Hezbollah

Spotlight on Iran* (May 8 – May 22, 2016)

Senior Iranian officials reacted strongly to the rebel attack on Khan Tuman (south of Aleppo, Syria). Senior Iranian officials reacted strongly to the death of senior Hezbollah operative Mustafa Badr al-Din, some of accusing Israel of responsibility for his death. General Ramazan Sharif, IRGC spokesman, said at a press conference that the IRGC was experiencing
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Spotlight on Global Jihad (March 31 – April 6, 2016)

ISIS’s series of failures in Syria and Iraq continues: the Syrian Army took over the city of Al-Qaryatayn, southeast of Homs. The takeover of the city (following the takeover of Palmyra) enabled the Syrian Army to open the Homs-Damascus highway and create territorial contiguity in its control area east of Homs. ISIS, which has failed
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Spotlight on Global Jihad (March 24-30, 2016)

On March 27, 2016, the city of Palmyra, located in the heart of the Syrian desert, was taken over by the Syrian Army and the forces supporting it. The takeover of Palmyra is a military, political and image-related achievement of the Syrian Army and Russia. The Belgian government has carried out this week a series
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Hassan Nasrallah’s “Ammonia Speech:” The Threat for Israel and Its Significance

On February 16, 2016, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah gave a speech at a ceremony held in the southern Shi’ite suburb of Beirut. The speech, which lasted for an hour and a half, was broadcast on a giant screen. It marked the anniversary of the deaths of three senior Hezbollah operatives (Sheikh Ghareb Harb, Abbas al-Mussawi
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Hezbollah Handled a Palestinian Squad in Tulkarm, Which Planned Terrorist Attacks

The Israeli security forces recently exposed a five-man terrorist squad in Tulkarm that planned to carry out terrorist attacks in Israel, including a shooting attack. The squad was headed by Muhammad Zaghloul, a Palestinian from Tulkarm, and handled by Hezbollah in Lebanon.
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News of Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (December 30, 2015 – January 5, 2016)

This past week the current Palestinian terrorist campaign continued, with stabbing, vehicular and shooting attacks inside Israel and in Judea and Samaria. The most prominent attack was a shooting attack at a pub in Tel Aviv. Four rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip at the western Negev, two of which fell in Israeli territory.
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