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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Beirut, April 5 (IANS) The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) has said that it will file a formal protest after Israeli soldiers destroyed surveillance cameras installed at its headquarters in Naqoura. UNIFIL spokesperson Candice Ardell said in a statement on Saturday (local time) that Israeli troops had, since Friday, destroyed all cameras facing the Menghi road at the mission’s general headquarters in Naqoura.The cameras were positioned solely to monitor the UNIFIL compound’s imm…
Beirut, Feb 21 (IANS) Three commanders from the Lebanese Hezbollah group and eight others were killed, with 35 more were injured, in a series of Israeli airstrikes on eastern Lebanon on Friday, according to official and Lebanese security sources. Lebanon’s official National News Agency (NNA) reported a preliminary toll, stating that over 10 individuals had died and more than 30 were wounded in the airstrike on a building in Riyaq, eastern Lebanon.A source from the Lebanese Civil Defence told Xin…
Tel Aviv, Jan 6 (IANS) Israel has carried out airstrikes on multiple Hezbollah and Hamas sites in Lebanon, including the country’s third-largest city, Israeli and Lebanese sources said.Video footage circulating on social media showed heavy destruction and a large cloud of smoke rising over the coastal city of Sidon following an Israeli strike at around 1 a.m. on Monday (local time). The strikes also continued till early Tuesday.Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said the strike destroyed a…
Jerusalem, Dec 22 (IANS) The Israeli military carried out airstrikes in southern Lebanon on Monday, saying it targetted Hezbollah sites. “The IDF (Israel Defence Forces) struck several Hezbollah terrorists in the area of Sidon in southern Lebanon,” a military spokesperson said in a statement.On Friday, the two sides held talks again as part of a security dialogue, focusing on Hezbollah’s disarmament and the return of residents to their homes in Lebanon’s southern border villages, according to Is…