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The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of Iran has reportedly ordered all of its members to stop using communications devices, at least until they can all be inspected.

Netanyahu to the people of Lebanon: “I have a message for the people of Lebanon: Israel’s war is not with you. It’s with Hezbollah.”

Additional U.S. troops are being rushed to the Middle East during a rise in fighting between Israel and Hezbollah terrorist forces in Lebanon that has elevated risks of a wider regional war, the Pentagon said Monday.

Israel has “run out of patience,” declared former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who defended the Jewish State’s right to protect its citizens from terror, calling on his government to end its “shameful” restraint in response to Hezbollah’s unprovoked rocket attacks, while comparing the situation to a hypothetical attack on the U.S. from Cuba.

Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that by putting more pressure on Israel than it has put on Hamas, the Biden-Harris administration has “probably had the effect of prolonging the fighting.”

Israeli Prime Minsiter Benjamin Netanyahu issued statements in Hebrew and English on Sunday after the Israeli military pounded the Iranian-backed terror group in southern Lebanon, following several days of stunning strikes.

Hezbollah rockets triggered air raid sirens near the Christian holy site of Capernaum on Sunday morning, according to Israeli websites that provide alerts about incoming rockets, missiles, and drones to allow Israelis to take cover.

On Saturday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Velshi,” NBC News Chief International Correspondent Keir Simmons reacted to National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan praising the death of Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Aqil in a recent Israeli strike as a positive outcome because it means

The explosions of pagers and walkie-talkies that Lebanon’s Hezbollah terrorists obtained from foreign suppliers prompt worldwide anxiety.

Israel killed Ibrahim Aqil, a senior Hezbollah terrorist partly responsible for the 1983 bombing of a U.S. Marines barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, on Friday as he gathered underground with fellow terrorists in southern Beirut.

Japanese handheld radio manufacturer Icom denies any connection to the discontinued radios that exploded in Hezbollah’s hands.

The Lebanon National News Agency reported that rooftop solar arrays in Beirut exploded at the same as Hezbollah’s walkie-talkies.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry condemned a string of explosions throughout Lebanon, apparently targeting Hezbollah terrorists, on Friday.

Civil aviation leaders in Lebanon announced on Thursday that passengers would no longer be allowed to bring pagers and walkie-talkies on flights, either in carry-on luggage or checked, after hundreds of the devices exploded nationwide this week.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has told residents of northern Israel and the Golan Heights to remain near bomb shelters as Israel intensified its airstrikes against Hezbollah and the terror group fired hundreds of rockets Friday.

On Thursday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Cuomo,” Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) reacted to criticism of Israel’s strikes against Hezbollah from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) by telling her that she shouldn’t “be so eager to jump on an issue” because some of

Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) slammed the “selective outrage” of those condemning Israel’s reported precision strikes against Hezbollah operatives while ignoring the terrorist group’s near-daily indiscriminate attacks against the Jewish state over the last year.

Brigadier General Amir Avivi (Res.) warned Breitbart News in early September that Israel would likely go to war in Lebanon against the Iranian-backed terror group Hezbollah before the U.S. elections in November.

The Israeli Air Force (IAF) buzzed Beirut during a speech by Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Iranian-backed terror group Hezbollah, in which he vowed revenge for a wave of pager and walkie-talkie attacks over the previous two days.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) stated that Israel’s strikes against Hezbollah raised “the risks of escalation” and undercut the American goal “to prevent an expansion, an escalation of the war,” and “I don’t

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) responded to Israel’s strikes against Hezbollah by stating that he is worried doing so will hurt the prospects of a ceasefire deal and that

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi addressed the possibility of war with Hezbollah on Wednesday, in the wake of electronic devices exploding in Lebanon: “We still have many capabilities that we have not yet activated.”

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) condemned Israel for a pager attack that killed 12 and wounded nearly 3,000 in Lebanon on Tuesday, most of whom were officials within or connected to the Hezbollah terrorist organization.

The authoritarian regimes of Cuba and Venezuela on Tuesday issued statements condemning an apparent attack on Hezbollah operatives in Syria and Lebanon in which hundreds of pagers exploded spontaneously.

“I already said, we will return the residents of the north in safety to their homes. And that is exactly what we will do.”

Taiwanese company Gold Apollo, implicated as the supplier of the explodinig Hezbollah pagers, plans to sue the Hungarian licensee who made them.

The U.S. State Department insisted on Tuesday that it had no prior knowledge of or involvement in a string of explosions apparently targeting Hezbollah terrorists throughout Lebanon and Syria.

The day after thousands of Hezbollah terror suspects were injured, and reportedly a dozen people killed, by their pagers almost simultaneously exploding, Lebanese and Iranian media reported a second wave of radio device detonations.

Three Hezbollah operatives were killed Wednesday and hundreds more were injured as walkie-talkies or two-way radios exploded in Beirut and southern Lebanon, a day after exploding pagers killed 12 and wounded thousands.

Exploding pagers were made in Hungary, a key European ally of Israel, the Taiwanese company whose brand name appeared on them said. 

A Lebanese minister reported Tuesday that eight people had been killed and 2,800 injured in an apparent attack on Hezbollah members and fighters that targeted the pagers that the organization has been using for communications.

Hundreds of alleged members of the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror organization were wounded on Tuesday when their pagers, which apparently had been hacked, exploded simultaneously in Beirut and elsewhere in Lebanon.

Israel’s security cabinet, which is responsible for setting military policy, decided early Tuesday morning to adopt the return of the residents of northern Israel’s border towns to their homes as an official war goal.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has launched a series of airstrikes in recent days against Iranian targets in Syria, including a daring ground raid in which troops seized equipment and documents, according to reports in Israel.

Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) criticized several airlines for suspending flights to Israel, noting that it was “effectively boycotting” the country.

U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Charles Q. Brown met with Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant and Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi on Monday, a day after Israel’s preemptive strike on Lebanon.