BEIRUT (AA) – Two medics were killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon on Thursday. Israeli fighter jets struck an ambulance service center in the town of Hanine, leaving two medics dead, the Islamic Health Society (Hayaa) said in a statement. An ambulance was destroyed in the attack. Tensions have escalated along Lebanon’s border [&...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel’s Health Ministry has ordered hospitals in the north of the country to prepare for the possibility of receiving thousands of injured people as tensions with the Lebanese Hezbollah group increase, a report has said. According to the Israeli public broadcaster KAN, the ministry has asked medical centers in the north...
BEIRUT (AA) – Lebanon has lodged a complaint with the UN Security Council in response to Israel’s accusation of Lebanon’s non-compliance with UN Resolution 1701. A Foreign Ministry statement said the complaint “includes documented evidence of Israel’s violation of Resolution 1701.” The statement accused Israel “of distorting facts by holding L...
BEIRUT (AA) – Lebanese group Hezbollah said Tuesday that three of its members had been killed in clashes with Israeli forces in southern Lebanon. The group, however, did not provide any details about the circumstances leading to their death, saying only they were killed on the road to Jerusalem, a phrase used by the movement […]
BEIRUT (AA) – Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdullah Bou Habib said Monday that his country is ready to “fully” implement UN Resolution 1701. “Lebanon is ready to fully implement Resolution 1701 provided that Israel withdraws from occupied Lebanese lands and stops its violations of Lebanese sovereignty,” he told a press conference in t...
BEIRUT (AA) – The Israeli army targeted several areas in southern Lebanon with phosphorus bombs on Monday, state media reported. The attacks targeted Al-Awaida Hill between the towns of Odaisseh and Kfarkela in southern Lebanon, Lebanon’s official news agency NNA reported. An Israeli drone targeted a car with a guided missile on the Dabs...
Beirut, Lebanon – AFP Israel killed a top commander of the Hezbollah group in a strike on south Lebanon, a security source told AFP Monday. Hezbollah later announced the killing of a “commander”, naming him as Wissam Hassan Tawil. It said he died “on the road to Jerusalem” — the phrase used for fighters kill...
Palestinian Territories – AFP Israel claimed it had “dismantled” Hamas’s military leadership in northern Gaza as its war on Gaza entered a fourth month Sunday, with fears mounting that the conflict could spread into neighbouring Lebanon. Israel’s army said late Saturday it had “completed the dismantling of t...
ANKARA (AA) – Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah fired more than 60 rockets at an Israeli army base on the border with Lebanon in response to the assassination earlier this week of Hamas’ deputy chief. “In a first reaction to the crime of assassinating the great leader Sheikh Salih al-Arouri, the Islamic resistance (Hezbollah) targeted ...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The assassination of Hamas deputy chief Saleh al-Arouri will not shake the Palestinian group, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak has said. “It is wrong to believe that the assassination will shock Hamas and that the group will not be able to replace him,” Barak told Israeli Channel 13 Wednesday evening. “Whoever [&hellip...
