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...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Coming down hard on Israel’s acts in Gaza, Lebanese Information Minister has said: “This is not a war … this is a genocide.” Replying to a question at the International Strategic Communication Summit (Stratcom Summit 2023) held in Istanbul, Ziad Makary said: “They are doing something worse than the...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army has said that it intercepted a surface-to-air missile fired from Lebanon that was headed for a military drone. A statement said the missile was shot down by air defenses before crossing into Israeli airspace. It said it attacked positions belonging to Hezbollah in southern Lebanon in response to the [&he...
Beirut, Lebanon – AFP Israeli bombardment of south Lebanon on Tuesday killed four civilians, two of them journalists, official media said, as Lebanon’s Al-Mayadeen television said it employed the two reporters. The Israel-Lebanon border has seen daily exchanges of fire, mainly between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah group, sin...
BEIRUT (AA) – The Lebanese Hezbollah group on Monday said its military operations on the country’s southern border since Oct. 8 have left over 1,500 Israelis injured. “The number of enemy injuries in the settlements adjacent to the border areas with Lebanon reached 1,523,” Hezbollah said in a statement cited by the Lebanese o...
BEIRUT (AA) — Hezbollah announced Saturday that it downed an Israeli drone with a surface-to-air missile over the Galilee Panhandle area. In a statement, the group said that it “shot down an enemy Israeli Hermes 450 aircraft, a multi-mission combat drone, with a surface-to-air missile” in the region close to Lebanon’s souther...
BEIRUT (AA) – Lebanon’s Foreign Minister Abdullah Bou Habib has described Israel’s killing of Lebanese civilians as a “war crime.” On Sunday, Israel struck a civilian car in southern Lebanon, killing three children and their grandmother, according to Lebanese media. Bou Habib also said his country will file a formal complaint...
