Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Sunday’s strikes in Lebanon were “not the final word” in his country’s military campaign against Hezbollah. “We are striking Hezbollah with surprising, crushing blows… This is another step towards changing the situation in...
UN BASE 964 — AFP On the deserted border between Lebanon and Israel, Spanish UN peacekeepers have for more than 10 months effectively been caught in a war zone. Several Blue Helmets have been wounded in the crossfire between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement, which has also left dozens of Lebanese civilians dead in...
BEIRUT (AA) – At least three people were killed and two others injured on Sunday morning after a series of intense Israeli airstrikes targeted various areas in southern Lebanon, health officials said. Israeli drones struck a car in Khiam town, and warplanes conducted a raid on the al-Tyri town and two airstrikes on the outskirts […]
BEIRUT (AA) – Lebanese group Hezbollah announced on Sunday that it had launched hundreds of rockets and drones deep into Israel as part of the “first phase” of its response to Tel Aviv’s assassination of its senior commander Fouad Shukr. In a statement, Hezbollah said that “the first stage of our response to Shukr’s assassination [...
WASHINGTON (AA) – President Joe Biden is “closely monitoring events in Israel and Lebanon,” the White House said Saturday night after Israel launched a massive series of airstrikes in Lebanon in response to what it said were Hezbollah’s preparations for a large-scale assault. Biden “has been engaged with his natio...
JERUSALEM (AA) – At least two people have been killed and another injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting the town of Tayr Harfa in the Tyre district of southern Lebanon, according to the official Lebanese National News Agency. The agency reported that the “hostile (Israeli) aircraft” carried out the strike in the western s...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army has announced detecting 55 rockets fired from Lebanon that caused several fires in northern Israel. It also said rocket sirens were activated in several Israeli towns and settlements in the Galilee area. The army added that some of the rockets were intercepted while others landed in open areas, without [...
Beirut, Lebanon — AFP Lebanon’s pro-Palestine resistance group Hezbollah has said it launched several rocket salvos at Israeli army positions in the annexed Golan Heights in response to Israeli strikes on eastern Lebanon the previous day. Hezbollah fighters launched “intense rocket barrages” at two Israeli army position...
BEIRUT (AA) – Two people were killed in the southern Lebanese town of Houla following an Israeli drone strike, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry. The incident was part of an intensifying conflict between Israel and the Lebanese group Hezbollah along the Lebanon-Israel border. The official Lebanese news agency confirmed the dea...
BEIRUT (AA) – Three peacekeepers from the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) were injured in an explosion near their vehicle in the vicinity of the southern city of Yarine, the mission said on Sunday. “All peacekeepers in the patrol returned safely to their base,” the UN mission said in a statement. “We are looking […]
