Maya Gebeilly

Nov 16, 2024 | theprint.in | Maya Gebeilly

Video showed a building being struck and turning into a cloud of rubble and debris that billowed into Horsh Beirut, the city’s main park. The Israeli military said its fighter jets attacked munitions warehouses, a headquarters and other Hezbollah infrastructure.

Nov 15, 2024 | theprint.in | Maya Gebeilly |Riham Alkousaa |Timour Azhari |Tom Perry

The U.S. ambassador to Lebanon on Thursday submitted a draft truce proposal to Lebanon’s parliament speaker Nabih Berri, who is endorsed by Hezbollah to negotiate, two senior Lebanese political sources told Reuters without providing details. The draft was Washington’s first written proposal to halt fighting between its ally Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah in at least several weeks, the sources said. “It is a draft to get observations from the Lebanese side,” one of the sources told Reuters.

Oct 29, 2024 | theprint.in | Maya Gebeilly |Jana Choukeir

Qassem remained in his role when Nasrallah became leader, and has long been one of Hezbollah’s leading spokesmen, conducting interviews with foreign media, including as cross-border hostilities with Israel raged over the last year. Nasrallah was killed on Sept. 27, and senior Hezbollah figure Hashem Safieddine – considered the most likely successor – was killed in Israeli strikes a week later. Since Nasrallah’s killing, Qassem has given three televised addresses, including one on Oct.

Oct 22, 2024 | theprint.in | Maya Gebeilly |Maayan Lubell

The group said it also fired rockets at a naval base outside the port city of Haifa further north. There were no immediate reports of casualties. Israeli authorities said air sirens were activated in areas southeast of Tel Aviv due to one projectile identified crossing from Lebanon and falling in an open area. Other sirens sounded in Tel Aviv. Blinken’s trip to the region is his 11th since the attack on Israel by the Palestinian militant group Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, that triggered the Gaza war.

Oct 14, 2024 | theprint.in | Maya Gebeilly

Israel on Monday ordered residents of 25 villages to evacuate to areas north of the Awali River, which flows through southern Lebanon, as it intensifies its attacks in the region. An Israeli strike killed Muhammad Kamel Naim, the commander of the anti-tank missile unit of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force, in the Nabatieh area of south Lebanon, the military said. Hezbollah has not immediately commented.