Hezbollah’s new leader Naim Qassem said on Wednesday that the group would agree to a ceasefire with Israel under acceptable terms, but added that a viable deal has yet to be presented. Qassem, who was named Hezbollah secretary general on Tuesday, did not explicitly link a Lebanon ceasefire to an end to fighting in Gaza,…
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant on Tuesday said that Hezbollah’s new chief, Naim Qassem, was a “temporary appointment” and that he won’t last “long”. His reaction came hours after the Iran-backed group announced that it had chosen deputy head Naim Qassem to succeed Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli strike in Lebanon’s Beirut…
BEIRUT (AP) — Hashem Safieddine, a strongman who rose through the ranks of the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah over decades to become the second-most powerful person within the organization, has died. Safieddine, who was about 60, was killed in early October in a series of Israeli airstrikes in a southern suburb of Beirut that…
Israel military has claimed the discovery of hundreds of millions of dollars in cash and gold in a bunker beneath a hospital in Beirut on Monday.Israel’s military said that it would not target the facility, continuing instead with strikes on Hezbollah’s financial assets elsewhere.Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, Israel’s chief military spokesman said in a televised…
New Delhi: Israel on Monday said it has declassified intelligence which claims the presence of a secret Hezbollah financial hub beneath a Beirut hospital. According to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), the bunker contained hundreds of millions of dollars in cash and gold, allegedly used to fund the group’s operations. This disclosure followed a series…
After attacking Israel Army’s Glilot base, Iran-backed and Lebanon-based Hezbollah unleashed 5 missile and rocket salvoes on Israeli troops in the north. Early morning, Hezbollah claimed attacks on Shlomi, Hanita, Al-Marj, Yir’un and IDF’s artillery positions in Dishon and Dalton. The IDF also announced that one more soldier was injured fighting Hezbollah’s Radwan force during…
The Israel Air Force carried out massive strikes targeting Hezbollah’s main headquarters: a bunker underneath a residential building in the Dahiyeh suburb, on the southern outskirts of Beirut. The strikes killed Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah and several other high-ranking leaders of the Hezbollah terror group and political party in Lebanon. Most of the Western…
Israel-Iran war updates: Hashem Safieddine, the likely successor to Hezbollah’s secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah, was killed along with his companions in an Israeli airstrike in southern Beirut, Saudi news outlet Al Hadath reported on Saturday. Senior Hezbollah official Hashem Safieddine speaks in Beirut’s southern suburbs, Lebanon. (REUTERS file) Al Hadath also claimed that Israel had confirmed…
Hashem Safieddine, the presumed successor of former Hezbollah secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah, was killed along with those with him in an Israeli strike in southern Beirut on Friday, the Saudi news organization Al Hadath reported on Saturday morning. The Saudi outlet claimed that Israel had confirmed the elimination, but The Jerusalem Post has not yet…
Joe Biden has urged Israel against striking Iran’s oil facilities, a day after he said the United States was discussing the possibility of such strikes with its ally. “If I were in their shoes, I’d be thinking about other alternatives than striking oil fields,” Mr Biden told reporters on Friday, adding that he believed Israel…