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The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps gave the final go-ahead last Monday in Beirut

Iranian security officials helped plan Hamas’s Saturday surprise attack on Israel and gave the green light for the assault at a meeting in Beirut last Monday, according to senior members of Hamas and Hezbollah, another Iran-backed militant group.

Officers of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had worked with Hamas since August to devise the air, land and sea incursions—the most significant breach of Israel’s borders since the 1973 Yom Kippur War—those people said.

Details of the operation were refined during several meetings in Beirut attended by IRGC officers and representatives of four Iran-backed militant groups, including Hamas, which holds power in Gaza, and Hezbollah, a Shiite militant group and political faction in Lebanon, they said.

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[-] dannoffs@lemmy.sdf.org 34 points 1 year ago

As a millennial I'm excited to live through my like 5th WW3.

[-] MetalJewSolid@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 year ago

Seriously, every single local war is a fresh breeding ground for WW3 according to morons online

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

A guy bumped into me at the pub. I fear this could escalate to WW3.1+ PRO MAX

[-] ohlaph@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Sponsored by Pepsi.

[-] TechyDad@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

As a GenX-er, I grew up with WW3 as a constant possibility. My third grade teacher showed us a TV movie about nuclear war that had me thinking every plane that flew overhead was a nuclear missile.

Maybe this is why GenX is the "whatever" generation. When you grow up thinking you're going to die at any moment, you tend to shrug off a lot of stuff.

[-] DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Doom-mongering. Climate change would still do more damage than WW3 unfortunately.

[-] sheogorath@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Let's just wait for the Taiwan invasion.

[-] ohlaph@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It would be the perfect time for China to attack.

[-] ohlaph@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Tell me about it. Wars, financial collapses, housing crisis, mass inflation...

It hasn't been great.

[-] cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 year ago

We're sending a carrier strike group. This could be an enormous escalation.

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They send those things everywhere. This isnt going to escalate much further, its just another regional skirmish that will die down in 1-2 news cycles

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