Palestinian Territories – AFP The health ministry in Gaza said an Israeli strike on a school killed 30 people Saturday, while a rocket fired from Lebanon killed 12 youngsters in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights. The latest strike on a school in Gaza came after a days-long military operation further south that killed around 170, said [&h...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided Saturday to expedite his return from Washington to Tel Aviv after a missile attack on Golan Heights’ Majdal Shams town killed 11 people. Earlier, he was scheduled to return on Sunday evening. Earlier in the day, the Israeli authorities said that 11 people were killed and ...
JERUSALEM (AA) — Israel has claimed to have bombed buildings used by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon and intercepted a airborne target heading towards Israel. In a statement, the army said that on Saturday, “Air Force fighters bombed military buildings belonging to Hezbollah in the Hula region in southern Lebanon.” “Israeli air...
BEIRUT (AA) – Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan has denied any “finalized agreement” regarding the situation along Lebanon’s border with Israel. “Our front will not stop as long as the (Israeli) aggression against Gaza continues and the threat of war will not frighten us,” Nasrallah said in a televised speech. He...
Beirut, Lebanon – AFP Separate Israeli strikes Tuesday in south Lebanon killed five people including three Syrian children, with Hezbollah announcing rocket fire at Israel in retaliation. “Three Syrian children” were killed “in an enemy raid that targeted farmland in the village of Umm Toot”, the National News Age...
Beirut, Lebanon – AFP Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said Wednesday his group would accept Palestinian ally Hamas’s decision on Gaza truce negotiations, repeating that his movement would stop cross-border attacks on Israel if a cease-fire were reached. Hezbollah has traded almost daily fire with Israeli forces in support of Hamas...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz has threatened war with Hezbollah if the resistance group did not withdraw beyond the Litani River in southern Lebanon. “[Hezbollah chief Hassan] Nasrallah, if you don’t stop the threats and violence and withdraw to the Litani River, you will be considered the destroyer of Lebanon,” s...
Beirut, Lebanon — AFP Hezbollah launched more than 200 rockets at Israeli military positions on Thursday as Israel continued its attacks in Gaza. The Iran-backed resistance group said its latest attack, which followed the launch of over 100 small rockets the previous day, came in response to Israel’s killing of a senior Hezbollah c...
CAIRO (AA) – The Arab League’s assistant secretary-general has announced that the league has ceased referring to Hezbollah as a “terrorist organization.” In a televised statement on the Egyptian Al-Qahera News Channel the day after he concluded his visit to Beirut, Hossam Zaki said: “In previous Arab League decisions, Hezbollah was...
Palestinian Territories – AFP The outgoing United Nations humanitarian chief warned Wednesday that a spread of Israel’s war on Gaza to Lebanon would be “potentially apocalyptic”. Martin Griffiths described Lebanon as “the flashpoint beyond all flashpoints”, especially its southern border with Israel which ha...
