Hezbollah fired rockets at Tel Aviv, Netanya, and other coastal and central cities in Israel on Wednesday morning local time, setting off air raid warnings and sending residents scrambling to bomb shelters and safe rooms.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spent over half of his very lengthy address to the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) on Tuesday criticizing Israel for its war against the terrorists of Hamas and Hezbollah. Erdogan accused the Israelis of genocide, compared them to Nazi Germany, and demanded the U.N. authorize “coercive measures against Israel” to halt the war in Gaza.
Hezbollah has transformed large parts of Lebanon into a “military terrorist base,” according to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX).
Israel killed Hezbollah missile commander Ibraham al-Kubaisi in an airstrike on the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiya on Tuesday, in an attack that was apparently confirmed by Lebanese sources.
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi said Tuesday that Israel will not give Hezbollah a break from attack, as Israeli Air Force (IAF) warplanes launched a third wave of attacks in Lebanon.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) revealed photos Monday of a Hezbollah missile being stored in a private home in southern Lebanon, as civilians heeded a warning by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to flee the area.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of Iran has reportedly ordered all of its members to stop using communications devices, at least until they can all be inspected.
Israeli warplanes targeted more than 300 Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon on Monday and Israel warned civilians to evacuate the area as more intense strikes are on the way.
Netanyahu to the people of Lebanon: “I have a message for the people of Lebanon: Israel’s war is not with you. It’s with Hezbollah.”
Israel has “run out of patience,” declared former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who defended the Jewish State’s right to protect its citizens from terror, calling on his government to end its “shameful” restraint in response to Hezbollah’s unprovoked rocket attacks, while comparing the situation to a hypothetical attack on the U.S. from Cuba.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) issued a warning Monday to civilians in southern Lebanon to leave homes and buildings that are used by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terror group to store weapons, because of imminent attacks.
Israeli Prime Minsiter Benjamin Netanyahu issued statements in Hebrew and English on Sunday after the Israeli military pounded the Iranian-backed terror group in southern Lebanon, following several days of stunning strikes.
Hezbollah rockets triggered air raid sirens near the Christian holy site of Capernaum on Sunday morning, according to Israeli websites that provide alerts about incoming rockets, missiles, and drones to allow Israelis to take cover.
Israelis woke up Sunday to air raid sirens across the northern portion of the country as Hezbollah fired scores of rockets, causing damage and fires in open areas, but not causing any serious injuries, thanks to Israel’s defenses.
The explosions of pagers and walkie-talkies that Lebanon’s Hezbollah terrorists obtained from foreign suppliers prompt worldwide anxiety.
Israel killed Ibrahim Aqil, a senior Hezbollah terrorist partly responsible for the 1983 bombing of a U.S. Marines barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, on Friday as he gathered underground with fellow terrorists in southern Beirut.
Japanese handheld radio manufacturer Icom denies any connection to the discontinued radios that exploded in Hezbollah’s hands.
The Lebanon National News Agency reported that rooftop solar arrays in Beirut exploded at the same as Hezbollah’s walkie-talkies.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry condemned a string of explosions throughout Lebanon, apparently targeting Hezbollah terrorists, on Friday.
Civil aviation leaders in Lebanon announced on Thursday that passengers would no longer be allowed to bring pagers and walkie-talkies on flights, either in carry-on luggage or checked, after hundreds of the devices exploded nationwide this week.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has told residents of northern Israel and the Golan Heights to remain near bomb shelters as Israel intensified its airstrikes against Hezbollah and the terror group fired hundreds of rockets Friday.
Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) slammed the “selective outrage” of those condemning Israel’s reported precision strikes against Hezbollah operatives while ignoring the terrorist group’s near-daily indiscriminate attacks against the Jewish state over the last year.
Brigadier General Amir Avivi (Res.) warned Breitbart News in early September that Israel would likely go to war in Lebanon against the Iranian-backed terror group Hezbollah before the U.S. elections in November.
The Israeli Air Force (IAF) buzzed Beirut during a speech by Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Iranian-backed terror group Hezbollah, in which he vowed revenge for a wave of pager and walkie-talkie attacks over the previous two days.
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi addressed the possibility of war with Hezbollah on Wednesday, in the wake of electronic devices exploding in Lebanon: “We still have many capabilities that we have not yet activated.”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) condemned Israel for a pager attack that killed 12 and wounded nearly 3,000 in Lebanon on Tuesday, most of whom were officials within or connected to the Hezbollah terrorist organization.
“I already said, we will return the residents of the north in safety to their homes. And that is exactly what we will do.”
Taiwanese company Gold Apollo, implicated as the supplier of the explodinig Hezbollah pagers, plans to sue the Hungarian licensee who made them.
The U.S. State Department insisted on Tuesday that it had no prior knowledge of or involvement in a string of explosions apparently targeting Hezbollah terrorists throughout Lebanon and Syria.
The day after thousands of Hezbollah terror suspects were injured, and reportedly a dozen people killed, by their pagers almost simultaneously exploding, Lebanese and Iranian media reported a second wave of radio device detonations.
Three Hezbollah operatives were killed Wednesday and hundreds more were injured as walkie-talkies or two-way radios exploded in Beirut and southern Lebanon, a day after exploding pagers killed 12 and wounded thousands.
A Lebanese minister reported Tuesday that eight people had been killed and 2,800 injured in an apparent attack on Hezbollah members and fighters that targeted the pagers that the organization has been using for communications.
Hundreds of alleged members of the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror organization were wounded on Tuesday when their pagers, which apparently had been hacked, exploded simultaneously in Beirut and elsewhere in Lebanon.
Israel’s security cabinet, which is responsible for setting military policy, decided early Tuesday morning to adopt the return of the residents of northern Israel’s border towns to their homes as an official war goal.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has launched a series of airstrikes in recent days against Iranian targets in Syria, including a daring ground raid in which troops seized equipment and documents, according to reports in Israel.
U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Charles Q. Brown met with Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant and Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi on Monday, a day after Israel’s preemptive strike on Lebanon.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Monday that 90% of the Hezbollah rockets that were intercepted Sunday were fired from civilian areas in southern Lebanon, a further violation of international law by the Iran-backed terror group.
Hezbollah is being widely mocked after claiming on Sunday that it was attacking military targets in Israel, but hitting a chicken coop and little else.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Sunday that it had hit “thousands” of Hezbollah rocket launchers in southern Lebanon in a pre-dawn preemptive strike to thwart an attack on Tel Aviv. Lebanon reported one dead in the attack.
Israel launched pre-emptive strikes on Hezbollah targets in Lebanon in “self-defense” after identifying missile preparations, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), which warned civilians to evacuate immediately while vowing to do “everything… to defend the people of Israel.”
