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Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as
The Resistanceand purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
targets on the Syrian-Lebanese border.
"We are doing everything that is necessary in order to defend the security of Israel," Netanyahu said at a joint news conference in Jerusalem with visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel
...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as
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"We will not say what we're doing or what we're not doing" to maintain Israel's security, he said in a cryptic reply to a question on the raid.
On Monday night, "two Israeli raids hit a Hizbullah target on the border of Leb and Syria," a Lebanese security source told AFP.
The National News Agency confirmed the report, adding that the raids targeted the countryside of the Lebanese town of Nabi Sheet on the border.
Hizbullah is an arch-enemy of Israel, and has sent thousands of fighters across the border to aid Syrian
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Scourge of Qusayr...
's regime as it battles Sunni-led rebels.
Syria has long provided arms and other aid to Hizbullah, and served as a key conduit of Iranian military aid to the movement, which battled Israel to a bloody stalemate in 2006.
Residents of Nabi Sheet told AFP they saw flares light up the sky ahead of the raids, which shook their houses.
People in neighboring areas said they heard planes flying low and that the target appeared to be a Hizbullah position in the mountains near the town.
Nabi Sheet is a bastion of Hizbullah, and the group has a suspected weapons store and training camp there.