ISTANBUL (AA) – Members of the European Parliament have called for an immediate cease-fire in Lebanon following Israeli airstrikes there which have injured several UN peacekeepers in recent weeks and also condemned its continuing attacks in the Gaza Strip. As violence escalates across the Middle East, several parliamentarians expressed t...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel has presented its conditions for ending its war in Lebanon to the US, with a document outlining terms for a ‘diplomatic solution’, according to the American news site Axios. “Israel gave the US a document last week with its conditions for a diplomatic solution to end the war in Lebanon and […]
BEIRUT (AA) — The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) announced Sunday that an Israeli army bulldozer deliberately demolished one of its observation towers and a perimeter fence in the Tyre district of southern Lebanon. In a statement, the UNIFIL said: “Earlier today, an IDF (Israeli army) bulldozer deliberately demolished an observatio...
BERLIN (AA) – A German warship shot down a drone off the coast of Lebanon, military sources said. The German corvette Ludwigshafen am Rhein, which was deployed as part of the UN’s peacekeeping mission in Lebanon, shot down the unidentified aerial vehicle. A military spokesperson told German press agency DPA that an unmanned aerial vehicl...
ANKARA (AA) – Recalling the US warning to Israel to improve humanitarian situation in the besieged Gaza Strip, the EU foreign policy chief has slammed Washington for giving another month to Israel while “too many people” are being killed there. “They gave one-month delay” during which “too many people” would be killed, Josep ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) has said it will not abandon its positions despite being “directly and deliberately attacked” by the Israeli military. “Peacekeepers remain in all positions and the UN flag continues to fly,” UNIFIL spokesperson Andrea Tenenti said in an interview. “We will continue our work to imp...
Lebanon has submitted a formal complaint to the U.N. Security Council against Israel’s repeated targeting of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Lebanon (UNIFIL). Lebanon’s mission to the U.N. in New York filed the complaint under the instructions of Foreign Minister Abdullah Bou Habib to the U.N. Security Council and UN Secretary-General A...
BEIRUT (AA) – The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) on Sunday said that two Israeli tanks “forcibly entered” a Blue Helmet position in the town of Ramyeh in southern Lebanon. In a statement, UNIFIL said: “Early this morning, peacekeepers at a UN position in Ramyah observed three platoons of Israeli soldiers crossing the Blue […...
WASHINGTON (AA) – President Joe Biden said on Friday he is asking Israel to not target UN peacekeepers in Lebanon. “Absolutely, positively,” Biden told reporters when asked if he was asking Israel to stop hitting UN peacekeepers. His remarks came after Israeli forces early Friday shelled an observation post belonging to UN In...
ANKARA (AA) – Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has sparked controversy with comments in a documentary that suggested a “Greater Israel” . Smotrich suggested that Israel’s future borders would extend beyond the Jordan River. “Little by little,” he responded when asked about possible expansion in the “In Is...
