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Emergency standby squad shoots down Hezbollah drone using small arms in Western Galilee

The actions by the standby squad prevented a potentially serious hit near a residential area, with the police informing that the drone was loaded with explosives.

Emergency standby squad from Nahariya.
Protesters hold placards and Hezbollah flags during a demonstration condemning recent Israeli military actions in Lebanon, in Beirut, Lebanon February 4, 2026.

Hezbollah's war plan might involve a long conflict, international intervention - analysis

Israeli tanks on the Israeli side of the Israel-Lebanon border, following an escalation between Hezbollah and Israel amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in northern Israel, March 8, 2026.

Human Rights Watch accuses IDF of unlawful use of white phosphorus in Lebanon

Israeli military vehicles and tanks are seen along the border with Lebanon, March 7, 2026

Two IDF soldiers killed by Hezbollah ambush in southern Lebanon


10 stories on 10 years after the Second Lebanon War

The Second Lebanon War and what may come next.

U.N. peacekeepers stand guard on the Israel-Lebanon border (2007)

Analysis: Was the Second Lebanon War a success?

Ten years later, more and more Israelis are changing their opinions.

A LEBANESE NEWS PHOTOGRAPHER runs for cover upon hearing Israeli jets above the village of Kfarjouz in 2006.

IDF releases dramatic audio of 2006 Lebanon war rescue operation

A decade ago, Golani's 51 Battalion became entangled in a deadly firefight with Hezbollah in Bint Jbil; For the first time, communications from that battle surface.

AN ISRAELI soldier stands near a mobile artillery unit as it fires a shell into southern Lebanon on July 13, 2006, a day after IDF reservists Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev were abducted by Hezbollah

A fire-based campaign

In July 2006, Gal Hirsch led his division to war only to find not everyone was on the same page. Here is an excerpt from his new book:

IDF soldiers walk together after leaving Lebanon near the Israel-Lebanon border in August 2006

10 years after Second Lebanon War, for a bereaved mother the pain is only worse

Despite anguish, Miki Goldwasser, mother of captured and killed reserve soldier Ehud, says the war was a great victory.

MIKI GOLDWASSER

Analysis: Reflections on the Second Lebanon War, 10 years on

It is now evident that no coherent and achievable plan for the conduct of the war had been decided upon at the rushed and overheated cabinet meeting that set it in motion.

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu walks atop an Israeli tank that had been lost during the First Lebanon War, in Moscow yesterday.

10 years on, border residents remember fears in Second Lebanon War

I feel another conflict is coming, says Peki’in resident • IDF intel head: No army has had more info on its enemies than we have on Hezbollah.

A general view shows the Lebanese-Israeli border as seen from Kfar Kila village, southern Lebanon December 21, 2015

Renewed fighting in Lebanese Palestinian refugee camp kills one

Ain al-Hilweh camp, near the southern Lebanese coastal city of Sidon, has regularly seen factional disputes spiral into deadly violence.

A Palestinian refugee knocks on the closed gate of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) headquarters with his walking stick

Beirut protesters shout for 'the downfall of the regime' as 'You Stink' campaign sweeps capitol

Their "You Stink" protest campaign was mobilized after the government failed to solve a crisis in trash disposal, leaving piles of refuse rotting in the summer sun.

Protesters start a fire during a protest against corruption and against the government's failure to resolve a crisis over rubbish disposal, near the government palace in Beirut, Lebanon August 23, 2015.

Hezbollah denies reports that Israeli jets struck its positions in Lebanon

Reports of Israeli strikes in eastern Lebanon near Syrian border.

IAF F-16 fighter jet