{"id":57143,"date":"2024-09-18T07:02:50","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T05:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=57143"},"modified":"2025-09-18T00:33:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T22:33:14","slug":"israels-big-blow-to-hezbollah-an-act-of-justice-for-the-children-of-majdal-shams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/09\/18\/israels-big-blow-to-hezbollah-an-act-of-justice-for-the-children-of-majdal-shams\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel's big blow to Hezbollah, an act of Justice for the children of Majdal Shams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 27, the Islamist terrorist group Hezbollah attacked the Israeli Druze village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/10\/25\/not-only-jews-the-muslim-christian-and-druze-soldiers-of-the-israeli-army\/\">Not only Jews: the Muslim, Christian and Druze soldiers of the Israeli Army<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/09\/01\/hamas-murders-six-hostages-let-us-remember-who-gives-oxygen-to-these-terrorists\/\">Hamas murders six hostages: let us remember who gives oxygen to these terrorists<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>In that attack, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/article\/rjqn7bmtr\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hezbollah terrorists used an Iranian-supplied Falaq-1 missile<\/a> with a 50-kilogram warhead. <strong>The missile was launched at a soccer field next to a children's playground,<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/in-majdal-shams-neighbors-embrace-druze-mourning-children-killed-in-rocket-attack\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">killing 12 children from the Druze community,<\/a> a religious minority with monotheistic beliefs and made up of people of Arab ethnicity, who are fully integrated and <strong>very loyal to the State of Israel,<\/strong> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/10\/25\/not-only-jews-the-muslim-christian-and-druze-soldiers-of-the-israeli-army\/\">have been serving in its Army for decades<\/a>, the Druze being highly valued soldiers in the country.<\/p>\n<div class=\"foto_piedefoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54003660435_659721c672_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"piedefoto\">Members of the Druze community waving Druze and Israeli flags at an event in 2018 (Photo: AP Photo\/Sebastian Scheiner).<\/div>\n<p><strong>That crime shocked the Druze community and all of Israel.<\/strong> It was the worst terrorist attack suffered by this country since the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023. E Like the Islamist terrorists in Gaza, <strong>Hezbollah terrorists have long been launching constant attacks against the civilian population of Israel from Lebanon<\/strong>, trying to provoke an Israeli response and then pretend to be the victims of the conflict: the same strategy as Hamas in Gaza.<\/p>\n<div class=\"foto_piedefoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54003238276_ce7640e69c_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"piedefoto\">Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi at a meeting with the Druze community of Majdal Shams following the Hezbollah terror attack on July 27, 2024 (Photo: Israel Defense Forces).<\/div>\n<p>With the Israeli counteroffensive against Hamas foreseeable and imminent, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/several-killed-thousands-hurt-as-wave-of-pager-explosions-strikes-hezbollah\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">almost 3,000 Hezbollah terrorists were injured or killed<\/a> <strong>yesterday by pager explosions<\/strong>. Many terrorists who were not killed were left with their hands or genitals mangled, due to the habit of carrying these devices in their pockets. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/spa\/el-embajador-de-ir%C3%A1n-se-halla-en-buen-estado-tras-sufrir-heridas-en-explosiones-en-l%C3%ADbano\/87566359\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">One \u200b\u200bof the injured is Iran's ambassador to Lebanon,<\/a> <strong>which places him as part of the Hezbollah terrorist network<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>What we know about this operation is that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/analysts-say-mossad-likely-hid-explosives-in-pagers-before-they-reached-hezbollah\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hezbollah obtained a large batch of pagers<\/a> in the belief that Israel could spy on the mobile phones used by that terrorist group. <strong>The Mossad<\/strong>, one of Israel's intelligence services and specifically the one in charge of counterterrorism, <strong>would have managed to put explosives in these pagers before they were handed over to Hezbollah<\/strong>. These explosives would have been activated by a message that was sent simultaneously to the entire network of that Islamist terrorist group.<\/p>\n<div class=\"foto_piedefoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54003238281_3e54a6864c_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"piedefoto\">The moments after the Hezbollah terrorist attack against the Israeli Druze community of Majdal Shams (Photo: AP\/Hassan Shams).<\/div>\n<p>Although Israel has not claimed any responsibility, in keeping with its usual policy, yesterday's operation was <strong>the largest simultaneous anti-terrorist operation in the entire history of the fight against organized crime<\/strong>. No other police or intelligence service in any other country had managed to strike such an effective blow against a terrorist group and in such a coordinated manner. In addition, <strong>this anti-terrorist operation will allow Israel to map the entire Hezbollah network<\/strong>, collecting data on the hospital admissions of terrorists who have been affected by these explosions in Lebanon. <strong>This is one of the greatest successes of the Mossad in its entire history.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"foto_piedefoto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54003244111_13738dbedb_o.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"piedefoto\">Photos of the Druze children killed by Hezbollah in their terrorist attack against Majdal Shams (Photo: Michael Giladi\/Flash90).<\/div>\n<p>This success also means that <strong>Hezbollah\u2019s network has been seriously damaged, especially its leadership<\/strong>, which we now know included Iran\u2019s ambassador to Lebanon. Even if they want to recover from this severe blow, <strong>the Hamas terrorists who have survived have reasons not to want to go near any other electronic device ever again<\/strong>, a paranoia that could force this Islamist criminal group to resort to methods as sophisticated as carrier pigeons for its communications.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the case, <strong>this anti-terrorist operation is an act of justice for the 12 Druze children killed by Hezbollah in Majdal Shams<\/strong> and sends a clear message to the terrorists: no matter where you hide or how long you manage to escape, Israel will eventually find you.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Main photo: Reuters. A flag of Israel's Druze community.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 27, the Islamist terrorist group Hezbollah attacked the Israeli Druze village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,10373],"tags":[20430,16413,822,95,22347,22346],"class_list":["post-57143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-world","tag-druzism","tag-hezbollah","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-lebanon","tag-majdal-shams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}