THE TELEGRAPH: Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to punish Iran after a Hezbollah drone attempted to “assassinate” him and his wife at their weekend residence.
The drone caused little damage to the residence in the coastal city of Cesearea, and both he and his wife were out when it struck, the Israeli prime minister’s office said in a statement.
In a statement on Saturday night, Mr Netanyahu said the “attempt by Iran’s proxy Hezbollah to assassinate me and my wife today was a grave mistake”.
“This will not deter me or the State of Israel from continuing our just war against our enemies in order to secure our future.
“I say to Iran and its proxies in its axis of evil: anyone who tries to harm Israel’s citizens will pay a heavy price,” he added.
The attack marked the first time a target directly affiliated with the Israeli leader had been hit since the start of the war. » | Harriet Barber | Saturday, October 19, 2024
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Saturday, October 19, 2024
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
Israel Strikes Beirut Suburb, Targeting Hezbollah Commander
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Tensions have soared between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah since a strike on Saturday in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights killed children and teenagers playing soccer.
Israel carried out a strike in Beirut on Tuesday night, retaliating for an assault that killed 12 children and teenagers in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights over the weekend. The Israeli military said it had targeted a commander whom it blamed for the attack, fueling Western concerns that Israel’s long-running conflict with the powerful Lebanese militia Hezbollah could escalate further.
The Israeli strike was the second time during the war that the Israeli military has targeted Lebanon’s capital, after the killing of a senior Hamas leader there in January.
The explosion in Beirut came after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that there would be a “severe” response for the Golan Heights attack, which hit a field where young people were playing soccer. Israel blamed Hezbollah, and the group denied responsibility for the assault, which landed in the Druse Arab village of Majdal Shams. Western officials had urged Israel to exercise restraint in its response. » | Ronen Bergman, Adam Rasgon and Euan Ward | Tuesday, July 30, 2024
Israel carried out a strike in Beirut on Tuesday night, retaliating for an assault that killed 12 children and teenagers in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights over the weekend. The Israeli military said it had targeted a commander whom it blamed for the attack, fueling Western concerns that Israel’s long-running conflict with the powerful Lebanese militia Hezbollah could escalate further.
The Israeli strike was the second time during the war that the Israeli military has targeted Lebanon’s capital, after the killing of a senior Hamas leader there in January.
The explosion in Beirut came after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that there would be a “severe” response for the Golan Heights attack, which hit a field where young people were playing soccer. Israel blamed Hezbollah, and the group denied responsibility for the assault, which landed in the Druse Arab village of Majdal Shams. Western officials had urged Israel to exercise restraint in its response. » | Ronen Bergman, Adam Rasgon and Euan Ward | Tuesday, July 30, 2024
Thursday, October 19, 2023
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Tuesday, October 10, 2023
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Friday, August 31, 2018
Monday, September 21, 2015
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Syrie : Poutine a rencontré Netanyahu à Moscou
Le président Vladimir Poutine a rencontré lundi à Moscou le Premier ministre israélien Benjamin Netanyahu pour discuter du conflit en Syrie alors que la Russie est accusée par Washington d'y renforcer sa présence militaire. « Il était très important de venir ici en vue de clarifier notre politique, et faire en sorte qu'il n'y ait aucun malentendu entre nos forces », a déclaré Benjamin Netanyahu au début de la rencontre, selon un communiqué de son bureau. Le Premier ministre israélien a également prévenu qu'il était déterminé à mettre fin aux livraisons d'armes au Hezbollah par la Syrie et l'Iran, et accusé les deux pays de vouloir « ouvrir un second front » contre Israël.
« La politique russe au Proche-Orient sera toujours réfléchie », a pour sa part assuré le président russe, affirmant que la Syrie ne voulait pas s'attaquer à Israël, selon des images de la télévision russe. « Nous savons et nous comprenons que l'armée syrienne et la Syrie en général sont dans un tel état qu'elles ne peuvent ouvrir un second front. La Syrie essaie seulement de préserver son indépendance », a affirmé Vladimir Poutine. Le service de presse de Benjamin Netanyahu a affirmé qu'il était venu en Russie pour discuter des « forces militaires russes en Syrie » et pour « exposer les menaces pesant sur Israël à la suite du renforcement militaire sur la scène syrienne et de la fourniture d'armement au Hezbollah et à d'autres organisations terroristes ». » | Source AFP | lundi 21 septembre 2015
Tuesday, July 09, 2013
Car Bomb Rocks Shia Suburb in Beirut
Monday, October 15, 2012
THE JERUSALEM POST: Israeli envoy to UN warns Security Council that southern Lebanon has become storage facility for 50,000 missiles; slams EU countries who label Hezbollah a political group: "It's like calling the Mafia a gentleman's club."
Just days after Hezbollah head Hassan Nasrallah took responsibility for the recent drone sent over Israel, Israel's ambassador to the UN Ron Prosor warned the Security Council Monday that "Hezbollah’s continued provocation and military buildup could have devastating consequences for the region."
Prosor, in a blunt speech during the Security Council's monthly debate on the Middle East, said – in a reference to the EU – that "some countries around this table continue to define Hezbollah as a charitable and political group, not a terrorist organization. This is no less ridiculous than describing the Mafia as a gentleman’s social club," he said. » | Herb Keinon | Monday, October 15, 2012
Sunday, October 14, 2012
The last time Hezbollah attacked Israel, a rocket exploded next to Adam Bloom's house while his wife was in the shower.
"She was hysterical," he said. Afterwards it took hours to coax her and their two terrified young daughters out of the bomb shelter where they fled.
"Hezbollah had about 10,000 rockets then but they are supposed to have more like 50,000 now, so how many will be fired at us if they start again?" said Mr Bloom, 49.
The family, whose kibbutz is 30 miles south of the Lebanon border, had thought they were safely out of range in 2006. When rockets started landing they jumped in the car and headed south with 350,000 other Israelis, to spend weeks as refugees in their own country.
This time it is not only the north that is being prepared for a new conflict, one that Israelis fear could be much worse than anything since 1973. The trigger would be the long-threatened Israeli airstrike on Iran's nuclear programme.
The whole country is uneasily aware that Iran has giant rockets to fire back at Tel Aviv and Haifa in retaliation, and that it has armed its ally Hezbollah in Lebanon with Scuds and similar medium-range missiles, weapons it didn't have in 2006. » | Nick Meo in Jerusalem | Sunday, October 14, 2012
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Monday, June 13, 2011
Le Premier ministre désigné au Liban Najib Mikati a annoncé lundi, après cinq mois de négociations ardues, un nouveau gouvernement de 30 ministres. Ce cabinet est dominé par le puissant Hezbollah chiite et ses alliés.
«Nous avons surmonté les obstacles et nous allons nous mettre tout de suite au travail», a affirmé Najib Mikati à la presse à l’issue de l’annonce de la formation du gouvernement.
Le Hezbollah et ses alliés, notamment le chrétien Michel Aoun, se sont taillés la part du lion avec 19 portefeuilles, dont la Justice et la Défense. Sur ces 19 postes, deux vont au Hezbollah et les 17 autres reviennent aux alliés.
Les onze portefeuilles restants ont été répartis entre les partisans du président de la République Michel Sleimane, de M. Mikati et du leader druze Walid Joumblatt, considérés comme «neutres». » | ATS/AFP | Lundi 13 Juin 2011
Friday, January 14, 2011
BBC: Hezbollah and its allies have threatened to quit the Lebanese cabinet unless their demands over a UN tribunal probing the murder of ex-premier Rafik Hariri are met.
The move would automatically bring down the government, ministers have warned.
Tension has been high in Lebanon, amid indications that Hezbollah members could be indicted by the UN tribunal.
The US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, told the BBC's Kim Ghattas that there was no reason to expect the tensions to lead to violent unrest.
Mrs Clinton said the US will "continue to support the integrity of an independent sovereign Lebanon". Watch BBC video >>> | Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Friday, July 30, 2010
LE TEMPS: Le président syrien Bachar al-Assad, qui effectue sa première visite au Liban depuis l’assassinat de l’ex-premier ministre Rafic Hariri, est arrivé vendredi à Beyrouth. Il était accompagné du roi saoudien Abdallah pour une mission conjointe destinée à apaiser les tensions.
Les deux dirigeants sont arrivés en début d’après-midi à l’aéroport international de Beyrouth à bord du même avion, celui du roi saoudien, en provenance de Damas, où ils s’étaient entretenus la veille.
Ils ont été accueillis par le président libanais Michel Sleimane, le premier ministre Saad Hariri, un proche de Ryad, le président du Parlement Nabih Berri, plusieurs ministres, dont un représentant le Hezbollah, et d’autres officiels. >>> ATS | Vendredi 30 Juillet 2010
Monday, July 26, 2010
TRIBUNE DE GENÈVE: PROCHE-ORIENT | Israël frappera directement les institutions gouvernementales libanaises si le Hezbollah lance des roquettes contre des villes israéliennes, avertit le ministre de la Défense, Ehud Barak, dans une interview au "Washington Post".
M. Barak, qui est attendu à Washington lundi, indique clairement dans cet entretien que le gouvernement israélien ne tolérera aucune nouvelle attaque du mouvement chiite.
Si le Hezbollah lance une roquette sur Tel Aviv, "nous ne poursuivrons pas chaque terroriste ou chaque attaquant du Hezbollah", avertit Ehud Barak dans l'interview. "Nous considérerons qu'il est légitime de frapper n'importe quelle cible appartenant à l'Etat libanais et pas seulement au Hezbollah". >>> AFP | Lundi 26 Juillet 2010
Wednesday, July 07, 2010
YNET NEWS: Turkish prime minister calls Hezbollah leader to offer condolences over death of Shiite spiritual leader. Nasrallah thanks him for call and for his stand on Palestinian-Israeli conflict, saying 'your positions have given hope to the Arab and Muslim world'
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan offered his condolences to Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah over the death of Shiite spiritual leader Ayatollah Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah. The Lebanese movement's al-Manar network reported Wednesday that Nasrallah thanked Erdogan and the Turkish nation.
According to the report, Nasrallah spoke with the Turkish leader via telephone following the ayatollah's death which was publicized to Shiites throughout the world. Erdogan expressed his sorrow to the family of Fadlallah and the Lebanese people. Nasrallah thanked him for the call and for his stance in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, saying "your positions have given hope to the Arab and Muslim world."
The ayatollah was hospitalized after a brain hemorrhage and passed away on Sunday. >>> Roee Nahmias | Wednesday, July 07, 2010
Friday, May 28, 2010
TIMES ONLINE: Israeli tanks lie smashed and upturned on a remote mountaintop in south Lebanon, while Hezbollah fighters, wearing camouflaged uniforms and carrying rifles, crouch near by in the dense undergrowth.
The scene could be the latest battle between the militant Shia group and Israeli troops, but while the tanks are real, the fighters are plastic dummies and the display is part of a newly opened tourist project to mark the tenth anniversary of Israel’s withdrawal from south Lebanon.
That historic event — the first time Israel unilaterally abandoned occupied Arab land — comes at a time of heightened tension in the region amid fears that another war is brewing between Hezbollah and the Jewish state.
Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, the Hezbollah leader, vowed in a speech on Tuesday night that in the next war, his organisation could attack Israel-bound shipping in the Mediterranean.
Addressing Israel, he said: “If you launch a new war on Lebanon, if you blockade our coastline, all military, civilian or commercial ships heading through the Mediterranean to occupied Palestine will be targeted by the Islamic resistance.” Read on and comment >>> Nicholas Blanford | Thursday, May 27, 2010
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
LE FIGARO: Le président alaouite a affirmé au chef de la diplomatie que ni Damas ni le Hezbollah ne déclencheraient de guerre contre Israël.
Y a-t-il ou non, au Proche-Orient, le risque d'une réédition de la conflagration de l'été 2006, qui avait vu 33 jours de guerre entre le Hezbollah et Israël ? Les Occidentaux pensent que oui. Cette inquiétude est nourrie par les rapports des services de renseignements américains et israéliens, estimant que la milice islamiste chiite libanaise ne cesse de se réarmer. Selon les Israéliens, il ne s'agirait pas seulement d'une reconstitution quantitative de ses stocks de roquettes, mais aussi d'une amélioration qualitative, avec l'acquisition clandestine par le Hezbollah de missiles Scud. En février dernier s'était tenu à Damas un «sommet de la Résistance» (à Israël), où les présidents iranien et syrien avaient posé pour les photographes avec Hassan Nasrallah. Que le charismatique secrétaire général du Hezbollah ait été, à Damas, traité à l'égal d'un chef d'État, avait fortement déplu, non seulement au président et au premier ministre libanais, mais aussi aux chefs des diplomaties française et américaine, qui poursuivent depuis 2008 une politique d'«engagement constructif» à l'égard de la Syrie. >>> Par Renaud Girard | Lundi 24 Mai 2010
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