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Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah speaks via a video link, in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, October 12, 2018 (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
October 12, 2018, 9:49 pm
Nasrallah: Hezbollah ‘deliberately’ ambiguous on Israeli claims of missile sites
Terror group chief dismisses Netanyahu’s UN speech as a ‘farce,’ says he does not intend to provide ‘free information’ to the enemy on alleged precision missile facilities
By TOI staff
Screen capture from video of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu showing a diagram of what he said was Hezbollah terror group sites near Beirut during his address to the 73rd UN General Assembly in New York, September 27, 2018. (United Nations)
October 1, 2018, 10:30 pm
Netanyahu: Hezbollah ‘brazenly lying’ to world about weapons sites
Israeli PM says foreign ambassadors in Beirut went on ‘fraudulent propaganda tour’ hosted by Lebanese FM as terror group had 3 days to clear the area
By TOI staff and Agencies
Lebanon's Foreign Minister Gibran Bassil gathers 73 foreign envoys and journalists at Al-Ahed stadium in Beirut's southern suburbs on October 1, 2018 during a tour he organized of alleged missile sites around the Lebanese capital's international airport in a bid to disprove Israeli accusations that the Hezbollah movement has secret missile facilities there. (AFP PHOTO / ANWAR AMRO)
October 1, 2018, 8:24 pm
Israel derides Lebanon for what it says is cover-up of Hezbollah missiles sites
As Beirut’s foreign minister leads foreign envoys on tour aimed at disproving Netanyahu’s allegations, IDF issues video noting you can hide a lot in three days
By TOI staff and AFP
Lebanon's Foreign Minister Gibran Bassil talks to the media as he gathered ambassadors near Beirut international airport on October 1, 2018 during a tour of alleged missile sites around the Lebanese capital in a bid to disprove Israeli accusations that the Hezbollah movement has secret missile facilities there. (AFP PHOTO / ANWAR AMRO)
October 1, 2018, 5:11 pm
Lebanon FM gives diplomats tour aimed at disproving Netanyahu’s missile claims
Gibran Bassil says ‘Netanyahu is spreading lies’ with his allegation at UN of Beirut facilities used by Iran-backed Hezbollah to improve, hide advanced weapons
By AFP and Judah Ari Gross
Lebanese Foreign Minister Gibran Bassil, left, talks with an assistant as they stand next to a giant screen following voting by Lebanese expatriates in six Arab countries, ahead of parliamentary elections scheduled to be held in Lebanon on May 6, at the Lebanese Foreign Ministry in Beirut, on April 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
April 28, 2018, 12:01 pm
Lebanese expats vote in parliamentary elections
Citizens living in six Arab countries cast ballots ahead of May 6 vote, the first in nearly a decade
By Agencies
Lebanon's Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil speaks during a press conference on August 18, 2014 in Baghdad, Iraq. (Ali Abbas-Pool/Getty Images via JTA)
December 28, 2017, 9:31 pm
Lebanon FM slammed for saying ‘We are not against Israel living in security’
Lawmakers call for Gebran Bassil to resign after stating in a TV interview that Beirut has no ideological problem with the Jewish state
By JTA and TOI staff
File: A general view shows the Arab League summit in the Jordanian Dead Sea resort of Sweimeh, March 29, 2017. (AFP/Khalil Mazraawi)
November 19, 2017, 11:59 am
Lebanese foreign minister to skip Arab League summit on Iran
Divided between pro-Tehran Hezbollah and a Sunni alliance backed by Saudis, Beirut torn by regional Saudi-Iranian rift
By AFP
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