Jerusalem, April 21 (IANS) Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz on Tuesday warned that if the Lebanese government continues to fail to meet its commitments under the ceasefire agreement, the Israeli military will act through further military action.Speaking at the national Memorial Day ceremony for fallen soldiers at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, Katz said that “the ultimate goal of our campaign in Lebanon is to disarm Hezbollah and remove the threat from Israel’s northern communities, through a com…
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Jerusalem, April 20 (IANS) Israel’s military released a map of a “buffer zone” it is working to establish in southern Lebanon, showing a broad area extending several kilometers inside Lebanese territory and forming a continuous belt from Lebanon’s Mediterranean territorial waters to the Mount Hermon area near the Syrian border.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Israel Katz have said that Israel will not withdraw its troops from the area, despite a temporary ceasefire that too…
Jerusalem, April 19 (IANS) The Israeli military said Sunday it killed Hezbollah’s Bint Jbeil commander, Ali Rida Abbas, along with more than 150 members of the group in “pre-ceasefire strikes” during the 24 hours before a US-mediated truce took effect, media reports said. The military said Abbas was the fourth Hezbollah commander for the Bint Jbeil area killed by Israel since October 2023. It described Bint Jbeil in southern Lebanon as a key frontline area for Hezbollah attacks, Xinhua News Agen…