The IDF released detailed data of Operation Northern Arrows against Hezbollah on Friday, following the ceasefire agreement with Lebanon, which took effect early Wednesday morning. According to the data, at least 2,500 terrorists were killed. This number includes Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah and 14 senior members of the group’s leadership, including Fuad Shukr, the … Read more
The Christian-Druze southern Lebanese town of Hasbayya has consolidated efforts to ensure it does not join the list of Hezbollah strongholds, the New York Times reported on Sunday. Volunteers from some of the 30,000 residents of the town monitor the local border day and night. The active residents are quick to report suspicious vehicles … Read more
A ceasefire must be implemented before Hezbollah would be willing to negotiate, Hezbollah MP Hassan Ezzedine told Al-Mayadeen on Sunday. Ezzedine also claimed to have recently met with displaced people in shelters to check on their conditions, saying that they were supportive of Hezbollah’s actions. The same Hezbollah official told The Times in October that … Read more
Without tremendous guts, the IDF would not have succeeded in operation after operation since August to bring Hezbollah to its knees, IDF Col. (res.) and Northern Command Situation Room chief Anan Abbas has told The Jerusalem Post in one in-person interview and one very recent follow-up. One of the two interactions was focused on … Read more
A former UNTSO soldier, under the alias Michael, testified that UNIFIL was “totally subject to Hezbollah” when he worked in Lebanon 10 years ago in an interview with Dutch news site B.T. on Sunday. The soldier had been tasked with observing and reporting violations of UN Security Council Resolution 1701 of 2006, which called for southern Lebanon … Read more
Israeli forces reportedly fired a tank shell at a watchtower used by UN peacekeepers in south Lebanon on Wednesday, one of three cases in the last 24 hours of the peacekeeping force’s positions coming under Israeli fire, a UN source told Reuters. Two Indonesian peacekeepers with the UNIFIL peacekeeping force were injured, but not … Read more
Saad Hariri, Former Prime Minister of Lebanon, stirred up a virtual storm after he tweeted a post which many understood to imply calling for solidarity with Hezbollah. Hariri, a Sunni Muslim, is the son of former Prime Minister Rafic Hariri, who was assassinated in Beirut in 2005, with the perpetrator found by a tribunal … Read more
Hezbollah’s decision to begin attacking Israel the day after the October 7 massacre has now led Lebanon into yet another major crisis. Lebanon was already lurching from crisis to crisis before Hezbollah’s latest move provoked Israel into a larger war. The country was in financial distress in 2022, and it suffered the Beirut Port … Read more
The device explosions in Lebanon last week were part of Israel’s “red button” plan, designed to be activated at a critical moment for maximum impact against an adversary, current and former Israeli officials with knowledge of the pager operation told the Washington Post. The double round of device explosions that took place last week … Read more
Had I known that there was a one in a hundred chance that abducting soldiers would lead to war, I wouldn’t have done it,” Hezbollah secretary general Hassan Nasrallah said on August 27, 2006, after he realized how much damage he had caused to Lebanon in the Second Lebanon War. Eighteen years have gone … Read more
