Tag Archives: Hezbollah

BEIRUT, LEBANON | Xinhua | Lebanon’s cabinet on Friday approved an army plan to disarm Hezbollah and place all weapons under state control. Five Hezbollah and Amal ministers walked out in protest, and Hezbollah supporters called for mass demonstrations. Why is Lebanon moving to disarm Hezbollah? How are divergent sides …

JERUSALEM, ISRAELI | Xinhua | Israel’s security cabinet approved on Tuesday night a ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah, the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement. Israel’s state-owned Kan TV News reported that the ceasefire, brokered by the United States and France, was expected to take effect on Wednesday at 4 …

Escalation between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah fuels fears that the conflict will expand beyond many borders ANALYSIS | AGENCIES | Clashes in the last year between Israel and the militant group Hezbollah in southern Lebanon have largely been confined to a tit-for-tat border conflict — until now. In …

GAZA | Xinhua | Hezbollah confirmed on Saturday that its leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah was killed in the Israeli airstrikes targeting the militant group’s command headquarters a day earlier in Dahieh, Beirut’s southern suburbs. In a statement, the group mourned Nasrallah, describing him as “a great martyr” and “a heroic, …

JERUSALEM, Israel | Xinhua | Israel launched fresh attacks on targets in Beirut’s southern suburb of Dahieh early Saturday, saying it was targeting Hezbollah weapons stored under civilian buildings. Eyewitnesses in Beirut reported Israeli warplanes flying over the city’s southern suburb and conducting several rounds of bombings within an hour in …

‘booby-trap’ operation − it was also illegal COMMENT | MARY ELLEN O’CONNELL | The operation that used pagers and walkie-talkies to kill members of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah was ingenious – but was it legal? Certainly, there are those who will argue that it was. That thinking goes like this: …

JERUSALEM/BEIRUT | Xinhua | The conflict between Israel and Hezbollah sharply escalated on Thursday, with both sides exchanging deadly attacks and vowing further retaliation, heightening fears of a wider regional war. In a televised speech, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah condemned recent explosions targeting communication devices across Lebanon, calling them “an …

JERUSALEM | Xinhua | Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz confirmed on Monday evening that Israel was behind the assassination of an elite Hezbollah commander, Wissam Hassan Tawil, in Lebanon, reported Israeli media. “Regarding the elimination in southern Lebanon, we took responsibility for it,” Katz said, cited by Israel’s Ynet news …

  Beirut, Lebanon  | Xinhua | Confrontations between Israel and Hezbollah, a Shiite military group in Lebanon, on Lebanon’s southern border have had a disastrous effect on the country’s tourism sector, said industry experts. Due to the ongoing border tension that has lasted for more than seven weeks, many hotels …

Jerusalem, Israel | Xinhua |  Israel was stepping up its attacks on the Gaza Strip ahead of an anticipated ground invasion of the Palestinian enclave, said the Israeli military on Sunday, amid escalating tensions also on the country’s northern front and in the occupied West Bank. Israel Defense Forces (IDF) …