BEIRUT (AA) – Lebanese group Hezbollah said Monday that it had shelled two Iron Dome air defense platforms in northern Israel. A brief statement by the group said the attack targeting the platforms in the Kabri settlement resulted in “direct hits.” The Israeli army, for its part, said its air defenses intercepted a “suspicious aeri...
BEIRUT (AA) – Foreign Minister Abdullah Bou Habib has urged a “comprehensive package” to implement UN Resolution 1701, including Israel’s withdrawal from occupied areas in Lebanon and the cessation of ground, maritime and aerial violations, according to the Lebanese Foreign Ministry. Habib emphasized that there can be “no comprehensive p...
BEIRUT (AA) – Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah said Wednesday that one of its members was killed in a clash with Israeli forces. In a statement, the group said that the fighter was killed near the border between Lebanon and Israel. Tensions have flared along the border between Lebanon and Israel amid exchanges of fire between [&hellip...
NEW YORK (AA) – The UN has said that it is “very concerned” over a report suggesting that Israel used US-supplied white phosphorus munitions in an attack in southern Lebanon. Asked by the media about the report by The Washington Post, UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said he does not have any information to confirm. “W...
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) – Lebanon has announced the closure of all government offices and institutions nationwide on Monday in solidarity with Gaza and the southern Lebanese villages affected by Israeli attacks. In an official statement, the secretary-general of Lebanon’s Council of Ministers, Mahmoud Mekkiya, announced that Prime Minister ...
Paris, France -AFP An investigation by Agence France-Presse into the strike in southern Lebanon on October 13 that killed a Reuters journalist and injured six others, including two from AFP, points to a tank shell only used by the Israeli army in this high-tension border region. Jointly conducted with Airwars, an NGO that investigates attacks ...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Lebanon on Thursday of Gaza-like consequences if the Hezbollah group decided to engage in an all-out war against Israel. “If Hezbollah chooses to start an all-out war, then it will be responsible for turning Beirut and South Lebanon, not far from here, into Gaza and Khan [...
ANKARA (AA) – Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday said that Israel’s deadly strikes on journalists in Lebanon were an “apparently deliberate attack on civilians and thus a war crime.” “Two Israeli strikes on a group of Lebanese, American, and Iraqi journalists in south Lebanon on October 13, 2023, were apparently deliberate attacks on c...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Three Israeli soldiers were injured in mortar shelling from Lebanon targeting a military site in northern Israel on Monday. The Israeli army said several mortar shells were fired from Lebanon towards a military site in the northern town of Shtula early Monday, slightly injuring three soldiers. It said several mortar shells fro...
ANKARA (AA) – Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati has blamed Israel for the country’s climate crisis, saying the Israeli army’s aggressive use of bombings, particularly phosphorus weapons, has caused irreparable damage to more than 5,000 square meters of agricultural land and forests. “The serious environmental deterioration in Le...
