Bulgaria’s interior minister confirmed that his country has new evidence that Hezbollah was responsible for the deadly 2012 terrorist attack on Israeli tourists on Bulgarian soil.
U.N. peacekeepers in southern Lebanon have failed to report on Hezbollah guerrilla armaments as required, a senior Israeli official said on Thursday, arguing that Israel could not rely on foreign intervention for its security.
The conviction in Cyprus of a Hezbollah operative plotting to attack Israelis could undercut efforts by the terrorist group to carry out additional attacks outside the Middle East.
Iran told Israel on Monday it would regret its air strike against Syria last week, without spelling out whether Iran or its ally planned any military response.
Syria warned on Thursday of a possible \”surprise\” response to Israel\’s attack on its territory and Russia condemned the air strike as an unprovoked violation of international law.
Hezbollah may not be included on the European Union\’s list of terrorist groups even if it did bomb Jewish tourists in Bulgaria, the EU\’s top counter-terrorism official reportedly said.
European Union President Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis said Tuesday said that the EU would not grant Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s request to declare Iran-funded Hezbollah as a terrorist organization because “Hezobollah is a political party in Lebanon which also runs chairty organizations.”
Approximately one in five Israelis living east of the West Bank security fence would leave if offered government support, a poll found. According to an internal government study, whose results were leaked Tuesday to Yediot Achronot, approximately 15,000 of the 70,000 settlers whose communities are not taken in by the fence would accept voluntary relocation packages.
In the wake of last week\’s assassination of arch-terrorist Imad Mughniyeh, there are fears in the region that a massive attack by Hezbollah against Israeli interests could spark a new Middle East war.
\”Here\’s what you do,\” counseled Ganor, executive director of the International Institute for Counter Terrorism (ICT) in Herzliya. \”Take aboard some explosives, because there\’s hardly any chance of two bombs being on the same plane.\” This was about the first and last light moment at the seminar hosted here recently at the Israeli consulate, with the weighty title, \”Combating International Terrorism: Current and Future Trends and Domestic Implications.\”\n
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