The Israel Air Force on Sunday afternoon attacked Hezbollah’s stronghold of Dahiyeh in Beirut, after the Lebanese terror group ignored the ceasefire brokered by US President Donald Trump on June 1. This attack – foreshadowed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz – was a low-grade strike on Beirut, an apparent attempt to walk the tightrope between increasing pressure on Hezbollah and avoiding antagonizing Iran too much over a more serious attack on its main proxy.
Despite Israel’s efforts to keep its attack on Beirut limited, some Islamic regime officials hinted at a threat to attack Israel later Sunday night in retaliation. An Israeli source told The Jerusalem Post that, according to the understandings underlying the joint Israel and US-Lebanon ceasefire agreement announced on June 4, following the June 1 freeze on attacking Beirut, a Hezbollah attack on Israeli civilian territory would entitle Israel to respond by striking the terror group in Dahiyeh.
A senior US official told Axios reporter Barak Ravid on Monday that Washington did not provide a "green light" for Sunday's IDF strikes on Beirut.c"We had no part in this,” added another senior US official. Washington was reportedly informed ahead of the strikes, according to Saudi outlet al-Hadath. The IDF dropped at least 10 one-ton bombs on one command center, which comprised multiple compounds. IDF sources suggested some mid-level Hezbollah operatives were struck, while other IDF statements seemed to hint that an empty command center might have been struck. (Read More)
