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Turmoil in the Red Sea: What’s Next?

  The Red Sea area is a strategic one for countries in its vicinity and for the entire global trade. It is a point of transit that shortens distances, from the Far East to the Middle East and the Mediterranean, all the way to Europe and the northern areas. The importance of this maritime passageway cannot be overstated, as it reduces the ...

South Lebanon: Escalating Violence Between Israel and Hezbollah

Hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah on Lebanon's southern border intensified on Tuesday as the Israeli army bombed Berghoz and Dellafeh, in Hasbaya Caza, Houla, Markaba and Wadi Saluki. The Israeli army's Arabic-speaking spokesman, Avichay Adrae, declared in this respect that "warplanes attacked three missile launching platforms" which were ...

Kataeb Warn Against Government Submission to Hezbollah

The Kataeb politburo has warned against the attitude of "what's left of the government," which is one that "submits to Hezbollah's terms and adopts its views while attributing them to the Lebanese people in negotiations with foreign envoys." "This constitutes a misappropriation of power in the absence of a president and contributes to dragging ...

Baalbeck Caught in Hostilities: Third Israeli Strike in Less Than 24 Hours

Israeli warplanes carried out a raid on Tuesday near Safrin on the way to Baalbeck, the second such attack in the area in two days. Less than half an hour later, another strike targeted the village of Nabi Sheet in the same area. Two rockets were fired at Nabi Sheet, one targeting a three-storey building in the heart of the village, near the ...

After a Bloody Night in Baalbeck… A Hundred Rockets Towards Israel

Dozens of rockets were launched on Tuesday morning from South Lebanon towards Israeli locations in the Galilee and the Golan Heights. The Israeli Army reported that 100 rockets targeted the Golan Heights from Lebanon. It also reported that its warplanes “attacked a short while ago three platforms from which rockets were launched towards the ...

Netanyahu’s Ousting: A Crucial Step Towards a Settlement?

The growing local discontent with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu exceeds that observed outside Israel’s borders, due to the endless internal rifts within his government and the string of failures in his performance since the Al-Aqsa Flood attack against Israel on October 7. Could his ousting become a much needed and unavoidable step? ...

Southern Front: Israeli Leaflets Dropped Over Wazzani

The precarious calm that prevailed on Sunday night until Monday morning was marked by the dropping of Israeli leaflets over the area of Wazzani. The leaflets read, "Hezbollah is endangering your lives and those of your families." In a warning addressed to the inhabitants of the South, the Israelis declared, "Hezbollah facilitates the entry of its ...

Southern Front: Flareup of Violence, Sunni Extremist Combatants Killed

Hezbollah and Israel escalated exchange of heavy fire across the border Sunday with Hezbollah firing two rounds of rockets and missiles at northern Israel and the occupied Shebaa farms. Hezbollah said it fired “dozens of Katyusha-type rockets” at the Mochav farming village in the locality of Meron in the morning in retaliation to an Israeli ...

Behind the Scenes of the Berri-Hochstein Meeting

According to a leading figure in the March 8 bloc, American envoy Amos Hochstein told Speaker Nabih Berri, who received him earlier in the week, that Lebanon, and more specifically Hezbollah, should announce the suspension of military operations on the southern border. But Berri was quick to point out that military operations in Gaza had to stop ...

South Lebanon: Two Injured in Israeli Strike on Baraachit

Israeli bombardments continued intermittently on Friday in the border regions of southern Lebanon. An early-morning Israeli raid targeted a house in the locality of Baraachit (Bint Jbeil caza), wounding two people. Another raid hit the area between Mansouri and Majdel Zoun. Israeli artillery bombardments also targeted Tallet el-Moutran near ...

Growing Differences Between Amal and Hezbollah

The differences between Hezbollah and the Amal movement have not yet been made public. However, the disagreements are tangible on the ground and in the day-to-day interactions between members of the pro-Iranian formation and the Shiite movement. Tensions are contained between the Speaker of the House, Nabih Berri and Hezb Secretary General Hassan ...

Bassil Criticizes Former Ally Hezbollah Over Its "Support Front"

In an interview with LBCI on Thursday evening, Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) leader Gebran Bassil criticized Hezbollah's military involvement in South Lebanon, in support of Hamas in its war with Israel, stressing that “it is not Lebanon's job to liberate Palestine.”  At the same time, he underlined the "sanctity of Hezbollah's mission ...