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Latest Developments: Attacks Continue Between Hezbollah and Israel

Israeli military aircraft attacked the Jabal Abou Rached area near Sarireh at dawn on Monday. The Israelis also carried out strikes against al-Mahmoudiyeh (Marjayoun). For its part, Hezbollah announced that it targeted a gathering of Israeli soldiers near the Dhayra and Hanita sites with missiles in the morning. An Israeli Air Force drone was ...

Lebanese Skies Are Becoming Increasingly Dangerous for Israel

Since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, a "cat-and-mouse game" between Israeli drones and Hezb air defense has steadily emerged in Lebanese skies. As a new Israeli drone was shot down on Monday, Ici Beyrouth takes a look at the main equipment involved. On Monday, Israeli forces reported the interception of one of their drones above the village ...

Southern Front: Hezbollah Official Killed in Israeli Morning Raid

An Israeli drone strike hit a car on the Abou el-Assouad road opposite Nabi Sari in the Tyre district on Tuesday morning, killing Hezbollah activist Hussein Ali Azkoul, code-named Abou Ali, an engineer with the group’s "air defense unit.” It was not until midday that the Shiite group announced the identity of the victim of the morning raid. ...

Municipal Elections: Controversial Parliamentary Session in the Loop

Caretaker Minister of Interior Bassam Mawlawi has set the following dates for the municipal elections: May 12 for Mount Lebanon, May 19 for North Lebanon and Akkar, and finally, May 26 for Beirut, Bekaa, and Baalbeck-Hermel. The door for submitting candidate applications in North Lebanon opened on Monday, but uncertainty still persists about ...

Southern Lebanon: Increased Tensions after the Killing of Hezbollah Officials

The southern Lebanese borders witnessed on Tuesday afternoon increased tensions after the killing of two Hezbollah officials, one killed by the Israeli Army on Monday night and the other on Tuesday morning. Hezbollah claimed responsibility of a drone attack on the headquarters of the Golani brigade and the Egoz (621) unit in the northern Israeli ...

South Lebanon: Two Dead and Six Wounded in a Raid on Hanine

Two people were killed, Mariam Kachakech, widow of an Amal fighter, and her 10 year-old niece Sarah, and six others were wounded, three of them in serious condition, according to preliminary reports, in an Israeli raid on a house in the village of Hanine, in the Bint Jbeil caza, South Lebanon. By early evening, rescue workers were still working to ...

Quintet: No President in the Foreseeable Future!

Seemingly, no positive sign regarding the potential for successive sessions to elect a president of the Republic ensued from the meeting of the Quintet ambassadors (USA, France, Egypt, Qatar and Saudi Arabia) with the Speaker of the House, Nabih Berri. Furthermore, Berri did not convey any clear answer regarding the possibility of a dialogue ...

South Lebanon: Tensions Increase on the Border

Confrontations between Hezbollah and the Israeli army continue to escalate as Hezbollah, Wednesday at around noon, claimed that it targeted a building where Israeli soldiers are located in Avivim, in response to last night's attack on Hanin. Later, Israeli army spokesperson Avichae Adraee indicated that they are "attacking Hezbollah targets in ...

Israel Carrying Out 'Offensive Action' at the Southern Border

Israeli forces are carrying out an "offensive action" across southern Lebanon, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said on Wednesday, without specifying whether ground troops had crossed the border. "Many forces are deployed on the border," and the army is "carrying out offensive action currently throughout southern Lebanon," Gallant said in a ...

Israeli Raids Extend to North Bekaa

A tanker truck was the target of an Israeli drone attack in Doures-Baalbek on Thursday, which resulted in damaging the vehicle and injuring the driver. Momentum has been increasing since yesterday night as the Israeli warplanes launched three consecutive raids on Maroun el Ras, causing property and infrastructure damage in electricity and water ...

Southern Lebanon: Fires Ignited by Phosphorus Bombs and Heat Wave

As cross-border clashes continued between Hezbollah and Israel, the Israeli army fired flares and phosphorus shells on Thursday afternoon starting a fire at the Yaroun forest, while other areas that were bombarded on Wednesday, including Labbouneh, were again in flames on Thursday, due to the heat wave sweeping the country. An air strike ...

W. Joumblatt to Propose a Document on the Crisis of Displaced Syrians

The question of how to "unify the Lebanese position on the crisis of displaced Syrians," which continues to weigh heavily on the Lebanese landscape, was at the heart of discussions between a Hezbollah delegation and the former President of the Progressive Socialist Party (PSP), Walid Joumblatt. Joumblatt had received the delegation at Clemenceau ...