GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian resistance group Hamas, has said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has chosen to maintain troops in the Philadelphi Corridor between Egypt and the Gaza Strip rather than getting back Israeli detainees alive. This was mentioned in a video me...
BEIRUT (AA) – Two people were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting a vehicle in southern Lebanon early Monday, the Lebanese Health Ministry said. The attack hit the car in the border town of Naqoura, the ministry statement added. Tensions have risen along Lebanon’s border with Israel amid cross-border attacks between resistance...
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, […]...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered two American carrier strike groups to remain in the Middle East on Sunday after Israel and Hezbollah exchanged intense cross-border fire overnight. The announcement came in the Pentagon’s reading of Austin’s call with Yoav Gallant, his Israeli counterpart. During the...
BEIRUT (AA) – Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah announced late Sunday his group’s “success” in its military response to Israel’s assassination of top commander Fuad Shukr, accusing Tel Aviv of “lying and failing.” “We identified the Galilot base as the primary target of our operation. It houses Unit 8200, whi...
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...
