The Telegraph, August 25, 2024 Event The Israeli military struck Hezbollah targets in Lebanon on Sunday after claiming the group had been planning a “large-scale attack”, while the Iranian-backed group said it had sent drones and rockets into Israel. The Israeli military said its fighter jets attacked thousands of Hezbollah rocket launchers in south Lebanon [...]
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Hezbollah launches barrage of rockets and drones towards Israel
The Guardian 21 August, 2024 Event Hezbollah has launched more than 50 rockets and a swarm of drones towards northern Israel, hitting a number of homes in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights and wounding one person. The strikes on Wednesday by the Lebanese militant group came the day after the US secretary of state, Antony [...]
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Lebanese hold their breath as mediators scramble to avert all-out war
BBC, August 14, 2024 Event The Middle East is in turmoil. International diplomacy is in overdrive. And for once many in Israel, Lebanon and Iran have something in common - a war of nerves. They worry and they wait for what may come next. It feels like the whole region is holding its breath. Is [...]
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Netanyahu addresses US Congress as thousands protest outside
The Jewish Chronicle, July 24, 2024 Event Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday afternoon delivered his fourth- ever address to a joint session of US Congress, in which he called for a decisive victory over the Hamas terror group and launched a novel approach to dealing with the threat posed by Iran. “It is [...]
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IDF orders evacuation of central Rafah as it prepares to expand its offensive
The Guardian, May 11, 2024 Event The Israeli military has told residents of neighborhoods in central Rafah to evacuate, signaling a major expansion of its military operations in the city and threatening the displacement of hundreds of thousands more people. The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) seized the Rafah border crossing with Egypt what it said [...]
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US votes against move to give Palestinians UN membership
Financial Times, April 18, 2024 Event The US vetoed a UN Security Council resolution on Thursday that would have granted a Palestinian state full UN membership, killing a move proposed by Algeria. Twelve of the 15 members of the UN Security Council, including Russia, China and France, voted in favour of the measure. The UK [...]
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Iran green-lights Hezbollah for large-scale attack on Israel in case of Rafah op in Gaza
Israel News, February 29, 2024 Event The Iranian regime has given Hezbollah the go-ahead to launch a large-scale attack against Israel within certain parameters, fearing that Israel plans to attack Lebanon in the near future, the Arabic Post reported on Wednesday. The Lebanese terror militia and Israel have traded blows since Hezbollah began its daily attacks against [...]
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Israel launches deepest airstrikes yet on Hezbollah targets in Lebanon
The Telegraph, February 14, 2024 Event Israeli fighter jets launched the deepest airstrikes yet on Lebanon, reigniting fears of regional war. The series of deadly strikes, amid months of cross-border violence, came after rockets from Hezbollah killed a woman in a town in northern Israel not previously affected by daily border clashes. One woman was killed and eight [...]
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Netanyahu rejects US calls to scale back Gaza offensive
The Times, January 19, 2024 Event Tensions between Israel and the US burst into the open yesterday when Binyamin Netanyahu angrily rejected American calls to scale back its offensive in Gaza and plan for a postwar Palestinian state. The Israeli prime minister used a TV news conference to accuse the US of trying to “coerce” [...]
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Saudi Arabia interested in Israel normalisation deal after war
BBC January 9, 2024 Event Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the UK says it is interested in normalising relations with Israel after the war in Gaza, but that any deal must lead to the creation of a Palestinian state. Prince Khalid bin Bandar told the BBC a pact was "close" when the the kingdom paused US-brokered [...]
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Will Israel defy Washington and target Hezbollah?
Politico, December 8, 2023 Event The message coming from Israel’s leaders remains unwavering and uncompromising. Come what may, they’re determined to smash Hamas for good, so it can never again carry out a pogrom like it did on October 7. U.S. officials have worked tirelessly to try and ensure the war in Gaza doesn’t spill [...]
Immanuel Verbondskind - עמנואל קאָווענאַנט קינד 