"During the IDF offensive, [Hezbollah] launched between 100 to 200 rockets every day to Israel's North. The IDF, in the very few kilometers where they maneuvered in south Lebanon, pulled out tons of munitions that were prepared for the Hezbollah invasion of Israel.
O n the evening of January 26 in Lebanon there were several protests and demonstrations by Hezbollah activists. One of the videos showed men on motorcycles with Hezbollah flags. I
Experts warn Israel’s extended occupation may undermine Lebanon’s government, embolden Hezbollah and raise uncertainties in post-war Syria.
The conflict between Israel and Hezbollah has left behind lots of rubble. Some experts fear that much of it will be dumped into the environment without controls.
United Arab Emirates billionaire Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor, who this week scrapped his investments in Lebanon, said the country was still not safe and that he had been threatened with being "slaughtered and killed" last year.
The Lebanese army took over an underground Hezbollah military complex in southern Lebanon, local media said on Wednesday. Images published by the Al-Jadeed news channel showed underground tunnels containing military vehicles, missile launching platforms, and ammunition manufacturing equipment.
1 killed, several injured in Israeli fire in south Lebanon
Hezbollah leader Sheikh Naim Qassem said Monday that Israel should withdraw from the occupied border areas in southern Lebanon, rejecting the extension of the cease-fire arrangements to Feb. 18.
Naim Qassem insisted Hezbollah had emerged from the fight with Israel victorious, despite painful and unprecedented setbacks, and was unwilling to concede the group’s domestic position. Qassem also expressed Hezbollah’s satisfaction with Lebanon’s post-war political direction and said his group had a productive and positive relationship with Lebanon’s new president and prime minister-designate.
Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor, the head of Dubai conglomerate Al Habtoor Group, said on X on Tuesday he had cancelled all planned investments in Lebanon due to continuing instability, and would sell all his properties and investments in the country.
The Israeli military said it intercepted a surveillance drone launched by Lebanese militant group Hezbollah yesterday amid a fragile ceasefire.
Avivi said that Israel was able to destroy Hezbollah’s rocket arsenal by toppling its leadership, making it incapable of shifting to a full-scale war.