Israel has stepped up its strikes in Lebanon, killing a Hamas official in the coastal city of Sidon, as West Asia continues to anticipate Hezbollah’s retaliation for the assassination of its commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut earlier this month.
The Lebanese group Hezbollah may carry out an independent strike on Israel before Iran does, CNN has reported, citing sources familiar with the matter.
Lebanon's armed group Hezbollah launched a series of drone and rocket attacks into northern Israel on Tuesday but warned that its much-anticipated retaliation for the regime's killing of a top commander last week was yet to come.
Nearly 4,000 Israelis have been stranded abroad due to the suspension of international flights to Tel Aviv amid rising border tensions between Hezbollah and Israel and fears of Iran's attack, according to a report.
The main index of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) fell to its lowest point since April at the start of weekly trading on Sunday, driven by fears of a potential war with Iran and Lebanon's armed group Hezbollah.
In a message to Hezbollah leader Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah, the commander of the Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Hossein Salami, warned that “the enemies of the nation, especially the Zionist gang and its supporters”, should expect revenge from the resistance groups in West Asia for the assassination of a senior Hezbollah commander.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stated “Israel is at a very high level of readiness for any scenario – both defensively and offensively”, amid expectations of a response following the Beirut and Tehran attacks.
Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah has warned that Hezbollah will respond to Israel’s killing of the Lebanese movement ’s most senior military commander, Fuad Shukr, in a strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs earlier this week.
The Lebanese movement Hezbollah has stressed that the assassination of head of the political bureau of Hamas resistance movement Ismaell Haniyeh will only strengthen the resistance front’s resolve.
Iran’s new President Masoud Pezeshkian has reassured senior Palestinian resistance leaders of Tehran’s policy of providing the regional resistance axis with consistent support.
Flights to and from Beirut airport were cancelled or delayed on Monday as tensions escalated between Israel and armed Lebanese group Hezbollah after a strike in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights killed 12 people.
The Israeli military says it carried out a series of strikes across Lebanon after blaming Hezbollah for Saturday’s deadly attack in the occupied Golan Heights. Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the Lebanese group had crossed a “red line”, raising fears of regional escalation.
Hezbollah is on high alert, two security sources have told Reuters, amid rising tensions after a deadly attack on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights that Tel Aviv blamed on the Lebanese group.
Hezbollah has announced that it did not target the village of Majdal Shams in the occupied Golan Heights, where 12 people from the local Druze mountaineer community were killed on Saturday, adding that the Lebanon's group’s leadership has notified the UN Interim Force in Lebanon command (UNIFIL).
The United Nations Interim Force In Lebanon (UNIFIL) has sounded the alarm about a possible escalation in the war between Israel and Lebanon, which has so far been largely confined to the border regions.
The Israeli military has announced a rocket that struck a football pitch in the Golan Heights, which it occupies, has killed ten people and injured several others.
The Lebanese armed group Hezbollah has broadcast a drone video that it claimed showed air defence facilities, planes and fuel storage units at Israel’s Ramat David airbase.
Already suffering rolling blackouts in sweltering summer heat, Egyptians would be plunged into further darkness if tensions between Israel and Lebanon's powerful group Hezbollah break out into war, analysts have told Middle East Eye.
Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has stressed that Hezbollah is undaunted by the prospect of conflict with Israel. The secretary-general of the Lebanese resistance movement pledged formidable retaliation in case of a potential invasion of Lebanon by the Zionist regime.
Iran’s President-Elect Masoud Pezeshkian has vowed to continue to support the axis of resistance with full force in a message to Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
Hezbollah has announced a top commander has been killed in an Israeli attack in southern Lebanon, at least the third high-ranking official in the group to have been killed in almost nine months of cross-border fighting that has sparked fears of wider regional escalation. In response, the group fired dozens of rockets at Israel's military positions.
Dozens of senior Israeli generals want Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to strike a truce deal with Palestinian group Hamas in the Gaza Strip so they can prepare for a potential war with Hezbollah in Lebanon, according to a report.
Iran's acting foreign minister has warned that Lebanon will turn into a ‘hell without return’ for the Israeli regime in case it wages a war against the Lebanese resistance movement, Hezbollah.