ANKARA (AA) – A Japanese firm on Thursday said it had stopped in 2014 producing and exporting the model of walkie-talkies used in this week’s second wave of deadly explosions in Lebanon. In a statement, Icom said they also discontinued the production of the batteries needed to operate the main unit. “The IC-V82 is a […]
BEIRUT (AA) – The death toll from two waves of wireless communication device explosions in Lebanon stood at 32 and thousands were injured, Health Minister Firas Al-Abiad said on Thursday. Thousands of pagers exploded in the capital Beirut and several areas across Lebanon on Tuesday, killing 12 people, including two children, and injuring 2,800...
ANKARA (AA) – Lebanese group Hezbollah said early Thursday that it had attacked an Israeli military site near the Lebanese-Israeli border, injuring at least eight Israelis. In a statement, Hezbollah said its fighters had targeted a deployment of Israeli soldiers in the vicinity of the Al-Marj military site. The Israeli public broadcaster...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli warplanes carried out overnight raids on several targets of the Hezbollah group in southern Lebanon, the Israeli army said on Wednesday. In a statement, the Israeli army said it attacked a building in the Majdal Selm area, claiming that several Hezbollah members were inside. The statement added that the Israeli f...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Israel targeted Hezbollah by hiding explosive material in Taiwan-made pagers imported into Lebanon, according to a report citing American and other officials briefed on Tuesday’s pager explosions. The New York Times, citing officials who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the pagers the Lebanese group ordered f...
BEIRUT (AA) – Lebanon has filed a new complaint with the UN Security Council against Israeli aggression over a deadly airstrike that killed four firefighters. An Israeli drone strike targeted a civil defense fire truck in the town of Froun in southern Lebanon on September 7, leaving four firefighters dead. The complaint was submitted by [&hell...
The chaos and confusion following the explosions have rattled the group to its core, with hundreds of its members injured and its communication network compromised Muslim Network TV BEIRUT, Lebanon (MNTV) – A series of devastating explosions involving Hezbollah’s communication devices has left at least nine people dead and over 2,800 inj...
Beirut, Lebanon – AFP Hezbollah’s second-in-command warned on Saturday that an all-out war by Israel aimed at returning 100,000 displaced people to their homes in areas near the Lebanon border would displace “hundreds of thousands” more. Naim Qassem, number two in the Lebanese group, was speaking after Defence Minister ...
JERUSALEM / BEIRUT (AA) – Israel has claimed that 30 rockets were fired from Lebanon, landing in open areas in the Upper Galilee, northern Israel. In a statement, the Israeli army said: “About 30 shells were fired from Lebanon and fell in the Metat area in the Upper Galilee without causing injuries. “Following airstrikes on […]...
A top Israeli air force officer has revealed that without US aid, Israel could only sustain its war on Gaza for only a few months. Amid an 11-month, seven-front conflict, Israel’s air force is advocating for a major increase in domestic production of bombs, missiles, and ammunition. The goal is to lessen reliance on foreign […]
