Hezbollah’s Face-Saving Attack on Israel Hits a Chicken Barn. Arab And Israeli Media Jointly Take Iran To Task.

Israel and Lebanon Came to Blows over the Weekend, and so we are not taking this lightly [see Israel and Hezbollah step back from the brink of wider war — for now]. But an attack on Israel mounted by Hezbollah, an Iranian proxy based in Lebanon, involving hundreds of rockets, failed to hit any major target inside northern Israel, causing a huge embarrassment for Hezbollah terror chief Nasrallah, who addressed the Lebanese people from an underground hideout somewhere in Lebanon to claim his missiles hit an Israelimilitary base near Tel Aviv.  Problem is, Israel is a small country by size, and nobody saw or felt anything of the magnitude Hezbollah chief claimed. This claim and the ensuing embarrassment forced renowned Lebanese journalist Maria Maalouf to tweet a single line, in Arabic, with a clip from Nasrallah’s TV address: “The most lying man on Earth!” [see screenshot, below].

Arab Media Roasts The Iranian Militia After It Damaged A Chicken Coop In Israel. Below is a screenshot of a news clip from Al-Arabiya, Middle East’s major news outlet, headlined, ‘Hezbollah’s chicken Barn Hit In Israel Draws Wide Ridicule In Arab Media’. The clip includes an image of a chicken alongside that of Fuad Shukr, Hezbollah’s No. 2 who was eliminated weeks ago and in whose revenge this attack was supposed to have been launched.

Here is the link to the viral clip in Arab and Israeli media of the chicken coop that Hezbollah’s Iranian rockets hit in northern Israel:

Arabs And Israelis Roast Iran. Egyptian influencer Mohamed Almasoori, a lawyer with 250 thousand followers on X/Twitter, posted Hezbollah chief’s picture on the phone asking someone, “Only one chicken, Imad?!”.  And a Saudi influencer with over 100,000 followers posted an AI-generated image of a rooster in a commando uniform with an automatic rifle and a disparaging caption, and a Moroccan pro-government female influencer uploaded an image from the Israeli media of the damaged Israeli farm with the caption, “This is Iran’s revenge for the elimination of (Hezbollah’s) Fuad Shukr and (Hamas’s) Ismail Haniyeh.”   Not to be left behind, the Israeli media too had a field day.  Arab Media Raps Hezbollah for ‘Chicken’ Attack, said a headline in Haaretz. Social media users mock Hezbollah’s failed attack on Israel, glared Times of Israel. And one of the best Israeli headlines, accurately reporting on the Arab media, was Israel Hayom’s Hezbollah fried chicken’: Arab social media roasts Nasrallah.

But This Was A Serious Attack That Could Have Gone Wrong. The British broadsheet, The Telegraph, headlined, Hezbollah’s long-awaited retaliation struck little more than a chicken coop. But what had occurred was significant: Hezbollah prepared hundreds of rocket launchers early Sunday, and Israelcaught them in time and launched a preemptive, defensive strike, with 100 fighter jets striking 270 Hezbollah sites in Lebanon. In his address, the Hezbollah terror chief claimed Israel’s preemptive strike happened 30 minutes before Hezbollah was scheduled to launch its missiles.  The terror group still got away with 230 rockets and 20 explosive drones fired at Israel, most of them either intercepted by the Iron Dome or fallen inside Lebanese territory. This infographic, below, was posted online by the Israel Army, the IDF, explaining what happened.

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