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The agreement between Israel and Hezbollah is here
Israel’s Defence Minister Moshe Ya’alon has said that the country has decided to pull out its forces from Lebanon’s south as part of a ceasefire between the two countries. The Israeli military said on Thursday that an Israeli aircraft had struck a storage site for Hezbollah rockets. The ceasefire deal ends a conflict between Israel…
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The world is happy that the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire is in place
Nearly 3,760 people have been killed in Lebanon during the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, many of them civilians, Lebanese health officials said. More than 70 people were killed in Israel during the fighting, and dozens of Israeli soldiers were also killed in southern Lebanon. Iran, which backs Hezbollah and Hamas in Gaza, said it…
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Israel agreed to a ceasefire with Hezbollah in order to stop the war in Lebanon
The Israeli Security Cabinet on Tuesday approved the US-brokered ceasefire deal between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah, PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said. The announcement came during some of the heaviest fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in months. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia said it hoped the ceasefire “will lead to the implementation of [UN] Security Council Resolution 1701”.
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Medics say Israeli strikes kill dozens in the Gaza Strip
The Israeli military said it’s making “great efforts” to estimate and consider potential civilian collateral damage in its strikes and called claims of ethnic cleansing “ridiculous”. It added it targeted Hezbollah’s infrastructure without providing evidence. Meanwhile, the Palestinian Red Crescent said at least 21 people were killed in airstrikes in Gaza in the past 24…
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Hezbollah’s next leader is expected to be killed by Israel
Israel’s Foreign Minister Sara Netanyahu on Saturday said the military would “continue to carry out attacks on the Hezbollah”. This comes after Lebanon’s Health Ministry reported 16 deaths and 59 injuries during an Israeli strike on the country’s south. The strike was an attempt to kill Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, she added.
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Israel struck Hezbollah-linked banks, causing damage in Lebanon
US has launched an investigation into an unauthorised disclosure of classified documents that indicated an Israeli military strike on Iran was about to take place following the launch of 200 missiles from Lebanon. The documents had shown that Israel was planning to target al-Qard al-Hassan, a Hezbollah unit, a senior Israeli intelligence official said.
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We should encourage Israel to win
On the first anniversary of the war between Hamas and Hezbollah on Friday, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said, “We’ve no choice but to defend ourselves.” He added, “The price of this conflict is not only the destruction of our country but it’s also the destruction of our people.” Netanyahu’s statement comes a month after Israel…
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19 people have died in an Israeli strike on a Gaza mosque
The Israeli military said that over 90 projectiles were fired from Lebanon into Israel on Saturday and Sunday. It added that the projectiles were fired by Iranian-backed Hezbollah. Last week, Israel launched what it said was a “limited ground” operation into southern Lebanon after a series of attacks killed longtime Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
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The war in Lebanon has resulted in thousands flee their homes
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that Israel has the duty and the right to defend itself and respond to the attacks by Hezbollah and Hamas on its territory. This comes after Israel’s military said that about 90 projectiles were fired from Lebanon into Israeli territory. Netanyahu added that they are not done yet…
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Israel expands its bombardment in Lebanon
An Israeli airstrike killed two children in Gaza City’s Zaytoun neighborhood, according to the civil defence first responders group that operates under the Hamas-run government. Israel launched a ground operation into southern Lebanon last week, after a series of attacks killed most of Hezbollah’s top commanders. Nine Israeli soldiers have been martyred in ground clashes…
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Israel will retaliate after an attack on Iran
US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin has warned against an Israeli attack on Hezbollah in the Gaza Strip. “The US has supported Israel dismantling Hezbollah infrastructure along the Lebanon Israel border so Hezbollah can’t threaten Israeli border towns,” he said. “There is nowhere in the Middle East Israel cannot reach,” he added. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu…
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Israel is considering how to respond to the Iranian Missile Attack
Iran has launched nearly 200 missiles at an Israeli airbase in the Golan Heights as part of its military campaign against Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia, the country’s semi-official Tasnim News Agency reported on Wednesday. The missiles were launched at around 4 pm local time, it added. Israeli warplanes carried out raids on several Iranian targets over…
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An airstrike hits a residential building in Lebanon
Israeli Air Force jets carried out strikes on Hezbollah targets across southern Lebanon on Monday, a local Lebanese security official said. Hezbollah has claimed that one of its members died in the strike, although it is not clear if the death was caused by the attack. Over 200 Hezbollah militants have been killed in the…
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An airstrike hits a building in Lebanon
More than 100 people have been killed in Israel’s strikes against Hezbollah, the Lebanese Health Ministry said on Sunday. Two strikes near the southern city of Sidon, about 45 kilometres south of Beirut, killed at least 32 people, the ministry added. One of Hezbollah’s security detail was killed along with 20 other Hezbollah militant, according…
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Israel is preparing for a ground invasion of southern Lebanon
Israel’s military said it targeted buildings containing weapons and military structures in a series of air attacks during the September. This comes after Israel on Saturday announced that it had killed Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah in an airstrikes in Lebanon on Friday. The latest exchanges of fire and Israel’s preparations to attack southern Lebanon have…
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Israel expands attacks in Lebanon while an airstrike hits a building
Hezbollah on Sunday fired dozens of rockets at Israel, most of which were shot down by the country’s military, Israeli media reported. At least 92 people have been killed and over 400 injured in Israel’s airstrike campaign on Lebanon, Lebanese health officials said. Israel launched a series of airstrikes on Lebanon last week after the…
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2 more Hezbollah leaders are expected to be dead as the Israel Defence Force prepares to invade southern Lebanon
Israel launched an offensive against Lebanon’s Hezbollah on Friday and killed the group’s chief Sayyed Nasrallah in an air strike, the military said. Nasrallah was killed at his home in Lebanon’s Bekaa valley, the military added. The Israeli military has ordered limitations on public gatherings in central Israel in a sign that the country was…
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Hezbollah’s top leader was killed
An Israeli security official said he expects the campaign against Hezbollah would not last for as long as the current war in Gaza because the military’s goals are much narrower. Israeli President Shimon Peres has called the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah a “measure of justice for his many victims, including thousands of Americans,…
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Hezbollah leader’s killing sparks joy and rage in the Middle East
The death of the leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah, Ali Karki, in an Israeli air strike on his headquarters was a measure of justice for his many victims, Lebanese President Michel Aoun said. The Israeli military said that Karki and other Hezbollah commanders were killed as they were planning further attacks on Israel. Karki was a…
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Hezbollah leader’s death sparks joy and rage in the region
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an airstrike in Beirut on Friday, Israeli President Shimon Peres said. Nasrallah was the head of the terrorist group that fought Israel in the summer of 2000 and has been indicted by the UN over war crimes. “His assassination is a measure of justice and a loss for…
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Hezbollah says its top leader was killed
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said his country’s “targeted attack” on Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut wasn’t the end for what he termed Israel’s “toolbox”. He added that Israel would continue its campaign against Hezbollah over the past two weeks. Netanyahu further said that he had spoken with UN Secretary-General Antnio Guterres about the situation…
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Huge explosions were reported in Lebanon, and Israel says it struck Hezbollah’s headquarters
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday said that the Jewish state will not give in to Hezbollah’s attacks and will “continue degrading Hezbollah” until the group complies with Israeli laws. This comes after an Israeli strike killed Hezbollah’s chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Friday in the Lebanese capital of Beirut. This comes amid a conflict…
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There were huge explosions in Lebanon as Israel says it hit Hezbollah’s headquarters
Israel has launched airstrikes on Hezbollah in Lebanon and the militant group has fired rockets into the Israeli city of Dimona, an official said on Saturday. The strikes were the first major military action against Hezbollah since the war between the two groups erupted in 2006. Israel said the targets of the airstrikes were located…
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Israel said it hit Hezbollah’s headquarters in Lebanon
A senior Hezbollah official in Lebanon has said the group will continue fighting until Israel ends its offensive in Gaza. “Israel wants to dismantle Hamas in Gaza but they have a different goal in Lebanon, which is to help the Palestinians,” the official added. Hezbollah began fire rockets into Israel almost immediately after the Hamas…
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Over 92,000 people in Lebanon fled the bombardments by Israel
The death toll in Lebanon due to the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah has risen to 720, according to the country’s Health Minister Firas Abi Adwan. At least 25 people were killed in Israeli strikes on Friday, bringing the death toll in Lebanon this week to over 720, he added. Over 90,000 people have fled…