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2024 Israeli Invasion Of Lebanon
On 1 October 2024, Israel invaded Southern Lebanon, marking the sixth Israeli–Lebanese conflict, Israeli invasion of Lebanon since 1978. The invasion took place after nearly 12 months of Israel–Hezbollah conflict (2023–present), Israel–Hezbollah conflict. On 26 November, Israel and Lebanon 2024 Israel–Lebanon ceasefire agreement, signed a ceasefire agreement, mediated by France and the United States. The ceasefire went into effect on 27 November, though some attacks continue. Israel has reported 56 of its soldiers and 2,762 Hezbollah militants killed in the invasion, while the Lebanese government has reported Israel killing 2,720 people in Lebanon, mostly civilians. Prior to the incursions, Israel had conducted major attacks in Lebanon including 2024 Lebanon electronic device attacks, an attack on pagers and electronic devices, and Assassination of Hassan Nasrallah, assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Israel had also conducted a September 2024 Lebanon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Israel–Hezbollah Conflict (2023–present)
On 8 October 2023, the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah fired guided rockets and artillery shells at Israeli positions in the disputed Shebaa Farms one day into the Israel–Hamas war. Israel retaliated by launching drone strikes and artillery shells at Hezbollah positions near Lebanon's boundary with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. The outbreak of the conflict had followed Hezbollah's declaration of support and praise for the Hamas attack on Israel, which took place on 7 October. Clashes subsequently escalated to reach other parts of the Israel-Lebanon border and onto Syria and the occupied Golan Heights. It is currently the largest escalation of the Hezbollah–Israel conflict to have occurred since the 2006 Lebanon War. In northern Israel, the ongoing conflict has forced approximately 96,000 individuals to leave their homes, while in Lebanon, more than 100,000 individuals have been displaced. Background Hezbollah is a Shiite militant organization that control ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Netanyahu
Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu (; ; born 21 October 1949) is an Israeli politician who served as the ninth prime minister of Israel from 1996 to 1999 and again from 2009 to 2021. He is currently serving as Leader of the Opposition and Chairman of Likud – National Liberal Movement. Netanyahu is the longest-serving prime minister in the country's history, having served for a total of 15 years. He was also the first prime minister to be born in Israel after its Declaration of Independence. Born in Tel Aviv to secular Jewish parents, Netanyahu was raised both in Jerusalem, and for a time in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States. He returned to Israel in 1967 to join the Israel Defense Forces. He became a team leader in the Sayeret Matkal special forces and took part in several missions, achieving the rank of captain before being honorably discharged. After graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Netanyahu became an economic consultant for the Bosto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Axel Schulz (Admiral)
Axel Schulz is a German naval officer. Schulz joined the German Navy in 1990. Since 23 December 2020, Schulz has commanded the German contingent of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) at Naqoura, Lebanon Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to Lebanon–Syria border, the north and east and Israel to Blue .... References Flotilla admirals of the German Navy Year of birth missing (living people) Living people {{Germany-mil-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aroldo Lázaro Sáenz
Lieutenant General Aroldo Lázaro Sáenz is a Spanish military officer who has served as the incumbent Head of Mission and Commander of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) since 2022. Life Son and grandson of Spanish soldiers, Aroldo Lázaro Sáenz was born in 1962 in Sidi Ifni, which at that moment was under Spanish control as the capital of the Ifni province. After attending school, Aroldo Lázaro Sáenz completed his training as an officer at the General Military Academy ''(Academia General Militar)'' in Zaragoza. He was also a graduate of the Army General Staff Academy ''(Academia Central de la Defensa)'' and completed his academic training in the fields of diplomacy, peace and security. During his military career as an officer in the army ''( Ejército de Tierra)'' he was a staff officer in a regiment of the "Guzmán el Bueno" X brigade in Cerro Muriano in the Córdoba province. He served as an officer in the headquarters of the European forces EUFOR ''(E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Aoun (general)
Joseph Khalil Aoun ( ar, جوزاف خليل عون) is a Lebanese Commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces since 2017. Career Aoun joined the Lebanese army in 1983. He trained abroad, especially in the United States and Syria. He also underwent counter-terrorism training in the United States in 2008 and Lebanon in 2013. He has headed the army's 9th Infantry Brigade since 2015. On 8 March 2017, the Lebanese government appointed Joseph Aoun commander-in-chief of the Lebanese Armed Forces, replacing Jean Kahwaji Jean Kahwaji (, ar, جان قهوجي; born 1953) is a former Lebanese military officer and Commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces from 2008 to 2017. Career Kahwaji joined the Lebanese army in 1973. He trained abroad, especially in the United S .... Following the protests in Lebanon and with the deadlock of the formation of the government, General Aoun made a speech on March 8, 2021 concerning the local and regional situation. Aoun focused on the economic crisis and i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Sleem
Maurice Sleem (born in Kfarshima, Lebanon, on February 5, 1954) is a Lebanese politician. He has been the Minister of National Defense since September 10, 2021 (the formation of the government of Prime Minister Najib Mikati). He is a Brigadier General in the Lebanese Armed Forces (retired). During his 40-year career, he held key posts and staff assignments in Army operational Units. He also worked at the Lebanese Presidency for many years. He retired from the Army in 2012. Decorations and medals * Lebanese Order of Merit 3rd Grade. * Lebanese Order of Merit 2nd Grade. * Lebanese Order of Merit 1st Grade. * National Order of the Cedar National may refer to: Common uses * Nation or country ** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen Places in the United States * National, Maryland, c ... Knight Grade. * National Order of the Cedar Officer Grade. * National Order of the Cedar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hashem Safieddine
Hashem Safieddine (; 1964) was a Lebanese Shia cleric who served as the head of Hezbollah's Executive Council from 2001 until his assassination in 2024. A maternal cousin of Hassan Nasrallah, Safieddine was generally considered the "number two" in Hezbollah for many years. In 2017, he was declared a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the United States and was also designated as a terrorist by several of the Arab Gulf states. Following Nasrallah's assassination on 27 September 2024, during the Israel–Hezbollah conflict, Safieddine was widely considered his likely successor. On 3 October 2024, Safieddine was targeted by an Israeli airstrike in Dahieh, south of Beirut. His death in the strike was confirmed later that month. Early life Safieddine was born in 1964 in Deir Qanoun En Nahr, southern Lebanon, to a respected Shia family. His name is also rendered as ''Safi al-Din''. He was a maternal first cousin of Hassan Nasrallah. He was the brother of Abdallah Safieddi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naim Qassem
Naim Qassem ( ar, نعيم قاسم; born 1953) is a Shia Lebanese cleric and politician, who was the second-in-command of Hezbollah Hezbollah (; ar, حزب الله ', , also transliterated Hizbullah or Hizballah, among others) is a Lebanese Shia Islamist political party and militant group, led by its Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah since 1992. Hezbollah's paramil ... with the title of deputy secretary-general. Early life and education Qassem was born into a Shia Islam in Lebanon, Shiite family in Kfar fila, Kfar Fila in 1953. He studied theology and his teacher was Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, Ayatollah Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah. He also received a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Lebanese University. Career Qassem was one of the founders of Lebanese Muslim students union that was established in the 1970s. He joined Amal Movement, the Amal movement when it was headed by Imam Musa Sadr. Qassem was the head of the Islamic religious education association from 1974 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yeftah Norkin
Yeftah Norkin ( born January 15, 1981) is an IDF officer with the rank of Brigadier General who serves as the commander of the 146th "Hamapatz" Division. Previously he served as the commander of the 7th Armored Brigade, the commander of the Ephraim Brigade (under the Judea and Samaria Division), an operations officer of the Galilee Division and the commander of the 77th battalion. Biography Norkin was born and raised in Moshav Beit Shaarim. He conscripted to the Israel Defense Forces to the Armored Corps in 1999, and was assigned to the 74th Battalion in the 188th Brigade. He went through a training course as a fighter, a tank commanders' course and an armored officers' course. At the end of the course, he was appointed commander of a tank platoon in Company V in the 77th Battalion in the 7th Brigade. During his position, he commanded an encounter with terrorists in Tulkarm and led the platoon in Operation Defensive Wall. He later served as a team commander in the Armored ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Jewish Press
''The Jewish Press'' is an American weekly newspaper based in Brooklyn, New York, and geared toward the Modern Orthodox Jewish community. It describes itself as "America's Largest Independent Jewish Weekly". ''The Jewish Press'' has an online version which is updated daily and reportedly has a readership of 2 million views each month. History The ''Press'' was founded in 1960 by Rabbi Sholom Klass, a Yeshiva Torah Vodaath graduate who had grown up in Williamsburg and who previously co-published the ''Brooklyn Daily''. In 1994, Klass stated that the ''Press'' would not accept advertising from the United Jewish Appeal, describing it as subsidies for competitors. The current editor, since late May of 2021, is Shlomo Greenwald, a grandson of the founders of the publication. Elliot Resnick served as the paper's chief editor until May of 2021. It is believed he was replaced due to the controversy of Resnick entering the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, and then not i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Jerusalem Post
''The Jerusalem Post'' is a broadsheet newspaper based in Jerusalem, founded in 1932 during the British Mandate of Palestine by Gershon Agron as ''The Palestine Post''. In 1950, it changed its name to ''The Jerusalem Post''. In 2004, the paper was bought by Mirkaei Tikshoret, a diversified Israeli media firm controlled by investor Eli Azur. In April 2014, Azur acquired the newspaper '' Maariv''. The newspaper is published in English and previously also printed a French edition. Originally a left-wing newspaper, it underwent a noticeable shift to the political right in the late 1980s. From 2004 editor David Horovitz moved the paper to the center, and his successor in 2011, Steve Linde, pledged to provide balanced coverage of the news along with views from across the political spectrum. In April 2016, Linde stepped down as editor-in-chief and was replaced by Yaakov Katz, a former military reporter for the paper who previously served as an adviser to former Prime Minister Naft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
