Could killing of Hamas leader trigger a wider regional war? | Israel-Hamas war

Let’s bring in our military analyst Major General Charlie Herbert and and Charlie from a military perspective uh was this attack expected for scen I mean Jane the deliberate targeted killing of senior Hamas leadership is absolutely not unexpected at all and I expect that we’re going to see quite a few more of

These sort of killings Israel made it absolutely clear after the 7th of October that they wouldn’t stop until they SW their retribution on all of those who are involved in that Massacre on the 7th of October and of course this of targeted assassination outside of Israel has been part of Israel’s

Strategic policy for the last 75 years so so not unexpected at all the timing of the killing of Salah alori is interesting they arguably could have killed him earlier I suspect he’s a key player not just in the organization but he’s said to be one of the key

Negotiators for the release of the hostages one doesn’t normally go about killing somebody who one seeks to talk to to gain further negotiations and and and I think it’s going to be really interesting to see the impact of this killing on those hostage negotiations as we move forward so that’s one element of

Of the impact but also the impact from Hezbollah how may they react to this attack on their Turf in Lebanon yeah I mean this is a million dooll question and Nazar aliver head ofah said last year that an attack of his nature would be a red line an

Absolute red line for them he’s due to give a speech some point this afternoon and we think that’s going to go ahead it’s a speech that was planned before the killing yesterday but we understand that what have I think we have three options for Hezbollah they can respond

In full effectively go to war in Israel I think that’s highly unlikely they can respond in part some form of limited action beneath the threshold of War to try to deescalate this conflict or they could not respond at all which again I I think is is is unlikely what we’ve seen

Since the 7th of October is a series of retaliatory attacks going on between the IDF in Northern Israel and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon but they’ve sought to keep that at a manageable level the greater concern I think at the moment isn’t just what happens uh in Lebanon and Northern Israel with Hezbollah is

What happens down to the South with Yemen so only 48 hours ago of course for both the US and the UK were talking about the consideration of conducting strikes against hooti militia in Yemen who of course have been you know launching attacks uh at shipping in theed SE so significant risks of

Escalation perhaps more so now but in any other time since the 7th of October and as we look at that map of course we’ve got Iran and we’ve got the town of kman up there as well this incident that’s happened there today the death tool continuing to rise I mean do you

Think this is possibly linked yeah it’s too early I think Jane to to draw any firm conclusions about this what we know is about you over 100 people were killed in two separate bombing explosions about a kilometer from the grave of General suani suani was probably the second most

Powerful man in Iran he was the coulds Force Commander he was the man that conducted clandestine operation ations and Terror terrorism the man who supported Hamas and Hezbollah you know on behalf of Iran hugely powerful man he was killed four years ago in a US strike at Baghdad airports Iran threatened revenge in

Response to that we’ve not seen it one can’t help thinking that whoever conducted this attack today this bombing on the fourth anniversary of suan his death it just appears as if they’re trying to provoke a greater Regional escalation but too early to as to who did it

Hezbollah is warning that those behind the attack in Beirut, which killed a top Hamas official, will “not pass without punishment”.

Hamas claims Israel was behind the drone strike in the Lebanese capital, but Israel has yet to confirm or deny the accusation.

Military analyst Charlie Herbert says a “deliberate targeted killing of senior Hamas leadership is absolutely not unexpected”.

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21 comments

  2. Through Gaza and the false "Palestinian" narrative, Iran and Russia are distracting the world from the war they have started against the democratic countries.
    (Gaza is one of the Jihad-Islamic terrorism bases of Iran.)

  3. I must say the general is a smart gentleman. Hamas would not start a full-scale war with Israel for two reasons. The first is the American fleet in the Eastern Mediterranean. The second they see what Israel has done in Gaza and they don't want that in Lebanon. The country has been in a terrible economic and political crisis for several years.

  5. It is indeed a very interesting story, my opinion is that the Israelis are the ones who benefit greatly from the terror attack conducted in Iran, that is not to say the Israelis want war with Iran but rather they would want the Iranians and the Arabs to engage in a war of self destruction so as to expand their dominance and benefit from the spoils of war as well as the profit gained through arming both parties. Bear in mind Israel armed Iran whilst the US armed Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war, just as the Israelis armed Al Qaeda via Pakistans CIA/ISI/UK intelligence operation aka Operation Cyclone! The Israelis are a very peculiar type of breed and they indeed have a hand in multiple conflicts that should be a red flag.

  10. nah, its the elites who will decide that. they're not on good terms on each other right now thats why they want to settle their own-level of arguments via War on specific country

  11. iran threatened revenge ; we've not seen it? Well, i think the Americans in that US base in Iraq that should have had an anti-missile system guarding it, but for some reasons didnt… they clearly saw it pretty clearly when lots of powerful Iran missiles hit their base.. just luck they managed to evac in time.. and the fact Iran happens to use commercial sats.

  12. Oh dear Sky has finally started reading the comments section here and have realised they have exhausted the bullshit they have been feeding us through Sean Bell, Michael Clark etc (clarke has now jumped ship anyway lol)….so heres another "expert" lets watch over the weeks and see how the Sky bosses pulls his strings lol

  18. Prophet Abraham was NOT a JEW he was an ARAB IRAQI from the town called UR south of IRAQ near euphrates river ziggurat and all his descendents were ARABIC people and prophet of God and God is with Shem meaning saudi arabia and meddle eastern people we are chosen people of God

  21. They brought on a “expert” to give his thoughts on the current situation and then he says it’s “too early to speculate as to who did it” watching this is the biggest waste of time

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