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groundloop

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Mon Mar 2, 2026, 12:14 AM 10 hrs ago

Israel bombs Beirut after Hezbollah launches rocket attack

Source: Al Jazeera

Israeli jets have bombed Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, after Hezbollah launched what it said was a rocket and drone attack against a military base near Haifa in northern Israel.

The Iran-allied Lebanese armed group said early on Monday that its attack was in retaliation for the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, “in defence of Lebanon and its people” and “in response to the repeated Israeli aggressions”.

“The resistance leadership has always affirmed that the continuation of Israeli aggression and the assassination of our leaders, youth and people gives us the right to defend ourselves and respond at the appropriate time and place,” the group said in a statement, referring to the near daily Israeli attacks on Lebanon.

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The violence marks a major escalation in what is becoming a regional war between the United States and Israel, on one side, and Iran and its allies on the other.

Read more: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/2/israel-bombs-beirut-after-hezbollah-launches-rocket-attack

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Israel bombs Beirut after Hezbollah launches rocket attack (Original Post) groundloop 10 hrs ago OP
This is really starting to escalate more and more. MarineCombatEngineer 2 hrs ago #1

MarineCombatEngineer

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1. This is really starting to escalate more and more.
Mon Mar 2, 2026, 07:55 AM
2 hrs ago

The fucking Congress needs to get it's shit together and remove him and his whole criminal org. from power.

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