Hezbollah and Lebanon

October 1, 2024

Nasrallah’s death celebrated in Middle East and beyond

A group of Iranian-Canadians gathers in Toronto, Canada, on Sept. 28, 2024, to celebrate the reported death of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Photo by Pouria Afkhami/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images. (JNS) — Israel’s killing of longtime Hezbollah leader Hasan […]
September 30, 2024

Hamas leader killed in Lebanon was on UN payroll as head of UNRWA teachers union

Former Hamas leader in Lebanon Fateh Sherif Abu el-Amin (circled) at an undated UNRWA event. Source: UN Watch. (JNS) — The Hamas leader killed in an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon on Sept. 30 was an employee of UNRWA, the terror-linked […]
September 23, 2024

Exploding Pagers, Hezbollah, Rocket Fire, and Why No One Can Predict What Comes Next

The location of one of the impacts. Notice the skeletons of three cars. These are the two houses that went up in flames. The owner of the house on the right decided to sleep in his bomb shelter. That saved […]
September 21, 2024

Why the reactions to Israel’s strikes against Hezbollah matter

Israeli soldiers evacuate wounded people who was severely injured when a missile fired from Lebanon hit the Ramim Cliff area, near the Israeli border with Lebanon, on Sept. 19, 2024. Photo by Ayal Margolin/Flash90. by Jonathan Tobin (JNS) — It […]
September 20, 2024

‘Whole of Hezbollah’s senior command level likely damaged’

Ambulances are surrounded by people at the entrance to the American University of Beirut Medical Center after explosions hit locations in several Hezbollah strongholds around Lebanon on Sept. 17, 2024. Photo by Anwar Amro/AFP via Getty Images. by Yaakov Lappin […]
September 18, 2024

Israel launched Hezbollah pager attack early over fears of being exposed, losing opportunity

People react near an ambulance as the wounded are brought to a hospital in Beirut on Sept. 17, 2024. Photo by Anwar Amro/AFP via Getty Images. by Joshua Marks (JNS) — Jerusalem’s pager attack against Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon was […]
August 27, 2024

IDF: 90 percent of Hezbollah rockets, drones fired from civilian areas

People at the site of a damaged house following a missile attack from Lebanon, in Moshav Manot, northern Israel, Aug. 25, 2024. Photo by Flash90. (JNS) — Nearly all of the hundreds of rockets and drones Hezbollah fired at Israel […]
August 27, 2024

Top US general: Israel-Hezbollah exchange reduced risk of wider war

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi (left) and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Charles Q. Brown during a visit to the Israeli military’s Northern Command on Aug. 26, 2024. Credit: IDF. by Joshua Marks (JNS) […]
August 26, 2024

A first-hand account of Hezbollah’s retaliation this weekend

Residents check damage caused by a rocket fired by Hezbollah from Lebanon in a home in Acco, north of Haifa, on Aug. 25. Photo by Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images. by Ari Sacher On July 31, Israel assassinated Fuad Shukr, […]
August 20, 2024

Addiction to Defense: Why Israel’s Iron Dome Does Not Win Wars

View of a house which was directly hit in a missile attack from Lebanon, in Katzrin, northern Israel, Aug. 21, 2024. Photo by Michael Giladi/Flash90. by Ari Sacher I remember the night of Jan. 17, 1991, as if it were […]
August 4, 2024

Armageddon notwithstanding

An F-15E Strike Eagle takes off from an undisclosed location within the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility. Source: CENTCOM/X. by Jonathan Feldstein I’d be lying if I told you that things are not tense in Israel right now, nationally […]