Israeli strikes in central Beirut kill 11 people and wound 48, Lebanon's health ministry says
BEIRUT (AP) — Israeli strikes in central Beirut kill 11 people and wound 48, Lebanon's health ministry says.
BEIRUT (AP) — Israeli strikes in central Beirut kill 11 people and wound 48, Lebanon's health ministry says.
A Lebanese ship captain abducted by Israeli special forces may have been acting as a double agent.
An Israeli court on Sunday loosened a gag order on a case investigating leaks of classified information suspected to involve one of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s media advisers. Critics say the leaks were aimed at giving Netanyahu political cover as Gaza cease-fire talks ground to a halt. Netanyahu has denied any wrongdoing, downplaying the affair and publicly calling for the gag order to be lifted.
The Israeli military said Sunday it has carried out a ground raid into Syria, seizing a Syrian citizen involved in Iranian networks. It was the first time in the current war that Israel announced its troops operated in Syrian territory. Israel has carried out airstrikes in Syria multiple times over the past year, targeting members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah and officials from Iran, the close ally of both Hezbollah and Syria.
SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korean state media released a white paper on Sunday accusing South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol of exposing his country to the danger of nuclear war through his policies toward the North. The document, compiled by North Korea’s Institute of Enemy State Studies and released by state news agency KCNA, criticised Yoon’s “reckless remarks” about war, abandoning elements of an inter-Korean agreement, engaging in nuclear war planning with the United States, and seeking closer ties with Japan and NATO.
Israeli naval commandos abducted a senior Hezbollah operative in an operation in the northern Lebanese town of Batroun, officials said Saturday. Lebanese authorities said earlier Saturday they were investigating whether Israel was behind the capture of a sea captain who was taken by a group of armed men near the coastal town of Batroun, The…
Perched on a hilltop a short walk from the Israeli border, the tiny southern Lebanese village of Ramyah has almost been wiped off the map. Israeli warplanes and ground forces have blasted a trail of destruction through southern Lebanon the past month. The aim, Israel says, is to debilitate the Hezbollah militant group, push it away from the border and end more than a year of Hezbollah fire into northern Israel.
UN report indicates militia fighters are attempting to wipe out non-Arab ethnic groups in the region
US says North Korea has deployed 10,000 troops in Russia, with more than half of them in the Kursk region
Sudan’s brutal civil war shows no signs of slowing, with reports of escalating atrocities and rampant sexual violence threatening to destroy entire communities. Harrowing accounts from a UN report detail widespread abuses, with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) implicated in a surge of attacks targeting women and children. The report, released this week by the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission, exposes the alarming scale of sexual violence gripping Sudan’s 18-month-old
An attack on a central Israeli town early Saturday injured 11 people as Iran's supreme leader vowed a punishing response to Israel's attack last week and Israeli airstrikes continued in Gaza and Lebanon. The predawn strike on Tira was one of several barrages fired from Lebanon. The Magen David Adom emergency service said 11 people were hurt by shrapnel and glass shards in a direct strike on a building in Tira, a predominantly Israeli Arab town.
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have been transformed from a local armed group with limited capabilities to a powerful military organization with support from Iran, Iraqi armed groups, Lebanon’s Hezbollah militants and others, U.N. experts said in a new report. The Iranian-backed Houthis have exploited the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza and worked to enhance their status in Iran’s self-described “Axis of Resistance” to gain popularity in the region and beyond, the experts monitoring sanctions against the Houthis said in the 537-page report to the U.N. Security Council.
STORY: ::Iranians burn US and Israeli flags at a rallyas ties worsen over Israel's war with Hamas in Gaza::Tehran, Iran::November 3 2024::The rally marks 45 years since the storming of the US embassy in Tehran during the Islamic RevolutionRally-goers cheered as American and Israeli flags were burned on the street, while a crowd marched with anti-U.S. banners alongside Iranian flags. Many also carried images of the late General Qasem Soleimani, who was assassinated by a U.S. drone strike in 2020.Speaking at the event, Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander General Hossein Salami described the U.S. and Israel as acting like "collapsing regimes" in regards to the ongoing conflicts in Gaza and Lebanon.On Saturday, Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said the U.S. and Israel will "undoubtedly receive a crushing response" for what they do against his country, state media reported.It came as Axios reported that the U.S. has warned Iran against launching another attack on Israel, saying Washington will not be able to restrain Israel if it attacks again, citing a U.S. official and a former Israeli official.Axios previously reported that Israeli intelligence suggests Iran is preparing to attack Israel from Iraqi territory in the coming days, possibly before the U.S. presidential election on Nov. 5.
Since Israel began a military onslaught in Gaza after Hamas' October 2023 attack, Israeli restrictions in the waters off the enclave have made life almost impossible for fishermen, who no longer sail out to sea and instead must stay by the shore. In Khan Younis, Ibrahim Ghurab, 71, and Waseem Al Masry, 24, fish for sardines from the shoreline in front of a encampment of tents and makeshift shelters for those displaced by the war. Fishermen like Ghurab and Al Masry struggle daily to bring in even a modest catch to feed their families.
Iran's supreme leader vowed retaliation on Saturday for attacks by Israel, as an Israeli military official confirmed naval commandos seized a suspected Hezbollah operative in a raid in Lebanon.Israeli naval commandos seized a trainee mariner a military official described as a "senior operative" of Hezbollah in a raid in Lebanon and brought him to Israel for questioning.
Iran’s supreme leader on Saturday threatened Israel and the U.S. with “a crushing response” over attacks on Iran and its allies. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei spoke as Iranian officials are increasingly threatening to launch yet another strike against Israel after its Oct. 26 attack on the Islamic Republic that targeted military bases and other locations and killed at least five people.
Two Lebanese military officials confirmed that a naval force landed in Batroun, about 30 kilometres north of the capital Beirut, and captured a Lebanese citizen.View on euronews
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Israeli naval forces captured a senior Hezbollah operative in north Lebanon, an Israeli military official said Saturday, as the conflict between the Iran-backed group and Israel showed few signs of easing. Earlier on Saturday, Lebanese authorities said it was investigating whether Israel was behind the capture of a Lebanese sea captain who was taken away by a group of armed men who had landed on the coast near the northern town of Batroun on Friday. “The operative has been transferred to Israeli territory and is currently being investigated,” the military official said, without providing the name of the person in detention.
More than 30 people were on Sunday killed in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medics said. Nearly half of the deaths were recorded in the enclave's north. Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, meanwhile, visited the Lebanese border amid his country’s fight against Hezbollah. Read our blog to see how the day's events unfolded. This live blog is no longer being updated. For more coverage on the war in the Middle East, click here. Yesterday's key developments : Iran's supreme le
The World Health Organization said four children were among six people wounded Saturday in a strike on a polio vaccination centre in northern Gaza."We have received an extremely concerning report that the Sheikh Radwan primary health care centre in northern Gaza was struck today while parents were bringing their children to the life-saving polio vaccination in an area where a humanitarian pause was agreed," Tedros said.