Lebanon, Hezbollah
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In the pre-dawn hours of Monday morning, Hezbollah opened a new front in the US-Israeli war against Iran when it launched “missiles and a swarm of drones” at a military base in northern Israel.
The Lebanese army detained 12 armed members of Hezbollah, as judicial authorities ordered the pursuit of those responsible for launching rockets and drones from Lebanon toward Israel, local media reported Tuesday.
The three-day U.S.-Israeli war with Iran and its allies brought a new wave of displacement to war-weary Lebanon, after Israel retaliated for Hezbollah rocket attacks.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has threatened the Lebanese Hezbollah militia with a further intensification of attacks. "Hezbollah made a very serious mistake when it attacked us,"
Entire communities along the northern border were emptied amid fear that Hezbollah might try to penetrate the north as Hamas did in the south.
Israeli strike hits Hezbollah-aligned media building in Beirut’s southern suburbs following an evacuation warning.
Hezbollah takes responsibility for this afternoon’s rocket fire on the Golan Heights. In a statement, the terror group says it targeted an Israeli army base in response to the “criminal Israeli aggression that targeted dozens of Lebanese cities and towns, including the southern suburbs of Beirut.”
While it is true that Iran provides most of Hezbollah's financing, crime, including drug trafficking, gun running, blood diamonds, illicit timber, and even human trafficking.