Report: Amid Gaza Op, IAF Sets Off Sonic Booms Over Lebanon

[tekisui]

Source: Haaretz

The official Lebanese news agency said Sunday that Israel Air Force warplanes flew over south Lebanon and set off somic booms.

It said that there had also been intensive activity by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles flying at intermediate altitudes over the south.

The overflight came into the second day of an expansive Israel Air Force operation on the Gaza Strip, which thus far has left 280 Palestinians killed.

Earlier Sunday, senior Lebanese security sources were quoted as saying that Hezbollah was unlikely to respond militarily to the IDF operation in Gaza.

Lebanese officials told the London-based Al-Hayyat newspaper that "It is not in Hezbollah's interest to do so." The officials added that protests in Lebanon against the operation were "restrained" and under control.

The Lebanese army raised its level of alert and cancelled all soldiers' leaves over the Gaza situation. According to the officials, the alert level was raised for fear of attempts by Palestinians or others to attempt to deploy or launch Katyusha rockets at targets within Israel.

They said that elements which might be interested in acting against Israel "are under supervision and monitoring," and that, for the moments, there were no signs that they intended to disturb the calm in the north.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1050642.html

[madrchsod]

1. the big boys flexing their muscles to scare the kids on the corner

or could it be those elections in the next few weeks....gee... who would use scare tactics or even a war to get elected?

[subsuelo]

2. Mass murderers showing off

The message: "Look we can kill as many native Palestinians as we want - maybe you'll be next!"

[Joe the Revelator]

4. Mass murderers? The hyperbole is too deep.

[subsuelo]

5. Israel has murdered a lot of the natives. Thus the word "mass".

[Joe the Revelator]

6. You say "murder", which is a very poor choice of words.

[subsuelo]

7. No, murder is appropriate.

If there's one thing we know Israel and Hamas to be good at, it's murdering each others people.

[azurnoir]

3. George should be flattered what a legacy n/t

[ProgressiveProfessor]

8. There were reports of Recce aircraft a few nights back

Hezbollah has been doing some saber rattling over the strikes in Gaza, and some posters here have joined in. Not clear what they can do. Last time around Hamas and Hezbollah tried to get a two front thing going, and it had little effect. Have to see what they try this time. Hezbollah has been heavily rearmed by Syria and Iran at this point but their focus has been defensive. Outside of suicide bombers, its hard to know what kind of offensive capability they might have.