Hezbollah : Past, Present and Future attacks on Israel

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Hashem Safieddine, the head of Hizbullah's Executive Council, said in an August 4, 2022 address that was aired on Al-Manar TV (Hizbullah-Lebanon) that America is Hizbullah's "number one enemy" and that it is striving to destroy humanity under the guise of "civilization, progress, and human rights." He said that America's "arrogance" regarding Russia and China have resulted in a threat to the world's food supply, and he claimed that Lebanon has foiled many American plots on its soil. In addition, he said that the "resistance axis" would have easily finished off Israel were it not for the protection the U.S. provides it with.

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Hizbullah Senior Official Hashem Safieddine: America Is Our Number One Enemy; Its Arrogance Towards Russia And China Has Endangered The World's Food Supply; We Would Have Already Finished Off Israel If Not For U.S. Protection

The head of Hizbullah's Executive Council, Hashem Safieddine, said in an August 4, 2022 address that was aired on Al-Manar TV (Hizbullah-Lebanon) that America is Hizbullah's "number one enemy" and that it is striving to destroy humanity under the guise of "civilization, progress, and human rights."

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Lebanese journalist May Chidiac, who has formerly served as Lebanon’s Minister for Administrative Development, said in an interview that she does not want Lebanese children to grow up in a culture that encourages martyrdom and death.

She said that the images of Lebanese children carrying coffins and crying that they want to be killed in war express Iranian values, not Lebanon’s.

“Teach how to live with love,” Chidiac insists.

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WATCH: Lebanese Journalist Fed Up with Hezbollah Brainwashing Kids | United with Israel

A Lebanese journalist is fed up with Hezbollah's culture of martyrdom poisoning childrens' minds.

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Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said on Friday that ongoing negotiations between world powers regarding the potential return to a nuclear agreement with Iran would not prevent Hezbollah from pressing its demands regarding Lebanon’s “rights” in a maritime deal off the coast. In essence, he is reserving the right for Hezbollah to take over Lebanon’s foreign policy and continue to threaten Israel and thus veto any chance of calm and peace in the region.


The reason Hezbollah’s leader made these comments is that he is concerned that some will believe there is a quid pro quo for a return to the Iran deal. If the western countries come to an agreement with Iran, it could be linked to Hezbollah. This is because Hezbollah is a powerful ally and proxy of Iran. The recent flare-up in the confrontation between Israel and Palestinian Islamic Jihad is also an example of this proxy phenomenon, where Iran negotiates with one hand and uses another hand to stir up tension and violence.

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Hezbollah leader says Iran deal won't stop attacks on Israel - analysis

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said the terrorist group would continue pressing its demands regarding Lebanon’s maritime “rights” despite the ongoing Iran nuclear talks.

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Israel’s security forces are on high alert near the northern border amid fears the Hezbollah terror group may attempt to carry out an attack in order to sabotage talks between Israel and Lebanon on a maritime border dispute, with the sides said to be nearing an agreement.

Israel and Lebanon have been engaged for over a year in rare US-brokered talks aimed at resolving a dispute over rights to offshore fields thought to hold riches of natural gas.

Both countries claim some 860 square kilometers (330 square miles) of the Mediterranean Sea. Lebanon also claims that the Karish gas field is in disputed territory under ongoing maritime border negotiations, while Israel says it lies within its internationally recognized economic waters.


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IDF on alert for Hezbollah provocation as Israel, Lebanon said nearing maritime deal

Lebanese terror group may attempt to sabotage negotiations over disputed offshore gas fields, as Lebanon official reportedly says an agreement is 'very close'

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UN Security Council condemns Hezbollah - but refuses to mention Hezbollah

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Naharnet:

A Hezbollah official on Friday sounded the alarm over the latest U.N. Security Council resolution that extended the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).

“What are officials doing regarding the Security Council resolution that granted UNIFIL freedom of movement… without needing a permission from the army for its declared and undeclared patrols?” Sheikh Mohammed Yazbek said.

“This contradicts with the previous agreements and this is a dangerous development that turns the (UNIFIL) forces into occupation forces whose role would be to protect the Israeli enemy through pursuing the people and the resistance,” Yazbek added.

..."The decision is a conspiracy against Lebanon and its sovereignty,” the Hezbollah official went on to say.

But it isn't only Hezbollah. The government of Lebanon seems to agree!

The Foreign Ministry on Wednesday noted that the resolution “contained a text that does not conform with what was mentioned in the framework agreement signed by Lebanon with the U.N.,” adding that “Lebanon has objected against the introduction of this wording.”

“Accordingly, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants has requested to meet with the head of the UNIFIL mission to stress the importance of continuing permanent cooperation and coordination with the Lebanese Army in order to secure the success of the mission of U.N. forces in Lebanon,” the Ministry said.

The Nidaa al-Watan newspaper reported Wednesday that Lebanon had requested the removal of “two phrases mentioned in clauses 15 and 16 in the extension resolution, which stipulate UNIFIL’s freedom of movement and the condemnation of any restriction of this freedom in the area south of the Litani River.”

The phrases in question (clauses 16 and 17) say:

16. Urges all parties to cooperate fully with the Head of Mission and UNIFIL in the implementation of resolution 1701, as well as to ensure that the freedom of movement of UNIFIL in all its operations and UNIFIL’s access to the Blue Line in all its parts is fully respected and unimpeded, in conformity with its mandate and its rules of engagement, including by avoiding any course of action which endangers United Nations personnel, reaffirms that, pursuant to the Agreement on the Status of the United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (SOFA) between the Government of Lebanon and the United Nations, UNIFIL does not require prior authorization or permission to undertake its mandated tasks and that UNIFIL is authorized to conduct its operation independently, condemns in the strongest terms all attempts to deny access or restrict the freedom of movement of UNIFIL’s personnel and all attacks on UNIFIL personnel and equipment as well as acts of harassment and intimidation of UNIFIL personnel and disinformation campaigns against UNIFIL; calls on the Government of Lebanon to facilitate UNIFIL’s prompt and full access to sites requested by UNIFIL for the purpose of swift investigation, including all relevant locations north of the Blue Line related to the discovery of tunnels crossing the Blue Line which UNIFIL reported as a violation of resolution 1701 (2006), in line with resolution 1701, while respecting the Lebanese Sovereignty;
17. Demands the parties cease any restrictions and hindrances to the movement of UNIFIL personnel and guarantee the freedom of movement of UNIFIL, including by allowing announced and unannounced patrols;

This is nothing new - UNIFIL's independence was always part of its mandate. And the Lebanese government's objection to this sounds like they are run by Hezbollah.
UNIFIL issued its own statement today:

UNIFIL has always had the mandate to undertake patrols in its area of operations, with or without the Lebanese Armed Forces. Nevertheless, our operational activities, including patrols, continue to be coordinated with the Lebanese Army, even when they don't accompany us.
Our freedom of movement has been reiterated in Security Council resolutions renewing UNIFIL’s mandate, including Resolution 1701 in 2006, and UNIFIL’s Status of Forces Agreement, signed in 1995.

UNIFIL seems to be getting more and more impatient with Hezbollah lately, and as I have noted, the latest UN Security Council resolution on southern Lebanon condemned Hezbollah although it didn't mention their name. Hezbollah is interfering with UNIFIL's already weak enforcement of UN resolutions to keep southern Lebanon free of non-army weapons.

This seems to be part of Hezbollah's increased threats against Israel in recent months. The group, almost certainly at Iran's request, seems intent on starting a new war with Israel, the rest of Lebanon be damned.

Hezbollah, which occupies southern Lebanon, accuses UNIFIL of occupying southern Lebanon

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If it weren’t for Hezbollah, Lebanon would have been part of the Abraham Accords, the head of the IDF’s Military Intelligence said on Monday.


“I am convinced that Lebanon would have been part of the Abraham Accords if not for Hezbollah,” Maj.-Gen. Aharon Haliva said at Reichman University’s Counter-terrorism conference in Herzliya. “Hezbollah is an organization that wears three hats: protector of the Shia community, an Iranian proxy financed and backed by Tehran, and the protector of Lebanon who took the Lebanese people hostage.”


Israel normalized ties with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan with the signing of the Abraham Accords in 2020. Since then, ties between the countries have increased with bilateral defense agreementssigned, over 150 meetings between security officials, dozens of joint exercises, and over $3 billion in defense industry cooperation. The chief of staff of Morocco’s military landed in Israel on Monday and was received at the Kirya Military Headquarters with an honor guard.

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If not for Hezbollah, Lebanon would have joined Abraham Accords - Haliva

IDF’s Military Intelligence Maj.-Gen. Aharon Haliva said the military has discussed the potential for escalation in the north with the political echelon.

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Hezbollah terror chief Hassan Nasrallah on Friday issued a fresh threat over the offshore Karish gas field partly claimed by Lebanon, warning Israel against beginning extraction amid maritime border talks between Jerusalem and Beirut.

In a televised speech for the Shiite commemoration of Arbaeen, Nasrallah noted upcoming tests at Karish, with the platform slated to be connected to Israel’s national gas grid in the coming days. According to Nasrallah, Hezbollah “sent a very strong message” concerning the tests but Israel clarified they would not involve extracting gas from Karish.

“The red line to us is that there should not be extraction from Karish,” he said, according to the Naharnet news site.

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Nasrallah warns Hezbollah missiles are ‘locked on’ offshore Israeli gas field

Lebanese terror chief calls extraction from Karish a 'red line' amid US-brokered maritime border talks; also rails at UNIFIL amendment stating peacekeepers operate 'independently'

www.timesofisrael.com

 

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Hezbollah has been a threat to Israel on the Northern border. For decades it has been a proxy of Iran in its attempt to destroy Israel.

It is clear that Hezbollah is preparing for another war with Israel, and it is also clear that Israel is doing its best to avoid that.

Here is some of the past history of Hezbollah. I will be posting past and present events as they have happened or as they will happen.

To have an idea of the history between Hezbollah's involvement in the war against Israel and where it comes from, readers will find bellow a history of it to familiarize themselves.

Milestones in Hezbollah’s History


1943: After twenty-three years as a French mandate, Lebanon gains independence. Its new leaders sign the National Pact, which creates a government system dividing power among the major religious groups.
1970
1971: The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) relocates its headquarters from Jordan to Lebanon.
1983: In April, Beirut’s U.S. embassy is bombed, killing 63 people. In October, suicide attacks on barracks housing U.S. and French troops kill 305 people. A U.S. court decides Hezbollah is behind the attacks.

1975–1990: Lebanon’s civil war rages as the country’s religious, political, and ethnic sects vie for control, leading to invasions by Israel and Syria and the involvement of the United States and other Western forces, as well as the United Nations.

1980
1984: A car bombing attributed to Hezbollah kills dozens of people at the U.S. embassy annex in Beirut.
1985: Hezbollah releases its first manifesto.
1992: In March, the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires is bombed in an attack attributed to Hezbollah. Later this year, Hassan Nasrallah becomes Hezbollah’s secretary-
general after Israeli forces assassinate his predecessor. Hezbollah wins eight seats in Parliament after participating in national elections for the first time.
1989: Lebanon’s parliamentarians meet in Taif, Saudi Arabia, and sign an agreement to end the civil war and grant Syria guardianship over Lebanon. The agreement also orders all militias except for Hezbollah to disarm.

1994: Car bombings at Israel’s London embassy and a Buenos Aires Jewish community center are attributed to Hezbollah.
1997: The United States designates Hezbollah a foreign terrorist organization.

2000
2005: Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri is assassinated. His death, attributed to Syria, kick-starts the Cedar Revolution. A UN tribunal later implicates Hezbollah in Hariri’s death.
2006: Hezbollah abducts two Israeli soldiers, sparking a monthlong war with Israel that leaves more than one thousand Lebanese and fifty Israelis dead.
2009: Hezbollah releases an updated manifesto that expresses more openness to the democratic process.

2010
2011: Syria descends into civil war. Hezbollah eventually sends thousands of fighters to support Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
2012: A suicide bombing targeting a bus carrying Israeli tourists in Bulgaria kills six people. The European Union blames Hezbollah.
2013: The EU designates Hezbollah’s armed wing a terrorist organization after considerable debate among the bloc’s members.
2018: Israel discovers miles of tunnels into Israel from southern Lebanon that it says belong to Hezbollah.
2019: Economic woes trigger mass protests calling for the political elite, including Hezbollah, to give up power. Prime Minister Saad Hariri resigns.

2020
2020: Hezbollah vows revenge after a U.S. drone strike kills Iranian Quds Force commander Qasem Solemaini. Later this year, a top judge begins investigating officials tied to Hezbollah in relation to explosions at a Beirut port that kill hundreds.

So stay out of Lebanon. You all flipped their demographic with refugees.

 

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So stay out of Lebanon. You all flipped their demographic with refugees.

Israel does not have a problem with Lebanon. Israel and Lebanon have a problem with Hezbollah.

If anyone flipped anything about refugees it was the Jew haters who continue to want to destroy Israel. be it Hezbollah or any of the other terrorist groups which keep attacking Israel and Jews from outside or inside.

 

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Prime Minister Yair Lapid on Thursday signed the US-mediated maritime border agreement with Lebanon resolving a decades-long dispute over territorial rights and the exploitation of gas reserves in the Mediterranean Sea.

“This agreement strengthens Israel’s security and our freedom of action against Hezbollah and the threats to our north,” Lapid remarked at the start of the special cabinet meeting for the approval of the maritime agreement. “There is rare consensus in the security establishment regarding the necessity of this agreement.”

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‘Diplomatic Achievement’: Israel Signs Lebanon Border Agreement, Ending Decades-Long Dispute

Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid at a signing ceremony for the Israel-Lebanon Maritime Border Argreement Credit: Amos Ben-Gershom (GPO) Prime …

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Hezbollah ends state of alert over maritime border - Nasrallah

Nasrallah rejected criticism of the agreement by some Lebanese people, saying that "their hatred blinded them."

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The maritime border agreement (indirectly) signed between Lebanon and Israel last week is not really a final agreement, according to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.

In a speech he gave last night, Nasrallah showed a map of the various positions and said that there was still an area of about 2.5 square kilometers - demarcated by a line of buoys that Israel had insisted would be their border - that are still claimed as Lebanese by Hezbollah.

He still claims the additional 876 square kilometers "liberated" as a great victory, but says that the total should be closer to 879 square kilometers.



This is practically the same tack that Hezbollah too after the UN drew the Blue Line between Israel and Lebanon. Even though Israel withdrew behind that line, Hezbollah still claims small areas that the agreement gave to the Israeli side, and uses that as justification for maintaining a huge arsenal of weapons and rockets.

Not only that, but Nasrallah, in his speech, encouraged the Lebanese to pressure their government to re-assert their rights to Line 29, the current maximal position they made up during the negotiations that has no legal basis. He says if Lebanon decides that Line 29 really is the border, then Hezbollah will "struggle" to achieve that.


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Hezbollah says that the maritime border dispute is not over - and never will be

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Hezbollah has been a threat to Israel on the Northern border. For decades it has been a proxy of Iran in its attempt to destroy Israel.

It is clear that Hezbollah is preparing for another war with Israel, and it is also clear that Israel is doing its best to avoid that.

Here is some of the past history of Hezbollah. I will be posting past and present events as they have happened or as they will happen.

To have an idea of the history between Hezbollah's involvement in the war against Israel and where it comes from, readers will find bellow a history of it to familiarize themselves.

Milestones in Hezbollah’s History


1943: After twenty-three years as a French mandate, Lebanon gains independence. Its new leaders sign the National Pact, which creates a government system dividing power among the major religious groups.
1970
1971: The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) relocates its headquarters from Jordan to Lebanon.
1983: In April, Beirut’s U.S. embassy is bombed, killing 63 people. In October, suicide attacks on barracks housing U.S. and French troops kill 305 people. A U.S. court decides Hezbollah is behind the attacks.

1975–1990: Lebanon’s civil war rages as the country’s religious, political, and ethnic sects vie for control, leading to invasions by Israel and Syria and the involvement of the United States and other Western forces, as well as the United Nations.

1980
1984: A car bombing attributed to Hezbollah kills dozens of people at the U.S. embassy annex in Beirut.
1985: Hezbollah releases its first manifesto.
1992: In March, the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires is bombed in an attack attributed to Hezbollah. Later this year, Hassan Nasrallah becomes Hezbollah’s secretary-
general after Israeli forces assassinate his predecessor. Hezbollah wins eight seats in Parliament after participating in national elections for the first time.
1989: Lebanon’s parliamentarians meet in Taif, Saudi Arabia, and sign an agreement to end the civil war and grant Syria guardianship over Lebanon. The agreement also orders all militias except for Hezbollah to disarm.

1994: Car bombings at Israel’s London embassy and a Buenos Aires Jewish community center are attributed to Hezbollah.
1997: The United States designates Hezbollah a foreign terrorist organization.

2000
2005: Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri is assassinated. His death, attributed to Syria, kick-starts the Cedar Revolution. A UN tribunal later implicates Hezbollah in Hariri’s death.
2006: Hezbollah abducts two Israeli soldiers, sparking a monthlong war with Israel that leaves more than one thousand Lebanese and fifty Israelis dead.
2009: Hezbollah releases an updated manifesto that expresses more openness to the democratic process.

2010
2011: Syria descends into civil war. Hezbollah eventually sends thousands of fighters to support Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
2012: A suicide bombing targeting a bus carrying Israeli tourists in Bulgaria kills six people. The European Union blames Hezbollah.
2013: The EU designates Hezbollah’s armed wing a terrorist organization after considerable debate among the bloc’s members.
2018: Israel discovers miles of tunnels into Israel from southern Lebanon that it says belong to Hezbollah.
2019: Economic woes trigger mass protests calling for the political elite, including Hezbollah, to give up power. Prime Minister Saad Hariri resigns.

2020
2020: Hezbollah vows revenge after a U.S. drone strike kills Iranian Quds Force commander Qasem Solemaini. Later this year, a top judge begins investigating officials tied to Hezbollah in relation to explosions at a Beirut port that kill hundreds.

Hezbollah was organized to keep Israel out of Lebanon.

The Saudi King considered Rafic Hariri to be like a son. He blamed Syria for his death.