ATHENS (AA) – The EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has condemned the Israeli strike in Beirut that killed seven people as a violation of international humanitarian law. The “IDF targeted once again healthcare workers overnight, in central Beirut: 7 people including paramedics were killed,” he said on X. “Not only are civilians the v...
BEIRUT (AA) — Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah has rejected Israeli claims about invading southern Lebanon and engaging in direct clashes with its fighters. “Israeli claims about invading Lebanon are lies,” Hezbollah spokesman Mohammad Afif said in a statement. “There were no direct clashes between Hezbollah fighters and Israeli occupation ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – At least three people have been killed and nine others injured in Israeli airstrikes targeting multiple sites in the Syrian capital, Damascus, according to the Syrian state news agency. “The Israeli enemy launched an aerial assault using warplanes and drones from the direction of the occupied Golan Heights, targeting seve...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army said Thursday that it had begun “limited and targeted” ground operations in southern Lebanon as Hezbollah said it attacked Israeli soldiers in the border area. A military statement said the army’s 98th Division and 7th Brigade “have been preparing for limited, localized and targeted ope...
BEIRUT (AA) – Lebanon has said that the death toll from Israeli assaults across the country has hit 1,540 since last October. The Disaster Risk Management Unit said in a report the number injured stands at 5,410 and “the number of displaced individuals registered in approved shelters had risen to 77,100 by Wednesday afternoon.” The [&hel...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran has condemned Israel’s Friday airstrike on Beirut’s southern suburbs that left 31 people dead and has called on the international community to take a “decisive action” to stop Israeli attacks. In a statement, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani said that such attacks represent a...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army admitted on Sunday that the three captives whose bodies were discovered last December were killed by Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip. The army has officially informed the families of the captives Ron Sherman (a soldier), Nik Beizer (a soldier), and Elia Toledano that they were killed in an […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 18 Palestinians, including four children, have been killed in airstrikes by Israeli warplanes in Gaza. Israel targeted the central Gaza Strip with one of the strikes hitting tents set up for displaced persons in what was a so-called “humanitarian safe zone.” Medical sources at the Al-Ahli Baptis...
BERLIN (AA) – Germany has backed Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon, saying it had “the right to self-defense.” “At the weekend we had a threat of escalation, above all from Hezbollah, which had already made massive threats in advance and then proceeded with rockets and shelling of Israel. In fact, in the light of this threat, […]...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Human Rights Watch (HRW) has denounced last month’s Israeli airstrikes on Al Hudaydah Port in western Yemen as a “possible war crime.” At least six civilians were killed and over 80 others injured on July 20 when Israeli warplanes struck more than two dozen oil storage tanks and two shipping cranes in […]
