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...
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 ...
GAZA, Palestine (AA) – Israel wants “to export its crisis abroad” through the assassination of Hamas deputy chief Saleh al-Arouri, a senior leader of the Palestinian resistance group has said. “This criminal, arrogant Zionist enemy, despite its failures and disappointments after three months of its barbaric aggression on Gaza...
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...
ANKARA (AA) – Hamas deputy chief Saleh al-Arouri was assassinated in a strike by an Israeli warplane in Lebanon, Israeli media reported on Thursday. The Lebanese media earlier reported that Arouri was killed in an Israeli drone strike on a Hamas office in Beirut’s southern neighborhood Tuesday evening. Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, citing ...
Palestinian Territories – AFP The killing of Hamas leader Saleh Al Arouri will intensify the resistance of Palestinians, say people interviewed by AFP in Rafah. Mahdi Abou Muhamaad is a young resident of Rafah. He thinks the assassination will intensify the Hamas resistance “because al-Aruri is a man of stature. His assassination is not ...
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, ...
