right. Hezbollah was created by the IRGC in 82 backed by Shia clerics and militants. Hamas was created by Israel but there is nuance to it. They helped create them as a counterbalance to Arafat and the PLO. You Jew haters are a special stupid. You believe any anti Jew propaganda while being ignorant to where it comes from. It’s mostly all Muzzie driven.
Isahell is an Ashkenazi operation, all the other Jewish sects know its wrong to steal. Ashkenazis are Europeans who steal land from others, and are now stealing from Lebanon as well as Gaza. Now Trump helps them loot and steal, because he got black mailed by an Isahelli agent named Jeff.
Isahell even admits they’re thieves in their national motto, “By way of deception thou shalt do war.”
Our motto must be the opposite, By way of Truth thou shalt do war.
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Lol. All cultures have stolen land from each other. All cultures have been slaves and enslaved but you Nazis are too dumb to know actual history so you focus on one group of people.
Every kingdom that existed in ancient times was familiar with the Lord Almighty. Hammurabi’s Code came from an Amorite king from Babylon. And even before that, when Sanskrit was the language of the land, men communicated with the Lord. All of the Summerian Kings were Amorites. The Lord created the Jews, “Your mother was a Hititite and your father an Amorite, but they too didn’t live up to the Lords expectations. “Your too hard for us,” they said. “Give us a king to rule over us.”
TODAY, because of the Catholic Church’s agenda and the King James Bible, the only part of the history remembered is that of the Christian era. People are so hypnotized by the Bible, the words of which are true but even there the Lord threw off the Jews saying, “I will drop a plumb line and return to you no more.” SO how many people today are so indoctrinated with the HOLINESS of the JEWS that they promote and suffer for their sakes? They wanted a king because they wanted empire. They wanted velvet robes and prestige and all Christ had to offer them was truth.
Geez you people are hilarious. Dont invoke God while attempting to attack the people He chose to bring His Word and His Son to the world.
I could go into an entire diatribe on how He blessed the Jews for eternity and how they are still a major plan for them after the time of the Gentiles have been fulfilled but I can tell that when you are trying to educate a group of individuals that have a collective IQ that is barely over room temp, you are in for a long endeavor.
Just go look up Joel 3 and tell me Yahweh is cool with how the nations of the world treated His people the Jews and how He is cool tha they divided up His land that He gave them. Theres so much more I could share to bolster the point but it might be too much at once for this audience of Mensa members. Lol
BASED. Get em JEWS!
Its you and yours that got got.
Kind of looks like ai created video haha!
Idf is getting its ass wrecked in lebanon.
Yeah no. That’s not what’s happening. Keep hoping.
Middle Eastern trash israelis stealing from the white Europeans again.
That is exactly what jews do, they steal. It is in their DNA.
And this “Jesus” character doesn’t do jack shit about it!
Great. Destroy the rest of Hezbollah!
Hezbollah is a creation of Israel.
Lmao. Lemmings actually downvoting the destruction of Hezbollah. You can’t make this up.