Global SITREP C6-20: Eyes on Lebanon

 

Hezbollah's Beirut Missile Sites

4 October 2020: With the IDF's very public releasing of intelligence this week (GPS image above) on Hezbollah's precision missile manufacturing sites in residential neighborhoods of Beirut, it isn't, pun intended, "rocket science" to assess that precision Israel Air Force strikes on these locations are an imminent probability.

Poor Beirut, as if it hasn't had an abundance of of massive explosions and fires of late, it's problems have compounded thanks to Hezbollah's stupidity. Following the IDF intel release, which PM Netanyahu had promptly revealed to the world during his U.N. address, Hezbollah organized a rather hasty tour for media through the neighborhood buildings and structures which had been identified, as if to show Israel's intel was bogus. 

To the contrary, the video tour validated the Israeli intel as beyond reproach as specific machinery and dual use technologies (lasers, hydraulic and manual metal benders) for precision rocket manufacturing were clearly identified in the Beirut residential neighborhoods of Janah, Laylaki and Chouaifet. The Hezbollah factories are located under apartment buildings adjacent to a mosque, gas station and a medical facility.

Hezbollah did not deserve this advance warning of Israel's intelligence gathering successes and detailed knowledge of its activities, yet it serves as the clearest warning possible to the people in these Beirut neighborhoods and Hezbollah itself of exactly where the next IAF air assault will occur. 

Given recent history since 4 August in Beirut one can understand how the local population feels about Hezbollah and its Iranian masters activities underneath their homes, wives and children. We will probably read about the IAF knocking on the roofs of these structures as a final warning for the people to move, or for them to dismantle the factories themselves before Israel does.

Our eyes remain on Beirut, and elsewhere.