Hezbollah has embedded its rocket arsenal in villages across Lebanon, ensuring that any Israeli strike on the Iran-backed terrorist group’s military assets will lead to mass civilian casualties, a former Treasury official said on Monday. Hezbollah has “turned the Shiite villages … into essentially missile silos,” Jonathan Schanzer, now the vice...

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Israeli officials believe that a future war with Hezbollah, with its advanced Iranian-supplied rocket arsenal, could lead to “thousands of civilian deaths,” a white paper published by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies revealed. The paper, authored by Jonathan Schanzer, Tony Badran, and David Daoud, explores the history of Hezbollah’s...

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Two suspects linked to the Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah will be tried in absentia for a deadly July 2012 suicide bombing that targeted Israeli tourists in Bulgaria, prosecutors revealed on Friday. Meliad Farah and Hassan El Hajj Hassan, both natives of Lebanon, will be tried on charges of terrorism over the...

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An unmanned aerial vehicle crossed into Israeli airspace from Syria on Sunday afternoon, prompting the IDF to fire anti-aircraft missiles at the target before it returned to Syrian airspace. Israel fired two Patriot interceptors and an air-to-air missile at the drone, and scrambled fighter jets in an attempt to down it. “The aircraft was detected prior to entering...

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A decade after fighting the Second Lebanon War against the Islamist terror militia Hezbollah, Israel is once again facing a build-up on its northern border, with the prospect of fresh hostilities looming. The 2006 conflict, waged over a month during the hot summer, was the culmination of six years of...

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On the ten-year anniversary of the beginning of the Second Lebanon War, Israeli officials continued to warn that any future conflict with Hezbollah will result in unprecedented damage to the group. Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot, the IDF Chief of Staff, promised on Sunday that Israel will “decisively defeat” the terrorist organization, echoing...

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Israel will “decisively defeat” Hezbollah should another war erupt as it did ten years ago, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot wrote on Sunday in a statement on the IDF’s website marking ten years since the outbreak of the Second Lebanon War. Eisenkot noted that Hezbollah continues to threaten Israel, and...

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Iran’s sponsorship of terrorist groups and activities has “only increased” in the year since Tehran reached a nuclear deal with world powers, Matthew Levitt, director of the Washington Institute’s counterterrorism and intelligence program, wrote in a policy analysis published Friday. Citing promises by U.S. officials to curb Iranian aggression irrespective...

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Hezbollah’s leader said on Friday that the Lebanese terrorist organization will not be harmed by U.S. sanctions since it is funded and armed directly by Iran, Agence France-Presse reported. “We are open about the fact that Hezbollah’s budget, its income, its expenses, everything it eats and drinks, its weapons and rockets, are from the Islamic...

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A former IDF general warned Israelis on Tuesday that the next war with the Iran-backed Lebanese terror organization Hezbollah would lead to a barrage of rockets into Israel on an order of magnitude higher than anything Israel has yet faced. Major General (res.) Yitzhak Gershon, who served as the head of...

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