par This Is Beirut, 24/02 13:44 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Fire exchanges between Hezbollah and Israel resumed on Saturday in the southern border regions. On Friday night, the pro-Iranian party announced the death of a fighter targeted by an Israeli drone strike. The date and place of the attack were not specified. Israeli artillery bombardments also targeted the outskirts of Bayt Lif, Wazzani, Ramya, ...
par Fady Noun, 24/02 09:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
There are around two hundred Lebanese who have fallen, arms in hand, in a “low-intensity” war sparked by Hezbollah against Israel. Today, they are deathly visages. For many, their demise came in the early weeks of war measured much like a pregnant woman counting the months and days leading to childbirth. Sometimes, they met their end in ...
par This Is Beirut, 23/02 17:26 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Tensions continued in southern Lebanon on Friday as Israel strengthened its offensives. Israeli warplanes launched a series of raids with heavy missiles on Jabal al-Labbouneh, the outskirts of Naqoura. Israeli artillery shelling also targeted the town of Jebbayn. Additionally, Israeli drones targeted the towns of Aita al-Shaab and Kfar Kila. On ...
par This Is Beirut, 22/02 14:27 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Bassam Mawlawi Hezbollah Israel
Caretaker Minister of Interior Bassam Mawlawi emphasized on Thursday the necessity of holding municipal elections in accordance with the law and constitutional deadlines. "The budget this year allocated funding for those elections, which was not available in the previous year,” noted Mawlawi in an interview with the daily “Al ...
par This Is Beirut, 21/02 23:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
MP Michel Moawad, from the Renewal bloc, deplored in an interview with LBCI on Wednesday evening that the Lebanese government's decision on war and peace had been "hijacked" by Hezbollah, charging that caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati "let Hezbollah have its way, to the detriment of the country's sovereignty." For the opposition MP, "the only ...
par Joanne Naoum, 21/02 19:39 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
FPM Gebran Bassil Hezbollah Israel
In a move that brought the simmering divisions between the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) and its former ally Hezbollah into the open, former President and FPM founder Michel Aoun and the party’s current leader, MP Gebran Bassil, denounced Hezbollah’s military activities against Israel in South Lebanon. "We are not bound to Gaza by a defense ...
par This Is Beirut, 21/02 11:17 - Reading : less than a minute
The Ministry of Energy issued a statement refuting Israeli claims made in a video circulating on social media. The video claims the existence of missile sites belonging to Hezbollah in Jbeil and Keserwan. In the statement, the Ministry of Energy and Water mentioned that, upon scrutinizing the video, it turns out that Israel was showing ...
par This Is Beirut, 21/02 07:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
In southern Lebanon, the GSM network has been decommissioned in several areas where Hezbollah is omnipresent, in favor of the pro-Iranian group's private telecommunications network. For those who don't know, Hezbollah has its own telecommunications network, set up long before the July 2006 war with Israel. In fact, during that war, this ...
par This Is Beirut, 20/02 22:41 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
A precarious calm prevailed on Tuesday evening at the southern border of Lebanon, following a day marked by an escalation of artillery exchanges between Hezbollah and Israel, while firefighters continued to try to extinguish the flames at the generator factory targeted on Monday in the town of Ghaziyeh, south of Saida. Israeli warplanes carried ...
par This Is Beirut, 17/02 11:12 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Exchanges of fire between Israel and Hezbollah resumed on the Lebanese-Israeli border on Saturday. Israeli artillery bombarded the Hamoul-Naqoura region, as well as the outskirts of Alma al-Shaab, Bayt Lif, Ramya, Aita al-Shaab, and Jabal Blat. Israeli raids also targeted Aita el-Shaab and the outskirts of Aitaroun, Bayt Lif, Ramya, and Maroun ...
par This Is Beirut, 16/02 22:35 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Hamas Hassan Nasrallah Hezbollah
The Lebanese southern border witnessed yet another day of violence on Friday. Israel bombarded the towns of Majdel Zoun, Labbouneh, Hamoul, Aita al-Shaab, Rachaya al-Foukhar, Kfar Hamam, and Hebbariyeh, as well as residential areas in Kfar Kila and the region between Yater and Bayt Lif. A missile fired by an Israeli fighter plane fell without ...
par This Is Beirut, 16/02 21:31 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Kataeb leader Samy Gemayel expressed his openness to any initiative that could revive discussions on the Lebanese presidency. However, he emphasized that such initiatives must “not place the presidency in the hands of those who are using blockades, threats, and manipulation to enforce their will, subjecting Lebanon to the obstructionist axis or ...