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Trump names Lebanese-American Boulos as Middle East advisor

President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday named Massad Boulos, a Lebanese American businessman who is the father-in-law of Trump's daughter Tiffany, as a senior adviser on Arab and Middle Eastern affairs.

Boulos arranged Trump campaign efforts to engage the Arab American community in Michigan, organizing dozens of meetings in areas with large Arab American populations angered by Democratic President Joe Biden's backing of Israel's offensives in Gaza and Lebanon. Trump won the majority Arab American city of Dearborn Heights on his way to sweeping Michigan and other swing states.

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Israeli strikes kill state security agent in Marjayoun, wound soldier in Hermel

Lebanon's health ministry said an Israeli strike killed one person in the country's south on Monday, while the Lebanese army said an Israeli drone wounded one of its soldiers in the east.

Lebanon's official National News Agency has repeatedly reported Israeli fire, including strikes, since a ceasefire went into effect Wednesday.

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Hundreds gather at site of airstrike to remember Nasrallah

Hundreds of people, many in tears, gathered in Beirut's southern suburbs late Saturday at the site where former Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike two months ago.

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Israel hits 'Hezbollah targets' in Lebanon days into fragile truce

The Israeli military carried out air strikes in Lebanon Saturday against alleged Hezbollah activities that it said "posed a threat," days into a fragile ceasefire between it and the Iran-backed group.

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US general and Hochstein to serve as co-chairs of ceasefire monitoring mechanism

U.S. Major General Jasper Jeffers of the Special Operations Command Central arrived in Beirut on November 27 and will serve as a co-chair, alongside Senior Advisor to the President, Amos Hochstein, for the implementation and monitoring mechanism of the cessation of hostilities between Israel and Lebanon, the U.S. Central Command said.

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Israeli army says struck Hezbollah on Syria-Lebanon border

The Israeli military said on Saturday it had struck "military infrastructure" at the Syria-Lebanon border allegedly being used by Hezbollah for weapons smuggling in violation of their ceasefire agreement.

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Fishers in Tyre hope ceasefire means normal life is returning

The ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah brought hope for normality back to many in southern Lebanon, including fishermen who have long launched their single-engine wooden boats into the Mediterranean at dawn.

During the last two months of its year fighting Hezbollah, Israel imposed a siege on southern Lebanon that kept hundreds of fishers at this ancient Phoenician port on shore, upending their lives and the industry.

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Israelis wary of returning to north because they don't trust ceasefire

Dean Sweetland casts his gaze over a forlorn street in the Israeli community of Kibbutz Malkiya. Perched on a hill overlooking the border with Lebanon, the town stands mostly empty after being abandoned a year ago.

The daycare is closed. The homes are unkempt. Parts of the landscape are ashen from fires sparked by fallen Hezbollah rockets. Even after a tenuous Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire designed to let Israelis return to the north, the mood there is far from celebratory.

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Hezbollah again starts holding public funerals for its fallen fighters

Hezbollah held a public funeral in a southern village on Friday for five of its fighters killed during the fighting with Israel. It was the first time the Lebanese militant group held a public funeral since after the war intensified in late September.

“My son is in heaven,” said Zeinab al-Haj holding a bag of roses to toss them on the coffin of her son Ali Hijazi during the ceremony in the village of Maarakeh. Hijazi died of wounds suffered in an airstrike last week.

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Qassem declares 'great victory', vows cooperation with army in implementing ceasefire

Hezbollah chief Sheikh Naim Qassem on Friday declared a "great victory" against Israel in his first speech since a ceasefire went into effect in Lebanon.

"I have decided to declare... officially and clearly that we are facing a great victory that surpasses that of July 2006," Qassem said, adding: "We won because we prevented the enemy from destroying Hezbollah... (and) from annihilating or weakening the resistance."

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