Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Thursday, June 20, 2024Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch today:• 12:00 p.m. sit-in outside the Beirut Justice Palace by relatives of the Aug. 4, 2020 Beirut Port blast victims SOUTH LEBANON: Nasrallah speech matches Israeli threats, three party members killed in Bint JbeilHezbollah does not want a total war with Israel but is ready to wage one with “full force,” Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah said in a speech yesterday. Speaking at the commemoration of commander Taleb Abdallah, assassinated in an Israeli drone strike last week, Nasrallah said the greatest danger Israel faces is Hezbollah’s consideration of “martyrdom” as a form of “victory.” Nasrallah boasted of the party’s more than 100,000 fighters, its ability to fight by “land, sea and air”...
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Thursday, June 20, 2024Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch today:• 12:00 p.m. sit-in outside the Beirut Justice Palace by relatives of the Aug. 4, 2020 Beirut Port blast victims SOUTH LEBANON: Nasrallah speech matches Israeli threats, three party members killed in Bint JbeilHezbollah does not want a total war with Israel but is ready to wage one with “full force,” Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah said in a speech yesterday. Speaking at the commemoration of commander Taleb Abdallah, assassinated in an Israeli drone strike last week, Nasrallah said the greatest danger Israel faces is Hezbollah’s consideration of “martyrdom” as a form of “victory.” Nasrallah boasted of the party’s more than 100,000 fighters, its ability to fight by...
