Terror group appears to violate US-brokered truce days after IDF struck weapons convoy in southern Lebanon The post IDF shoots down Hezbollah surveillance drone, in first such incident since ceasefire appeared first on The Times of Israel.

Naim Qassem insisted Hezbollah had emerged from the fight with Israel victorious, despite painful and unprecedented setbacks, and was unwilling to concede the group’s domestic position. Qassem also expressed Hezbollah’s satisfaction with Lebanon’s post-war political direction and said his group had a productive and positive relationship with Lebanon’s new president and prime minister-designate.

Israel is letting thousands of Palestinians return to northern Gaza for the first time since the early weeks of the war with Hamas​, as a fragile ceasefire endures​.

Palestinian militants began handing over three Israeli hostages in Gaza in return for 110 Palestinian prisoners to be freed under a phased agreement that halted fighting in the shattered coastal territory earlier this month.

Recent Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon have resulted in injuries and heightened tensions despite a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hezbollah. The strikes targeted towns like Nabatieh and Majdal Selm,

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The United States says the ceasefire agreement between Israel and the Shia Muslim group Hezbollah in Lebanon will continue to be in effect until February 18.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has suggested that Israel might not withdraw all of its forces from Lebanon by a deadline set in its ceasefire with Hezbollah

The U.S. said on Sunday that the agreement between Lebanon and Israel would remain in effect until Feb. 18, after Israel said on Friday it would keep troops in the south beyond the Sunday deadline set out in a U.

Suhil Bahij Gharb, chief of intelligence for south Lebanon, said to have given terror group material from inside the US, French and UN office tasked with monitoring truce