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Report: 6 Hezbollah drones hit target in Glilot last Sunday successfully

Hezbollah's retaliation to the killing of one of its top commanders Fouad Shukur was successful, sources told pro-Hezbollah al-Mayadeen news channel and al-Akhbar newspaper.

The sources told al-Mayadeen, in remarks published late Thursday, that Hezbollah has succeeded in the targeting of an intelligence base just outside Tel Aviv last Sunday.

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Hezbollah-Israel border clashes: Latest developments

Israeli warplanes raided overnight into Friday the outskirts of Tayrharfa, Yaroun, Zebqine, al-Naqoura and Wadi Hamoul in south Lebanon.

The Israeli army also shelled with flare and incendiary bombs villages along the border, including al-Naqoura and Alma al-Shaab.

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Hezbollah retaliates to Bekaa and Masnaa strikes, Israel strikes Rihan

Hezbollah attacked Thursday a base in the occupied Golan Heights with an array of suicide drones in response to Wednesday's strikes on the Bekaa and al-Masnaa.

The Israeli army said that several drones have exploded in northern Golan, causing no casualties.

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Depositors start fire, smash facades of banks in Dora

A number of protesting depositors on Thursday torched the entrance of Banque Libano-Française (BLF) in the Dora area, trapping employees inside the bank.

Several citizens meanwhile rushed to remove their cars from the area to avoid the spread of flames to them.

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Aoun backs Bassil over MPs firing, trusts Nasrallah and would be happy if Hezbollah won

Although former President Michel Aoun stands against Hezbollah’s clashes with Israel on Lebanon’s southern border, the former president is still keen on maintaining good relations with the Iran-backed group.

Aoun told pro-Hezbollah al-Akhbar newspaper, in remarks published Thursday, that he would be happy if Hezbollah won the war with Israel, although he opposes it. "I would celebrate with them if they won, and would be sad if, God forbid, they lost."

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Berlin to deport Islamic center head accused of ties to Hezbollah, Iran

Germany is planning to deport the leader of an Islamic center it banned in July over alleged links to militant groups, an interior ministry spokeswoman said Thursday.

Investigators swooped on the Hamburg Islamic Center five weeks ago after concluding it was an "Islamist extremist organization" with links to Iran and Lebanon's Hezbollah.

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Report: US relieved as Israel-Hezbollah war becomes unlikely

Washington is opposed to an expansion of the confrontations and is exerting major pressures to contain the escalation in Gaza and the West Bank, a diplomatic source said.

The U.S. administration is meanwhile relieved that the chances of a bigger Israel-Hezbollah war have diminished, the source told al-Joumhouria newspaper in remarks published Thursday.

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Israel says killed Islamic Jihad operative who 'recruited Palestinians for Hezbollah'

The Israeli military said it has killed a "significant" Palestinian Islamic Jihad operative in a strike in the Syria-Lebanon border area, while a monitor of Syria's conflict reported four dead in the incident.

The Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, said in a statement that three of its fighters "from the Syrian arena" were killed, while Lebanon's Hezbollah issued a statement saying a fighter was killed, without specifying where.

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With tensions high, UN extends Lebanon peacekeeping force's mandate

The United Nations Security Council has extended the mandate of the U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon for a year, calling for a "de-escalation" of a recent surge in violence between Israel and armed group Hezbollah.

A unanimously adopted resolution said the council "decides to extend the present mandate of UNIFIL until 31st August 2025," referring to the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon.

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UN demands halt to escalating attacks between Hezbollah and Israel

The U.N. Security Council has demanded a halt to the increasing attacks between Hezbollah and Israeli forces and warned that further escalation "carries the high risk of leading to a widespread conflict."

Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah pulled back after an exchange of heavy fire across the U.N.-drawn boundary between Lebanon and Israel over the weekend. But their decades-old conflict is far from over and regional tensions linked to the war in Gaza are still high.

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