Did any first blows come from Lebanon? As of last night all the reports of drones, para-gliders, and infiltration into Israel were false information and didn’t actually even happen.
Is Israel striking first?
It appears so. however they were Hezbollah warlords were rattling their sabres earlier today.
Israel is most assuredly not hitting first. I have a nephew who lives about a mile from the border with Lebanon, and near the beginning of the war with Hamas in the south, he and his fellow apartment residents spent the better part of two days in their bomb shelter, because Hezbollah was firing hundreds of rockets all over northern Israel. The Israeli government has been advising people to evacuate from the north for at least the last four days, and my nephew is no longer at home. There have also been rockets fired from Syria. I don’t think that was the Syrian army, I think it was one or another terror group, or perhaps Iranian army units that are stationed there. But the central point is that in the north Israel is not initiating anything, just like it did not initiate anything in the south. A more clear-cut case of responding to aggression cannot possibly be found.
Funny, I live about a mile north of a General Aviation airport, and while driving into my driveway yesterday, I saw a paraglider who appeared to be on approach to the runway. Riding my bike in Concord a couple of weeks ago, I saw four paragliders more or less lazily circling overhead, near the prison (there is a prison in Concord). They were apparently landing in a soccer field in a nearby town to the west.