Trebuchet makes comeback! Trebuchets & flaming arrows used to launch fireballs at Lebanon

Israeli soldiers have launched fireballs into Lebanon using a medieval-style trebuchet. 

Footage shows IDF soldiers firing the trebuchet right next to the Lebanese border as it fires the flaming projectile over the border, right into Lebanese plantations.

'This is a local initiative and not a tool that is widely used,' the military told Israeli state broadcaster KAN News. 

'The area on the Lebanese border is characterised by boulders, thickets, and dense thorn vegetation, which poses a challenge to the IDF troops deployed in defense,' the IDF added as a reason for launching the fireballs.

The trebuchet was commonly used during the Middle Ages in sieges involving castles and other fortified locations, with large stones and projectiles being launched at enemy lines. 

Israeli soldiers have launched fireballs into Lebanon using a medieval-style trebuchet

Footage shows IDF soldiers firing the trebuchet right next to the Lebanese border as it fires the flaming projectile over the border.

'The area on the Lebanese border is characterised by boulders, thickets, and dense thorn vegetation, which poses a challenge to the IDF troops deployed in defense,' the IDF added as a reason for launching the fireballs

Another video posted to X shows an IDF soldier as she shoots a flaming arrow over the border to Lebanon. 

Smoke is seen following over border attacks from Lebanon, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, close to the Israeli border with Lebanon, on its Israel side, June 13, 2024

Israeli firefighters work following rocket attacks from Lebanon, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, near the border on its Israeli side, June 13, 2024

Two men stand by a truck as they watch smoke plumes rising from a fire in a field after rockets launched from southern Lebanon landed near the outskirts of Katzrin in the Golan Heights on June 13, 2024

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A Free Syrian Army fighter holds an improvised trebuchet in Aleppo

Lightly-armed Syrian rebels have turned to making their own weapons

A Free Syrian Army fighter uses a catapult to launch a handmade bomb in Aleppo

Members of the free Syrian Army use a catapult to launch a homemade bomb

Sketch showing a traditional trebuchet

Homemade catapults

Wooden trebuchet, which stands 60ft high and weighs 22 tonnes. The machine was used to hurl huge projectiles to breach castle walls

Trebuchet: The catapult flings a car through the air in a display of medieval weaponry

Preparing to fire: The car is winched into place before being fired across the field

The trebuchet flings the car, which weighed between 1.5 and 2 tonnes, with ease

The car flies through the air before crashing into the ground

The trebuchet also launched a petrol bomb

Exploding bomb: The petrol bomb explodes as it flies through the air illustrating the power of the trebuchet in medieval battles

International Terror News: Activist involved in kidnapping Australian man seen wearing Hamas logo

 

Activist involved in kidnapping Australian man seen wearing Hamas logo

Mohammad Sharab, an anti-Israel activist involved in the February kidnapping of an Australian man, was seen wearing the Hamas emblem at a rally in Melbourne.

By MICHAEL STARR, Jerusalem Post, JUNE 13, 2024 

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-806040

 Mohammad Sharab wearing a Hamas emblem at an anti-Israel rally on Sunday.

(photo credit: Screenshot/Mohammad Sharab/Instagram)

An anti-Israel activist facing charges for involvement in a kidnapping and torturing an Australian man was seen wearing the Hamas emblem at a Melbourne rally on Sunday.

Mohammad Sharab, 37, is one of the alleged perpetrators of a Feb.16 Braybrook attack along with co-conspirator and anti-Israel activist Laura Allam. Sharab, charged with kidnapping, false imprisonment, armed robbery, threats to kill, intentionally cause injury, recklessly cause injury, unlawful assault, and assault with a weapon, was present at the Sunday Melbourne rally, giving a speech to fellow protesters.

In a video published on his Instagram account, Sharab can be seen wearing on his chest the emblem of Hamas, which is proscribed as a terrorist organization by Australia. A drummer was also seen wearing a scarf with the Hamas logo.

                  Mohammad Sharab also faces charges over the alleged kidnapping.(ABC News)

 Melbourne human rights activist Laura Allam has been charged with kidnapping and assault over an alleged incident in February.(Facebook)

Hezbollah logos, black Jihadist flags seen

Anti-Israel activists also shared images on social media of a placard with the logo of Hezbollah, also proscribed as a terrorist organization.

Videos showed multiple black Jihadist flags and the red inverted triangle used in terrorist propaganda widely displayed throughout the march.

A protester holds an inverted “red triangle”, a symbol that the Palestinian Hamas movement’s military wing Al-Qassam Brigades uses to identify Israeli targets in their videos, during a solidarity sit-in with the Gaza Strip, in Manama on November 17, 2023. (credit: MAZEN MAHDI/AFP via Getty Images)

Green Party leader Adam Bandt addressed the protesters when they marched to the Victoria Parliament to protest the alleged deaths of Palestinians killed in an IDF rescue mission of four hostages, according to Free Palestine Coalition Naarm.

The anti-Israel group issued a statement condemning Victoria police for clashing with the group, allegedly using pepper spray.     

Pud says we are now at war and must give our support to the IDF to do it's job and prepare to take the fight to Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran and the Antisemites of the Left worldwide.

And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed, Genesis 12:3

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Hamas Leader Yahya Sinwar Boasts That Civilian Deaths Help the Terrorists Cause

Hamas leader boasts that civilian deaths HELP their cause and 'we have the Israelis right where we want them' 

• Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar branded civilian deaths as 'necessary sacrifices'

The leader of Hamas has claimed that civilian deaths in Gaza and continued fighting are helping his cause.

(Of course it boosts their cause. that's the whole point of using civilian shields in combat, which in itself is a war crime and crime against humanity. but we don't hear anything about that from the UN or the Hague.)

Yahya Sinwar, in recent messages to Hamas mediators, branded civilian deaths as 'necessary sacrifices' that put pressure on Israeli leadership.

'We have the Israelis right where we want them,' Sinwar penned in a message to his negotiators.

More than 37,000 people have been killed in Gaza, mostly civilians, since the start of the war, according to Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry, a lying propaganda organization.

Hamas supposedly accepted a UN resolution backing a plan to end the war with Israel and said it is ready to negotiate details, but Sinwar's internal messages contradict that.

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar (pictured) claimed that civilian deaths in Gaza are 'necessary sacrifices' that help his cause in the war with Israel

More than 37,000 people have been killed in Gaza, mostly civilians, since the start of the war, according to Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry (which has no credibility, of course).

Sinwar has sent dozens of messages demonstrating blatant disregard for human life and implying that he believes Israel has more to lose from the war than Hamas.

In one message to negotiators in Qatar, the Hamas leader said that civilian deaths were 'necessary' .

He also told Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh that the deaths of his three sons, who were killed in an Israeli airstrike, and other Palestinians would 'infuse life into the veins of this nation, prompting it to rise to its glory and honour.'

Sinwar planned and authorised the October 7 attack that sparked the war, and the brutal acts Hamas members committed against civilians. Gangs took women and children as hostages, etc.

Sinwar advised his negotiators in February that the Hamas leadership should not make concessions with Israel.

He alleged that 'high civilian casualties would create worldwide pressure on Israel' and claimed Hamas was prepared for further attacks.

Sinwar added: 'Israel's journey in Rafah won't be a walk in the park.'

Other messages allegedly sent by Sinwar have suggested he is willing to die for the cause, with him reportedly telling other Hamas leaders that they 'have to move forward on the same path we started or let it be a new Karbala'.

Yahya Sinwar, in recent messages to Hamas mediators, branded civilian deaths as 'necessary sacrifices' that he believes put pressure on Israeli leadership. 

Israel's longstanding stance is that Hamas' military and governing capabilities in Gaza must be annihilated, and all hostages freed, with Gaza posing no threat to Israel in the future.

The war began when Hamas-led militants stormed into southern Israel from Gaza on Oct. 7, killing more than 1,200 people and seizing more than 250 as hostages.

The White House slammed the International Criminal Court for issuing arrest warrants for Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu after it was revealed that Amal Clooney (Lebanese/Muslim descent) played a crucial role in the move

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar used barbaric torture methods on his victims, including burying them alive in concrete.

Yahya Sinwar, the elected leader of Hamas.

Former ICC prosecutor, Muslim Fatou (Fatso) Bensouda

Current ICC Prosecutor, Muslim Karim Khan (of Pakistani descent)

Sinwar masterminded the October 7 attack on Israel but miscalculated the reaction to it.

Iran has given at least £200 million to the Hamas since 2014

Sinwar is seen in 2011 being hugged and kissed by Palestinians on release from an Israeli prison

Sinwar was exchanged along with hundreds of other Palestinians for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit

Israel has vowed that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar is 'a dead man walking'