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Hezbollah did not claim today’s rocket barrage on Safed, which struck an IDF base and killed a soldier. But the dynamics surrounding the attack suggest it may have been a retaliation for Israeli strikes on high-value Hezbollah targets beginning with an Israeli attack last week in Nabatiyeh targeting two high-ranking Hezbollah commanders.

Israel targeted two high-ranking Hezbollah commanders in an airstrike in Nabatieh. While the details and outcome remain uncertain, the location of the strike and nature of the targets suggest Israel’s patience is wearing thing with Hezbollah’s ongoing attacks.

Israeli bulldozers crossed the technical fence at Mais al-Jabal, Markaba and Wadi Honein, and Israeli soldiers fired bullets into the air to scare off Lebanese civilians.BEIRUT — Tensions escalated...

48 shares A picture released by a Hezbollah affiliated journalist shows an Israeli woman watching the Lebanese border in October 2020. The photo has been altered by The Times of Israel to conceal the womans identity, in line with censorship requirements. The photo could not be independently verified. (Ali Choeib via Twitter) An Israeli woman who crossed into Syria two weeks ago, and was returned under a murky deal brokered by Russia, was previously spotted by Hezbollah on the Lebanese bor...

A journalist affiliated with the Lebanese Hezbollah movement has published pictures on social media purporting to show the Israeli woman who crossed the border into Syria surveilling the Lebanese frontier from Israel. According to al-Manar’s Ali Choeib, the woman was seen near the border in a SUV with an open window in October 2020. At the time, tensions on the border were higher than normal due to Israeli fears of a Hezbollah counterattack following the killing of a commander in Syria. Accor...

Judah Ari Gross is The Times of Israels military correspondent. Illustrative. An Israeli Heron military drone flies over the southern Israeli city of Ashdod on November 13, 2019. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP) The Hezbollah terror group fired surface-to-air missiles at an Israeli drone over southern Lebanon on Wednesday afternoon in a major escalation of conflict, amid lingering tensions along the border. “Anti-aircraft missiles were just fired toward an IDF remote-piloted aerial vehicle during routine...

Judah Ari Gross is The Times of Israels military correspondent. Illustrative. An F-35 jet maneuvers during a graduation ceremony for pilots who have completed the IAF Flight Course, at the Hatzerim Air Base in the Negev desert, December 26, 2018. (Aharon Krohn/Flash90) F-35 stealth fighter jets were spotted over southern Lebanon and Beirut, where the Hezbollah terror group maintains a major presence, throughout the day on Monday, amid a recent uptick in reported Israeli strikes on Iranian and I...