Hezbollah
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It’s Monday, so before we start another week of our coverage, here’s everything you need to know as tensions continue to rise in the Middle East… Week of escalation Fears of a wider regional conflict increased over the last week, as cross-border attacks between Israel and Lebanon-based Hezbollah reached new heights. On Tuesday and Wednesday,…
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Images are continuing to emerge of the funerals of Hezbollah senior leader Ibrahim Aqil and Hezbollah member Mahmoud Hamad in Beirut on Sunday. The funeral came as Hezbollah and Israel exchanged heavy fire today, as the Lebanese militant group sent rockets deep into northern Israeli territory after facing some of the most intense bombardment in…
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Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have said that 12 people have been arrested for being operatives collaborating with Israel and planning acts against Iran’s security. The Revolutionary Guards added that members of the network of 12 operatives were arrested in six different Iranian provinces, but did not say when. Tensions in the Middle East have shot up…
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Israel will keep up military action against the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, though the new phase of fighting does include significant risks, the country’s defence minister has said. “In the new phase of the war there are significant opportunities but also significant risks. Hezbollah feels that it is being persecuted and the sequence of military actions…
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The blowing up of Hezbollah pagers and walkie-talkies was a “very sophisticated, very accurate” attack, an Israeli intelligence expert says. Major Avraham Levine, from the Alma Center, tells Sky News the “blame was immediately put on Israel” and the “surgical” strike suggests “someone is deep into Hezbollah’s communications systems”. It was assumed the blasts were…
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Bulgaria’s state security agency has said it will investigate a company linked to the sale of pagers to Hezbollah. DANS is working with the interior ministry to investigate the role of a company registered in Bulgaria, the agency said, without naming the company. Bulgarian media reports allege a Sofia-based company facilitated the sale of the…
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Israel’s military actions had a “catastrophic” impact on children’s rights in Gaza, a UN committee has said. The committee condemned severe violations by Israel since the war began in October last year. “The committee condemns in the strongest terms the severe violations of rights under the convention in the OPT [Occupied Palestinian Territories], including the…
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Thousands of people have been left with “almost identical injuries” after pagers and walkie-talkies exploded across Lebanon on Tuesday and Wednesday, a doctor has said. “Almost exclusively the pager explodes in the hand while people are trying to read the message, so we’re getting mangled hands and penetrating injuries and blast injuries to the face…
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The attack on Hezbollah operatives using pagers “worked perfectly”, a former head of research and analysis at Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency has said. Sima Shine told news agencies that the detonation of pagers was “a combination of three elements that worked perfectly”. She said this included: “Intelligence on one hand, technology on the other, and…
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Just one day after pagers used by hundreds of members of the militant group Hezbollah exploded, more electronic devices detonated in Lebanon Wednesday in what appeared to be a second wave of sophisticated, deadly attacks that targeted an extraordinary number of people. Both attacks, which are widely believed to be carried out by Israel, have hiked fears that…
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Since a new war broke out between Israel and the militant Palestinian group Hamas on Oct 7, the Lebanese militia Hezbollah has expressed solidarity with Hamas through military action. It has fired missiles, mortars, rockets and explosive drones into northern Israel almost daily, prompting Israel to respond with its own fire. In late August, the fighting…
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More now from Hassan Nasrallah, who has been making a public address after Israeli’s military carried out what it called pre-emptive strikes in southern Lebanon. The Hezbollah leader said the attack went “as planned”, dismissing statements by the IDF that its preemptive strikes had stopped a larger attack. He said the group would assess the…
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Israel needs to act in self-defence against Hezbollah attacks which have caused areas of the north to become “ghost cities”, the Israeli ambassador to the UK has said. Speaking to Sky News, Tzipi Hotovely compared the scale of evacuations from large areas of northern Israel to major UK cities. “Can you imagine cities like Manchester…
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Iraq’s Kataib Hezbollah has said Iraqi armed groups have decided to resume attacks on US forces in the country. They blamed the lack of progress in talks aimed at arranging the exit of American troops. “What happened a short while ago is the beginning,” the group said. They were apparently referring to an earlier incident…
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A self-admitted member of the Hezbollah terrorist organization was reportedly caught by U.S. Border Patrol earlier this month, coming over from Lebanon during Ramadan and heading for New York to conduct a terrorist bombing. Basel Bassel Ebbadi, 22, was stopped crossing the border illegally March 9 near El Paso, Texas, and admitted to plotting a…
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The US does not want to see tensions rise further between Israel and Hezbollah, the US state department has said. Speaking at a daily news briefing, department spokesperson Matthew Miller said tens of thousands of Israelis in the north faced a real security threat which needed to be addressed and Washington was pursuing a diplomatic…
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