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Israeli and Russian military delegations meet in Moscow, Russia, December 12, 2018 (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
Israel says ‘understandings’ with Russia reached over Syria
By TOI staff
IDF delegation in Moscow says sides discussed improving deconfliction methods; Kremlin briefed on border operation to thwart Hezbollah tunnels from Lebanon
Israeli machinery operates next to a concrete wall separating Israel and Lebanon, in a photograph taken from the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Kila, near the border with Israel, on December 9, 2018. (Ali Dia/AFP)
December 14, 2018, 4:08 pm
US Embassy bars workers from parts of north amid search for Hezbollah tunnels
Head of local council says ban is a ‘reward to terrorism,’ calls on Netanyahu to press Trump administration to rescind order
By TOI staff
Israeli and Russian military delegations meet in Moscow, Russia, December 12, 2018 (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
December 12, 2018, 7:39 pm
Israel says ‘understandings’ with Russia reached over Syria
IDF delegation in Moscow says sides discussed improving deconfliction methods; Kremlin briefed on border operation to thwart Hezbollah tunnels from Lebanon
By TOI staff
Italian Deputy PM Matteo Salvini, left, and PM Netanyahu in Jerusalem, December 12, 2018 (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)
December 12, 2018, 1:29 pm
Hosting Italy’s deputy PM, Netanyahu urges stronger action against Hezbollah
Salvini doubles down on dubbing Lebanese group ‘terrorists,’ despite having been criticized at home for use of the term
By Raphael Ahren
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) holds a joint press conference with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on April 29, 2018. (Yariv Katz/Pool/Flash90)
December 12, 2018, 6:22 am
US denied Israeli request to slap sanctions on Lebanon, official reportedly says
Pompeo said to reject Netanyahu’s proposal for economic embargo on Beirut, during meeting last week a day before tunnel operation launched
By TOI staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) tours the northern border to see IDF operations to uncover the Hezbollah attack tunnels on December 11, 2018 (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
December 11, 2018, 6:59 pm
PM warns Hezbollah of ‘unimaginable blows’ if anti-tunnel operation attacked
Netanyahu tours the tense northern border as a third attack tunnel is uncovered and and vows that Israel will continue to act until the threat is completely removed
By Judah Ari Gross and TOI staff
United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) military police cars drive past a concrete separation barrier between the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Kila and Israel on the border between the two countries on December 4, 2018 (Ali DIA / AFP)
December 11, 2018, 5:05 pm
Lebanon says Israeli border tunnel operation won’t disturb calm
President Aoun declares readiness to address issue after getting full details; UNIFIL chief says work to inspect Hezbollah attack tunnels ongoing: ‘This is a serious matter’
By Agencies and TOI staff
IDF troops uncover a tunnel leading into Israeli territory from southern Lebanon, which Israel says was dug by the Hezbollah terror group, on December 11, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)
December 11, 2018, 4:36 pm
IDF uncovers third attack tunnel dug from Lebanon into Israel
As with previous ones, army puts explosives in passage to ensure it can’t be used; UN peacekeepers confirm existence of first two tunnels
By Judah Ari Gross
Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini speaks during a press conferences at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, December 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
December 11, 2018, 2:15 pm
Italy’s deputy PM says EU ‘entirely unbalanced’ in its treatment of Israel
Visiting Jerusalem, Matteo Salvini slams European block for ‘condemning and sanctioning Israel left and right,’ says he lacks authority to move embassy to Jerusalem
By Michael Bachner
Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva, commander of the IDF's Technology and Logistics Directorate, who was named as the army's new head of the Operations Directorate, in an undated photograph. (Israel Defense Forces)
December 10, 2018, 9:38 pm
Senior IDF officers to visit Moscow amid ongoing spat over downed Russian plane
Army says delegation will brief Russian counterparts on new effort to find Hezbollah tunnels in Lebanon, discuss ‘other operational subjects’
By Judah Ari Gross
Israeli troops search for a Hezbollah border-crossing attack tunnel from southern Lebanon, along the northern border, on December 8, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)
December 10, 2018, 7:56 pm
IDF releases seismic audio of Hezbollah digging into Israel
Army offers glimpse into its ‘laboratory’ of engineers and intel soldiers searching for attack tunnels from southern Lebanon
By Judah Ari Gross
IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot at Glilot military base near Tel Aviv, March 28, 2018 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
December 10, 2018, 4:22 pm
IDF chief briefs UN commander on Hezbollah attack tunnels dug into Israel
Eisenkot tells UNIFIL’s Maj. Gen. Stefano Del Col his troops must help neutralize threat on Lebanese side of the border
By TOI staff
A Hezbollah fighter stands behind an empty rocket launcher, May 22, 2010. (AP/Hussein Malla)
December 9, 2018, 12:00 pm
Hezbollah deputy chief: All of Israel is in range of our rockets
Israel ‘deterred by the capabilities of the Islamic resistance,’ says Naim Qassem,as IDF exposes a third tunnel from Lebanon into Israel
By Judah Ari Gross and TOI staff
Israeli troops search for a Hezbollah border-crossing attack tunnel from southern Lebanon, along the northern border, on December 8, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)
December 8, 2018, 7:35 pm
In rain and mud, IDF exposes another tunnel from Lebanon into Israel
Passage is the second one to be fully exposed by military in its tunnel-busting operation thus far; army refuses to disclose its location, says it wasn’t yet operational
By Judah Ari Gross
The Israeli military drills into the soil south of the Lebanese border in an effort to locate and destroy Hezbollah attack tunnels that it says entered Israeli territory, on December 5, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)
December 8, 2018, 4:26 pm
IDF fires toward 3 suspected Hezbollah fighters who approach border
Army says men use weather cover to advance on digging operations against attack tunnels, flee after shots fired; Lebanon says it was a routine military patrol
By Jacob Magid and TOI staff
Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as they prepare to deliver joint statements after a meeting and a lunch in the Israeli leader's Jerusalem residence, June 25, 2012. (AP/Jim Hollander, Pool)
December 8, 2018, 2:46 pm
In phone call, Putin tells Netanyahu military cooperation in Syria must improve
Russian leader stresses importance of maintaining regional stability after receiving update on IDF operation to uncover and destroy Hezbollah attack tunnels from Lebanon
By TOI staff
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