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| January 18, 2015
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Son of Imad Mughniyeh and 5 members of Hezbollah killed in IDF airstrike in Syria

Six Hezbollah terrorists, including the son of former Hezbollah chief Imad Mughniyeh, killed in attack near Quneitra, Syria, preparing to attack Israel.

By i24news

 

The son of former Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyeh along with five other terrorists were killed in an alleged Israeli air strike in Syria on Sunday, Hezbollah-linked media reported.

Jihad Mughneye speaking in front of Imad Mughneye’s picture, his father that was allegedly assassinated by Israel – Photo: ARAB MEDIA

Sources linked to the Islamist organization said that Jihad Mughniyeh, who oversaw the Syrian Golan Heights division of the group, was killed in the attack.

“Hezbollah’s leadership will decide how to respond to this new Israeli aggression, but this strike is unthinkable,” a statement from the group read, according to the Al-Akhbar news site.

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| January 16, 2015
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Argentine prosecutor accuses his President of hampering 1994 Jewish center bombing

Argentina’s state prosecutor accuses President  Fernandez of trying to cover up Iran’s part in the 1994 terrorist bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, where 85 people were killed.

By Reuters & Israel Hayom Staff

 

An Argentine prosecutor accused President Cristina Fernandez on Wednesday of trying to orchestrate a cover up in the investigation of Iran over the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires.

The aftermath of the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires [Archive] – Photo: AP

State prosecutor Alberto Nisman, investigating the blast that killed 85 people, said Fernandez has pushed to drop the criminal investigation and normalize relations as a way of tapping Iranian oil needed to narrow Argentina’s $7 billion per year energy gap.

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| January 14, 2015
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Nasrallah Reports: ‘Hezbollah has weapons that the enemy (Israel) aren’t expecting.’

 

Hezbollah’s leader says that his Shi’ite group has arms Israel can’t even imagine.

By YASSER OKBI/ MAARIV HASHAVUA

 

Hezbollah has more types of weapons than Israel can imagine, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah told the Arab-language Al-Mayadeen television network during an interview on Wednesday.

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah – Photo: REUTERS

“Hezbollah has weapons that the enemy can expect and we have ones that they aren’t expecting. Our resistance has not been damaged, and Israel is mistaken if it thinks it has,” Nasrallah said.

According to the Hezbollah leader, Israel is interested in a conflict that would be a landslide victory for it, however he claims that such a win is completely unrealistic. Continue Reading »

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| December 18, 2014
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Hezbollah reports Nasrallah’s personal security chief was Mossad operative

Hezbollah admits the double agent working for Israel caused “immeasurable” damage to the Shiite terror organization, forcing a significant overhaul, with many high-ranking operatives removed from their posts or reassigned to less sensitive units.

By Israel Hayom Staff

 

Following reports Tuesday that Hezbollah recently exposed a double agent who was working for Israel, the Kuwaiti newspaper Al Rai reported that the double agent was a high-ranking Hezbollah operative who had been in charge of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s personal security and who was later promoted to the group’s elite and clandestine “910” external security organization.

Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah – Photo: AP

According to Lebanese reports, the double agent, identified only by the initials M.

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| December 8, 2014
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Report: 2 Hezbollah members killed during air-strike on Syria

 

Arabic-language press reports alleged IAF strike targeted sites storing Russian-made advanced Syrian missiles for Hezbollah.

Moscow demands explanation.

By Roi Kais

 

Two Hezbollah activists were killed Sunday in what foreign sources have said was an Israeli airstrike on military targets in Syria, the Al Arabiya news channel reported Monday. The report contradicts earlier claims by Syrian security forces, who said Sunday that there had been no casualties in the attack.

Smoke trails over Syria allegedly left by IAF warplanes.

Smoke trails over Syria allegedly left by IAF warplanes.

While official Israel continues to keep mum on the daylight attack in Syria that has been attributed to it, the Arab press has in the meantime published more and more details about the alleged Israeli assault. Continue Reading »

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| December 7, 2014
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SYRIA REPORTS: IDF warplanes strike targets near Damascus

 

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REPORT: Israel Air Force strikes allegedly targeted S-300 missile launchers en route to Hezbollah near Damascus airport, in Dimas & near Lebanese border.

By REUTERS, NOAM AMIR/MAARIV HASHAVUA, JPOST.COM STAFF

 

Syrian state television said on Sunday that Israeli jets had bombed areas near Damascus international airport and in the town of Dimas, near the border with Lebanon.

Alleged IDF bombing of targets in Syria. – Photo: ARAB SOCIAL MEDIA

“The Israeli enemy committed aggression against Syria by targeting two safe areas in Damascus province, in all of Dimas and near the Damascus International Airport,” state television said, adding that there were no casualties. Continue Reading »

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| November 11, 2014
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Hezbollah accuses Israel of assassinating 5 nuclear engineers in Syria

Hezbollah believes that Syrian rebels, acting on behalf of Israel, were behind the killing of the 5 nuclear scientists, of which one was Iranian.

 

Hezbollah is blaming Israel for the deaths of five nuclear engineers, four Syrians and one Iranian, on Monday in Damascus.

Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, left, speaks with Syrian President Bashar Assad

This file photo shows Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, left, speaks with Syrian President Bashar Assad, right. February 25, 2010. – Photo: AP

Initial Syrian reports said that four Syrians were killed in an ambush, but later Syrian state television admitted that a fifth scientist, an Iranian, was also among the victims.

The five were killed after gunmen opened fire on their bus in an area not affected by the fighting between rebel groups and Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces.

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| November 5, 2014
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If Hezbollah attacks Israel, IDF will raze Lebanon to the ground

 

In response to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s threat to strike Israel’s main airport & harbors with missiles in a future war, Israel’s Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz warned that should that happen, “we will return it [Lebanon] to the Stone Age.”

By Daniel Siryoti

 

It did not take long for Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah to respond to a recent comment by a senior defense official saying that Israeli airports would be shut down from the first day of any future war between Israel and Hezbollah.

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah – Photo: AP

In a speech given from an undisclosed location in Beirut on Tuesday, Nasrallah said, “The Israeli officer was right.

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| October 31, 2014
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Peruvian Police arrest Hezbollah agent planning terrorist attacks on Jews, Israelis

Police in Lima confirmed arrest of man with unconfirmed identity who is suspected of having links to an unnamed “int’l terrorist organization,” after uncovering evidence of military-grade explosive materials in his home.

By JPOST.COM STAFF, REUTERS

 

Authorities in who is suspected of having links to an unnamed “int’l terrorist organization.” have reportedly arrested a Hezbollah member who was allegedly planning to carry out attacks against Israeli and Jewish targets in the South American country, Channel 2 reported Thursday night.

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The ruins of Machu Picchu in Peru. – Photo: Wikimedia Commons

According to the report, the arrest was made after intelligence information identified targets associated with Israelis and Jews in Peru, including areas popular with Israeli backpackers, the Israeli Embassy in Lima and Jewish community institutions.

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| October 21, 2014
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Islamic State Pulls Lebanon Into War as it Intensifies Attacks on Hezbollah

With attacks launched from the Syrian border, Hezbollah faces near daily military engagements by Nusra Front & Islamic State, while ongoing jihadi recruitment in northern Lebanon’s impoverished Sunni areas, is on the rise.

By the Associated Press

 

 

BEIRUT – With all eyes on the Islamic State group’s onslaught in Iraq and Syria, a less conspicuous but potentially just as explosive front line with the extremists is emerging in Lebanon, where Lebanese soldiers and Shiite Hezbollah guerrillas are increasingly pulled into deadly fighting with the Sunni militants along the country’s border with Syria.

Gunmen drive away with about a dozen men, two in camouflage police uniforms, in Arsal (Photo: AP)

Gunmen drive away with about a dozen men, two in camouflage police uniforms, in Arsal – Photo: AP

The US has been speeding up delivery of small ammunition to shore up Lebanon’s army, but recent cross-border attacks and beheading of Lebanese soldiers by Islamic State fighters – and the defection of four others to the extremists – has sent shockwaves across this Mediterranean country, eliciting fear of a potential slide into the kind of militant, sectarian violence afflicting both Syria and Iraq, and increasingly prompting minorities to take up arms. Continue Reading »

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| October 19, 2014
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Lieberman demands Israeli Arab soccer team be disciplined for Hezbollah tribute

Foreign Minister Lieberman condemns the Bnei Sakhnin ceremony honoring fugitive ex-Balad MK Azmi Bishara, who’s suspected of aiding the Lebanese terrorist organization.

BY Atila Somfalvi

 

 

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman called on Saturday for the suspension of the Israeli-Arab soccer team Bnei Sakhnin from the Israeli Premier League and urged that strong measures be taken against it after its representatives paid tribute to former Knesset Member Azmi Bishara (Balad), who is suspected of spying for Hezbollah.

Balad Secretary General and Bnei Sakhnin hold up recognition plaque for Bishara (Photo: Zohar Shahar)

Balad Secretary General and Bnei Sakhnin hold up recognition plaque for Bishara – Photo: Zohar Shahar

Before the game between Bnei Sakhnin and Hapoel Tel Aviv in the Doha Stadium in the Galilee town of Sakhnin, the Israeli-Arab soccer team held a ceremony in honor of their Qatari sponsors, during which recognition plaques were given to several people – including Azmi Bishara. Continue Reading »

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| October 8, 2014
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IDF Demonstrates Hezbollah’s ‘Killer Deal’ for Lebanese Citizens Seeking to Become a Target

IDF’s Spokesperson Unit wastes no time in the media battle, responding to explosives on Israel’s border with exposé about Hezbollah’s enticing ‘housing program.’

By Ari Yashar

 

The IDF’s Spokesperson Unit lost no time returning fire in the media battle on Tuesday, hours after Iran-proxy Hezbollah terrorists wounded two IDF soldiers by detonating two explosives set on the Israeli-Lebanese border near Har Dov.

Hezbollah homeIn a new animated video, the IDF illustrated how the terror group gives Lebanese citizens a “killer deal,” building them free homes – in return for the privilege of using the homes as weapons storehouses.

Hezbollah “is deeply rooted within the population, exploiting its infrastructure for terror activity and using its civilians as human shields. Continue Reading »

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| September 22, 2014
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Watch: Hezbollah uses drones for missile attack on Syrian rebels

 

Iranian news agency reports this attack as the 1st operation Hezbollah has used drones.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

With the three-and-a-half-year civil war in Syria spilling over into Lebanon, Hezbollah has upped its military capabilities in its fight against al-Qaida-affiliated Syrian rebels.

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Alleged Syrian rebel target – YouTube screenshot

According to the Iranian Fars News Agency, the organization is now using drones – which until recently were used mainly for surveillance missions – to fight off Al-Nusra Front rebels

The newly-released one-minute video shows a small structure, believed to be the Al-Nusra Front headquarters in Lebanon, being directly hit from the sky. Continue Reading »

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| September 4, 2014
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IDF Investigating Northern Border for Hezbollah Terror Tunnels

 

 

Report: Reservists say IDF ordered search for possible terror tunnels along Israeli-Lebanese border, despite repeated reassurances that no such threat exists.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

The Chief of the Northern Command, Major General Yair Golan, met last month with the mayors of communities near Lebanon and addressed concerns from residents that Hezbollah is actively digging tunnels toward Israel.

Hamas tunnel – IDF Spokesman

Golan said that the IDF is prepared to deal with any attempt to act against the inhabitants of the region, including against Hezbollah. However, no security protocols have been enacted yet to actively combat the problem. Continue Reading »

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| August 28, 2014
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Israeli-Arab Drug Ring Arrested for Aiding Hezbollah

Israel Police & the Shabak reveled how Arab drug dealers from northern Israel built ties with Hezbollah terrorists, who exploited the Israelis to smuggle their drugs & weapons.

By Yaakov Levi

 

Israel Police and the Shabak (Israel Security Service) announced Thursday that it had arrested several Arab-Israelis who are accused of aiding and abetting Hezbollah terrorists. The investigation into the detainees went on for several months, and they were arrested on July 27, the announcement said.

Hezbollah parade in Lebanon (file) – Photo: Reuters

The investigation was originally designed to uncover the massive drug pushing that the suspects were involved in. Continue Reading »

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