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Hezbollah, the Iran-backed terror organization that controls much of Lebanon, is being widely mocked after claiming on Sunday that it was attacking military targets in Israel, but hitting a chicken coop and little else.

As Breitbart News reported, Israel launched a preemptive strike on thousands of Hezbollah rocket launchers early Sunday morning after concluding that Hezbollah was about to launch hundreds of rockets, including Tel Aviv among its targets.

Hezbollah did launch several hundred rockets and drones. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said that the attack was meant to be a retaliation for Israel’s killing of second-in-command, Fuad Shukr, in Beirut last month.

Also notable that he openly acknowledges Hezbollah was indeed preparing to attack, not really bothering to deny the IDF narrative re: preemptive strikes.

— Mike DiMino (@mpdimino) August 25, 2024

Hezbollah also claimed that Israel had not preempted anything — which also confirmed Israel’s suspicions that an attack had been imminent.With 100 Israeli aircraft participating in the mission, a significant portion of the Hezbollah rockets were prevented from being launched, and Israel’s missile defense system took care of the rest.

But one, apparently, hit a chicken coop.

Israel Hayom reported that Nasrallah was being mocked by on social media, including in the Arab world, for his exaggerations, and for offering what amounted to a very flimsy retaliation against Israel.

Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of “”The Agenda: What Trump Should Do in His First 100 Days,” available for pre-order on Amazon. He is also the author of “The Trumpian Virtues: The Lessons and Legacy of Donald Trump’s Presidency,” now available on Audible. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.