Israel says it has carried out targeted strike in Beirut, explosions heard in southern suburb
BEIRUT (AP) — Israel says it has carried out targeted strike in Beirut, explosions heard in southern suburb.
BEIRUT (AP) — Israel says it has carried out targeted strike in Beirut, explosions heard in southern suburb.
BEIRUT (AP) — Rescue workers searched through the rubble of a collapsed building in central Beirut on Friday morning, hours after two Israeli strikes hit the Lebanese capital, killing at least 22 people and wounding dozens.
Hezbollah critics and supporters alike are voicing frustration over what many view as the group's miscalculations.
Ukraine said it has caused damage at a key Russian ammunition depot, a drone storage facility, and now an airfield over the past two days.
Israeli media outlet Kan 11 claimed Iran used about a third of its advanced ballistic missiles in last week's huge and unprecedented attack on Israel.View on euronews
PAPHOS, Cyprus (AP) — The leaders of nine southern European Union countries on Friday pledged support for Lebanon’s armed forces to reassert control over the country’s southern territory in hopes of bringing peace to an area plagued by fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.
BEIRUT (AP) — Israeli airstrikes on central Beirut on Thursday left two neighborhoods smoldering, killed 22 people and wounded dozens, Lebanon’s health ministry said, as well as further escalating Israel’s bloody conflict with Iran-backed Hezbollah militants in Lebanon.
The Ukrainian military said on Thursday it had struck an ammunition depot overnight at an airfield in Russia's Adygeya region in the North Caucasus, about 450 km (280 miles) from the frontline in eastern Ukraine. Some 57 Russian combat and training aircraft and helicopters, including Su-34s, Su-35s and Mi-8s, were stationed at Khanskaya airfield during the drone attack, a source in Ukraine’s state security service (SBU) told Reuters. "Russia is using this airfield in Krasnodar Krai ... for refueling and missile and bomb attacks on the units of the Defence Forces and Ukrainian settlements," the source said.
Israeli forces have acted illegally by shooting at positions used by U.N. peacekeepers in Lebanon, Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto said on Thursday, denouncing it as a possible war crime. The U.N. peacekeeping mission known as UNIFIL is stationed in southern Lebanon to monitor hostilities along the demarcation line with Israel -- an area that has seen serious clashes between Israeli troops and Iran-backed Hezbollah fighters.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Friday that Israel should "stop killing innocent people", and that its actions in the Middle East were backed by the United States and the European Union. Pezeshkian was speaking to a Russian state TV reporter on the sidelines of an international meeting in Turkmenistan. Israel in recent weeks has sharply escalated its assault on Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah movement, including by killing its top leaders, sending ground troops into southern Lebanon and bombing the capital Beirut.
Israel's military said its troops opened fire near a UNIFIL base in the area of Naqoura in southern Lebanon after instructing U.N. forces in the area to remain in protected spaces on Thursday morning. It said in a statement that Hezbollah fighters operate from within and near civilian areas in southern Lebanon, including areas near UNIFIL posts. The UNIFIL force said two of its peacekeepers were injured in an incident when an Israeli tank fired at a watchtower at the force's main headquarters in Ras al-Naqoura, hitting the tower and causing them to fall.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s ground invasion in Lebanon stretched into its second week, as the Hezbollah militant group fired hundreds of rockets deep into Israel — with no end in sight to the escalating conflict.
Two Hezbollah commanders were killed in Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon, the Israel Defense Forces said Thursday.
Palestinian and Dutch organisations on Thursday filed a legal complaint against the state of the Netherlands over its alleged failure to prevent Israel from committing possible genocide in Gaza and other violations of international law. The case argues that the Netherlands has a legal obligation to do everything in its power to stop alleged violations of international law and the 1948 Genocide Convention by Israel.
Israel has vowed to retaliate to a missile strike from Iran on its territory last week, despite the US urging Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to exercise caution in a call between the two leaders on Wednesday.View on euronews
An Israeli airstrike killed two Lebanese soldiers and wounded three on Friday, Lebanon's military said, just hours after the Israeli military fired on the headquarters of U.N. peacekeepers in southern Lebanon, injuring two of them for the second day in a row. The incidents entangling both Lebanon's official army — which has largely stayed on the sidelines of the conflict between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah — and the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Lebanon raised alarm as Israel broadens its campaign against Hezbollah with waves of heavy airstrikes across the country and a ground invasion at the border.
Israel and Hezbollah have exchanged almost daily cross-border fire since the war in Gaza started last October but recent weeks have seen that violence significantly ramp up turning southern Lebanon into a flashpoint.View on euronews
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hundreds of passengers were stranded in the French Caribbean island of Martinique on Friday after its airport was briefly forced to close because protesters overran the tarmac and tried to break in, the airport and local authorities said.
North Korea has entered the Ukraine war by providing artillery ammunition and military technology to Russia, and is now deploying soldiers to the Donetsk Oblast to assist in rebuilding infrastructure in Donetsk City.
The Italian government formally protested against the Israeli authorities for an attack on the headquarters and two Italian bases of the UN peace mission in southern Lebanon. Defence Minister Crosetto called it "possible war crimes".View on euronews
(Reuters) -Thousands of people are trapped in Gaza's Jabalia camp as Israeli forces attack the area, Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) said on Friday, a week after Israel launched an offensive there which it says is aimed at stopping Hamas regrouping. At least 20 Palestinians were killed and dozens more were wounded late on Friday by Israeli strikes in Jabalia, which also damaged four nearby homes, medics told Reuters. Israeli military strikes killed at least 61 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Friday, the medics added.