An official of United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said on Tuesday that Israel informed the UN Secretary-General of its willingness to discuss withdrawal of its troops from al-Ghajar village. UNIFIL Director of Political and Civil Affairs Milos Strugar stressed in a press conference held in South Lebanon's Tyre, that the issue of Israeli withdrawal from the northern part of al-Ghajar...
Israeli spying devices that were planted during the 2006 war with Hezbollah have been discovered in southern Lebanon, the UN has said. UN peacekeepers discovered the buried devices when they were blown up by remote control by Israel on Sunday. Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora accused Israel of blatantly violating the UN Security Council resolution that led to the end of fighting. Israel has declined...
On Tuesday the Israel Defense Force (IDF) released a video in black and white, using night vision and taken by an unmanned drone. The video followed a series of explosions in a residential area near Tyre in Southern Lebanon. The video clearly shows rockets being transferred by truck from the site of the explosion to another location. UN Security Council Resolution 1701 forbids arms to be brought into...
Beirut - The Lebanese shiite movement Hezbollah has aired a video tape Thursday contradicting Israeli claims that the group removed weapons from the scene of a blast near the southern city of Tyre before allowing UN inspectors in. Israel had claimed ...
Syria has transferred nearly a quarter of its long- and medium-range missile arsenal to Hizbullah, the Kuwaiti al Jarida reported on Thursday. According to the report, security sources in Jerusalem told the paper that the missiles, now held by Hizbullah, could hit every part of Israel. Iranian and Syrian officers were reportedly training the Hizbullah operatives in using the new missiles and in operating...
Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, Gabriela Shalev, has filed a complaint with the United Nations over Hezbullah's violations of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the Second Lebanon War. The complaint was filed in light of Monday night's explosion (pictured) at a Hezbullah ammunition dump that was maintained in a home just outside the Lebanese city of Tyre. The
Hana Levi Julian HA7 News Hizbullah defied the maps Wednesday and claimed that the rocket explosion that reportedly killed five of its terrorists near Tyre two days ago occurred north of the Litani River, outside the zone where UNIFIL forces have authority. The claim was made by Hizbullah political leaders, according to Voice of Israel government radio. The large explosion rocked the house of senior...
Why doesn't the UN deal with this'?? The Israel Defense Forces on Tuesday released photographs taken by drone aircraft of the southern Lebanon village where a Hezbollah arms depot exploded on Monday. The photos show persons, possibly Hezbollah operatives, removing something resembling a 4-meter-long missile from the depot, loading it onto a truck and moving it to a hiding place in a different village....
Thousands of weapons caches have been placed in homes scattered in 160 villages in southern Lebanon, senior defense officials said on Tuesday, a day after one such stockpile exploded in the home of a Hizbullah operative in Tayr Filsay, near Tyre. On Tuesday, the IDF released video taken from an Israeli aircraft of the home, which belongs to Abdul Nasser Issa, a low-level Hizbullah operative. The blast...
From Israel's MFA : On the evening of October 12, 2009 a large explosion took place in the house of a senior Hizbullah member which was being used as an arms cache in Tayr Filsay, a village approximately 15 km east of the coastal city of Tyre and south of the Litani River. During the explosion, a number of people were injured, including the home's owner, Said Issa. Following the explosion, Hizbullah...
Tel Aviv - Israel has complained to the United Nations about an explosion of an alleged arms cache in the village of Tayr Felsay, east of the southern Lebanese port city of Tyre late Monday. In the complaint, Israel said that UN Security Council Reso...
Tel Aviv - Israel on Tuesday showed a video of the overnight blast which rocked a village east of the Lebanese southern port city of Tyre, wounding one person. The images show Lebanese militants removing dozens of rockets out of the home after the ex...
Beirut - UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon Michael Williams expressed concern Tuesday about the overnight blast which rocked a village east of the southern port city of Tyre, wounding one person. We are very concerned by the reports of the explosio...
Beirut - UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon Michael Williams expressed concern Tuesday about the overnight blast which rocked a village east of the southern port city of Tyre, wounding one person. We are very concerned by the reports of the explosio...
An ammunition explosion occurred on Monday night at a Hezbollah official's residence in southern Lebanon, injuring one, the local Now Lebanon news reported. The explosion took place at a building owned by Hezbollah official Abd Nasser Issa in Teir-Falsieh near Tyre city, south of Litani River, within area of operations of UN Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL). The blast led to the full destruction...
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