Syria, Israel and Lebanon
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Israeli forces killed Ali Abd al-Qader Ismail, a Hezbollah commander. He was operating in southern Lebanon. Israel's Defence Minister Israel Katz pledged aid to Druze in Syria. A pro-Palestinian boat approached Gaza.
The Lebanese health ministry said three people were killed in Israeli strikes on the south on Saturday despite a ceasefire, as the Israeli military said one
The IDF even claimed that Ali Abd al-Qader Ismail was one of the Hezbollah commanders who were involved in efforts to rehabilitate the terrorist organisation in southern Lebanon.
Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah launched their heaviest exchange of fire after months of strikes and counterstrikes, intensifying fears of an all-out war in the region.
As of the latest update, 600 safe rooms are under construction out of the 1,900 planned for communities within zero to one kilometer of the Israel-Lebanon border. Nearly 10 months after the conflict with Hezbollah ended,
Arms have been central to Hezbollah's doctrine since it was founded by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to fight Israeli forces who invaded Lebanon in 1982, at the height of the 1975-1990 Lebanese civil war. Tensions over the Shi'ite Muslim group's arsenal sparked another, brief civil conflict in 2008.
The reality on the ground indicates Israel may be preparing for the possibility of a much bigger war against Hezbollah in Lebanon. If so, the fight could get bloody.
Israel and Hezbollah fought brief wars in 1996 and 2006. Both times, Israel thought it would teach Hezbollah a quick and painful lesson. Yet that didn’t happen. Now there’s the possibility of ...
Lebanon’s Hezbollah deputy leader, Sheikh Naim Qassem, speaks during a rally supporting Palestinians in Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas ...
Israel and Hezbollah have traded fire across the Lebanese border since the start of the war in Gaza, with more than 150,000 people on both sides of the boundary forced to flee their homes.
In a report on Friday, Al-Akhbar mentioned that the Lebanese speaker told the US envoy that the Zionist entity is untrustworthy. “Berri gave Barrack a factual account of what Israel had done against Lebanon and against Hezbollah since the announcement of the ceasefire agreement” on November 27, 2024, Al-Akhbar reported.