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Hezbollah Tries to Stop a Street War Over a Cartoon War Hezbollah has now condemned LBC’s “Angry Birds” clip, calling it vulgar, humiliating, and a deliberate provocation designed to inflame the street and drag Lebanon into an internal conflict. That is the point where a media stunt stops being just a joke and starts looking like an attempt to light a match in a room full of gas. The clip itself seems engineered to do exactly that. It turns Israelis into heavily armed green pigs, which means the satire is not merely political; it is militarized, dehumanizing, and built for outrage rather than wit. And here is the part that matters most: by telling its supporters not to react, Hezbollah is not suddenly becoming liberal or tolerant. It is trying to prevent the cartoon from becoming a real intra-Lebanese street fight, because once the anger spills into the streets, the damage is no longer symbolic. So in a twisted way, Hezbollah ends up shielding the very Israelis the clip mocks. Not out of sympathy, of course, but because it understands that uncontrolled retaliation would widen the front inside Lebanon before anyone even gets to the outside enemy. That is the ugly logic of the region. Media manufactures humiliation, factions count the possible bloodshed, and everyone pretends the problem is the joke rather than the politics that made the joke explosive in the first place. #Hezbollah#Lebanon#LBC#Israel#media#politics 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

🔤🔤🔤🔤➖ Israeli media reported that Netanyahu told Trump Israel needed to respond to Hezbollah’s attacks to restrain the armed group. In response the US asked Israel to ensure their response was “calculated and limited”. The ceasefire in Lebanon was reached after the US requested Israel come to the negotiating table with the Lebanese government, apparently in a bid to ensure negotiations with Iran were not disrupted by the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Since the ceasefire was established, Israel and Lebanon have had two ambassador-level meetings, one of which was held in the Oval Office in Trump’s presence. Trump has said that he is looking to make a lasting peace between the two countries, which do not have diplomatic relations and have fought on-and-off wars since Israel’s invasion of south Lebanon in 1978. Fighting has continued in Lebanon despite a nominal ceasefire, with Israeli bombing and Hezbollah attacks continuing since the first day of the deal to stop hostilities was signed. Israel also established a “yellow line” in south Lebanon where Israeli troops are active, comprising at least 55 villages. They have continued to demolish homes there. Under the text of the ceasefire deal, Israel is allowed to strike Lebanon in self-defence, a repeat of the 2024 ceasefire during which Israel struck Lebanon more than 15,000 times. Hezbollah is actively striking Israeli troops in Lebanon. While the Lebanese government negotiates in Washington, it has little to no ability to control the actions of Hezbollah. The government has come under fierce criticism from Hezbollah for negotiating directly with Israel, with the Hezbollah head, Naim Qassem, on Monday calling direct talks a “grave sin” which would plunge the country into “instability”. “These direct negotiations and their outcomes are as if they do not exist for us, and they do not concern us in the slightest,” Qassem said, adding that the group will not give up its arms – a key demand from Israel and the Lebanese government. Lebanon’s president Joseph Aoun responded hours later, saying the “real betrayal is committed by those who drag their country into war to serve foreign interests”. Rubio, in an interview on Monday, suggested the US could assist Lebanon in creating specialised units in the Lebanese army which would confront Hezbollah directly. The prospect of such a scenario prompted concern in Lebanon, which has a history of inter-communal warfare and civil war. The Lebanese government has been cautious in confronting Hezbollah head-on for fear of sparking civil unrest. Analysts have said that normalisation between Lebanon and Israel, which Trump is seeking to add to his list of international achievements, is unlikely given the antipathy in Lebanon towards Israel. Instead, a more realistic scenario would be an armistice agreement. Israeli officials have continued to apply pressure, with the Israeli defence minister, Israel Katz, accusing the Lebanese government of “taking cover” under Hezbollah and not moving forcefully enough against the group. #hezbollah#war#israel#soldies 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

Hezbollah Trundled Forward and Shelled Israeli Camps 🔤🔤🔤🔤➖ Hezbollah shelled some Israeli camps in south Lebanon on Tuesday, while Israel issued new displacement orders for south Lebanon and carried out airstrikes, as the fraying ceasefire failed to stop fighting between the two sides. Hezbollah claimed Tuesday’s attack injured several Israeli soldiers, but no confirmation was given from the Israeli military, apart from a statement saying interceptor missiles had been fired at incoming Hezbollah drones. An Israeli soldier was killed and six others wounded in a Hezbollah drone attack on Sunday. Hezbollah’s use of small, fibre-optic-guided drones has managed to evade Israeli aerial defences, as the wired element of the aircraft limits the radio signals that radars detect. The drones have a range of up to 9 miles and the armed group has used them to attack Israeli soldiers in south Lebanon almost daily since the ceasefire was established on 17 April. Israel also carried out a series of airstrikes on Lebanon on Tuesday, in addition to ordering the residents of 16 villages in south Lebanon to flee northwards. Israeli airstrikes killed 18 people and wounded 88 more in Lebanon over the weekend, according to the Lebanese ministry of health. At least 2,534 people have been killed and 7,863 wounded by Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon since the beginning of fighting between Hezbollah and Israel on 2 March. Hezbollah rocket fire has killed two civilians in Israel in the same time period. The back-and-forth fire came as talks between the US and Iran ground to a halt, with US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, saying any permanent truce needs to include a deal on Iran’s nuclear programme. The statement came after Tehran offered to reopen the strait of Hormuz – a chokepoint for a fifth of global oil supply – in return for the US lifting its blockade of the strait. US president, Donald Trump, said Iran was in a “state of collapse” due to the blockade in a post on Truth Social on Tuesday. As talks with Iran faltered, the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said drones and Hezbollah’s rockets continue to pose a threat to northern Israel and promised further strikes against what he said was Hezbollah infrastructure. “They have about 10% of the missiles they had at the start of the war. But these still trouble the residents of the north (…) We are carrying out strikes now, both within the security zone and north of it,” Netanyahu said in a statement on Monday night. #hezbollah#war#israel#soldies 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

Netanyahu Says Israel Will Keep Striking in Lebanon, Including North of the Litani Israel is running the same old border-security script in Lebanon, only now it comes with the vocabulary of “freedom of action,” “emerging threats,” and a security zone that keeps expanding while everyone pretends this is temporary. Netanyahu is claiming the U.S. and Lebanon have effectively blessed Israeli strikes north of the buffer zone and beyond the Litani, which is a very polished way of saying the war is still alive, just better packaged. The headline number is brutal: Hezbollah is down to roughly 10 percent of its prewar missile arsenal, but Netanyahu says the remaining rockets and drones are still enough to keep the north under pressure. That means the strategy is no longer just to survive the threat — it is to keep shrinking the threat until “security” becomes another word for permanent military management. What makes the whole thing political, not just military, is the promise that the “political side” can be solved later if the operational and technological side works now. That is classic Netanyahu: let the army, the tech sector, and the diplomatic theater do the heavy lifting, then present the result as if it were inevitable and clean. But the gap between the official story and ground reality is still huge. On paper, Israel has freedom of action; in practice, it has a fragile ceasefire, a still-armed Hezbollah in the background, and a northern frontier that looks less like a border than a managed zone of controlled escalation. So the message is simple: the government says the mission is not over, the army says the rules are changing, and the public is being asked to believe that a longer buffer zone is somehow the same thing as a durable peace. #Israel#Lebanon#Hezbollah#Netanyahu#Litani#securityzone 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

🇱🇧 Lebanon Gets a Ten-Day Truce Israel has agreed to a 10-day cease-fire in Lebanon, but the fine print is already causing trouble. Netanyahu says the fighting against Hezbollah will pause, while Israeli troops stay in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah, for its part, is warning that any truce that leaves Israel room to move is not much of a truce at all. This is not a breakthrough. It is a release valve. Trump is presenting the pause as part of a broader push to end the U.S.-Iran war, but his administration is still threatening Iran with strikes on energy sites if the talks fail. So the region gets a cease-fire headline and an open-ended threat in the same news cycle. The government in Beirut does not really control Hezbollah, and that is why these deals keep arriving with loopholes you could drive a truck through. Lebanon welcomes the pause, which is understandable after more than 2,100 deaths and over a million displaced, but a short truce is not the same thing as a settlement. Israel keeps territory. Hezbollah keeps its red lines. Trump keeps talking like the war is almost over. A ten-day freeze may buy time, but it will not survive the next serious incident. #lebanon#israel#hezbollah#trump#iran#war#middleeast 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

Sheikh Naim Qassim, Secretary General of the Lebanese Hezbollah, issued an address today calling on the Lebanese army to fight alongside Hezbollah against Israel: “The agreement provided for a complete cessation of aggression, the release of prisoners and the beginning of reconstruction. We endured for 15 months until Israel fulfilled not a single point of the agreement. We have been patient, but diplomacy has not taken a single step forward, despite hundreds of dead and wounded, and the ongoing aggression against Lebanon by the enemy with the full support of America. It is possible to justify the inability of the State to resist due to its weakness and lack of power, but it is impossible to justify the fact that the State becomes an instrument of Israel through pressure and decision-making in the government aimed at weakening the internal situation in the face of aggression. Israel and America have clearly stated that they want to strengthen the army to disarm Hezbollah and wage war against it, and they want the State to dismantle Hezbollah's various institutions and destroy the resistance, its people, and all those who support it. They want to support the army to such an extent that it can fight against its people, and this is something that the army cannot do. Let's stand up to aggression together, and then we'll agree on the future and everything else. Our decision in the resistance is not to calm down and not to give up, and the battlefield speaks for itself”. #sheikh#kassim#hezbollah#lebanese 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

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📰 The Great Leveling: Israel’s New Border Blueprint Tel Aviv calls it a “security belt.” Everyone else can read the footnotes: a four‑kilometer strip with no houses, no civilians, and no way back. According to military leaks, the IDF plans to wipe out entire Lebanese villages along the frontier — from Kila to Naqoura — turning them into a buffer of sterile ground. The legal team has already drafted the paperwork to make sure it’s “compliant with international law.” Translation: we’ll deal with the outrage later. For the generals, it’s a matter of clean lines of fire. For the politicians, a matter of framing. How to present erasure as “defensive architecture” — another blueprint for peace drawn with artillery ink. Hezbollah will call it ethnic cleansing. Israel will call it deterrence. The West will call it “a complicated issue.” Last time someone built a “security zone” in Lebanon, it lasted 18 years and ended in withdrawal. But as always, destruction looks convincing — on a PowerPoint. #Israel#Lebanon#Hezbollah#war#frontlines#architectureOfWar 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

🔤🔤🔤🔤2️⃣ Uncrewed Reaper drones were used to protect the air man once he had been located, by “striking Iranian military-aged males believed to be a threat who got within three kilometers” according to a correspondent with the US Air & Space Forces Magazine, who said he had been briefed on the operation. Military pilots said the missing F-15 crew member would have been trying to hide for as long as possible from the Iranian military. If possible, the colonel would have tried to transmit their location relative to a known secret point in the hope that US special forces coming in via helicopter would be able to rescue them. It was not clear exactly how the F-15 was downed, although Iran said it had shot it down. The US military did not publicly comment. Trump said on Friday that the episode would not affect efforts to negotiate a peace settlement with Iran. Iranian media released pictures of the wreckage of a plane, including a distinctive F-15 tail fin, and a used ejector seat on Friday, with state media and businesses in the country offering a bounty if the missing crew member could be captured. It also emerged that a Pave Hawk helicopter was hit by fire from the ground during the rescue of the pilot on Friday, but was able to fly away. Another combat plane, an A-10 Warthog attack aircraft, crashed near the strait of Hormuz with Iran claiming it had shot it down. Its pilot was rescued. The loss of the F-15 and other aircraft had come as a relative surprise, given the air superiority the US and Israel have established over Iran from the beginning of the five-week-long war. But it demonstrated that after thousands of bombing missions, Iran still has the capacity to inflict high-profile damage on the US. Trump said the US would never leave an American warfighter behind, committing the country’s military to similar rescue efforts if any more planes are brought down. Meanwhile, heavy bombing of Iran continued. Israel attacked several facilities at Mahshahr, a petrochemical complex in Khuzestan province, on Saturday, and on Sunday Iranian officials said that production there had been shut down. A building close to Iran’s civil Bushehr nuclear power plant was struck on Saturday morning, killing a guard, Iran said. Later, the IAEA atomic energy watchdog said it had been informed by Iran of the incident, the fourth in recent weeks, and added “no increase in radiation levels was reported”. Israel also attacked Lebanon, having issued a warning that people should evacuate at least 300 metres away from a building in southern Beirut that it said was affiliated with Hezbollah. Seven people were recorded as killed in a strike on Kfar Hatta, 30 miles north of the border with Israel. A fire broke out at the Borouge petrochemical plant in the UAE after falling debris from a missile interception caused a blaze, prompting operations at the facility to be suspended. A fire was extinguished at a storage tank belonging to Bahrain’s state energy company, the company said on Sunday. #member#F15E#rescued#hezbollah#liban 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

The US Commandos Rescued the Second Crew Member of a F-15E fighter 🔤🔤🔤🔤1️⃣ The second crew member of a downed F-15E fighter jet has been rescued by US commandos overnight, ending a dramatic two-day search after the warplane crashed in south-west Iran. The crew member, a colonel and weapons systems officer, had sustained some injuries but was successfully extracted by US special forces, Donald Trump said in a social media post soon after midnight EST. The US president called the operation to recover the air man “one of most daring search and rescue operations in U.S history” – and claimed that not a “single American” had been killed or wounded in the operation. “At my direction, the U.S. Military sent dozens of aircraft, armed with the most lethal weapons in the World, to retrieve him. He sustained injuries, but he will be just fine,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social site. Initial reports indicated that once located hiding in the mountains, the colonel was rescued by a special forces team under a hail of heavy covering fire. Three Iranian Revolutionary Guards were killed, according to Iranian sources. Iran’s military said on Sunday that it had destroyed three US aircraft involved in the search operation and that the Americans had used an abandoned airport in southern Isfahan as a base. State media shared images of charred wreckage scattered across a desert area, with smoke still emanating from the site. At least one $115m Hercules had to be destroyed in Iran because it had run into difficulties, having become bogged down in the ground, according to US media. Extra transport planes had to be flown in to complete the extraction. Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the speaker of the Iranian parliament, highlighted the cost of the lost aircraft with an apparent photograph of the wreckage: “If the United States gets three more victories like this, it will be utterly ruined.” Footage emerged of what was said to be night-time clashes in Iran’s Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province, near the city of Dehdasht, about 30 miles from the coast in the south-west of the country, the area where US searches had been taking place. The pilot of the aircraft had been rescued on Friday, after the F-15E Strike Eagle became the first US plane to be downed over Iran during the five-week-long war, but the second member of the crew could not be located immediately. The US air force had launched a massive search and rescue effort, using low-flying Pave Hawk helicopters and specialist C-130 Hercules transport planes. #member#F15E#rescued#hezbollah#liban 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

📰 Israel’s New War Doctrine: From Airplanes to Distributed Fire Israel is no longer planning for the old Ben-Gurion war — short, decisive, and won from the air. It is planning for a long, multi-front grind in which survival matters more than spectacle. The shift is visible in plain language across Israeli defense writing and planning. Jerusalem Post argues that modern adversaries no longer need to beat fighter jets in the sky; they can cripple a country by hunting its sensors, launchers, command nodes, and the supporting infrastructure that keeps air defense alive. That is why Israel’s new thinking is less about one perfect knockout and more about a resilient system: hardened batteries, redundant command links, mobile defenses, decoys, and a wider mix of offensive tools so aviation is no longer the only carrier of strike power. The same logic is reshaping the home front. Israeli officials and editors are increasingly talking about nationwide fortification, underground parking, protected public spaces, and deeper civil-defense infrastructure because the front line now reaches cities, logistics nodes, and civilian life itself. In other words, the question is no longer whether Israel can “close the sky” completely; it is whether the country can keep functioning after partial penetrations in a war that never really leaves the map. That also explains why Israel’s war machine is being redistributed across more than one domain. On the northern front, the fight with Hezbollah has become a campaign of constant pressure rather than a neat battlefield outcome, which makes a stronger ground-based missile component more attractive. In Gaza, the problem is exhaustion: manpower, reserves, time, and political attention are all being consumed by a fight that will not end cleanly, and the same strain runs through Syria and the West Bank, where smaller threats can still trigger expensive responses. The result is a doctrine built around endurance, not triumph. Israel is not replacing airpower; it is demoting airpower from sole king to one tool inside a more distributed kill chain, while turning the home front into part of the battlefield and adapting the state to live under permanent multi-directional threat. That is the real rewrite: from a country that expected wars to end fast, to one that now plans to absorb damage, keep moving, and outlast the next round. #israel#idf#iran#gaza#hezbollah#airdefense#war#geopolitics 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, has been talking about the war in recent days with his counterparts in Azerbaijan, Egypt, Oman, Pakistan, Russia, South Korea, Turkey and Turkmenistan, his office said. In Islamabad, officials raised the prospect of a meeting between Iranian officials and Steve Witkoff, Trump’s special envoy, Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law, and Vance, the US vice-president. A European official told Reuters that while there had been no direct negotiations between the two nations, Egypt, Pakistan and Gulf states were relaying messages. The sudden diplomatic activity came after the US and Iran traded threats over the weekend of strikes that could have cut electricity to millions in Iran and around the Gulf and knocked out desalination plants that provide many desert nations with drinking water. On Monday, Trump delayed a deadline for Iran to open the strait of Hormuz for shipping or see its power stations targeted by airstrikes, briefly driving down oil prices and boosting stocks. The deadline will now expire on Friday. The US continues to reinforce its military forces around Iran, with about 5,000 marines en route for the region, and to launch new attacks. Iranian media reported on Tuesday that Israeli-US strikes targeted two gas facilities and a pipeline, hours after Trump stepped back from his threat to attack power infrastructure. The facilities in central Iran were “partially damaged”, said the Fars news agency, which did not provide a source and was Iran’s only news outlet to report the incident. It said an attack also targeted the gas pipeline of the Khorramshahr power plant, in the country’s south-west. Netanyahu said Israel would continue to strike Iran and Lebanon, where its offensive targets Hezbollah, the Iran-backed Islamist militant movement, even as the US considers a ceasefire. “There’s more to come,” the Israeli prime minister said. Iran fired several waves of missiles at Israel early on Tuesday, and there were reports of an impact in the country’s north. In Tel-Aviv, a missile with a 100kg (220lbs) warhead escaped Israeli defences to slam into a street in the centre of the city, blowing out windows of a neighbouring apartment building and sending smoke billowing. Earlier in the day, Israel pounded Beirut’s southern suburbs, saying it was targeting infrastructure used by Hezbollah. In Kuwait, power lines were hit from air defence shrapnel, causing electricity outages. Missile alert sirens sounded in Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia’s defence ministry said it had destroyed 19 Iranian drones targeting its oil-rich Eastern province. Oil prices rose to $104 a barrel in morning trading, up more than 40% since Israel and the US started the war on 28 February. Analysts are warning of durable and deep disruption to the supply of oil and gas from the region even in the event of a rapid end to hostilities, with severe economic consequences around the world. #middle#east#trump#hezbollah#israel 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸