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...
Istanbul, Turkey – AFP Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday accused Western powers of backing what he said were Israeli plans to attack Lebanon and “spread war” throughout the region. “Israel is now setting its sights on Lebanon and we see that Western powers behind the scenes are patting Israel on the ba...
Beirut, Lebanon – AFP Vatican Secretary of State Pietro Parolin on Wednesday urged warring parties in the Middle East to accept “peace proposals”, saying the region including Lebanon “doesn’t need war”. “The Middle East is going through a critical moment,” Parolin told a press conference in Beiru...
BERLIN (AA) – Growing tensions between Israel and Lebanon could trigger a war with “disastrous consequences” for the entire Middle East, Germany’s foreign minister has warned. Speaking to reporters in Jerusalem after her meeting with Israeli counterparts, Annalena Baerbock said the situation is “very serious’ and could get out of control...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel is preparing to change the situation on its border with Lebanon but hopes there will be no need to do so, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said, referring to the army’s ongoing confrontations with the Lebanese Hezbollah group. Speaking to Israel’s Channel 14 about the possibility of a full-blown war with […]...
Palestinian Territories — AFP Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that “intense” fighting in the southern Gaza city of Rafah is nearly over, more than eight months into the devastating war on the occupied Gaza Strip. “The intense phase of the fighting against Hamas is about to end,” Netanyahu...
