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minus-squareNoneOfUrBusinesslinkfedilink3•25 days agoThey have a long blood soaked history that had mostly ended with the second Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 2006 before restarting last year.
minus-square@the_toast_is_gone@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish-11•25 days agoAnd Hezbollah was the one that restarted it, in solidarity with Hamas.
minus-squareNoneOfUrBusinesslinkfedilink5•25 days agoYes I do know that, but don’t claim they’ve been shooting rockets at Israel for the last 20 years.
minus-square@the_toast_is_gone@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish-5•25 days agoSo the statement that Hezbollah specifically has been continuously launching rockets for 20 years is false and I could have worded that better. Fair enough. But there’s still been quite a lot of attacks on Israel originating from Lebanon since 2006.
They have a long blood soaked history that had mostly ended with the second Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 2006 before restarting last year.
And Hezbollah was the one that restarted it, in solidarity with Hamas.
Yes I do know that, but don’t claim they’ve been shooting rockets at Israel for the last 20 years.
So the statement that Hezbollah specifically has been continuously launching rockets for 20 years is false and I could have worded that better. Fair enough. But there’s still been quite a lot of attacks on Israel originating from Lebanon since 2006.