Hezbollah
Dubbed “Galilee Rose,” the exercise simulates multiple scenarios involving war with Hezbollah and Iranian assets in Syria.
According to the IDF Military Intelligence Directorate’s annual threat-assessment report, Hezbollah will likely launch “limited” offensives against Israel, but not war.
Benny Gantz says the terror organization’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, is “well aware” that he is endangering all of Lebanon.
The Islamic Shiite Waqf Committee in Burj al Barajneh foundation is suspected of being used to hide ballistic missiles and launch sites, according to the Alma research organization.
Lokman Slim, 58, a publisher and filmmaker, was part of a small group of Shi’ite Muslim political activists who openly criticized the terror group.
According to a website associated with the Syrian opposition, the leaflets blame the commander of the Syrian Army’s 112th Brigade for continuing to allow Hezbollah to operate in the area.
The fact that Tehran could use Hezbollah, its Lebanese proxy, to attack Israel is a given. But what about its Houthi proxies in Yemen? According to security analysts, the threat is not imminent but cannot be discounted.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Israel struck targets in Damascus and Hezbollah positions near the Lebanon border.
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah says the terrorist organization is watching its step during the last few weeks of Trump’s presidency, calling him “angry” and “crazy.”
Maj. (res.) Tal Beeri says Tehran seeks to replicate its Hezbollah model in southern Lebanon to its next-door neighbor, explaining that even though it’s entrenching itself in Sunni areas, locals are not objecting to the Shi’ite axis “due to a meeting of interests.”
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin thanks Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša and his government for supporting Israel and for “standing with us against threats to our security.”
It becomes the sixth European Union member after the Netherlands, Germany, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia to recognize the Iranian-sponsored Hezbollah as a terrorist organization.
