• twinnie@feddit.uk
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    5 days ago

    Hezbollah have had this coming, they fired rockets at Israel on October 8th. So not because of what Israel was doing to the Palestinians, but in support of what Hamas did on October 7th.

    • Dkarma@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      You understand October 7 was hamas response to Israeli settlers continually invading and stealing Gaza land, right?

      This did not “begin” October 7th.
      Israeli settler terrorists are just as bad as hezbollah.

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      The moment the first news dropped on October 7 it was clear Israel was to retaliate with a bloodbath and they started bombing Gaza the same evening. If Hezbollahs goal at the time was to make use of the situation, they would have went for an all out attack while IDF was in disarray.

      The goal was to increase the pressure on Israel for reaching a cease-fire agreement through keeping their northern settlers out of their settlements, rendering the region economically inactive and the settlers angry at their government.

      It seems like no one anticipated this to go into a yearlong war. Initially Hamas seemed to have aimed to reach a ceasefire quickly through a hostage exchange deal, but Israel put genocide over having their hostages return alive.

    • Sundial@lemm.ee
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      Hezbollah has stated that they fired those rockets in solidarity with the Palestinian people.

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