par This Is Beirut, 15/05 12:58 - Reading : less than a minute
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 ...
par This Is Beirut, 14/05 12:28 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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, ...
par Philippe Abi-Akl, 14/05 09:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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 ...
par This Is Beirut, 13/05 13:27 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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 ...
12/05 21:15 - Reading : less than a minute
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 ...
11/05 22:21 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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 ...
par Bassam Abou Zeid, 10/05 20:56 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Christian forces – notably the Lebanese Forces (LF), the Kataeb and the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) – who gathered at the seat of the Maronite Patriarchate in Bkerke on Friday, have tentatively agreed on a draft formula regarding Hezbollah's weapons. This formula would be part of the national charter that Bkerke is expected to declare in the ...
par This Is Beirut, 08/05 22:48 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The damage caused by Israeli bombardments in southern Lebanon, after seven months of fire exchange between Hezbollah and Israel, amounts to around $1.5 billion, the head of the Southern Council, Hashem Haidar, told AFP on Wednesday. According to Haidar, Israeli bombardments and raids have caused considerable damage to infrastructure, estimated at ...
par This Is Beirut, 08/05 18:48 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant warned Israeli soldiers deployed near the border with Lebanon that their mission there "is not completed" and that "there could be a heated summer" ahead. Gallant, who made the comments during a tour of north Israel, nonetheless reaffirmed that Tel Aviv does not want a war with Lebanon. In a conversation ...
par This Is Beirut, 08/05 12:59 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon highly escalated Wednesday, causing several casualties and extensive material damage. Three people were killed in a raid that targeted a three-story house in the village of Khiam, flattening it to the ground. Residential areas in Aïtaroun also came under intense Israeli artillery fire, while warplanes carried ...
par Bassam Abou Zeid, 08/05 08:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The seat of the Maronite Patriarchate in Bkerke is expected to witness on Friday (May 10) the final review of the draft of a national document that has been the subject of intense discussions among the Lebanese Forces (LF), the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM), the Kataeb Party and other Christian groups, under the auspices of the Patriarchate. All ...
par This Is Beirut, 07/05 21:09 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Lebanon's Hezbollah said it attacked northern Israel on Tuesday, including with "explosive-laden drones," a day after an assault claimed by the Iran-backed movement killed two soldiers there. At the same time, other drones "targeted one of the Iron Dome (air defense system) platforms south of the Ramot Naftali barracks," the Hezb added. The ...