par Ahmad Ayash, 23/09 16:35 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
At the United Nations Security Council session, the Lebanese Foreign Minister strayed from the main topic in the conclusions he reached in his speech. Instead of extricating Lebanon from the global power struggles playing out on its soil, he further entangled the country's fate in this international game. Specifically, he did this by tightly ...
par Michel Touma, 23/09 12:53 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Following the humiliating defeat of the Arab armies in the Six-Day War of June 1967, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser attributed the losses of Egypt, Jordan and Syria to Israel’s air supremacy. Since then, over the course of more than half a century, this air supremacy has grown exponentially, while Arab military capabilities have ...
par This Is Beirut, 22/09 21:37 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Hezbollah claimed on Sunday that it had targeted Israeli military production facilities and an airbase in the Haifa region in response to the deadly explosions that hit its communications equipment earlier this week. Notably, the pro-Iranian group revealed that it had used projectiles for the first time since October 8: the Fadi-1 and Fadi-2 ...
par Malo Pinatel, 22/09 20:01 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
On Sunday, Hezbollah claimed responsibility for attacks on military production sites and an airbase in northern Israel. "In retaliation for the beeper and walkie-talkie explosions on Tuesday and Wednesday, Hezbollah fired dozens of rockets at the Rafael military industrial complex in northern Israel," the Iran-backed group stated. Rafael Systems, ...
par This Is Beirut, 22/09 18:27 - Reading : less than a minute
The Deputy Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Naim Kassem, declared that the party has entered a new phase in its struggle against Israel, describing it as an "open and decisive battle." He warned, "We will retaliate at the right time and place, when the Israelis least expect it." Kassem made these remarks on Sunday afternoon during the funeral of ...
par This Is Beirut, 22/09 14:41 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel had "landed a series of blows on Hezbollah" after a night of intense cross-border fire and attacks this week in Lebanon. "In recent days, we have landed a series of blows on Hezbollah that it could have never imagined. If Hezbollah did not get the message, I assure you it will ...
par This Is Beirut, 22/09 11:52 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Amid rising tensions after the increasing fire exchange between Hezbollah and Israel, the UN Special Coordinator to Lebanon, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, reiterated on Sunday that “no military solution will make either side safer, as the region is on the brink of an imminent catastrophe.” “With the region on the brink of an imminent ...
par This Is Beirut, 22/09 10:06 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Tensions are on the rise in south Lebanon after a tense night as Hezbollah announced “raiding military industrial complexes specializing in electronic equipment, north of Haifa with dozens of rockets.” Hezbollah declared that this operation is “an initial response to the brutal massacre committed by Israel on Tuesday and Wednesday.” In a ...
par This Is Beirut, 21/09 21:17 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
United States National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan stated that the risk of further escalation on the Lebanese-Israeli front is "acute" following the killing of senior Hezbollah leaders and the detonation of communication devices across Lebanon. But he suggested that the widescale attacks might actually dampen increasing tensions in the Middle ...
par This Is Beirut, 21/09 21:14 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Saturday evening, Israeli forces carried out a new series of violent raids on southern Lebanon, after torching several areas in the afternoon. Media outlets reported that the Israeli army announced the start of this new round of raids. “In a series of raids on southern Lebanon, about 180 targets and thousands of rocket launchers that were ...
par Bassam Abou Zeid, 21/09 17:08 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israeli military operations targeting Hezbollah have clearly shown that Israeli intelligence, particularly the Mossad, is capable of infiltrating Hezbollah on both human and technological levels. This level of infiltration has made assassination attempts and bombings successful, as demonstrated by the assassination of military commander Fouad ...
par This Is Beirut, 21/09 16:03 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
76 people were killed in Israeli attacks on Hezbollah this week. The Ministry of Public Health's Emergency Operations Center issued a further update on the death toll from the Israeli attack on Beirut's southern suburbs yesterday, indicating that the number of victims had risen to thirty-seven. A few hours earlier, caretaker Minister of Public ...