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BEIRUT (AA) – The UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon has voiced deep concern over possible escalation of hostilities after the assassination of Hamas’ deputy chief Saleh al-Arouri in Lebanese capital Beirut Tuesday evening. The escalation could lead to “devastating consequences” for people on both sides of the Blue Line, ...
ANKARA (AA) – France’s President Emmanuel Macron has urged Israel to avoid escalation, “particularly in Lebanon,” following the Israeli drone strike in Beirut which killed a top Hamas figure. According to a statement by Elysee Palace, Macron held a phone call with Benny Gantz, former Israeli defense minister and war cabinet m...
Beirut, Lebanon – AFP Israel’s war against Palestinians reached into the Lebanese capital Beirut on Tuesday, where an Israeli strike killed Hamas’s deputy leader, the group and security officials in Lebanon said. A high-level security official told AFP that Saleh al-Aruri was killed along with his bodyguards in the strike by ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Hezbollah announced on Sunday that another of its fighters was killed by the Israeli army along the border between Lebanon and Israel. The Lebanon-based group said in a statement that it “mourned Ali Ahmed Saad-Jibril from the city of Bint Jbeil in southern Lebanon,” who was killed by the Israeli forces. Hezbollah […]...
BEIRUT (AA) – The Lebanese group Hezbollah targeted Israeli military sites along Lebanon’s southern border on Friday. The group announced that its fighters had targeted “a crane carrying spy supplies and equipment in the Dovev area.” Hezbollah also said its fighters “targeted the Israeli site Hadab Yaron with appropriate weapons” and ach...
BEIRUT (AA) – Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Thursday warned of an all-out war in the region due to Israeli “provocations.” “The continuation of Israeli provocations in southern Lebanon could lead to a deterioration of the situation and the outbreak of an all-out war in the region,” Mikati said during a meeting with [&helli...
BEIRUT (AA) – Three Lebanese people were killed and one other was injured in an overnight Israeli airstrike on a house in Bent Jbeil town in southern Lebanon, local media reported on Wednesday. “The Bent Jbeil town awoke on a massacre committed by the Israeli enemy last night that left three of the town’s residents […]
Jerusalem, Undefined – AFP Nine Israeli soldiers were injured by an anti-tank missile fired by Lebanon’s Hezbollah group, Israel’s army said on Tuesday. Israel’s war on Gaza has heightened regional tensions. A British maritime agency said explosions were heard and missiles were sighted off the coast of Yemen, where Iran...
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...
