The Lebanese militia Hezbollah fired a volley of rockets toward a small military base in northern Israel on Saturday morning, in what the group said was an initial response to the assassination of a senior Hamas commander in Lebanon five days ago that has raised fears of a wider conflagration.
Hezbollah said in a statement that the strikes had caused casualties, but there were no immediate Israeli reports of injuries and the assault was initially perceived by analysts as more of a symbolic response to the assassination than a significant escalation.
The Israeli military said in a statement that roughly 40 rockets had been fired from Lebanon toward Mount Meron, an area housing a military radar station that is roughly five miles south of the Israel-Lebanon border. The military said that it had responded by striking a militant group in Lebanon that had been involved in the rocket fire.
They fired missiles, not rockets.
Both go BOOM and kill people so I’m not sure what the distinction is for.
“Rockets” is said to make them seem like backyard desert thugs vs organized militia. Media always refers to “rockets from Gaza”. Never missiles. Israel has “missiles”. Just something I’ve always noticed although I am not in favor of either party in this war over the other. So does that make me an antisemite? In some circles, yes. In others, no. I am not for the great displacement occuring nor am I for missiles or rockets into Israel from Gaza’s Hamas. I am struggling with the comtradictions toward peace. I am believing noone. Just reading the words of propaganda. It is exhausting.
Rockets = upper atmosphere
Missiles = lower
Iran regularly fires/provides rockets which go waaay up before coming down. Not sure if that was the case here though.
And yeah…more tech in rockets than missiles usually so I suspect you’re seeing bias that isn’t there (in the report anyway)
The comparison between the two in war industry is usually to label guided, and connotatively precision, munitions as missiles and unguided, and connotatively dumb or saturation fire, as rockets although in reality there is no strict distinction in these terms. Bias stems from this particular use of connotative terms.
Also note: Isreali strike in Lebanon wasn’t exactly an “assassination” that would immediately connotate with spy movie type assassinations with silenced weapons, poison, long-range sharpshooter rifles or other discreet means of killing a single individual. It was a precision explosive munition fire from afar (artillery/long range missile launch systems/aircraft, I don’t exactly remember which) that leveled a whole apartment-type of building.
Fair enough.