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The military on Tuesday downed a drone operated by Lebanon's Hezbollah terror group after it entered Israeli airspace, an Israel Defense Forces spokesperson said. (timesofisrael.com)
Lebanon's Hezbollah said it attacked 19 Israeli positions along the border simultaneously Thursday, prompting a 'broad' retaliatory assault, on the eve of a speech by the Iran-backed group's leader on the Israel-Hamas war. (yahoo.com)
Jerusalem: Israel said a drone was intercepted after crossing the border into its airspace, which was believed to be launched by Lebanon's Hezbollah group. (siasat.com)
A drone likely belonging to Lebanon's Hezbollah terror group is seen after being downed by troops on the border with Lebanon, on July 18, 2022. (foreigndesknews.com)
Israeli forces on Monday downed a drone that Lebanon's Hezbollah terror group apparently flew over the border, the military said. (foreigndesknews.com)

Last August, Israel shot down a Hezbollah drone that flew into Israeli territory following an unprecedented exchange of fire between Israel and Hezbollah a few days prior. (yalibnan.com)
27, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it shot down a Hezbollah drone that entered Israeli territory. (longwarjournal.org)

Meanwhile, the Israel Defense Forces on Friday warned civilians in the northern Gaza Strip to evacuate the region as it seems it will intensify attacks on terrorist targets in the Gaza City region. (connectedtoindia.com)
The order came as morning broke on the seventh day of the Israel-Gaza war, with the military pressing its widespread air offensive and a total siege on the Strip, which according to international aid organizations has left it on the edge of a humanitarian disaster, reported The Times of Israel. (connectedtoindia.com)
Israeli forces Friday closed in on Gaza City's main hospital, which they've said hides a Hamas command center in tunnels below. (yahoo.com)
Israel is providing "quick humanitarian windows" to allow people to flee northern Gaza while the military fights Hamas militants, IDF spokesperson Jonathan Conricus said. (yahoo.com)
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken stepped up pressure on Israel to do more to reduce civilian deaths in the assault on Gaza. (yahoo.com)
Israeli Forces Close in on Gaza Hospital Area (4:05 p.m. (yahoo.com)
Israeli forces are closing in on Gaza City's main hospital, which they've said they want to take control of because there's a Hamas command center located in tunnels underneath it. (yahoo.com)
Russia warned Israel against flooding the Gaza Strip tunnels with seawater, and said that this step would be a war crime, the US-based magazine Newsweek reported. (whatreallyhappened.com)
In the week that followed the expiration of the "humanitarian pause", Israel has escalated its invasion of the Gaza Strip. (whatreallyhappened.com)
Instead, Israeli forces decided to open a new front by advancing into the southern part of Gaza. (whatreallyhappened.com)
Those forces have gathered on Israel's border with Gaza ahead of a possible full-scale invasion to reclaim the hostages and eliminate Hamas terrorists. (kpnw.com)
Israel has warned the 1.1 million people living in the north of Gaza to evacuate the area within 24 hours as a "humanitarian step in order to minimize civilian casualties" ahead of the military's response to Hamas' terrorist attacks. (kpnw.com)
The IDF also told Fox News its infantry forces and tanks entered the Gaza Strip Friday to conduct localized raids. (kpnw.com)
Israeli forces are stepping up airstrikes in Gaza ahead of what they're calling the next stage of Israel's war on Hamas. (cnn.com)
CHURCH: Mr. Netanyahu also met with the nation's war cabinet Sunday to discuss security and the country's defense minister says it's likely invasion of Gaza needs to be Israel's last move inside the region vowing Hamas won't be around for long. (cnn.com)
In Northern Gaza, in northern Israel I should say, the IDF is warning Hezbollah leaders they're playing quote a dangerous game. (cnn.com)
On top of that, as you say, we've got that increase in bombardment, perhaps the heaviest bombardment of the Gaza strip that we've seen over the past two weeks as Israel tries to take out not just Hamas commanders, but also weapons storage facilities, rocket launchers, and of course, those tunnels, that tunnel system that Hamas maintains underground beneath the Gaza Strip. (cnn.com)
Regarding the hostages, Israel and Hamas are reported to be negotiating a deal that would include the release of most of the women and children being held hostage by the Palestinian terror group in the Gaza Strip, The Washington Post reported on Monday. (timesofisrael.com)
Sadly, all of the international news agencies ae focusing on the fact that babies in Gaza had to be removed from their incubators for lack of electricity with no mention of the Israel aid. (timesofisrael.com)
While the Israeli military is raring to launch an offensive to destroy Hamas and liberate captives, President Joe Biden and the European powers are telling Israel to delay the ground incursion to facilitate hostage negotiations and 'humanitarian' operations in Gaza. (legalinsurrection.com)
Israel is under rising American and European pressure to delay a ground offensive into Gaza to give negotiators more time to win freedom for Hamas-held hostages," the UK daily Telegraph reported Saturday. (legalinsurrection.com)
Confirming the reports, The New York Times noted Sunday: "The Biden administration has advised Israel to delay a ground invasion of Gaza, hoping to buy time for hostage negotiations and to allow more humanitarian aid to reach Palestinians in the sealed-off enclave, according to several U.S. officials. (legalinsurrection.com)
The Biden administration is concerned that Israel lacks achievable military objectives in Gaza, and that the Israel Defense Forces are not yet ready to launch a ground invasion with a plan that can work, senior administration officials said," the NYT reported Monday. (legalinsurrection.com)
The Israeli military leadership believes that the IDF is ready to take on the Hamas terrorist forces in Gaza. (legalinsurrection.com)
The Israel Defense Forces believes that in order to attain the government's stated objectives in the war against the Hamas terror group, the military must begin its ground offensive in the Gaza Strip sooner rather than later, The Times of Israel learned Monday. (legalinsurrection.com)
The IDF has already heavily bolstered the Lebanon border, but most forces remain near Gaza, ahead of the expected ground offensive. (legalinsurrection.com)
Hamas has regularly attacked Israel with rockets from Gaza or allowed others to do so. (brookings.edu)
Regular rocket barrages from Gaza mean that Israel cannot simply forget about the area or Hamas. (brookings.edu)
Israel has kept Gaza under siege and has sometimes used considerable force. (brookings.edu)
In 2011 Israel deployed its "Iron Dome" mobile defense system in response to the rocket attacks it suffered the previous years from Lebanon (Hezbollah) and Gaza (Hamas). (unav.edu)
Israel has carried out relentless strikes on Gaza since Hamas militants attacked border communities and military outposts on October 7. (yahoo.com)
Israel says its aim in Gaza is to destroy Hamas following the October 7 attacks, the worst in the country's 75-year history, with officials saying militants killed 1,400 people and kidnapped 242 others. (yahoo.com)
Hamas is based in Gaza but also has a presence in Palestinian communities in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) and in other countries, including southern Lebanon, as well as in more distant countries like Qatar, where the Hamas leadership resides. (theunitedwest.org)
Russia has joined in on condemning Israel for Gaza violence, following a covert Israeli assassination mission. (muraselon.com)
Russia, Jordan and an Egyptian Delegation, have all declared that Israel is responsible for the violence in Gaza. (muraselon.com)
The skirmishes have escalated fears of a new front opening as Israel continues its conflict with Hamas in Gaza. (the961.com)
Netanyahu delivered the pronouncement in a nationally televised address as Israel pressed ahead with a third day of heavy airstrikes in Gaza following Hamas' unprecedented and deadly incursion into Israel. (wreg.com)
The hostilities so far have killed around 900 people in Israel and more than 680 people in Gaza, according to authorities on each side. (wreg.com)
It has an established a network running from Gaza to Egypt to smuggle in weapons, as well as attack tunnels burrowing into Israel. (wreg.com)
The war also served as the catalyst for the development of the Iron Dome air defense system, which has since intercepted thousands of rockets, with the majority originating from Gaza. (jpost.com)
Hamas is trying "with all its might" to carry out terror attacks in the West Bank under instructions from the group's offices in Gaza, Turkey and Lebanon, he said. (al-monitor.com)
The Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center views Iran's financial aid as a means to intensify its influence on the Palestinian population of Gaza while sending a message to the Sunni and Arab world that Iran is helping the Palestinian struggle against Israel. (al-monitor.com)
Stabilizing Hamas' rule in Gaza, especially after the achievements it recorded in the latest round of resistance against Israel, strengthens its standing also in the West Bank, governed by its rival the Palestinian Authority. (al-monitor.com)

Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah, commenting on the recent spate of Israeli spy arrests during a rally marking the ninth anniversary of the removal of Israeli troops from Lebanon, 22 May 2009. (counterpunch.org)
Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah claims Ghajar and the adjacent Shebaa Farms (Mount Dov) as occupied Lebanese territory. (al-monitor.com)
In response to the fire fight, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah emphasized that it was "a dangerous development that had not happened in 15 years" and warned that his organization "could attack deep into the Galilee" region of northern Israel. (yalibnan.com)
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah is set to speak Friday for the first time since the Israel-Hamas war broke out. (yahoo.com)
Hezbollah's leader, Hassan Nasrallah , is promoting the deployment of his forces along the border, with over 30 observation posts in place there. (israeltoday.co.il)
On Wednesday, Hezbollah's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, increased the tension by issuing further threats, warning of potential retaliation if Israel attempts to dismantle the tents. (jpost.com)

The Israel Defense Forces says it downed a small Hezbollah drone that entered Israeli airspace from southern Lebanon yesterday. (timesofisrael.com)
The IDF last reported downing a drone that entered Israeli airspace from Lebanon in August. (timesofisrael.com)
In January, a Hezbollah drone was monitored by the IDF and subsequently shot down when it entered Israeli airspace. (longwarjournal.org)

From 1985 to 2000, Hezbollah also participated in the 1985-2000 South Lebanon conflict against the South Lebanon Army (SLA) and Israel Defense Forces (IDF), and fought again with the IDF in the 2006 Lebanon War. (wikipedia.org)
The first occurred in May 2000 when Israeli troops were expelled (or withdrew, depending on which side of the border you are on) from southern Lebanon after a 22-year occupation. (counterpunch.org)
For them, the war against Lebanon and Hezbollah did not end in 2000 or in 2006 but continues today, albeit in different form. (counterpunch.org)
Ever since Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon in May 2000 residents have been afraid that the village , or even part of it, will be handed over to Lebanon, given that UN representatives determined that the historic border runs right through the village - with part being Israeli territory and another part Lebanese. (al-monitor.com)
long border in 2000 to verify Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon, which the Security Council later certified as complete. (israeltoday.co.il)
Israel and Hezbollah fought two wars following the occupation of Lebanon - once in 2000, when the militia pushed the Israel Defense Forces out of the country, and again in 2006 following a Hezbollah attack on Israeli soil. (scrippsnews.com)
In addition to being the only Arab actor having inflicted military defeats on Israel in 2000 and 2006, Hezbollah had also become part and parcel of the Lebanese political structure through a process of integration starting in the 1990s. (lu.se)

The Israel Defense Force attacked Hezbollah targets in Lebanon after missile and drone assaults from Lebanese territory. (yahoo.com)
The Israeli military said in response it targeted the group with a 'broad assault', in which 'warplanes and helicopters' attacked Hezbollah targets. (yahoo.com)

The militant group Hezbollah took responsibility Friday for targeting Israeli military posts with small-arms fire along the country's border with Lebanon, and the Israelis responded with artillery strikes. (kpnw.com)
Despite the assessments given by Lebanese officials, some right-wing media outlets indirectly put the blame on the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah, repeating reports that it housed some of its explosive material in the city. (foreignpolicy.com)
Lebanese political and militant group Hezbollah declared victory in its fight in Syria. (scrippsnews.com)
The target, according to the Obama administration official, was missiles and related equipment the Israelis felt might be transferred to the Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah. (ibankcoin.com)

It also came amid new warnings from Hezbollah and Iran that the fighting could escalate into a regional conflict, The Times of Israel reported. (connectedtoindia.com)
In 1982, Hezbollah was conceived by Muslim clerics and funded by Iran primarily to fight the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. (wikipedia.org)
Its leaders were followers of Ayatollah Khomeini, and its forces were trained and organized by a contingent of 1,500 Revolutionary Guards that arrived from Iran with permission from the Syrian government, which occupied Lebanon's eastern highlands, permitted their transit to a base in the Bekaa valley which was in occupation of Lebanon at the time. (wikipedia.org)
The attack was the latest from Lebanon across the border into northern Israel by the Iran-backed group. (yahoo.com)
There was no immediate comment from the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group. (timesofisrael.com)
The strike was widely attributed to Israel, and the Iran-backed terror group has vowed retaliation. (timesofisrael.com)
Unrest in Tripoli has recently exposed Lebanon's tenuous and often changing political alliances that can make for strange bedfellows as seen in the Iran/Hezbollah March 8 Alliance and Western/Gulf Cedar Revolution backed March 14 Alliance. (smallwarsjournal.com)
Syria's border with Lebanon is essential for transporting arms from Iran to Hezbollah. (smallwarsjournal.com)
Additionally, Hezbollah's unequivocal support of the Assad regime during its continued violence against Syrians has already damaged its image among Sunni Arab supporters who tended to see Hezbollah as a force against Israel, rather than a pawn for Iran. (smallwarsjournal.com)
Israel also put the blame for the "unfortunate incident" on Iran and the Hezbollah group. (rt.com)
Israel says its war against Hamas is aimed at destroying the Iran-backed terror group's infrastructure and has vowed to dismantle the organization after the October 7 massacres. (legalinsurrection.com)
Hezbollah, a proxy of Iran, controls southern Lebanon (and much of the Lebanese government as well). (theunitedwest.org)
Iran has deployed senior IRGC-Quds operatives in Lebanon to oversee Hezbollah's precision missile program. (t-intell.com)
Scenes of the damage were broadcast across the world, leading to an outpouring of grief, with several countries offering to assist Lebanon in its recovery efforts, including France, Iran, and the United States. (foreignpolicy.com)
And the U.S. State Department has accused Iran of sponsoring Hezbollah. (scrippsnews.com)
Since then, Iran has helped to re-arm Hezbollah, sent the group money and even helped train fighters. (scrippsnews.com)
Israel accused Iran of building missile production sites in Syria and Lebanon, both of which share borders with the Jewish state. (scrippsnews.com)
On Nov. 20, Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot said during a tour of the Syrian border that Iran had been far less successful than it had hoped in transferring precision weapons to Hezbollah in Lebanon. (al-monitor.com)
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant accused Iran on Monday of setting up an airport in southern Lebanon to enable attacks against Israel. (yahoo.com)
In televised remarks to an international security conference hosted by Reichman University, Gallant showed aerial images of what he described as an airport built by Iran with a view to pursuing what he called 'terrorist objectives' against Israel. (yahoo.com)
Those drones were "products of Iran," according to Defense Minister Benny Gantz. (foreigndesknews.com)
Iran created a special task force with the sole intention of influencing U.S. policy by recruiting academics, according to internal emails obtained and reviewed by Iran International and Semafor. (foreigndesknews.com)
The resolution, watered down to meet Russian demands, did not permit the use of force if Iran does not comply. (jta.org)
While the Israel Defense Forces rarely comments on specific operations, it has conducted hundreds of sorties over the past decade with a view to preventing Iran and its proxies from establishing a permanent military footprint in Syria. (americanisraelite.com)
Hezbollah, together with Syria, form the core of the coalition bloc led by Iran. (lu.se)

The Israel Defense Forces said it had hit a Hezbollah target in southern Lebanon after an apparent drone was intercepted on Friday (October 13, 2023). (connectedtoindia.com)
On Sunday, Hezbollah said in a statement, "On the path to liberate the remaining part of our occupied Lebanese land and in solidarity with the victorious Palestinian resistance and the steadfast Palestinian people, the groups of the martyr commander Hajj Imad Moghniyeh in the Islamic Resistance carried out an attack this Sunday, October 08, 2023, targeting three Zionist occupation sites in the occupied Lebanese Shebaa Farms region. (londonlovesbusiness.com)
Hezbollah members take part in a military exercise during a media tour organized for the occasion of Resistance and Liberation Day, in Aaramta, Lebanon May 21, 2023. (jpost.com)
A general view shows the disputed village of Ghajar, as seen from the Lebanese village of Wazzani near the border with Israel, in southern Lebanon, July 6, 2023. (jpost.com)

As tensions escalate, Lebanon has backed Hezbollah's claims, rejecting any negotiations with Israel over the border. (israeltoday.co.il)
Additionally, there have been reports of a noteworthy enhancement in Hezbollah's unmanned aerial and air defense capabilities, as well as its anti-tank weaponry. (israeltoday.co.il)
By publicly disclosing the facility's location, the IDF has thus disrupted Hezbollah's missile manufacturing efforts without engaging in a direct attack in Lebanon (that would virtually certain trigger retaliatory violence). (t-intell.com)
In February, Hezbollah's Central War Media outlet published a video of an IDF drone brought down in the Marjeyoun district of southern Lebanon. (longwarjournal.org)
It is imperative for Israel to deter Hezbollah from further provocative actions while actively collaborating with international partners, particularly the United States, to expose and condemn Hezbollah's illegal activities. (jpost.com)
Hezbollah's al-Manar network reported that the Israel Defense Forces launched flares over the Wazzani river area, close to the town of Ghajar, during the smuggling attempt. (cufi.org)
But Hezbollah's determination to protect its independent military status in the face of growing opposition in Lebanon has created a host of grave challenges that could threaten the organization's primacy in the years ahead. (hoover.org)

Third, Israel must withdraw from the Shebaa Farms . (smallwarsjournal.com)
The refugee issue and the Shebaa Farms requirement will likely prove difficult (or impossible) to resolve without a Palestinian-Israeli peace agreement, but disarming the Palestinian militias within Lebanon and strengthening the Lebanese Armed Forces' defense capabilities are maybe more doable. (smallwarsjournal.com)
The assault came as Hezbollah carried out a drone attack on an Israeli barracks in the disputed Shebaa Farms area, the group said in a statement. (yahoo.com)
Hezbollah claims the area called Shebaa Farms belongs to Lebanon. (israeltoday.co.il)

The Israel Defense Forces says it is carrying out wide-scale airstrikes on Hezbollah sites in southern Lebanon in response to rocket attacks on northern Israel earlier. (theunitedwest.org)
Israel routinely uses Lebanese airspace to monitor Hezbollah activity and launch airstrikes against Iranian weapon shipments in Syria. (longwarjournal.org)
Some of the fiercest Israeli airstrikes hit Lebanon after Hezbollah. (londonlovesbusiness.com)
Israel has been accused several other times this year of launching airstrikes inside Syria, including once in January. (ibankcoin.com)

Since 2012, Hezbollah involvement in the Syrian civil war has seen it join the Syrian government in its fight against the Syrian opposition, which Hezbollah has described as a Zionist plot and a "Wahhabi-Zionist conspiracy" to destroy its alliance with Bashar al-Assad against Israel. (wikipedia.org)
Israel has blamed the Syrian government for the downing of the Russian Il-20 military plane in Latakia province, according to an IDF statement. (rt.com)
Israel expresses sorrow for the death of the aircrew members of the Russian plane that was downed tonight due to Syrian anti-aircraft fire.Israel holds the Assad regime, whose military shot down the Russian plane, fully responsible for this incident. (rt.com)
Will Russia-Israel ties suffer after downing of Il-20 military plane off Syrian coast? (rt.com)
Later on Tuesday the Russian Defense Ministry said that an Israeli raid on Syria triggered a chain of events that led to its plane being shot down by a Syrian S-200 surface-to-air missile. (rt.com)
The Israeli pilots used the Russian plane as cover and set it up to be targeted by the Syrian air defense forces. (rt.com)
Ever since the village was captured by Israel from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War, the villagers have been defining themselves as Syrian nationals residing in Israel. (al-monitor.com)
This force has been redeployed from the Syrian conflicts to the Israeli border, bringing with it invaluable operational experience. (israeltoday.co.il)
This policy is likely to continue as it has shown to be successful at keeping Israeli jet fighters relatively safe from Syrian air defense. (longwarjournal.org)
In the January incident, a U.S. official said Israeli fighter jets bombed a Syrian convoy suspected of moving weapons to Hezbollah. (ibankcoin.com)
Israel's military did not comment on any of the allegations at the time, but has long said it would target any transfer of weapons to Hezbollah or other groups designated as terrorists, as well as any effort to smuggle Syrian weapons into Lebanon that could threaten Israel. (ibankcoin.com)
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Oct. 18 that Russia cannot force Tehran to pull its forces out of Syria, and Netanyahu himself explained on Nov. 19 to the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that Russia would be unable to stop Iran's military activity on Syrian soil by itself. (al-monitor.com)
Furthermore, the IDF has twice in the past two weeks reportedly shelled Hezbollah assets on the Syrian-held part of the Golan Heights. (americanisraelite.com)
On both occasions, the military thereafter dropped leaflets in the targeted areas warning Syrian soldiers against cooperating with Lebanon-based terror groups. (americanisraelite.com)

Hezbollah flags just over the border in Lebanon, July 03, 2022. (israeltoday.co.il)
However, Israel and Lebanon reached a US-brokered agreement delineating their maritime border in October 2022. (israeltoday.co.il)

Middle East events, particularly in Syria, are impacting Lebanon. (smallwarsjournal.com)
Additionally, others worried that the Arab League suspension of Syria and the U.S. Spy-Gate catastrophe , in which Hezbollah apparently rolled up a network of CIA informants, would cause disruption. (smallwarsjournal.com)
located on the Israel-Lebanon-Syria border and residents' fear of being targeted. (al-monitor.com)
Recent incidents include a tent manned by Hezbollah terrorists in an area south of the border but north of an Israeli security barrier near Mount Dov, where the border converges with Syria. (israeltoday.co.il)
Among those points is a strip of land on Mount Dov, which Israel captured from Syria. (israeltoday.co.il)
This intelligence confirms that Hezbollah is now attempting to "homegrow" precision guided missiles, as Israel's raids in Syria have disrupted the IRGC's advanced weapons transfers to its Lebanese ally. (t-intell.com)
Both leaders hinted that the key to removing Iranian forces from Syria is in US hands, but President Donald Trump has not shown any inclination to sink into this quagmire, not even for his good friend in Jerusalem. (al-monitor.com)
Therefore, based on the fairly certain assumption that Netanyahu does not wish to clash with Russia, the ill winds are unlikely to blow from the direction of Syria nor from Lebanon. (al-monitor.com)
Defense Minister Amir Peretz said the surveillance flights over Lebanon were needed to track arms shipments to Hezbollah combatants from neighboring Syria, two months after a cease-fire ended what would be later designated as Israel's Second Lebanon War. (jta.org)
Syria has accused Israel of targeting the airport three times in the past two months. (americanisraelite.com)
Last month, the Israel Defense Forces struck targets in Syria in response to six rockets fired towards the Golan Heights. (americanisraelite.com)
However, as the protests reached Syria the image of Hezbollah as a champion of the oppressed shifted when it decided to side with the regime of Bashar al-Assad and thus raising the question of what it is that actually drives and determines the actions and policy decisions of Hezbollah. (lu.se)

Israel has seen a decrease in Red Alert sirens warning of incoming rockets, drones and terrorist infiltrations since the IDF launched " Operation Swords of Iron " on Oct. 7, IDF Home Front Command data shows. (timesofisrael.com)
The "Iron Dome" is a mobile defense system developed by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Israel Aerospace Industries developed, produced and fielded in 2011 to respond to the security threat posed by the bombings of rockets and projectiles shot into Israel, many of which landed in heavily populated areas. (unav.edu)
Bombings into Israel intensified during the 2006 Second Lebanon War when Hezbollah fired approximately 4,000 rockets from bases in the south of Lebanon. (unav.edu)
The Lebanese-Israeli border is closer to war than it has been thus far in the conflict between Israel and Hamas, as the Palestinian terrorist group claimed responsibility for rockets fired from southern Lebanon at the Israeli city of Kiryat Shemona on Thursday. (theunitedwest.org)
It has also launched preemptive strikes on terrorists who have tried to fire rockets or to infiltrate into northern Israel. (theunitedwest.org)
Accordingly, it struck a number of Hezbollah positions on Thursday evening after several Hamas rockets caused significant damage. (theunitedwest.org)
In response to the tactical air strike campaign of the Israeli Air Force (IAF), the IRGC has started to supply Hezbollah with GPS kits that can convert "dumb" rockets into precision missiles. (t-intell.com)
According to a 2015 estimate by Israeli Intelligence, Hezbollah currently stockpiles around 150,000 rockets. (t-intell.com)
If Hezbollah manages to convert even a quarter of its estimated 150,000 rockets into precision guided missile, it could overwhelm the Israeli air defense systems and strike any target of choice. (t-intell.com)
The Israel Defense Forces said over the weekend that more than 700 rockets have been fired at Israel since the start of the military operation in Lebanon, prompted by the Hezbollah abduction of two IDF soldiers last Wednesday. (angelahuntbooks.com)
HaAretz reports the Shi'ite guerilla group Hezbollah has amassed over 10,000 rockets, some having a range of 220 km, and has dispersed them in towns throughout Lebanon. (angelahuntbooks.com)
Hezbollah leader Sheikh Nasrallah on Sunday said the Israel Defense Forces offensive on Lebanon had not depleted its large stockpile of rockets, and warned that the Islamic group could strike almost anywhere in Israel. (angelahuntbooks.com)
Hezbollah television station reported that rockets hit the oil refineries in Haifa Bay. (angelahuntbooks.com)
I've been praying for Christians in both countries, and that God would help Israel defend her borders and silence the guns and rockets of her enemies. (angelahuntbooks.com)
These threats coincided with the commemoration of the 2006 Second Lebanon War, during which Hezbollah fired rockets into northern Israel, terrorizing civilians and necessitating Israel's subsequent ground incursion into Lebanon. (jpost.com)
In April, Hezbollah enabled Hamas to launch 34 rockets from Lebanon into northern Israel during the Passover holiday. (jpost.com)

Either the entire organization or only its military wing has been designated a terrorist organization by several countries, including by the European Union and, since 2017, also by most member states of the Arab League, with two exceptions - Lebanon, where Hezbollah is one of the country's most influential political parties, and Iraq. (wikipedia.org)
This small Mediterranean country's military - the Lebanese Armed Forces - has shown a remarkable ability to remain apolitical, non-sectarian and open, and will continue to do so as articulated by President Sleiman in recent press reports. (smallwarsjournal.com)
Israel is protected by 10 "Iron Dome" batteries, functioning to protect the country's infrastructure and citizens. (unav.edu)
French Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu said Lebanon 'doesn't need a war' with Israel, during a visit on Thursday to his country's contingent in the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). (yahoo.com)
LOS ANGELES - The United Jewish Communities refocused its annual General Assembly to focus on fundraising for rebuilding Israel's North after the country's war in Lebanon. (jta.org)

The armed forces were prepared for all combat scenarios, including the opening of a northern front by Lebanon-based Iran's proxy terrorist group Hezbollah, Israeli media reports indicate. (legalinsurrection.com)
It is Iran's greatest force enabler, allowing the Islamic Republic to exert influence across the Middle East. (hoover.org)
Israel is troubled by arch-foe Iran's nuclear programme, missile build-up and support for militants in the region. (yahoo.com)

It adopted the model set out by Ayatollah Khomeini after the Iranian Revolution in 1979, and the party's founders adopted "Hezbollah" as the name chosen by Khomeini. (wikipedia.org)
The facility is likely operated by Hezbollah with financial and technological assistance from the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps' (IRGC) irregular warfare and external branch, the Quds force. (t-intell.com)
We can now reveal that inside this Hezbollah facility is Iranian-supplied machinery used to manufacture precision guided missiles with an accuracy of less than 10 meters. (t-intell.com)
The joint Iranian-Hezbollah operation is in direct violation of the United Nations Resolution 1701 and threatens to destabilize the fragile Lebanese security environment. (t-intell.com)
The Iranian Navy Commander Admiral Hussein Khansadi revealed a new defense system that joined the Iranian naval defense systems mounted on the destroyers. (muraselon.com)
On Sunday it was reported that the Iranian backed Hezbollah group had attacked Israeli infrastructure in the Sheba Farms area. (londonlovesbusiness.com)
The southern borders of Lebanon are controlled by Hezbollah that joins Israels northern border, however the Iranian back militia group has denied being involved in the skirmish. (londonlovesbusiness.com)
The event is just one in a series of escalating acts instigated by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah. (jpost.com)
Neither Hezbollah nor Iranian officials had an immediate response to Gallant's remarks. (yahoo.com)
According to Israeli media reports, the attack targeted weapons depots and vehicles used to transport armaments to Iranian terror proxy Hezbollah in Lebanon. (americanisraelite.com)

Israel strikes Hezbollah Targets in Lebanon Following Drone Attack (7:49 p.m. (yahoo.com)
A week after the strike, a cell of Hezbollah operatives crossed the border on the contentious Mount Dov, but were turned back with warning strikes after entering Israeli territory. (timesofisrael.com)

Israeli drones, artillery, and tanks struck targets in Lebanon on Friday after an apparent drone was intercepted, shots were fired at a number of military posts on the northern frontier and an explosion damaged the border security barrier, the Israel Defense Forces told The Times of Israel. (connectedtoindia.com)
Israel said it intercepted one of the aircraft and the other two fell without hitting targets. (yahoo.com)
The Israel Defense Forces said in a tweet that one of its drones is "currently striking terrorist targets belonging to Hezbollah in Lebanon. (kpnw.com)

In the 2018 Lebanese general election, Hezbollah held 12 seats and its alliance won the election by gaining 70 out of 128 seats in the Parliament of Lebanon. (wikipedia.org)
Israel's effort to fortify the border was prompted by the discovery of Hezbollah cross-border attack tunnels in 2018. (israeltoday.co.il)
In 2018, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu disclosed the location of three Hezbollah missile assembly and storage sites in the Lebanese capital. (t-intell.com)
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement to the members of the press, Tel Aviv, Israel, Nov. 18, 2018. (al-monitor.com)

Israeli soldiers sit in a tent next to their mobile artillery piece near the border with Lebanon, northern Israel, August 26, 2020. (timesofisrael.com)
Israeli soldiers are seen next to a sign post pointing to the village of Ghajar near Israel's border with Lebanon, Jan. 28, 2015. (al-monitor.com)
A day after the Jan. 28 Hezbollah attack on an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) convoy on Mount Dov, in which two soldiers were killed and seven injured, residents of Ghajar have yet to resume their routine. (al-monitor.com)
The drone was monitored by our soldiers throughout the incident from the moment it crossed the border from inside Lebanese territory, where air control forces followed it throughout the incident. (yalibnan.com)
It has threatened to enter the war and has fired on Israeli positions, killing several soldiers and forcing the evacuation of Israel's northernmost cities. (theunitedwest.org)
Soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces were forced to fire warning shots to disperse the rioters. (jpost.com)
And Retired Canadian Major General Lewis Mackenzie explained in an interview with CBC that Major Kruedener had sent emails indicating that Hezbollah soldiers were "all over his position. (camera.org)
What he was telling us was Hezbollah soldiers were all over his position and the IDF were targeting them. (camera.org)

His remarks come after Reuters cited U.S. officials saying Israel would prefer that the deal - officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action - stay in place. (scrippsnews.com)
Israeli defense officials have added a brigade headquarters near Israel's border with Egypt, and are trying to improve intelligence capabilities in the Sinai, which is proving difficult. (sidroth.org)
Israel is indeed facing a security challenge that requires its elected officials to act responsibly and to set aside personal and political considerations. (al-monitor.com)
Security officials said they were investigating whether the smuggling was conducted on behalf of the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah. (cufi.org)
Officials have warned that Hezbollah is attempting to arm Arab Israelis in order for them to commit terror attacks in the event of another surge in violence between Jews and Arabs. (cufi.org)
By contrast, the Associated Press reported that "U.N. officials said Hezbollah militants had been operating in the area of the post near the eastern end of the border with Israel, a routine tactic to prevent Israel from attacking them. (camera.org)
Defense officials have previously noted that at least some of the drones Hezbollah apparently uses for surveillance purposes are commercially available devices. (foreigndesknews.com)

Hezbollah has been described as a "state within a state", and has grown into an organization with seats in the Lebanese government, a radio and a satellite TV station, social services and large-scale military deployment of fighters beyond Lebanon's borders. (wikipedia.org)
Bloomberg) -- Israel revised down its death toll from the Hamas attack on Oct. 7 that set off the latest crisis, putting the figure at about 1,200 instead of the earlier 1,400, after finding that some of the casualties belonged to fighters from the group. (yahoo.com)
The change came as Israel identified more of the bodies found after the attack and believes some of them belong to Hamas fighters, he told AFP. (yahoo.com)
Lebanon's official National News Agency said four people were killed and others wounded in Israeli bombardments of the border region, while Hezbollah announced another of its fighters killed. (yahoo.com)
The deaths raised to 71 the number killed in Lebanon since the Israel-Hamas war began, according to an AFP tally -- most of them Hezbollah fighters and other combatants but also civilians, one a Reuters journalist. (yahoo.com)
Hezbollah said that at 3:30 pm (1330 GMT), its fighters 'simultaneously attacked 19 Zionist military positions' with guided missiles and artillery shells. (yahoo.com)
After 12 years, Israel revealed a powerful military operation carried out by Hezbollah fighters against the elite forces "Shetit 13" in the Israeli Defense Forces "IDF" in Lebanon. (muraselon.com)
Shocking footage has been released by Houthi media showing the moment that a large bomb planted by the Yemeni rebel group's forces blew up an entire unit of Saudi Coalition fighters as they tried to cross a courtyard in Houdaidah city. (muraselon.com)
Israel has deployed their troops on the Lebanese border amid an "infiltration" of "suspects" which are thought to be Hezbollah fighters, on Monday afternoon. (londonlovesbusiness.com)

First, the Palestinian militias in Lebanon must disarm before Hezbollah. (smallwarsjournal.com)
Second, there must be a credible solution to the Palestinian refugee problem in southern Lebanon. (smallwarsjournal.com)
During the truce, Israeli forces continued issuing warnings and threats aimed mainly at Hamas but also at the Palestinian population. (whatreallyhappened.com)
With bodies of the October 7 victims still being found and Israeli authorities struggling to identify hundreds of charred and mutilated corpses, French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Israel on Tuesday, calling for creating a Palestinian state and halting of 'settlement' building. (legalinsurrection.com)
French President Emmanuel Macron will call for … the creation of a Palestinian state, and "halting the colonization" of the West Bank, while visiting Israel on Tuesday, his office says," the Times of Israel reported Monday night. (legalinsurrection.com)
The Israel-Lebanon border has seen escalating tit-for-tat exchanges, mainly between the Israeli army and Hamas ally Hezbollah, since the Palestinian militants launched a shock attack on Israel on October 7, stoking fears of a regional conflagration. (yahoo.com)
Joe Truzman is a research analyst at FDD's Long War Journal focused primarily on Palestinian militant groups and Hezbollah. (longwarjournal.org)
Thousands of pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian protesters held vocal but peaceful gatherings Monday, at a historic French plaza and outside Israeli embassies in London and Athens, Greece. (wreg.com)
In return for its close security coordination with the Shin Bet and the IDF, all the PA gets are more Israeli settlement outposts in the West Bank, more Palestinian homes razed, the violation of the status quo at Jerusalem's holy sites and a freeze of negotiations with Israel on its demand for independence. (al-monitor.com)

The incident remained the latest skirmish recorded along the Lebanese border amid fears that the Lebanon-based Hezbollah terror group may open a second front amid the ongoing clash against Hamas. (connectedtoindia.com)
Yamina MK Naftali Bennett, who served as defense minister until May, slammed the incident as a "grave violation" of Israel's sovereignty. (timesofisrael.com)
Israel has responded to each incident by striking the Hezbollah position responsible for the fire. (theunitedwest.org)
In a more serious incident, Hezbollah fired anti-aircraft missiles at an IDF Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) on Feb. 3. (longwarjournal.org)
On Wednesday, a disturbing incident took place on Israel's northern border with Lebanon near Metulla, as a group of individuals approached the security fence, hurling rocks and igniting a fire in close proximity. (jpost.com)
The incident occurred some three weeks after the Israel Defense Forces downed four UAVs launched by the terror group at an offshore gas field. (foreigndesknews.com)

Hezbollah Attacks Israeli Sites with Drones (4:44 p.m. (yahoo.com)
Hezbollah said it attacked three sites in northern Israel with drones. (yahoo.com)
According to the report incursions by Hezbollah drones into Israel are reported every few months. (yalibnan.com)
A Middle East military official with knowledge of the incidents confirmed to FDD's Long War Journal that both Hezbollah drones downed by the IDF were unarmed. (longwarjournal.org)
The confirmation suggests the drones were likely launched in an attempt to observe activity in Israeli territory or to probe IDF air defenses in northern Israel. (longwarjournal.org)
Hezbollah made multiple attempts to breach Israeli airspace using drones in recent months. (longwarjournal.org)
Additionally, Hezbollah has been able to shoot down some IDF drones that entered Lebanese airspace. (longwarjournal.org)
Lebanon and Israel are technically in a state of war and the heavily guarded border is commonly penetrated by drones from both sides. (foreigndesknews.com)
Lebanon regularly complains about Israeli surveillance drones invading its airspace, but the IDF maintains that such incursions are necessary to track the activities of the Hezbollah terror group, which the Lebanese government is supposed to keep in check. (foreigndesknews.com)
On July 2, the Israel Defense Forces intercepted three Hezbollah drones heading for the Karish gas field. (foreigndesknews.com)
Hezbollah confirmed it launched the drones after previously threatening the field, which sits in a maritime area that both Lebanon and Israel claim as their own. (foreigndesknews.com)

Riyadh: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia announced the opening of its airspace to all air carriers, including flights to and from Israel. (siasat.com)
In exchange for Riyadh opening its airspace to flights from Israel, then Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to extend Saudi Arabia's licence to use the controversial Pegasus spyware. (siasat.com)
Although the IDF has seemingly been able to defend its northern airspace, Hezbollah has achieved some limited success. (longwarjournal.org)
Furthermore, Hezbollah will likely continue its attempts to penetrate Israeli airspace as its own drone program continues to develop . (longwarjournal.org)

Concerns in Congress over selling more lethal weapons to the Lebanese Army come from a fear that those weapons might or will end up in the hands of Hezbollah, to be used against Israel. (smallwarsjournal.com)
Those concerned believe a stronger and more capable Lebanese Army reliant on US weapons but under the sway of Hezbollah could complicate any Israeli reaction to future Hezbollah aggression. (smallwarsjournal.com)
However, we posit this reasoning overlooks a fundamental aspect of the Lebanese Army-Hezbollah relationship. (smallwarsjournal.com)
Commentators assume that as the Lebanese Army gets stronger, so too does Hezbollah. (smallwarsjournal.com)
So far we see no evidence that any weapon support to the Lebanese Army has ended up with Hezbollah. (smallwarsjournal.com)

The "David's Sling" system covers the middle layer, while the "Arrow" missile system protects Israel from long-range projectiles. (unav.edu)
Earlier Thursday, Hezbollah said it had downed an Israeli drone with a surface-to-air missile, the second such claim in days. (yahoo.com)
Satellite imagery shared by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) has revealed a precision missile factory near Nabi Chit, Lebanon. (t-intell.com)
Omer Balva was killed in an anti-tank missile attack along the Lebanon-Israel border . (the961.com)
Hezbollah has claimed responsibility for the missile attacks and gunfire. (the961.com)
Additionally, in early July, an anti-tank missile was launched from Lebanon, with shrapnel discovered near Ghajar. (jpost.com)

By building factories and warehouses in Beirut's busy neighborhoods, Hezbollah is using the local population as a human shield against Israeli attacks. (t-intell.com)
Israel, which has sparred with Hezbollah in recent weeks and has carried out attacks in Beirut before, deflected blame. (foreignpolicy.com)
It is responsible for the continued attacks on the gas pipeline that extends from Egypt into Israel and Jordan. (sidroth.org)
In the decades prior to the upheavals, Hezbollah had experienced an extraordinary evolution from being a relatively marginal guerrilla force, conducting sporadic attacks against its arch-enemy Israel in reaction to the latter's military aggression on Lebanon in the late 1970s to early 1980s, into a mature organization, social movement and political party. (lu.se)

In response, the IDF struck a Hezbollah terrorist target in southern Lebanon. (connectedtoindia.com)
On the northern border, Israel Defense Forces jets struck Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure in southern Lebanon on Tuesday as escalations continue on the northern border. (timesofisrael.com)

The biggest obstacle to peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians is not the Palestinians' demand that Jewish settlements in the West Bank be dismantled, the barrier separating much of the West Bank from Israel, or the recent rightward shift of the Israeli body politic. (brookings.edu)

Those detained include an army colonel, a retired general, a deputy mayor, a truck driver and a mobile phone salesman, which two managed to escape across the border into Israel before being caught. (counterpunch.org)
Israeli troops on the northern border have been on high alert since a Hezbollah fighter was killed in July during an airstrike on Damascus International Airport. (timesofisrael.com)
An IDF spokesperson says the group has attacked Israeli positions along the border with Lebanon, which the military has responded to. (cnn.com)
Some 2,400 people live in the small village straddling the Israel-Lebanon border, all members of the Alawite sect. (al-monitor.com)
The tents are a few hundred meters away from a Hezbollah border outpost on the Lebanese side of the border. (israeltoday.co.il)
Al Akhbar , a Lebanese daily close to Hezbollah, reported on Saturday that Beirut demands that Israel recognize the border established in 1923 and withdraw from the village of Ghajar . (israeltoday.co.il)
Furthermore, Hezbollah continues to provoke the Israeli Defense Forces and challenge Israel along the Blue Line, exacerbating border incidents and violating established arrangements. (israeltoday.co.il)
Hezbollah says it does not recognize the Blue Line and disputes numerous points along the border. (israeltoday.co.il)
International peacekeepers from the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) have been deployed in southern Lebanon to monitor the border since 1978. (israeltoday.co.il)
Hezbollah has in the past year constructed no fewer than 27 military posts along the border. (israeltoday.co.il)
Hezbollah launched the project in parallel to Israel's construction of a fortified perimeter fence along the entire border. (israeltoday.co.il)
According to United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the 2006 Second Lebanon War, the terrorist group is forbidden to operate near the border. (israeltoday.co.il)
Another group of Bedouins entered into a second firefight, this time with Egyptian security forces on the Egyptian side of the border. (sidroth.org)
Israel has diligently pursued diplomatic avenues to persuade Hezbollah to remove the tents, yet the Lebanese government, backed by Hezbollah, insists on reshaping the border. (jpost.com)
Hamas is reining in the violent demonstrations along the border with Israel and Eizenkot is reining in the security cabinet ministers. (al-monitor.com)
According to the Israel Police, some 100 fragmentation grenades and two rifles were found in a bag left on the border by two suspects. (cufi.org)
The most powerful group, the Lebanese Hezbollah, fought a war with Israel in 2006 but this year several incidents have taken place along the border and angry words have been exchanged. (yahoo.com)

The same day, Israeli military spokesman Jonathan Conricus reported that the army launched the Northern Shield operation to search and destroy Hezbollah tunnels leading to Israel. (eurasiantimes.com)

Illustrative: A drone that the IDF says was flown into Israel from Lebanon by Hezbollah before it was shot down by IDF troops on March 26, 2020. (timesofisrael.com)
In Dec. 2020, Hezbollah-affiliated al-Manar published a video of several IDF military bases that were reportedly taken by a drone launched by Hezbollah. (longwarjournal.org)

The back and forth comes as Hezbollah Deputy Chief Naim Kassem said at a rally near Beirut Friday that the group is ready to jump into the Israel-Hamas conflict . (kpnw.com)
A picture shows the scene of an explosion in Beirut, Lebanon. (foreignpolicy.com)

In light of these developments, Jerusalem authorized targeted assassinations of Hezbollah and IRGC operatives in Lebanon and instructed the IAF to hit IRGC logistics nodes in Iraq. (t-intell.com)

According to the releases, Hezbollah opened fire on a UNIFIL convoy, and repeatedly shot from the area of UN positions. (camera.org)
From July 25: "This morning, Hezbollah opened small arms fire at a UNIFIL convoy consisting of two armored personnel carriers (APC) on the road between Kunin and Bint Jubayl. (camera.org)

They fought the mighty Israel Defense Forces to a draw, and in the minds of many this itself constituted victory. (counterpunch.org)
They fought on their behalf for two decades after all, as members of the now-defunct South Lebanon Army during the occupation of the south. (counterpunch.org)

The IDF will continue to act to prevent violations of the sovereignty of the State of Israel," the military says. (timesofisrael.com)
The IDF held a drill last month simulating a war on multiple fronts, including in the north against Hezbollah, which the military generally considers its chief foe. (timesofisrael.com)
On 21 May, Western newspapers highlighted the complex landscape of Lebanon's political map by interpreting the killing of a prominent Sunni sheikh at a military checkpoint in north Lebanon as an omen that sectarian violence would possibly begin in this religiously diverse country. (smallwarsjournal.com)
Israel has called up some 360,000 military reservists to respond to the Hamas-led terror campaign . (kpnw.com)
In a series of strategic political and military moves, Hezbollah is intensifying preparations for an imminent confrontation with Israel, drawing global attention and raising concerns about regional stability. (israeltoday.co.il)
Today, especially in this sensitive moment and after several military achievements and surprises, Hezbollah is not fighting a battle for Hezbollah or even for Lebanon. (angelahuntbooks.com)
Hezbollah has fired mortar rounds from Lebanon into "Sheba Farms and Kfar Chouba areas hitting a military post. (londonlovesbusiness.com)
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Team Sierra is currently observing both IDF/IAF and Hezbollah military clashes from our vantage point which has a commanding view of the IDF positions on the Golan mountains to our east and the IDF positions along the Blue Line to our south, as well as, most of the Hezbollah static positions in and around our patrol Base. (camera.org)
From July 24: "One unarmed UN military observer, a member of the Observer Group Lebanon (OGL), was seriously wounded by small arms fire in the patrol base in the Marun Al Ras area yesterday afternoon. (camera.org)
Hezbollah has evolved over the past four decades into the most powerful military and political force in Lebanon. (hoover.org)
The Israeli army considers the government and the armed forces of Lebanon, as well as UNIFIL, responsible for all the events that originate from the territory of Lebanon, as well as for ensuring the implementation of resolution 1701," the military added. (eurasiantimes.com)
On December 4, the press service of the Israel Defense Forces announced the discovery of the first tunnel, according to the military, from Lebanon by the Hezbollah movement into the territory of the Jewish state. (eurasiantimes.com)

The logic may sound even more puzzling when we consider that, between October 7 and November 28, Israel detained over 3,290 Palestinians in the West Bank and Occupied East Jerusalem. (whatreallyhappened.com)
JERUSALEM - Israel said it would continue Air Force flights over Lebanon. (jta.org)

In my belief, Israel won't stop at killing Muslim civilians, but Christian ones, too (not taking consideration that almost the majority of Christians is praying for the end of the Hezbollah movement). (angelahuntbooks.com)
Israel isn't targeting innocent civilians, but war is not always neat and tidy. (angelahuntbooks.com)

The organization was created with the support of 1,500 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps instructors, and aggregated a variety of Lebanese Shia groups into a unified organization to resist the Israeli occupation of Southern Lebanon. (wikipedia.org)
Fighter jets recently attacked a number of terrorist infrastructures of the Hezbollah organization in Lebanon. (timesofisrael.com)
In a statement on Telegram, the IDF stated: "The IDF holds the Hezbollah terrorist organization responsible for the current situation in Lebanon. (theunitedwest.org)
The posts were built under the guise of Green Without Borders, a Hezbollah -affiliated organization that poses as an environmental NGO. (israeltoday.co.il)

In mid-November 2011, Israel's Chief of General Staff, Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz briefed the Israeli Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee about the terrorist build-up in the south. (sidroth.org)

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) rejected assertions that troops were unprepared for the ground offensive and warned that Hamas is stalling the negotiations to fortify positions to counter an Israeli offensive. (legalinsurrection.com)

Various sources list the official formation of the group as early as 1982 whereas Diaz and Newman maintain that Hezbollah remained an amalgamation of various violent Shi'a extremists until as late as 1985. (wikipedia.org)
Qatar has emerged as a key intermediary with Hamas in efforts to negotiate the release of the more than 200 hostages the group took during its Oct. 7 raid on Israel. (yahoo.com)
Lebanese sources suggest that the group is readying itself for a prolonged conflict with Israel, which it believes is gradually accepting new rules of engagement set by Nasrallah. (israeltoday.co.il)
Small commercially made craft apparently sent by Hezbollah terror group, likely brought down using electronic warfare means. (foreigndesknews.com)
The drone likely belongs to the Hezbollah terror group," the IDF said. (foreigndesknews.com)
But the Islamist terrorist group rejected donor nations' conditions that it recognize Israel and renounce terrorism. (jta.org)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was not lying and or exaggerating when he told the nation on Nov. 18 that Israel was facing one of its most complex defense challenges . (al-monitor.com)

In retaliation, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) targeted Hezbollah sites in southern Lebanon. (the961.com)

Prominent among those players was the Lebanese Shi'a movement, Hezbollah. (lu.se)

According to Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, the S-400 system purchased from Russia is vastly superior to the Patriot air defense system built by the US and this is why Turkey has chosen the former. (muraselon.com)

Major General Yoel Strick of Israeli Army demanded from the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) to ensure the neutralization of the Hezbollah tunnel in Lebanese territory, which had been dug down in Israel. (eurasiantimes.com)

In 1982, Israel designated the village a local council after annexing it under the Golan Heights Law . (al-monitor.com)

Ministers in the coronavirus cabinet reportedly discussed and dismissed a proposal to institute a lockdown only on the over 60 population in Israel. (timesofisrael.com)

Israel on 'very high alert' as fears mount Hezbollah 'will. (londonlovesbusiness.com)

Along the way, he managed to find time to write many hundreds of articles and 62 books published in 29 languages including his latest one in which he discusses another vital world region he has extensive knowledge of and has written frequently about - the Middle East and specifically the state of Israel and its relations with its neighbors, the Palestinians and, most importantly and the subject of this book, the US. (opednews.com)
She said, "aim and focus" must be on the rights of Palestinians to live in peace, but with Hezbollah escalating the situation with Israel is seriously risking another war. (londonlovesbusiness.com)

From July 26: "Another UN position of the Ghanaian battalion in the area of Marwahin in the western sector was also directly hit by one mortar round from the Hezbollah side last night. (camera.org)

But having investigated the Islamic Center of South Jersey one year ago, Middle East expert and former Air Force special agent Dave Gaubatz insists not only is the mosque a threat to national security, it represents a pattern that has prompted him to launch a massive project to systematically classify every known mosque in the U.S. (blogspot.com)
These two Sunni-dominated Islamic groups do not want to see the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt continue, and they would consider a war with Israel in the future. (sidroth.org)
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