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Hochstein holds 'positive' talks with Berri amid 'encouraging' signs

A “positive atmosphere” engulfed the meeting that Speaker Nabih Berri held Monday with U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein, informed sources said.

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Hezbollah targets Kiryat Shmona in response to Bint Jbeil strike

Hezbollah targeted Tuesday Kiryat Shmona and carried out four other attacks on northern Israel, while Israeli artillery shelled in response the Marjayoun plain and al-Wazzani.

Hezbollah said it targeted Kiryat Shmona "in response to the Israeli attacks on southern villages and civilians, especially on Bint Jbeil."

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3 Hezbollah affiliated paramedics killed in Israel strike

Three paramedics affiliated with Hezbollah were killed in an Israeli strike on south Lebanon Monday, the group said, later announcing retaliatory fire, amid escalating cross-border hostilities during the Israel-Hamas war.

Israel and Hezbollah have been exchanging near-daily fire since the day after the Israel-Hamas war erupted in October, raising fears all-out conflict could spread across the region.

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In Beirut, Hochstein says diplomacy 'only way' to end Israel-Hezbollah clashes

U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein said Monday that a diplomatic solution is key to ending nearly five months of intensifying hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel.

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Qassem says mediators should try to stop 'assault' on Gaza not 'support' for Gaza

Hezbollah's deputy chief Naim Qassem reiterated Monday that the group, which says it is acting support of Gazans and Hamas, would stop its attacks on Israel once the Gaza offensive ends.

Violence on the Israel-Lebanon border began a day after Hamas's October 7 attack that triggered the ongoing war in Gaza.

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Qaouq says Hezbollah ready to rebuild destroyed southern towns

Hezbollah central council member Sheikh Nabil Qaouq on Monday said that Hezbollah will continue its military operations against the Israeli army “in support of Gaza and to protect our people and country.”

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Foreign national killed in missile strike on Israel's Margaliot

Israeli medics said one foreign worker was killed Monday and at least seven wounded in a missile strike near the Lebanese border, the latest casualties in months of cross-border fire.

An anti-tank missile hit "foreign workers who were working in a plantation", killing one man and wounding at least seven others, including two in serious condition, the Magen David Adom emergency response service said in a statement.

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Geagea: FPM would accept Hezbollah war 'in Tanzania' in return for domestic benefits

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea said he refuses sacrificing Lebanon for the sake of Iran, as Hezbollah and Israeli forces traded fire along the border for the fifth month.

"We do not and will not accept giving up one grain of Lebanese soil to anyone, but at the same time we do not accept that southern Lebanon, for example, be sacrificed and the country be dragged into a major war for the sake of Iran’s policies in the region," Geagea told the Kuwaiti al-Rai newspaper, in remarks published Monday.

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Hochstein to suggest Lebanon solution separate from Gaza truce

U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein arrived Monday in Beirut for meetings with senior Lebanese officials over "areas of mutual and regional concern," the U.S. Embassy in Beirut said.

Media reports had said that Hochstein would visit Israel on Monday before moving to Beirut for talks over a solution for the border conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.

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Hezbollah stops 2 Israeli attempts to cross into Ramia, Rmeish

Hezbollah repelled overnight two Israeli infiltration attempts from north Israel into south Lebanon.

The group said it targeted two Israeli forces with explosives, artillery shells and missiles as they attempted to infiltrate into Lebanese territory from Kherbet Zar'it and Wadi Qatmoun facing the southern border towns of Ramia and Rmeish.

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