Hezbollah

Rising Tensions: Increased Bombing in South Lebanon and Upper Galilee

On Sunday, tensions between Hezbollah and Israel escalated on the southern front. In the early evening, Hezbollah announced that it had launched drones to attack the command headquarters of the Military Gathering Battalion in the Golan Division at the Yarden barracks, resulting in casualties and injuries. However, Israeli media reported that five ...

One Dead in an Israeli Raid on Houla

In a flurry of escalating tensions along the Israeli-Lebanese border, Israeli artillery strikes continue on Monday. An Israeli air raid on the town of Houla Monday afternoon killed one Hezbollah combatant and injured two. Israeli artillery had targeted the town of Aita al-Shaab with three heavy shells on Monday morning. It launched three ...

Netanyahu Warns Hochstein of 'Necessary' Action Against Hezbollah

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the United States Special Presidential Envoy Amos Hochstein that Israel values US support, but will do "what is necessary" to tackle Hezbollah's threats, adding that "fundamental change" was needed on the Lebanese-Israeli border. Hochstein also met with senior officials in Israel including Defense ...

Israel-Lebanon: Between Psychological Warfare and Operational Preparation

In Lebanon, August 2024 was exceptionally intense, characterized by sweltering temperatures and escalating geopolitical tensions. The assassinations of Fouad Shokr in Beirut’s southern suburbs and Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran cast a month-long shadow of a potential regional war, with Lebanon once again at risk of becoming a battlefield. However, ...

Relative Calm on the Southern Front Tuesday Morning

On Tuesday morning, in contrast to the previous day, a noticeable calm settled over the southern front. Israeli military fired shells targeting the outskirts of Alma al-Shaab and Yarine in the western sector. Concurrently, an Israeli sweep operation was initiated from Malkiya and Bayad towards the town of Blida. Fighter jets broke the sound ...

What Is a Pager?

Hundreds of Hezbollah fighters were injured on Tuesday in Dahiyé, the Bekaa Valley, and southern Lebanon. The cause: the explosion of their pagers, likely after being hacked by Israel. Predecessor to Mobile Phones A pager, or beeper, is a mobile communication device widely used before the rise of mobile phones. Its main purpose is to receive ...

Ministry of Health Calls for Mobilization of All Medical Staff 

Hundreds of Hezbollah members were simultaneously injured on Tuesday in an unprecedented technological Israeli attack across Lebanon. For this reason, the Ministry of Public Health has called on all medical personnel to urgently go to their workplaces to help provide emergency care to the many affected people who are being transported to ...

Elie Mahfoud's Handrail Against Nawaf Moussaoui

The head of the Change Movement, lawyer Elie Mahfoud, and a group of lawyers filed a complaint with the Beirut Public Prosecutor's Office against former Hezbollah deputy Nawaf Moussaoui for his statements, on Friday, threatening any candidate for the presidency of the Republic who is hostile to his party's line The former MPs delivered those ...

Israeli Attack: Update from Our Reporters at AUBMC

Several hundred injured individuals have been admitted to AUBMC in Beirut and to various hospitals across the country following an unprecedented Israeli attack on Tuesday afternoon targeting pagers used by Hezbollah members.

Latest Toll of Pager Explosions: 11 Killed, 4000 Wounded, Hezbollah Accuses Israel

Eleven people, including the son of Hezbollah MP Ali Ammar, were killed and 4000, mostly Hezbollah members (according to an initial assessment), as well as the Iranian ambassador to Beirut, Mojtaba Amani, were simultaneously injured across Lebanon on Tuesday in an unprecedented Israeli technological attack targeting their Pagers, according to the ...

Israeli Supply Chain Infiltration Likely Behind Hezbollah Pager Blasts

Israel has scored a major intelligence success by apparently infiltrating a supply chain to cause the simultaneous explosion of hundreds of Hezbollah pagers in a blow for the Lebanese militant group and its Iranian backers, analysts say. At least nine people were killed and some 2,800 wounded, including the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon, when the ...