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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 565

Rafik Hariri International Airport

A cargo ship is docked at the port of Beirut on October 21, 2024. (Joseph EID / AFP)
April 8, 2025, 5:14 pm
Hezbollah using maritime smuggling route for weapons, funds from Iran – report
Saudi site says terror group has been asserting control over Beirut port, using it as main smuggling artery amid crackdowns by Lebanon, Syria and Israel
By 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
A protester hoists a framed portrait of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in front of Lebanese troops during a riot organized by the terror group outside the airport in Beirut, Lebanon, February 15, 2025. (Ibrahim Amro / AFP)
February 16, 2025, 2:06 pm
Hezbollah condemns attack on UNIFIL at Beirut riot, demands Iranian planes be let in
Peacekeeping force’s deputy chief said wounded in pro-Hezbollah riot after Lebanon’s refusal to let planes land, which official says followed US warning that Israel would down them
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Smoke billows from the burnt remains of a 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, 1:29 am
UNIFIL’s outgoing deputy chief wounded as convoy attacked by pro-Hezbollah rioters
Peacekeeping force demands perpetrators be brought to justice after terror group’s backers torch vehicle headed to Beirut airport, where 2 Iranian planes were blocked from landing
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Illustrative: An airplane lands at Tehran's Imam Khomeini International Airport, February 4, 2021. (Saeed Kaari/IKAC via AP)
February 14, 2025, 8:24 pm
Iran bars Lebanese planes from bringing back stranded citizens after Israeli ‘threat’
Tehran says flights can resume when Beirut lets in Iranian planes; Lebanon stopped an Iranian plane from landing following an IDF warning against cash transfers to Hezbollah
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Lebanese airport workers unload medical aid boxes on August 5, 2024, at Rafik Hariri International Airport in Beirut (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)
February 13, 2025, 11:48 am
IDF says Iran smuggling cash to Hezbollah on civilian planes through Beirut airport
Military has passed information to US-led committee supervising Lebanon ceasefire, assesses some transfers succeeded, vows to ‘use all tools at its disposal’ to enforce agreement
By Emanuel Fabian
Illustrative photo of a Mahan Air Airbus (Shahram Sharifi/Wikimedia Commons)
January 3, 2025, 9:51 am
Lebanon said to stop transfer of funds to Hezbollah through Iranian flight to Beirut
Reports say IRGC-linked plane, with Iranian diplomat aboard, delayed and searched at airport after intel on Iranian efforts to send cash to terror group
By ToI Staff
Passengers wait at Rafic Hariri International Airport after their flights were delayed or cancelled in Beirut on July 29, 2024. (Anwar AMRO / AFP)
August 5, 2024, 4:40 am
Travelers rush to leave Lebanon amid spiking tensions, canceled flights
Lebanon’s only airport thrown into chaos as embassies urge their citizens to leave as soon as possible amid fear of all-out regional war
By AFP and ToI Staff
Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan, right, and then-Jerusalem police chief Moshe Edri, left, at a press conference at the Russian Compound in Jerusalem, on October 7, 2015. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)
November 30, 2018, 10:01 am
Bad cop, bad cop: 7 things to know for November 30
Moshe Edri is deemed unfit to be the next Police Commissioner, but a minister isn’t giving up the fight, and the outgoing chief is caught in the center of the hubbub
By Joshua Davidovich
Illustrative. A Fars Air Qeshm cargo plane. (Wikimedia Commons)
November 30, 2018, 4:16 am
Tehran-Beirut cargo flight sparks concerns Iran arming Hezbollah more easily
Israeli, western officials suspect ostensibly civilian airlines, which once used Syria as a conduit, are bringing advanced military equipment into Lebanon for use against Israel
By Judah Ari Gross
A satellite image released by the Israel Defense Forces showing three sites near Beirut's international airport that the army says are being used by Hezbollah to convert regular missiles into precision-guided munitions, on September 27, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)
September 27, 2018, 10:54 pm
IDF releases photos of alleged Hezbollah missile sites near Beirut airport
After Netanyahu’s revelations at UN, army says the Iran-supported facilities are being used to convert regular missiles into precision-guided ones
By Judah Ari Gross
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah waves to supporters in southern Beirut, September 17 (photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla)
February 27, 2013, 12:17 am
Second report claims Nasrallah sick, being treated in Iran
Other sources claim Hezbollah leader wounded by Syrian rebels; his organization says he’s in Lebanon and fine
By ToI Staff
The former head of Syria's military police Maj. Gen. Abdul-Aziz Jassem al-Shallal announcing his defection to the rebels last December (photo credit: screen capture/Al-Arabiya)
December 26, 2012, 11:42 pm
Syrian minister flees Beirut for fear of arrest
Meanwhile, top general in Assad regime switches sides, says he has joined ‘the people’s revolution’
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