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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Since the war in Gaza started over ten months ago, Israel and Hizbullah, an Iran-backed militant group in Lebanon, have exchanged almost daily rocket fire. As part of its response, Israel has been scrambling gps signals across the border region.

Hezbollah escalate, a missile strike on an apartment building in Beirut was captured live by Bilal Hussein, an Associated Press (AP) photographer. The incident is part of Israel's ongoing military campaign in Lebanon, aimed at targeting Hezbollah strongholds in the region. The dramatic moment occurred after an Israeli warning allowed the building to be evacuated. Hussein, who was positioned behind a tree for cover, was able to document the missile’s descent just moments before it struck, capturing the projectile’s final approach.

Since Israel began bombarding Beirut’s southern suburbs as part of its offensive against militants, Lebanon’s national air carrier has become a local icon simply by continuing to do its job

UN Security Council resolution that ended Israel's war with Hezbollah in 2006 could form the basis of a new ceasefire, though it would need to be better enforced. What is resolution 1701, and what problems were there with its enforcement? What does the text say? UN Security Council Resolution 1701 was voted in unanimously to end the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah, which killed around 1,200 people in Lebanon, most of them civilians, and 160 in Israel, most of them soldiers.

Israeli army said Monday that the latest commander responsible for funding the Lebanese Hezbollah group was «eliminated» in Syria. The man, whose name was not released, headed the Iran-backed Hezbollah's Unit 4400 that is «responsible for the transfers and the amount of funds» to the group through Tehran's oil sales, army spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said in a statement. The commander was «eliminated» in Syria «a few hours ago», he added.

Antony Blinken headed to the Middle East on Monday to launch another push for an elusive ceasefire, seeking to revive negotiations to end the Gaza war and defuse the spillover conflict in Lebanon. Blinken's trip to the region is his 11th since the attack on Israel by the Palestinian militant group Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, that triggered the Gaza war. It comes as Israel intensifies its military campaign against Iran-backed militants — Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Israel carried out several strikes in Beirut's southern suburbs on Monday, including one near the Rafik Hariri University Hospital, the capital's main government hospital. Four people were killed, including a child, and 24 others were wounded, the health ministry said.

The Israeli military has carried out a wave of airstrikes targeting branches of a financial institution affiliated with Lebanon’s Hezbollah, saying the quasi-banking system is being used to fund the militant group’s military wing

Israel-Hezbollah war to end «as soon as possible», as it pressed for the enforcement of a UN resolution that required the armed group to withdraw from south Lebanon. US envoy Amos Hochstein held talks in Lebanon's capital with parliament speaker Nabih Berri, a Hezbollah ally, in a push for an end to a nearly month-long war that has killed more than 1,470 people in Lebanon. «Tying Lebanon's future to other conflicts in the region was not and is not in the interest of the Lebanese people,» Hochstein said, referring to a key Hezbollah demand that any ceasefire in Lebanon be linked to an end to the war in Gaza.

Hezbollah’s deputy secretary general, Naim Qassem, has reportedly fled crisis-stricken Lebanon and is now residing in Tehran, according to local media sources. The move, reportedly ordered by Iranian leaders, is seen as a precautionary measure amidst rising concerns for Qassem’s safety, as he is believed to be a potential target of an Israeli assassination.

Hezbollah on the defensive after a series of heavy Israeli blows, the United States and Iran are locked in a showdown over Lebanon's future, analysts said. Hezbollah, the most powerful regional force backed by Iran, which arms and finances it, has long held sway in Lebanon. But the group's influence is now in question after Israel's assassination of its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, in a significant setback.

air strikes targeted south Beirut on Sunday after the Israeli army warned civilians to evacuate the stronghold of Lebanon's Hezbollah movement, state media said. The reported strikes came after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the Iran-backed Hezbollah movement of trying to assassinate him by attacking his residence. «Enemy (Israeli) airplanes carried out two strikes this morning on Beirut's southern suburbs, one of them hitting a residential building in Haret Hreik» near a mosque and a hospital, the National News Agency reported.

Israel scale back some of its strikes in and around the Lebanese capital of Beirut, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Saturday, adding the number of civilian casualties was «far too high.» Austin's comments came hours after Israel carried out heavy strikes on several locations in the city's southern suburbs, leaving thick plumes of smoke wafting over the city horizon throughout the evening. Israel said it struck arms facilities belonging to Lebanese armed group Hezbollah. Tens of thousands of people have fled the southern suburbs — once a densely populated zone that also housed Hezbollah offices and underground installations — since Israel began regular strikes there about three weeks ago.

Keir Starmer told Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu that he was «alarmed to hear about the drone launched towards» his residence earlier Saturday, the UK leader's office said. Netanyahu has accused Iran-backed Hezbollah of trying to assassinate him, after his office said a drone was launched Saturday toward his residence in the central town of Caesarea while he and his wife were elsewhere. Iran's United Nations mission later said that Lebanon's Hezbollah group — armed and financed by Tehran — was behind the drone attack, which Netanyahu's office has noted caused no injuries.

Netanyahu’s private residence in Caesarea was hit by a drone launched from Lebanon. The Israeli military confirmed the incident, stating that the drone “hit a structure” near the prime minister’s home, according to AFP. Israeli media outlet Channel 12 reported that a senior government official confirmed Iran’s involvement in the attack. Netanyahu’s office released a statement assuring that the prime minister and his wife, Sara, were not at home during the attack, and no injuries were reported. «There were no injuries,» the statement emphasized. The attack marks a significant escalation in hostilities along Israel’s northern border, with Hezbollah suspected of orchestrating the strike. Two additional drones fired from Lebanon were intercepted by Israel’s air defense system, preventing further damage. Sirens blared across several northern Israeli cities, including Haifa Bay, Kfar HaMaccabi, Kiryat Yam, and Kiryat Atta, warning of incoming rocket fire from Lebanon, The Times of Israel reported.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. IN THE END Yahya Sinwar died brutally in the rubble of Gaza, like tens of thousands of victims of the war he unleashed a year earlier. In a firefight with an Israeli patrol in southern Gaza, the leader of Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist movement, was killed on October 17th.

Sinwar spent nearly two decades in custody whose 'high tolerance for suffering' vision shaped his role as Hamas leader. On Thursday, Israel said troops in Gaza had killed Sinwar. The secretive figure feared on both sides of the battle lines engineered the surprise October 7, 2023, attack into southern Israel, along with the even more shadowy Mohammed Deif, head of Hamas’ armed wing. Israel said that it killed Deif in a July airstrike in southern Gaza that killed more than 70 Palestinians.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. HARROWING FOOTAGE of limbs attached to intravenous drips inside burning hospital tents in Deir al-Balah in Gaza on October 14th was a reminder that the war there—one of several fronts Israel has been fighting on since Hamas massacred 1,200 people a year ago—is far from over. Although the world’s focus is on Lebanon and a possible Israeli retaliation against Iran, the horror in Gaza continues.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. ZIV HOSPITAL is nestled at the bottom of Safed, the highest city in Israel, not far from the border with Syria and Lebanon. In November the hospital acknowledged that hackers had penetrated its computer systems.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Israel’s military is ordering civilians to leave large parts of northern Gaza as it conducts an offensive against Hamas militants in Jabalia refugee camp. But many Palestinians are staying put, because they are trapped by fighting around them, exhausted by a year of repeated evacuations or fearful that nowhere in the Gaza Strip is safe.

Israel may expand its ground operations against Hezbollah while bolstering its own defences, its troops have cleared landmines and established new barriers on the frontier between the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and a demilitarised strip bordering Syria, security sources and analysts said. The move suggests Israel may seek to strike Hezbollah for the first time from further east along Lebanon's border, at the same time creating a secure area from which it can freely reconnoitre the armed group and prevent infiltration, the sources said. While demining activity has been reported, sources who spoke to Reuters — including a Syrian soldier stationed in south Syria, a Lebanese security official and a U.N. peacekeeping official — revealed additional unreported details that showed Israel was moving the fence separating the DMZ towards the Syrian side and digging more fortifications in the area.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Near the point where Israel, Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea meet, Israeli soldiers were patrolling a forest when they spotted something strange—a small patch of green paint on a tree.