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Smoke rises from buildings after Israeli air strikes in southern Beirut today. (AP pic) BEIRUT: Lebanon’s state news agency today reported an Israeli raid on southern Beirut, after Israel’s army issued a fresh evacuation call. The official National News Agency said shortly after midnight that Israel had “targeted the southern suburbs of Beirut”. The Israeli […]
In all but the blink of an eye, an Associated Press photographer’s camera captured the moments that a battleship-grey Israeli bomb plummeted toward a Beirut building before detonating to bring the tower down. The air strike came 40 minutes after Israel warned people to evacuate two buildings in the area that it said were located […]
When Israeli military officials said that Hezbollah had stashed $500 million in gold and cash under a Beirut medical center, there was a scramble to evacuate the facility, and now a debate is raging over the Israeli accusation. Source link
Die Arabische Liga hofft auf einen baldigen Durchbruch bei Bemühungen um eine Waffenruhe im Libanon. Das sagte der Generalsekretär der internationalen Organisation, Ahmed Abul Gheit, während eines Besuchs in Beirut vor Journalisten. Oberste Priorität habe eine sofortige Waffenruhe sowie die Wahl eines Präsidenten in dem Land, sagte Gheit nach einem Gespräch mit Parlamentssprecher Nabih Berri, […]
Israel said late on Sunday it was preparing attacks on sites linked to the financial operations of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group within hours and told residents to leave those areas immediately, as it intensified assaults there and in Gaza. The warning came hours after Israel said it hit Hezbollah’s intelligence headquarters in the Lebanese capital Beirut, […]
Just a month ago, south Beirut’s bustling streets were packed with traffic, families strolling about and youths in cafes, but now silence dominates the abandoned Hezbollah bastion, interrupted only by the sound of Israeli bombs. Escalating Israeli attacks since late September, after nearly a year of low-intensity cross-border exchanges, have reduced much of the Lebanese […]
Israeli strikes on homes in the northern Gaza Strip overnight and into Sunday left at least 87 people dead or missing, the territory’s Health Ministry said, as a large-scale operation continued against Hamas militants said to be regrouping. The ministry said another 40 people were wounded in the strikes on the town of Beit Lahiya, […]
Israel has been pounding Jabalia, the largest of Gaza’s eight historic refugee camps, in what it says is an effort to stop Hamas fighters regrouping. Loading On Saturday afternoon, Israel carried out heavy strikes on several locations in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, leaving thick plumes of smoke wafting over the city horizon […]
A drone launched from Lebanon landed near Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s residence in the central town of Caesarea as Israeli air strikes targeted Hezbollah facilities in Beirut. Source link
JERUSALEM/BEIRUT – Israeli strikes pummeled Beirut’s southern suburbs on Saturday as Lebanese armed group Hezbollah fired salvos of rockets at northern Israel, with one drone directed at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s holiday home, his spokesman said. The volleys from the Iran-backed Lebanese group came as health officials in Gaza, where Israel has been battling Palestinian militant […]