Israel, Hezbollah exchange fire across border as fears of Gaza war spillover grow

 

This photograph taken on January 5, 2024 from the southern Lebanese village of Dhayra along the Israeli border, shows buildings in the Lebanese town of Tair Harfa as smoke billows over northern Israel. (AFP)

 

Jan 6, 2024. Posted by  Balkan Periscope - Hellas

 

Lebanon’s Iranian-backed Hezbollah group said on Saturday it had fired rockets at Israel and its arch-foe said it had struck a “terrorist cell” in retaliation, as top US and EU diplomats visited the region to seek ways to halt spillover from the war.

Hezbollah’s anti-ship missiles bolster its threat to US Navy

 

Nov 8, 2023. Posted by  Balkan Periscope - Hellas

 

Powerful Russian anti-ship missiles acquired by Hezbollah give it the means to deliver on its leader’s veiled threat against US warships and underline the grave risks of any regional war, sources familiar with the group’s arsenal say.

Hezbollah should not 'exploit' the war between Israel and Hamas: The White House

 

Nov 3, 2023. Posted by  Balkan Periscope - Hellas

The United States stressed on Friday that Hezbollah should not "exploit" the war between Israel and Hamas after the Secretary-General of the party announced that the possibilities of expanding this war against Israel were "open."

Hamas official says group ‘expects more’ from Hezbollah involvement in war

 

Ghazi Hamad, a member of Hamas's political bureau, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Beirut, Lebanon, Oct. 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Oct 26, 2023. Posted by  Balkan Periscope - Hellas

 

A senior Hamas official tells The Associated Press that the terror group had expected stronger intervention from Hezbollah in its war with Israel.

US warns Iran, Hezbollah to ‘think twice’ about opening new front against Israel

 

A senior Pentagon official slammed the Hamas attacks on Israel as “ISIS-level savagery.”

Oct 9, 2023. Posted by  Balkan Periscope - Hellas

A senior US defense official said Monday that military posture increases in the Middle East were intended to serve as a deterrent signal to Iran, Lebanon’s Hezbollah and any other proxy in the region following the Hamas attack likened to “ISIS-level savagery.”

Lebanese Hezbollah announces it targeted Israeli military sites in Galilee

 

In a statement, the group declared that it had taken this action as "an initial reaction" to the deaths of three of its members.

Oct 9, 2023. Posted by  Balkan Periscope - Hellas

 

Lebanon's Hezbollah group on Monday announced that it had targeted two Israeli military sites in the northern Israel's Galilee region with rockets and shells.