Israel

[JasonPratt]

For some grim humor on that topic (of avoiding unexpected explosions), see the final segment of Bridget Phetasy's most recent "Dumpster Fire" episode.

I will try to skip it to the proper timecode, but that doesn't always work for some reason. It's 39:55.

Note that her series is a ("politically homeless") comedy satire news report on socio-political topics, so for purposes of RPF I'm only linking to the last part (if I can). Preview testing indicates the timecode doesn't work on our forum's YT functionality, so here's the direct link:

https://youtu.be/cvwSTS8ad8Y?t=2396

At worst, that can be copy-pasted to the address bar, but preview testing clicked to the right place for me.

Also, she used to write for Playboy so she's pretty saucy. This may or may not be relevant.

[Jarhead0331]

A Closer Look at Israel's Use of 80 Bunker-Buster JDAMs in Beirut

https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2024/october/closer-look-israels-use-80-bunker-buster-jdams-beirut?mc_cid=e9cc04fad7&mc_eid=6e1299eed5

[Sir Slash]

Great article. Israel's tactics are amazingly effective and very well thought-out it seems.

[W8taminute]

Very impressive. 

My news sources say that Nasrallah was not blown apart by the bombs but rather died a slow excruciating death by asphyxiation of poisonous outgassing of the explosions.

[Sir Slash]

What a terrible way to die...Now I'm over it. 

[JasonPratt]

Hope he repented of at least some of his life choices in the time vouchsafed for him.

[Uberhaus]

An example of how morally upstanding Hamass is and its connections to Daesh:  https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpw5v077nyjo  Hopefully, it will convince a few Palestinian terrorist supporters of what the terrorists would happily do to their female supporters.

A Yazidi woman who was kidnapped aged 11 in Iraq by the Islamic State group and subsequently taken to Gaza has been rescued after more than a decade in captivity there, officials from Israel, the US and Iraq said...
The Israeli military said the now 21-year-old's captor in Gaza had been killed during the ongoing war between Israel and the Palestinian armed group Hamas, probably as a result of an air strike.
The woman, identified as Fawzia Amin Sido, then fled to another place in Gaza.
The Israeli military said Ms Sido was eventually freed during a "complex operation coordinated between Israel, the United States, and other international actors" and taken to Iraq via Israel and Jordan.

Nice to see Canada finally pulling it's finger out, even if it is just a single, private individual.  Kudos, M. Maman.

[FarAway Sooner]

This is a grim, blow-by-blow account of how one Israeli base fell near the border on the morning of October 7.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg7825rk8j9o

It's curious how slow the Israeli military has been to identify the lessons here.  While war is deadly serious business and the Israeli army has a lot of things on its plate at the moment, a failure to learn from and institutionalize responses to your mistakes is one of a serious mistake that soldiers will pay for with their lives.