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 [&...
ATHENS (AA) – Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) staged protests in 10 countries across the world to pay homage to the journalists killed in Gaza. The non-profit in a statement said the Israeli army, since last October, has killed over 130 journalists in the Palestinian enclave. The protests were organized in Germany, Brazil, Spain...
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...
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 […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US, the European Union and nine other nations urged Israel and Lebanon on Wednesday to agree to a temporary cease-fire. In a joint statement, the US, Australia, Canada, the EU, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar described the situation between the two nations as “in...
BEIRUT (AA) — Despite international calls for a temporary cease-fire, Israeli warplanes continued to hit Lebanon Thursday, with an entire family among the victims. The official Lebanese National News Agency (NNA) reported that an entire family perished in a strike on their home in the town of Chaat. The agency did not specify the number [&hell...
ATHENS (AA) – Greece’s New Left party placed a banner in the yard of the parliament building in solidarity with Palestine and Lebanon. “Peace Now! Solidarity with Lebanon, Freedom for Palestine,” read the banner that was held by five lawmakers. “The far-right government of Israel pursues genocide in Gaza with the terrorist attacks and de...
MOSCOW (AA) – The Kremlin has urged Russians in Lebanon to leave the country for security reasons. The Russian embassy and other diplomatic missions in Lebanon are working to inform some 3,000 Russian citizens staying in Lebanon about the existing warnings and recommendations, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said at a press briefing in M...
ANKARA (AA) — Pope Francis has called on the international community to “make every effort to stop this terrible escalation” after days of intense Israeli airstrikes killed hundreds in Lebanon. “I am saddened by the news coming out of Lebanon,” the pope said at his weekly general audience at the Vatican, voicing hope &#...
