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On Monday, a Lebanese judge issued an arrest warrant for former central bank chief Riad Salameh after he was interrogated about an embezzlement case, according to a judicial official. Salameh, 74, who has led the central bank for thirty years, faces multiple allegations including embezzlement, money laundering, and tax evasion, both in Lebanon and internationally. Salameh has consistently denied all …

Hezbollah announced on Monday that it had successfully targeted Israel’s Ma’ayan Baruch military post near the Lebanon-Israel border using precise weaponry. On the same day, the Israeli army reported that four drones penetrated Israel’s airspace in the Western Galilee region; three were intercepted, and the fourth struck a tall building in Nahariyya. According to Israel’s Channel 12, this drone was …

Lebanon’s Jamaa Islamiya announced on Monday that they resumed military actions against Israel by launching rockets at the Beit Hillel military post in the Kiryat Shmona settlement. This marked the end of a pause in their military operations from Lebanon against Israel. The group stated that this action was a response to recent increases in Israeli aggression towards southern Lebanese …

The Israeli military has recently mandated a further evacuation of specific residential zones in northwest Gaza, attributing the directive to rocket launches from Palestinian militants targeting the nearby Israeli town of Ashkelon. This evacuation order, issued on Monday, was a response to a rocket assault that activated air raid alarms in Ashkelon on Sunday. The military reported intercepting one of …

Media reports on Friday indicated that the legal proceedings against Riad Salameh, the former head of Lebanon’s Central Bank, will concentrate on accusations related to $40 million in commissions. According to Annahar newspaper, expanding the investigation to include all files could drag on for years, or even decades, due to the complex details and likely political interference which could obstruct …

On Sunday, a truck driver launched a deadly attack at the Allenby Bridge border crossing, also known as the King Hussein Bridge, between the occupied West Bank and Jordan. The assailant killed three Israeli guards before being neutralized by security forces. This violent incident occurred during a period of escalating tensions in the West Bank, characterized by frequent Israeli military …

Once again, massive crowds of Israelis took to the streets to express their frustration over the government’s inability to negotiate the return of hostages still held in Gaza. Concurrently, Israeli airstrikes in Gaza were reported to have claimed the lives of over a dozen individuals overnight into Saturday. This wave of protests, among the largest since the war began, erupted …

Hezbollah declared on Sunday that it had carried out two rocket attacks on the Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona, along with another attack on the Shamir settlement, as a reprisal for what it referred to as the “massacre” in the southern Lebanese town of Froun. This attack resulted in the deaths of three members of the Lebanese Civil Defense and …