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Hezbollah strikes key Israeli bases in defense of Lebanon, its people (english.almayadeen.net)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The Resistance group said it targeted the Kiryat Shmona settlement with a barrage of rockets, resulting in fires according to Israeli media. Firefighting teams were dispatched to the area in an attempt to extinguish the fires.

Hezbollah also struck the Meggido military airbase west of Afula - north of Jenin - three times throughout the early hours of the day with salvos of Fadi 1 and Fadi 2 rockets.

Additionally, in a strategic operation, the Resistance announced targeting with Fadi rockets the Israeli base, which is the Israeli occupation army's main transport and logistical support base for the northern region.

Furthermore, the group targeted the logistical warehouses of the Israeli 146th Brigade at the Naftali base. A northern correspondent for the Israeli i24NEWS confirmed that Hezbollah had hit "a very large weapons depot and a logistical center belonging to the [Israeli] army," noting ongoing efforts to extinguish the fires around the targeted site.

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 month ago (12 children)

I mean it is a Lebanese paper but it's also notoriously biased towards Iran (and therefore Hezbollah) and Syria, and Hezbollah is suspected to be their source of funding. They're just not the most likely to impartially report on Hezbollah's activities in the same way people don't unconditionally trust Al-Jazeera's reporting on Qatar. Also the title is oozing bias for something that's not an opinion peace.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (9 children)

Do you have evidence of Al Mayadeen lying or falsely reporting something?

They are biased in the sense that they amplify resistance voices where mainstream media crushes those voices. But I have never seen them falsify reports.

[+] [email protected] -14 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Apparently they failed three fact checks on mediabiasfactcheck.com, so you can check that. Also even if they don't falsely report they can omit information or put a spin on things (for example in this case there could be other targets in this round of bombings that don't sound as good and were left out). In these cases it's better as a rule to compare the reporting with that of other sources.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

even if they don’t falsely report they can omit information

That's why you always read the reports from all perspectives to fill in the gaps. You literally discount the "our freedom fighters" vs. "Their terrorists" speak yourself, instead of your convenient solution of appealing to mbfc (appeal to authority)

In these cases it’s better as a rule to compare the reporting with that of other sources.

It would be great if you actually lived by your own words and engaged with the topic at hand and not lazily cite mbfc.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 month ago

It would be great if you actually lived by your own words and engaged with the topic at hand

I literally did that by asking if there's another source. I only cited MBFC because they did fact checks of the site (with a healthy dose of bias, admittedly). I wasn't trying to cite the reliability or bias ratings because I know they're basically arbitrary.

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