IDF Operation Northern Shield

Commander-in-chief of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp, (IRGC) Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi, left, greets Sheikh Naim Qassem, deputy Secretary General of Lebanons Hezbollah, during a religious ceremony in Tehran, Iran, on August 18, 2007. (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)

February 4, 2019, 4:07 am

Hezbollah number two says Israel is not ready for conflict with Lebanon

Naim Qassem denies Netanyahu allegations that Iran controls Lebanon through the terror group: ‘We have only 3 out of 31 ministers in the government’

By TOI staff

PM Netanyahu speaking to visiting UN ambassadors outside his Jerusalem office, February 3, 2019 (Haim Tzach/GPO)

February 3, 2019, 2:50 pm

Iran controls new Lebanese government, Netanyahu tells visiting UN envoys

Before group of 40 ambassadors head to northern border to inspect Hezbollah attack tunnel, PM urges them to ‘vote the truth’

By Raphael Ahren

Former head of the air force, Maj. Gen. (res.) Amir Eshel speaks at the Institute for National Security Studies conference in Tel Aviv on January 28, 2019. (INSS)

January 28, 2019, 11:58 pm

Ex-air force chief: Only Russia can get the Iranians out of Syria

Former head of IDF’s fight against Tehran declares victory, but his retired comrade says military might will not be enough

By Judah Ari Gross

Israeli troops search for attack tunnels dug into Israel from southern Lebanon that the Israeli military believes Hezbollah planned to use in future wars, in January 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

January 28, 2019, 4:30 pm

Israel alerts UN to more Hezbollah tunnels in Lebanon, heading toward Israel

None of these tunnels has reached the Israeli border, unlike the six tunnels destroyed by the IDF in recent weeks

By Avi Issacharoff

Former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot, right, is interviewed by Amos Yadlin at the Institute for National Security Studies annual conference in Tel Aviv on January 27, 2019. (INSS)

January 27, 2019, 10:13 pm

Ex-IDF chief dismisses Hezbollah claim of more cross-border attack tunnels

Gadi Eisenkot, in first remarks as a civilian, praises Israel’s achievements in fighting Iran and its proxies, defends decision not to attack in Gaza

By Judah Ari Gross

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on December 16, 2018. (Abir Sultan/Pool/AFP)

January 27, 2019, 2:53 pm

PM: Nasrallah ’embarrassed’ by Israel’s success in destroying Hezbollah tunnels

Netanyahu says terror group in financial difficulties after sanctions reimposed on Iran; dismisses its leader’s claim subterranean passages predate 2006 war

By TOI staff and Agencies

Hezbollah terror group leader Hassan Nasrallah is interviewed on the al-Mayadeen Lebanese television channel, January 26, 2019 (Screen capture)

January 27, 2019, 10:19 am

With smug tunnels speech, Hezbollah chief tries to bury terror group’s defects

Nasrallah claims Israel was humiliated by underground infrastructure, threatens Israelis with war, in bid to hide Hezbollah’s failures and distort the actual power balance

By Avi Issacharoff

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah during an interview with al-Mayadeen, January 26, 2019 (screen capture)

January 26, 2019, 9:49 pm

Nasrallah: Israeli tunnel op hasn’t curbed ’10 percent’ of Galilee invasion plan

In first comments since IDF began destroying attack tunnels, Hezbollah leader says he’s ‘surprised’ Israel took so long to find them, derides operation as intel ‘failure’

By Adam Rasgon and TOI staff

Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah speaks via a video link, as his supporters raise their hands, during activities to mark the ninth of Ashura, a 10-day ritual commemorating the death of Imam Hussein, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on September 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

January 20, 2019, 10:13 pm

Nasrallah to give TV interview after long public absence and ill health rumor

Hezbollah chief on Saturday expected to address Israeli operation to destroy cross-border tunnels from Lebanon, in first appearance in months

By TOI staff

An American man, Colin Emery Doyle, whom Lebanon says it captured after he illegally crossed into the country through the security fence from Israel on January 15, 2019. (Hezbollah's Central Media)

January 17, 2019, 4:47 pm

Lebanon says it captured American man suspected of infiltrating from Israel

Suspect identified as Colin Emery Doyle was spotted Tuesday in a Lebanese village, having apparently crossed the border through a hole in the fence

By Judah Ari Gross

Attack tunnel dug into Israel from southern Lebanon that the Israeli military believes Hezbollah planned to use in future wars, which was discovered in January 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

January 17, 2019, 3:26 pm

Hezbollah tunnel construction began before 2006 Second Lebanon War — report

In 2005, IDF tunnel adviser reportedly told then-Northern Command chief Benny Gantz about terror group’s cross-border underground passages; warning was apparently ignored

By TOI staff

This picture taken on December 4, 2018 from the southern Lebanese village of Kafr Kila shows a view of the border with Israel, with Israeli vehicles driving on the right side and UN and Lebanese vehicles driving on the left. (Ali DIA / AFP)

January 15, 2019, 9:15 pm

Man crosses border from Israel into Lebanon – reports

IDF confirms tear found in border fence, with tracks apparently crossing border; one Lebanese outlet says man had Hebrew documents, while another says an American passport found

By Judah Ari Gross and Adam Rasgon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tours northern Israel on January 13, 2019. (Haim Zach/GPO)

January 13, 2019, 8:42 pm

After strikes in Syria, Netanyahu threatens to hit Iranian targets even harder

PM says Damascus airport attack shows how determined Israel is to keep Iran from establishing a military foothold on Syrian territory

By TOI staff

January 13, 2019, 9:07 am

Finding ‘6th, biggest and last’ Hezbollah tunnel, IDF ends Northern Shield op

Military announces discovery of final underground passage from Lebanon, the largest one found, believed to have been part of plan to send fighters to conquer northern Israel

By Judah Ari Gross

Construction work takes place near a new concrete wall on the border between Israel and Lebanon, near Rosh Hanikra in Northern Israel, on September 5, 2018. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

January 11, 2019, 4:55 pm

Lebanon to file complaint at UN over Israel’s building of border wall

Order by Lebanese FM to raise issue at Security Council comes amid IDF campaign to destroy Hezbollah attack tunnels that enter Israeli territory

By Agencies and TOI staff