Conflagration engulfs the Middle East, with the Israel-Hamas war having gone on for more than a year now, and many Israeli hostages are still being held in deplorable conditions by Hamas terrorists. In Northern Israel, constant missile and rocket attacks by Hezbollah led to the mass evacuation of more than 70,000 Israelis from their homes in 2024 and to the inevitable military retaliation by the Israel Defense Forces, as they crossed the border into Southern Lebanon. Israeli missiles are raining down on key Hezbollah targets in Beirut.

The assassination of Hezbollah’s terrorist leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut, a seismic event, shattered his close friend and ally Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader and Hezbollah’s main sponsor. Nasrallah’s successor, Hashem Saffieddine, was also killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut within hours of being nominated for the Hezbollah leadership role and before the funeral of his predecessor had even taken place. Esmail Qaani, the leader of the Iranian regime’s terrorist Quds Force, has not been heard of since and it seems likely he was also killed in the same airstrike.These precision bombings follow the mass explosions of pagers and walkie-talkies in the hands of thousands of Hezbollah’s key operatives, killing dozens and maiming thousands, in a carefully planned Mossad operation. The Israelis are forensically decapitating Hezbollah in the same way they have virtually destroyed Hamas. The world now waits with bated breath to see how Netanyahu retaliates against Iran and the massive ballistic missile assault it launched on Israel on........

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