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Teffahta is a village in Sidon district, in southern Lebanon (file photo)
Lebanon local official says 19 killed in Israeli strike on family's home
BEIRUT — At least 19 people, including six women and five children, were killed in an Israeli strike on a house in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, a local official has said.Suad Hammoud told the BBC that the dead included former school principal Ahmed Ezzedine and three generations of his family, who all lived in the three-story building in the village of Teffahta.The village’s imam, Sheikh Abdo Abo Rayya, was killed while walking near the house at the time of the strike along with two passers-by, she added.The Israeli military has not yet commented on the incident, but it has repeatedly said it takes measures to mitigate harm to civilians.It has carried out thousands of air strikes across Lebanon over the past four weeks, targeting what it has said are the armed group Hezbollah's...
October 24, 2024

Lebanon local official says 19 killed in Israeli strike on family's home

Civilians fled several central neighbourhoods of Tyre shortly before the strikes
Israel strikes Lebanon's Tyre, close to site of ancient Roman ruins
BEIRUT — Israel has carried out at least four air strikes on the historic Lebanese port city of Tyre, hours after expanding its evacuation orders to cover several central neighborhoods, Lebanon’s state news agency says.Videos showed huge clouds of black smoke rising from a seafront area that is only a few hundred meters from the Unesco World Heritage-listed Roman ruins. There were no immediate reports of any casualties.The Israeli military earlier warned civilians to leave, saying it was going to act “forcefully” against the armed group Hezbollah there.Tens of thousands of residents had already fled the city in recent weeks in response to Israel’s intense air campaign and ground invasion.But before the strikes began a spokesman for a disaster management unit said about 14,000...
October 23, 2024

Israel strikes Lebanon's Tyre, close to site of ancient Roman ruins

Hashem Safieddine speaking at a funeral in Beirut's southern suburbs earlier this year
Israel says it killed possible Hezbollah successor Hashem Safieddine 
BEIRUT — The Israeli military says it killed the cleric tipped to succeed the late Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, in an air strike nearly three weeks ago.Hashem Safieddine died in air strikes on the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).Hezbollah has not confirmed Safieddine's death.Its previous leader, Nasrallah, was killed by an Israeli air strike on Beirut on 27 September.After air strikes near the city's airport on 4 October, Hezbollah officials said they had lost contact with Safieddine, while US media cited Israeli officials as saying the cleric had been the target of the bombing.Huge blasts shook the city that night, leaving plumes of smoke that could still be seen into the morning.On Tuesday, the IDF issued a...
October 23, 2024

Israel says it killed possible Hezbollah successor Hashem Safieddine 

Antony Blinken
US top diplomat issues warning to Israel over Gaza aid
WASHINGTON — Antony Blinken has told Israeli leaders that “much more needs to be done” to get humanitarian aid to civilians in besieged northern Gaza, raising possible consequences in US law if action isn’t taken, a senior Biden administration official says.On Tuesday, the US secretary of state met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer and senior military officials in a series of meetings in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.The meetings are part of a regional tour that Washington sees as a chance to revive diplomacy after Israel’s killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in Gaza last week.The account of Blinken’s face-to-face message to the Israelis comes despite mounting criticism that the US has failed to stem the...
October 23, 2024

US top diplomat issues warning to Israel over Gaza aid

Israeli soldiers take up position next to destroyed buildings following Israeli strikes during a ground operation in the Gaza Strip on Friday, Sept. 13, 2024
UN report: Gaza faces seven-decade setback and acute hunger crisis amid ongoing conflict
CAIRO — Development in Gaza has been set back by as much as 69 years, according to an assessment made by a UN-backed report.Poverty in Palestine is also set to rise by 74.3% in 2024, impacting a further 2.61 million people who are newly impoverished.The impact of the year-long war has caused acute hunger, with around 86% of the population experiencing crisis levels of hunger, according to the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UNESCWA).Efforts to get food supplies into the territory have been hampered by Israel's blockade, as well as ongoing fighting and the breakdown of law and order.High numbers of displaced mean that thousands of people are packed into squalid tent camps or buildings repurposed as shelters.In August, Gaza...
October 22, 2024

UN report: Gaza faces seven-decade setback and acute hunger crisis amid ongoing conflict

Flames and smoke rise from an Israeli airstrike on Dahiyeh, in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
Israeli military claims to have found Hezbollah bunker under Beirut hospital
BEIRUT — Israel's military claims to have found a bunker full of "cash and gold" belonging to former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah under a hospital in southern Beirut.Without providing evidence, spokesman Daniel Hagari said Israeli agents had discovered the bunker under the Sahel General Hospital in Beirut's Dahiyeh neighborhood, a Hezbollah stronghold.Hospital director Fadi Alameh denied there are tunnels under the hospital and said the facility is now being evacuated.Alameh, who also represents the area around the hospital in the Lebanese parliament, called on the Lebanese army and other institutions to visit the area and inspect whether the underground spaces in fact exist.Alameh told local TV station Al-Jadeed that Sahed General is a private medical centre that...
October 22, 2024

Israeli military claims to have found Hezbollah bunker under Beirut hospital

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken boards a plane as he departs Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on October 21, en route to the Middle East.
Blinken heads to Middle East with hopes receding for a quick diplomatic breakthrough following Sinwar’s death
WASHINGTON — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken departed Monday for Israel and other unspecified countries in the Middle East as the United States seeks to move forward on efforts to resolve the conflict in the wake of the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.American officials, led by President Joe Biden, remain staunchly hopeful diplomacy can eventually prevail — there is little alternative, they say — and have sought in their conversations with allies in the region to create momentum behind a new ceasefire push resulting in the release of hostages, even one with smaller ambitions than the three-phase proposal once on the table.Yet days after Sinwar was killed by Israeli troops in southern Gaza, the fundamentals of the deadlocked talks remain unchanged.There appears to be little...
October 22, 2024

Blinken heads to Middle East with hopes receding for a quick diplomatic breakthrough following Sinwar’s death

A night time image of southern Beirut, smoke is rising from a bright blaze on the skyline
Lebanon says four dead in Israeli strike near southern Beirut hospital
BEIRUT — Four people including a child have been killed in an Israeli air strike near the main government hospital in southern Beirut, the Lebanese health ministry says.The strike appeared to hit the car park of the Rafik Hariri University Hospital, a hospital source told Reuters news agency. The health ministry said 24 people had been injured.It was among 13 air strikes that hit south Beirut on Monday evening. The Israeli military said it was attacking facilities linked to Hezbollah.An Israeli spokesman had earlier warned people to move away from several locations in southern Beirut, however Rafik Hariri hospital was not among the locations mentioned.Videos from the Dahiyeh neighborhood in southern Beirut, where seven locations to be targeted were announced in advance, showed locals...
October 22, 2024

Lebanon says four dead in Israeli strike near southern Beirut hospital

A 3-year-old Palestinian child, Sami, was killed by air-dropped aid, in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, according to his family.
Air-dropped aid kills 3-year-old Palestinian boy in southern Gaza
GAZA — A 3-year-old Palestinian boy was killed by air-dropped aid in the southern city of Khan Younis on Saturday, according to his relatives, as the humanitarian crisis spawned by the Israeli offensive compounds severe hunger across the Gaza Strip. The family was eating breakfast when pallets dropped from airplanes and careened towards the displacement area, Sami Ayyad, the grandfather of the boy, told CNN. Several family members attempted to take cover inside their improvised tents – but the falling parcel killed Sami instantly, Ayyad recalled. Sami’s aunt and cousin were also wounded on their foot and face, respectively, Ayyad added. “I was sitting here with the boy, and the moment I left him ... the package fell on him,” Ayyad said. “There was only a second between me...
October 22, 2024

Air-dropped aid kills 3-year-old Palestinian boy in southern Gaza

A number of people are still trapped under the rubble in Beit Lahia, local officials say
Colonel killed in Gaza is one of Israel's highest-ranking casualties of current war
GAZA — An Israeli colonel has died during combat in northern Gaza, becoming one of the country’s highest-ranking officers to be killed in its war with Hamas.The Israel Defense Forces announced the death of Col. Ehsan Daxa, commander of the 401st “Iron Tracks” Brigade of the 162nd Division, on Sunday.Daxa is one of the highest-ranking Israeli officers to have been killed in Gaza since Col. Yitzhak Ben Bashet, who died in December last year in the northern Gaza neighborhood of Shujaiya.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described Daxa as “a hero of Israel, a warrior and a commander” who had chosen to “invest all his energy in the security of Israel and its citizens.”He sent condolences to Daxa’s wife Huda and his children Omri, Rif and Yasmin.Israeli Defense Minister...
October 21, 2024

Colonel killed in Gaza is one of Israel's highest-ranking casualties of current war

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