Hezbollah attacked Thursday a base in the occupied Golan Heights with an array of suicide drones in response to Wednesday's strikes on the Bekaa and al-Masnaa.
The Israeli army said that several drones have exploded in northern Golan, causing no casualties.
Full StoryA number of protesting depositors on Thursday torched the entrance of Banque Libano-Française (BLF) in the Dora area, trapping employees inside the bank.
Several citizens meanwhile rushed to remove their cars from the area to avoid the spread of flames to them.
Full StoryAlthough former President Michel Aoun stands against Hezbollah’s clashes with Israel on Lebanon’s southern border, the former president is still keen on maintaining good relations with the Iran-backed group.
Aoun told pro-Hezbollah al-Akhbar newspaper, in remarks published Thursday, that he would be happy if Hezbollah won the war with Israel, although he opposes it. "I would celebrate with them if they won, and would be sad if, God forbid, they lost."
Full StoryMP Ibrahim Kanaan of the Strong Lebanon bloc on Wednesday announced his resignation from the Free Patriotic Movement led by MP Jebran Bassil.
Kanaan had on August 14 announced an initiative aimed at “unifying the ranks” of the FPM.
Full StoryIsraeli warplanes raided Wednesday the Taoumat Niha heights near the town of Ain al-Tineh in the Western Bekaa, hours after an air strike hit a lorry loaded with Hezbollah missiles in the Rasm al-Hadath area in the Baalbek region.
Hezbollah later announced the death of one of its members from the city of Baalbek on the road to Jerusalem.
Full StoryEgyptian Ambassador to Lebanon Alaa Moussa has said that Cairo is working on sparing Lebanon a bigger war through its efforts to reach a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.
Noting that “this has been Egypt’s stance from the beginning,” Moussa said Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has stressed “the need not to expand the conflict or ignite the southern front.”
Full StoryDruze leader Walid Jumblat has noted that Hezbollah’s response to the assassination of the commander Fouad Shukur was “very calculated.”
“Hezbollah’s penetration of the Israeli defenses is an important matter,” Jumblat added, in an interview on Qatar’s al-Arabi TV.
Full StoryFree Patriotic Movement chief MP Jebran Bassil has again criticized Hezbollah’s so-called “Gaza support front” in south Lebanon, noting that “the FPM had the courage from the first day after October 7 to demand that Lebanon not be linked to other arenas and to the interests of other countries.”
“Since that date, Lebanon has been fearing strikes, and unfortunately this matter has affected the arrival of expats during the month of August,” Bassil added, in a speech at the annual dinner of the FPM’s Koura department.
Full StoryA Lebanese security source said Wednesday that an Israeli air strike hit a lorry loaded with Hezbollah missiles overnight, days after a major flare-up between the regional foes.
Contacted by AFP, the Israeli military did not immediately comment.
Full StoryKandice Ardiel, the Deputy Spokesperson of the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), has said that the situation in south Lebanon has become less tense following Sunday’s flare-up between Israel and Hezbollah.
In an interview with al-Hurra television, Ardiel added that she is reassured that the war will end soon.
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