In a heavily publicized display of air power on Tuesday, the Israeli Air Force flew low over Beirut and rumbled the city’s inhabitants with a series of deafening booms. The timing of the aerial manoeuvers was of special importance, considering that they occurred several minutes before Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah was due to read his speech on television.
The loud booms made people fear that their windows might break and rushed them to open windows, and others came to their balconies to see the planes. The Israeli military, nevertheless, was tight-lipped over the happenings.
Hezbollah and its followers, which flocked southern suburbs of Beirut to watch the speeches of Nasrallah, were celebrating one week since the Israeli forces killed a senior Hezbollah commander, Fuad Shukr. The listener can directly hear the sound of explosions, which Nasrallah said was to address those participating in the memorial event.
And the recent killings of two commanders of Hezbollah and Iran, they both stated that they would retaliate in the region. The given state of affairs increases the probability of an all-out war as the nations keep clashing and counterbalancing each other.
