The IDF announced that it had located and destroyed a fifth cross-border terror tunnel built by Hezbollah just after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Operation Northern Shield, the effort to protect northern Israel from the tunnel threat, is “mostly behind us.” The Israeli military announced that it had located...

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Airstrikes, attributed to Israel, targeted some officials of Hezbollah, as well as a shipment of GPS components that would make the terrorist group’s arsenal more accurate, Ynet reported Wednesday. Based on a report in Newsweek citing an unnamed senior Israeli military officer, Ynet reported that there were several airstrikes around the Damascus airport...

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A senior European Union counterterrorism official said several countries sought to classify Hezbollah as a terrorist organization in its entirety, after their operatives murdered five Israelis and their Bulgarian bus driver in 2012, Benjamin Weinthal reported for The Jerusalem Post on Thursday. Giles de Kerchove, the EU anti-terror chief, said...

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The IDF has begun the process of destroying the Hezbollah cross-border attack tunnels it has discovered, The Times of Israel reported Friday. Iran's annual funding of Hezbollah in Lebanon to attack Israel: 1 billion dollars. Hezbollah cross-border attack tunnel: A few million dollars. Destroying this attack tunnel and protecting Israeli civilians:...

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The international community must rigorously enforce the United Nations-brokered peace deal between the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels and Yemen’s internationally recognized government or risk a permanent “Hezbollahisation” of the conflict, TIP Senior Fellow Julie Lenarz wrote in an op-ed published in the European Union’s The Parliament Magazine on Thursday. “From the conflict’s...

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At the United Nations Security Council meeting discussing the terror tunnels that Hezbollah built from Lebanon into Israel, the country’s Ambassador to the UN accused the Lebanese army of tipping off Hezbollah about Israel’s operation to locate and destroy the tunnels, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. “Israel gave UNIFIL...

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Ahead of the United Nations Security Council open meeting on Hezbollah, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on the council “to condemn Hezbollah’s wanton acts of aggression,” in a speech he delivered Wednesday. Prior to Netanyahu’s speech, IDF spokesperson Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus explained how the army detected the fourth...

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The IDF said that Hezbollah is attempting to close off terror tunnels, and UNIFIL declared that two of the uncovered tunnels represented violations of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, The Times of Israel reported Tuesday. The IDF released a video showing footage from one of the four terror tunnels discovered...

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Israel announced that it had located a fourth Hezbollah terror tunnel that extended into Israel from Lebanon, The Jerusalem Post reported Sunday. Though local authorities have been informed of the location of the tunnel, the army has not publicly announced its location. Like the other three tunnels the IDF has...

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The United Nations Security Council will discuss the cross-border terror tunnels that Hezbollah has built from Lebanon to Israel in an open meeting, scheduled for Wednesday next week, The Jerusalem Post reported Friday. While the Security Council has been discussing the tunnels since Thursday, Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny...

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