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Express Tribune
01-04-2025
- Politics
- Express Tribune
Israeli airstrike kills four, including Hezbollah official in Beirut
A woman walks past damaged vehicles in the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike, in Beirut, Lebanon April 1, 2025. PHOTO: REUTERS Listen to article An Israeli airstrike killed four people including a Hezbollah official in Beirut's southern suburbs on Tuesday, a Lebanese security source said, further testing a shaky ceasefire between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah. The Israeli military said the official - Hassan Bdeir - was a member of a Hezbollah unit and Iran's Quds Force, and he had assisted the Palestinian group Hamas in planning a "significant and imminent terror attack against Israeli civilians". The Lebanese security source said the target was a Hezbollah figure whose responsibilities included the Palestinian file. The Lebanese health ministry said the strike killed four people - including a woman - and wounded seven others. It marked Israel's second airstrike in the Hezbollah-controlled suburb of Beirut in five days, adding to strains on the US -brokered ceasefire that ended last year's devastating conflict. The attacks on Beirut's southern suburbs have resumed at a time of broader escalation in the region, with Israel having restarted Gaza strikes after a two-month truce and the United States hitting the Iran-aligned Houthis of Yemen in a bid to get them to stop attacking Red Sea shipping. Hezbollah lawmaker Ibrahim Moussawi said the Israeli attack amounted to "a major and severe aggression that has escalated the situation to an entirely different level". Speaking in a televised statement after visiting the building that was struck, he called on the Lebanese state to "activate the highest level of diplomacy to find solutions". Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said the eliminated Hezbollah operative posed "a real and immediate threat". "We expect Lebanon to take action to uproot terrorist organizations acting within its borders against Israel," he said. Israel dealt severe blows to Hezbollah in the war, killing thousands of its fighters, destroying much of it arsenal and eliminating its top leadership including Hassan Nasrallah. Hezbollah has denied any role in recent rocket attacks from Lebanon towards Israel, including one that prompted Israel to carry out an airstrike on the southern suburbs last Friday. Tuesday's strike in the early hours appeared to have damaged the upper three floors of a building, a Reuters reporter at the scene said, with the balconies of those floors blown out. The glass on the floors below was intact, indicating a targeted strike. Ambulances were at the scene as families fled to other parts of Beirut. There was no advance warning, in contrast to the attack on Friday when the Israeli military announced which building it intended to hit and ordered residents to leave the area. Lebanese President Joseph Aoun condemned the latest airstrike, calling it a "dangerous warning" that signals premeditated intentions against Lebanon, which would intensify diplomatic outreach and mobilise international allies. Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said the strike was a flagrant breach of a U.N. Security Council Resolution upon which the ceasefire was based, and the ceasefire arrangement. US backs Israel The ceasefire agreement demanded that southern Lebanon be free of Hezbollah fighters and weapons, that Lebanese troops deploy into the area, and that Israeli troops withdraw. But each side accuses the other of failing to implement the terms fully. Israel says Hezbollah still has infrastructure in the south, while Lebanon and Hezbollah say Israel is occupying Lebanese soil by not withdrawing from five hilltop positions. The U.S. State Department said that Israel was defending itself from rocket attacks that came from Lebanon and that Washington blamed "terrorists" for the resumption of hostilities. "Hostilities have resumed because terrorists launched rockets into Israel from Lebanon," a State Department spokesperson said in an email, responding to a question from Reuters seeking reaction to Tuesday's airstrike. Washington supported Israel's response, the spokesperson said. The Israel-Hezbollah conflict was ignited when Hezbollah opened fire in support of Hamas at the start of the Gaza war. It escalated in September when Israel went on the offensive, declaring the aim of securing the return home of tens of thousands of people evacuated from homes in the north. The war uprooted more than a million people and killed at least 3,768 people in Lebanon, according to a Lebanese health ministry toll from November. Dozens more have been reported killed by Israeli fire since the ceasefire. Lebanon's figures do not distinguish between civilians and fighters. During the war, Hezbollah strikes killed 45 civilians in northern Israel and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. At least 73 Israeli soldiers were killed in northern Israel, the Golan Heights, and in combat in southern Lebanon, according to Israeli authorities.
LBCI
01-04-2025
- Politics
- LBCI
MP Ibrahim Moussawi holds international community, US, and Western nations responsible for Israeli aggression
Hezbollah's MP Ibrahim Moussawi condemned the Israeli airstrike on a residential building in Beirut's southern suburbs, warning that the attack signals a significant escalation. During a visit to the targeted site, Moussawi cited international law and the Geneva Conventions, saying that even if an armed resistance member were present in the apartments, international law prohibits extrajudicial killings, including attacks on retreating individuals. He held the international community, the United States, and Western nations responsible for "an ongoing crime," emphasizing that Israel has never adhered to U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701. Moussawi called on the global community to take action to halt the attacks and protect Lebanese civilians. He also urged Lebanese leadership—including the president and government—to respond decisively, criticizing "irresponsible" remarks from some lawmakers and ministers who, in his view, are emboldening Israel's continued aggression.
Shafaq News
25-02-2025
- Politics
- Shafaq News
Lebanon: Israeli strike on Beqaa, two killed
Shafaq News/ On Tuesday, two people were killed and two others were injured in an Israeli drone strike that targeted the Shaara area in Janta, near the eastern Lebanese mountain range in the Bekaa Valley. This strike follows a series of Israeli air raids on locations in the Bekaa region on Sunday. Lebanese Hezbollah MP Ibrahim Moussawi condemned the "Israeli aggression," calling it a serious violation of the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701. In a statement to the press, Moussawi urged the Lebanese state, including the presidency, government, and military, to take swift action to put an end to the "Israeli criminal rampage." He also accused the guarantors of the ceasefire agreement of indifference and failure to act against Israeli violations.
Al Jazeera
08-02-2025
- Politics
- Al Jazeera
Israeli air strike kills six in eastern Lebanon amid fragile ceasefire
An Israeli air raid has killed six people and wounded two in eastern Lebanon amid a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. Lebanon's National News Agency reported that a drone targeted the Shaara area, near the town of Jennata, in the eastern Bekaa region on Saturday. The Israeli army issued a statement saying the targets were what it claimed to be Hezbollah operatives 'within a site for the production and storage of strategic weapons'. 'Activities within the site are considered a blatant violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon,' it said, referring to the ceasefire agreement signed on November 27 that brought to a halt the conflict between the Israeli army and Hezbollah. Since the deal came into effect, Israel has continued military action against what it says are Hezbollah sites. While the agreement called for a 60-day implementation period ending on January 26, Israel delayed the withdrawal of its troops from southern Lebanon, claiming the agreement had not been fully enforced by Lebanon. Under the terms of the truce, the Lebanese army is to deploy alongside United Nations peacekeepers in the south, taking the place of Hezbollah forces. Israel has also launched a wave of attacks in the eastern Bekaa Valley, also typically considered a Hezbollah stronghold. On January 31, at least two people were killed as the Israeli army claimed to have struck multiple Hezbollah targets near the border with Syria. Hezbollah official Ibrahim Moussawi condemned the air raids at the time, calling them 'a very dangerous violation and a blatant and explicit aggression', calling on Lebanon to halt Israel's continued attacks.
Nahar Net
31-01-2025
- Politics
- Nahar Net
Hezbollah MP urges state to 'act immediately' after Bekaa strikes
by Naharnet Newsdesk 31 January 2025, 13:09 Hezbollah legislator Ibrahim Moussawi called Friday Israeli strikes on east Lebanon "a very dangerous violation and a blatant and explicit aggression." Two people were killed and 10 others were wounded in an overnight strike on an unofficial border crossing in eastern Lebanon, as Israel launched four strikes on the Janta border crossing in the eastern province of Baalbek, while two other strikes targeted two illegal Syria-Lebanon border crossings in northern Lebanon late Thursday and early Friday. Moussawi said "the Lebanese state, represented by the presidency, the government and the army, is required to take immediate action." The Israeli military said it struck "a military site that included underground infrastructure for developing and producing combat equipment, in addition to infrastructure for crossing the Syrian-Lebanese border,' used by Hezbollah in the Bekaa Valley. The statement also accused Hezbollah of launching a reconnaissance drone toward Israel Thursday, saying it's a violation of the ceasefire agreement that halted the Israel-Hezbollah war in late November.
