ISTANBUL (AA) – Japan has urged its citizens to leave Lebanon and dispatched aircraft to evacuate its citizens, as Israel carries out extensive strikes in the country. Defense Minister Kihara Minoru ordered the deployment of aircraft to Jordan and Greece to prepare for a possible evacuation of Lebanon-based Japanese nationals as Israel c...
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...
Lebanon’s health ministry reports that at least 25 people have been killed since Friday morning. An airstrike in the border town of Shebaa killed nine family members, including four children. Local sources say the attack occurred around 3:00 a.m. local time, when the family was sleeping in their home. On Thursday alone, Israeli airstrik...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has called for Israel’s suspension from the UN General Assembly. “I call for suspending Israel’s membership in the General Assembly until it fulfills its obligations and the conditions for accepting its membership and implements all the resolutions of the UN and its bodies,” he said in ...
LONDON (AA) – The US defense chief has said the situation in Lebanon and northern Israel is “deeply troubling,” warning that a full-scale war could be “devastating” for both countries. Speaking at a joint press conference with his British and Australian counterparts in London, Lloyd Austin said that almost a year ...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel said Thursday that it is set to receive a military aid package from the US totaling $8.7 billion. The package coincides with the fourth consecutive day of extensive Israeli strikes against Lebanon, described as the largest since the 2006 war in Lebanon. “Director General of the Israel Ministry of Defense, Major [&...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Far-right radical Zionist Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has threatened to withdraw from the ruling coalition if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to a cease-fire with Hezbollah. The US, the EU, and nine other nations called on Israel and Hezbollah to agree to a 21-day cease-fire amid an escalation in their cross-bord...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Pro-Palestinian activists in Belgium are working to remove the status of the Brussels municipality of Ixelles and city of Antwerp as “twin cities” with the Israeli town of Megiddo. Belgian citizen Malika Hamri, the pioneer of the initiative, shared that protests have been held in front of the Ixelles municipal buil...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denied media reports Thursday that he had agreed to a temporary cease-fire with Hezbollah in Lebanon. “This is an American-French proposal that the prime minister hasn’t even responded to,” Netanyahu’s office said in a statement. The US, the EU, and nine other nations called on Israel ...
ISTANBUL (AA) — Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Thursday welcomed a joint call for a temporary cease-fire between Israel and the Hezbollah group amid escalating cross-border attacks. Late on Wednesday, the US, the EU, and nine other nations urged the two sides to agree to a 21-day cease-fire. In his speech at a Security […]
