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"The next stage in the war against Hezbollah will begin soon," Gallant told a meeting of local council heads in northern Israel, according to a statement from his office
Following the death of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in an Israeli airstrike, tensions in the Middle East have reached new heights.
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has reportedly implied that Israel is gearing up for a ground offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon
Hezbollah's deputy leader vowed to continue fighting Israel and said the militant group was prepared for a long war after much of its top command was wiped out, including its leader, Hassan Nasrallah. In first speech since Nasrallah was killed, Naim Kassem said in a televised statement Monday that if Israel decides to launch a ground offensive, Hezbollah fighters are ready to fight and defend Lebanon. As deputy secretary-general, Naim Kassem now is the acting leader of Hezbollah until a replacement for Nasrallah is chosen. Kassem added that despite the killing of Hezbollah's top military commanders over the past months, Hezbollah now is relying on new commanders. "Israel was not able to affect our (military) capabilities, Kassem said. There are deputy commanders and there are replacements in case a commander is wounded in any post.
An apparent Israeli airstrike on central Beirut has levelled an apartment building. It came after Israel hit targets across Lebanon and killed dozens of people, as Hezbollah sustained heavy blows to its command structure, including the killing of its leader, Hassan Nasrallah. The early Monday airstrike the first to hit central Beirut in nearly a year of conflict hit a multistory residential building, according to an Associated Press journalist at the scene. Videos showed ambulances and a crowd gathered near the building in a mainly Sunni district with a busy thoroughfare lined with shops. Separately, an Israeli airstrike early Monday killed a family of four in central Gaza, Palestinian officials said. In the past week, Israel has frequently targeted Beirut's southern suburbs, where Hezbollah has a strong presence including a major strike on Friday that killed Nasrallah but had not hit locations near the city centre. The Lebanese Health Ministry said at least 105 people were kil
While both sides have been preparing for a new conflict for years, the trigger for the escalation began on September 18, when Israel struck the first blow by detonating thousands of pagers and mobiles
Hezbollah's presence in parliament and the Lebanese government, and its alliance with various political parties, allowed it to control the country and veto decisions that do not fit its agenda or prom
Fearing that Hezbollah might carry out a similar incursion in Galilee, resulting in a massacre of the Jewish population, the Israeli govt evacuated roughly 100,000 citizens living near Lebanese border
Israel on Sunday launched airstrikes against the Houthi militia in Yemen
Israel's assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Friday in Beirut dealt an even bigger blow
Renowned for his compelling oratory, strategic insight, and leadership abilities, Hassan Nasrallah transformed Hezbollah into Israel's most formidable non-state adversary
Following the death of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Friday, Israel intensified attacks on Lebanon while waging simultaneous airstrikes on Houthis in Yemen
Meanwhile, tensions also escalated in the Middle East after Hezbollah launched missile strikes targeting Haifa and northern Israel
There may be only a very short window for Netanyahu to develop a still missing political strategy to end the war and win the peace
In just over a week, intensified Israeli strikes in Lebanon killed seven high-ranking commanders and officials from the powerful Hezbollah militant group, including the group's leader, Hassan Nasrallah. The move left Lebanon and much of the Mideast in shock as Israeli officials celebrated major military and intelligence breakthroughs. Hezbollah had opened a front to support its ally Hamas in the Gaza Strip a day after the Palestinian group's surprise attack into southern Israel. The recent strikes in Lebanon and the assassination of Nasrallah are a significant escalation in the war in the Middle East, this time between Israel and Hezbollah. Lebanon's most powerful military and political force now finds itself trying to recuperate from severe blows, having lost key members who have been part of Hezbollah since its establishment in the early 1980s. Chief among them was Nasrallah, who was killed in a series of airstrikes that leveled several buildings in southern Beirut. Others were
Hezbollah has confirmed that one of its senior commanders, Ali Karaki, died in the Israeli airstrike that killed its top leader Hassan Nasrallah on Friday. Israel has killed several top commanders in the Lebanese militant group in recent weeks in a series of strikes. Earlier on Sunday, Israel said it killed another senior commander, Nabil Kaouk, the day before. Hezbollah has not yet confirmed his death.
After a week of appeals from world leaders at UN to avoid all-out war in Middle East, Israel seems to be doing just the opposite, its planes demolishing what Iran and Hezbollah set as red lines
Israel has been bombarding southern Lebanon all week, after saying it was switching the focus of its military operations
The Israeli military says it has killed another high-ranking Hezbollah official in an airstrike. The military said on Sunday that it killed Nabil Kaouk, the deputy head of Hezbollah's Central Council, in an airstrike the day before. There was no immediate comment from Hezbollah. Several senior Hezbollah commanders have been killed in Israeli strikes in recent weeks, including the group's overall leader, Hassan Nasrallah, in Beirut on Friday.