Jerusalem, April 26 (IANS) Prime Minister Netanyahu has ordered the Israel Defense Forces to vigorously attack Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, said the Government Press Office of Israel. He said that he had promised to change the face of the Middle East and that this is exactly what is being done.He added that, first and foremost, in Iran, he had an excellent conversation with President Trump, who is applying very strong pressure on Iran, both economically and militarily.He said that they…
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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…
Beirut, April 19 (IANS) Hezbollah’s leader Naim Qassem said that the ceasefire with Israel must mean a complete halt to aggression, warning the group will retaliate against Israeli violations in southern Lebanon.”There is no ceasefire from one side only,” Qassem said in a statement, adding that Hezbollah fighters “will respond to violations of aggression accordingly.”He outlined five key steps: a permanent halt to hostilities across Lebanon, a full Israeli withdrawal, detainee releases, the retu…
Jerusalem, April 9 (IANS) The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said on Thursday that it has killed Ali Yusuf Harshi, personal secretary of Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem, in Beirut. Harshi was also nephew of the Hezbollah chief who heads the Lebanese group backed by Iran. In a statement shared on X, the IDF said that it has also hit two key crossings used by Hezbollah for moving weapons south of the Litani River and 10 weapons storage sites, launchers and command centres in southern Lebanon….
Jerusalem, March 29 (IANS) Israel Defense Forces Spokesperson Effie Defrin said in a live broadcast update that within a few days, the Israeli military will complete the strikes on all vital components of Iran’s military industry.”This means that we will destroy most of Iran’s military production capabilities, and it will take the Iranian regime a long time to restore them,” Defrin added.”We continue to act according to a plan, with a systematic and extensive attack that is prepared in advance a…
Tel Aviv, March 28 (IANS) A man around 60 years old was killed in the central Israeli city of Tel Aviv by a missile launched from Iran, Israel’s national emergency service Magen David Adom (MDA) and the Israel Police said.According to the police, the incident involved a dispersing cluster munition missile that struck several locations in the Tel Aviv metropolitan area on Friday night (local time).It added that the fatality, a construction worker, was hit by shrapnel from a cluster munition relea…
Tehran/Jerusalem, March 21 (IANS) Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said on Saturday it has hit an Israeli F-16 Fighting Falcon in the country’s central airspace. In a statement published on its official news outlet Sepah News, the IRGC said the aircraft was struck at 3:45 a.m. local time by air defence systems of its Aerospace Division.It added that the country’s armed forces have successfully tracked and intercepted more than 200 hostile aerial targets, including drones, cruise mis…
Jerusalem, March 20 (IANS) The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) on Friday announced that spokesperson and head of the Public Relations Array of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Ali Mohammad Naini has been killed. According to the statement released by IDF, Naini served in several propaganda and public relations roles.”ELIMINATED: Ali Mohammad Naini, the Spokesperson and Head of the Public Relations Array of the IRGC. Naini served in several propaganda and public relations roles. In his ro…
Tel Aviv, March 17 (IANS) Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar on Tuesday termed the Joint Statement issued by the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom on the escalating conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, as “a distorted view of reality”.Earlier in the day, leaders of the five countries issued a joint statement, highlighting their grave concern over the escalating violence in Lebanon and called for immediate de-escalation and meaningful engagement by Israeli and L…
Tel Aviv/Tehran, March 7 (IANS) As tensions sharply escalated between the United States, Israel and Iran, the conflict entered its eighth day, with Israel carrying out a fresh round of strikes while explosions were reported at one of Tehran’s main commercial airports. The confrontation, which began on February 28 with a strike in Tehran, has steadily widened in scope. What initially appeared to be a series of aerial exchanges has now expanded into a broader theatre of conflict, including drone a…