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GAZA WAR DIARY: 23 SEPTEMBER 2024

Exactly two hours after Israel’s warning, attacks began in the Lebanon Valley. At least 274 dead in Lebanon since this morning, in attacks on 800 Hezbollah targets. There are dramatic photos of mass displacement from the Sidon area. God be blessed, we have no casaualties so far after 400 attacks from Hezbollah.

Bombs, bombs everywhere. And yet, I sit here, twenty minutes or more from where they are falling, calmly, making overnight oats for tomorrow, because I have no doubt that tomorrow I will wake up in the morning, eat my breakfast, and go to the gym to work out, just as I did today.

I can’t tell you where this confidence comes from. I just feel the embrace of God around His people and His country. I’m not sure it’s because all of us are so worthy. But one thing I am sure of, our enemies are depraved, decadent, evil people.

I will direct you to this video from a Syrian girl, who was married and living happily with her husband in Damascus when a local thug from the Hezbollah spied the attractive twenty year -old and started chatting her up. She did her best to avoid him. But soon after, her husband disappeared. She tried the police, the neighbors. And then, desperate, because she was afraid Hezbollah had forced him to join their ranks, she went to the thug. He assured her he knew exactly where he was and offered to take her to him. Instead, he drove her far away, then coldly told her husband was a corpse. He proceeded to beat her, rape her, and then turned her over to his pals. For six months, she was a sex slave for Hezbollah until finally, she could take it no longer and cut her wrists. They took her to the hospital, where she registered by her name. This is how her brother who was searching for her desperately for six months eventually found her. He paid a ten thousand dollar ransom to free her.

This is Hezbollah. Which is why many Syrians are rejoicing over Israel’s bombing of Lebanon, and turning Hezbollah fighters into eunuchs so they can never rape again. The destruction of the Radwan forces, which planned a October 7-like massacre on Israelis in the Galilee is also a cause for rejoicing, not just for Israelis, but for every decent person.

To see her story, Six Months in Hell, click here.

The hatred for Hezbollah from the Syrians goes deep and they are rejoicing on social media at every blow against Nasrallah. An account belonging to a Syrian who opposes Hezbollah explains the issue of the joy:

“Why do Syrians gloat? Because of the children of Houla who were slaughtered with knives, and the children of Homs and Daraa whose homes were destroyed by cannons, and the children of Aleppo and Idlib on whom barrels of explosives were dropped, and the children of Madaya who were starved to death by Hezbollah as they gloated and showed their feasts, and the children of Ghouta who were suffocated with chemicals. The hatred for the Hezbollah operatives who perpetrated these atrocities over the years against the citizens of Syria, is engraved in the souls of many Syrians. It is a very deep matter for them.”

 Hear that, woke morons at the universities!

So far, Israel is doing absolutely amazing work. Having discovered the secret program where Hezbollah was paying poor farmers to house ballistic missiles in their basements and living rooms (no, I’m not kidding) that could be activated remotely to fire into Israeli homes, the IDF is now blowing up every single one of these houses, and warning the Lebanese to run away from any home concealing weapons. Videos of exploding Lebanese homes show the secondary explosions of the weapons depots inside. The Israelis have sent out phone messages, and even taken over the Lebanese radio station to warn civilians to run. And, oh my, are they ever running! Southern Lebanon is now as empty as Northern Israel. Quite ironic.

But unlike Israelis who put its people up in hotels and made sure they didn’t have to worry about food or shelter, the Lebanese are running blindly because Hezbollah wants them to stay put. The more they die, the more Hezbollah can whine to the clowns in Brussels and the UN about “genocide.”

So far, Israel’s furious attacks are unprecedented.

Hezbollah has responded with barrages into the Krayot near Haifa as well as the Carmel, the Galilee, the Golan, and for the first time – Samaria, with missiles that have a range of 100 km – which can reach Tel Aviv. So far there has not been a single Israeli casualty. Thank God.

There was a direct hit to a house in Givat Avni in the lower Galilee, to which Hezbollah launched ten rockets. One miracle out of a day of miracles, the residents of the house managed to get into their safe room seconds after the alarm sounded, before the rocket hit 30 centimeters from the safe room. “We entered the shelter. I closed the door, locked it and then there was a crazy explosion. I said straight away ‘it’s inside the house,’ ” owner Yitzhak told Ynet. “From the moment the alarm sounded, about 20 seconds passed until the house was hit. What needs to be spread is that the shelter saves lives. This is the most extreme case there is – 30 centimeters and the lives of three people were saved.”

Photo by Gil Nehushtan

Ynet: “The police said after the impact that reports were received of falls at several locations in the Lower Galilee. Policemen and police sappers are at the scenes and are scanning the area to remove the risk to the public and to deal with the focus of the fall,” it was said. Mgen David Adom said that a 59-year-old man was wounded by shrapnel in his lower limbs in a fall in the Golani junction area, a 25-year-old man was injured on his way to a protected area, and three others were injured. All five were evacuated to the Poriah Hospital in Tiberias.

Let us continue to pray for God’s intervention.

Here is a video of an “ordinary” home of “ordinary” people in an “ordinary” village in Lebanon bombed by the IDF today. Note the numerous secondary explosions, which indicate that a large number of munitions were stored there.

… and here is another building, this one with a hidden cruise missile, also destroyed by the IDF, along with a Hezbollah terrorist.


… and here is yet another “innocent” civilian’s house with its secondary explosions.


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3 comments on “GAZA WAR DIARY: 23 SEPTEMBER 2024”

  1. Brenda

    Southern Lebanon will have to be reduced to rubble and well as all IDF identified targets in Beirut. Hezbollah is nothing more than a gang….with deadly missiles. Had U.N. Resolution 1701 been enforced, maybe it would have turned out differently, but it wasn’t, and Lebanon has been hijacked by the most armed Iranian proxy of all. Thank Biden,/Harris for enriching Iran from the start, first by removing sanctions put in place by President Trump and then by directly paying Iran vast number of billions. I hope Nazrallah is eliminated once and for all. I think of and pray for Israel everyday, without fail. So many to pray for, currently and those suffering with grief from brutal losses of their loved ones Oct. 7 and hostage families who appear to have lost their minds in some measure. I know people know they must stay for at least 10 minutes to avoid shrapnel, but curious minds just don’t always do that by their own admission. I so hope there is one close to you, Naomi. It’s imperative and you know far better than me. Always grateful to hear you are safe and additional info I don’t always get out of Tel Aviv. Plus trying to interpret Hebrew leaves room for error on my part. 🙏🇮🇱

  2. Ellen Calderon

    Amazing videos, too many deaths, please stay safe on your outings.

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