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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Tuesday that Hezbollah had fired rockets that struck United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) peacekeepers in southern Lebanon — not once, but twice in the same day.

Hezbollah has reportedly agreed to ceasefire terms proposed by the United States, according to the Lebanese government — though the terror group has “comments” that may indicate it has not fully accepted the deal.

Israeli government spokesman David Mencer told journalists Monday that progress on a ceasefire with Hezbollah in Lebanon depended on Israel’s security demands, so that Israelis evacuated from the border region can return to their homes.

Female soldiers from a combat intelligence unit in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) deployed in southern Lebanon for the first time in the country’s history, according to media reports.

The Iranian regime has given the government of Lebanon the go-ahead to reach a ceasefire with Israel on behalf of Hezbollah, the Iran-backed terror group that began the war in October 2023 but has since been beaten badly.

President-elect Donald Trump promised Thursday to end all restrictions and delays on arms deliveries to Israel on his first day in office, according to Amit Segal, a reporter for Israel’s Channel 12 News and Yedioth Ahronot newspaper.

The U.S. handed a ceasefire proposal to Lebanon on Thursday that could end the Third Lebanon War, which has raged between the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terror organization and the State of Israel for nearly two months.

A drone fired by Hezbollah from Lebanon into northern Israel landed near a kindergarten near Haifa on Monday, but did not cause any injuries because the children had been hiding in a bomb shelter, despite the lack of nearby sirens.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly confirmed Sunday that Israel was behind the “pager attacks” that killed or wounded thousands of Hezbollah terrorists in September and disrupted the group’s communications.

Israeli media revealed Sunday that the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has begun secret talks with the Russian government on ending the ongoing war in Lebanon between Israel and Hezbollah terrorists.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erodgan on Thursday invited President-elect Donald Trump to visit his country and discuss various topics of mutual interest, including the war in Gaza, which Erdogan wants Trump to “stop” by applying more pressure against Israel.

President-elect Donald Trump has reportedly tapped Massad Boulos, the Lebanese-American father-in-law of Trump’s daughter, Tiffany, to lead U.S. negotiations with Lebanon to end the war between Hezbollah and Israel.

The Jerusalem Post on Monday reported a Lebanese professor of sociology named Dr. Hassan Diab, convicted by a French court of involvement in a 1980 bombing that killed four people at a synagogue in Paris, is teaching a course on “social justice in action” at Carleton University in Ottawa.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is reportedly slowing ground operations in southern Lebanon as the Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seeks a diplomatic agreement to secure its northern border.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited soldiers on the Lebanese border on Sunday and declared that with or without a deal, Israel would move Hezbollah north of the Litani River so that Israel’s residents could return home.

A Christian-Druze town in Lebanon is reportedly determined to keep Hezbollah terrorists out of its perimeter, thereby saving the town from potential Israeli strikes, according to the New York Times.

Israeli commandos carried out a daring raid Saturday in northern Lebanon in which they captured Imad Amhaz, said to be a senior Hezbollah naval official, and took him to Israel for further questioning.

Israeli air and ground forces continue to work together in both the Gaza Strip and southern Lebanon to eliminate terrorists.

Naim Qassem, chosen the week to replace Hassan Nasrallah at the helm of the jihadist terror organization Hezbollah, delivered his first speech as leader of the group on Wednesday evening, promising to “remain on the path of war” against Israel and threatening to the genocidal removal of the Israeli people from their country.

Five people were killed in a northern Israel agricultural area following Hezbollah terrorist rocket fire from Lebanon, Israeli media detailed Thursday afternoon.

Israel said Thursday that it would ensure the safety of Lebanon’s cultural heritage sites, even as it evacuates cities that are near ancient ruins and archaeological treasures.

Former President Donald Trump pledged Wednesday to “stop the suffering and destruction in Lebanon” if elected.

Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant said Tuesday that the once-feared, Iran-backed Hezbollah terror organization has been reduced to 20% of its rocket capacity — a reflection of Israel’s military success in the ongoing Lebanon war.

A rocket that hit a United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) post in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, injuring international peacekeeping troops, was likely fired by Hezbollah, according to the organization and media reports.

Hezbollah’s ruling Shura Council on Tuesday announced that the terrorists have chosen Naim Qassem to replace longtime dictator Hassan Nasrallah as leader of the terrorist organization and Lebanese political party.

On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” the show’s host, NBC News Chief Washington Correspondent, and Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell said that the Biden-Harris administration “has quite a mixed message” on Lebanon and after trying to get

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) revealed Saturday that it had discovered a massive underground tunnel near the border in southern Lebanon that could have been used to stage an October 7-style attack against Israel.

Dearborn Mayor Abdullah Hammoud revealed that he would not be “endorsing any single candidate” in the upcoming election, and encouraged people to vote their “moral conscience.”

A Hezbollah rocket attack killed two people and wounded several more on Friday in the Muslim Arab town of Majd al-Krum in northern Israel.

French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday his country would support Lebanon with 100 million euros, as Paris hosted an aid conference with big financial aims but slim diplomatic prospects.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed Tuesday that Hezbollah’s next-in-line, Hashim Safieddine (or Safi a-Din), was killed in an airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon, in early October, ending weeks of speculation about his fate.

The Israel Defense Force (IDF) provided what it said were precise directions to Hezbollah’s vault of $500 million in cash and gold underneath Al-Sahel Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday after journalists said they could not find it.

Former President Donald Trump suggested to Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya News on Sunday that his sources from Lebanon were telling him that Israel needed to continue its war against Hezbollah and defeat the Iran-backed terrorist organization.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) revealed Monday that the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terror organization had hidden $500 million in cash and gold in a bunker underneath the Al-Sahel Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon.

A former U.N. soldier says the U.N. peacekeeping operation in Lebanon was “completely at Hezbollah’s mercy.”