Hezbollah fires rockets six miles from Israel, targeting UNIFIL posts
Hezbollah has been launching rockets just miles from Israel’s northern border and has shown a willingness to target UNIFIL bases.
Qana
Hezbollah continues to fire large barrages of rockets at Israel
On the morning of October 24, Hezbollah launched 50 rockets at northern Israel, one of the largest barrages in recent days. Hezbollah continues to launch between 100 and 200 projectiles a day, mostly rockets...
Op-eds
Israel SitRep: October 23, 2024
Today’s Issue: | IDF Confirms the Death of Hashem Safieddine, Presumed Successor to Hezbollah Leader Hassan Nasrallah | IDF Eliminates Three Hezbollah Sector Commanders in Lebanon | VOA: Hezbollah Attempting...
Israel at War Situation Report
IDF strikes 490 Hezbollah targets in ground and air operations
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) carried out almost 500 strikes on various Hezbollah targets in three days of fighting between October 14 and October 17. The IDF said that troops “dismantled more than...
Op-eds
The challenges facing UN peacekeepers in Lebanon
Irish troops have had a presence in southern Lebanon since 1978, but they now face an impossible mission.
Op-eds
Israel SitRep: July 19, 2024
Today’s Issue: | One Killed in Overnight Drone Strike on Tel Aviv, Houthis Claim Responsibility | IAF Strikes Hezbollah Military Building, Weapons Depots, Launcher Used to Attack Western Galilee...
Israel at War Situation Report
Israel SitRep: Feb. 2, 2024
Today’s Issue: IDF’s 199th Division Seizes 100,000 Shekels and Documents, Kills Terrorists | Media Reports: IRGC Advisor Killed in Airstrike near Damascus | IDF Forces Continue Operations in Khan Younis,...
Israel at War Situation Report
Scoring the Lebanon-Israel maritime deal
This much is certain: Declarations of victory, by either side, are premature
Op-eds
Israel, Lebanon Near Agreement on Mediterranean Gas Field
Two years of U.S.-mediated negotiations on demarcating a maritime border between Israel and Lebanon appear to be reaching a conclusion, with senior envoys meeting on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York this week. In 2020, the Hezbollah-dominated Lebanese government claimed rights to Karish, an Israeli gas field located in the Mediterranean Sea. This insistence constituted a negotiating tactic aimed at compelling Jerusalem to make territorial concessions on the entirety of the disputed maritime area, including Qana, a prospective gas field that lies within both Lebanese and Israeli waters.
Flash Briefs
Hezbollah Drones Target Israeli Gas Rigs, Amplify U.S. Pressure on Israel
The Israeli military last week shot down three unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah had launched toward one of Israel’s offshore rigs at the Karish gas field. The...
Policy Briefs
The New Hezbollah: Israel’s Next War Will Be A Godawful Mess
However, pundits are now suggesting that when the Iranian proxy group initiates its next war with Israel, it wi...
Op-eds
Hezbollah’s Strategy in Syria Won’t Help Against Israel
Over the last three years of the Syrian Civil War, Hezbollah has incr...
Op-eds
No Justice, No Peace?
"No peace without justice" has become more than a pious mantra in contemporary international relations. Since the end of the Cold War, the establishment of mechanisms for legal accountability has...
Op-eds
A War Crime at Qana?
The Qana tragedy has intensified accusations that Israel's actions in Lebanon violate international law. Every death of an innocent person is extremely regrettable; but there is no evidence...