WorldIsraeli air attacks in southern Lebanon have killed at least 11 people, including two children and two medics. David Wood, a Lebanon analyst at the International Crisis Group, offers his assessment.
WorldIsraeli air attacks in southern Lebanon have killed at least 11 people, including two children and two medics. David Wood, a Lebanon analyst at the International Crisis Group, offers his assessment.
WorldLebanon’s Health Ministry says Israeli airstrikes on a village in southern Lebanon killed at least nine people and wounded several others, including women and children.
WorldLebanese President Joseph Aoun urged Washington and the international community to help halt Israeli attacks. At least 11 people were killed in strikes on southern Lebanon on Sunday, despite a truce and a framework agreement intended to end the violence.
WorldIsraeli air strikes across southern Lebanon have killed at least 17 people and wounded 20 over the past 48 hours. A residential area in Deir al-Zahrani was hit after an evacuation order, while another strike on Kfar Roummane killed at least nine people, including children and a two-month-old infant. Israel says it targeted Hezbollah-linked sites and accuses the group of launching armed drones at Israeli positions.
WorldIsraeli strikes in southern Lebanon killed four people and wounded 20 others as fighting with Hezbollah continued despite a U.S.-brokered ceasefire reached more than two months ago. Israel said the attacks were retaliation for Hezbollah launching two drones at Israeli soldiers in a security zone.
WorldCNN gained rare access to Israeli-occupied southern Lebanon, where predominantly Shia Muslim towns and homes have been reduced to rubble. Three Christian villages avoided Israel’s demolition policy but remain cut off from the rest of the country. The Lebanese Armed Forces is working to restore control under a US-backed framework for transitioning territory occupied by Israeli forces.
WorldIsraeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon killed four people and wounded 20 others, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said. The strikes also destroyed an empty hospital. A ceasefire has largely halted fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon for more than two months, though clashes continue near a strategic hill overlooking parts of Nabatiyeh.
WorldLebanon’s Health Ministry said Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon and the eastern Bekaa Valley on Friday killed three people, including a child, and wounded 23 others.
WorldIsrael says it has gained “operational control” of Lebanon’s Ali Taher and a tunnel network beneath it, marking a rare flashpoint after the ceasefire. Its military alleges that Iran-backed Hezbollah used the tunnels to shelter fighters and weapons and repeatedly attacked Israeli forces with drones. The extent of the control remains unclear, and Hezbollah has issued no official response.
WorldSix months after a new war erupted between Israel’s military and Hezbollah, thousands of children from southern Lebanon remain displaced from their hometowns. Many are living in former schools as the new academic year draws near.
WorldSince spring, about 6 percent of Lebanon has been occupied by the Israeli army. Around 600 French soldiers serving with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon continue to patrol the area, documenting violations of UN resolutions by both Israel and Hezbollah as the fragile mission’s future remains highly uncertain.
WorldLebanese Americans have filed a class-action lawsuit against the US government and three major American companies, alleging that military assistance to Israel violates federal law by aiding foreign forces accused of human rights violations.
WorldIsrael has seized UNRWA’s last facility in occupied East Jerusalem, prompting international condemnation after Israeli forces raided the site. The centre provided vocational training to hundreds of Palestinian young people each year.
WorldIsraeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon killed one woman and injured six people, prompting fears that tensions could escalate further. The attacks occurred despite a US-brokered ceasefire, as the wider Iran conflict adds to regional tensions.
WorldIsraeli air strikes hit Nabatieh in southern Lebanon after the Israeli army accused Hezbollah of sending two explosive drones toward its forces in the Ali al Taher area. The military said it was acting, and would continue to act, forcefully against Hezbollah. The escalation comes as Lebanon and Israel discuss so-called pilot zones in the south despite their ceasefire.
WorldUNRWA Commissioner-General Christian Saunders discusses Israeli aggression in the occupied West Bank with TRT World. The military has seized UNRWA’s vocational training centre in Qalandiya.
WorldIsrael’s military is continuing to violate international law in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, backed by a senior minister in Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. Soldiers raided and seized UNRWA’s Qalandia facility on Tuesday, expelled employees and injured several Palestinians. Al-Ahram Weekly managing editor Khaled Dawoud weighs in.
WorldLex Takkenberg, a former senior UNRWA official and international law expert on Palestinian refugee rights, discusses Israeli forces storming UNRWA’s Qalandia Training Centre in occupied East Jerusalem.
WorldIsraeli forces raided and occupied the Qalandiya Training Centre in Kafr Aqab, occupied East Jerusalem, a key facility of UNRWA. Middle East affairs analyst Antony Loewenstein commented on the developments.
WorldIsraeli forces took control on Tuesday of a vocational training centre operated by UNRWA in a suburb of east Jerusalem, in the latest action targeting the embattled agency. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned the raid, which followed UNRWA warnings that Israeli authorities were threatening the facility.
WorldIsraeli forces raided a UNRWA vocational training centre in Qalandiya refugee camp, seized property and raised the Israeli flag over the site. The centre had operated for more than 70 years and trained over 300 Palestinians annually from across the occupied West Bank. UNRWA said the takeover violated UN immunities and Palestinians’ right to education, while Israel said it planned a new community complex there. Protests broke out during the raid, with Israeli forces firing tear gas.
WorldIsraeli settlements in the occupied West Bank have expanded for decades. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing government has accelerated the creation of new ones to tighten Israel’s control and obstruct a contiguous Palestinian state. With elections months away, it has opened bids to build 1,200 illegal housing units.
WorldIsrael and Turkey have never fought each other directly, but they are competing for influence in Syria. The rivalry intensified this week after Israel struck an airbase it said Turkey was preparing to use. Turkey called that an excuse, while an expert warned that the two powers are moving dangerously close to direct confrontation.
WorldIsraeli drones, artillery and air strikes continue over southern Lebanon despite a declared ceasefire. Attacks near Tyre are driving residents away, while Israeli forces seek to seize what they describe as a Hezbollah site at Ali al-Taher ridge. Hezbollah has responded with drone strikes as talks stall, and residents fear the south will become “completely unlivable”.