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Nasrallah Vowing Escalation Against Israel: 'The Price of Blood Will be Blood'

par This Is Beirut, 16/02 18:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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During his speech commemorating Hezbollah's "martyred fighters" on Friday, the group's Secretary General, Hassan Nasrallah, vowed to retaliate for Wednesday's deadly Israeli raids on Nabatiyeh and Sawaneh, in which more than 12 people were killed, including three Hezbollah fighters. "The enemy should understand that it went too far by targeting ...

Retaliation Attacks Intensify Along Southern Border

par This Is Beirut, 15/02 22:42 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Cross-border violence continued unabated on Thursday, following the grave developments in South Lebanon a day before, described as the deadliest since October 8. Israeli airstrikes targeted the village of Blida in the early evening. Initial reports said four people were wounded as a result of the attacks on a residential building and a civilian ...

US Urges 'Diplomatic Path' in Israeli-Lebanese Conflict

par This Is Beirut, 14/02 21:57 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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The United States on Wednesday called for diplomacy to resolve tensions in Lebanon after Israeli strikes on its northern neighbor. "We continue to believe that there is a diplomatic path forward, and we will continue to push forward to try to resolve this issue diplomatically," State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller told reporters. "We ...

Israeli Soldier Killed, Eight Wounded in Fire From South Lebanon

par This Is Beirut, 14/02 13:21 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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One Israeli soldier was killed, and at least eight others were injured in an attack on their base from Lebanon, according to Israeli media. More than twenty rockets were launched from southern Lebanon, targeting northern Galilee, where sirens were heard. The origin of the attacks has not been specified. Neither Hezbollah nor Palestinian militias, ...

Geagea: Lebanese Do Not Trust Hezbollah and Its Allies

par This Is Beirut, 14/02 12:31 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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The leader of the Lebanese Forces (LF), Samir Geagea, reiterated his criticism on Wednesday of the Speaker of the House, Nabih Berri, accusing him, without explicitly naming him, of “double standards.” During a meeting in Maarab with the United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Joanna Wronecka, Geagea expressed his surprise at the ...

Michel Aoun, Hezbollah's New Critic?

par This Is Beirut, 14/02 07:30 - Reading : less than a minute

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Rabieh's visitors report that former president Michel Aoun has said that he is preparing to make a media appearance during which he will say everything he hasn't yet said and address developments in Lebanon and the region. He is said to have assured his visitors that there will be no war in Lebanon and no widening of fronts, as new US Ambassador ...

Opposition MPs: Berri Should Not Negotiate on Lebanon’s Behalf

par This Is Beirut, 13/02 21:49 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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The monitoring committee of the opposition MPs declared that “the Parliament Speaker does not have constitutional prerogatives to negotiate on behalf of the Lebanese state, as this power is exclusively reserved for the president.” The MPs are referring to Berri holding “exclusive talks with international envoys and therefore controlling ...

Nasrallah Shuns Foreign Initiatives: No Ceasefire in South Before Gaza

par This Is Beirut, 13/02 18:48 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah reiterated on Tuesday that the so-called “support front” for Gaza in South Lebanon will not abate so long as the war in the enclave is not over, rejecting any foreign initiative for de-escalation. “Over 130 days (of war in Gaza), the Israelis have not been able to achieve the goals they set, and ...

Southern Border Witnesses Violence and Air Raids

par This Is Beirut, 13/02 18:45 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Clashes continued throughout the day on the southern border, with the Israeli Air Force carrying out reconnaissance flights over the coastline. Two Israeli raids were carried out on Hula, the first targeting a shopping center and causing the closure of the road between Mays al-Jabal and Hula. The second raid targeted a house in the al-Miraj ...

She Is Majida El Roumi, They Are Cowards

par Johnny Kortbawi, 13/02 15:47 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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It is not the first time that a campaign is organized against Majida El Roumi. Everyone thought that campaigns end at some point, but the fanbase of the "Resistance" seems to bore easily and did not miss out on the opportunity to lash out at a major art figure and one of Lebanon’s biggest cultural symbols.  In context, the speech El Roumi made ...

Southern Front: At Least 9 Casualties on Monday

par This Is Beirut, 12/02 12:29 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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At least nine Lebanese and Palestinian militiamen were killed in Israeli bombings and raids in southern Lebanon on Monday. Four people were first killed during the day after an Israeli bombardment of a building in the border town of Maroun el-Ras. In a statement, Hezbollah announced the deaths of Ali Ahmad Mehanna and Mohammed Baker Hassan ...

Iranian Power Politics, Shiite Banana Republics and Their Minions 

par Charles Chartouni, 12/02 10:53 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Abdallah Bou Habib Hezbollah

The last statement of Abdallah Bou Habib (the so-called Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lebanon), insofar as the military presence of Hezbollah in South Lebanon, reflects the instructions of his mentors and the state of subordination of the cabinet, formed by Najib Mikati, to its diktat. The purported legitimacy of this cabinet should be questioned ...

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