Hezbollah Declares: "Open War" Against Israel
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Al Jazeerah TV picked up a broadcast from Al Manaar TV (Hezbollah's Media), that it's Chariman, Hassan Nasrallah has accepted Israel's declaration of war on Lebanon, and has reciprocated the call for an 'open war' with the state of Israel.

Al Jazeera also relayed new tactical military achievments by Hezbollah:

1. An Israeli warship that was bombarding West Beirut, was struck by two Hezbollah missiles. One was fired at the Israeli naval vessel from the sea, and the second was fired from the rooftop of a building in West Beirut.

2. The Israeli warship sent out an S.O.S, after the two Hezbollah missiles impacted. One missile hit the front of the vessel, near the cannon with it's crew, and the second struck the side, creating a huge hole, which caused the warship to take on water.

3. Four Israeli sailors have been declared missing in action, and the Israeli Navy is conducting a search for them.

4. Hezbollah has refused to give technical specifications regarding it's missiles, in order to deny any valuable intelligence information to Israel. The only aspect it shared was that the missiles range was 10 kilometers, and could go further.

5. Hezbollah has also declared that it has deployed Surface-To-Air Missiles (SAM's), to be used against Israeli helicopter gunships.

6. Hassan Nasrallah has vowed to take the fight deep inside Israel, to Haifa and beyond. Which suggests that Hezbollah possesse long-range rockets.

7. Al Jazeera analysts declared that Hezbollah has achieved an operational miltary surprise, by it's lauching of two anti-ship missiles (CNN reports that it was an unmanned Hezbollah aircraft), and catching the Israeli naval vessel by off-guard.

Also, Hezbollah has achieved a intelligence coup by either manufacturing or purchasing the missiles, then infiltrating them into Lebanon undetected.

8. Hezbollah's declared 'open war,' after Israel targeted Lebanese civilians and vital infrastructure.

9. Hezbollah's reciprocity of Israel's 'open war' declaration, was also meant to relieve the ferocity of Israel's Gaza assault against the hapless Palestinian population. And, sure enough, after todays Hezbollah attacks on Israeli targets, the Jewish state was forced to withdraw some of its military units from the Gaza Strip, and redeploy them the the Israeli-Lebanese border.