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Joe Biden Believes Diplomatic Solution To Israel-Hezbollah Conflict “Achievable”

September 19, 2024 admin

Biden believes there can still be a diplomatic resolution between Israel and Hezbollah. Washington: US President Joe Biden believes there can still be a diplomatic resolution to escalating tensions between Israel and Hezbollah following a series of pager and walkie-talkie bombings, his spokeswoman said Thursday. “He believes it’s achievable,” Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told a…

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A Look At Covert Israeli Ops

September 19, 2024 admin

Israel has neither confirmed nor denied responsibility for the pager attack in Lebanon Lebanon has blamed Israel for the sabotage of thousands of pagers that caused them to explode, killing several people and wounding thousands, in an apparent bid to weaken the Islamist militant group Hezbollah. Israel has neither confirmed nor denied responsibility for the…

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Fears Of All-Out War As New Lebanon Device Blasts Kill Dozens

September 18, 2024 admin

Fourteen people were killed and more than 450 wounded in the latest attacks in Lebanon. Beirut: A second wave of device explosions killed 14 people and wounded more than 450 others on Wednesday in Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon, officials said, stoking fears of an all-out war with Israel. A source close to Hezbollah said walkie-talkies…

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Lebanon’s Pager Attacks: What’s Next For Hezbollah?

September 18, 2024 admin

One could easily dismiss it as a spy film plot if it weren’t so real: a highly sophisticated ‘pager attack’ purportedly by Israeli agencies has left dozens dead and opened a new front in the ongoing Gaza crisis. Nine people were reported killed and over 2,700, including civilians, were injured when a series of text…

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UN Says Lebanon Pager Blasts ‘Extremely Concerning Escalation’

September 17, 2024 admin

At least 2,800 people injured in pager explosionsacros in Lebanon on Tuesday Beirut: The United Nations said pager explosions that killed nine people and wounded 2,800 across Lebanon Tuesday marked “an extremely concerning escalation” nearly one year into the Gaza war. “The developments today mark an extremely concerning escalation in what is an already unacceptably…

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Exploding pagers in Lebanon LIVE updates: Girl killed, Iran’s Ambassador to Lebanon injured in blast

September 17, 2024 admin

An ambulance arrives at a hospital as more than 1,000 people, including Hezbollah fighters and medics, were wounded on September 17, 2024, when the pagers they use to communicate exploded across Lebanon, according to a security source, in Beirut, Lebanon. | Photo Credit: Reuters Dozens of people, including Iran’s ambassador, were wounded in Beirut’s suburbs…

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Lebanese Forces Chief Condemns Hezbollah On Fight With Israel

September 2, 2024 admin

Hezbollah announced that one of its fighters had been killed by Israeli fire (file). Beirut, Lebanon: The head of the Christian political party Lebanese Forces on Sunday accused Hezbollah of dragging the country into a war with Israel without consulting the people. In a speech attacking the Shiite Muslim group, Samir Geagea, who heads the…

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Watch: What’s Hezbollah, and why is the militia permanently at war with Israel?

August 31, 2024 admin

Watch: What’s Hezbollah, and why is the militia permanently at war with Israel? Fuad Shukr, the ‘ghost’ commander of Hezbollah, was killed on July 31 in an Israeli strike in Beirut. Shukr was the seniormost Hezbollah commander killed by Israel in the 10-month long war. Hezbollah had vowed to avenge Shukr’s death. In the early…

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Clashes Between Israel And Hezbollah Since 2006 War

August 26, 2024 admin

More than 40,000 people have been killed in Gaza since war began between Israel and Hamas (File). Paris: After an escalation of hostilities Sunday amid over 10 months of cross-border clashes between Israel and Lebanon’s powerful Hezbollah movement, here are the major eruptions of violence since their 2006 war. The devastating month-long war in the…

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How Israeli Air Force Hit Hezbollah

August 26, 2024 admin

Over 100 Israeli warplanes participated in the preemptive assault. New Delhi: The Israeli Air Force (IAF) on Sunday conducted a series of precision strikes on Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, thwarting what Israeli officials described as a large-scale attack. The strikes, which began at 5 am local time, were part of a military campaign aimed at…

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