• The IDF added that in response to the attacks, Israeli forces targeted the site in Lebanon from where rockets were fired into Israel and also struck at Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure using tank fire. (deccanchronicle.com)
  • According to the NYT report, quoting American officials, the US and Israeli Intelligence agencies are working to determine whether Israel's expected ground offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip could prompt Hezbollah to launch a large-scale military campaign against Israel from Lebanon. (deccanchronicle.com)
  • The US-based daily reported that the officials have assessed that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah does not want an all-out war with Israel, for fear of the damage it would do to his group and Lebanon. (deccanchronicle.com)
  • A total of 38 Israeli civilians had lost their lives from Hezbollah rocket fire, while 82 Israeli soldiers were lost in combat since the start of retaliatory operations. (americafirstparty.org)
  • It's 11 p.m. south of Beirut, where Israeli war planes have struck at the heart of Hezbollah. (cnn.com)
  • Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, is declaring open war with Israel after Israeli war planes attack the militant group's stronghold south of Beirut and hit the building where Nasrallah lives. (cnn.com)
  • Hezbollah fighters are on the offensive, as well, stepping up rocket attacks on Northern Israel. (cnn.com)
  • First of all, an Israeli gunship firing the rockets at the headquarters of Hezbollah in the southern part of Beirut, destroying the home and offices of the Hezbollah leader, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah. (cnn.com)
  • They are also wary of giving Hezbollah the excuse they require to widen the conflict, opening a second front on the northern border with Lebanon. (socialist.net)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The Israeli military said in response it targeted the group with a 'broad assault', in which 'warplanes and helicopters' attacked Hezbollah targets. (yahoo.com)
  • Earlier Thursday, Hezbollah said it had downed an Israeli drone with a surface-to-air missile, the second such claim in days. (yahoo.com)
  • Israel has reportedly carried out several air strikes in neighboring Syria since the start of the four-year civil war there, mostly destroying weaponry that were destined for Lebanon's Shi'ite militia Hezbollah, Israel's long-time foe. (ynetnews.com)
  • Earlier this year, an alleged Israeli helicopter strike in Syria killed several Hezbollah members and an Iranian general. (ynetnews.com)
  • Even now, as Katyusha rockets rain down on northern Israel and Israeli fighter jets blast Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon, we simultaneously decry radical Islamist terrorism and Israel's lack of restraint in defending itself. (irfi.org)
  • And the U.S. government, which wants no part of a cease-fire until Israel is given every opportunity to rescue its kidnapped soldiers and destroy as many Hezbollah and Hezbollah armaments as possible, urges caution in the interest of preserving a nascent and fragile democratic government in Lebanon. (irfi.org)
  • As our airwaves fill with images and sounds of exploding Hezbollah rockets and Israeli bombs, this seven-day conflict has completely displaced from our view another war in which 10 Americans and more than 300 Iraqis have died during the same week. (irfi.org)
  • It means that Hezbollah not only returns the soldiers, not only returns the rockets, but either decides or lacks the capability to weaken the government of Lebanon by operating independently of that government and serving as a rogue force that is capable of not only seizing territory, destabilizing within Lebanon, threatening the Lebanese government, threatening the Lebanese people, but also threatening the peace of the region. (archives.gov)
  • So the sustainable cease-fire is one that is not going to enable Hezbollah to declare victory, but instead will allow the people of Lebanon to look forward to peace and prosperity. (archives.gov)
  • Israeli military chief of staff, Lt Gen Dan Halutz, has publicly admitted to failings in the conflict with Hezbollah militants in Lebanon. (bbc.co.uk)
  • Forty-three civilians were also killed by more than 4,000 Hezbollah rocket attacks. (bbc.co.uk)
  • The conflict was sparked by a cross-border raid by Hezbollah fighters in which they captured two Israeli soldiers and killed eight others. (bbc.co.uk)
  • In a separate development, Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin told a closed security forum that government systems in northern Israel had "completely collapsed" during the Hezbollah rocket attacks. (bbc.co.uk)
  • As Raanan Gissin of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs wrote recently: "The conflict with Hezbollah in Lebanon is a testing ground - like Spain in 1936 - for weapons, tactics, and doctrine of how Iran is going to fight the war against the West" in future. (marksilverberg.com)
  • For reasons discussed below, Israel sought to fight a short, virtually casualty-free war on the cheap resulting in a clear failure to achieve its strategic objectives - freeing its kidnapped soldiers, forcing the Lebanese army to take control of southern Lebanon, disarming Hezbollah and restoring the credibility of Israeli deterrence after the Lebanese withdrawal in 2000 and the Gaza withdrawal in 2005. (marksilverberg.com)
  • Also neglected was the calculation that continual massive aerial bombardments might allow Hezbollah and the Lebanese government to score major propaganda victories. (marksilverberg.com)
  • In Lebanon, Israel wasted its initial ability to get moderate Arab government support against Hezbollah by over-escalating its air assault and, in the end, it was unable to convince the world it was controlling collateral damage and civilian suffering. (marksilverberg.com)
  • Israeli warplanes are back in action over Lebanon for the sixth consecutive day, hitting a Hezbollah stronghold and bombing Beirut's airport yet again. (ketr.org)
  • Hezbollah responded by sending rockets deep into Israel. (ketr.org)
  • Ground clashes, Israeli air strikes and Hezbollah rocket fire ceased on Monday as a cessation of hostilities demanded by UN resolution 1701 came into effect. (dailynewsegypt.com)
  • Yet Hezbollah declared victory after continuing to fire rockets at Israel and killing more than 150 Israeli soldiers and civilians. (dailynewsegypt.com)
  • But Hezbollah … will continue to be a part of the Lebanese government and are now heroes in the Arab world. (dailynewsegypt.com)
  • Hezbollah attacks were instrumental in ending Israel s 22-year occupation of southern Lebanon in 2000, and many Arabs say that helped inspire the Palestinian uprising the same year. (dailynewsegypt.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)
  • At the start of July, Hezbollah evacuated one of the two tents it had set up. (israelnationalnews.com)
  • Iran-backed Hezbollah , along with a number of other militant groups, use the olive groves and fruit trees for cover as they launch weapons over Lebanon 's southern frontier. (yahoo.com)
  • United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan is calling for an immediate halt in the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon. (wpsu.org)
  • Small groups of Israeli soldiers have already met fierce resistance in southern Lebanon in a bid to destroy Hezbollah tunnels and outposts. (wpsu.org)
  • At least three Israeli soldiers were wounded in clashes with Hezbollah guerrillas. (wpsu.org)
  • Overnight, Israeli warplanes dropped 23 tons of bombs on a suspected underground bunker used by Hezbollah leaders. (wpsu.org)
  • Since fighting began on July 12, after Hezbollah guerrillas carried out a cross-border attack that left eight Israeli soldiers dead and two abducted, Israeli warplanes have launched nearly 1,000 missile strikes against suspected Hezbollah targets. (wpsu.org)
  • Hezbollah has launched about 1,100 rockets into Israel during the same period. (wpsu.org)
  • Israel says its campaign will continue until it retrieves its two abducted soldiers from Hezbollah custody and disables the group's ability to strike Israel in the future. (wpsu.org)
  • The Israeli attacks on southern Lebanon - what analysts described as the most serious border violence since Israel's 2006 war with the Hezbollah group - threatened to push the confrontation into a dangerous new phase. (aljazeera.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)
  • That destiny has already been sealed with the two new constitutions in Iraq and Afghanistan that America and its allies agreed to (snatching defeat from the jaws of victory) and the next election in Lebanon that will usher Hezbollah into power. (blogspot.com)
  • As for Lebanon, the end result of the current conflict between Israel and Hezbollah has made Hezbollah stronger and more popular that ever which will end with Hezbollah gaining majority power when next year's elections are held in Lebanon. (blogspot.com)
  • Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah committed war crimes in its conflict with Israel by targeting civilians with rockets packed with metal ball bearings, rights group Amnesty International said on Thursday. (peoplesgeography.com)
  • It said around a quarter of the nearly 4,000 rockets that Hezbollah launched into Israel during the 34-day war were fired directly into urban areas. (peoplesgeography.com)
  • The scale of Hezbollah's attacks on Israeli cities, towns and villages, the indiscriminate nature of the weapons used and statements from the leadership confirming their intent to target civilians make it all too clear that Hezbollah violated the laws of war," Amnesty's secretary-general Irene Khan said. (peoplesgeography.com)
  • In its report, Amnesty dismissed Hezbollah statements that their rocket attacks on northern Israel were a reprisal for Israeli attacks on civilians in Lebanon. (peoplesgeography.com)
  • The Hezbollah rocket salvoes forced between 350,000 and a million northern Israelis to flee their homes, Amnesty said. (peoplesgeography.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)
  • Hezbollah supporters approached the Lebanese/Israeli border fence on Monday, near the spot where three soldiers were killed and kidnapped in October 2000. (israelbehindthenews.com)
  • Hezbollah gunmen exult after Israel's hasty flight from southern Lebanon. (jeffjacoby.com)
  • Pursued by a few hundred Hezbollah guerrillas, Israeli soldiers flee Lebanon in a panic. (jeffjacoby.com)
  • Vowing to "continue fighting as if there had been no withdrawal at all," Hezbollah sweeps down to the Israeli border. (jeffjacoby.com)
  • This," gloats Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, the Hezbollah leader, "is the first victory in 50 years of Arab-Israeli conflict! (jeffjacoby.com)
  • The worst -- the very worst -- is that in its rush to leave Lebanon, Israel left its Christian and moderate Muslim allies in the South Lebanon Army to the tender mercies of Hezbollah and Damascus. (jeffjacoby.com)
  • If I stay in the village, the Hezbollah will slaughter me," an SLA veteran-turned-refugee, one of 6,000 southern Lebanese who sought safe haven in Israel, told a reporter. (jeffjacoby.com)
  • After all, the Israelis had allowed Hezbollah to accumulate 140,000 rockets in their Lebanese armories, without destroying them - why would Israel behave any differently now? (newenglishreview.org)
  • But Israeli strategists bitterly regretted having allowed that huge accumulation of rockets by Hezbollah, which has hidden them in urban areas in southern Lebanon, where any attack by Israel now would cause major collateral damage. (newenglishreview.org)
  • Another Israeli target inside Syria has been the advanced weapons - precision-guided missiles - that Iran, with Syrian help, tries to deliver to Hezbollah. (newenglishreview.org)
  • Hezbollah, or the Party of God, probes going a view William Trevor: The Collected Stories midst to start some key Legal words and the 15-hundred warplanes from the Israeli-allied South Lebanon Army. (cydonix.com)
  • At this point Hezbollah has accumulated an absolutely massive rocket arsenal in southern Lebanon. (endoftheamericandream.com)
  • In order to stop the rocket fire completely, Israel would have to invade southern Lebanon on very short notice, and it is quite interesting that the IDF actually just wrapped up a major exercise which simulated a future war with Hezbollah. (endoftheamericandream.com)
  • Israel wrapped up its largest military drill in years on Wednesday, with thousands of troops from the army, navy and air force simulating a future war with the militant Lebanese Hezbollah group amid fears that Iran would draw its Shiite proxy into the recent growing tensions in the Persian Gulf. (endoftheamericandream.com)
  • And he tells CNN Hezbollah's abduction of those two Israeli soldiers was a, quote, "tactical mistake," but he says Israel is overreacting right now. (cnn.com)
  • A security source in Lebanon told Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV channel that the drone crashed overnight and that an Israeli airstrike on Sunday morning blew up the drone to ensure it is destroyed. (ynetnews.com)
  • That has been sufficient bloodshed for United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan and British Prime Minister Tony Blair to join in the call for an international security force, ignoring the fact that a U.N. force is already in Southern Lebanon, having failed to secure the border against Hezbollah's incursions and attacks and the murder and kidnapping of Israeli soldiers. (irfi.org)
  • Throughout the military campaign against Lebanon, Israel's twin aims were the return of the captured Israeli soldiers and the removal of Hezbollah's influence from southern Lebanon. (bbc.co.uk)
  • On July 12th, Hezbollah's cross-border raid and kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers were broadly condemned across much of the Sunni Arab and Western worlds as being both reckless and irresponsible. (marksilverberg.com)
  • While it is true that superb intelligence allowed the Israeli Air Force to destroy an estimated 80% of Hezbollah's medium and long-range missile launchers in the first two days of the conflict, Hezbollah's use of the Lebanese civilian population as human shields provided a boon for the media - Geneva Accords be damned. (marksilverberg.com)
  • Chehaitli added that the Lebanese military has Hezbollah's 100,000 fighters and arsenal of 150,000 rockets to back it up. (israelnationalnews.com)
  • And then, there are [Hezbollah's] 150,000 rockets. (israelnationalnews.com)
  • Hezbollah's rockets follow Israeli artillery fire. (yahoo.com)
  • In Israel, military officials are hinting that a limited ground invasion of southern Lebanon may be necessary to destroy Hezbollah's future capability to carry out attacks against the Jewish state. (wpsu.org)
  • The conflict was sparked by Hezbollah's seizure of two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid on July 12. (peoplesgeography.com)
  • Hezbollah's massive rocket arsenal of more than 150,000 rockets pose a major threat. (endoftheamericandream.com)
  • The DMMP was bound for The Israeli Institute of Biological Research at Nes Ziona, one of Israel's most secret defence sites. (topdocumentaryfilms.com)
  • A barrage of rockets wounded two people in the Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona near the border, Israel's Magen David Adom emergency medical service said. (yahoo.com)
  • About 1,000 Lebanese were killed in the conflict, mostly civilians in Israel's vast bombardment of the county and land invasion in the south. (bbc.co.uk)
  • At the beginning of the conflict, it appeared that all the cards were in Israel's corner. (marksilverberg.com)
  • Israel's reliance on overwhelming air power should not have come as a surprise given that the Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), Lt.-Gen Dan Halutz was the first air force general ever to command the Israeli Defense Forces. (marksilverberg.com)
  • Israel's Maccabi Tel Aviv has fired head coach Erez Edelstein after the team began its Euroleague basketball season with two straight losses, the team announced. (timesofisrael.com)
  • Maccabi has traditionally been Israel's powerhouse basketball team, but struggled last season and stumbled to an 0-2 start in Euroleague play this year. (timesofisrael.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)
  • First, the Palestinian leadership's lies and Arafat's Fatah suicide attacks were the order of the day, and now the rockets from Gaza upon Israel's Southern cities and the even more deadly Hizballah terror and bloodshed. (ortzion.org)
  • Now Israel's hope for peace is foiled again, and as the proverb says, "Hope deferred makes the heart sick…" 1 Not enough with this, almost one million people (the entire north) are forced underground while rockets rain upon their cities (by now more than 1,500 since July 24th). (ortzion.org)
  • Israeli army] soldiers are searching the area," Israel's military said. (aljazeera.com)
  • THERE IS NO PUTTING A PRETTY FACE on Israel's humiliating rout in southern Lebanon last week, but that didn't stop Prime Minister Ehud Barak from trying. (jeffjacoby.com)
  • Israel's presence in Lebanon tied its hands to some extent," he declared on Thursday. (jeffjacoby.com)
  • As they giddily rode abandoned Israeli tanks through village after village," The New York Times reports on Page 1 the next morning alongside a photo of triumphant Islamist fighters, "they laid waste to Israel's plan for an orderly, scheduled withdrawal. (jeffjacoby.com)
  • The Syrian deployment of surface-to-air missile batteries in Lebanon was one of the events that triggered Israel's invasion in 1982. (jeffjacoby.com)
  • The news agency also reported that the Lebanese military was at the site of the crash examining in the remains of the aircraft in an attempt to identify its origins. (ynetnews.com)
  • The US Department of Defence (DOD) said in a statement, 'Since meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and members of the Israeli War Cabinet in Tel Aviv on Friday, Austin has remained fully engaged with the country's leaders as the US works ensure Israel has what it needs to defend itself from further attacks. (deccanchronicle.com)
  • Lebanon - According to the AFP news service, as of August 11, more than 1000 Lebanese civilians had died in Israeli attacks on Lebanon since the start of the offensive on July 12, 2006, while nearly a million had fled their homes. (americafirstparty.org)
  • Thousands of Lebanese are pouring across the border to Syria to try to escape the attacks by Israel. (cnn.com)
  • Hidden beneath orange groves, olive trees, and the homes of supporters, Hizbullah rocket teams unleashed a relentless wave of attacks onto northern Israel. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • Unfortunately, we are forced to announce that Neil Young and Crazy Horse's concert scheduled for this Thursday in Park Hayarkon has been canceled, in light of the rocket attacks of the recent days and concern for the security of the audience at an event with so many people," promoter Shuki Weiss said in a statement. (normanfinkelstein.com)
  • While initially in the first few weeks (after 8 October) it was very localised to the Blue Line, more lately, it has escalated, (the attacks are) moving deeper into Lebanon. (yahoo.com)
  • Attacks have surged to record heights there in recent months, with Palestinian health officials reporting the start of 2023 to be the most deadly for Palestinians in at least 20 years. (aljazeera.com)
  • During that time, 16 people have been killed in Palestinian attacks on Israelis. (aljazeera.com)
  • You would think that the world would be behind Israel as they fight to put an end to the insanity, the constant rocket attacks and suicide bombers. (floppingaces.net)
  • Civilians fleeing the furious Israeli bombardment became trapped in massive traffic jams that choked the southern roadways. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • We have no choice but to support Israel, even though the Israeli Defense Forces are killing civilians, dozens a day, in Lebanon. (nymag.com)
  • According to Lebanese officials, the majority are civilians. (wpsu.org)
  • We (and this also includes Israelis, Brits, and a few others) would never dream of targeting civilians for any reason - not even in self-defense. (blogspot.com)
  • In 2002, the Israelis used ground troops going house to house in Jenin rather than attack from the air - though it cost the lives of 23 of their men - in order to spare civilians. (blogspot.com)
  • Nearly 1,200 people were killed in Lebanon during the war, the great majority of them civilians. (peoplesgeography.com)
  • Israel says it did not target civilians and had warned non-combatants to leave south Lebanon. (peoplesgeography.com)
  • If Israel wanted to widen its war, it could not have chosen a better way to achieve it than by sending its war planes back to the mixed Muslim and Christian village of Qana in south Lebanon to massacre civilians there, as if marking a morbid anniversary. (normanfinkelstein.com)
  • A decade ago, Israeli shelling on the village killed more than 100 Lebanese civilians sheltering in a local UN post. (normanfinkelstein.com)
  • How can Lebanon expect protection for its civilians from an international body as emasculated as this? (normanfinkelstein.com)
  • Israeli tanks and troops mounted on armoured vehicles were deployed in the region, seeming to suggest that a ground assault on Hamas in their backyard, Gaza, could begin any time soon. (deccanchronicle.com)
  • He added, 'On Oct 7 Hamas murdered 1400 Israelis in a single day. (deccanchronicle.com)
  • Earlier, the US Defence Department reiterated its full support to Israel in the ongoing war on Hamas, saying that the US Secretary of Defence was in continuous touch with the Israeli authorities and leaders. (deccanchronicle.com)
  • Even after the attack, the polls reveal that Netanyahu is profoundly unpopular and deemed responsible for the massive intelligence failure that allowed Hamas to take the Israeli security forces by surprise. (socialist.net)
  • DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - Israeli troops battling Hamas militants encircled Gaza City on Thursday, the military said, as the Palestinian death toll rose above 9,000. (khon2.com)
  • Israeli authorities have refused to allow fuel in, saying Hamas is hoarding fuel for military use and would steal new supplies. (klfy.com)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • On Sunday, July 16th - again at breakfast - the news reported a barrage of rockets hitting Kiryat Shmonah, Nahariya, Acco, Tiberias and Haifa, even Safed, Afula and the Galilee and several Kibbutzim. (ortzion.org)
  • We are all seeing the situation develop in the Middle East, and most recently, the worsening of the Arab-Israeli conflict. (americafirstparty.org)
  • The House and Senate resolutions supporting Israel in the Lebanon conflict, which overwhelmingly passed both chambers in July, demonstrate this, as do other policies which favor Israel in the overall Arab-Israeli conflict. (americafirstparty.org)
  • Yet despite the wisdom our founders, which has its roots in the experience of history, the U.S. finds itself strongly favoring and protecting Israel by showing partiality in the Arab-Israeli conflict, with the predictable result that we are increasingly the object of hatred for many in the Middle East. (americafirstparty.org)
  • As Israeli troops and tanks skirmish on the streets of Gaza, it is clear that Netanyahu and his imperialist allies have no end game, other than to prepare the conditions for further conflict. (socialist.net)
  • This kind of geopolitical inconsistency and shortsightedness has contributed to the Arab-Israeli conflict that the Western world seems content to allow to perpetuate endlessly. (irfi.org)
  • An estimated 50,000 Iraqis and more than 2,500 American troops have been killed since the insurgency began in March of 2003, which by some estimates is more than the number of dead on both sides of the Arab-Israeli conflict over the past 58 years of wars and intifadas. (irfi.org)
  • And Israeli citizens have been protesting outside Jerusalem's parliament building over the handling of the conflict, some calling for senior officials to resign. (bbc.co.uk)
  • A state commissions were ordered after the 1973 Yom Kippur War, a conflict in which the Israeli military was widely perceived to have underperformed. (bbc.co.uk)
  • The conflict has only reinforced the position of the militia and weakened that of the Lebanese government, wrote independent Moroccan newspaper Aujourd hui Le Maroc. (dailynewsegypt.com)
  • After resolution 1701 … a new stage in the conflict, a more ferocious and severe one, has just started, wrote Mohammad Al-Saeed Idrees in the UAE s Al-Khaleej newspaper. (dailynewsegypt.com)
  • The war in Lebanon, which began one day after the conflict in Gaza, looks and sounds like a militarised version of hide and seek. (yahoo.com)
  • The Irish operate two isolated outposts on the line separating Lebanon and Israel , and Sky News was taken to visit one of these posts in the back of an armoured personnel carrier - the first journalists to travel to the border with UNIFIL since the conflict began. (yahoo.com)
  • The battalion commander did not want to comment on the use of white phosphorous in this conflict but local residents, as well as the Lebanese Minister of Health, Firass Abiad, told Sky News that the Israelis have destroyed thousands of acres of olive trees - and injured dozens of people - with this incendiary weapon. (yahoo.com)
  • Two people were killed when gunmen opened fire on a vehicle in the occupied West Bank after Israel unleashed air raids on Lebanon and bombarded the Gaza Strip on Friday, an escalation that sparked fears of a broader conflict after days of violence over Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site. (aljazeera.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)
  • Let's go to Beirut first, Alessio Vinci, our man on the scene with the latest from the Lebanese capital -- Alessio. (cnn.com)
  • Moments later the IDF confirmed that what appeared to be a rocket had actually slightly damaged one of the ships off the coast in Beirut. (cnn.com)
  • Israeli fighters cratered the runways of Beirut International Airport and set its fuel depots ablaze. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • South of Beirut, across the sandy banks of the Litani River, the IAF hammered Hizbullah positions and dual-use infrastructure, including the two main bridges that link south and north Lebanon. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • With bombs falling on Beirut and its citizens fleeing northwards, with Hizbullah fighters massing on the Israeli border, and with Israeli artillery shells pounding southern Lebanon, pressure began to mount on Hizbullah for provoking the aerial onslaught, just as Israel had hoped. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • Traveling just feet above the warm water, the missiles locked in on and struck the INS Spear-an Israeli destroyer-that was patrolling the coast of Beirut. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • WATSON: The gravity of the situation has sunk in in the Christian neighborhoods of north Beirut, which have so far not been bombed by Israeli warplanes. (ketr.org)
  • As fighting continues in Beirut and northern Israel, the U.S. and Europe scramble to evacuate their citizens from southern Lebanon. (wpsu.org)
  • 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)
  • Thousands of innocent Lebanese have been forced from their homes by the bombings, especially in the South, and have headed up to Beirut (which the Israelis are also indiscriminately bombing). (floppingaces.net)
  • The headlines at 11am GMT even began with her quoting an expression of regret she had extracted from a Hizbullah MP for the attack on the Beirut building, as though amid all that morning's carnage the destruction of UN property was the real issue. (normanfinkelstein.com)
  • The exercise, which was focused on the country's north-not far from contested borders with Lebanon and Syria, two countries which Israel has accused Iran's allies of firing rockets from-was attended by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (endoftheamericandream.com)
  • Off the coast, Israeli warships cutoff shipping routes into Lebanese harbors and lobbed shells at Hizbullah targets along the coastal highways. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • The initial air raids focused on Hizbullah command, control, and communication centers and Lebanese critical infrastructure. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • Along the border, Israeli shelling and helicopter gunships raked Hizbullah border posts, while IAF fighters and drones located and destroyed many of Hizbullah's medium and long-range missile launchers. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • While Nasrallah condemned Israel and sought to rally Lebanon behind Hizbullah, his fighters fulfilled his pledge to expand the war. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • For the first time, Hizbullah rockets penetrated deep within Israel. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • Despite the IAF's initial successes in destroying dozens of medium and long-range Hizbullah rocket launchers, it was incapable of fully halting the barrage. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • The first thing I heard was that 8 Israeli soldiers had been killed and 2 abducted by the Lebanese Shiite terror organization Hizbullah. (ortzion.org)
  • Hizbullah secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah said his Iranian-sponsored militia has deployed more than 20,000 rockets in southern Lebanon. (israelbehindthenews.com)
  • And he thinks that if Bashar al-Asad orders Hizbullah to stop firing its little katyushas and give back the two Israeli soldiers, everything will suddenly settle down. (floppingaces.net)
  • the Israelis are only sometimes striking known Hizbullah safe houses or facilities or missile emplacements. (floppingaces.net)
  • That word, intoned so solemnly when eight Israeli railway workers were killed by a Hizbullah rocket in Haifa a fortnight ago, was not uttered on this occasion. (normanfinkelstein.com)
  • Ten long-range rockets slammed into the vibrant city port city of Haifa, killing eight people and wounding 20 , including a group of rail maintenance workers who had just arrived for their morning shift. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • This follows yesterday's barrage on Haifa that left eight Israelis dead. (ketr.org)
  • In a call to Prime Minister Olmert, in the early hours of the campaign, General Halutz boasted , "all the long-range rockets have been destroyed. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • These include long-range rockets such as the Zelzal, Fateh 110 and the Fajr, as well as shorter range such as Katyushas. (endoftheamericandream.com)
  • Observers and Lebanese residents have sometimes seen surveillance planes over Lebanon before such strikes. (ynetnews.com)
  • There was no immediate comment by the Israeli military on the strikes. (khon2.com)
  • 8:28 A.M. The IDF strikes a rocket launcher in northern Gaza. (normanfinkelstein.com)
  • Israeli air strikes follow the militants' anti-tank missiles. (yahoo.com)
  • At the start of the war it had targeted only Israeli military sites, he said, but later fired at Israeli towns in response to Israeli strikes. (peoplesgeography.com)
  • Under the pressure of continuing IAF air strikes, Iran is beginning to draw down its military presence in Syria, unnamed Israeli security officials were quoted as saying on May 4. (newenglishreview.org)
  • Palestinians carry a wounded girl following an Israeli bombardment on Gaza City, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. (khon2.com)
  • Israeli soldiers lower the coffin of late Israeli Staff Sergeant Shay Arvas at the Holon military cemetery, outskirts of Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. (fox2now.com)
  • Endless denial of freedoms and rights for the Palestinians under occupation - living under the repressive Israeli regime - is inevitably going to lead to people taking up whatever forms of resistance - that's what happens across the board, globally, historically," said Levy. (aljazeera.com)
  • The escalation in tensions comes after Israeli forces stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem on successive days this week, firing stun grenades and attacking Palestinians as they gathered for Ramadan prayers. (aljazeera.com)
  • Nearly 90 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire in the occupied West Bank since the start of the year. (aljazeera.com)
  • 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)
  • Even knowing the record of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) toward Israel had not prepared me to think that it terrorized Palestinians, too - yet such, it turned out, had been the case in South Lebanon from 1975 to 1982. (danielpipes.org)
  • The Israeli military said its warplanes struck infrastructure belonging to Palestinian armed groups that it accused of firing the nearly three dozen rockets that slammed into open areas and northern Israeli towns on Thursday. (aljazeera.com)
  • Practices which came into being after independence betrayed this tendency: one-party elections in Syria, ballots for lesser officials but not for the head of government in Egypt, political parties representing religious groups in Lebanon, democracy alternating with military rule in Turkey, and manipulated elections in revolutionary Iran. (danielpipes.org)
  • For many years, Israeli military intelligence thought that Syria did not have a genuine military option against Israel. (israelbehindthenews.com)
  • Some 100,000 Lebanese have fled to Syria, though Israeli bombing of roads and bridges has not made it easy for them to get out. (floppingaces.net)
  • The enclave they patrolled was the closest thing Lebanon had to a free zone, a small swath of territory not dominated by Syria or Shi'ite extremists. (jeffjacoby.com)
  • The Israeli news site Walla has some unexpected good news about Syria. (newenglishreview.org)
  • It cannot spend nearly as much on its foreign adventures, helping proxies and allies in Yemen, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon, as it could just two years ago, before the re-imposition of American sanctions. (newenglishreview.org)
  • Walla cited Israeli officials saying, "For the first time since Iran entered Syria, it is reducing its forces there and evacuating bases. (newenglishreview.org)
  • No sooner do the Iranians reinforce an existing, or build a new, base in Syria, than the Israeli Air Force appears, ready to destroy whatever the Iranians have managed to create on the ground. (newenglishreview.org)
  • Both were done, but neither Syria nor Iran understood in time the efficacy and potency of the Israeli Air Force. (newenglishreview.org)
  • Iran, it turns out, takes a while to learn its lesson, but eventually it does so, and at the beginning of May the IDF noticed that not only are the Iranians no longer building new bases in Syria, but are also pulling out of those places where they had still managed to maintain a presence. (newenglishreview.org)
  • Syria is paying an increasing price due to the Iranian presence on its territory for a war that is not [Syria's]," they [Israeli officials] added. (newenglishreview.org)
  • Iran has turned from an asset for Syria into a burden," the [Israeli] officials asserted. (newenglishreview.org)
  • The government lost control of Idlib province in north-central Syria this year and many smaller bits in the north (especially around Aleppo) and south (around Deraa and the Israeli border). (strategypage.com)
  • A freelance security analyst for Janes Information Group and a columnist at The Jerusalem Post, Spyer is also an on-the-ground journalist who has entered Syria, Lebanon and Iraq numerous times and is the author of the 2018 book "Days of the Fall: A Reporter's Journey in the Syria and Iraq Wars. (timesofisrael.com)
  • The leader, who also serves as defense minister, spoke with participating troops of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and issued a warning to those threatening his country. (endoftheamericandream.com)
  • Cities across Lebanon shook and rattled while bombs and rockets slammed into their targets, lighting the night sky with explosions, tracer fire, and the deep fluorescent glow of flares. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • One soldier showed us pictures of a position enveloped by smoke generated by white phosphorous bombs that had been dropped nearby. (yahoo.com)
  • The IAF bombs destroy both Iranian and Syrian structures, blow up Iranian and Syrian weapons depots, and kill Syrian as well as Iranian soldiers. (newenglishreview.org)
  • The guerrilla group keeps firing back with a rocket barrage in Northern Israel. (cnn.com)
  • provide previously for an general view William Trevor: The Collected Stories at modern adults, US superiority, Privacy guerrilla, other titles, significant soldiers and still more! (cydonix.com)
  • A Lebanese security source told Reuters that the cause of the blast, which occurred in a mountainous area near the town of Saghbein, "is still not 100 percent clear but most probably it was an Israeli air strike to destroy their drone. (ynetnews.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)
  • The Israeli army, after much prevarication, finally started ground operations in Gaza over the weekend. (socialist.net)
  • On the Israeli side, nine people have died -- eight soldiers and one civilian, the army says. (yahoo.com)
  • Lebanon's army meanwhile retrieved the bodies of two shepherds killed by Israeli fire, the NNA said. (yahoo.com)
  • The Israeli army lost 116 soldiers. (bbc.co.uk)
  • The inquiry, headed by retired Israeli army chief Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, has already started work and is expected to produce an interim report within weeks. (bbc.co.uk)
  • For the first time since the birth of the State of Israel, the Israeli war machine had been challenged by a small, fanatic, well-funded, well-prepared and well-trained radical Islamic army that lived to tell the story when the final bell tolled. (marksilverberg.com)
  • 8:45 A.M. The Lebanese army is searching for sites from which rockets were fired toward the Western Galilee. (normanfinkelstein.com)
  • In the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanese television showed rescue workers and soldiers struggling to pull an injured man from the rubble of a Lebanese Army base, which was bombed over night. (ketr.org)
  • Lebanese military analyst Abdul Rahman Chehaitli: Israel should not underestimate the Lebanese army. (israelnationalnews.com)
  • The analyst, Abdul Rahman Chehaitli, said that Israel should not underestimate the Lebanese army, because even though it has inadequate weapons, it has some of the most qualified servicemen, who are willing to sacrifice their lives for the country even if they have low salaries. (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)
  • The Lebanese army is capable of fighting the Israel army. (israelnationalnews.com)
  • They tell the Lebanese army that they have its back. (israelnationalnews.com)
  • If Israel could not take anything when there was no army and no resistance in Lebanon, it will not be able to take anything now,' he warned. (israelnationalnews.com)
  • 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)
  • However, the IDF should assign Israeli reporters to all army units so they can dispatch whatever happens first to the world. (blogspot.com)
  • It is nothing more than a talking shop, one so enfeebled that it lacks the moral backbone even to denouce unequivocally the murder of four of its unarmed observers by the Israeli army last week. (normanfinkelstein.com)
  • The Israeli military leaders are fully aware of the great risk to their own soldiers if they commence street-by-street fighting with troops on the ground. (socialist.net)
  • 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)
  • Israeli military sources said Southern Command was banned from sending ground troops into the northern Gaza Strip to halt Palestinian gunners. (israelbehindthenews.com)
  • Earlier, he boasted that the troops had departed Lebanon "without a scratch. (jeffjacoby.com)
  • Earlier, Al Jazeera reported that Israeli attacked in the area. (ynetnews.com)
  • Al Jazeera television, which continues to broadcast from the city, said Israeli airstrikes were hitting an area of apartment towers in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood. (khon2.com)
  • After a week of escalating violence, around two dozen Israelis and roughly 200 Lebanese have died. (irfi.org)
  • Hassan Nasrallah, in an early morning televised speech before the Lebanese people, declared that his organization would retaliate with an open war against Israel. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • Hundreds of Israeli tanks were deployed near the border in south Israel on Thursday, waiting for the all-clear from the country's political establishment and the military top brass. (deccanchronicle.com)
  • On the evening of 12 July 2006, IAF fighters, in the largest military operation against Lebanon since 1982, delivered an Israeli version of "shock and awe" to Lebanon. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • Israeli military planners were, nevertheless, thrilled with the results of the bombing runs. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • While the United States provides about $2.5 billion in military and economic aid to Israel each year, U.S. aid to Lebanon amounts to no more than $40 million. (irfi.org)
  • Meanwhile, Defence Minister Amir Peretz has set up a ministerial inquiry to investigate how the military campaign in Lebanon was conducted. (bbc.co.uk)
  • In the end, the Commission noted that "the 2nd Lebanon war as a serious missed opportunity" and that "this outcome was primarily caused by the fact that, from the very beginning, the war had not been conducted on the basis of a deep understanding of the theatre of operations, of the IDF's readiness and preparedness, and of basic principles of using military power to achieve political and diplomatic goals. (marksilverberg.com)
  • The current war that the Anglo-Saxon/Israeli forces are waging against the Islamists who use the jihadists as their military arm is an asymmetric war - and they are winning. (blogspot.com)
  • The UN can't bring itself to define terrorism, China, Russia and France are making a profit selling weapons and military technology to the Islamic republics, the appeasers and apologists check the Anglo-Saxon/Israeli tactics at every turn, and the MSM keeps the people in the dark. (blogspot.com)
  • Two minimum wage rockets started soldiers at underground Cyclops near Louizeh, a blood crossing the Greek original civilian in sure Lebanon. (cydonix.com)
  • The group hit back days later with a rocket attack that killed two Israeli soldiers on the frontier with Lebanon. (ynetnews.com)
  • At the rim of this simmering volcano stands another party that has been attempting to keep the peace on the Lebanese frontier since 1978. (yahoo.com)
  • IAF fighters prowling the Lebanese skies simply could not locate all of the rocket teams, who could assemble, fire, and disperse too quickly for the Israelis to locate. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • but fighters kill us also as we are to make on through the Israeli mistake, associated exactly from the wind over the skilled fighter. (cydonix.com)
  • In 1992 an Israeli cargo plane crashed in Amsterdam killing forty-three people. (topdocumentaryfilms.com)
  • At least 63 people in Lebanon have been killed in the fighting and at least 10 Israelis have died and dozens have been injured in both countries. (cnn.com)
  • Just days before the attack, the people of Lebanon basked in the Mediterranean sun, watching World Cup Soccer and anticipating the height of tourist season. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • Q About your position, though, if they're not peaceful weeks, doesn't that, in some way, also insulate the administration, the Israelis from criticism from people saying that response is disproportionate. (archives.gov)
  • Six people are treated at a hospital in Nahariya for very light wounds and shock caused by the rocket fire from Lebanon. (normanfinkelstein.com)
  • At least 17 people were killed in Lebanon today. (ketr.org)
  • And all the people started freaking out. (ketr.org)
  • So two people are dead and two injured, one critically," Serdar quoted Israeli sources as saying. (aljazeera.com)
  • He suggests that those true enemies of the Jewish people who launch rockets to kill us -- they are the same as the Jewish Week . (blogspot.com)
  • Since Israel is just being provoked and has no ambitions of its own, in this reading, it is useless to begin with a ceasefire. (floppingaces.net)
  • when they suffer, maybe it is time to begin talks about talks about a ceasefire. (normanfinkelstein.com)
  • When I first came to Israel in 1983, most striking was that Israelis live life with a passion, celebrating it with such an intensity that even the air seems to have a heart beat, saying "life… life… life! (ortzion.org)
  • A small contingent of U.S. Marines arrived at Beirut's port Thursday, the first time Marines returned to the city since the bombing of the Marine Barracks in Lebanon in 1983. (wpsu.org)
  • It is true that members of our party may personally favor either the Arab or Israeli side, or neither side. (americafirstparty.org)
  • The world sees that Israel has not attained goals it set for itself … there will surely be humiliated Israeli commanders itching for a chance to resume the destruction, Saudi Arabia s Arab News said. (dailynewsegypt.com)
  • Whoever won the Lebanon battle, most Arab commentators predict the war is far from over. (dailynewsegypt.com)
  • To understand why the Arab rulers support the PLO, and what that support means, we must begin with pan-Arabism, the ideology that explains so much about political life in the Middle East. (danielpipes.org)
  • Meanwhile, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said four rockets of nine launched from Lebanese territory were intercepted, adding that several anti-tank missiles were fired from Lebanon towards Israeli forces. (deccanchronicle.com)
  • Later on Saturday , Israel struck the home of Gaza's police chief Tayseer Al-Batsh, an attack which proved to be the deadliest since the start of the operation. (normanfinkelstein.com)
  • An Israeli tank guards the entrance to the border village of Avivim, Israel. (wpsu.org)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The story never makes the rounds that is needs to that an IDF work crew was ambushed, beginning with the sniper assassination of the task commanding officer well back from the border inside Israel. (blogspot.com)
  • The war in Lebanon may stop, but I doubt it, for never in history has Israel respected a single resolution issued by the Security Council, wrote columnist Salah Montassir in the government daily Al-Ahram. (dailynewsegypt.com)
  • Or, had the UN and the Lebanese government taken control of the evacuated area then the Hizballah could not have moved in and our citizens would not have to spend their days in bomb shelters now, their houses being blown up by hundreds of rockets fired into Israel proper. (ortzion.org)
  • They were found dead after the (Israeli) occupation forces opened fire in their direction,' the NNA said. (yahoo.com)
  • A study of the Second Lebanon War reveals the limitations inherent in standoff fire capability which, by itself, is generally incapable of bringing the enemy to strategic collapse. (dailyalert.org)
  • Every single one of them got that fire in their eyes and started saying how this was a result of our foreign policy and putting bases in Saudi Arabia. (browardpalmbeach.com)
  • There were no reports of serious casualties, but several residents of the southern Lebanese town of Qalili, including Syrian refugees, said they were lightly wounded. (aljazeera.com)
  • According to the official Lebanese news agency, an explosion was heard in the area and it was accompanied by aerial raids. (ynetnews.com)
  • To highlight his organization's ability and willingness to counter the Israeli onslaught, he revealed shocking news. (smallwarsjournal.com)
  • I turned to our Israeli news channels to hear our local reports. (ortzion.org)
  • Later in the afternoon, Israeli news channels were still covering this event. (ortzion.org)
  • A detachment of 550 Irish soldiers play a key role in UNIFIL's mission and Sky News met their commander at 'Camp Shamrock', some 20 minutes or so from the Blue Line. (yahoo.com)
  • I doubt that I was alone in being perplexed by the news from Lebanon during the summer of 1982. (danielpipes.org)
  • Noticeably, our news anchors were careful to avoid refer ring to the massacre of Lebanese children at Qana as "an escalation" by Israel. (normanfinkelstein.com)
  • Apart from his conduct of the war, Gen Halutz has faced criticism for selling his entire stock market portfolio hours before the outbreak of fighting in Lebanon. (bbc.co.uk)
  • In their haste to get out, they leave behind armored vehicles, rocket launchers, and ammunition, which the Shi'ite militiamen chasing them promptly seize. (jeffjacoby.com)
  • I am very impressed by the improvement in readiness, by the fighting spirit of the soldiers and commanders, and mainly by the destructive power of the IDF," Netanyahu said. (endoftheamericandream.com)
  • I asked the soldier in charge of one of Ireland's Blue Line outposts, Lieutenant Dylan Cadogan, whether it was frustrating monitoring a war without having the authority to subdue it. (yahoo.com)
  • But from now on, there are no limits on a tough Israeli response to all aggression against it. (jeffjacoby.com)
  • Take a look at this video at Cal Poly Pomona where members of American Muslims for Palestine rudely shouted down two Israelis who had been invited to speak on campus. (blogspot.com)
  • Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, the Democratic power broker known as Kos, was quite open about his willful disengagement: In a post titled "Why I won't write about Israel/Lebanon/Palestine fighting," he said that he "sure as heck ha[s] no desire to get sucked into that no-win situation. (nymag.com)
  • One rocket fell upon the very base in Karmiel where our grand daughter Isabelle first trained in Helicopter maintenance and where some of her friends remain. (ortzion.org)