The explosions of hundreds of pagers used by Hezbollah members across Lebanon and Syria on Tuesday and the detonation of a second wave of electronic devices a day later remain a mystery, though experts are calling the deadly blasts a sophisticated attack that likely took months of planning. The two waves of bombings killed at least 37 people, including at …
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Israel strikes Hezbollah targets in Lebanon after two rounds of device explosions
Israel launched a series of overnight strikes on sites in Lebanon where the Israeli military says Hezbollah terrorists operated. The strikes follow two waves of deadly electronic device explosions across Lebanon. The Israeli strikes targeted infrastructure sites in southern Lebanon, including the areas of Chihine, Tayibe, Blida, Meiss El Jabal, Aitaroun and Kfarkela, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Thursday. Israel …
Read More »Israel was behind Lebanon pager attack targeting Hezbollah, senior US official says, as new blasts reported
A senior U.S. official has confirmed to Fox News that Israel is behind the explosions of pagers used by members of Hezbollah in Lebanon as fresh blasts are being reported in Beirut. Near-simultaneous detonations of pagers used by those belonging to the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group killed at least 12 people, including two children, and wounded nearly 3,000 on Tuesday. …
Read More »Israel degrades Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists in spectacular pager explosion operation: experts
JERUSALEM — The Jewish state’s James Bond-style alleged hack attack on Tuesday that caused explosions of handheld pagers carried by thousands of members of the U.S.-designated terrorist movement Hezbollah was a devastating setback for the Lebanon-based organization. Fox News Digital spoke to leading U.S. and Israeli experts about the setback for the Iranian regime proxy. According to a Reuters report, …
Read More »‘High stakes diplomacy’: New book gives an inside look at efforts to bring home an American detained in Syria
Five years ago, 30-year-old Sam Goodwin entered Syria from Iraq as part of a years-long quest to visit every country in the world. His visit to war-torn Syria, country 181 of 193 for the St. Louis native, would be quick. Goodwin stayed in Qamishli, a city on the Turkey-Syria border, which he believed was under the control of the U.S.-backed …
Read More »Hezbollah terrorists launch massive rocket attack on Israel amid mounting tensions
JERUSALEM — The Lebanon-based Hezbollah terrorist movement on Wednesday pummeled Israel’s northern border, including Tiberias, where Jesus performed miracles, with rockets after the Jewish state eliminated a senior Hezbollah commander responsible for military operations. According to a statement from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), the “IDF struck a Hezbollah command and control center used to direct attacks from southeastern Lebanon …
Read More »Blinken lands in Egypt as Biden admin seeks to push ceasefire, prevent escalation with Hezbollah
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken landed in Egypt on Monday at a critical time as Washington seeks to increase pressure on Hamas and Israel to reach a ceasefire in Gaza and ensure the war does not expand into Lebanon. Blinken met with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo and is scheduled to travel to Israel later on Monday, …
Read More »Israel targets weapons, supply lines in Syria as tensions with Hezbollah threaten to boil over
Israel has intensified covert strikes in Syria against weapons sites, supply routes and Iranian-linked commanders, seven regional officials and diplomats said, ahead of a threatened full-scale assault on Tehran’s key ally Hezbollah in Lebanon. A June 2 air raid that killed 18 people, including an adviser with Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards, targeted a clandestine, fortified weapons site near Aleppo, three …
Read More »Netanyahu says Israel 'prepared for very intense action' against Iran-backed Hezbollah amid rising tensions
JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Wednesday morning that the Jewish state is”prepared for very intense action in the north” in response to the Lebanese terrorist movement Hezbollah’s continued rocket and drone attacks into northern Israel. Speaking from an Israeli military basein Kiryat Shmona, Netanyahu declared,”We said, at the start of the war, that we would restore …
Read More »Israel accused of using white phosphorus to harm civilians in Lebanon, rights group report says
A global human rights group accused Israel of using white phosphorus incendiary shells on residential buildings in at least five towns and villages in conflict-hit southern Lebanon, possibly harming civilians and violating international law, in a report published Wednesday. Human Rights Watch said in its report that there was no evidence of burn injuries due to white phosphorus in Lebanon, …
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