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Israel threatens to hit Beirut airport if Iran 'keeps sending cash to Hezbollah'

Israel has complained to the U.S.-led ceasefire committee that "Iranian diplomats and others are delivering tens of millions of dollars in cash to Hezbollah to fund the group’s revival," The Wall Street Journal quoted sources as saying.

The American newspaper said Friday that it has learned from a U.S. defense official and other sources that Israel threatened to strike Beirut International Airport if Iran keeps using it to smuggle aid to Hezbollah.

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Israel says Hezbollah drone breached ceasefire

The Israeli military said a Hezbollah surveillance drone that was launched toward Israeli airspace on Thursday and intercepted by Israel was a "breach of the ceasefire understandings between Israel and Lebanon".

"The (army) continues to remain committed to the ceasefire understandings between Israel and Lebanon, and will not permit any terrorist activity of this kind," it said.

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Two killed in Israeli strikes on Bekaa

Overnight Israeli air strikes on the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon killed two people, the health ministry said on Friday, two months into a fragile ceasefire.

"The strike by the Israeli enemy on Janta killed two people and wounded 10," the ministry said.

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Report: Salam rejects Jaber, asks Berri to send new names

Prime Minister-designate Nawaf Salam has reversed his approval of allotting the finance portfolio to ex-MP Yassine Jaber who is close to Speaker Nabih Berri, al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Thursday.

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Aoun urges parties to shun 'wrangling over quotas'

President Joseph Aoun has called on the country’s political parties to “shun bickering, narrow policies and wrangling over shares.”

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Israeli drone strikes vehicle in Yarin

An Israeli drone raided Thursday an engineering vehicle in the town of Yarin in south Lebanon, local media reports said, as Israeli soldiers fired machineguns at the southern town of Markaba.

Two civilians were later lightly wounded on the outskirts of Tallousa near Markaba, as a drone struck near their motorbike.

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Boulos hopes govt. won't comprise members of 'former establishment'

U.S. President Donald Trump’s senior adviser on Arab and Middle Eastern affairs, Massad Boulos, said the new U.S. administration is “closely following up on the political developments in Lebanon” and is “looking forward to comprehensive changes.”

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Salam says he's 'flexible' but 'same standards to apply to everyone' in govt. formation

Prime Minister-designate Nawaf Salam has stressed that he “will not give up any of the standards” that he has announced for the government formation process, which are separation between parliamentary and ministerial posts and naming “competent” ministers who are not party members or intend to run in the parliamentary or municipal elections.

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Air France says will resume flights to Beirut Saturday

Air France will resume service to Beirut this Saturday, initially with five weekly flights, the airline announced.

Transavia, the low cost subsidiary of the Air France-KLM group, will resume its flights to the Lebanese capital on February 13, starting with three flights a week, it. Both airlines had ceased serving Beirut in September as tensions rose in the region.

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Israel military says 'intercepted' Hezbollah drone

The Israeli military said it intercepted a surveillance drone launched by Lebanese militant group Hezbollah on Thursday amid a fragile ceasefire.

"A short while ago, a Hezbollah surveillance UAV that was launched toward Israeli territory was intercepted by the Israeli Air Force," the military said in a statement.

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