By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Multiple rockets were fired at Israel on Wednesday from Lebanon.
Arab sources report that the IDF subsequently launched artillery fire at the source of the enemy attack.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“As an Israeli, as a Jew and as a human being, my heart aches seeing the images of people going hungry on the streets of Lebanon,” says Benny Gantz.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
A special memorial prayer was recited in Arabic in honor of the fallen soldiers.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The legislation proposes that the United States withhold 20 percent of its security assistance until the Lebanese Armed Forces take “effective actions to limit or expel Hezbollah-influenced military personnel.”
A 'Rabat' stationed in southern Lebanese villages as Iranian-backed Hezbollah’s official administrator runs daily affairs [and] helps plant missiles in civilian homes.
The initial incident was feared to be a terror attack, and the IDF sent residents in the area into shelters and secure spaces.
Everyone wants to get into Israel these days.
From short-range Burkan rockets with massive warheads that can destroy buildings to medium-range Iranian Fateh 110 missiles that can reach greater Tel Aviv, the Alma Center sheds new light on how Lebanon is brimming with Hezbollah’s firepower.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Based on the findings collected by Alma, it appears that the Yamin brothers and the companies under their control act on behalf of Hezbollah’s interests in the Lebanese energy market.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Lebanese terror group readies its “economic battle plan” as the situation in the country continues to deteriorate.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“We will not give up any inch of our homeland or a drop of its waters or an inch of its dignity,” says Lebanese minister.
By Memri The Middle East Media Research Institute
Former Lebanese police chief Maj. Gen. (ret.) Ashraf Rifi compares Iran to Nazi Germany and says Hezbollah is leading Lebanon to suicide.
African work migrants are seeking new ways to illegally enter the country, even by crossing the dangerous border with Lebanon.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Soldiers are going hungry, like the people,” said General Aoun.
A speech by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and a video released a day later showing targets in Israel are designed to falsely legitimize the terror group’s use of human shields, states Maj. (res.) Tal Beeri of the Alma Center, which exposed four new missile sites in Beirut.
Hezbollah will bring the next war onto Lebanese civilians in Beirut.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Lokman Slim, 58, a publisher and filmmaker, was part of a small group of Shi’ite Muslim political activists who openly criticized the terror group.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Hezbollah regularly uses shepherds to gather intelligence and check the readiness of the forces stationed on the border.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The IDF stated that the drone crashed while on an operation on the Lebanese border, and that there is no fear of an intelligence leakage.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The IDF noted that throughout last year, the Hezbollah terror organization has “continually violated” UN Security Council Resolution 1701 and other international resolutions.
Israel is also working on an assistance package for some 400 former SLA fighters currently residing in Israel • Defense Ministry official hails “first step on the path to correct a 21-year historic injustice.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The man, a shepherd, intentionally crossed the Blue Line from Lebanon into Israeli territory in the Har Dov area.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
“We have struck over 500 targets this year, on all fronts, in addition to multiple clandestine missions.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Steinitz and Aoun have been exchanging messages via Twitter.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The focus of both sides is the oil and gas discoveries in the territorial waters which are under dispute.
It is unclear if this a negotiating tactic on Lebanon's part, or their puppet-master Iran and its proxy Hezbollah are attempting to derail the negotiations and ensure the destruction of Lebanon.
By Israel Hayom
During a visit to the north of the country to observe a large-scale IDF drill, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz also signaled optimism about eventual peace between Israel and Lebanon.
Michel Aoun is an ally of Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah and therefore this statement is receiving a lot of attention inside and outside of Lebanon.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
During the meeting, representatives held “productive talks and reaffirmed their commitment to continue negotiations later this month,” Washington and the U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon said in a joint statement.
The population of Bahrain is 60 percent Shiite while the royal house is Sunni.
Turns out you need more than one hour to evacuate a Precision Guided Missile (PGM) manufacturing site, so Hezbollah hoped the reporters just wouldn't notice. Well... we did.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced and praised the official decision of the Israeli and Lebanese governments to directly negotiate their shared maritime border.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
As fast as Hezbollah prepared, they couldn't hide all the evidence in time...
In what could be a major breakthrough, Lebanon has agreed to negotiate with Israel over their shared maritime border after the Sukkot holiday.
Images from Lebanese news media show clouds of dark smoke rising from the structure. The cause of the blast is not yet known.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“You can’t allow Iran to have more money, power and arms, and at the same time try to disconnect Hezbollah from the disasters it provoked in Lebanon,” says the U.S. secretary of state.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
With sanctions, America seeks to leverage reform in Lebanon, including ensuring that Hezbollah no longer has a grip on the government.
The heads of all the terror factions in the Palestinian Authority and Hamas will be meeting in person and virtually in Lebanon.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Hezbollah has tried at least twice to attack Israel but failed to inflict casualties.
An “unprecedented” media campaign is being waged against the “resistance,” says Hezbollah chief • U.N. Security Council reduces the size of its peacekeeping force in Lebanon, but expands its mandate.
Hezbollah is unconcerned if its actions cause an out-of-control spiral.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Cypriot owner of the vessel that brought the explosives to the Beirut port in 2013 is said to have taken a $4 million loan from a bank accused of laundering funds for the Lebanese terror group.
Israel says Hezbollah was involved in the assassination and tampered with the investigation.
By Memri The Middle East Media Research Institute
Hezbollah’s weapons have nothing to do with fighting Israel or protecting Lebanon, and everything to do with maintaining the group’s grip on power in Lebanon, according to Lebanese MP Wehbe Katicha.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The status quo in Lebanon is unacceptable,” says U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Kelly Craft. “Now is the time to ... enable the [peacekeeping] mission to fully achieve what it was set out to accomplish.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
In addition to Democrats, reportedly, the U.S. State and U.S. Defense Departments have been for continuing the aid, while many in the White House have advocated halting it.
The last time it was at this high level of preparedness was during the Second Lebanon War in the summer of 2006.
Lebanon has been looking for the “smoking gun” that will prove Hezbollah’s responsibility for the ammonia nitrate cargo that was stored in the port and which exploded and caused destruction and death throughout the Lebanese capital.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The American Jewish Committee called on former Prime Minister Carl Bildt to apologize.
The man who ran the Port of Beirut is...
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality lit up its building façade on Wednesday evening with the colors of the Lebanese flag in solidarity with the Lebanese people following the disaster in Beirut on Tuesday, generating controversy as opponents said it was displaying the flag of an enemy country. “Humanity precedes any conflict, and our hearts go out […]
Another video from the Beirut tragedy, this one with a particularly sad ending.
Lebanon is unlikely to accept the offer from the Jewish state.
While the people of Lebanon are suffering, look where there money has gone...
Residents were told to go indoors.
Gunfire was exchanged between a Hezbollah terror cell and the IDF, in the Har Dov region.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
IDF Chief of Staff, Major General Aviv Kochavi, toured the Northern Command on Saturday, received an intelligence update, and met with the top brass.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Within Hezbollah they are calling for revenge against Israel.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
From 2009 through 2011, Usama Hamade, 55, conspired with others to export U.S. origin goods to a terrorist-designated entity.
Every few months a drone is flown into Israel from Lebanon.
Almost all of the sites are in southern Beirut, an area controlled by Hezbollah, and are located in civilian neighborhoods, inside private houses, medical centers, churches, industrial sites, public offices, fast food chains, and in open spaces nearby.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Two Arab-Israeli women taken into custody on June 6 • Lebanese terror group uses ex-Israeli Lebanese journalist for recruitment.
The Lebanese Army is reportedly holding exercises with UNIFIL near Rosh Hanikra.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
In a televised address to the Lebanese people on Tuesday, Hassan Nasrallah threatens that those in Lebanon who try to use the economic unrest in Lebanon to weaken his organization will be killed.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
UNIFIL was “necessary and urgent” within the context of “violations by Israel of Lebanon’s sovereignty by land, sea and air,” said Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Signees of a letter state that Hezbollah and the LAF “are no longer two separate entities,” adding that “by continuing to provide this assistance we are contravening U.S. law by funding a terrorist organization.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“ ‘You can’t inspect, so why you are there?’ ” posed Danon. “ ‘You have to be more active, you have to move freely and inspect all sites.’ ”
The five were returned to Lebanon.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Banks burned, army vehicle set alight after protests in the city of Tripoli deteriorate into rioting as Lebanese currency hits record lows.
The woman sent photos to Hezbollah from around the country.
The Hezbollah terror chief reportedly met with a high-level Iranian delegation.
The terror chief was speaking at an event honoring Hezbollah “martyrs” as well as Iranian allies killed by Israel and the United States.
“I don’t see any reason why residents of Beirut can go on sipping coffee in coffee shops while we are being bombarded by rockets.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Researchers not the increase in Shiites serving in the LAF, and the close family ties between LAF troops and Hezbollah terrorists.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The Alawite village of Kafr Rajar, situated on the Israeli-Lebanese border, is divided between the two countries.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The report documents several incidents in which Hezbollah clashed with UNIFIL troops and restricted their movement in southern Lebanon.
EJA's Rabbi Margolin announced that Chatila will join a delegation of European politicians travelling to Auschwitz, where he will receive an award for his actions.
U.S. assistant secretary of state for Near East Affairs David Schenker said “we have confidence in the Lebanese army, and we think they are important partners in the fight against Sunni jihadists.”
The IDF identified suspicious individuals on the border near the village of Rajar
By Memri The Middle East Media Research Institute
The Israeli flag on the ground is to "prevent people from saying the demonstration serves foreign interests, or is funded by foreign embassies."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Lebanese protesters plan to form a human chain across the country
Hezbollah is not popular among many citizens of Lebanon.
Protest leaders called on Gazans to take to the streets on Thursday and protest against the deteriorating economic situation and the Hamas regime.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
As the U.N. Security Council prepares to formally review the size of the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon and vote on its renewal, America and Israel are pressing for more authority to counter Hezbollah.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The drones “completed their mission” and returned to their bases unharmed, the IDF stated.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Nasrallah may follow through with his threats, and he may be currently planning the assault with his military chiefs.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The upgraded Albukamal crossing is expected to serve as an Iranian land bridge through Iraq to Syria and from there to Lebanon, posing a new threat to Israel’s security.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Hezbollah’s allegiance is and has always been to the Supreme Leader of Iran and not to the Lebanese people, the general warned.
Lebanese sources say that Jarar was threatened by Hezbollah prior to his assassination over his pro-Syrian rebel stances.
It appears the UK didn't want to undermine the recently signed Iran nuclear deal, by exposing the Hezbollah terror plans.
JewishPress.com was the first to report on Hezbollah's pending withdrawal from Syria.
They also hung a Lebanese flag on the border wall.
According to Lebanese sources, Hezbollah wants its fighters in southern Lebanon within 15 days.
Facing cutbacks Hezbollah has launched a broad fundraising campaign, dubbed “financial Jihad.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Charges against Ali Kourani, 34, consisted of providing support to the U.S.-designated terrorist entity.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“We are laser-focused on what’s going on in Lebanon,” said U.S. Treasury Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence. “We will continue to have a heavy focus on any entity or organization that is moving money on behalf of Hezbollah.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Most of the operatives killed, 43 percent, were in their early twenties and were sent to Syria without prior combat experience.