Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri reconfirmed Monday that Hezbollah will certainly not join the Israel-Iran war as local media reports said that Amal, Hezbollah and the Lebanese government have been discussing, away from the spotlight, the need to keep Lebanon out of the conflict.
Sources told Asharq al-Awsat newspaper, in reports published Monday, that Hezbollah will not join the fray and "give Israel pretexts" to drag Lebanon into a new war.
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Lebanese Muay Thai star Ramadan Ondash is set to face Thai counterpart Chartpayak Saksatoon at ONE Championship event ONE Friday Fights 114.
Both fighters are undefeated in ONE Championship's weekly fight series ahead of their exciting strawweight Muay Thai clash with Ondash boasting a 3-0 slate against Chartpayak's 7-0 record.
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The Lebanese Army inspected Monday a building in Hay al-American in Hadath in search of military equipment.
Army forces had inspected buildings in the area, once with a bulldozer, at the request of the five-member committee supervising the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire.
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President Joseph Aoun, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri and Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi have condemned a weekend suicide attack on a Greek Orthodox church in Damascus that killed 22 people.
Al-Rahi condemned "the targeting of Christians in the East" while Berri said that "terrorism has no sect or religion" and "terrorists are enemies of God, regardless to which religion they belong."
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An Israeli airstrike has targeted the transmission building of Hezbollah’s al-Manar TV on the heights of the Toumat Niha area, which overlooks West Bekaa and the southern region of Iqlim al-Tuffah, state-run National News Agency reported on Sunday.
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President Joseph Aoun said Sunday that Lebanon does not want to “pay the price of more wars” and that “there is no national interest” in joining the Israel-Iran war after the U.S. strikes on Iran’s key nuclear sites.
“Lebanon, with its leadership, parties and people, realizes today more than ever that it has preciously paid for the wars that erupted on its soil and in the region, and it does not want to pay any further and there is no national interest in that,” Aoun said.
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Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said that Lebanon needs to stay away from any possible regional spillover from the conflict, after the U.S. targeted Iran's main nuclear sites.
“It is increasingly important for us to adhere strictly to the supreme national interest, which is the need to avoid Lebanon being ... drawn into the ongoing regional confrontation in any way,” Salam said in a post on X.
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Israel's military said Saturday its navy hit a Hezbollah "infrastructure site" near the southern Lebanese city of Naqoura, a day after Israel's defense minister warned the Lebanese armed group against entering the Iran-Israel war.
"Overnight, an Israeli Navy vessel struck a Hezbollah 'Radwan Force' terrorist infrastructure site in the area of Naqoura in southern Lebanon," the Israeli army said in a statement.
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At least 23 heavy Iranian missiles were fired at Israel on Friday afternoon, causing extensive damage in Tel Aviv and wounding at least 10 in Haifa, two of them seriously, after six missiles managed to penetrate Israel’s air defenses, Iranian and Israeli media reports said.
Video footage showed a missile causing a big explosion in Haifa, with Israel’s Channel 13 saying there are fears of a possible leakage of dangerous material.
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Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea said Friday that only the Lebanese state "can act as it sees fit" after Hezbollah leader Sheikh Naim Qassem said that the militant group would "act as we see fit" in response to the ongoing war between Iran and Israel.
"Sheikh Naim, you cannot act as you see fit. Only the Lebanese government can do that because it represents the majority of the Lebanese people," Geagea said, adding that it is "absolutely unacceptable" for anyone to allow themselves to act as they like.
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