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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 539

Iran-Lebanon relations

File: A Middle East Airlines commercial aircraft prepares to takeoff on the tarmac of Beirut International Airport on November 1, 2024. (Anwar AMRO / AFP)
February 28, 2025, 8:59 pm
Lebanon seizes $2.5 million bound for Hezbollah, local officials say
Sources say it is the first time such a seizure is made, as cash caught on man arriving from Turkey; Beirut has also halted all flights from Iran over alleged Israeli warnings
By Reuters, ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian
Images depicting the Hezbollah's former leader Hassan Nasrallah, center left, and his late cousin and heir-apparent, Hashem Safieddine, are displayed during their funeral ceremony at the Sports City Stadium in Beirut, Lebanon, February 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
February 23, 2025, 7:07 pm
Tens of thousands shout ‘Death to Israel’ at Nasrallah funeral, as Israeli jets fly overhead
In address to packed Beirut stadium from hidden location, terror leader’s successor vows to uphold his legacy, threatens Israel and US, as IDF hits Hezbollah targets across Lebanon
By Agencies, Emanuel Fabian, Charlie Summers and ToI Staff
Illustrative - A Middle-East Airlines (MEA) plane approaches Beirut International airport on October 3, 2024. (Joseph Eid/AFP)
February 17, 2025, 7:11 pm
Lebanon extends Iran flight ban after US says Israel might shoot down planes
Officials in Beirut announce indefinite suspension after halting 2 Iranian flights last week; IDF has said Lebanon-based terror group using funds smuggled from Iran to rearm
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Firefighters extinguish a burning UNIFIL vehicle, set ablaze by pro-Hezbollah demonstrators, on the road leading to Beirut's international airport on February 14, 2025. (Ibrahim Amro/AFP)
February 15, 2025, 6:02 pm
Lebanon claims over 25 arrested for attack on UNIFIL convoy that wounded peacekeepers
Lebanese president vows perpetrators ‘will receive their punishment’ as Hezbollah and its allies seek to distance themselves from assault by Iran-backed terror group’s supporters
By Agencies and ToI Staff
A handout picture provided by the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's office on November 17, 2024, shows him (R) talking to Iran's Ambassador to Lebanon Mojtaba Amani who was injured in Beirut in Israel's September pager attacks, in Tehran on November 17, 2024. (KHAMENEI.IR / AFP)
December 3, 2024, 4:14 pm
Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon reappears after being injured in September pager attack
Mojtaba Amani returns to Beirut after being treated in Iran for wounds to his hands and face; visits site where Nasrallah was killed in Israeli strike on September 27
By ToI Staff and AP
A bomb dropped from an Israeli jet about to hit a building in Tayouneh, Beirut, Lebanon, November 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
November 15, 2024, 5:03 pm
Iran signals it would support ceasefire in Lebanon, as Israel pounds Beirut
3 foreign workers lightly hurt in rocket barrage on Haifa area; AP photographs Israeli bomb hitting building in Beirut, after IDF issues evacuation order citing Hezbollah activity
By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff
This handout picture provided by the Lebanese Prime Minister's press office shows Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati delivering a statement to the press in Beirut on October 11, 2024. (Lebanese Prime Minister's Press Office/AFP)
October 21, 2024, 2:14 pm
Iran rejects Beirut’s accusation that it is interfering in internal Lebanese affairs
Spokesman for foreign ministry claims Tehran ‘never had any intention’ of meddling, after Lebanese PM fumed at Iranian official who expressed openness to negotiating Lebanon truce
By AFP and ToI Staff
Iran's Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf (2-L)) and his Lebanese counterpart Nabih Berri (L) walk together after their meeting in Beirut on October 12, 2024. (AFP)
October 12, 2024, 7:52 pm
Iran’s parliament speaker meets with Hezbollah officials, Lebanese PM
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf denounces Israel’s ‘crimes’ while visiting site of strikes in Beirut that targeted Hezbollah’s security chief on Thursday
By AFP and ToI Staff
A man points to a television set displaying an image of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah with a black stripe for mourning during a broadcast from the private Lebanese station NBN in Beirut on September 28, 2024. (JOSEPH EID / AFP)
September 29, 2024, 11:21 am
Nasrallah killing reveals depth of Israeli penetration of Hezbollah
Friday’s targeting of terror chief is culmination of string of attacks against organization’s top echelon, key weapons caches, based on decades of Israeli intelligence gathering
By Reuters and ToI Staff
People gather around an ambulance carrying wounded people whose handheld pager exploded, at the emergency entrance of the American University hospital in Beirut, Lebanon, September 17, 2024, after an attack, blamed on Israel, targeting Hezbollah fighters. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
September 18, 2024, 2:40 am
US says it wasn’t involved in or tipped off about Hezbollah pager detonations
Administration says it’s still gathering info, largely refrains from commenting on explosion of beepers belonging to terror operatives in Lebanon
By Jacob Magid
Ambulances are surrounded by people at the entrance of the American University of Beirut Medical Center, in Lebanon, on September 17, 2024. (Anwar AMRO / AFP)
September 17, 2024, 8:54 pm
12 killed, almost 3,000 injured as vast wave of pager explosions strikes Hezbollah
Terror group blames Israel, vows revenge; hospitals in Lebanon overwhelmed by wounded, including Iranian envoy, after unprecedented, coordinated attack amid surging war fears
By Gianluca Pacchiani, Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman, ToI Staff and Agencies
Men walk past debris after the top floors of a building were destroyed in an IDF strike in a Beirut's southern suburb, on July 30, 2024. (AFP)
July 31, 2024, 3:26 am
‘Dangerous escalation’: Members of Iran-backed axis bash Israel over Beirut strike
Foreign minister says Lebanon did not expect capital to be hit in attack killing Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr, urges any response to ‘be proportionate and not more’
By Agencies
People at the scene of a Hezbollah missile attack that killed 12 children at a soccer field in the Druze village of Majdal Shams the previous day, in the Golan Heights, July 28, 2024. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)
July 28, 2024, 6:19 pm
Lebanon insists Hezbollah not behind deadly Golan attack, calls for tripartite probe
Beirut says Iranian-made rocket that killed 12 children was likely fired ‘by other organizations or was an Israeli mistake or a mistake by Hezbollah,’ urges international investigation
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian speaks during a press conference with his Lebanese counterpart in Beirut on February 10, 2024. (Anwar AMRO / AFP)
February 10, 2024, 8:35 pm
Iranian FM: Any major escalation in Lebanon will mark Netanyahu’s ‘last day’
Hossein Amir-Abdollahian claims Tehran uninterested in war, involved in talks with Saudis to end Gaza fighting; US asked Iran to keep Hezbollah out of full-on war with Israel
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant speaks at a conference at Reichman University in Herzliya, September 11, 2023. (Ariel Hermoni/ Defense Ministry)
September 11, 2023, 8:57 pm
Iran building airport in southern Lebanon to attack Israelis, Gallant says
DM claims facility, 20 km from Israel, to be used by Iran ‘for terror purposes’ against Israel; IDF chief: We must be ‘more prepared than ever’ for ‘extensive military conflict’
By Emanuel Fabian
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