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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Army seizes large captagon factory in Yammouneh

2025-07-16

[NAHARNET] The army said on Monday it raided a major captagon factory in the northeastern Baalbek province near neighboring Syria, previously the largest exporter of the amphetamine-like narcotic.

In a statement, the army said that "after the intelligence directorate received information about a major captagon pill factory in the town of Yammouneh, Baalbek, a patrol from the directorate, supported by an army unit, raided the factory."

The military added that the factory "turned out to be one of the largest factories seized to date."

Soldiers dismantled the machinery and seized a "large quantity" of pills, though the army did not specify how many.

Captagon became Syria's largest export following the eruption of the civil war in 2011, and a key source of illicit funding for former Syrian President Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Despoiler of Deraa...
's government.

In Leb

...an Iranian satrapy until recently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel...
, Assad's ally Hezbollah also faced accusations of using the captagon trade to finance itself.

The drug has flooded the region, with neighboring countries occasionally announcing captagon seizures and asking Lebanon and Syria to ramp up efforts to combat the trade.

Lebanon has previously faced pressure to counter the production and trafficking of the drug from conservative Gulf nations, where the main consumer market is located.

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Katz says Bekaa airstrikes ''clear message'' to Hezbollah, govt., 12 turbans toes up

2025-07-16

[NAHARNET] Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said Tuesday that Israel's ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s on the Bekaa earlier in the day were a ''clear message'' to Hezbollah and Leb
Leb

...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects....
's government, accusing Hezbollah of plotting to restore its Radwan force's ground incursion capabilities.

The Lebanese government is ''responsible for upholding the (ceasefire) agreement,'' Katz said.

''We will strike at every terrorist and thwart any threat to the residents of the north and the State of Israel, and we will respond with maximum force against any attempt (by Hezbollah) to restore itself," he threatened.

Media reports said hills near the eastern city of Baalbek were targeted by a wave of 15 airstrikes.

12 said killed as Israel hits elite Hezbollah force deep inside Lebanon

[IsraelTimes] Military says targets in northeastern Beqaa Valley include Radwan unit facilities, where military activity was taking place in ‘blatant violation’ of November ceasefire

Israeli jets carried out a wave of ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s deep inside Leb
...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects....
aimed at stopping an elite Hezbollah unit from regrouping and rebuilding its strength, authorities said Tuesday.

Lebanese state media reported that 12 people were killed.

"Enemy warplanes launched raids on the Wadi Fara area in the northern Beqaa Valley, one of which targeted a camp for displaced Syrians, resulting in the deaths of 12 deaders, including seven Syrians, and eight maimed," the country’s state-run National News Agency reported.

The strikes in Lebanon’s northeastern Beqaa Valley were aimed at military facilities belonging to the Hezbollah terror group’s Radwan force, where operatives and weapon depots had been detected, the Israel Defense Forces said.

"The military camps that were targeted are used by the Hezbollah terror organization for training and preparing gunnies for the planning and execution of terror operations against IDF forces and the State of Israel," the military said in a statement.

The weapons stored at the sites and Hezbollah’s activity "constitute a blatant violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon, and pose a future threat to the State of Israel," the statement added.

Israel has carried out dozens of strikes in southern Lebanon targeting Hezbollah operatives and arms since reaching a ceasefire with the group in November following several weeks of intense fighting, while attacks deeper inside Lebanon are less common.

There was no immediate comment from the Lebanese government about Tuesday’s strikes, though the official National News Agency reported that "enemy warplanes launched a raid" southeast of Baalbek, the main city in the region.

The rugged Beqaa Valley is seen as a stronghold for Hezbollah, and had been considered a key conduit for smuggling weapons into Lebanon via Syria before Hezbollah ally Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Scourge of Qusayr...
was ousted from the leadership of Syria late last year.

On Sunday, the IDF said Israeli troops had raided military facilities of the deposed Syrian regime last week, seizing some three tons of weapons. It indicated that the arms had been intended to be smuggled into Lebanon.

According to Israel, the Radwan force had in recent years planned to carry out a large-scale invasion of northern Israel, but was forced to shelve the scheme after Hamas
Hamas

..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
attacked southern Israel from Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
on October 7, 2023, plunging the region into war.

A day after the attack, Hezbollah began firing rockets, drones, and anti-tank missiles at northern Israeli communities, carrying out attacks on a near-daily basis in solidarity with Hamas.

The rocket fire displaced some 60,000 residents of northern Israel. In a bid to ensure their safe return, Israel stepped up operations in Lebanon in September, leading to two months of open warfare with Hezbollah in which the terror group’s leadership and arsenal were decimated.

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Leb: 10 hurt in Israeli strikes on South and Bekaa Sunday, 2 airstruck Monday

2025-07-08

[AnNahar] The Israeli army launched a series of ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s on southern and eastern Leb
Leb

...home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade....
on Sunday evening, including in the area around the eastern city of Baalbek and in Iqlim al-Tuffah, a mountainous region overlooking large parts of southern Lebanon.

According to the Health Ministry, a strike on the Tyre district town of Burj Rahal maimed nine people. Another strike on the Sidon district town of al-Zrariyeh severely maimed a child, the Ministry added.

The Israeli military said in a statement that it had struck "several Hezbollah military sites, strategic weapons production and storage sites, and a rocket launching site."

The strikes came ahead of a visit by U.S. envoy Tom Barrack to Beirut to discuss a proposed plan for Hezbollah’s disarmament and the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the rest of southern Lebanon.

Barrack posted Saturday on X that Lebanon is facing "a historic moment to supersede the strained confessionalism of the past and finally fulfill (its) true promise of the hope of ’One country, one people, one army’" and quoted U.S. President Donald Trump
...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania...
saying, "Let’s make Lebanon Great again."

Lebanon health ministry says 2 killed in Israeli strikes

[IsraelTimes] Lebanon’s health ministry says two people were killed in Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon today. Israel does not immediately comment on the incident.

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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 ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s in southern Leb
Leb

...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration....
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."

The Times of Israel adds:

Lebanese media reports an Israeli airstrike near the village of Brital in the northeastern Beqaa Valley.

There is no immediate comment from the IDF.

الطيران الإسرائيلي يشنّ غارة على السلسلة الشرقية في مرتفعات بلدة بريتال شرقي بعلبك pic.twitter.com/JS4bjSsq47
— Annahar النهار (@Annahar) May 26, 2025

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 ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
...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
Leb

...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
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.

More airstrikes to come, then. Your choice.

"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."

If only Hezbollah didn’t keep sending out teams to set up new outposts south of the Litani River in contravention of the ceasefire, and legitimate targets like arms caches were not carefully hidden in the marked places in IDF maps for resuming war with Israel north of it…
The Times of Israel adds:

Lebanese media reports an Israeli airstrike near the village of Brital in the northeastern Beqaa Valley.

There is no immediate comment from the IDF.

الطيران الإسرائيلي يشنّ غارة على السلسلة الشرقية في مرتفعات بلدة بريتال شرقي بعلبك pic.twitter.com/JS4bjSsq47
— Annahar النهار (@Annahar) May 26, 2025

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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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
Leb

...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
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

[NAHARNET] The army on Friday announced that it has so far arrested 86 people who were involved in firing weapons in the air in connection with the municipal and mayoral elections, while also seizing arms and ammunition.

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
Leb

...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration....
'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 ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s on Hezbollah facilities in Leb
Leb

...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
’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.

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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
Leb

...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects....
’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 Pencilneck al-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.

How Rudaw reported it all:

A journalist and a photographer were injured on Monday amid clashes between Syrian security forces and alleged Lebanese Hezbollah fighters, Syrian state media reported.

“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.

مراسلة «الأخبار»: سلسلة غارات إسرائيلية تستهدف وادي العزية في أطراف زبقين وأطراف جناتا في جنوب لبنان pic.twitter.com/V9gZ3xUol4
— جريدة الأخبار - Al-Akhbar (@AlakhbarNews) February 23, 2025

Update from the Times of Israel at 1:00 p.m. ET:

Israel carried out a series of airstrikes in Lebanon on Sunday, the Israel Defense Forces said, as the country prepared for the mass funeral of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.

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 ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s in Leb
Leb

...home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade....
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.

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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 ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
...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
Leb

...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects....
, 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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