par This Is Beirut, 2023-12-30 17:40 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The leader of the Lebanese Forces (LF), Samir Geagea, declared that “what is happening on the southern border is not the result of a legal decision.” Geagea is referring to the artillery exchanges between Hezbollah and Israel that began on October 8, the day after Hamas attacked the Jewish state. “This decision was not established by the ...
par This Is Beirut, 2023-12-28 18:53 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Exchanges between Israel and Hezbollah once again escalated on Thursday throughout the afternoon, following a precarious calm that prevailed in the morning along the border. As the night begins, raids and bombings continue relentlessly, with Israeli fighter jets constantly flying over the region. It is practically the same sectors and villages ...
par This Is Beirut, 2023-12-28 16:58 - Reading : less than a minute
The head of Hezbollah's Executive Council, Hashem Safieddine, stressed on Thursday that "no power in the world will be able to impose on the resistance and its logic anything outside the interests of Lebanon and Palestine." Safieddine was speaking at the funeral, in Baalbek, of Muhammad Hassan Yaghi, the executive assistant of Hezbollah’s ...
par This Is Beirut, 2023-12-28 15:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Australia said Thursday that it was investigating alleged links to Hezbollah of two nationals who were killed in Israeli airstrikes in South Lebanon earlier this week. Three members of the Bazzi family, including a Hezbollah fighter, were killed in Bint Jbeil late Tuesday night when their home was hit by Israeli raids. Ibrahim Bazzi had just ...
par This Is Beirut, 2023-12-27 20:57 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
While the holiday season continues to cast its shadow over the country, there is no calm on the southern front as harsh Israeli bombardment persists. The Israeli army announced that they targeted infrastructure and military sites belonging to Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. Additionally, they launched flare bombs over the villages of the western ...
par This Is Beirut, 2023-12-27 18:41 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
According to sources close to Hezbollah, the pro-Iranian group closely followed the arrangements of the dinner that sealed the rapprochement between Marada leader Sleiman Frangieh, Hezbollah’s presidential candidate, and the Army Commander-in-Chief, General Joseph Aoun, at the latter's residence in Yarzeh. The sources said Frangieh decided to ...
par This Is Beirut, 2023-12-26 19:12 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
In a series of hostile incidents in Qlayleh today, the main road leading to the town faced targeted airstrikes, resulting in damage to several cars, as reported by the National News Agency in Tyre. The situation escalated with Israeli airstrikes on the Maaliya plain near Qlayleh, south of the city of Tyre. The area witnessed four drone strikes, ...
par This Is Beirut, 2023-12-25 19:38 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Escalating tensions between Hezbollah and Israel continued in southern Lebanon despite Christmas celebrations on Monday, December 25. As of Monday afternoon, Israel resumed artillery shelling on the outskirts of Odaisseh, Tallet al-Mourtan in Sarda, Jabal al-Labbouneh, and the surroundings of Naqoura and Jabal al-Alam. In addition, the shelling ...
par This Is Beirut, 2023-12-24 20:01 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Despite Christmas Eve, the exchange of artillery fire between Hezbollah and Israel continued intermittently throughout Sunday. In the afternoon, the Israeli army bombed the Hobeish school in the village of Taybeh and raided the area between Taybeh and Rab al-Thalatheen, damaging a house. Bombs also fell on the outskirts of Tayr Harfa and the ...
par This Is Beirut, 2023-12-24 14:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Dishon Galilee Hezbollah Israel
Following a day of violent exchanges of artillery fire between Israel and Hezbollah, the latter resumed its attacks against Israel early on Sunday morning. It announced that it had targeted army positions in Dishon. In this respect, Sheikh Nabil Kaouk, a member of Hezbollah's executive council, said on Sunday that the party would continue its ...
par This Is Beirut, 2023-12-23 20:41 - Reading : less than a minute
According to the Wall Street Journal, US President Joe Biden convinced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to halt a planned preemptive strike against Hezbollah four days after Hamas' October 7 terror attack. "Israel had intelligence that the Iranian proxy group was preparing to cross the border as part of a multipronged attack," said the ...
par This Is Beirut, 2023-12-23 16:08 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The Maronite Patriarch, Bechara al-Rai, implicitly expressed his opposition to a national conference for dialogue, still desired by the Speaker of Parliament, Nabih Berri, with the aim of reaching a consensus on the presidential election. He renewed his criticism of the Amal-Hezbollah tandem, holding them responsible for blocking the presidential ...