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Hezbollah’s new leader Naim Qassem said on Wednesday that the group would agree to a ceasefire with Israel under acceptable terms, but added that a viable deal has yet to be presented. Qassem, who was named Hezbollah secretary general on Tuesday, did not explicitly link a Lebanon ceasefire to an end to fighting in Gaza, […]
The Israeli army issued an evacuation warning for residents in the entire eastern Lebanese city of Baalbeck, along with surrounding areas and key routes in the Bekaa Valley. The area marked for evacuation includes the ancient Roman temple complex, inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Lebanon’s Heath Ministry said more than 2,790 people have […]
Israel’s Defence Minister Yoav Gallant warned Hezbollah’s new leader, Naim Qassem, on Tuesday that his appointment was “not for long”. “Temporary appointment. Not for long,” Gallant wrote in a post on social media alongside a photograph of Qassem, whom Hezbollah had earlier named as assassinated leader Hassan Nasrallah’s successor. In a separate post in Hebrew, […]
Getty Images The ancient Roman ruins of Heliopolis are in the vicinity of Bekaa Valley and seen here behind the scene of damage At least 60 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa Valley, the Lebanese health ministry said. Two children were among those killed in strikes which targeted 16 areas […]
A mother who works for an Irish charity in Lebanon has said she tries to stay strong for her three children as their country is bombed. Amena Hareb said she first told her three-year-old son Suleman that an attack on her home village in south Lebanon was balloons in the sky. She, her husband and […]
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 […]
Entire population of North Gaza ‘at risk of dying’ The UN’s acting humanitarian chief Joyce Msuya has urged Israeli forces to stop what they are doing in northern Gaza, where the entire population “is at risk of dying”. It has been reported that efforts to clear north Gaza by way of effecting “the generals’ plan” […]
Israel striking targets in Iran – IDF The Israeli military is now conducting “precise strikes on military targets in Iran”, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) has just posted on X. The strikes are in response to “months of continuous attacks from the regime in Iran against the state of Israel”, the IDF post says. It […]
The feared Israel-Hezbollah war is happening, but it is remarkably one-sided so far. In September, Israel detonated thousands of Hezbollah pagers and walkie-talkies. It then commenced large-scale bombing of over 1,000 targets in Lebanon and stepped up its military campaign against Hezbollah leaders, culminating in the killing of Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah. Israeli forces have also […]
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