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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that the entire "Shiite axis" including Hezbollah is not responding to Israeli attacks on Iran.
"Hezbollah has not fired a single rocket," Netanyahu said, vowing to "remove" the nuclear and ballistic missile threat posed by Iran, on the seventh day of war between the arch foes.

President Joseph Aoun on Thursday told visiting U.S. envoy Tom Barrack that contacts are ongoing to address the issue of the arms of Hezbollah and the Palestinian factions in Lebanon, adding that the talks will intensify “after the stabilization of the situation in the region which deteriorated due to the escalation of the Israel-Iranian conflict.”

Hezbollah condemned Thursday Israel's threats to kill Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after an Israeli hospital was hit during an Iranian missile attack.
"Khamenei openly declares that he wants Israel destroyed -- he personally gives the order to fire on hospitals. He considers the destruction of the state of Israel to be a goal," Israel's defense minister Israel Katz told journalists in Holon near Tel Aviv. "Such a man can no longer be allowed to exist."

An Israeli strike on the southern town of Kfarjoz in Nabatieh killed one person overnight, with Israel saying he was "the head of Hezbollah's anti-tank unit in Shebaa."
Media reports said another person, standing on the balcony of his house near the strike, later died of his injuries.

The U.S. special envoy for Syria Tom Barrack visited Lebanon on Thursday and warned Hezbollah against getting involved in the war between its main backer Iran and Israel.
Barrack is of Lebanese origins and is also the U.S. ambassador to Turkey. He has said that he will temporarily replace Morgan Ortagus as Washington's special envoy to Lebanon. During his first official visit to Lebanon on Thursday he met with President Joseph Aoun, Speaker Nabih Berri and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam.

The Free Patriotic Movement said Wednesday that Lebanon should not take part in the Israeli-Iranian conflict as the arch foes traded fire for the sixth day.
"The war in the region is concerning and is threatening peace and stability in the region and in Lebanon," the statement said, describing the Israeli strikes on Iran as an aggression and condemning it. "The FPM is against any aggression on the sovereignty of any county."

Under-Secretary-General for U.N. Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix met Wednesday in Lebanon with President Joseph Aoun and Speaker Nabih Berri.

An Israeli interception missile landed Wednesday afternoon in a valley between the Tyre district towns of Barish and Maaroub, the state-run National News Agency reported.

An Israeli drone on Wednesday dropped leaflets resembling fake currency over the southern town of Aitaroun, the National News Agency said.

Hundreds of people gathered outside a London court Wednesday in a show of support for the provocative Irish rap group Kneecap as one of the singers appeared charged with a terror offense for allegedly promoting Lebanon's Hezbollah.
Liam O'Hanna, 27, known by his stage name Mo Chara, was charged in May after being accused of displaying a Hezbollah flag during a London concert in November.
