🇱🇧🇮🇱 - Israel has been stacking troops and equipment on the northern border for the last 10 months. Hezbollah has done next to nothing to scale this back, deal with it preemptively, or establish reliable deterrence with Israel at all. In short- Hezbollah has ignored the realities of Israel's ambitions, which is to destroy all of their neighboring threats, in one war.

Hezbollah has had ample time to prepare defenses for something like today. They should have, and likely did know that Israel was planning on moving the frontline to the north. They clearly ignored all possible threats and chose to pretend they were king of the hill.

Today, Israel carried out a grotesque and inhumane violation of not just Lebanon's sovereignty, but the dignity of humankind. Blowing up pagers and risking tens of thousands of civilians is something Israel is more than familiar with doing, but Hezbollah dug its head in the sand and pretended like everything was okay.

Today's attacks in Lebanon have crippled Hezbollah- not entirely, but definitely for a time. Hundreds, if not thousands of fighters are missing fingers, limbs, and eyesight. Those injured today will likely never go back to combat. Hospitals are now packed full of injured innocents, and Hezbollah will never attack Israel when their communications are crippled and their hospitals filled.

Hezbollah brought this on themselves. Resisting Israel with "strong words of condemnation" and miniscule, pussyfooted attacks is not enough to keep Israel in check. In fact, it energized Israel and made them push the envelope even further.

Perhaps the Axis of Resistance wakes up to the reality of their ineptitude, inaction, and weakness- but they likely won't. Eternal third world mindset.

🇱🇧🇮🇱 - Disclaimer: We are not pro-Israel. But we aren't dishonest either.

🇱🇧🇮🇱 - For our Middle Eastern and Muslim viewers, it should rock you to the core that Americans and Europeans are more hostile to Israel than you are. At this point, a nationalist getting elected president of the United States is a bigger threat to the safety of Israel than Iran or Hezbollah ever will be.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Reports of a major Ukrainian UAV and missile strike against Russia. Air alerts in the Bryansk, Smolensk, Kursk, Lipetsk and Belgorod regions.

🇰🇵🇯🇵⚡- Second ballistic missile launched by North Korea, the Japanese Defense Ministry confirms.

🇰🇵🇰🇷⚡- "North Korea has just launched several short-range ballistic missiles," -Yonhap, South Korean media.

🇱🇧🇮🇱 - One last thing- none of this is to say Hezbollah is down and defeated. But it cannot be denied that the deterrence that not just Hezbollah but the AoR once held, the threat they once possessed, the check they held over Israel; that was unraveled today. While the pager attacks in Lebanon today were not massive, and certainly not enough to "cripple" Hezbollah, it's an embarrassment, a massive security failure, and one that the AoR set themselves up for.

On a final note, our condolences and prayers are with all of the people of Lebanon as they are preparing to get thrown into the gauntlet of the Jewish war machine. We pray for those who lost loved ones today, in both the Christian and Muslim communities.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Red alerts due to drone infiltration in northern Israel (Tiberias / Tamra direction.)

Drones have been detected above multiple settlements around Galilee, activating multiple sirens in this sector, far south from the Line of Contact.

Sirens were also reported in Tamra and the city sector of Wadi Hamam.

🇹🇼🇮🇱⚡️- Taiwanese police have arrived at Gold Apollo's headquarters in Taiwan, following the pager attacks in Lebanon.

Gold Apollo are the makers of the pagers that detonated today in Lebanon.

Earlier, Gold Apollo's founder, Hsu Ching-Kuang, said that the pagers were not manufactured in Taiwan, but were "made in Europe."

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Hezbollah has released another statement on yesterday's attacks, following the earlier launch of drones towards Galilee:

"Today, as in all the past days, we will continue our blessed operations to support Gaza, its people and its resistance, and to defend Lebanon, its people and its sovereignty. This path is continuous and separate from the difficult reckoning that the criminal enemy must await for its massacre on Tuesday that it committed against our people, our families and our mujahideen in Lebanon. This is another reckoning that will come, God willing."

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "We are brothers with the Americans," -Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian

🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- "Israel informed Washington of the details of the operation to detonate small quantities of explosives hidden in pagers after it was carried out" -Associated Press, citing an American official

🇮🇱❌🇱🇧 Walla (hebrew newspaper): Gallant had a phone call with his American counterpart, Lloyd Austin, just minutes before the detonation of devices in Lebanon. He informed him that Israel would soon carry out a difficult operation in Lebanon, without providing further details about the target or how the operation would be executed.

🇱🇧⚡- Hezbollah General Secretary Hassan Nasrallah to speak live on Thursday 5pm (Beirut time).

🇮🇷🇱🇧⚡- "Ambassador Mojtaba Amani's treatment is going well and what is being rumored about his physical and visual condition is incorrect," -Iranian Embassy in Beirut.

🇺🇲🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "The US administration's current feeling is that Hezbollah is confused and terrified and will not carry out an immediate military response," -The Washington Post.

🇦🇲⚡- "Failed military coup in Armenia, which was prepared by former citizens of Nagorno-Karabakh. 3 arrested, 4 still wanted," -The Investigative Committee of Armenia.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have captured Ukrainsk – Kurakhovo direction.

Ukrainian sources confirm withdrawing from the town to their fortifications just west.

Elsewhere, Ukrainian UAV footage confirms Russian presence at the center of Zhelannoe Persha, 48.07826, 37.42594.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have captured an area 6.2 sqkm, advancing towards Terni – Liman direction.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have closed the Ukrainian resistance pocket between Peshchanoe and Kislovka – Kupyansk direction.

A major defeat for Ukrainian troops in this sector, as Russian forces have captured both trench lines north of Peshchanoe, taking an area of 16.6 sqkm.

🇸🇩⚡- Rapid Support Forces confirms the death of one of their most senior commanders, Abdul Rahman also known as "Gorn Shata". Gorn Shata reportedly died within the first few minutes of the recent battles that took place in al-Fashir, Darfur direction, September 13.