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Hezbollah retaliates after Israeli strike kills 3 Civil Defense members

Hezbollah said Sunday that it staged two separate rocket attacks on Israel's Kiryat Shmona and a third on the Shamir settlement further north, in response to the "massacre" in the southern town of Froun that killed three Lebanese Civil Defense members and wounded two others.

On Saturday, Lebanon's health ministry said three emergency responders were killed and two others wounded, one of them critically, in an Israeli strike on Froun.

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Hezbollah shells Israel's Mt. Neria after intensive strikes on Lebanon valley

Hezbollah said Saturday that it fired volleys of Katyusha rockets at Israel’s Mount Neria military base in response to an overnight attack on the southern town of Froun, after the Israeli army said its warplanes attacked “over 15 rocket launchers” there.

“Fighter jets of the Air Force, under the direction of the Northern Command, attacked more than 15 launchers and military infrastructures of … Hezbollah in southern Lebanon in the last hour,” the Israeli army said.

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Judge Aoun wants Salameh to appear before her Wednesday

Mount Lebanon Prosecutor Judge Ghada Aoun on Friday called for detained former Central Bank chief Riad Salameh to appear before her on Wednesday, holding State Prosecutor Judge Jammal al-Jarrah responsible should security forces fail to bring Salameh to the hearing session.

“I reiterate that the Optimum file has been open at the Public Prosecution Office of Mount Lebanon since the issuance of the Capital Markets Authority report around two years ago, and it is also based on the complaint stemming from the Alvarez & Marsal report,” Aoun said in an X post.

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Geagea 'flexible' but not with Berri's dialogue or Hezbollah's war

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea insists on boycotting a presidential dialogue initiated by Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, as Lebanon remains without a president since Michel Aoun's term ended in October 2022, almost two years ago.

"I am flexible," Geagea said in a radio interview on Thursday night. "But I cannot be flexible about Hezbollah's decision to start a war in south Lebanon," he added, as he dubbed Berri's dialogue anew "unconstitutional".

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Ex-FPM MPs to form 'consultative gathering', al-Rahi supportive

The four MPs who have recently become outside the Free Patriotic Movement intend to form “a consultative parliamentary gathering, that would become a pressure group, not a bloc nor a party, and its current main mission would be to produce a solution for the presidential crises,” the four MPs’ sources told al-Jadeed TV.

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Le Drian meets Aloula in KSA, Beirut visit uncertain

French presidential envoy Jean-Yves Le Drian held a meeting overnight in Riyadh with Saudi Royal Court adviser Nizar al-Aloula, who is in charge of the Lebanese file, in the presence of Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Walid Bukhari.

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Hezbollah-Israel border clashes: Latest developments

Hezbollah targeted Friday several Israeli posts while Israeli warplanes raided several times the southern border village of Aitaroun.

Hezbollah targeted the Ma'ayan Baruch post in northern Israel with a suicide drone, and later the Zebdine barracks and buildings and surveillance equipment in Metula and Menara. The group also targeted a post in the occupied Shebaa Farms.

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Ex-FPM MPs meet al-Rahi, discuss ways to 'save the country'

Deputy Speaker Elias Bou Saab and MPs Ibrahim Kanaan, Alain Aoun and Simon Abi Ramia met Thursday in Diman with Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi.

Bou Saab and Aoun have been recently expelled from the Free Patriotic Movement while Abi Ramia and Kanaan have resigned from it.

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One person killed in Israeli strike on Kafra

One person was killed Thursday and another one was wounded in an Israeli strike on the southern town of Kafra, nearly 11 months since hostilities broke out between Israel and Hezbollah.

Hezbollah later announced the death of one of its fighters "on the road to Jerusalem."

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Gantz tells Netanyahu 'flashy presentations' won't return northerners home

Former Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz on Wednesday lashed out at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his handling of the confrontation with Hezbollah.

“Another day when the residents of the north feel first hand the complete failure that this government has brought upon us,” Gantz said in a post on X, referring to dozens of rockets fired by Hezbollah at northern Israel earlier in the day.

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