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Two wounded in overnight strikes on Beit Leef and Majdalzoun |
2025-05-27 |
[NAHARNET] Two people were maimed in overnight strikes on the southern towns of Beit Leef and Majdalzoun, the Health Ministry said Monday. The overnight strikes targeted two cycle of violences, one in Tyre's Majdalzoun and the other in Beit Leef in the district of Bint Jbeil. On Monday, an Israeli drone overflew Beirut's southern suburbs for several hours. Israel has continued to launch near-daily ... KABOOM!... s in southern Leb ![]() and sometimes in Beirut's suburbs despite the November 27 truce that sought to halt more than a year of hostilities with Hezbollah including two months of full-blown war. Under the terms of the ceasefire deal, the only armed bodies in southern Lebanon are meant to be U.N. peacekeepers and Lebanon's army, though Israel has retained its forces in five areas it has declared strategic. Speaking Sunday on the anniversary of Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000, Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem ![]() ... the Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies... reiterated the Lebanese krazed killer group's stance that it will not discuss giving up its remaining weapons until Israel withdraws from the five border points it occupies in southern Lebanon and stops its airstrikes. "We adhered completely" to the agreement, Qassem said, adding: "Don't ask us for anything else from now on. Let Israel withdraw, stop its aggression, release the prisoners and fulfill all obligations under the agreement. After that, we will discuss each new development." Lebanese media reports an Israeli airstrike near the village of Brital in the northeastern Beqaa Valley. There is no immediate comment from the IDF.
translated from Arabic by Google. Israeli aircraft launch a raid on the eastern mountain range in the heights of the town of Brital, east of Baalbek. |
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Three Israeli airstrikes target outskirts of Brital | ||
2025-05-27 | ||
[NAHARNET] Israeli warplanes on Monday carried out three ... KABOOM!... s on the Sraj area in the outskirts of the Baalbek district town of Brital, the state-run National News Agency said. Two people were maimed in overnight strikes on the southern towns of Beit Leef and Majdal Zoun, the Health Ministry said Monday. Israel has continued to launch near-daily airstrikes in southern and eastern Leb ![]() and sometimes in Beirut's suburbs despite a November 27 truce that sought to halt more than a year of hostilities with Hezbollah including two months of full-blown war. Under the terms of the ceasefire deal, the only armed bodies in southern Lebanon are meant to be U.N. peacekeepers and Lebanon's army, though Israel has retained its forces in five areas it has declared strategic. Speaking Sunday on the anniversary of Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000, Hezbollah leader Sheikh Naim Qassem ![]() ... the Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies... reiterated the Lebanese group's stance that it will not discuss giving up its remaining weapons until Israel withdraws from the five border points it occupies in southern Lebanon and stops its airstrikes.
There is no immediate comment from the IDF.
translated from Arabic by Google. Israeli aircraft launch a raid on the eastern mountain range in the heights of the town of Brital, east of Baalbek. Related: Baalbek: 2025-05-20 Muslim-Christian parity preserved in Beirut Municipality as list backed by main political parties wins Baalbek: 2025-05-17 [Lebanon] Army says 86 so far arrested over elections-linked gunsex Baalbek: 2025-03-21 IDF strikes Hezbollah facilities in eastern Lebanon amid ceasefire | ||
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Muslim-Christian parity preserved in Beirut Municipality as list backed by main political parties wins |
2025-05-20 |
[NAHARNET] A list backed by most political parties won all 24 seats of Beirut's municipality on Sunday, maintaining Christian-Moslem parity on the capital's municipal council. Political rivals such as Hezbollah and the Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... came together to form the list, arguing that such a temporary coalition was necessary to preserve equal Christian-Moslem power-sharing. The list was also backed by the Amal Movement, the Kataeb Party, the Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... , al-Ahbash, the Tashnag Party Socialist party representing the Armenian diaspora in Leb. They're Christians, but they try to remain neutral, which means they get shot at without shooting back... , the Hunchak Party and MP Fouad Makhzoumi. A rival list was formed by MP Nabil Bader, the Jamaa Islamiya and a figure who was considered close to al-Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... Movement. Four other lists were also formed in the capital, including one by the Beirut Madinati civil society group, which won one third of the capital's votes in the 2016 polls. Voter turnout reached 21% in Beirut, 44.57% in Zahle, 41.11% in West Bekaa, 37.70% in Rashaya, 34.15% in Hermel and 48.88% in Baalbek. The Lebanese Forces meanwhile announced its victory in the Zahle municipal polls against a list backed by all the other political forces and families in an electoral battle in which the Free Patriotic Movement gave its supporters the freedom to vote for either list. LF leader Samir Geagea ....Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005.... hailed a ''major victory'' in the city, saying ''Zahle has chosen progress, change, civilization, illusory sovereignty, deaders and Leb ![]() A Hezbollah front man meanwhile said the party and its ally the Amal Movement won in the city of Baalbek, the city of Hermel and in 19 towns in the Bekaa. |
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[Lebanon] Army says 86 so far arrested over elections-linked gunsex |
2025-05-17 |
![]() In a statement, the army vowed that it will not be lenient in pursuing and arresting anyone involved in illegal shootings, warning that the practice puts the lives of others in danger. ''The deployed military units have started taking exceptional security measures on the occasion of the third round of municipal and mayoral elections that will be held Sunday in the Beirut, Bekaa and Baalbek-Hermel governorates, including sudden checkpoints and patrols, in coordination with the other security agencies,'' the army added. Parliament on Thursday approved an urgent draft law doubling the penalty of illegal shooting into the air. The development came days after dozens of people were arrested for firing into the air during the country's municipal elections. Celebratory gunfire that erupted Sunday in the wake of north Leb ![]() 's municipal elections had maimed several people, including LBCI news hound Nada Andraous, and a child who was critically maimed. Whether it's joy, political passion or grief, for many Lebanese, there's only one way to show it: by lifting a gun and firing off rounds into the air. |
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IDF strikes Hezbollah facilities in eastern Lebanon amid ceasefire |
2025-03-21 |
[IsraelTimes] Military says targets include site for storing rocket launchers, underground infrastructure; no casualties reported The Israel Defense Forces on Wednesday said it carried out ... KABOOM!... s on Hezbollah facilities in Leb ![]() ’s eastern Bekaa Valley, after identifying activity by the terror group there amid the ongoing ceasefire. One site included underground infrastructure, and another was used to store rocket launchers, according to the military. Lebanese state media on Thursday reported Israeli strikes on the country’s south and east. The state-run National News Agency said "enemy aircraft" struck "the eastern slopes of the mountain range within the town of Janta in the Bekaa," as well as "the outskirts of the town of Taraya, west of Baalbek," also in the east. Four missiles were fired in the Nabatieh area of southern Lebanon, NNA said. No casualties were immediately reported. A November 27, 2024, truce in Lebanon largely halted more than a year of hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel. Israel has continued to carry out strikes on Lebanese territory since the truce agreement took effect, saying it is acting against Hezbollah violations of the ceasefire. Last month, Israel withdrew all its forces from southern Lebanon, except from five strategic points, saying it had received a green light from the US to remain at those posts and citing the need to prevent Hezbollah from returning to the area and threatening Israel. The ceasefire also required Hezbollah to pull back north of the Litani River, about 30 kilometers (20 miles) from the border, and to dismantle any remaining military infrastructure in the south. Related: Bekaa Valley: 2025-02-23 Beirut gears up for masses at Nasrallah funeral, allows Tehran flight to land Bekaa Valley: 2025-02-22 Several injured as Israeli airstrikes target Lebanon-Syria border crossing — Hodhod Yemen News Agency Bekaa Valley: 2025-02-17 IDF strikes Hezbollah sites deep in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley as fragile truce holds |
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Lebanon says it will retaliate for gunfire from Syria amid deadly fighting on border | |
2025-03-18 | |
[IsraelTimes] War monitor says 5 Syrian soldiers killed Monday, during clashes that began Saturday, when 3 Syrians were killed in Lebanon in alleged Hezbollah abduction Leb ![]() ’s president on Monday ordered troops to retaliate for gunfire from the Syrian side of the border after deadly fighting erupted overnight along the tense frontier and as more was reported on Monday. "What is happening along the eastern and northeastern border cannot continue and we will not accept that it continues," Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun said on X. "I have given my orders to the Lebanese army to retaliate against the source of fire." Aoun added that he asked Lebanon’s foreign minister, who is currently in Brussels for a donors conference on Syria, to contact Syrian officials to resolve the problem "and prevent further escalation." The fighting occurred after Syria’s interim government accused operatives from Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group of crossing into Syria on Saturday, abducting three soldiers and killing them on Lebanese soil. It was the most serious cross-border fighting since the ouster of longtime Syrian president Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators... in December. State-run Syrian News Channel, citing an unnamed Defense Ministry official, said the Syrian army shelled "Hezbollah gatherings that killed Syrian soldiers" along the border. Hezbollah denied involvement in a statement on Sunday. Information Minister Paul Morkos said Lebanon’s defense minister told a cabinet meeting that the three killed were smugglers. He added that one child was killed and six people were maimed on the Lebanese side. On Monday, a Syrian soldier was reported killed by Hezbollah rocket fire and at least three people were killed as the Syrian army shelled a Lebanese village, Arabic-language media reported. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britannia-based war monitor of unclear funding, said five Syrian soldiers were killed during Monday’s festivities. Lebanon’s state news agency reported that fighting intensified Monday evening near the Lebanese town of Hermel. Violence recently spiked in the area between the Syrian military and armed Lebanese Shiite clans closely allied with the former government of Assad, based in Lebanon’s al-Qasr border village. Lebanese media and the observatory say clans were involved in the abductions that sparked the latest festivities. The Lebanese and Syrian armies said they have opened channels of communication to ease tensions. Lebanon’s military also said it returned the bodies of the three killed Syrians. Large numbers of Lebanese troops have been deployed in the area. Lebanese media reported low-level fighting at dawn after an attack on a Syrian military vehicle. The number of casualties was unclear. SYRIAN JOURNALISTS EMBEDDED WITH ARMY LIGHTLY WOUNDED Early Monday, four Syrian journalists embedded with the Syrian army were lightly maimed after an artillery shell fired from the Lebanese side of the border hit their position. They accused Hezbollah of the attack. Meanwhile, ...back at the shattered spaceship, Fffflirgoll the Arcturan slithered stealthily toward the control room, where the humans had barricaded themselves... senior Hezbollah politician Hussein Haj Hassan, in an interview with Lebanon’s Al Jadeed television, accused fighters from the Syrian side of crossing into Lebanese territory and attacking border villages. His constituency is the northeastern Baalbek-Hermel province, which has borne the brunt of the festivities. Hezbollah was a key backer of Assad before he was toppled in a lightning offensive by Islamist-led rebels in December. Syria’s new authorities announced last month the launch of a security campaign in the border province of Homs, aimed at shutting down routes used for arms and goods smuggling. They accused Hezbollah of launching attacks, saying it was sponsoring cross-border smuggling gangs. Lebanon, meanwhile, has been seeking international support to boost funding for its military as it gradually deploys troops along its porous northern and eastern borders with Syria as well as its southern border with Israel.
“A photographer and a journalist were injured on the Syrian-Lebanese border near the Zeita Dam after being directly targeted by a guided missile fired by Hezbollah militia,” Syria’s state-run SANA news agency said, citing a source in Homs province. On Sunday, Syria's defense ministry accused Hezbollah of kidnapping three Syrian army soldiers, abducting them into Lebanese territory, and executing them. Hezbollah denied involvement. Maybe it was UNRWA? The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, reported on Monday that four Syrian army soldiers were killed “in clashes with tribal gunmen on the Syria-Lebanon border, putting the Syrian death toll at eight since clashes erupted.” This is not the first time skirmishes have occurred along the Lebanon-Syria border since the new Syrian leadership assumed power in Damascus. In early February, the state-run Lebanese National News Agency (NNA) said that the Lebanese Army began responding with "appropriate weapons" to sources of fire that targeted Lebanese territory from within Syria. The army issued orders to military units deployed on the northern and eastern borders to "respond to the sources of fire launched from Syrian territory targeting Lebanese land." The Lebanese-Syrian border is geographically complex, characterized by mountains, valleys, and plains, with no clear demarcations separating the two countries. The two sides share six land border crossings, extending over a distance of about 375 kilometers. The new Syrian leadership has expressed keenness to strengthen its security presence along the border with neighboring countries, including Lebanon, as part of broader efforts to stabilize domestic conditions and combat drug smuggling and remnants of the previous regime. | |
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IDF confirms it carried out airstrikes on Hezbollah targets in south Lebanon | |
2025-02-23 | |
[IsrelTimes] The IDF confirms carrying out airstrikes in southern Lebanon a short while ago. One of the targets was a Hezbollah military site containing rocket launchers and other weapons, where the military says it identified activity by the terror group. The military says Hezbollah’s activity at the site is a “violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon.” Additionally, the IDF says it struck several more Hezbollah rocket launchers in southern Lebanon, “which posed a threat to Israeli civilians.” Lebanese media reports series of Israeli airstrikes near Tyre [IsraelTimes] Lebanese media reports a series of Israeli airstrikes in south Lebanon, near the towns of Qlaileh and Zebqine, close to the coastal city of Tyre. There is no immediate comment from the IDF. The strikes come ahead of the funeral for assassinated Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and his intended successor Hashem Safieddine.
According to Lebanese reports, the strikes occurred near the towns of Qlaileh and Zebqine, close to the coastal city of Tyre; near the village of Brissa in the Hermel District of northern Lebanon; near the town of Bodai in the Baalbek District; and near al-Ahmadiya in southern Lebanon. The IDF later confirmed the strikes, saying they targeted Hezbollah sites containing rocket launchers and other weapons, and additional rocket launchers threatening Israeli civilians | |
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IDF hits Hezbollah sites in Lebanon, including smuggling tunnel on Syrian border |
2025-02-10 |
[IsraelTimes] Military says tunnel in Beqaa Valley had been struck in the past, latest attack was to prevent its restoration; other facilities belonging to Lebanese terror group targeted Israeli fighter jets carried out several ... KABOOM!... s in Leb ![]() on Sunday evening, including against a tunnel between Lebanon and Syria used by the Hezbollah terror group to smuggle arms, the Israel Defense Forces said. The IDF said the tunnel, in the Beqaa Valley, had also been struck in the past. "The IDF is determined to prevent restoration and use of this tunnel," it said in a statement. The Beqaa Valley area, a Hezbollah stronghold, is north of the Litani River, beyond which the Iran-backed group is required to withdraw under the ceasefire agreement reached in November 2024 after more than a year of hostilities, including two months of all-out war. Additionally, the military said Sunday the Israeli Air Force targeted several Hezbollah sites in other areas of Lebanon, which included weapons and rocket launchers that "posed an immediate threat" to Israel. According to the IDF, the targeted sites were "a violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon." Lebanese media reported a series of strikes in the Nabatieh area, some 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the border with Israel, and in the Baalbek area in the Beqaa Valley, nearly 100 kilometers (62 miles) from Israel. The strikes came a day after the IAF struck what the IDF said were Hezbollah operatives at a weapons manufacturing site in eastern Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley on Saturday. Lebanon’s state news agency reported six dead and two maimed in that strike. Related: Beqaa Valley: 2025-02-01 IDF: Fighter jets carried out overnight strikes on Hezbollah sites in Beqaa Valley Beqaa Valley: 2025-01-31 IDF: Fighter jets carried out overnight strikes on Hezbollah sites in Beqaa Valley Beqaa Valley: 2025-01-13 IDF says it struck Hezbollah sites after truce mechanism was notified but failed to address threats Related: Nabatieh: 2025-01-30 Israeli strike in southern Lebanon’s Majdal Selm said to injure five people Nabatieh: 2025-01-29 Israeli airstrikes wound 24 in Lebanon despite ceasefire Nabatieh: 2025-01-13 IDF says it struck Hezbollah sites after truce mechanism was notified but failed to address threats |
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Israeli strikes kill six, wound two in southern Lebanon |
2025-02-09 |
[HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] In a blatant violation of ceasefire agreement, the Israeli occupation aircraft carried out on Saturday an ... KABOOM!... on the outskirts of the eastern Lebanese mountain range in the 'Al-Shaara' area within the villages of Baalbek district. Six people were martyred and two others were maimed, in a new Israeli aggression on Leb ![]() , in an Israeli drone raid on the outskirts of Janta, in the eastern region of Bekaa. The village of Janta area lies close to the Syrian border and the area was already hit by Israeli strikes on January 31st. Additionally, Israeli enemy forces carried out an operation involving the earth-shattering kaboom and burning of houses in the town of Adaisseh, South Lebanon. The skies over the south witnessed intensive flights of Israeli warplanes at medium altitude. This repeated Israeli aggression against Lebanon raises many questions directed at the international committee overseeing the ceasefire agreement, as well as the guarantor countries, specifically the United States and La Belle France.'' |
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Four Israeli airstrikes target area deep in south as raid hits eastern border town |
2025-01-14 |
[NAHARNET] Israel carried out air strikes in Leb![]() Sunday, targeting areas in the east and south according to Lebanese state media, with the Israeli military saying it hit Hezbollah targets including smuggling routes along the border with Syria. The ... KABOOM!... s placed further strain on a fragile ceasefire between Israel and the Iran-backed turban group, which came into effect on November 27. Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said Israeli aircraft targeted the outskirts of Janta in the eastern Baalbek region as well as an area between Houmine al-Fawqa and Deir al-Zahrani in the south. It did not say whether there were casualties. The Israeli military said it struck a number of targets it had presented to ceasefire monitors as threats. ![]() The strikes come just two weeks before the January 26 deadline for implementing the November ceasefire, which both sides have accused the other of violating. The Israeli military statement said it was operating "in accordance with the ceasefire understandings." Under the terms of the deal, Hezbollah is to dismantle its remaining military infrastructure in the south and pull its forces back north of the Litani River, around 30 kilometers (20 miles) from the border. The U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon this month accused Israel of a "flagrant violation" of the Security Council resolution which forms the basis of the ceasefire. Israeli strikes in south Lebanon killed five people on Friday, according to the Lebanese health ministry, with the Israeli military saying it targeted a Hezbollah weapons truck. |
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