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The U.S. is at the forefront of humanitarian response to the growing crisis in Lebanon, announcing nearly $157 million in assistance today. We are committed to supporting those in need and delivering essential aid to displaced civilians, refugees and the communities hosting them.

The Golani Brigade, under the command of the 36th Division, has been engaged in limited, localized, targeted ground raids based on precise intelligence in southern Lebanon. The troops dismantled weapons and terrorist infrastructure, and eliminated terrorists on the ground and from the air. In a joint operation by the Golani Brigade and the Israeli Air Force, a military structure housing Hezbollah terrorist organization commanders , including the commander of the combat area, the commander of the engineering forces, and the fire coordinator commander, was struck. The terrorists were eliminated. ....

Major General Ori Gordin, leader of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Northern Command, visited southern Lebanon on Friday and looked back at the Israeli villages that Hezbollah’s terrorists have been firing upon for nearly a year. As Breitbart News has documented, the route of the Israel-Lebanon border gives Lebanon the high ground, meaning that Hezbollah had a strategic advantage once it illegally occupied the border area in defiance of the United Nations. Israel has taken control of portions of the border area since launching a ground attack in Lebanon earlier this week.

An Israeli security source on Saturday confirmed to Sky News Arabic that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah's successor, Hashem Safieddine, was eliminated in a Friday night strike. According to Al Hadath, commanders from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard were eliminated together with Safieddine. On Friday, Israel estimated that Safieddine was injured in the strike, since those who were with him in the underground area which was struck could not have escaped the site alive. In addition, it is estimated that alongside Safieddine, senior Hezbollah intelligence officials were also present at the site and were also injured. Safieddine, 60, is a cousin of...

Israel also eliminated Said Alaa Naif Ali, another Hamas official in Lebanon who led attacks against Israeli targets, and Saeed Atallah Ali, an official with the group's military wing. Israel has killed several Hamas officials in Lebanon since the Israel-Hamas war began in October 2023. Smoke billows from an Israeli strike near Beirut's Rafic Hariri International Airport. Beirut: Israeli Air Force jets on Saturday eliminated Mohammad Hossein Ali al-Mahmoud, who served as the operational arm of the Hamas militant group in Lebanon, announced the Israel Defence Forces (IDF). Israel has killed several Hamas officials in Lebanon since the Israel-Hamas war...

Federal authorities issued a warning ahead of the one-year October 7 anniversary when Hamas terrorists launched attacks on Israel and killed thousands of innocent lives. The FBI, Department of Homeland Security, and National Counterterrorism Center posted a federal intelligence bulletin warning of potential violence "as well as any further significant escalations" in the Israel-Hamas war that "may be a motivating factor for violent extremists and hate crime perpetrators to engage in violence or threaten public safety.” According to the bulletin, authorities expect aggression nationwide that may motivate people to engage in hate crimes and provoke violence. It also warns that...

Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr owes Israel a debt of gratitude for taking out the terrorists responsible for his father’s assassination in Lebanon four decades ago, but don’t expect the progressive former NBA star to say thank you, an Israeli columnist said. Kerr’s father, Malcolm Kerr, was gunned down in 1984 while serving as the president of American University in Beirut by two members of an Islamic jihadist group that is believed to have had ties to Hezbollah. “But don’t expect a thank you. It’s not in his progressive lexicon.” He has not commented publicly on the Israeli military’s...

“The World is on fire,” said Donald Trump, just before Iran attacked Israel. As missiles rain down on America’s Middle Eastern ally, Trump slammed the current U.S. administration and promised peace. Missiles are reportedly exploding every few seconds in the already pounded nation of Israel, which has so far done an incredible job of taking out important enemy targets while fighting a multi-front war and lacking proper U.S. support. The weak, feckless, terrorist-funding, Israel-undermining, Gaza-loving Biden-Harris administration emboldened Iran and must bear at least partial responsibility for the ongoing war on Israel, Trump insisted. “You wouldn’t trust Joe or Kamala...

High-risk” migrants were allowed to enter the US at the border without proper ID and now roam the country, a scathing new report by the Homeland Security inspector general claims. In many cases, the migrants were trusted to provide their own personal information before being allowed in and are now free to fly on domestic airlines without identification because of lax oversight by immigration authorities and the Transportation Safety Administration, the 37-page report reveals. “TSA’s vetting and screening procedures do not eliminate the risk that noncitizens who may pose a threat to fellow passengers could board domestic flights,” the report...

What we know Israel launched intense strikes on Beirut targeting Hezbollah's presumed new leader as he met with other senior militants, an Israeli official told NBC News. The IDF is still assessing whether Hashem Safieddine was killed. An Israeli airstrike cut off a key road that thousands of Lebanese had been using to cross into relative safety in Syria. Israel's bombardment has displaced more than a million people, filling government shelters, and forcing others to sleep in the streets of Beirut. Iran’s supreme leader vowed his country and its allies would not back down after its "brilliant operation" against Israel...

During an interview with Nexstar Media’s Austin, TX NBC affiliate KXAN on Wednesday that was released on Thursday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) stated that while Iran’s missile attack against Israel “is unacceptable.” He agrees with the United Nations “and others who are fighting for an immediate ceasefire. The last thing in the world this country needs is to see American troops getting engaged in another Middle East war.” And so, we have to make sure the war doesn’t expand. Sanders said, “The fear right now — obviously, what Iran did and all of those 180 missiles coming into Israel is...

There are nearly a million people who are illiterate in Sweden, with immigration a major contributing factor.. The number of people who are illiterate in Sweden is expected to exceed 800,000 in winter of this year, with researchers expecting the number to soon reach 1 million, in large part due to mass immigration. ... currently around 780,000 people between the ages of 16 and 65 who are illiterate in Sweden, but this number is soaring. “Each month, eight to ten illiterate students arrive,” said Rita Sommarkrans, SFI teacher in Västerås, to SVT. She added that if someone can’t read or...

Over 100 rockets, drones fired at Israel after multiple strikes in terror group’s Beirut stronghold overnight; IDF sends 36th Division into Lebanon, joining 98th Division Nazar Itkin, Cpt. Harel Etinger, Sgt. First Class Noam Barzilay, Cpt. Itai Ariel Giat. (Israel Defense Forces) The IDF announced the first fatalities of Israel’s ground operation in Lebanon on Wednesday after eight soldiers were killed during battles against Hezbollah operatives in the south of the country. The slain troops were named as: Cpt. Eitan Itzhak Oster, 22, a team commander in the Egoz Commando Unit, from Modi’in. Cpt. Harel Etinger, 23, a team commander...

Eight Israeli soldiers have been killed in fighting with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. A further seven soldiers were wounded, some of them seriously, according to the army, citing two separate battles. The Hezbollah militia claimed to have destroyed three Israeli battle tanks that had advanced on the Lebanese town of Maroun al-Ras. There was initially no confirmation of this from Israel.

During a holiday dinner at the start of Rosh Hashanah, a gunman burst into the home of a University of Michigan Rabbi, holding him and twenty Jewish students of the school at gunpoint. “I’m taking everything, give me everything!” the gunman reportedly yelled while pointing a handgun. However, according to the Detroit News outlet, witnesses heard no gunshots, and the house’s occupants quickly fled through a door, leaving the burglar with just a single purse he grabbed after rushing in. The robbery suspect has not yet been found, but police simply described as a “Black man in his early 20s.”...

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President Biden said Thursday that the US is “discussing” the possibility of Israel bombing Iranian oil facilities as payback for a volley of nearly 200 rockets fired at the Jewish state on Tuesday — causing a spike in global crude prices. Biden said the oil strike option was under consideration when asked directly by a reporter as he left the White House. “We’re discussing that. I think that would be a little… anyway,” the retiring 81-year-old president said ... Within 45 minutes of Biden’s remark, crude oil futures spiked to about $74 per barrel from its opening price of $70.10,...

U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday glibly ruled out any imminent Israeli strikes against Iran as the strife-torn region prepares for a response to the recent missile attack on the Jewish state. “First of all, we don’t ‘allow’ Israel, we advise Israel. And there is nothing going to happen today,” Biden told reporters at the White House when asked if he would allow Israel to retaliate against Iran. He made the remarks on the South Lawn before departing aboard Marine One without any further clarification or citing of a source for the military intelligence revelation.

Mushtaha established Hamas's General Security Mechanism along with Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, the IDF reported. The IDF announced the death of Rawhi Mushtaha, head of the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip, on Thursday. "Mushtaha, alongside Yahya Sinwar, established Hamas's General Security Mechanism," the military stated. They served a prison sentence together in an Israeli jail. Mushtaha was considered to be the most senior figure in the Hamas political bureau in the Gaza Strip and, during the war, maintained civil control of the Hamas regime while simultaneously engaging in terrorist activity against Israel. Mushtaha was Sinwar's right-hand man and one...

A Yazidi woman who was kidnapped from Iraq by ISIS in 2014 at the age of 11 and trafficked to the Gaza Strip has been rescued and reunited with her family. The rescue and return home of Fawzi Amin Sido was announced separately by the foreign ministries of Israel and Iraq. Israel’s foreign ministry said Sido was taken from her family in 2014 amid ISIS attacks on Yazidi communities in Iraq, as the terror organization known for its brutalities took control of vast swaths of the country. She was then sold off to a Gazan man who was visiting Iraq...