JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army is investigating reports that last week’s mortar shells by Lebanese group Hezbollah possibly contained white phosphorus. Two mortar shells hit the Metulla area from southern Lebanon last week, causing a big fire and engulfing part of the road they hit. “It appears that the two mortar shells contained phosphoru...
BEIRUT (AA) – Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah said on Monday that two more fighters were killed in border clashes with the Israeli army in southern Lebanon, bringing the group’s death toll to 166 since October 8. The two fighters were identified as Samah Asaad Asaad (Abu Tarab) from the town of Kfarkela and Ali Said […]
Tehran, Iran – AFP Hundreds of mourners gathered Monday in Tehran for the funerals of Revolutionary Guards killed in Syria, in what Iran called an Israeli strike. It was the latest incident adding to regional tensions and fears of wider conflagration during Israel’s war on Gaza. The strike in Damascus on Saturday killed five member...
BEIRUT (AA) – At least two people were killed on Saturday as an Israeli drone targeted a car in southern Lebanon, Lebanese media reported. An Israeli drone targeted a vehicle near Tyre City on a road between Bazouriye and Borj el-Shamali towns, resulting in two deaths, the Lebanese National News Agency reported. Another attack targeted [&helli...
BEIRUT (AA) – The Israeli army launched airstrikes using white phosphorus shells in southern Lebanon on Thursday, according to Lebanese media. The state-run National News Agency said Israeli warplanes aimed white phosphorus shells at the eastern parts of Mays al-Jabal town. There was no comment from the Israeli military on the report. White ph...
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP Israel’s army chief said Wednesday the likelihood of war breaking out on the country’s northern border with Lebanon has become “much higher”. “I don’t know when the war in the north is, I can tell you that the likelihood of it happening in the coming months is much higher tha...
BEIRUT (AA) – Lebanese group Hezbollah exchanged cross-border fire with Israeli forces on Monday in the latest escalation along the border between Lebanon and Israel. Hezbollah said in a statement that it had targeted with missiles a gathering of Israeli soldiers in Metula barracks, resulting in direct hits. Israeli fighter jets carried out ai...
BEIRUT (AA) – Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah said Sunday that his group is ready for “unrestricted warfare” with Israel. “Israel and its army and settlers are the ones who fear war, not Lebanon,” Nasrallah said in a speech, one week after senior Hezbollah commander Wissam al-Tawil was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon. “W...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israeli strikes pounded southern Gaza on Sunday, the 100th day of its war on the Palestinian enclave. The war has created a dire humanitarian crisis for the 2.4 million people in Gaza, the United Nations and aid groups warn, and reduced much of the coastal strip to rubble. The government media […]
BEIRUT (AA) – Lebanon has expressed deep concern about military strikes by US-led allied forces in the Red Sea and Yemen, warning that if the international community fails to act immediately to halt armed actions in the region, Israel’s war on Gaza could spread throughout the Middle East. The country’s Foreign Ministry in a statement [&h...
