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China reacts to killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Israeli airstrike
China has voiced serious concern following reports of an Israeli airstrike on Beirut that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on September 27.In a statement issued by the Foreign Ministry, China expressed deep concern over the escalating tensions in the region and called for restraint from all parties involved, particularly Israel.
The Chinese government condemned the violation of Lebanon’s sovereignty and security, as well as any actions targeting innocent civilians. "China opposes any move that fuels antagonism and escalates regional tensions," the Foreign Ministry spokesperson said, urging all parties to take immediate steps to de-escalate the conflict and prevent it from spiraling out of control.
Beijing emphasized that the ongoing tensions between Lebanon and Israel are a spillover effect from the Gaza conflict.
China called for the swift implementation of relevant UN Security Council resolutions to end the violence in Gaza and restore peace and stability in the Middle East.
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For the Israeli terrorists to do what they are doing to hezobollah someone internally clearly has sold the leadership out.
Nevertheless the gloves are off now. Israel clearly has no regard for innocent human life and will go to any genocidal extent and kill many as collateral so why should Hezbollah back down esp when they are being hunted down.
They have the firepower to overwhelm israeli defences and cities with their arsenal of rockets.
I expect a barrage and chaos to ensue on the israeli cities now
Nevertheless the gloves are off now. Israel clearly has no regard for innocent human life and will go to any genocidal extent and kill many as collateral so why should Hezbollah back down esp when they are being hunted down.
They have the firepower to overwhelm israeli defences and cities with their arsenal of rockets.
I expect a barrage and chaos to ensue on the israeli cities now
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You seem to forget or arent aware this isn't a Muslim vs Jewish cause
It's a national liberation movement vs a Israeli occupier. Palestinians and Lebanese include many Christians freedom fighters too over the years
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New Israeli strikes target Beirut’s southern suburbs
The Israeli military has carried out new attacks on Lebanon, including Dahiyeh, the southern suburb of the capital, Beirut.
It also claimed to target Hezbollah’s weapons storage facilities and infrastructure sites in the country.
A Lebanese security official confirmed the Beirut strike to AFP, with a loud explosion heard and smoke seen billowing from the area.
We’ll bring you more details as they emerge.
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The Israeli military has carried out new attacks on Lebanon, including Dahiyeh, the southern suburb of the capital, Beirut.
It also claimed to target Hezbollah’s weapons storage facilities and infrastructure sites in the country.
A Lebanese security official confirmed the Beirut strike to AFP, with a loud explosion heard and smoke seen billowing from the area.
We’ll bring you more details as they emerge.
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What about Palestinian hostages that were taken when they were not even teenager.
Doesn’t that give Palestinian give a right to level Israel if we were to go by your logic?
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Fine. Enjoy watching the destruction continue.
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Only Hindutva would enjoy the genocide of Muslims.
Most of the global south are against the genocide and they understand the concept of resistance against colonialism and occupation.
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It was a tongue in cheek comment. What I intended to mean is the hostages should be released, and the war needs to stop.
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From the very beginning, Muslims have consistently called for the release of hostages, including the many Palestinian children taken over the years. The occupation must come to an end, and the only viable solution is the two-state solution, which Polish Ashkenazi occupiers seem to ignore, convinced that their 'chosen people' status gives them a free pass for greater territorial expansion.
When a group starts labeling themselves as the 'chosen people' while committing genocide, that's a clear signal for the rest of the world to step up. But, of course, the rampant Muslim-hating narrative in India has dulled any moral compass.
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Apartment building in Beirut hit as Israel widens air campaign
An apartment building in Beirut was hit by an Israeli airstrike on Monday, according to Reuters witnesses, in the first attack within city limits as Israel escalated hostilities against Iran's allies in the region.
The strike hit the upper floor of an apartment building in the Kola district of Lebanon's capital, Reuters witnesses said.
A security source told Reuters that at least two people were killed.
An apartment building in Beirut was hit by an Israeli airstrike on Monday, according to Reuters witnesses, in the first attack within city limits as Israel escalated hostilities against Iran's allies in the region.
The strike hit the upper floor of an apartment building in the Kola district of Lebanon's capital, Reuters witnesses said.
A security source told Reuters that at least two people were killed.
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French foreign minister calls for ‘immediate halt’ to Israeli attacks on Lebanon
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot is in Lebanon.
He’s the first senior foreign diplomat to visit the country since Israel stepped up its attacks a week ago.
He met Prime Minister Najib Mikati after arriving on Sunday night and said Paris sought “an immediate halt” to Israeli strikes.
Barrot is due to meet the UN special coordinator for Lebanon and members of the UN peacekeeping force in the south. He arrived shortly after France confirmed a second French citizen had been killed in Lebanon.
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French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot is in Lebanon.
He’s the first senior foreign diplomat to visit the country since Israel stepped up its attacks a week ago.
He met Prime Minister Najib Mikati after arriving on Sunday night and said Paris sought “an immediate halt” to Israeli strikes.
Barrot is due to meet the UN special coordinator for Lebanon and members of the UN peacekeeping force in the south. He arrived shortly after France confirmed a second French citizen had been killed in Lebanon.
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Israeli drone kills 3 people in southern Lebanon
The Israeli drone fired on the group at the junction of the towns of Arzoun and Chehour in the Tyre district of southern Lebanon. Three people are confirmed dead and one is wounded.
We will bring you more information on this incident when we have it.
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The Israeli drone fired on the group at the junction of the towns of Arzoun and Chehour in the Tyre district of southern Lebanon. Three people are confirmed dead and one is wounded.
We will bring you more information on this incident when we have it.
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Ground invasion of Lebanon has begun. C'mon the Hezbollah! Alas they're no match for the Israeli onslaught but hope they put up a good fight.
I see no sense in innocent people losing their lives. Hezbollah and Israel have to leave their egos at the table and start conversations and negotiations.
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Israel has no penchant for negotiations, it wants blood and to massacre innocent people knowing it has the full backing of the US to continue its bloodbath unabated.
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Hmm, I agree. Israel knows it doesn't have to face any consequences for their actions.
You come to negotiations before you blow up the deal. Hezbollah could have come to the table earlier and the US could have put pressure on Israel to deal as well. But now, with elections in a month in the US , the US will merely be just a watcher till elections are done. Mediation could have happened much earlier. And there was no reason for Hezbollah to poke its nose in the Gaza war. Now they are reaping the adverse consequences with no end in sight and more tragic loss of lives
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Indeed.
Israel doesn't seem to want any ceasefire or a 2-state solution. They seem like they want to expand their border. Greater Israel Project.
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Nothing to do with what Hezbollah does or doesn't do, all the strings are pulled by Iran hence them not getting involved directly as this would pull in the US.
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Well they are essentially a European colonial outpost. The guy that dreamed up the idea of the Zionist state in Palestine was as European as they come. Theodor Herzl was a Hungarian Jew with no ties to the Middle East.
Now like all colonial/imperial powers, they do want to expand and grab as much land as possible while culling as much of the local population as possible.
it's a shame as these people as well as the Iranians are all nice people, their only crime is they wanted to stop the colonists from killing and booting them off their own land.
But not a lot they can do unfortunately since this zionist terrorist entity is flooded with unlimited weapons and finance from the US and is basically stopping Iran from getting involved directly.
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They have started the ground invasion as expected.. they will be stuck here but the damage is done, Lebanon and Iran’s bluff called out.
It was foolish of anyone to think Israel wouldn’t attack.
It was foolish of anyone to think Israel wouldn’t attack.
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Also killed a female TV anchor in Damascus as well as two others. Why go killing innocent people in Damascus? The thirst for blood by these murdering terrorists is off the scales.
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Israel launches 'ground raids' against Hezbollah
Israel has launched what it has described as "limited, localised and targeted ground raids" in southern Lebanon, marking an escalation in its continuing offensive against Hezbollah.
Lebanese civilians are being warned not to use vehicles to travel south across the Litani river, which is 20 miles north of the Israel-Lebanon border.
According to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), the operation is aimed at the Iran-backed group's "infrastructure", which it says poses "an immediate threat to Israeli communities in northern Israel".
Hezbollah's deputy leader said the group was prepared for any Israeli operation inside Lebanon.
The group said it targeted Israeli troops with a “rocket barrage” on the Israeli town of Metula and the Avivim area, close to the Lebanon border.
Israel's Defence Minister Yoav Gallant earlier implied the army was ready for a ground operation, telling troops near the Lebanese border Israel was prepared to use forces "from the air, sea and land" to target Hezbollah.
In a statement posted on X at 02:00 local time on Tuesday morning, the IDF confirmed troops had moved across the border following a build-up of tanks and other armour in northern Israel.
The Lebanese army is pulling back troops stationed on its southern border to at least 5km (3 miles) north, according to Reuters news agency, which cited a Lebanese security source.
On Monday, Gallant told Israeli troops at the border that Israel's military would use all "the means at our disposal" to allow displaced people to return home in the north of the country.
In a short video, he said the "elimination" of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut on Friday "is a very important step, but it is not everything".
He added that "everything that needs to be done - will be done" and that "we will use all the forces from the air, sea and land".
The Israeli government has pledged to make it safe for tens of thousands of its citizens to return to their homes after nearly a year of cross-border fighting, which began with Hezbollah firing rockets at the start of the war in Gaza.
The Lebanese armed group - which is proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the US, UK and other countries - is known to have extensive tunnel networks as well as bunkers and other military infrastructure just over the border from Israel.
Hezbollah's deputy chief Sheikh Naim Qassem said the group - which is thought to have tens of thousands of well-trained fighters - was ready for an Israeli ground offensive. He described their attacks on Israel so far as the "minimum", adding that the battle could be long.
Hezbollah - which is backed by Iran - has experienced mass casualties from exploding pagers and walkie-talkies, a wave of assassinations of its military commanders and devastating air strikes which have killed civilians, as well as the use of bunker-busting bombs in Beirut, which killed the group's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, on Friday.
Explosions lit up the night sky on Monday as airstrikes hit Hezbollah’s stronghold of Dahieh, in Beirut's southern suburbs, near the airport.
The attacks came shortly after the Israeli military warned residents to evacuate buildings it said were linked to the group.
In southern Lebanon, there were reports of heavy shelling in the border town of Aita al-Shaab.
And near the city of Sidon, officials say a strike hit a building in a crowded Palestinian refugee camp, the first time it has been attacked in this conflict.
Lebanese officials say more than 1,000 people have been killed in the past two weeks, while up to a million may now be displaced.
On Monday, US President Joe Biden said "we should have a ceasefire now".
"I'm more aware than you might know and I'm comfortable with them stopping," Biden told reporters when asked if he was comfortable with Israeli plans for a cross-border incursion.
UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy spoke to his US counterpart Antony Blinken on Monday, with the US State Department saying they discussed efforts to resolve the conflict. Both men stressed the need for a ceasefire and that the hostages taken by Hezbollah's Palestinian ally Hamas in the 7 October attack on Israel need to be returned home.
The European Union's member states have called for an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council. EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said "any further military intervention would dramatically aggravate the situation and it has to be avoided".
Meanwhile, Israel and Hamas have both confirmed the killing of the head of Hamas in Lebanon, Fateh Sherif Abu el-Amin, in Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon.
Israel's military said Sherif was "responsible for co-ordinating Hamas's terror activities in Lebanon with Hezbollah operatives".
Another Israeli strike in the central Beirut neighbourhood of Kola early on Monday killed three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the Palestinian armed group said in a statement.
The statement named those killed as military security chief Mohammad Abdel-Aal, military commander Imad Odeh and fighter Abdel Rahman Abdel-Aal.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) director of communications for Lebanon, Jinane Saad, told the BBC that “we don’t really know where is safe or not” after the strike on the Kola neighbourhood.
“What is safe today might not be safe in an hour or tomorrow,” she said.
The previously sporadic cross-border fighting between Israel and Hezbollah escalated on 8 October 2023 - the day after the unprecedented attack on Israel by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip - when Hezbollah fired at Israeli positions, in solidarity with the Palestinians.
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Israel has launched what it has described as "limited, localised and targeted ground raids" in southern Lebanon, marking an escalation in its continuing offensive against Hezbollah.
Lebanese civilians are being warned not to use vehicles to travel south across the Litani river, which is 20 miles north of the Israel-Lebanon border.
According to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), the operation is aimed at the Iran-backed group's "infrastructure", which it says poses "an immediate threat to Israeli communities in northern Israel".
Hezbollah's deputy leader said the group was prepared for any Israeli operation inside Lebanon.
The group said it targeted Israeli troops with a “rocket barrage” on the Israeli town of Metula and the Avivim area, close to the Lebanon border.
Israel's Defence Minister Yoav Gallant earlier implied the army was ready for a ground operation, telling troops near the Lebanese border Israel was prepared to use forces "from the air, sea and land" to target Hezbollah.
In a statement posted on X at 02:00 local time on Tuesday morning, the IDF confirmed troops had moved across the border following a build-up of tanks and other armour in northern Israel.
The Lebanese army is pulling back troops stationed on its southern border to at least 5km (3 miles) north, according to Reuters news agency, which cited a Lebanese security source.
On Monday, Gallant told Israeli troops at the border that Israel's military would use all "the means at our disposal" to allow displaced people to return home in the north of the country.
In a short video, he said the "elimination" of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut on Friday "is a very important step, but it is not everything".
He added that "everything that needs to be done - will be done" and that "we will use all the forces from the air, sea and land".
The Israeli government has pledged to make it safe for tens of thousands of its citizens to return to their homes after nearly a year of cross-border fighting, which began with Hezbollah firing rockets at the start of the war in Gaza.
The Lebanese armed group - which is proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the US, UK and other countries - is known to have extensive tunnel networks as well as bunkers and other military infrastructure just over the border from Israel.
Hezbollah's deputy chief Sheikh Naim Qassem said the group - which is thought to have tens of thousands of well-trained fighters - was ready for an Israeli ground offensive. He described their attacks on Israel so far as the "minimum", adding that the battle could be long.
Hezbollah - which is backed by Iran - has experienced mass casualties from exploding pagers and walkie-talkies, a wave of assassinations of its military commanders and devastating air strikes which have killed civilians, as well as the use of bunker-busting bombs in Beirut, which killed the group's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, on Friday.
Explosions lit up the night sky on Monday as airstrikes hit Hezbollah’s stronghold of Dahieh, in Beirut's southern suburbs, near the airport.
The attacks came shortly after the Israeli military warned residents to evacuate buildings it said were linked to the group.
In southern Lebanon, there were reports of heavy shelling in the border town of Aita al-Shaab.
And near the city of Sidon, officials say a strike hit a building in a crowded Palestinian refugee camp, the first time it has been attacked in this conflict.
Lebanese officials say more than 1,000 people have been killed in the past two weeks, while up to a million may now be displaced.
On Monday, US President Joe Biden said "we should have a ceasefire now".
"I'm more aware than you might know and I'm comfortable with them stopping," Biden told reporters when asked if he was comfortable with Israeli plans for a cross-border incursion.
UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy spoke to his US counterpart Antony Blinken on Monday, with the US State Department saying they discussed efforts to resolve the conflict. Both men stressed the need for a ceasefire and that the hostages taken by Hezbollah's Palestinian ally Hamas in the 7 October attack on Israel need to be returned home.
The European Union's member states have called for an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council. EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said "any further military intervention would dramatically aggravate the situation and it has to be avoided".
Meanwhile, Israel and Hamas have both confirmed the killing of the head of Hamas in Lebanon, Fateh Sherif Abu el-Amin, in Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon.
Israel's military said Sherif was "responsible for co-ordinating Hamas's terror activities in Lebanon with Hezbollah operatives".
Another Israeli strike in the central Beirut neighbourhood of Kola early on Monday killed three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the Palestinian armed group said in a statement.
The statement named those killed as military security chief Mohammad Abdel-Aal, military commander Imad Odeh and fighter Abdel Rahman Abdel-Aal.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) director of communications for Lebanon, Jinane Saad, told the BBC that “we don’t really know where is safe or not” after the strike on the Kola neighbourhood.
“What is safe today might not be safe in an hour or tomorrow,” she said.
The previously sporadic cross-border fighting between Israel and Hezbollah escalated on 8 October 2023 - the day after the unprecedented attack on Israel by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip - when Hezbollah fired at Israeli positions, in solidarity with the Palestinians.
BBC
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The only way to come to the conclusion that israel has successfully called out Iran/Lebanon's bluff is to go into Lebanon and finish the job. I assumed that must be their endgame anyway assuming they have one. Otherwise we have been here before with the same promises of sorting it out once and for all.
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They retracted an article where they implied Lebanon as part of promised Israel.. India and Pakistan will keep talking about AKhand Bharat or Ghwaz-Hind, Israel on other hand is dangerously attached to their delusions that they even carry out irrespective of consequences.
What is sorting out, Israel has done the damage to innocents in front of UN, US has vetoed and the Five Eyes has completely backed their atrocity.
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Israel war on Gaza, Lebanon : Hezbollah denies Israel ground raid claim
- Israel says its ground troops have entered southern Lebanon but Hezbollah denies they have crossed into the territory.
- Prime Minister Najib Mikati says Lebanon faces “one of the most dangerous phases of its history”.
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That has been the ongoing situation anyway, only difference is scale of engagement. I guess if Iran withdraws from Lebanon then israel can claim a victory, otherwise it will be rinse and repeat.
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Hezbollah claims strikes against Israel
Hezbollah says it carried out a series of attacks against Israel this morning, including a rocket attack on an Israeli military barracks.
In three attacks that occurred between 07:15 to 07:20 local time, missiles struck Israeli troops gathered in the settlements of Shtula and Maskaf Am and "a gathering of the Israeli enemy forces in the Shomera barracks", according to statements released Hezbollah in the last few minutes.
The group says that the strikes achieved several "direct" and "accurate" hits.
This comes shortly after Hezbollah said it repelled forces at the Lebanese town of Adaisseh.
Israel has not yet commented on Hezbollah's claims.
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Hezbollah says it carried out a series of attacks against Israel this morning, including a rocket attack on an Israeli military barracks.
In three attacks that occurred between 07:15 to 07:20 local time, missiles struck Israeli troops gathered in the settlements of Shtula and Maskaf Am and "a gathering of the Israeli enemy forces in the Shomera barracks", according to statements released Hezbollah in the last few minutes.
The group says that the strikes achieved several "direct" and "accurate" hits.
This comes shortly after Hezbollah said it repelled forces at the Lebanese town of Adaisseh.
Israel has not yet commented on Hezbollah's claims.
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Three killed in Israeli air strike on border village – Lebanese state media
Lebanon's state-run National News Agency (NNA) reports that three people were killed in an early morning Israeli air strike on the village of Debel, close to the Israeli border.
It also says one person was killed in an Israeli air strike that targeted a town further north, in West Bekaa.
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Lebanon's state-run National News Agency (NNA) reports that three people were killed in an early morning Israeli air strike on the village of Debel, close to the Israeli border.
It also says one person was killed in an Israeli air strike that targeted a town further north, in West Bekaa.
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ZIONEST cowards won't dare carry Out ground invasions. They will get massacred like the cowards they are. Hezbollah are born and bred fighters like the Afgan Mujahideen and are experts in Guirrella warfare
The zionests achievements are dropping bombs on innocent children and women. COWARDS.
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Hezbollah says it can push back Israel, has sufficient resources
The head of Hezbollah’s media office, Mohammad Afif, says the group has enough fighters, weapons and ammunition to push back Israel.
He was speaking to reporters in an area hit by Israeli raids in southern Lebanon. We will bring you more shortly.
We now have more lines from Hezbollah’s Mohammad Afif.
“We assure you, the enemy, that this is only the first round,” Afif told reporters in southern Lebanon, adding that the group was ready to “sacrifice our blood and soul for our homeland by the grace of God”.
“What happened in … Maroun al-Ras and other areas, including Odaisseh, was nothing but the tip of the iceberg,” he added.
Moreover, Afif said Israel’s air superiority will “turn into losses on the ground”.
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The head of Hezbollah’s media office, Mohammad Afif, says the group has enough fighters, weapons and ammunition to push back Israel.
He was speaking to reporters in an area hit by Israeli raids in southern Lebanon. We will bring you more shortly.
We now have more lines from Hezbollah’s Mohammad Afif.
“We assure you, the enemy, that this is only the first round,” Afif told reporters in southern Lebanon, adding that the group was ready to “sacrifice our blood and soul for our homeland by the grace of God”.
“What happened in … Maroun al-Ras and other areas, including Odaisseh, was nothing but the tip of the iceberg,” he added.
Moreover, Afif said Israel’s air superiority will “turn into losses on the ground”.
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Some close quarters fighting going on with the HB at the border, the heat is on.
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Israeli military announces first soldier killed inside Lebanon
The death of the first Israeli soldier killed inside Lebanon since the ground invasion has been confirmed.
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced in a statement that Captain Eitan Yitzhak Oster, 22, was killed inside Lebanon on Wednesday.
The 22-year-old was a team commander in the Egoz unit, an elite commando unit specialising in guerrilla warfare, the IDF says.
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The death of the first Israeli soldier killed inside Lebanon since the ground invasion has been confirmed.
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced in a statement that Captain Eitan Yitzhak Oster, 22, was killed inside Lebanon on Wednesday.
The 22-year-old was a team commander in the Egoz unit, an elite commando unit specialising in guerrilla warfare, the IDF says.
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More casualties inflicted upon the Israelis
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IDF says seven soldiers wounded, in addition to eight killed
We bring you more detail now on the deaths of seven more Israeli soldiers in southern Lebanon.
The IDF says three were from the Egoz unit, the same unit to which Eitan Yitzhak Oster - the first soldier confirmed killed today - belonged.
It also says seven soldiers have been injured.
In total, eight Israeli soldiers have been reported killed in combat - the first inside Lebanon since the invasion began.
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We bring you more detail now on the deaths of seven more Israeli soldiers in southern Lebanon.
The IDF says three were from the Egoz unit, the same unit to which Eitan Yitzhak Oster - the first soldier confirmed killed today - belonged.
It also says seven soldiers have been injured.
In total, eight Israeli soldiers have been reported killed in combat - the first inside Lebanon since the invasion began.
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At least five people have been killed and eight wounded in Israeli air strikes targeting central Beirut overnight.
A further 46 people were killed and 85 injured in Israeli attacks across Lebanon in the previous 24 hours, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said.
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A further 46 people were killed and 85 injured in Israeli attacks across Lebanon in the previous 24 hours, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said.
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China urges UN Security Council to de-escalate Middle East crisis
China called on the United Nations Security Council to take "urgent actions" to de-escalate the situation in the Middle East as Israel launched fresh air strikes in Lebanon.
China's permanent representative to the U.N., Fu Cong, said during a Security Council briefing on Wednesday, that it needed to make clear and unequivocal demands to stop the cycle of violence over the Israeli-Lebanon conflict.
"The Security Council bears the primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security," the official Xinhua news agency reported Fu as saying, noting that all parties concerned "must return to the track of political and diplomatic solutions".
Israel's latest missile strikes in central Beirut come after Iran fired more than 180 missiles into Israel on Tuesday. Israel has also sent infantry and armoured units into Lebanon with reports of fighting with the Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah.
Iran said on Wednesday its missile volley - its biggest ever assault on Israel - was over barring further provocation, but Israel and the United States promised to hit back hard.
Iran's missile attack and Israel's pledge of retaliation have raised concerns that the oil-producing Middle East could be caught up in a wider conflict.
Warning that the current situation is "hanging by a thread," Xinhua cited Fu as saying that any "passive procrastination would be irresponsible, and any rhetoric of condoning further military adventurism would send a wrong message".
Fu said the spreading Middle East conflict had already caused an unprecedented humanitarian disaster, with Gaza having become a "hell on earth," and over 1.2 million people displaced in Lebanon.
China's Foreign Ministry has urged all parties and especially Israel to immediately cool things down to prevent the situation getting out of control. Beijing has also said it opposes any violation of Lebanon's sovereignty.
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China called on the United Nations Security Council to take "urgent actions" to de-escalate the situation in the Middle East as Israel launched fresh air strikes in Lebanon.
China's permanent representative to the U.N., Fu Cong, said during a Security Council briefing on Wednesday, that it needed to make clear and unequivocal demands to stop the cycle of violence over the Israeli-Lebanon conflict.
"The Security Council bears the primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security," the official Xinhua news agency reported Fu as saying, noting that all parties concerned "must return to the track of political and diplomatic solutions".
Israel's latest missile strikes in central Beirut come after Iran fired more than 180 missiles into Israel on Tuesday. Israel has also sent infantry and armoured units into Lebanon with reports of fighting with the Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah.
Iran said on Wednesday its missile volley - its biggest ever assault on Israel - was over barring further provocation, but Israel and the United States promised to hit back hard.
Iran's missile attack and Israel's pledge of retaliation have raised concerns that the oil-producing Middle East could be caught up in a wider conflict.
Warning that the current situation is "hanging by a thread," Xinhua cited Fu as saying that any "passive procrastination would be irresponsible, and any rhetoric of condoning further military adventurism would send a wrong message".
Fu said the spreading Middle East conflict had already caused an unprecedented humanitarian disaster, with Gaza having become a "hell on earth," and over 1.2 million people displaced in Lebanon.
China's Foreign Ministry has urged all parties and especially Israel to immediately cool things down to prevent the situation getting out of control. Beijing has also said it opposes any violation of Lebanon's sovereignty.
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Israeli army claims deadly strike on municipality building in south Lebanon
The Israeli army says it struck the municipality building in the town of Bint Jbeil, in southern Lebanon, killing 15 people.
The military claimed those killed were Hezbollah fighters and the building was used to store weapons.
In Israel’s 2006 war with Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Israeli military deployed a strategy of disproportionate attack by hitting neighbourhoods and destroying civilian infrastructure as a means of putting pressure on its enemies. This strategy came to be called the “Dahiyeh doctrine”.
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The Israeli army says it struck the municipality building in the town of Bint Jbeil, in southern Lebanon, killing 15 people.
The military claimed those killed were Hezbollah fighters and the building was used to store weapons.
In Israel’s 2006 war with Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Israeli military deployed a strategy of disproportionate attack by hitting neighbourhoods and destroying civilian infrastructure as a means of putting pressure on its enemies. This strategy came to be called the “Dahiyeh doctrine”.
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Israeli attack on central Beirut killed 7 health and rescue workers
The Israeli raid on the Lebanese capital Beirut killed seven health and rescue workers, a medical organisation says.
The air attack on the residential Bashoura district hit an apartment in a multi-story building that houses an office of the Health Society, a group of civilian first responders. It was the closest attack yet to the central downtown district of Beirut, where the United Nations and government offices are.
This was the second attack against the Health Society in 24 hours. No Israeli warning was issued to the area before it was hit. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military.
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The Israeli raid on the Lebanese capital Beirut killed seven health and rescue workers, a medical organisation says.
The air attack on the residential Bashoura district hit an apartment in a multi-story building that houses an office of the Health Society, a group of civilian first responders. It was the closest attack yet to the central downtown district of Beirut, where the United Nations and government offices are.
This was the second attack against the Health Society in 24 hours. No Israeli warning was issued to the area before it was hit. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military.
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Hezbollah claims 7 separate attacks on Israeli forces
Lebanon’s Hezbollah says its fighters have targeted Israeli soldiers “with a rocket salvo” near the Adamit settlement and with two Burkan missiles in the vicinity of the Raheb military site, both in northern Israel.
Shortly before the two attacks, Hezbollah claimed to have hit Israeli troops in an area between Shtula and Raheb. The fourth attack of the day came “with artillery shells” fired at the Fatima Gate, a former border crossing between Lebanon and Israel, where Hezbollah said the Israeli soldiers were attempting to advance.
At 09:15am (06:15 GMT), there was another Hezbollah rocket salvo, this time targeting Israeli forces in the settlement of Yarin in Upper Galilee.
Shortly before that attack, Hezbollah claimed to hit Israeli soldiers in the Misgav Am settlement with a missile, and shelled another group of Israeli forces at the Hanita military base.
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Lebanon’s Hezbollah says its fighters have targeted Israeli soldiers “with a rocket salvo” near the Adamit settlement and with two Burkan missiles in the vicinity of the Raheb military site, both in northern Israel.
Shortly before the two attacks, Hezbollah claimed to have hit Israeli troops in an area between Shtula and Raheb. The fourth attack of the day came “with artillery shells” fired at the Fatima Gate, a former border crossing between Lebanon and Israel, where Hezbollah said the Israeli soldiers were attempting to advance.
At 09:15am (06:15 GMT), there was another Hezbollah rocket salvo, this time targeting Israeli forces in the settlement of Yarin in Upper Galilee.
Shortly before that attack, Hezbollah claimed to hit Israeli soldiers in the Misgav Am settlement with a missile, and shelled another group of Israeli forces at the Hanita military base.
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Israel has ‘a lot of options’ against Iran: Israel’s UN ambassador
Israel has ‘a lot of options’ against Iran: Israel’s UN ambassador
Israel’s ambassador to the UN has said his country will respond to Iran’s missile attack, even though it does not want all-out war with the country.
“We have a lot of options … so it’s [up to] us to decide where and when we want to attack, but they are vulnerable. They know that,” Ambassador Danny Danon told CNN.
“We would have to make it a calculated response because we don’t want to see full war with Iran. And believe me, they also don’t want to see it,” he added. “They better look at what happened in Beirut and in Gaza before they start a war with us.”
Source: Al Jazeera
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Multiple Israeli strikes on Beirut target Nasrallah’s likely successor: Source
At least one Israeli strike early on Friday hit outside the perimeter of Beirut’s international airport, according to a source in Lebanon’s ministry of transport and public works.
The Israeli strike on Beirut targeted senior Hezbollah official Hashem Safieddine, Axios reporter Barak Ravid said in a post on social media platform X early on Friday, citing an Israeli source.
Safieddine is the man widely regarded as the heir of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
Reuters could not confirm the information in the social media post and there was no immediate official statement from any side.
A source close to Lebanon’s Hezbollah group said Israel had conducted 11 consecutive strikes on the group’s south Beirut stronghold, with AFP correspondents in the capital and beyond hearing the loud bangs.
“Israel struck the southern suburbs 11 consecutives times,” the source said on the condition of anonymity. The bombardment was so intense that car alarms went off and buildings shook in Beirut and its outskirts.
At least one Israeli strike early on Friday hit outside the perimeter of Beirut’s international airport, according to a source in Lebanon’s ministry of transport and public works.
The Israeli strike on Beirut targeted senior Hezbollah official Hashem Safieddine, Axios reporter Barak Ravid said in a post on social media platform X early on Friday, citing an Israeli source.
Safieddine is the man widely regarded as the heir of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
Reuters could not confirm the information in the social media post and there was no immediate official statement from any side.
A source close to Lebanon’s Hezbollah group said Israel had conducted 11 consecutive strikes on the group’s south Beirut stronghold, with AFP correspondents in the capital and beyond hearing the loud bangs.
“Israel struck the southern suburbs 11 consecutives times,” the source said on the condition of anonymity. The bombardment was so intense that car alarms went off and buildings shook in Beirut and its outskirts.
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Massive blasts in Beirut after renewed Israeli air strikes
Israeli bombing caused large explosions just outside Beirut's international airport during a further night of air strikes targeting Hezbollah in the city.
The target was unclear but the airport borders Dahieh - Hezbollah's stronghold in the capital. Plumes of smoke could be seen over the city as dawn broke on Friday.
Lebanon's public health ministry said 37 people had been killed in Israeli ground and air attacks in the last 24 hours while 151 others had been wounded.
Elsewhere, the Lebanese army said two of its soldiers had been killed in the country's south as Israeli forces pressed on with their invasion against Hezbollah and ordered another 20 towns and villages to evacuate.
The Israeli military has not commented, but did say its troops had killed Hezbollah fighters near the border. Hezbollah said it had targeted Israeli troops on both sides of the frontier.
The two fatal attacks on the Lebanese army soldiers were just hours apart on Thursday, the third full day of the invasion.
In the first incident, the army said, one soldier was killed and another was wounded “as a result of an aggression by the Israeli enemy during an evacuation and rescue operation with the Lebanese Red Cross in Taybeh village".
The Red Cross said four of its volunteers were also lightly wounded, and that their movements had been co-ordinated with UN peacekeepers.
The army said that in the second incident another soldier was killed “after the Israeli enemy targeted an army post in the Bint Jbeil area”.
“The personnel at the post responded to the sources of fire,” the Lebanese army added, marking a rare involvement in a conflict in which it has not engaged.
Unlike the communities ordered to evacuate on Tuesday, they are all located north of the Litani river, which lies about 30km (18 miles) from the border.
Before the invasion, Israel had demanded that Hezbollah’s withdraw to the Litani, in accordance with a UN Security Council resolution that ended their last war in 2006.
Speaking to the BBC from Beirut, the World Food Programme's country director in Lebanon, Matthew Hollingworth, described the situation there as “horrific”.
“There is black smoke billowing over the southern suburbs and we see it each morning when we come to work and we see it all day long. And there's a striking number of people who are displaced around the city.”
“There are these cars everywhere that are from people that have fled the fighting in the south of the country and the southern suburbs. There's traffic everywhere, people sleeping outside.”
Juan Gabriel Wells, Lebanon country director with the International Rescue Committee, said nearly half of displaced people surveyed by his organisation in shelters run by the government were children under the age of 15.
Israel's latest air strikes on Beirut come 24 hours after a residential building in the centre of the capital was hit. A civil defence agency linked to Hezbollah also said seven of its first responders were among nine people killed in the strike.
Lebanon’s health minister later said more than 40 paramedics and firefighters had been killed by Israeli fire in the past three days.
The Israeli Air Force carried out air strikes during Thursday against targets it said belonged to Hezbollah including the group's intelligence headquarters, weapons production sites, weapons storage facilities.
Two weeks of Israeli strikes and other attacks targeting Hezbollah have killed more than 1,300 people across Lebanon and displaced more than one million, according to local authorities.
Israel went on the offensive after almost a year of cross-border hostilities sparked by the war in Gaza, saying it wanted to ensure the safe return of residents of border areas displaced by Hezbollah rocket, missile and drone attacks.
Hezbollah is a Shia Islamist military, political and social organisation that wields considerable power in Lebanon. It is designated as a terrorist organisation by Israel, the US, the UK and other countries.
The IDF also announced on Thursday that its aircraft had struck 200 Hezbollah “terrorist targets” in southern Lebanon and elsewhere overnight, including weapons storage facilities and observation posts. About 15 Hezbollah fighters were killed when the municipality building in Bint Jbeil was hit, it said.
Later, it said a structure housing three Hezbollah commanders had been destroyed during a joint operation carried out by the air force and infantry.
Hezbollah said on Thursday evening that its fighters had “repelled failed attempts” by Israeli commandos to advance into some border villages during the day.
The group also said it had targeted “enemy gatherings” and homes on the other side of the frontier, while also continuing to fire rockets deep into northern Israel.
The IDF said more than 230 projectiles had been launched into Israeli territory over the course of the day. Most were intercepted or fell in open areas, and there were no casualty reports.
The communities sitting along Israel’s northern border fence are now a closed military zone.
Dean Sweetland, a former British soldier who moved to Israel eight years ago, is one of the few people still living in a near-empty kibbutz within sight of the Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil.
He told the BBC that his house shook several times a day with rocket and anti-tank missiles fired from Lebanon, some of them intercepted by Israel’s air-defences overhead.
“We can’t continue this for another year, having Hezbollah sitting on our border just waiting to do an October 7th on us,” he said, referring to Hamas’s deadly attack on southern Israel last year that triggered the Gaza war.
“But my son is in the army, and do we want our kids to be in there, slaughtered, where Hezbollah has been waiting for us to go in for nearly 20 years?”
“It’s not going to be pretty,” he continued, “but if that’s what it takes, then that’s what it takes.”
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Israeli bombing caused large explosions just outside Beirut's international airport during a further night of air strikes targeting Hezbollah in the city.
The target was unclear but the airport borders Dahieh - Hezbollah's stronghold in the capital. Plumes of smoke could be seen over the city as dawn broke on Friday.
Lebanon's public health ministry said 37 people had been killed in Israeli ground and air attacks in the last 24 hours while 151 others had been wounded.
Elsewhere, the Lebanese army said two of its soldiers had been killed in the country's south as Israeli forces pressed on with their invasion against Hezbollah and ordered another 20 towns and villages to evacuate.
The Israeli military has not commented, but did say its troops had killed Hezbollah fighters near the border. Hezbollah said it had targeted Israeli troops on both sides of the frontier.
The two fatal attacks on the Lebanese army soldiers were just hours apart on Thursday, the third full day of the invasion.
In the first incident, the army said, one soldier was killed and another was wounded “as a result of an aggression by the Israeli enemy during an evacuation and rescue operation with the Lebanese Red Cross in Taybeh village".
The Red Cross said four of its volunteers were also lightly wounded, and that their movements had been co-ordinated with UN peacekeepers.
The army said that in the second incident another soldier was killed “after the Israeli enemy targeted an army post in the Bint Jbeil area”.
“The personnel at the post responded to the sources of fire,” the Lebanese army added, marking a rare involvement in a conflict in which it has not engaged.
Unlike the communities ordered to evacuate on Tuesday, they are all located north of the Litani river, which lies about 30km (18 miles) from the border.
Before the invasion, Israel had demanded that Hezbollah’s withdraw to the Litani, in accordance with a UN Security Council resolution that ended their last war in 2006.
Speaking to the BBC from Beirut, the World Food Programme's country director in Lebanon, Matthew Hollingworth, described the situation there as “horrific”.
“There is black smoke billowing over the southern suburbs and we see it each morning when we come to work and we see it all day long. And there's a striking number of people who are displaced around the city.”
“There are these cars everywhere that are from people that have fled the fighting in the south of the country and the southern suburbs. There's traffic everywhere, people sleeping outside.”
Juan Gabriel Wells, Lebanon country director with the International Rescue Committee, said nearly half of displaced people surveyed by his organisation in shelters run by the government were children under the age of 15.
Israel's latest air strikes on Beirut come 24 hours after a residential building in the centre of the capital was hit. A civil defence agency linked to Hezbollah also said seven of its first responders were among nine people killed in the strike.
Lebanon’s health minister later said more than 40 paramedics and firefighters had been killed by Israeli fire in the past three days.
The Israeli Air Force carried out air strikes during Thursday against targets it said belonged to Hezbollah including the group's intelligence headquarters, weapons production sites, weapons storage facilities.
Two weeks of Israeli strikes and other attacks targeting Hezbollah have killed more than 1,300 people across Lebanon and displaced more than one million, according to local authorities.
Israel went on the offensive after almost a year of cross-border hostilities sparked by the war in Gaza, saying it wanted to ensure the safe return of residents of border areas displaced by Hezbollah rocket, missile and drone attacks.
Hezbollah is a Shia Islamist military, political and social organisation that wields considerable power in Lebanon. It is designated as a terrorist organisation by Israel, the US, the UK and other countries.
The IDF also announced on Thursday that its aircraft had struck 200 Hezbollah “terrorist targets” in southern Lebanon and elsewhere overnight, including weapons storage facilities and observation posts. About 15 Hezbollah fighters were killed when the municipality building in Bint Jbeil was hit, it said.
Later, it said a structure housing three Hezbollah commanders had been destroyed during a joint operation carried out by the air force and infantry.
Hezbollah said on Thursday evening that its fighters had “repelled failed attempts” by Israeli commandos to advance into some border villages during the day.
The group also said it had targeted “enemy gatherings” and homes on the other side of the frontier, while also continuing to fire rockets deep into northern Israel.
The IDF said more than 230 projectiles had been launched into Israeli territory over the course of the day. Most were intercepted or fell in open areas, and there were no casualty reports.
The communities sitting along Israel’s northern border fence are now a closed military zone.
Dean Sweetland, a former British soldier who moved to Israel eight years ago, is one of the few people still living in a near-empty kibbutz within sight of the Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil.
He told the BBC that his house shook several times a day with rocket and anti-tank missiles fired from Lebanon, some of them intercepted by Israel’s air-defences overhead.
“We can’t continue this for another year, having Hezbollah sitting on our border just waiting to do an October 7th on us,” he said, referring to Hamas’s deadly attack on southern Israel last year that triggered the Gaza war.
“But my son is in the army, and do we want our kids to be in there, slaughtered, where Hezbollah has been waiting for us to go in for nearly 20 years?”
“It’s not going to be pretty,” he continued, “but if that’s what it takes, then that’s what it takes.”
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Israel says it killed Hezbollah’s communications leader in airstrikes
Israel’s military said it killed the head of Hezbollah’s communication unit in strikes on southern Beirut Thursday afternoon local time.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Arabic spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, said Mohammad Rashid Skaafi had been leading the group’s communications since 2000.
Hezbollah has not yet made any announcements about casualties following Thursday’s Israeli strikes in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
Some background: Israel’s barrage of strikes across Lebanon on Thursday killed at least 37 people and wounded 151, the Lebanese health ministry said. The Israeli military said Thursday it had hit Hezbollah’s intelligence headquarters in Beirut.
The IDF has pledged to continue to strike Hezbollah targets in Beirut, the Bekaa valley and southern Lebanon.
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Israel’s military said it killed the head of Hezbollah’s communication unit in strikes on southern Beirut Thursday afternoon local time.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Arabic spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, said Mohammad Rashid Skaafi had been leading the group’s communications since 2000.
Hezbollah has not yet made any announcements about casualties following Thursday’s Israeli strikes in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
Some background: Israel’s barrage of strikes across Lebanon on Thursday killed at least 37 people and wounded 151, the Lebanese health ministry said. The Israeli military said Thursday it had hit Hezbollah’s intelligence headquarters in Beirut.
The IDF has pledged to continue to strike Hezbollah targets in Beirut, the Bekaa valley and southern Lebanon.
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Hezbollah is prepared for Israeli ground advances’: Senior official
The deputy leader of Hezbollah’s political council, Mahmoud Qatami, spoke to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic. Here were his main points:
Hezbollah prevented Israeli forces from infiltrating into Lebanese territory.
Hezbollah missiles reached a range of 150km (93 miles) while maintaining the pace of their launch.
Hezbollah is prepared for Israeli ground advances.
Any territory Israel tries to claim will turn into a graveyard for its soldiers and tanks.
Today, the Iranian foreign minister met with Hezbollah to say Tehran stands with Lebanon. Hezbollah is busy on the battlefield and will not enter negotiations while under fire.
It is Israel that has rejected a ceasefire.
Israel and Netanyahu do not want to stop this war.
Source: Al Jazeera
The deputy leader of Hezbollah’s political council, Mahmoud Qatami, spoke to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic. Here were his main points:
Hezbollah prevented Israeli forces from infiltrating into Lebanese territory.
Hezbollah missiles reached a range of 150km (93 miles) while maintaining the pace of their launch.
Hezbollah is prepared for Israeli ground advances.
Any territory Israel tries to claim will turn into a graveyard for its soldiers and tanks.
Today, the Iranian foreign minister met with Hezbollah to say Tehran stands with Lebanon. Hezbollah is busy on the battlefield and will not enter negotiations while under fire.
It is Israel that has rejected a ceasefire.
Israel and Netanyahu do not want to stop this war.
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Hezbollah's Safieddine 'unreachable' since Friday, source says
Israeli air strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs since Friday have kept rescue workers from searching the site of an Israeli strike suspected to have killed Hezbollah’s anticipated next leader, three Lebanese security sources told Reuters on Saturday.
One of the sources said Safieddine, widely expected to succeed slain leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, had been unreachable since the strike on Friday.
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Lebanon hospitals close as Israeli strikes hit health facilities
At least four hospitals in Lebanon announced on Friday that they were suspending work because of Israeli strikes, while a Hezbollah-affiliated health organisation said that 11 paramedics had been killed in the past 24 hours.
The four closures capped two weeks of Israeli strikes on hospitals and healthcare workers in Lebanon that have shuttered at least 37 facilities and killed dozens of medical staff, according to the World Health Organisation.
Late on Friday night, the Israeli army issued a statement alleging that Hezbollah was using medical vehicles to transport fighters and weapons, warning that it would strike any vehicle it suspected of being used for military purposes.
Hospital staff in southern Lebanon told the BBC that health facilities treating wounded civilians had been hit with direct Israeli strikes. The BBC has approached the IDF for comment.
Dr Mounes Kalakish, director of the Marjayoun governmental hospital in southern Lebanon, told the BBC that the hospital had no choice but to close on Friday after an airstrike hit two ambulances at the hospital’s entrance way on Friday, killing seven paramedics.
“The nurses and doctors were terrified,” he said. “We tried to calm them and carry on working, but it was not possible.”
The emergency director of the hospital, Dr Shoshana Mazraani, said she was sitting at the front of the building when the strike happened. She said that she heard the cries of the paramedics who were hit and ran towards the damaged ambulances, but was warned to stay back by colleagues fearful of a follow up strike.
The Marjayoun hospital had already been hanging on by a thread, Dr Mazraani said, with a core team of just 20 doctors remaining from the centre’s usual 120 staff. The closure on Friday was a “tragedy for the region”, she said.
“We serve a huge population here, many villages. We had 45 inpatient beds, all now empty. We were the only hospital providing dialysis in the region, for example. We have had to turn away emergency patients and tell others to leave.”
Rita Suleiman, the nursing director at the Saint Therese hospital, on the edge of Beirut’s southern suburbs, told the BBC that the hospital had also struggled on after being badly damaged by a strike on Friday but was later forced to suspend all services.
Other hospitals were carrying on with severely limited services. Dr Mohammed Hamadeh, director of the Tebnine hospital, told the BBC on Friday a nearby strike had rocked the building.
“The blast was very close,” he said. “We are still trying to operate but we cannot leave the confines of the hospital because it is too dangerous.”
Late on Friday night, the Salah Ghandour hospital in Bint Jbeil announced it had closed after being “violently shelled”, following an order from the Israeli army to evacuate.
The Israeli army said it was targeting a mosque adjacent to the hospital which it claimed was being used by Hezbollah fighters.
The strikes on healthcare facilities have not been limited to the south of Lebanon. Israel hit a medical centre in central Beirut on Thursday belonging to the Hezbollah-linked Islamic Health Organisation, killing nine and wounding 14. The Israeli army said the strike targeted "terror assets".
The Lebanese Red Cross said on Thursday that four of its paramedics were wounded in a strike on a convoy evacuating patients, despite the organisation co-ordinating with the Israeli army.
Gabriel Karlsson, country manager in Beirut for the British Red Cross, told the BBC: "Health and aid workers must be able to help those in need without fearing for their own safety. Teams from the Red Cross and Red Crescent are a lifeline, supporting communities tirelessly - they must be protected.”
World Health Organisation director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Thursday that 28 healthcare workers had been killed in Lebanon over the previous 24 hours, and many other healthcare staff were no longer reporting for work because of the strikes.
Dr Kalakish, the director of the Marjayoun hospital, told the BBC that prior to the strike that closed his hospital it was already operating with no anaesthesiologist or other specialists.
Some staff had fled the bombardment for their own safety, he said, while others had been prevented from reaching the hospital because of air strikes on nearby roads.
Lebanon's Health Minister Firass Abiad said on Thursday that 97 rescue workers had been killed since Hezbollah and Israel began fighting last October.
More than 40 of those – paramedics and firefighters – were in just three days this past week, he said.
BBC
At least four hospitals in Lebanon announced on Friday that they were suspending work because of Israeli strikes, while a Hezbollah-affiliated health organisation said that 11 paramedics had been killed in the past 24 hours.
The four closures capped two weeks of Israeli strikes on hospitals and healthcare workers in Lebanon that have shuttered at least 37 facilities and killed dozens of medical staff, according to the World Health Organisation.
Late on Friday night, the Israeli army issued a statement alleging that Hezbollah was using medical vehicles to transport fighters and weapons, warning that it would strike any vehicle it suspected of being used for military purposes.
Hospital staff in southern Lebanon told the BBC that health facilities treating wounded civilians had been hit with direct Israeli strikes. The BBC has approached the IDF for comment.
Dr Mounes Kalakish, director of the Marjayoun governmental hospital in southern Lebanon, told the BBC that the hospital had no choice but to close on Friday after an airstrike hit two ambulances at the hospital’s entrance way on Friday, killing seven paramedics.
“The nurses and doctors were terrified,” he said. “We tried to calm them and carry on working, but it was not possible.”
The emergency director of the hospital, Dr Shoshana Mazraani, said she was sitting at the front of the building when the strike happened. She said that she heard the cries of the paramedics who were hit and ran towards the damaged ambulances, but was warned to stay back by colleagues fearful of a follow up strike.
The Marjayoun hospital had already been hanging on by a thread, Dr Mazraani said, with a core team of just 20 doctors remaining from the centre’s usual 120 staff. The closure on Friday was a “tragedy for the region”, she said.
“We serve a huge population here, many villages. We had 45 inpatient beds, all now empty. We were the only hospital providing dialysis in the region, for example. We have had to turn away emergency patients and tell others to leave.”
Rita Suleiman, the nursing director at the Saint Therese hospital, on the edge of Beirut’s southern suburbs, told the BBC that the hospital had also struggled on after being badly damaged by a strike on Friday but was later forced to suspend all services.
Other hospitals were carrying on with severely limited services. Dr Mohammed Hamadeh, director of the Tebnine hospital, told the BBC on Friday a nearby strike had rocked the building.
“The blast was very close,” he said. “We are still trying to operate but we cannot leave the confines of the hospital because it is too dangerous.”
Late on Friday night, the Salah Ghandour hospital in Bint Jbeil announced it had closed after being “violently shelled”, following an order from the Israeli army to evacuate.
The Israeli army said it was targeting a mosque adjacent to the hospital which it claimed was being used by Hezbollah fighters.
The strikes on healthcare facilities have not been limited to the south of Lebanon. Israel hit a medical centre in central Beirut on Thursday belonging to the Hezbollah-linked Islamic Health Organisation, killing nine and wounding 14. The Israeli army said the strike targeted "terror assets".
The Lebanese Red Cross said on Thursday that four of its paramedics were wounded in a strike on a convoy evacuating patients, despite the organisation co-ordinating with the Israeli army.
Gabriel Karlsson, country manager in Beirut for the British Red Cross, told the BBC: "Health and aid workers must be able to help those in need without fearing for their own safety. Teams from the Red Cross and Red Crescent are a lifeline, supporting communities tirelessly - they must be protected.”
World Health Organisation director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Thursday that 28 healthcare workers had been killed in Lebanon over the previous 24 hours, and many other healthcare staff were no longer reporting for work because of the strikes.
Dr Kalakish, the director of the Marjayoun hospital, told the BBC that prior to the strike that closed his hospital it was already operating with no anaesthesiologist or other specialists.
Some staff had fled the bombardment for their own safety, he said, while others had been prevented from reaching the hospital because of air strikes on nearby roads.
Lebanon's Health Minister Firass Abiad said on Thursday that 97 rescue workers had been killed since Hezbollah and Israel began fighting last October.
More than 40 of those – paramedics and firefighters – were in just three days this past week, he said.
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Seems like Israel wants to destroy entire of Lebanon. Same thing they did in Gaza.
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Hezbollah continues to fire rockets into Israel
Here in northern Israel we have heard the latest volley of rockets that Hezbollah continues to fire into Israel.
One explosion was about a hundred metres away.
People living here typically have about 10 to 15 seconds to reach a shelter before rockets land - or more often, are intercepted by the Iron Dome.
This has become a daily occurrence for nearly a year since Hezbollah said it began firing in solidarity with Hamas in Gaza.
The constant stream is the central justification for the Israeli ground invasion into south Lebanon this past week.
The prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the objective is to push Hezbollah back and destroy their weapons, and create a buffer zone so that thousands of Israeli families near the border can return home.
The IDF says Hezbollah has fired more than 700 rockets in the last four days.
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Here in northern Israel we have heard the latest volley of rockets that Hezbollah continues to fire into Israel.
One explosion was about a hundred metres away.
People living here typically have about 10 to 15 seconds to reach a shelter before rockets land - or more often, are intercepted by the Iron Dome.
This has become a daily occurrence for nearly a year since Hezbollah said it began firing in solidarity with Hamas in Gaza.
The constant stream is the central justification for the Israeli ground invasion into south Lebanon this past week.
The prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the objective is to push Hezbollah back and destroy their weapons, and create a buffer zone so that thousands of Israeli families near the border can return home.
The IDF says Hezbollah has fired more than 700 rockets in the last four days.
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Two Hamas leaders killed in Lebanon
The Israeli military says it has killed two senior Hamas figures who were operating in Lebanon.
Muhammad Hussein Ali al-Mahmoud was killed in an air strike earlier today, the IDF says, describing him as the groups "executive authority' in Lebanon.
It also says Said Alaa Naif Ali was killed in an overnight Israeli operation in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli.
Hamas's armed wing confirmed the deaths of two of its members following Israeli strikes in Lebanon, but provided different names for them: Mohammed Hussein Al-Louise and Saeed Attallah Ali.
As we reported this morning, Hamas-affiliated media said a commander named Saeed Atallah had been killed in an Israeli drone strike.
BBC
The Israeli military says it has killed two senior Hamas figures who were operating in Lebanon.
Muhammad Hussein Ali al-Mahmoud was killed in an air strike earlier today, the IDF says, describing him as the groups "executive authority' in Lebanon.
It also says Said Alaa Naif Ali was killed in an overnight Israeli operation in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli.
Hamas's armed wing confirmed the deaths of two of its members following Israeli strikes in Lebanon, but provided different names for them: Mohammed Hussein Al-Louise and Saeed Attallah Ali.
As we reported this morning, Hamas-affiliated media said a commander named Saeed Atallah had been killed in an Israeli drone strike.
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Israeli airstrikes killed at least 25 people in Lebanon on Friday, ministry says
Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon killed at least 25 people and injured 127 on Friday, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health.
The ministry said the casualties occurred in towns and villages across southern Lebanon, as well as in the city of Nabatieh, the Beqaa valley, the Baalbek-Hermel region, Mount Lebanon and the capital of Beirut.
At least 1,426 people have died and 7,597 people have been injured by Israeli military action in Lebanon since September 16, according to a CNN tally based on the ministry’s data.
Israel has launched an unprecedented bombing campaign and a limited ground offensive in the country as it fights the Iran-backed paramilitary group Hezbollah, which is based out of southern Lebanon.
Source: CNN
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