Hezbollah threatens to strike Israeli cities, pointing to military offices as targets

Yesterday, a Houthi official in Yemen Muhammad Ali Al-Houthi congratulated Hezbollah for a video published last summer that purportedly shows "Zionist military headquarters and factories from inside occupied Palestine, with coordinates."

This was after the video was re-broadcast on Hezbollah's Al Mayadeen channel yesterday. Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah threatened to  strike Israeli cities, saying that the military facilities there make the entire cities fair game. 

Al Houthi congratulated Hezbollah's intelligence, saying that Arab Israelis or friendly Russians must have infiltrated near those positions.

It is actually pretty easy to figure out where likely Israeli military facilities are. You just have to look to see where Google does not show the street view, which is almost certainly by Israel's request.

Here's one example Hezbollah gave, saying that a Haifa military base was near the Rambam Hospital:

If you Google the location, you see it says "Military base"  there. And the blue lines that indicate Google Streetview are not visible in the area.

It's not even a secret to visitors to Bat Galim Beach, with TripAdvisor saying "Military base down the block."

This is hardly the intelligence coup that Hezbollah and its friends are claiming. 

Hezbollah is trying to say that Israel deliberately built the military base next to the hospital, the way Hamas and Hezbollah does, to make civilians human shields. Of course, Hezbollah and Hamas do this quite deliberately, with military facilities inside hospitals and rocket launchers inside people's houses, while both this military facility and the hospital have been there since before terrorists had rockets that could reach those spots. 

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