BEIRUT (AA) – The Israeli army has conducted another airstrike targeting the Masnaa area in eastern Lebanon cutting off the international road linking Lebanon and Syria, according to the Lebanese National News Agency. The attack follows Tel Aviv’s allegations that Hezbollah attempted to “smuggle weapons across the border.” Le...
ANKARA (AA) — The Israeli army has claimed that Mohammad Rashid Sakafi, the commander of Hezbollah’s communications unit, was “assassinated in a targeted airstrike” on Beirut on Thursday. In a statement, the Israeli army claimed that Sakafi, a senior figure in the Lebanese group, was killed in a “precise, intelligence-based strike....
JERUSALEM (AA) – Another Israeli officer has been killed during a battle in southern Lebanon, the Israeli army has announced. “Captain Ben Zion Falach, 21, of the Paratroopers Brigade’s 202nd Battalion, was killed in a battle in southern Lebanon,” it said in a statement. It marks the ninth military death reported by the Israeli arm...
Lebanon’s health minister says more than 40 rescuers and firefighters have been killed by Israeli fire in three days. A total of 97 Lebanese frontline workers have been killed overall since Israel began its war on Gaza last October; 188 have been injured. Approximately 1,974 Lebanese civilians have been killed by Israeli strikes, including 12...
Lebanon has submitted a formal complaint to the United Nations Security Council. A statement by Lebanon’s permanent mission to the UN says Lebanon condemns Israel’s aggression against its sovereignty and the incursion of its forces within Lebanese borders. On October 1, Israel launched a ground operation in southern Lebanon. Israeli mi...
The White House has confirmed the death of an American in Lebanon. Kamel Ahmad Jawad was a resident of Dearborn, Michigan, where his funeral will be held on Sunday at the Islamic Center of America. A National Security Council spokesperson has not specified the cause of his death. However, his daughter Nadine Jawad says her […]
ANKARA (AA) – At least seven people were killed on Friday in an Israeli airstrike on a house in southern Lebanon, state-run media reported. According to the National News Agency, four paramedics were killed by Israeli shelling near Marjayoun Governmental Hospital in southern Lebanon. The Marjayoun Governmental Hospital stopped operating ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US said Thursday it was not aware that the leader of Hezbollah had agreed to a cease-fire shortly before he was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut. “I can tell you that, if that’s true, it was never communicated to us in any way,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told […]
Hospitals in Lebanon are “overwhelmed” with the large number of injured patients amid Israel’s ongoing attacks on the country. Head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Ghebreyesus wrote on X: “The death toll in #Lebanon is rising, and hospitals are overwhelmed with the influx of injured patients. The health system has be...
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...
