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Lebanese Ministry of Health reports that one person was injured in the zion¿st colony drone strike on Toul, south Lebanon. zion¿st drone strike on Toul, south Lebanon, took place in a densely populated neighborhood and coincided with the time students were leaving school.

zionist aircraft launch a new airstrike on areas around the Litani River near the city of Tyre in southern Lebanon.

Al Manar correspondent also reported that enemy warplanes targeted the Khanouq neighborhood south of the town of Aitaroun.

Furthermore, the Al-Manar correspondent stated that a zionist warplane dropped a sonic bomb over the Naqoura beach in southern Lebanon.

Source: Al-Manar

Foreign fighters from the Syrian army [Jolani’s Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham terrorists] have recently been transferred from the country’s north to the border area with Lebanon, sources told The Cradle on 13 November.

“In recent days, groups of foreign fighters have been transferred from the Harem area in Idlib province to the city of Al-Qusayr, near the Syrian–Lebanese border, coinciding with the movement of heavy military equipment, including vehicles and armored units,” the sources said.

“At the same time, forces affiliated with the Ministry of Defense of the ‘Syrian Transitional Government’ attempted to advance and take positions inside Lebanese territory, specifically in the Wadi al-Thalajat area of Ras al-Maara, along the Syrian–Lebanese border in the Damascus countryside,” the sources said, referring to barren areas where the Lebanese army is not present.According to Lebanese media reports from the last two days, the deployments come as part of clashes between the Syrian army and ISIS cells facing the Lebanese town of Arsal, in border areas on the Syrian side.

Just days ago, the US announced Syria’s official entry into Washington’s ‘anti-ISIS’ coalition, which was formed in 2014 and followed by a widespread US military occupation of Syrian oil fields.

As self-appointed Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa arrived in Washington on Sunday, Damascus’s forces began what they said was a widespread campaign against ISIS. Some of the images and videos released by state media appeared to be staged. The Syrian military itself is made up of several extremist factions with links to both Al-Qaeda and ISIS. Scores of former ISIS fighters and commanders occupy positions in many of the Syrian army’s brigades.

Last month, Al Mayadeen cited diplomatic sources as saying that “unusual” movements of thousands of armed extremists, including fighters from Uzbekistanis, Chechens, and Uyghurs from China, were being observed along the Syrian–Lebanese border.

Tens of thousands of foreign fighters entered Syria illegally to join the US-backed war to topple former president Bashar al-Assad’s government, which began in 2011. The new authorities in Damascus have given some of these foreigners top positions in the army, and said they are considering giving them Syrian citizenship.

Reports of a buildup of Syrian army forces near the Lebanese border coincide with new US threats that they could be used against Hezbollah in Lebanon.

“Damascus will now actively assist us in confronting and dismantling the remnants of ISIS, the [Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps] IRGC, Hamas, Hezbollah, and other terrorist networks, and will stand as a committed partner in the global effort to secure peace,” US envoy Tom Barrack said on Friday.

At the start of the Syrian war, ISIS and Al-Qaeda’s Nusra Front (headed by Sharaa at the time) occupied large swathes of the northern and eastern Lebanese border region.

They were eventually expelled by Hezbollah and the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) in 2017.

The Cradle Media report

the colony has continued attacks on Lebanese soil, despite the ceasefire agreement of November 2024, deliberately orchestrating a campaign to prevent the reconstruction of southern Lebanon and perpetuate the suffering of the local population.

In a flagrant violation of Lebanon’s sovereignty, the regime has specifically targeted the very symbols of recovery: bulldozers, excavators, and temporary shelters, under the baseless pretext of striking “Hezbollah infrastructure.”

The strategy has effectively held tens of thousands of displaced civilians hostage, blocking their return and making the revival of the shattered border towns like Hula an act of defiance in itself.

“For us, the war has not ended,” Tarek Mazraani, 61, a Hula resident and engineer who is a leading voice for reconstruction, told AFP. “We can’t return to our villages, rebuild, or even check on our homes.”

In cash-strapped Lebanon, authorities have yet to begin reconstruction efforts and are hoping for international support, particularly from the Persian Gulf countries.

They have blamed Israeli strikes for preventing efforts to rebuild, which the World Bank estimates could cost $11 billion.

Driven by an unwavering determination to return home, Mazraani founded the Association of the Residents of Border Villages to champion the right of return.

However, the Israeli regime, in a brazen act of intimidation, dispatched drones to broadcast threats against him by name, attempting to silence his civic efforts with false accusations of ties to the Resistance.

“They are bombing prefabricated houses, and not allowing anyone to get close to the border,” said Mazraani, who has moved to Beirut for fear of Israel’s threats.

“They are saying: no reconstruction before handing over the weapons,” he added, referring to Israel’s demand that Hezbollah disarm.

‘Nothing military here’

The scale of the devastation is a testament to Israel’s scorched-earth policy.

An international rights organization has estimated that “more than 10,000 structures were heavily damaged or destroyed” between October 2024, when Israel launched a ground aggression against southern Lebanon, and late January.

The report said much of the destruction occurred after the November 2024 truce took effect.

In a targeted attack on Lebanon’s economic backbone, Israeli strikes annihilated over 300 pieces of vital construction equipment in the Msaileh area in October.

Ahmed Tabaja, 65, surveying his burned-out machinery, told AFP that he hoped to repair just five of his 120 vehicles destroyed in the strikes, a devastating loss amounting to five million dollars.

“Everyone knows there is nothing military here,” he said.

The yards, located near the highway, are open and visible. “There is nothing to hide,” he said.

In a nearby town, Hussein Kiniar, 32, said he couldn’t believe his eyes as he surveyed the heavy machinery garage his father built 30 years ago.

He said Israel struck the family’s yard twice: first during the war, and again in September after it was repaired. The first strike cost five million dollars, and the second added another seven million in losses, he estimated. “I watched everything burn right before my eyes,” Kiniar said.

The Israeli military said that day it had targeted “a Hezbollah site” in the Ansariyah area of southern Lebanon, which stored engineering vehicles intended to rebuild Hezbollah’s “capabilities and support its terrorist activity.”

Kiniar denied that he or the site was linked to the Resistance. “We are a civilian business,” he said.

This pattern of targeting civilian infrastructure was further highlighted in October, when Israel assassinated two engineers working for a company, further cementing its strategy of crippling Lebanon’s recovery and punishing any entity it unilaterally and falsely accuses of supporting the Resistance that defends the nation.

PressTV report

Newly released emails from US House Democrats indicate that President Donald Trump was aware of Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual misconduct and had spent time with one of his victims.

The emails, disclosed on Wednesday, show Epstein telling his longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell that Trump had “spent hours at my house” with one of Epstein’s victims.

“I want you to realize that dog that hasn’t barked is trump. [Victim] spent hours at my house with him… he has never once been mentioned,” Epstein wrote, according to the email, which was shared with the victim’s name redacted.

Epstein sent the message to Maxwell two years after serving a 13-month sentence for sex crimes involving minors.

Maxwell replied, “I have been thinking about that…” She was later convicted of facilitating Epstein’s crimes and is now serving a 20-year prison sentence.

Citing a whistleblower, House Democrats said Maxwell has been preparing to request a commutation of her sentence from Trump.

The House Oversight Committee said the emails, dated between 2011 and 2019, were obtained from Epstein’s estate as part of the ongoing investigation into his network and potential political connections.

White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt dismissed the release as “selective,” saying the emails were taken out of context.

“The ‘unnamed victim’ referenced in these emails is the late Virginia Giuffre, who repeatedly stated President Trump was not involved in any wrongdoing and ‘couldn’t have been friendlier’ to her during their limited interactions,” Leavitt said in a statement.

Trump and Epstein were known to be friends for years before reportedly falling out. Trump has said he barred Epstein from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, claiming Epstein “stole” young women who worked there.

Epstein, who was connected to numerous powerful figures, including former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, the United Kingdom’s Prince Andrew, and former US president Bill Clinton, was arrested in 2019 on federal charges of sex trafficking minors.

Two months later, he was found dead in a New York jail cell, with his death officially ruled a suicide. The circumstances surrounding Epstein’s death have fueled years of speculation about his high-profile associates and possible efforts to conceal his crimes.

PressTV report