par This Is Beirut, 09/01 17:51 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Clashes continued unabated in South Lebanon on Tuesday afternoon. An interceptor missile exploded over Mays al-Jabal, followed by recurrent low-level flights over Tyre and the surrounding area. An Israeli drone targeted an unoccupied house in Odaisseh, which caught fire. Phosphorus shells were also fired on the outskirts of Naqoura, as were ...
par Rami Rayess, 10/01 07:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The main question on every Lebanese citizen’s mind since the Al-Aqsa Flood operation on October 7—which led to a political and military operation of seismic magnitude in Gaza—revolves around the nature of the conflict unfolding in southern Lebanon, where Hezbollah engaged Israel the following day. The key concern is whether it will escalate ...
par Philippe Abi-Akl, 10/01 09:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Gebran Bassil Hezbollah Joseph Aoun
Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) chief Gebran Bassil is presently equidistant from all political forces, even from Hezbollah (supposedly his Mar Mikhael Agreement ally). This position is the result of the blow he suffered from his closest allies when it came to extending the tenure of the Army Commander-in-Chief. As such, the prolongation of ...
par Michel Touma, 10/01 14:38 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Hezbollah Hossein Amir-Abdollahian
A meticulously negotiated political resolution, under the guidance of the United States, to revert to the strict implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701; or a steadily mounting military escalation amplifying the risk of a large-scale conflagration, potentially surpassing the severity witnessed in 2006? For several weeks, the Lebanese ...
par This Is Beirut, 10/01 19:22 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Tensions on the southern border escalated Wednesday afternoon between Israel and Hezbollah. In recent hostilities, two civilians were killed in Israeli attacks in Lebanon. Hassan Ali Tawil lost his life due to an Israeli artillery shell that fell near his home in Kfar Kila. The Red Cross, aided by UNIFIL and the Lebanese army, recovered the body ...
par This Is Beirut, 10/01 22:26 - Reading : less than a minute
Israel's army chief said Wednesday that his troops could destroy any village inside Lebanon, ramping up rhetoric against the Hezbollah militant group based across the border. The Israeli military has been exchanging fire with Iran-backed Hezbollah—a key ally of the Palestinian militant group Hamas—almost every day since the war in Gaza broke ...
par This Is Beirut, 11/01 22:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Escalation on the southern front continued throughout the day on Thursday despite diplomatic efforts to call for restraint in South Lebanon, notably by US envoy Amos Hochstein, who was on a short visit to Lebanon. In response to Israel’s earlier strike on the volunteer Civil Defense Center in Hanine, which resulted in the death of two rescue ...
par This Is Beirut, 12/01 10:48 - Reading : less than a minute
Hezbollah strongly condemned, in a statement, the "blatant American-British aggression on its sisterly country Yemen." The United States and the United Kingdom carried out air and naval strikes targeting more than a dozen facilities used by the Houthis in Yemen on Thursday night, in response to repeated attacks by Houthi supporters against ...
par This Is Beirut, 12/01 23:28 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon resumed on Friday afternoon, with the Hebrew state carrying out three raids on Ras al-Naqoura and Jabal Blat, located between Ramya and Marwahin. Simultaneously, the Israeli Army shelled Naqoura and Hula, as well as Wadi al-Jamal and the outskirts of Mays al-Jabal, Tallet Rweissat, and Bayad. Against this ...
par This Is Beirut, 13/01 16:04 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The exchange of fire continued on Saturday in the border villages of southern Lebanon after a tense night. An air raid targeted a house in Yarin with a ground-to-air missile, leveling it completely. Injuries were reported, and rescue teams rushed to the scene. Two Israeli raids also targeted the area between Yarin and Teir Harfa. The Israeli air ...
par This Is Beirut, 14/01 17:44 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
On Sunday, the 100th day of the war between Hamas and Israel, Hezbollah's Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah gave a dejected and somber speech in commemoration of last Monday's assassination of Hezbollah's top military officer, Wissam Tawil, alias Jawad, who played a leading role in directing military operations in southern Lebanon. After several ...
par This Is Beirut, 14/01 19:54 - Reading : less than a minute
Former MP Misbah al-Ahdab asserted, “If Hezbollah wants to reconcile with and reach out to the Sunnis, it must reconsider its perception of Sunnis in Lebanon as an incubating environment for takfirism.” Al-Ahdab conveyed these remarks on his X account on Sunday, urging “the formation to end” its attempts to demonize young Sunnis “by ...
