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Hezbollah Claims Drone Attack on Northern Israel

After a relatively quiet day on Saturday, tensions rose again late in the afternoon, following a drone attack on northern Israel. Hezbollah claimed responsibility for a series of attacks on Israeli military positions in the Shebaa Farms and Kfarchouba, affirming to have hit their targets "head-on." In the early evening, it claimed responsibility ...

South Lebanon: Intermittent Fire Exchange Between Israel and Hezbollah

The exchanges of fire between Hezbollah and Israel continued intermittently on Sunday throughout the day, with the Israeli army bombarding the Labbouneh-Naqoura region, the outskirts of Wazzani, Rachaya al-Foukhar, Kfar Hammam and Shebaa. It also conducted two raids on an area between the villages of Hebbariyeh and Fardis, as well as on ...

Southern Front: Hezbollah Claims Strikes that Wounded Israeli Soldiers

Hezbollah claimed responsibility on Monday for a strike that Israel said wounded four soldiers in the country's north, the latest cross-border fire in more than seven months of clashes. Hezbollah fighters fired "a guided missile" at an Israeli Merkava tank across the border on Monday morning, destroying it "after closely monitoring the ...

Specter of Chapter VII Behind Hezbollah’s Rejection of 1701 Amendment

  Israel's incursion on Rafah bears no resemblance whatsoever to Gaza’s military operation. Behind the facade of this so-called "limited operation" lie calculated political objectives aimed at securing a decisive victory, enabling Israel to achieve a ceasefire on its own terms, rather than those of Hamas. This unfolds amidst expectations ...

New Developments on the Southern Front

Tuesday morning saw a relatively cautious calm on the southern front. An Israeli drone targeted the Qandouli neighborhood, west of Mays al-Jabal, while the locality of Zebqine was bombed. For its part, the Israeli army announced that warplanes had attacked "a military building in which a Hezbollah member had been spotted" on Monday evening, ...

South Lebanon: Israel Kills Key Hezbollah Figure in Tyre

Hussein Makki, a prominent Hezbollah leader, was killed in a targeted Israeli drone strike on his car in the city of Tyre in South Lebanon, along with two of his companions. Israeli sources indicated that Makki had close ties to Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a high-ranking officer in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards who was killed in Damascus on April ...

Hezb Executive Eliminated, Sixty Rockets Fired at Northern Israel

Hezbollah's response to Israel's elimination of one of its senior executives, Hussein Makki, on Tuesday evening, was swift. On Wednesday, the pro-Iranian group launched a salvo of Katyusha and Burkan rockets against Israeli positions. In a series of statements, it claimed to have targeted the headquarters of Brigade 91 at the Biranit barracks, and ...

Hezb Attacks Golan and Israel Retaliates in Baalbeck

The Israeli Army confirmed on Thursday that “for the first time, a security facility was targeted last night in the Golan Junction as a result of the explosion of a Hezbollah drone.”The Israeli Army radio also announced that the Army “sent technical teams to the scene and is investigating the extent of damages.” In parallel, 'Al-Hadath' ...

South Lebanon: Two Deaths in Israeli Drone Attack

Tensions in South Lebanon increased on Thursday afternoon, as an Israeli drone hit a car on the road linking Qana to Ramadiya in the Tyre caza, resulting in two casualties. Israeli artillery shelling also hit deeper, reaching the plain of Marjayoun, while warplanes fired four missiles at Mrouj al-Rayhan and Dhour Sujud. At the same time, the ...

South Lebanon: Two Hezbollah Members Killed in Qana

Hezbollah said on Thursday that two of its members were killed on in an Israeli strike on the car in which they were traveling, in the Qana region of southern Lebanon. The strike followed Hezbollah's announcement that it had fired over 60 Katyusha rockets at Israeli military positions in the part of the Golan Heights occupied and annexed by ...

Hezbollah Official and Two Syrians Killed in Israeli Strikes on Saida

An Israeli airstrikes that hit on Friday morning the town of al-Najariya (Saida district) killed a Hezbollah official, and two Syrian nationals were killed in other strikes in south Lebanon, according to our correspondent in the area. Hezbollah official Hussein Khader Mahdi was killed in a that targeted his vehicle  al-Najariya, while three ...

Hezbollah Introduces New Weapons and Tactics Against Israel

The Associated Press (AP) published an article on Friday about Hezbollah stepping up its attacks on Israel in recent weeks, particularly since the Israeli incursion into the southern city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip. It has struck deeper inside Israel and introduced new and more advanced weaponry. The militant group struck this week a military ...