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Lebanon's health ministry said early Wednesday that Israeli strikes in the country's east killed one person and wounded 30 others, hours after it said four people were killed in the south.
The strikes came more than 24 hours after Israel carried out similar raids deep inside east Lebanon and as tensions mounted in the wake of the Israeli killing of a top Hezbollah commander.
Full StoryIsrael’s military said that a barrage of 55 rockets from Lebanon has ignited fires in northern Israel.
The military said Tuesday that only some of the projectiles were intercepted by Israel’s air defense systems, while others fell in open areas. Firefighters were working to contain the blazes.
Full StoryHezbollah launched Tuesday several rocket salvos at a command center in north Israel, in response to an Israeli strike that targeted a car in Deir Qanoun in the Tyre district the previous day, killing a Hezbollah fighter.
Hezbollah said in a statement it targeted a command center in Ga'aton "in response to the assassination in Deir Qanoun."
Full StoryLebanon’s permanent mission to the U.N. has filed a complaint to the Security Council over the repeated breaking of the sound barrier over the Lebanese regions by Israeli warplanes, including over the capital Beirut.
The complaint comes at the instructions of caretaker Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib.
Full StoryHezbollah’s “powerful” response to the Dahieh airstrike that killed its military chief Fouad Shukur and six other people “has become imminent, after mediators exhausted the chance to reach a ceasefire and exchange of captives in Gaza,” a Lebanese political leader said.
“Hezbollah refrained from carrying out the decided strike over the past period to allow the mediators to finalize a settlement based on U.S. President Joe Biden’s initiative and Egypt and Qatar’s proposals, but Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s intransigence and his insistence on obstructing the negotiations … prevented the success of the Doha talks last week, and will also destroy the last chance to stop the war and return the captives during the Cairo discussions tomorrow,” the political leader told al-Joumhouria newspaper.
Full StoryHezbollah said it launched several rocket salvos at Israeli army positions in the annexed Golan Heights on Tuesday "in response" to Israeli strikes on eastern Lebanon the previous day.
Hezbollah fighters launched "intense rocket barrages" at two Israeli army positions in the occupied Golan Heights "in response to the Israeli enemy's attack on the Bekaa" Valley -- which a source close to Hezbollah said targeted weapons depots in the eastern region.
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Israel struck Hezbollah weapons depots on Monday deep in Lebanon's east, a source close to the group told AFP, away from the southern border that has witnessed near-daily clashes between Hezbollah and Israel.
Full StoryOne Israeli soldier was killed Monday in a Hezbollah drone attack on the Ya’ra Barracks near the Lebanon-Israel border, the Israeli military said.
Hezbollah said it had launched exploding drones at two Israeli bases, including in the northern town of Nahariya, as tensions increase along the Lebanon-Israel border and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken makes his ninth diplomatic mission to the Middle East to push for a cease-fire deal to end the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip.
Full StoryLebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Monday noted that the electricity crisis of the past two days proves that the management of the electricity sector has been a “total failure” for the past 15 years.
“There is not a single indication that this management will change, and accordingly only one solution remains: involving the private sector immediately in the process of producing electricity and distributing it across Lebanon,” Geagea said.
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Hezbollah does not intend to expand its conflict with Israel and will give a chance to the ongoing negotiations over a Gaza ceasefire, a media report said.
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