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A Hezbollah member was reported killed in southern Lebanon as a result of Israeli airstrikes, according to information provided by a Lebanese security source to Al Arabiya. (lbcgroup.tv)
In the statement, it said that Israeli forces responded with tank and artillery fire to an anti-tank missile fired by Hezbollah across the border that evening and a "suspected a terrorist infiltration into Israeli territory" and later received a report that journalists had been injured. (wlns.com)
It will help the Lebanese create a buffer zone between Israel and Hezbollah fighters. (wkar.org)
Before the cease-fire, it was the scene of a fierce battle between Israeli troops and Hezbollah guerrillas. (wkar.org)
The 45-year-old woman trembled occasionally as she described the battle between the Israeli military and Hezbollah guerrillas which unfolded in the valley below her house. (wkar.org)
Israel and Hezbollah exchanged fire along the Lebanese border on Sunday, sparking 'concern' in Washington. (voanews.com)
Israel's military has said it fired into southern Lebanon after a number of anti-tank missiles launched by Hezbollah targeted its army base and vehicles near the border. (voanews.com)
The Israeli army believes that Iran and Hezbollah are racing to establish missile-production factories in Lebanon, a claim that Hezbollah denies. (voanews.com)
A Lebanese military analyst recently said on local television that the Lebanese army and Hezbollah are prepared for war with Israel. (israelnationalnews.com)
The latest incident occurred on Tuesday, when Hezbollah terrorists, wearing full uniform and armed, toured the Israeli border in the Upper Galilee. (israelnationalnews.com)
Last week, Hezbollah terrorists demonstrated at the Israel-Lebanon border, when several of them attempted to damage the fence. (israelnationalnews.com)
Before that, Hezbollah terrorists illegally erected tents on sovereign Israeli territory. (israelnationalnews.com)
The tents were placed about 30 meters inside Israeli territory , and generators were placed there to allow Hezbollah terrorists to stay in the compound. (israelnationalnews.com)
The Lebanon-Israel border has been relatively calm since Israel and Hezbollah fought a 34-day war in 2006. (ap.org)
On Sunday, Arabic media outlets reported that Israeli jets struck a number of Hezbollah positions along the Lebanon-Syria border, in reports that were not confirmed by either Hezbollah or the IAF. (timesofisrael.com)
In statements to Hezbollah-affiliated media, the terrorist group said neither it nor the Syrian army were bombed by Israel "in Baalbek or in Syria. (timesofisrael.com)
The army did not reveal details about the individual but said he likely infiltrated the country from southern Lebanon and were investigating whether he had connections to the Lebanese movement Hezbollah, which fought a month-long war against Israel in 2006. (middleeasteye.net)
During a speech to reservists, the Israeli army chief of staff Herzi Halevy said: "We look at Hezbollah, we see their efforts to build strength, and above all, we understand that we need to prepare, we must be ready in the coming years, for a multilateral attack in which Iran will participate. (middleeasteye.net)
Hezbollah willingly admit that they target Israeli population centers. (blogoscoped.com)
As with past conflicts, there are concerns with media reporting, the stance of the US and its allies such as the UK, the heavy-handed Israeli attacks and the continued attacks of extremist organizations such as Hezbollah, all together making it difficult to see a meaningful and peaceful solution arising. (globalissues.org)
Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah confirmed that it had launched the guided missile against the Shtula area in northern Israel Sunday morning. (efe.com)
The violence on the Lebanon-Israel border has left at least three Israeli troops dead and several others in the ranks of Hezbollah, in addition to several militants Hezbollah allies, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, who infiltrated into Israel from Lebanon on Monday. (efe.com)
Hezbollah-affiliated media says MK-type drone crashed in the Marjayoun area in southern Lebanon. (ynetnews.com)
According to Hezbollah-affiliated media, the MK-type drone fell in near Mazra'at Sarda in the Marjayoun area in southern Lebanon. (ynetnews.com)
Last month, the Hezbollah-affiliated Al Miadin news channel reported that an Israeli-made Hermes drone crashed near the Baghdad airport area. (ynetnews.com)
Israeli warplanes on Tuesday struck targets inside Lebanese territory after Iran-backed Hezbollah fighters shot mortar shells at a military post, Israel's army said. (yahoo.com)
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with regulations, alleged all five are linked to Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. (gulfnews.com)
The UN expanded its mission following the 2006 war between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah, allowing peacekeepers to deploy along the Israeli border to help the Lebanese military extend its authority into the country's south for the first time in decades. (gulfnews.com)
Hezbollah supporters in Lebanon frequently accuse the U.N. mission of collusion with Israel, while Israel has accused the peacekeepers of turning a blind eye to Hezbollah's military activities in southern Lebanon. (gulfnews.com)
The incident jarred the relatively stable standoff between the two neighbours, which last saw major hostilities in the 2006 war between Israel and the armed Lebanese Shia group, Hezbollah. (aljazeera.com)
AP also missed explaining the story properly: "The violence apparently erupted over a move by Israeli soldiers to cut down a tree along the border, a sign of the high level of tensions at the frontier where Israel fought in 2006 with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. (blogspot.com)
Like Lee, the Israelis are winning the battle tactically-destroying fighters and projectiles of Hezbollah and Hamas. (motherjones.com)
In Lebanon, they may even succeed in backing Hezbollah away from the Israeli-Lebanese border and establishing a buffer zone patrolled by the weak Lebanese army and some sort of multinational force. (motherjones.com)
But the Israeli offensives in Lebanon and Gaza will destroy neither Hezbollah nor Hamas, nor the motivation for violence that underlies these groups. (motherjones.com)
Because the Israeli public still remembers the 18-year quagmire that resulted from Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon, Israel probably will not again launch the full ground invasion of Lebanon needed to finally crush Hezbollah. (motherjones.com)
Israeli air strikes alone cannot kill all Hezbollah fighters and destroy all of their weapons and infrastructure. (motherjones.com)
When Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982 to get rid of the Palestinian group Fatah, its invasion and occupation of southern Lebanon ultimately led to the radicalization of parts of Lebanon's Shi'ite community and the creation of Hezbollah. (motherjones.com)

The Israeli army said in a statement a firefight broke out between militants and soldiers and "a hit was identified on one of the gunmen. (arabnews.com)
On Thursday, a Palestinian man rammed into Israeli soldiers near a West Bank checkpoint, killing one, before being shot dead. (arabnews.com)
1983 - Israel frees 4,600 Arab detainees in return for six Israeli soldiers held in Lebanon. (telegraph.co.uk)
July 1996 - Hizbollah and Israel carry out a German-brokered swap when the bodies of 123 guerrillas are returned to Lebanon in exchange for the remains of two Israeli soldiers. (telegraph.co.uk)
January 2004 - Israel releases 436 Palestinian and other Arab prisoners in a deal with Hizbollah for the return of Elhanan Tannenbaum, an Israeli businessman, and three dead Israeli soldiers abducted on a border patrol in 2000. (telegraph.co.uk)
Lebanese Army soldiers patrol the clashes area in the southern suburb of the capital Beirut, on October 14, 2021. (timesofisrael.com)
Israeli soldiers secure the village of Avivim on the Israel-Lebanon border, Monday, Sept. 2, 2019. (voanews.com)
Despite our [inadequate] weapons, the Lebanese soldiers and officers are among the most qualified - not just in the Middle East, but even compared to Europe. (israelnationalnews.com)
If the army commander orders these 60,000 soldiers to go to the border, all 60,000 will go there, even without a salary. (israelnationalnews.com)
BEIRUT (AP) - The Lebanese army said troops fired tear gas at Israeli soldiers in a disputed area along the tense border Saturday. (ap.org)
The army said Lebanese troops responded by firing tear gas at the Israeli soldiers. (ap.org)
The Israeli military said soldiers spotted an engineering vehicle's shovel crossing the border line from Lebanon into Israeli territory in the area of Mount Dov, as Chebaa Farms are known in Israel. (ap.org)
It added that in response, Israeli soldiers used "riot dispersal means" and the vehicle returned to Lebanese territory. (ap.org)
FILE- Israeli soldiers work on their tank in a position on the Israel-Lebanon border Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023. (ctvnews.ca)
On June 9, just two weeks before the Hamas raid that killed two Israeli soldiers and captured a third, an apparent Israeli missile strike killed seven members of a Palestinian family picnicking on a Gaza beach, which prompted Hamas to end its 16-month-old informal ceasefire with Israel. (globalissues.org)
Israeli soldiers with armoured fighting vehicles deployed near the border with Lebanon, in the Upper Galilee, northern Israel, 15 October 2023. (efe.com)
Israeli soldiers carry a wounded colleague injured in fighting on July 24 near Beit Jbeil (epa) July 25, 2006 -- The Israeli Army has defended the use of cluster bombs in its military offensive in Lebanon as 'legal under international law. (rferl.org)
Two Israeli soldiers were killed in the battle for Beit Jbeil. (rferl.org)
After launching their 2006 war to retrieve two of their captured soldiers, they killed more than a thousand Lebanese civilians, devastated Lebanon, lost 160 of their own - most of them soldiers - and ended up yesterday handing over 200 Arab corpses and five prisoners in return for the remains of the two missing soldiers and a box of body parts. (truthdig.com)
Lebanese soldiers stand behind a damaged vehicle after a UN peacekeepers convoy came under fire in the Al Aqbiya village, south Lebanon, on Dec. 15, 2022. (gulfnews.com)
On the fatal night, Rooney and several other Irish soldiers with the peacekeeping mission in Lebanon, UNIFIL, were on their way from their base in the south to the Beirut airport. (gulfnews.com)
The Israeli army has said it fired across the Lebanese border in retaliation after accusing Lebanese troops of gunning down one of its soldiers as he drove near the frontier. (aljazeera.com)
We think they were Lebanese soldiers … involved in the shooting of the soldier," said Shalicar. (aljazeera.com)
Israeli soldiers leaving Lebanon, Aug. 1, 2006. (consortiumnews.com)
Looking at the number of about 2,000 to 4,000 soldiers that fight for the Hizballah against 10,000 Israeli soldiers, it seems unlikely that the militia could keep up an effective resistance for long. (rferl.org)
By saying that Israeli soldiers had crossed into Lebanon and been fired on, thus implying the Lebanese army was acting in self-defense! (blogspot.com)
Israeli artillery shelled the Lebanese village on Tuesday, wounding two people, after Lebanese Army troops fired warning shots at Israeli soldiers. (blogspot.com)
Ten Israeli soldiers have died in Lebanon this year, and the SLA is showing signs of collapse. (merip.org)
In fact, Israel's grossly disproportionate collective punishment of Lebanon and Gaza for the killing and capturing of a few Israeli soldiers will only fuel the anti-Israel fire in both places and the larger Arab world. (motherjones.com)

Civil Defence workers carry Qatar's Al-Jazeera TV cameraman Elie Brakhya who was injured by Israeli shelling, at Alma al-Shaab border village with Israel, south Lebanon, Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. (wlns.com)
Smoke rises after Israeli army shelling on Ayta ash-Shab village, near the Lebanese-Israeli border, Lebanon, 15 October 2023. (efe.com)
Friends and relatives carry the remains of Reuters videojournalist Issam Abdullah in Khiam town, southern Lebanon, 14 October 2023. (efe.com)
Palestinian civil defense officers mourn over the body of one of their colleagues who arrived dead at the Shifa hospital, after Israeli airstrikes targeted a civil defense site in Gaza City, central Gaza Strip, early Monday, Oct. 16, 2023. (kget.com)

The number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank and Israel this year is the highest since 2005, according to the United Nations' humanitarian agency OCHA. (arabnews.com)
So far this year, at least 225 Palestinians, 32 Israelis, a Ukrainian and an Italian have been killed in violence linked to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to an AFP tally based on official sources on both sides. (arabnews.com)
Does Israeli PM Netanyahu care as Palestinians in the West Bank reel from Jewish settler violence? (arabnews.com)
Israeli forces killed three Palestinians in a shoot-out near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus last week. (middleeasteye.net)
The latest shootout brought the death toll of Palestinians killed by Israelis this year to at least 81, including 15 children. (middleeasteye.net)
In reality, however, since the pullout and before the recent escalation of violence, at least 144 Palestinians in Gaza had been killed by Israeli forces, often by helicopter gunships, according to a list compiled by the Israeli human rights group B'tselem. (globalissues.org)
If Israelis had every right, as Schieffer said, to respond with force to the capture of one soldier by Hamas, then how are Palestinians expected to feel about the more than 9,000 prisoners captured and held by Israel-including 342 juveniles and over 700 held without trial (Mandela Center for Human Rights, 4/30/06)? (globalissues.org)
More than 90 countries have expressed "deep concern" at Israel's recent punitive measures against the Palestinians, steps taken in response to a U.N. request for the International Court of Justice to render an opinion on the Israeli occupation. (sandiegouniontribune.com)
In a statement released Monday by the Palestinians, the signatories called for a reversal of the Israeli measures, saying that regardless of their position on the General Assembly's resolution, "we reject punitive measures in response to a request for an advisory opinion by the International Court of Justice. (sandiegouniontribune.com)
Assad's office said in a statement released Monday that Assad and Vladimir Putin called for aid to be allowed to enter Gaza and for an end to the Israeli bombardment and displacement of Palestinians. (kget.com)
Tensions increased when militant Palestinians who had been expelled from Jordan in the early 1970s entered Lebanon, contributing to the violent outburst of the conflict in 1975. (plannersnetwork.org)
Interventions by Palestinians, Syrians and Israelis made the civil war in part a proxy war for regional powers. (plannersnetwork.org)
Although Barak has demonstrated little urgency about the Israeli-Palestinian dialogue, he will certainly resume talks with the Palestinians and will probably avoid straining Israel's relations with Washington over this issue, unlike his predecessor, Benjamin Netanyahu. (merip.org)
Israel has been occupying Lebanese territory since 1978, rationalizing that it needed a security zone to protect its northern settlements from attack by Palestinians. (merip.org)

Fears also remain of the war growing into a wider Middle East conflict as exchanges of fire along Israel's northern border with Lebanon continue daily. (yahoo.com)
Yesterday [July 16] was the last day of the 2006 Lebanon war, the final chapter of Israel's folly and Hizbollah's hubris, a grisly day of corpse-swapping and refrigerated body parts and coffin after bleak wooden coffin on trucks crossing the Israeli border, which left old Ali Ahmed al-Sfeir and his wife, Wahde, stooped and broken with grief. (truthdig.com)
Thirty-six people died and a surviving videotape shows an Israeli agent, a certain Ehud Barak - yes, the man who is now Israel's Defence Minister - firing shots into her body and dragging her across a road. (truthdig.com)
UNIFIL was created to oversee the withdrawal of Israeli troops from southern Lebanon after Israel's 1978 invasion. (gulfnews.com)
On Saturday evening, rockets were fired from Lebanon at Israel's north for the first time since the current round of fighting began. (normanfinkelstein.com)
Israel's current conflict is with Hizballah, which has been fighting to drive Israel and its mercenary South Lebanon Army (SLA) out of Lebanon. (merip.org)
Conservatives, especially neoconservatives, (and even some pro-Israeli moderates and liberals), admire Israel's use of muscular tactics to safeguard its security. (motherjones.com)

AQABAH, West Bank: Israeli forces on Friday killed a Palestinian in the West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said, as a surge of deadly violence in the occupied territory shows no signs of abating. (arabnews.com)
After Israeli forces withdrew, Palestinian residents inspected bullet marks and a gaping hole left in the wall of a house. (arabnews.com)
The soaring violence has also involved a rise in Palestinian attacks on Israelis. (arabnews.com)
A day earlier, Israeli forces killed a 14-year-old Palestinian boy in Jerusalem after he stabbed a passenger on a tram. (arabnews.com)
Regular skirmishes have flared up between Israeli forces and armed groups in Lebanon since the deadly Oct. 7 attack by the militant Palestinian group Hamas on southern Israel that sparked a war in the blockaded Gaza Strip. (wlns.com)
Israel and Islamist group Hamas have agreed to swap hundreds of Palestinian prisoners for the lone captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. (telegraph.co.uk)
Gulf states Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Bahrain urged their citizens to leave Lebanon "for their own safety" days after fierce fighting between Palestinian groups took place in Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp near Sidon, southern Lebanon. (jpost.com)
Sunday marks the eighth consecutive day of hostilities on the border between the two countries, which were triggered a day after the start of the war between Israel and Hamas unleashed on Oct. 7 after a surprise attack by Palestinian militants on Israeli territory. (efe.com)
The coffins - newly hammered together in Tyre before the 200 Hizbollah, Amal militia and Palestinian bodies arrived from Israel - were soon bathed in the Lebanese flag and golden Hizbollah banners, drawn by a flower-encrusted truck towards Beirut. (truthdig.com)
She was the girl who led 11 Palestinian and Lebanese gunmen in an attack on the Israeli coast road north of Tel Aviv. (truthdig.com)
In addition to this, the DAWC protested outside the obliterated Palestinian refugee camp Nahr-al-Bared near Tripoli in Northern Lebanon. (indymedia.ie)
The 193-member General Assembly voted 87-26 with 53 abstentions on Dec. 30 in favor of the resolution to ask the International Court of Justice to intervene in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (sandiegouniontribune.com)
The government's Security Cabinet decided to withhold $39 million from the Palestinian Authority and transferring the funds instead to a compensation program for the families of Israeli victims of Palestinian militant attacks. (sandiegouniontribune.com)
It also decided to deduct the amount of revenue Israel typically transfers to the cash-strapped Palestinian Authority by a sum equal to the amount paid last year to families of Palestinian prisoners and those killed in the conflict, including militants implicated in attacks against Israelis. (sandiegouniontribune.com)
He predicted more countries will support the statement when the Security Council holds its monthly meeting on the Middle East focusing on the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict on Jan. 18. (sandiegouniontribune.com)
We have supported a government in Israel that has carried out egregious war crimes in Lebanon and Gaza and is daily stealing larger and larger portions of Palestinian land. (truthdig.com)
The Lebanese conflict became fully intertwined with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (plannersnetwork.org)
With indirect Israeli support, the Maronite Phalange forces massacred Palestinian refugees in the Sabra-Shatila camps of Beirut. (plannersnetwork.org)
There have been no Palestinian attacks on Israel from Lebanon in many years, however. (merip.org)

There were many reasons why Mr. Sehnaoui decided to support all 8 candidates on the "Lebnen El Siyede" (Sovereign Lebanon) electoral list for the Beirut 1 district. (lbcgroup.tv)
The United States urges an easing of tensions in Lebanon, as deadly violence in Beirut sparks fears of a return to sectarian strife. (timesofisrael.com)
That was how the Israeli government described what happened in Beirut in February 1983. (military.com)
Within a week of the Israeli invasion, Beirut was under siege. (military.com)
The Saudi Embassy in Beirut published a statement Friday night on X, formerly known as Twitter, calling on its citizens to keep away from areas where there are "armed conflicts" and to leave Lebanon quickly. (jpost.com)
The rise in violence in mid-2006 that has seen the destruction of much of Beirut and other parts of Lebanon shows similarities to other conflicts in the region in the past. (globalissues.org)
Lebanon faces what the World Bank says is probably one of the world's worst economic crises since the 1850s, compounded by the coronavirus epidemic and the mega blast at Beirut port last August that killed more than 200 people and devastated swathes of the capital. (alarabiya.net)
For Mr Siniora himself, along with the President and all the surviving ex-prime ministers and presidents of Lebanon, and the leader of the Druze community and the country's MPs and Muslim religious leaders, and bishops and higher civil servants, and the heads of all the security services - along, of course, with the UN's representative - were at Beirut airport to grovel before the five prisoners whom Hizbollah had freed from Israel. (truthdig.com)
BEIRUT - Ahmed Abdul-Hadi, the representative of Hamas in Lebanon, insisted Monday that the decision to launch the surprise Oct. 7 attack in southern Israel was made by Hamas leadership and not directed by Iran or any other outside party, but he said that in event of a ground invasion of Gaza, allied groups will intervene. (kget.com)
Last year an upscale, subterranean Japanese restaurant designed by the Lebanese architect Bernard Khoury opened in Beirut. (plannersnetwork.org)

The MNF's mission was to prevent attacks between the Lebanese army and Israel Defense Forces as the sides negotiated a bilateral end to the war that had been raging since Israel invaded Lebanon in June 1982. (military.com)
The reports said the attacks were said to have occurred near the eastern Lebanese town of Baalbek, near the Syrian border. (timesofisrael.com)
Israel also frequently attacks targets in Syria, claiming they are Iranian weapons deliveries headed to the Lebanese group. (middleeasteye.net)
Richard Hecht, international spokesman for the army, told a press conference that the attacks from Lebanon were carried out with anti-tank missiles. (efe.com)
In addition, two of the Israeli attacks have affected facilities of the Lebanese army, which is not formally involved in the conflict. (efe.com)
The de facto war zone at Nahr-al-Bared between the Lebanese army and Fatah-al-Islam has been the scene of vicious fighting, deadly sniper attacks and indiscriminate destructive shelling which has smashed the once thriving commercial centre and 55 year old refugee camp to rubble. (indymedia.ie)

On 1 August 1945, Lebanon took command of its armed forces, including Rayak air base. (wikipedia.org)
In a memoir, author Roald Dahl recounts an event in the Syria-Lebanon campaign of 1941 when British forces defeated forces of Vichy France in the area. (wikipedia.org)
However, the Israeli Defense Forces provided the Monitor with several other examples of fliers that have been dropped over Lebanon and says such activities are continuing. (csmonitor.com)
3. Mr. Sehnaoui is an ally of the Lebanese Forces party and funded their electoral campaign. (lbcgroup.tv)
When it comes to the sovereignty and democracy of Lebanon, Mr. Sehnaoui and I see eye to eye with the Lebanese Forces. (lbcgroup.tv)
I am not and have never been a member of the Lebanese Forces (hence why the term 'dissident' is inaccurate in your statement). (lbcgroup.tv)
What the statement from Israel doesn't mention is that the Israel Defense Forces commander left when the Marine Corps ' officer in charge climbed upon the Israeli tank, pistol drawn and told them they could cross Marine lines "over my dead body. (military.com)
In July, Israeli forces shelled a southern Lebanese border village after several explosions were heard in a disputed area where the borders of Syria, Lebanon and Israel meet. (ap.org)
In a Twitter thread, Israeli army spokesman Avichai Adraei published video clips, including a clip showing Israeli forces combing the area. (middleeasteye.net)
In the meantine, Israeli forces have been engaged in intense fighting with Hamas in the northern Gaza Strip even as the hostage talks have progressed. (yahoo.com)
They were supposed to take on Hizbullah forces, which even the Israeli army could not defeat. (consortiumnews.com)
Israeli forces, supported by U.S. warships, positioned themselves along Gaza's border and drilled for what Israel said would be a broad campaign to dismantle the militant group. (kget.com)
Despite obvious differences, a look at the history of the Lebanese war, where external forces played no small role, may hint at what lies ahead. (plannersnetwork.org)
Lee, using the Napoleonic tactics of the offense, won many brilliant victories by attacking the superior forces of the Union Army. (motherjones.com)
Similarly, since the Israelis just withdrew their forces from Gaza, it is unlikely that they would permanently reoccupy it in order to fully eradicate Hamas. (motherjones.com)

June 1984 - Israel swaps 291 Syrians captured in battle and the remains of 72 Syrians for six Israelis and five bodies, only two of which are positively identified as Israelis. (telegraph.co.uk)

We join Lebanese authorities in their call for calm, their calls for a de-escalation of tensions," US State Department spokesman Ned Price tells reporters. (timesofisrael.com)
U.N. spokesman Andrea Tenenti said later that 'calm has returned in the area'' and the U.N. peacekeeping force is maintaining its presence on the ground together with the Lebanese army. (voanews.com)
After the incident, we reached the area to conduct searches as part of the investigation, and saw two suspects on the other side of the border," army spokesman Major Arye Shalicar told AFP news agency. (aljazeera.com)
RFE/RL correspondents Charles Recknagel and Dominik Breithaupt spoke with Timur Goksel, the former spokesman of the UN monitoring force in southern Lebanon, to learn more about Hizballah's organization and tactics. (rferl.org)

For civilians on both sides, it's still a tense situation, but some Israelis who fled Hezbollah's rocket barrage are returning to their homes and Lebanese who took refuge from the fighting are returning as well. (wkar.org)
Chehaitli added that the Lebanese military has Hezbollah's 100,000 fighters and arsenal of 150,000 rockets to back it up. (israelnationalnews.com)

WATSON: Lebanese Red Cross volunteers said they were looking for the bodies of 18 people, members of several families who had taken shelter in a single house, which was then demolished by Israeli airstrikes 20 days ago. (wkar.org)
In April, Israel launched rare airstrikes in southern Lebanon after militants fired nearly three dozen rockets from Lebanon at Israel, wounding two people and causing property damage. (ap.org)
In general, the Israeli army does not discuss its airstrikes in foreign countries. (timesofisrael.com)
We visited Bint Jbail and A'ita al-Chaab near the Israeli border, both of which received heavy bombardment from Israeli airstrikes and incursions from armoured bulldozers, tanks and troops, reducing civilian infrastructure to dust and pebble, their hearts to shock and fear, their eyes to tears for their lost loved ones. (indymedia.ie)

The Lebanese army said a bulldozer was working on the Lebanese side of the border to remove a sand barrier placed earlier by the Israelis when Israeli troops fired tear gas to force it to stop. (ap.org)

On Friday, a Reuters cameraman was killed and six other journalists were wounded on the Lebanese side of the border, when Israel responded with artillery and tank fire to gunfire from Lebanon. (efe.com)
The Israeli army responded with artillery fire into Lebanese territory. (normanfinkelstein.com)

At last, Israel withdrew from South Lebanon in May 2000. (plannersnetwork.org)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cut short his trip to Germany over "developments in national security", the prime minister's office said, without going into further detail, as reported by Israeli media. (middleeasteye.net)
Bloomberg) -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Israeli Cabinet that the war to eliminate Hamas wouldn't let up after a cease-fire, even as he signaled that a deal was near to free hostages in Gaza in return for a temporary pause in fighting. (yahoo.com)

During the French Mandate of Lebanon, Rayak Air base was considered to be the "jewel" of the Air bases and the centre of attraction of all other military units, not only in Lebanon but also in mandated Syria and all the Near East. (wikipedia.org)
The base is home to the only flight simulator in the Lebanese military. (wikipedia.org)
A new facility housing a UH-1 Helicopter simulator from the US military is now being used to train future Lebanese pilots. (wikipedia.org)
We are about to increase our military operations in south Lebanon, and you are advised to leave immediately to north of the Litani. (csmonitor.com)
Military analyst Nate Hughes says few Lebanese appear persuaded. (csmonitor.com)
The Israeli military has said the incident is under review. (wlns.com)
On the first day of the exercise, the Israeli Air Force and German Luftwaffe will conduct a fly-by over Jerusalem and will use colored smoke to "paint" the skies with the colors of the Israeli and German flags, the military says. (timesofisrael.com)
Lebanese military analyst Abdul Rahman Chehaitli: Israel should not underestimate the Lebanese army. (israelnationalnews.com)
A spokesperson for the Israeli military said she was aware of the reports in Arabic media, but could not comment further. (timesofisrael.com)
Al-Mutairi was released in a "special operation" along the Lebanon-Syria border, where the kidnappers held him hostage, a Lebanese military statement said. (jpost.com)
Lebanese officials have pleaded with the United States to pressure Israel for an immediate cease-fire, but U.S. officials said conditions are not yet ripe for such a move, and they expect Israeli military operations to continue for another week or even longer. (blogoscoped.com)
The Israeli soldier, Shlomi Cohen, 31, was fatally shot late on Sunday near Rosh Hanikra, by a Lebanese army sniper, the Israeli military said. (aljazeera.com)
Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon said Israeli, Lebanese and UN military officers will meet on Monday to defuse tension. (aljazeera.com)
Yahoo: "A Lebanese officer spoke on condition of anonymity under military guidelines, said the clash occurred as Israeli troops tried to remove a tree from the Lebanese side of the border. (blogspot.com)
Urban warfare was a main feature of the military operations in Lebanon. (plannersnetwork.org)

Gunshots have been heard along the Israeli-Lebanese border, the army says. (timesofisrael.com)
The shots were heard from a site near the Israeli community of Metula, where the Defense Ministry is building a new concrete border wall. (timesofisrael.com)
Reporters Without Borders, or RSF, published preliminary conclusions Sunday in an ongoing investigation, based on video evidence and witness testimonies, into two strikes that killed Reuters videographer Issam Abdallah and wounded six journalists from Reuters, AFP and Al Jazeera as they were covering clashes on the southern Lebanese border on Oct. 13. (wlns.com)
Both came from the direction of the Israeli border, the report said, but it did not explicitly name Israel as being responsible. (wlns.com)
The army said that after planting the roadside bomb adjacent to the Megiddo Junction on Monday, the man flagged down a car and was later caught at a checkpoint in the town of Yara, close to the border with Lebanon. (middleeasteye.net)
At least one person was killed and three others wounded Sunday in Israel after an anti-tank missile attack on the town of Shtula, on the border with Lebanon. (efe.com)
A tiny unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) crashed during routine work along the Israeli-Lebanese border, the IDF confirmed after reports arose in Lebanese media. (ynetnews.com)
Israel says soldier shot by Lebanese troops as he was driving a civilian vehicle along the border. (aljazeera.com)
Lebanon's National News Agency reported late on Sunday that a member of the Lebanese army had opened fire at "an Israeli army unit" near the Naqoura border post but it was not clear why the sniper had opened fire. (aljazeera.com)
The Israeli army said the soldier was shot by Lebanese troops as he was driving a civilian vehicle along a section of the border close to the Mediterranean coast. (aljazeera.com)
The IDF and UNIFIL both agree, as I have mentioned several times since the incident happened, that the area in which the crane was working in the last part of that video is on the Israeli side of the border. (blogspot.com)
Reuters: "An Israeli soldier is seen on a crane on the Lebanese side of the Lebanese-Israeli border near Adaisseh village, southern Lebanon August 3, 2010. (blogspot.com)
This is exactly what I was talking about when I posted the link to the Wyoming paper yesterday, where they had the AP caption that the IDF guys were cutting a tree on the Lebanese side of the border. (blogspot.com)
trim some bushes near the border, in our [Israeli] territory. (blogspot.com)
It was on both sides of the border but still within [Israeli] territory. (blogspot.com)
Or both sides of the access road fence, which is x meters inside the Israeli territory blue line border at that point. (blogspot.com)

Ms. NUHAD NASRALLAH (Resident, Lebanon): (Through translator) In 1982, there was a war between Israel and Lebanon and they bombed my house and killed my husband and son, and injured my daughter. (wkar.org)
And they fought them when they occupied Lebanon [Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982 and maintained a buffer zone in southern Lebanon until 2000] and since then they have been preparing for a guerilla war again. (rferl.org)
In 1982, Israel launched a full-scale invasion into Lebanon that killed 17,000 people. (plannersnetwork.org)

Israel is killing anything that moves in southern lebanon without regard to whether they may be killing civilians. (blogoscoped.com)
Three civilians including two journalists died in the Israeli bombing, the Lebanese state-run National News Agency reported. (yahoo.com)
Slaughter in Qana by the Israeli's ), site of a brutal Israeli massacre of innocent civilians one year ago. (indymedia.ie)

Oct. 2011 - Israel agreed a deal with Hamas that around 1,027 prisoners would be freed in exchange for Israeli soldier and tank crewman, Gilad Shalit , who has been held since 2006. (telegraph.co.uk)
The remarks were the clearest signal yet that even as Hamas and Israel appeared to be on the cusp of an agreement to release dozens of hostages, the Israeli government wouldn't accede to growing international pressure for a longer-term cease-fire to the war that began Oct. 7. (yahoo.com)
More than a million people have fled their homes in the Gaza Strip ahead of an expected Israeli invasion that seeks to eliminate Hamas' leadership after its deadly incursion. (kget.com)
More than 1,400 Israelis have been killed, and at least 199 others, including children, were captured by Hamas and taken into Gaza, according to Israel. (kget.com)

Israeli officials say the leafleting does have an effect. (csmonitor.com)
Israeli officials have said that they do not deliberately target journalists. (wlns.com)
The Israeli army has retaliated to the fire coming from Lebanon, officials reported. (efe.com)
Already in 1973 he had met with Israeli officials in May and August. (brookings.edu)

Festival organizers chose the slogan "shine on Lebanon, defying darkness with music" for its 2021 edition. (alarabiya.net)
Bundles of lebanese pounds, September 2021. (consortiumnews.com)

After completion of the patrol, a U.S. Marine officer approached the Israeli unit and claimed that it should not be in this area. (military.com)
On Feb. 3, 1983, The New York Times reported an Israeli government claim that three tanks on a routine patrol happened across a unit of U.S. Marines. (military.com)

Tensions, however, remain in Lebanon today. (plannersnetwork.org)

An Israeli drone on Saturday crashed in Lebanese territory due to a technical malfunction, the Israeli army said. (timesofisrael.com)
A second Israeli aircraft then fired at the downed drone and destroyed it, according to the Lebanese report. (timesofisrael.com)
The army said the drone crashed as a result of a technical malfunction and was not shot down. (ynetnews.com)
The Lebanese army reportedly seized the drone. (ynetnews.com)
That incident was preceded by another earlier that week, in which Iran's Revolutionary Guard said it shot down a purported Israeli drone near the country's uranium enrichment facility in Natanz, some 240 kilometers (150 miles) south of the capital, Tehran. (ynetnews.com)
Israeli experts, however, said the drone parts in the Iranian broadcast "do not belong to the Hermes drone, or any other drone manufactured by Elbit. (ynetnews.com)
There was no official reaction from the Lebanese army to the incident, although it issued a statement on Monday saying an Israeli drone had violated Lebanese airspace in the same area. (aljazeera.com)
At 10:15 pm (2015 GMT) yesterday, a drone belonging to the Israeli enemy violated Lebanese airspace over Naqoura, and performed a fly-over of the southern area, then left at 12:40 am," it said. (aljazeera.com)

The Israeli Army has declined to comment on its propaganda drops and would not confirm that the picture of Nasrallah as a snake, dropped over Lebanon earlier in the three-week-old conflict, was its own. (csmonitor.com)
There was no sign of any extensive Israeli preparations for a large-scale operation - an early indication the clash might not trigger a wider conflict. (blogspot.com)
The thesis concludes that the words Zionist, Israeli, and Jewish are used in contexts that are value-laden and biased and that the contexts contribute to a biased narration of the conflict in general, and Zionism and Israel in particular. (lu.se)
I have an interest in the Arab-Israeli conflict, and since I have lived and studied in Syria, I have encountered and spoken to many people about the subject. (lu.se)

Reuters spokesperson Heather Carpenter said that the news organization is reviewing the RSF report and called for "Israeli authorities to conduct a swift, thorough and transparent probe into what happened. (wlns.com)

Lebanon hosts around 1.5 million Syrian refugees, about 900,000 of whom are registered by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). (aa.com.tr)

The army says it has "raided a number of places looking for the shooters, and detained nine" people in total, including individuals from both sides. (timesofisrael.com)
Both sides established private armies to defend their interests. (plannersnetwork.org)

Hizbullah is not just holding two Israeli servicepeople hostage. (csmonitor.com)
Hizbullah is holding the Lebanese people hostage. (csmonitor.com)
An Israeli official told local media that 50 women and children held hostage in Gaza would be released during a four-day pause in the fighting, Ma'ariv reported. (yahoo.com)

Israel is using leaflets and even e-mails to try to turn Lebanese against Hizbullah, but experts doubt that it will work. (csmonitor.com)
But other fliers fluttering down over Lebanon aim to foster Lebanese anger at Hizbullah, a much more ambitious effort than evacuating the country's Shiite south. (csmonitor.com)
Those depict Hassan Nasrallah as a cobra or show the Hizbullah chief cowering behind a shield bearing a picture of a Lebanese family. (csmonitor.com)
But given the deep mistrust of Israel in Lebanon, many here and abroad wonder whether Israel is making an impact - be it in persuading the vulnerable to move or in winning hearts and minds in the campaign to discredit Hizbullah. (csmonitor.com)
I think it's not very helpful, because the idea that the public will somehow exercise pressure on Hizbullah is baseless," says Moshe Maoz, an expert on Lebanon and Syria at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. (csmonitor.com)
One illustrates Lebanese names on tombstones, and throws doubt on Nasrallah comments about Hizbullah not suffering many losses. (csmonitor.com)
He leaves open the possibility, however, that some Lebanese, disenchanted with Hizbullah, could be inspired by the messages. (csmonitor.com)
The events of that day were rather swift: those who were paid by the Saudi regime (and managed by the Hariri family in Lebanon) were quickly subdued and disarmed, and other clashes occurred between Hizbullah fighters and fighters of Druze sectarian warlord Walid Jumblat. (consortiumnews.com)

The violence is reported by much of the mainstream media, by Tony Blair and George Bush and Israel, to be because of the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier. (globalissues.org)

In 1973, Arab armies launched the October war and made serious advances against Israeli positions, but Israel - with unprecedented U.S. aid and an airlift -managed to regroup and push back against the Syrian and Egyptian armies. (consortiumnews.com)

He said there had been "significant progress" in resolving the violence outbreak, adding that Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib had been in contact with Arab countries to assure them that their citizens were safe in Lebanon. (jpost.com)
From the time of the pullout until the recent upsurge in violence, according to B'tselem's lists, no Israelis were killed by violence emanating from Gaza. (globalissues.org)

The UNIFIL peacekeeping force, which operates in southern Lebanon, says it is unaware of the incident. (timesofisrael.com)
However, the US/Israeli version continued to dominate most accounts of the incident. (joshualandis.com)

When Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak presents his coalition government to the Knesset he will receive a vote of confidence from 75 of its 120 members. (merip.org)

The Israeli commander explained that he was operating in the territory previously agreed upon and left. (military.com)
Lebanon says they were on Lebanese territory. (blogspot.com)
Even those Lebanese who oppose Hizballah's Shi'i Islamist politics support its goal of liberating national territory from occupation. (merip.org)

Aid groups warn an Israeli ground offensive could hasten a humanitarian crisis. (kget.com)
The aggressive Israeli policy of an offensive "defense" created the threat from these groups in the first place. (motherjones.com)

The first course students included: Lt. Ali Abboud Sergeant John Ayoub Sergeant Izat Hariri Civil pilot Hassan Badawi Civil pilot René Abdallah Civil pilot Michel Charles Civil pilot Michel Nawfal or Michel Naufal Civil pilot Emil Succar An administration building, several hangars (most of these built during the French Mandate of Lebanon), a control tower, officers club, houses, parachutes tower, barracks, and workshops make up the airport. (wikipedia.org)

Hizbollah also frees 17 fighters of the Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army (SLA) militia, which in turn frees 45 Lebanese captives. (telegraph.co.uk)
123 Lebanese Army personnel and countless numbers of Fatah-al-Islam fighters, as well as scores of innocent refugees have been killed over the past 70 days. (indymedia.ie)

Israeli troops are beginning to withdraw, and the Lebanese army is getting ready to move in. (wkar.org)
One peace-related campaign promise that Barak will try to keep is his commitment to withdraw Israeli troops from south Lebanon within a year. (merip.org)

Our enemy is not the Lebanese people," Mr. Regev says. (csmonitor.com)

The program of 10 performances, a mixture of jazz, Indie rock, rap, hip rock and electro pop, filmed last month at Roman sites across the Bekaa Valley of east Lebanon, including Baalbek itself, was broadcast on Lebanese television and streamed on the internet. (alarabiya.net)

The Marines were moved offshore in February 1984, and the Multinational Force left Lebanon in July of that year. (military.com)

The Israeli government denied the tanks were ever trying to cross the Marines' line. (military.com)
The Lebanese government says the area belongs to Lebanon. (ap.org)
In other words, the Israeli government, the American government were leaking, telling newspaper people, particularly in America, but also in Europe, all sorts of wonderful, grandiose details about what happened. (joshualandis.com)
For the Americans who have supported the democratically elected Lebanese government of Fouad Siniora, it was a day of hopelessness. (truthdig.com)
That's why they stood with us and opposed this policy of the Israeli government, and they are demanding a reversal of this decision. (sandiegouniontribune.com)
The pro-Saudi Lebanese government tried in May 2008 to ban Hizbullah's tele-communication network, which is essential for its ability to operate without Israeli interceptions. (consortiumnews.com)
Yet Hizballah has been a highly public presence in Lebanon for over two decades, including now being part of the government. (rferl.org)
The civil war in Lebanon grew out of an imbalance of power in the government. (plannersnetwork.org)
US President Bill Clinton welcomed the new Israeli government as "a real chance to move the peace process forward in the Middle East. (merip.org)

An Omran report added: "The economic situation and security in Syria are among the reasons why Syrian refugees in Lebanon and Jordan do not want to return to their country despite their poor living standards. (aa.com.tr)
Withdrawing from Lebanon would be easier for Israel if it were linked to a peace treaty with Syria. (merip.org)

What is especially frustrating about bombing Lebanon that the country just recovered some years ago from the former war and was a thriving place in the middle east, very tolerant compared to the rest of the region, especially US supported dictatorships like Saudi Arabia. (blogoscoped.com)
The Lebanese National Assembly met in Taif, Saudi Arabia, and decided on an agreement called the Document of National Understanding. (plannersnetwork.org)

Illustrative: A picture taken on on October 27, 2018, shows smoke rising following an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City. (timesofisrael.com)

Her daughter, son-in-law and four grandchildren were all killed in an Israeli airstrike. (wkar.org)

Saudi-Iran reconciliation: Is Arab-Israeli alliance against Tehran ending? (middleeasteye.net)

The ministry said Abdul Rahim Fayez Ghannam, 36, was "shot by live occupation (Israeli) fire in the head" in the village of Al-Aqaba in the northern West Bank. (arabnews.com)
A fragile United Nations cease-fire has held for a second day in southern Lebanon. (wkar.org)
Ms. IBRAHIM: (Through Translator) There was distant (unintelligible) from here, fire from here, from around them and Israelis retaliate, shoot back. (wkar.org)
Mr. HASSAN MANSOUR (Resident, Lebanon): When I talked to him over the phone, before his battery ran out, he said I'm waiting for - they might have kind of a cease-fire since they have lots of evacuees from Lebanon. (wkar.org)
He said Israeli troops opened fire and hit at least one of them. (aljazeera.com)
Six people are treated at a hospital in Nahariya for very light wounds and shock caused by the rocket fire from Lebanon. (normanfinkelstein.com)

When Johnson repeated his orders that the Israelis could not pass, the IDF commander told Johnson he would drive through the Marines. (military.com)
Israeli commander Colonel Hemi Livni said he knew of no plan to go deep inside Lebanon. (rferl.org)

They typically tell residents to leave before the bombs fall - an Israeli effort to avoid civilian casualties such as Sunday's killing of at least 65 in Qana. (csmonitor.com)
The Israeli army announced on Wednesday that they shot dead a man shortly after a roadside bomb seriously wounded an Israeli civilian in northern Israel. (middleeasteye.net)

Talouzian's name had emerged during their investigative research as someone with close personal and professional ties to Lebanese banker and businessman Mr. Antoun Sehnaoui. (lbcgroup.tv)

Ukraine has reported breaking through Russian defence lines in the south as its army said Saturday that senior Russian navy commanders were among dozens killed or wounded in a missile attack on Moscow's Black Sea Fleet headquarters in Crimea.In the latest claims of progress in the Zaporizhzhia area, the Ukrainian general leading the counteroffensive there told US media that the advance was still underway. (yahoo.com)

The Israeli great ally, the United States, says nothing. (joshualandis.com)

NPR's Ivan Watson traveled to a village in southern Lebanon today. (wkar.org)
Human Rights Watch has accused Israel of using the bombs in an attack on the Lebanese village of Bilda on July 19. (rferl.org)

Reporters Without Borders, or RSF, a watchdog group advocating for press freedom said Sunday, Oct. 29, that the strikes that hit a group of journalists in southern Lebanon earlier this month, killing one, were targeted rather than accidental and that the journalists were clearly identified as press. (wlns.com)
Earlier today, the Israeli Army announced that it had taken a second Hizballah stronghold in southern Lebanon. (rferl.org)

In his fight to defend Lebanese sovereignty since the Cedar Revolution in 2005, Antoun has only wanted to support sovereign electoral lists or candidates. (lbcgroup.tv)

We will keep on checking," a UNIFIL spokesperson says, referring to the internationally recognized line separating Israel from Lebanon. (timesofisrael.com)

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