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Ya Libnan
22-04-2025
- Politics
- Ya Libnan
Lebanese authorities detain people who were planning rocket attacks on Israel
Lebanese authorities detained several people who were allegedly planning to launch rockets into Israel and seized the weapons, the military said Sunday. The army said the arrests were linked to other detentions announced earlier this week. It added that as military intelligence was investigating that case they got information that a new rocket attack was being planned. The army said troops raided an apartment near the southern port city of Sidon and seized some of the rockets and the launchers and detained several people who were involved in the operation. It said they were referred to judicial authorities. Authorities on Wednesday detained several people , including a number of Palestinians, who were allegedly involved in firing rockets toward Israel in two separate attacks in late March that triggered intense Israeli airstrikes on parts of Lebanon. Lebanon's Hezbollah group denied at the time that it was behind the firing of rockets. Meanwhile on Sunday, a series of Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon killed two people, the Lebanese Civil Defense said in a statement. The Israeli army said in a statement that it killed Hussein Ali Nasr, whom it described as the deputy head of Hezbollah's Unit 4400. Israel said Nasr helped smuggle weapons and funds into Lebanon via 'Iranian operatives,' including through Beirut airport. In a separate incident, three Lebanese soldiers were killed after ammunition a Lebanese army vehicle was carrying exploded, the army said in a statement. The circumstances in which the explosion happened were unclear. Since a November ceasefire ended a 14-month war between Israel and Hezbollah, Israeli airstrikes have killed dozens of people in Lebanon including civilians and Hezbollah members. Israel says it's targeting Hezbollah holdouts in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah leader Naim Kassem , who fled to Tehran last October said Friday that its fighters will not disarm as long as Israeli troops remain in southern Lebanon and the Israeli air force regularly violates Lebanese air space. AP/ Yahoo
Gulf Today
22-04-2025
- Politics
- Gulf Today
Israel army says struck Hizbollah military site in south Lebanon
Israel's army said it struck a Hizbollah military site in south Lebanon on Sunday, and killed an operative from the Iran-backed group in a separate strike earlier in the day. "A short while ago, the IDF (military) struck several launchers and a military infrastructure site from which terrorists operated in the area of Nabatieh in southern Lebanon," the military said in a statement, adding it had "struck and eliminated" a Hizbollah operative in the Houla area earlier in the day. Meanwhile, Lebanese authorities detained several people who were allegedly planning to launch rockets into Israel and seized the weapons, the military said on Sunday. The army said the arrests were linked to other detentions announced earlier this week. It added that as military intelligence was investigating that case they got information that a new rocket attack was being planned. Lebanese army soldiers and forensics inspect the site of an explosion in Braiqaa in south Lebanon's Nabatiyeh district, on Sunday. AFP The army said troops raided an apartment near the southern port city of Sidon and seized some of the rockets and the launchers and detained several people who were involved in the operation. It said they were referred to judicial authorities. Authorities on Wednesday detained several people, including a number of Palestinians, who were allegedly involved in firing rockets toward Israel in two separate attacks in late March that triggered intense Israeli airstrikes on parts of Lebanon. Lebanon's group denied at the time that it was behind the firing of rockets. Meanwhile on Sunday, a series of Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon killed two people, the Lebanese Civil Defense said in a statement. The Israeli army said in a statement that it killed Hussein Ali Nasr, whom it described as the deputy head of Hezbollah's Unit 4400. Israel said Nasr helped smuggle weapons and funds into Lebanon via "Iranian operatives," including through Beirut airport. In a separate incident, three Lebanese soldiers were killed after ammunition a Lebanese army vehicle was carrying exploded, the army said in a statement. The circumstances in which the explosion happened were unclear. Since a November ceasefire ended a 14-month war between Israel and Hezbollah, Israeli airstrikes have killed scores of people in Lebanon including civilians and members. Israel says it's targeting holdouts in southern Lebanon. leader Naim Kassem said Friday that its fighters will not disarm as long as Israeli troops remain in southern Lebanon and the Israeli air force regularly violates Lebanese air space. Agencies
Nahar Net
20-04-2025
- Politics
- Nahar Net
New Israeli strikes kill two in south Lebanon
by Naharnet Newsdesk 20 April 2025, 13:05 Lebanon's health ministry said one person was killed Sunday in an Israeli strike in the country's south, the latest such raid despite a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. An "Israeli enemy strike on a vehicle in Kawthariyat al-Siyyad," located inland between the southern cities of Sidon and Tyre, killed "one person and wounded two people," the health ministry said in a statement. It later said a separate Israeli strike "on a house in Houla," near the border, killed one person. The Israeli army said in a statement that it killed Hussein Ali Nasr, whom it described as the deputy head of Hezbollah's Unit 4400. Israel said Nasr helped smuggle weapons and funds into Lebanon via 'Iranian operatives,' including through Beirut airport. Israel has continued to conduct regular strikes in Lebanon despite a November 27 ceasefire that sought to halt more than a year of hostilities including two months of all-out war between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah. On Friday, Lebanon's health ministry said Israeli air strikes killed two people in the south, with Israel announcing attacks in the same areas targeting Hezbollah militants. Under the truce, Hezbollah was to pull its fighters north of Lebanon's Litani River and dismantle any remaining military infrastructure in the south. Israel was to withdraw all its forces from south Lebanon, although it continues to hold five positions that it deems "strategic". Lebanon's army has been deploying in the south near the border as Israeli forces have withdrawn. Hezbollah chief Sheikh Naim Qassem said on Friday that the group "will not let anyone disarm" it, as Washington presses Beirut to compel the Iran-backed movement to hand over its weapons.
