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Lebanon Gov’t Denies Hezbollah Weapons at Beirut Airport

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- Agence France-Presse - June 24, 2024June 25, 2024

The Lebanese authorities denied on Sunday a report claiming that Hezbollah is using Beirut's Rafik Hariri International Airport to store weapons. Instead, they invited ambassadors and journalists to take a tour of the airport's facilities on Monday to prove there are no arms. On Sunday, The Telegraph claimed that for years,

Israel and Hezbollah faceoff raises risk of wider conflict

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- Reuters - June 21, 2024

Regular puffs of smoke from missile intercepts over northern Israel and fires from air strikes in southern Lebanon are outward signs of a fear that the Gaza war may be expanding into a wider conflict, which analysts say poses risks for both sides. The stark threats on Wednesday from Sayyed Hassan

Residents of northern Israel brace for possible all-out war with Hezbollah

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- Reuters - April 30, 2024

Eli Harel was an Israeli soldier in his early thirties when he was sent into Lebanon in 2006 to battle fighters from the Iranian-backed group Hezbollah in a bloody, largely inconclusive month-long war. Now 50, Harel is ready to rejoin the army to fight the same group if shelling along Israel's

Cross-border fire between Hezbollah and Israel leaves 16 dead

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- Agence France-Presse - March 28, 2024

Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah movement on Wednesday announced the deaths of eight of its members after a day of cross-border fire with Israel that left at least 16 people dead. Hezbollah said it had fired a barrage of rockets into northern Israel after its neighbour carried out a deadly strike on southern

Israeli strike kills 3 Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon

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- Reuters - March 2, 2024

An Israeli drone strike killed three Hezbollah fighters in south Lebanon on Saturday, security sources in Lebanon said, the latest to die in months of cross-border hostilities that have been fought in parallel to the Gaza war. The men were killed when the car they were in was targeted on a

Hezbollah official wounded in Israeli strike on Lebanon: security source

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- Agence France-Presse - February 13, 2024

An Israeli air strike on Monday seriously wounded a local Hezbollah official in his car in Lebanon's south, a Lebanese security source told AFP. Lebanese movement Hezbollah also said four of its fighters were killed in an Israeli strike. Israeli forces and Hezbollah, a Hamas ally, have traded near-daily fire since war

Hezbollah chief to break silence on Israel-Hamas war

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- Times Report - November 3, 2023

Lebanon's Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Friday will break weeks of silence since war broke out between Hamas and Israel, in a speech that could impact the region as the Gaza conflict rages. After Hamas militants launched an unprecedented October 7 attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip, Lebanon's southern border

Casualties on Israel-Lebanon border as army trades fire with Hezbollah

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- Agence France-Presse - October 22, 2023

Casualties were reported along the Israel-Lebanon border Saturday as the army traded fire with the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah amid fears of a new front opening as Israel battles Hamas. In south Lebanon, Hezbollah said four of its fighters were killed. Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad said one of its fighters