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13.01.2025 - 11:37 [ Dimsumdaily Hong Kong ]

Israeli airstrikes target Baalbek region in Lebanon, violating ceasefire agreement

In addition to the Baalbek strikes, Israeli aircraft executed six intense airstrikes across various locations in southern Lebanon, as reported by NNA.

The ceasefire, facilitated by the United States and France, was intended to conclude nearly 14 months of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah.

11.01.2025 - 08:48 [ LBCI Lebanon ]

Israeli airstrike on Tayr Debba kills five, injures four, health ministry reports

An Israeli airstrike on the southern Lebanese town of Tayr Debba has resulted in five fatalities and four injuries, according to the Ministry of Public Health‘s Emergency Operations Center.

11.01.2025 - 08:45 [ Al Jazeera ]

LIVE: Israeli air strikes hit Yemen, Lebanon as more than 20 killed in Gaza

Israel’s military said it attacked sites in Yemen controlled by Houthi fighters, including a power station near the capital Sanaa, and the ports of Hodeidah and Ras Isa.

Several people have been killed in an Israeli air strike in Lebanon’s south with Israel’s military saying later that it was still “committed to the understanding of the ceasefire” with Lebanon.

10.01.2025 - 10:25 [ Antiwar.com ]

US, Israel Cheer as Lebanon Elects Joseph Aoun as President

Aoun’s election happened only after former Interior Minister Suleiman Frangieh, the main alternative candidate, withdrew and endorsed Aoun.

Electing a president requires a two-thirds majority of parliament, which was met after Frangieh’s endorsement gave Aoun the support of Hezbollah and Amal Movements. Many media reports see Aoun’s election as a sign of Hezbollah’s weakness, despite most Hezbollah MPs supporting him.

10.01.2025 - 10:20 [ Middle East Eye ]

Who is Joseph Aoun, Lebanon‘s army chief turned president?

Securing 99 of the Lebanese parliament’s 128 votes, Aoun garnered widespread support across Lebanon’s political spectrum, despite initial reservations from Hezbollah and its allies.

While political statements from Aoun are rare, he recently emerged as the US and Saudi Arabia’s favoured candidate for the Lebanese presidency.

The local and international push gathered momentum following Israel’s two-month offensive in Lebanon last year, which killed over 4,000 people and displaced over a million.

08.01.2025 - 11:20 [ israel-alma.org ]

Joseph Aoun – Will He be The Next President of Lebanon?

After the explosion at the port of Beirut in 2020, countries friendly to Lebanon diverted their aid to the military, claiming that they only rely on the army to distribute it. Therefore, all the aid, estimated at tens of millions of dollars, was directed directly to the army and was at Aoun’s disposal and under his direct management. It appears that the military establishment has effectively managed the funds and has never experienced a shortage due to corruption.

08.01.2025 - 11:00 [ Wikipedia ]

Israeli invasion of Lebanon (2024–present): Casualties

Since mid-September 2024, Israeli strikes on Lebanon have killed at least 2,267 people and injured 11,022 more, according to a CNN tally.[393] While in Mid-November 2024 Lebanon Ministry of Public Health reported 3,583 killed, including 231 children.[397] UNICEF confirmed that more than 200 children has been killed.[368] The Lebanese Health Ministry has reported that most Lebanese killed by Israel are civilians.[59][92][398]

08.01.2025 - 10:40 [ Nachrichtenagentur Radio Utopie ]

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08.01.2025 - 10:31 [ Middle East Eye ]

US dangles Saudi Arabia‘s cash to push candidate for Lebanon‘s presidency

The US has told Lebanese officials that Saudi Arabia is prepared to deploy hundreds of millions of dollars to reconstruct their war-torn country if Lebanese army commander Joseph Aoun is elected president, one senior Arab official and one former senior US official told Middle East Eye.

08.12.2024 - 05:02 [ Voice of America ]

Israeli strikes kill 6 in Lebanon‘s south, 34 in Gaza

(December 7, 2024)

Israeli strikes in Gaza killed at least 34 Palestinians on Saturday, health officials in the enclave said, as Qatar voiced hope of fresh momentum in efforts to reach a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.

The health officials said that an Israeli strike hit a house in Gaza City late Saturday, killing four women. The Israeli military did not provide an immediate comment on Saturday‘s strikes across Gaza

03.12.2024 - 01:21 [ Middle East Eye ]

Nine people killed in Israeli strikes on Lebanon

The Lebanese health ministry on Monday said that at least nine people were killed in Israeli air strikes on two towns in southern Lebanon.

In Haris, five people were killed while two others were wounded.

In Talousa, four people were killed and one person was wounded.

26.11.2024 - 18:22 [ Egypt Today ]

In meeting with Blinken, Egyptian FM says Lebanese army must control south

CAIRO – 26 November 2024: Minister of Foreign Affairs and Immigration Badr Abdelatty reiterated Monday in a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken the importance of empowering Lebanese state institutions, mainly the army so it would control the south.

26.11.2024 - 18:04 [ United Nations ]

Lebanon: UNIFIL concerned by attacks on Lebanese Armed Forces

The UN Interim Force Lebanon (UNIFIL) is also seriously concerned by numerous strikes on the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) despite their declared non-involvement in the hostilities, he added.

The LAF have reported that at least 45 soldiers have been killed in recent attacks.

25.11.2024 - 19:02 [ Anadolu ]

Lebanon death toll surges to 3,754, as Israeli attacks kill 84 more in past day

At least 84 more people were killed in Israeli attacks across Lebanon on Saturday, bringing the overall death toll since October last year to 3,754, the Lebanese Health Ministry said on Sunday.

In a statement, the ministry added that 213 others were wounded, bringing the total number of injuries to 15,626 since October 2023.

24.11.2024 - 23:38 [ PalestineChronicle.com ]

Death Toll Reaches 3,670 – Israel’s War on Lebanon Continues

The Lebanese Health Ministry announced on Saturday that at least 25 people were killed on Friday and 58 were injured in Israeli airstrikes bringing the total death toll to 3,670 and 15,413 since October last year.

24.11.2024 - 23:31 [ CNN ]

Dozens killed by Israeli strikes in Lebanon, including 29 in central Beirut

Dozens of people have been killed by Israeli strikes in Lebanon this weekend, including 29 who died after an attack flattened a multi-story residential building in central Beirut, according to Lebanese officials.

In the densely populated Basta area of the Lebanese capital, rescue workers were Saturday searching for survivors under the rubble after the attack featuring what the state-run National News Agency (NNA) said were “bunker-busting” bombs.

23.11.2024 - 16:25 [ Middle East Eye ]

Death toll from central Beirut strike rises to 15

The ministry says this may not be the final toll.

23.11.2024 - 16:03 [ Haber Lütfen / Youtube ]

Israeli military bombs central Beirut apartment building

The Israeli army launched a heavy airstrike on a building in the city center of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon.
Israeli warplanes targeted the al-Basta area in the city center of Beirut.
An 8-storey building on al-Mamoun Street, targeted by Israeli warplanes with 5 missiles, was destroyed.
AA correspondent in the area reported that the sounds of very violent explosions were heard all over Beirut.

23.11.2024 - 15:33 [ New York Times ]

Israeli Strike in the Heart of Beirut Kills 11

An Israeli airstrike on a residential building in central Beirut killed at least 11 people on Saturday, the Lebanese Health Ministry said, part of an intensifying Israeli military campaign that appears aimed at pressuring Hezbollah into a cease-fire deal.

20.11.2024 - 02:55 [ Middle East Eye ]

Israeli strikes kill over 3,500 in Lebanon since October 2023

Israeli attacks on Lebanon have resulted in at least 3,544 deaths and left more than 15,036 wounded since 8 October 2023, according to the Lebanese health ministry.

The ministry reported that 28 people were killed in strikes on Monday alone.

20.11.2024 - 02:44 [ Shafaq.com ]

Israeli airstrike kills three Lebanese soldiers, injures 17 in southern Lebanon

The Lebanese Ministry of Public Health reported that an Israeli airstrike targeting an army position in the town of Sarafand killed three soldiers and injured 17 others, including civilians in the surrounding area.

Last week, the army announced, that two of its soldiers were killed in an Israeli strike on one a military post in the town of Kafra.

18.11.2024 - 21:44 [ Telegrafi.com ]

Germany against EU proposal to end dialogue with Israel

(November 16, 2024)

„Cutting off dialogue with Israel does not benefit the people suffering in the Gaza Strip, the hostages of Hamas, nor the people in Israel who are ready for dialogue,“ said a statement from the German Foreign Ministry in Berlin.

It was reported from Berlin that the EU-Israel Association Council is creating an „appropriate framework“ to discuss with the Israeli government the respect of the principles of international humanitarian law, they write.

18.11.2024 - 21:41 [ Middle East Eye ]

EU will not halt dialogue with Israel, says Poland

“We know that there are tragic events in Gaza, huge civilian casualties, but we do not forget who started the current cycle of violence,” Sikorski said in Brussels. “And I can tell you that there was no agreement on the idea of suspending negotiations with Israel.”

18.11.2024 - 21:29 [ DailySabah.com ]

Top EU diplomat‘s proposal to halt dialogue with Israel blocked

Diplomats said the politicians who did not support Borrell‘s initiative at the meeting included foreign ministers from Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary and the Netherlands.

18.11.2024 - 21:15 [ Josep Borrell, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy ]

War in Gaza: we cannot continue with business as usual

(November 16, 2024)

What we see of the tragedy of Gaza is however only the tip of the iceberg since the strip has been sealed. There are hardly any journalists or international observers entering Gaza since more than one year. It is the longest information blackout ever imposed by a democratic state. In addition, there are reasons to believe that journalists have been targeted by Israeli Defence Forces. To this day more than 130 have been killed.

This pattern at play for too long in Gaza, is now being replicated elsewhere. In South Lebanon, some 30 villages have been obliterated – not as a result of heavy combat, but in a controlled way, posted on social media. In the West Bank, extremist settlers‘ violence is forcing many Palestinian farmers and herders off their land. Uprooted olive trees, killed or stolen livestock and torched vehicles, have become part of daily reality in many rural communities. Israeli airstrikes in Jenin and Tulkarem, the first in more than two decades, have added to the destruction of civilian infrastructure left behind by bulldozers earlier this year.

18.11.2024 - 20:59 [ Middle East Eye ]

Lebanon death toll from Israeli strikes reaches 3,516

The death toll in Lebanon from Israeli attacks has reached 3,516, with 14,929 wounded since October 2023, the Lebanese health ministry reported.

On Sunday, ten people were killed in Israeli air strikes targeting central Beirut.

18.11.2024 - 20:52 [ yespunjab.com ]

Five killed, three injured in Israeli attacks on Lebanon: Sources

At least two Lebanese soldiers were killed and two others wounded in Israeli artillery shelling targeting a Lebanese army post in al-Mari, a responsible source in the Lebanese army intelligence told Xinhua.

16.11.2024 - 11:35 [ TRTdeutsch.com ]

Libanon: Bisher 220 Minderjährige bei Angriffen Israels getötet

Insgesamt sind den Angaben zufolge im Libanon durch israelische Angriffe 3.386 Menschen getötet und 14.417 verletzt worden. Unter den Todesopfern waren demnach auch 658 Frauen.

16.11.2024 - 11:31 [ Middle East Eye ]

Lebanon death toll reaches 3,445

On Thursday alone, 59 people were killed, the ministry said.

16.11.2024 - 10:50 [ Middle East Eye ]

Israel launches air strikes on Dahieh in southern Beirut

The Israeli Air Force on Friday said it carried out „intelligence-based“ air strikes on what it describes as Hezbollah „infrastructure“ in Dahieh, in southern Beirut.

15.11.2024 - 12:33 [ Reuters ]

U.N. to bolster UNIFIL for post-truce support in Lebanon, peacekeeping chief says

The United Nations intends to bolster its peacekeeping mission in Lebanon to better support the Lebanese army once a truce is agreed but would not directly enforce a ceasefire, U.N. peacekeeping chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix said on Thursday.

15.11.2024 - 12:20 [ YeniSafak.com ]

Israeli attacks kill 21 more people in Lebanon as death toll nears 3,400

At least 21 people were killed in Israeli attacks across Lebanon on Wednesday, bringing the overall death toll since last year to 3,386, the Lebanese Health Ministry said on Thursday.

15.11.2024 - 12:13 [ Shafaq.com ]

Israeli airstrikes hit Beirut’s southern suburbs as death toll rises in Lebanon

Baalbek-Al-Hermel Governor Bashir Al-Khodr confirmed that rescuers pulled 12 bodies from the rubble, all for paramedics, after an Israeli airstrike hit a civil defense center in Baalbek, where over 20 people were sheltering.

The Lebanese Health Ministry reported that an airstrike on the Shaab neighborhood in Baalbek killed eight people, including five women, and left 27 others wounded.

The ministry added that four other people were killed in attacks on several locations in eastern Lebanon.

15.11.2024 - 12:04 [ Middle East Eye ]

Israeli strike on Lebanon‘s Baalbek kills 15 rescuers

The death toll from Israel‘s strike on Baalbek, eastern Lebanon has risen to 15 civil defence members, Baalbek governor Bachir Khodr said on X.

Khodr adds that 10 bodies were identified, while the remaining five were recovered in pieces, requiring DNA testing.

„Mercy to the heroic martyrs and patience to their families,“ he said.

14.11.2024 - 19:31 [ Middle East Eye ]

At least 16 people killed by Israel strikes across Lebanon

At least 16 people were killed and 18 wounded on Wednesday by Israeli strikes on Lebanon, the country‘s health ministry said.

The total casualty toll since 8 October 2023 now stands at 3,386 killed and 14,417 injured.

The ministry said 220 children were among the casualties.

14.11.2024 - 19:22 [ LBCgroup.tv ]

Nearly 100,000 homes damaged in year of Hezbollah-Israel fighting in Lebanon: World Bank

More than a year of clashes that escalated into war in September have cost Lebanon more than $5 billion in economic losses and damaged nearly 100,000 housing units, the World Bank said Thursday.

The World Bank report provided estimates for damage between October 8, 2023, and October 27, 2024, saying „the conflict has caused $5.1 billion in economic losses“ and that it „damaged an estimated 99,209 housing units“ — mainly in Lebanon‘s war-torn south.

12.11.2024 - 17:31 [ Middle East Eye ]

Death toll in Lebanon rises to 3,287

The ministry said 44 people were killed and 88 wounded on Monday.

11.11.2024 - 13:17 [ Middle East Eye ]

Israeli army chief approves expansion of Lebanon ground invasion: Report

Israel‘s army Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi has approved the expansion of the ground invasion of southern Lebanon, according to Israel‘ Kan broadcaster.

The approval comes the same day Israeli defence minister Israel Katz said Israel had „defeated“ Hezbollah

10.11.2024 - 11:51 [ Anadolu ]

Israeli strikes in Lebanon kill 19 more, taking death toll to 3,136

(November 9, 2024)

The attacks have forced more than 1 million people to flee their homes, and they are in need of humanitarian aid. ​​​​​​

08.11.2024 - 21:44 [ ARTNews.com ]

UNESCO Calls Emergency Session for Lebanese Heritage Sites Imperiled by Israeli Bombing

UNESCO’s Special Committee for the Protection of Cultural Property will hold an emergency session on November 18 dedicated to heritage sites in Lebanon as Israel intensifies its bombing of Baalbek, a historic city in eastern Lebanon home to one of the world’s best-preserved Roman ruins.

07.11.2024 - 17:43 [ Al Jazeera ]

At least 40 killed in Israeli strikes on eastern Lebanon

At least 3,050 people have been killed and 13,658 wounded in Israeli attacks since the war on Gaza began, according to Health Ministry figures.

06.11.2024 - 15:02 [ Common Dreams ]

Erasing ‚Any Sign of Life,‘ Israeli Demolition Teams Razing Entire Villages in Lebanon

Satellite photos examined by The Washington Post, Reuters, and the Financial Times showed vast destruction caused by Israeli bombing and controlled demolitions of towns and villages, many of whose residents are among the more than 1.2 million people forcibly displaced by the war. (…)

„We‘re a family of artists, my father is well-known, and our home was a known cultural home,“ Lebanon Philharmonic Orchestra conductor Lubnan Baalbaki told Reuters after viewing satellite images confirming the destruction of his family home.

„If you have such high-level intelligence that you can target specific military figures, then you know what‘s in that house,“ Baalbaki added. „It was an art house. We are all artists. The aim is to erase any sign of life.“

06.11.2024 - 13:31 [ United Nations ]

Strikes in Gaza, Lebanon, as aid teams support ‘overwhelmed’ burns centre

Victims from airstrikes in Lebanon “overwhelmed the hospital”, the WHO official explained, insisting that it was critical to continue supporting “the only burns centre that’s available in the country. Off the 40 burns patients treated so far “25 per cent of them are children”, he said.

Initially equipped with 10 beds, the Geitaoui Hospital burns centre has had to expand to 25 beds, providing critical care to severely injured patients.

There are enough new trauma kits to treat 50 patients twice; each kit has two modules, one containing medications and other supplies, the other specialist burns treatments and dressings.

Expressing solidarity with Lebanon’s health professionals, the top UN aid coordinator in the country condemned ongoing military targeting of medical personnel and infrastructure, including ambulances which are “very much under attack”.

“We need to be supporting them with supplies, we need to be supporting them also need with advocacy,” said Imran Riza, UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Lebanon. “There have been great violations of international humanitarian law that we are seeing. So, we need to make sure these are not happening, that health care workers can do what they‘re there for, helping people and saving lives.”

06.11.2024 - 13:21 [ BBC / Youtube ]

Hospital remains open in evacuated Lebanese city amid Israeli attacks | BBC News

Lebanon’s Health Ministry says Israel’s attacks on Lebanon have killed more than 3,000 people since October last year.

As Israel continues its intense bombardment, one of Lebanon’s main cities in the south, Nabatieh, is now largely empty.

Israel ordered the entire city to evacuate in early October.

Despite this, the city’s main hospital remains open, and emergency services are still operating for the approximately 200 families who remain there.

05.11.2024 - 18:38 [ Yenisafak.com ]

Israel destroys 37 towns, over 40,000 houses in deadly onslaught on Lebanon

The Israeli army has erased 37 towns and destroyed more than 40,000 housing units since the start of its deadly offensive on Lebanon last year, local media said on Tuesday.

The state news agency NNA said the destruction is concentrated in an area extending three kilometers deep from Naqoura to the outskirts of Khiam in southern Lebanon.

05.11.2024 - 18:21 [ APNews.com ]

Israel’s path of destruction in southern Lebanon raises fears of an attempt to create a buffer zone

(November 1, 2024)

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.

Even United Nations peacekeepers and Lebanese troops in the south have come under fire from Israeli forces, raising questions over whether they can remain in place.

05.11.2024 - 18:10 [ theMedialine.org ]

472,000 Refugees Flee Lebanon to Syria Due to Rising Israel-Hezbollah Tensions

Roughly 472,000 people have fled from Lebanon to Syria since September due to the escalating hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, according to a report published by the UN’s refugee agency.
(…)
Lebanon hosted roughly 1.5 million Syrian refugees as of Sept. 25, the UNHCR said, which, compared to Lebanon’s relatively small population of only 5.3 million, posed a massive humanitarian challenge for the country’s already struggling economy.

05.11.2024 - 16:17 [ Newsweek ]

Lebanon Death Toll Passes 3,000 in Israel-Hezbollah War: Lebanese Officials

The death toll in Lebanon has grown to over 3,000, the country‘s health ministry said this week amid ongoing fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.

On Monday, Lebanon‘s Health Ministry reported its new death toll from 13 months of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, noting that at least 13,492 others have been wounded.

05.11.2024 - 16:02 [ United Nations ]

Lebanon: UN condemns increasing loss of life and civilian suffering

Since October of last year, the World Health Organization (WHO) said that 110 healthcare workers have been killed in the line of duty in Lebanon. There have been at least 60 attacks on healthcare facilities over the past 13 months.

04.11.2024 - 08:15 [ Nachrichtenagentur Radio Utopie ]

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04.11.2024 - 07:21 [ Middle East Eye ]

Death toll from Israeli attacks on Lebanon reaches 2,897

In the past 24 hours alone, 30 people were killed and 183 injured.

03.11.2024 - 10:03 [ TRTdeutsch.com ]

Mindestens 52 Todesopfer nach israelischen Angriffen auf Osten Libanons

Bei israelischen Angriffen auf den Osten des Libanons sind nach offiziellen Angaben mindestens 52 Menschen getötet worden. Das libanesische Gesundheitsministerium teilte am späten Abend mit, weitere mindestens 72 Personen seien verletzt worden. Zunächst war von zehn Toten die Rede gewesen. Aus libanesischen Sicherheitskreisen hatte es geheißen, es habe rund 16 israelische Luftangriffe auf mehrere Orte im Gouvernement Baalbek-Hermel im Nordosten gegeben. Laut der Mitteilung des Ministeriums gab es in 14 Ortschaften von Baalbek-Hermel Verletzte und Tote.

02.11.2024 - 18:33 [ Washington Post ]

Israel strikes Beirut area; U.N. warns conditions in northern Gaza ‘apocalyptic’

The Israeli military on Friday carried out overnight strikes on the southern suburbs of Lebanon’s capital for the first time in days, while U.N. leaders warned that the conditions in northern Gaza are “apocalyptic.”

01.11.2024 - 08:17 [ BastillePost.com ]

Lebanese death toll from Israeli attacks climbs to 2,865

The dead included 178 medical staff and first-aid personnel, said the report.

The Lebanese government has set up 1,130 refugee centers to accommodate the displaced, of which 948 are at capacity. Currently, there are 189,174 displaced people staying in official refugee centers.

01.11.2024 - 08:11 [ Washington Post ]

Israel has damaged or destroyed nearly a quarter of buildings in Lebanon’s south

Nearly a quarter of all buildings in 25 Lebanese municipalities near the Israeli border had been damaged or destroyed as of Saturday, according to an analysis of satellite data by The Washington Post — illustrating the far-reaching toll of Israel’s land and air war against Hezbollah.

Across the borderlands, at least 5,868 buildings have been damaged or destroyed, including nearly half of structures in the two hardest-hit areas, Ayta al-Shab and Kfar Kila. The vast majority of the damage — almost 80 percent — has occurred since Oct. 2, the day after Israel launched its ground invasion.

31.10.2024 - 08:51 [ Middle East Eye ]

Lebanon death toll surpasses 2,700

(29.10.2024)

Over the last day alone, 82 people were killed, and 180 others injured, the ministry said.

28.10.2024 - 19:11 [ ChinaDaily.cn ]

2,672 killed, 12,468 injured in Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon: health ministry

The death toll from Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon since Oct 8, 2023, reached 2,672, while injuries increased to 12,468, said the Lebanese Health Ministry on Sunday.

The report added that the total number of deaths from Israeli airstrikes on Saturday was 19, with injuries reported at 108.

28.10.2024 - 18:33 [ Shafaq.com ]

Unprecedented bombardment strikes southern Lebanon amid Israeli military operations

On Monday, several areas in southern Lebanon experienced unprecedented shelling, raising concerns about Israel potentially establishing a firepower-enforced buffer zone.

Images circulated showing the Israeli army demolishing entire neighborhoods in the town of Aitaroun, while continued evacuation orders were issued for residents in wide areas of southern Lebanon.

28.10.2024 - 05:46 [ LBCgroup.tv ]

Health Ministry reports 19 killed and 108 injured in Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon on October 26, total death toll 2,672

The Emergency Operations Center noted that the total casualties for the day were 19 killed and 108 injured.

As a result, the overall death toll since the beginning of the Israeli aggression has risen to 2,672, with the number of injured reaching 12,468.

26.10.2024 - 16:42 [ News.az ]

Death toll from Israeli attacks in Lebanon reaches 2,634 since last October

(October 25, 2024)

The Lebanese Health Ministry reported that the death toll from Israeli attacks on Lebanon since last October has risen to 2,634, News.Az reports citing foreign media.
A ministry statement said 41 people were killed and 133 others injured in nationwide Israeli attacks on Thursday, raising the number of injured to 12,252.

25.10.2024 - 14:28 [ Anadolu ]

Lebanon death toll from Israeli attacks surpasses 2,500

(October 22, 2024)

At least 63 people were killed and 234 others injured due to Israeli attacks across Lebanon on Monday, the Lebanese Health Ministry said on Tuesday.

The latest fatalities brought the death toll in the country since Oct. 2023 to 2546, with 11,862 injuries, a ministry statement added.

25.10.2024 - 14:15 [ BastillePost.com ]

Conflict forces closure of one-third health facilities in Lebanon

In the past year, Lebanese medical and health institutions have been attacked 53 times, with 99 patients and staff members killed, according to the WHO.

And due to the deterioration of water and sanitation conditions, a case of cholera was reported in northern Lebanon.

The WHO urged relevant parties to take immediate action to protect Lebanon‘s medical system.

25.10.2024 - 14:03 [ LBCgroup.tv ]

Lebanon says 163 rescuers, health workers killed in year of Israeli strikes

Lebanon‘s health minister said on Friday that more than 160 rescuers and health workers had been killed in Israeli strikes, during more than a year of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.

„The total number of rescuers and health sector workers killed has so far reached 163, with 272 others wounded,“ Firass Abiad told reporters during a press conference detailing „damage caused by Israeli attacks on the health sector in Lebanon“.

24.10.2024 - 10:11 [ Middle East Eye ]

At least 17 Israeli strikes on Beirut ‚most violent‘ attack since war began

(23 October 2024 23:14 BST)

Six buildings were destroyed around the suburb of Laylaki, Lebanese state media said, calling the raids „the most violent in the area since the beginning of the war“.

24.10.2024 - 10:05 [ APNews.com ]

Desperation amid search for survivors of an airstrike on a crowded area near major Beirut hospital

(Updated 5:56 AM GMT+2, October 23, 2024)

Nearly 16 hours after an Israeli airstrike hit across the street from Beirut’s main public hospital, rescuers were still removing debris Tuesday from the overcrowded slum area. An excavator was digging at one of the destroyed buildings, picking out twisted metal and bricks in search for bodies.

Residents standing on mounds of debris said an entire family remained missing under the rubble.

23.10.2024 - 07:31 [ Washington Post ]

Israel expands deadly strikes in Beirut after U.S. envoy visits Lebanon

At least 18 people were killed, four of them children, and 60 more were wounded in the Israeli strike near the Rafik Hariri University Hospital late Monday, with the nationwide death toll for the day reaching 63, health authorities said. In Beirut, the strikes expanded into new neighborhoods for a second day, signaling the widening scope of Israel’s military ambitions against Hezbollah militants, even as U.S. officials toured the region talking up hopes of de-escalation.

22.10.2024 - 13:21 [ Middle East Eye ]

Live: Israeli strikes kill 39 Palestinians in Gaza since dawn

Israel demands right to operate in Lebanon‘s airspace as Israeli strikes strikes kill 13 near Beirut hospital

21.10.2024 - 09:32 [ United-Nations.org ]

Charter Chapter VII: Action with respect to threats to the peace, breaches of the peace and acts of aggression

Article 42

Should the Security Council consider that measures provided for in Article 41 would be inadequate or have proved to be inadequate, it may take such action by air, sea, or land forces as may be necessary to maintain or restore international peace and security. Such action may include demonstrations, blockade, and other operations by air, sea, or land forces of members of the Renewed United Nations, when peaceful solutions to the conflict, leading to freedom, personal responsibility, self-determination, increased prosperity and further implemenations of fundamental rights and freedoms for the population of the territory are simultaneously proposed or put into effect.

16.10.2024 - 23:21 [ United Nations ]

Opening Remarks of UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator at the Lebanon Response Plan Steering Committee Meeting

A Steering Committee for the Lebanon Response Plan (LRP) was formed today following the endorsement of the humanitarian and stabilization response plan for Lebanon for 2024. The meeting was co-chaired by the Prime Minister and the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator of the UN. It was attended by the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministers of Education and Higher Education, Public Health, Social Affairs, Energy and Water, Labor, Agriculture and Environment; alongside the Ambassadors to Lebanon of Canada, France, the EU, Germany and the charge d‘affaires for the US; as well as Representatives of UN Agencies and national and international NGOs.

Below are the opening remarks as delivered by the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in the LRP Steering Committee meeting:

Your Excellency, Prime Minister Mikati, esteemed ministers, honorable ambassadors, distinguished guests, dear colleagues, good morning.

We gather here today at a truly unprecedented time for Lebanon. This country has already faced many years of multi-layered crises. Over the past year, the escalation of hostilities has inflicted severe damage on communities in the South. In the last weeks, the violence has intensified, causing widespread civilian casualties, mass displacement, and extensive destruction across the country.

Healthcare and frontline workers have come under attack, as have civil defense centers and water supply systems, pushing essential services to the brink of collapse. This must stop.

16.10.2024 - 23:07 [ Associated Press ]

Israeli strikes kill 27 in Lebanon, including in a town with a dark history of civilian deaths

In 1996, Israeli artillery shelling on a United Nations compound housing hundreds of displaced people in Qana killed at least 100 civilians and wounded scores more people, including four U.N. peacekeepers. During the 2006 war, an Israeli strike on a residential building killed nearly three dozen people, a third of them children. Israel said at the time that it struck a Hezbollah rocket launcher behind the building.

16.10.2024 - 22:48 [ Reuters ]

Mayor among 16 killed in Israeli strike on south Lebanon municipality building

The Israelis „intentionally targeted a meeting of the municipal council to discuss the city‘s service and relief situation“ to aid people displaced by the Israeli campaign, caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said.
The U.N. mission in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said its peacekeepers observed an Israeli tank firing at their watchtower near southern Lebanon‘s Kfar Kela on Wednesday morning. Two cameras were destroyed, and the tower was damaged, UNIFIL said.

16.10.2024 - 05:11 [ theCradle.co ]

Israeli opposition leader calls to revive ‚South Lebanon Army‘ to assist with occupation

(October 10, 2024)

Lapid advocated regime change in Lebanon, saying, “the international community will need to appoint a sort of oversight committee for Lebanon to manage its civilian life for a set period until elections can be held and a new government can take control.”

Crucial to this effort would be the establishment of a collaborator Lebanese army loyal to Israel and its Western and Gulf allies.

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Lapid claimed it would be easy to recruit Lebanese by paying soldiers in a new army $500 a month. New recruits would then be trained by French, Emirati, and US military officers.

The South Lebanon Army (SLA) was established by Israel in 1976 after the collapse of the Lebanese government due to civil war.

16.10.2024 - 04:56 [ theConversation.com ]

IDF actions against UN peacekeepers suggest Israel may be considering occupying part of southern Lebanon

Since 1978, Unifil has lost 337 peacekeepers, making Lebanon the most costly, in human terms, of all the UN peacekeeping operations. But despite these risks it has remained in post. Throughout Unifil’s deployment, IDF has put it under pressure both directly and through a proxy force, the South Lebanon Army (SLA). As such Unifil has a strong institutional memory of staying put in the direst of circumstances which makes it unlikely to recommend a drawdown.

16.10.2024 - 04:49 [ Haaretz ]

Israeli Minister Claims Lebanon Cannot Be Defined as State, IDF Should Establish ‚Buffer Zone‘ Inside Its Territory

(September 22, 2024)

Israel‘s Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli accused Lebanon of not fulfilling the definition of a state and argued that the Israeli military should establish buffer zones inside of Lebanon in order to protect Israeli citizens living in the country‘s north.

16.10.2024 - 04:34 [ Anadolu ]

Death toll from Israeli onslaught on Lebanon reaches 2,350 since last year

More than 10,900 injured since Oct. 8, 2023, says Lebanese Health Ministry

15.10.2024 - 20:26 [ menafn.com ]

Death Toll From Israeli Airstrikes On Lebanon Reaches 2,306, Injuries Up To 10,698: Ministry

Last Saturday alone, Israeli airstrikes killed 51 and injured 174, according to the ministry.

15.10.2024 - 20:17 [ Middle East Eye ]

Israeli attacks kill at least 41 in Lebanon on Monday

At least 41 people were killed and 124 wounded by Israeli forces, raising the death toll to 1,356 since Israel began escalating strikes on Lebanon on 23 September.

Monday‘s deaths included 21 people who were killed in an Israeli strike on the village of Aitou, located in the Christian-majority Zgharta district in northern Lebanon.

14.10.2024 - 22:00 [ Jordan Times ]

King meets Mikati, says Jordan stands with Lebanon

During a meeting with Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati at Al Husseiniya Palace, His Majesty stressed Jordan’s readiness to support the Lebanese people and mitigate the impact of the ongoing war on them, according to a Royal Court statement.

At the meeting, attended by HRH Crown Prince Hussein, the King said Jordan is working in coordination with Arab and key international actors to put a stop to the Israeli war on Lebanon.

14.10.2024 - 17:24 [ Middle East Eye ]

North Lebanon death toll rises to 18: Red Cross

The Lebanese Red Cross said that Israel‘s attack on a building in Aitou in north Lebanon‘s Zgharta district killed at least 18 people.

It is the first town the Christian-majority town is hit during Hezbollah‘s current clashes with Israel.

Hezbollah has little to no presence in the area.

14.10.2024 - 07:51 [ Middle East Eye ]

Mass burials and unidentifiable bodies: Horror accounts of Israeli attacks in south Lebanon

Two weeks of Israel‘s bombardment of Lebanon has resulted in destruction, civilian casualties and fear that this time will be worse than 1982

14.10.2024 - 07:41 [ NationalHeraldIndia.com/ ]

Death toll from Israeli attacks in Lebanon reaches 2,255

(October 13, 2024)

The death toll from Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon since the beginning of the Hezbollah-Israel conflict on 8 October 2023 has reached 2,255, with injuries totalling 10,524, the Lebanese health ministry said.

On Friday alone, Israeli airstrikes killed 26 and injured 144 in Lebanon, Xinhua news agency reported, quoting the ministry.

12.10.2024 - 18:44 [ LBCgroup.tv ]

Death toll from Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon reaches 2,255, with 10,524 injured amid ongoing conflict

(October 12, 2024)

Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon Friday left 26 dead and 144 injured, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health’s Emergency Operations Center.

The attacks are part of an ongoing conflict that has claimed 2,255 lives and injured 10,524 since the aggression began.

12.10.2024 - 18:40 [ Fananews.com ]

Israeli Attacks on Lebanon Claim 2,229 Lives Since October 2023

(October 11, 2024)

The death toll from Israeli attacks on Lebanon since October 2023 has risen to 2,229, with 10,380 people injured.

Over the past 24 hours, 57 airstrikes were recorded, bringing the total number of Israeli assaults since the start of the aggression to 9,588, according to a statement released Friday by the Lebanese Government Emergency Committee

11.10.2024 - 00:05 [ theHill.com ]

At least 22 killed in airstrikes in central Beirut, with Israel also firing on U.N. peacekeepers

The U.N. peacekeeping mission in Lebanon, known as UNIFIL, said in a statement that its headquarters and positions “have been repeatedly hit” by Israeli forces.

It said an Israeli tank “directly” fired on an observation tower at the force’s headquarters in the town of Naqoura, Lebanon, and that soldiers had attacked a bunker near where peacekeepers were sheltering, damaging vehicles and a communication system. It said an Israeli drone was seen flying to the bunker’s entrance.

10.10.2024 - 01:03 [ BastillePost.com ]

Death toll in Lebanon from Israeli attacks rises to 2,119

Over the past 24 hours, 36 fatalities and 150 injuries were reported in various regions of Lebanon due to the Israeli attacks, said the statement.

Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah has been exchanging fire with Israeli forces across the Lebanese-Israeli border since Oct 8, 2023, to show solidarity with Hamas.

08.10.2024 - 21:15 [ BastillePost.com ]

Death toll in Lebanon from Israeli attacks rises to 2,083

The death toll in Lebanon from the ongoing Israeli attacks has risen to 2,083 since last October, with 9,869 others injured, according to a statement released Monday by the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health.

Over the past 24 hours, 22 fatalities and 111 injuries were reported in various regions of Lebanon by the Israeli airstrikes, said the statement.

07.10.2024 - 12:27 [ Middle East Monitor ]

Israel issues new evacuation orders for 26 towns in southern Lebanon

The Israeli army ordered civilians in 26 border towns in southern Lebanon on Sunday to evacuate immediately amid air and ground attacks on the country, Anadolu Agency reports.

Military spokesman Avichay Adraee asked the Lebanese residents to leave their homes and move north of the Awali River.

07.10.2024 - 11:55 [ Middle East Eye ]

Israel army says deployed third troop division in Lebanon

„The soldiers of the 91st Division began localised and targeted operational activity in southern Lebanon,“ said a statement from the army.

07.10.2024 - 11:35 [ CNN ]

CNN witnesses ‘very intense’ bombing in Beirut

CNN Senior International Correspondent Ben Wedeman reports on intense strikes by Israel in southern Beirut.

06.10.2024 - 21:12 [ Aure Free Press / mstdn.social / Mastodon ]

Aure Free Press NOW! The Dahieh in Beirut: An Israeli Air attack, in an area dense with residential buildings – without an evacuation alert to its residents! How many died needlessly in THIS strike?

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06.10.2024 - 20:50 [ Nachrichtenagentur Radio Utopie ]

Archiv: Lebanese military has neither air defense nor airforce / factual authorization for Israel airstrikes / worldwide news blackout or silence

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06.10.2024 - 20:34 [ National News Agency (NNA) Lebanon ]

Mikati confers with Turkish Foreign Minister over current situation

Prime Minister Najib Mikati received a call today from Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan during which they discussed the current situation in Lebanon, especially on the humanitarian level and the relief for the families who were forced to be displaced from areas exposed to Israeli aggression.

During the call, Minister Fidan reiterated Turkey‘s readiness to support Lebanon in its humanitarian needs.

06.10.2024 - 20:00 [ National News Agency (NNA) Lebanon ]

Low-altitude enemy drones circle over Beirut, southern suburbs

National News Agency correspondent reported that enemy drones are flying at low altitudes in the skies of Beirut and its southern suburbs, adding that these drones have not been absent from the Lebanese airspace, nor have reconnaissance overflights.

06.10.2024 - 19:42 [ National News Agency (NNA) Lebanon ]

Health Emergency Center: 23 martyrs and 93 wounded as a result of Israeli enemy raids on towns and villages in the south

The Public Health Ministry‘s Emergency Operations Center issued a statement this morning announcing that Israeli enemy raids on towns and villages in southern Lebanon, Nabatieh, the Bekaa, Baalbek-Hermel, Mount Lebanon and the North resulted in the martyrdom of 23 people and the injury of 93persons.

06.10.2024 - 19:32 [ Middle East Monitor ]

Beirut‘s southern suburb suffers ‚heaviest night of attacks‘ with 30 air strikes by Israeli warplanes

Lebanon’s official National News Agency reported on Sunday that the strikes targeted various locations across Beirut’s southern suburbs, resulting in widespread damage and a thick cloud of smoke that covered the area. The air strikes were heard across the capital, Beirut.

06.10.2024 - 19:27 [ Washington Post ]

Airstrikes pound Beirut suburbs as Israel expands attacks across Lebanon

Israeli airstrikes pummeled Beirut’s southern suburbs overnight, as the Israel Defense Forces said it was striking Hezbollah targets. The bombardment was the heaviest on the densely populated area since tensions escalated last October; photos showed large fires and smoke columns.

05.10.2024 - 22:19 [ Washington Post ]

Israel expands strikes to northern Lebanon as death toll rises

Reporters have limited access to areas most affected by the fighting, and the Israeli military has released few details about how deep the two divisions now deployed in southern Lebanon have advanced. Interviews with local officials and people who have been recently displaced suggest the destruction is widespread; satellite imagery shows that hundreds of buildings have been destroyed.

05.10.2024 - 22:07 [ MehrNews.com ]

Death toll from Israeli aggression on Lebanon crosses 2030

The Ministry of Health of Lebanon issued a statement and announced the latest statistics of martyrs and wounded in the attacks of the Zionist army on this country from October 8 of last year.

Also, according to the statement of the Lebanese Ministry of Health, 9,653 people have bene wounded in Israeli attack on Lebanon.

04.10.2024 - 15:00 [ theDefensePost.com ]

Lebanon Army Fires at Israel in First After Soldier’s Death

A military official, requesting anonymity to discuss sensitive matters, told AFP this was the first response to Israeli fire since last October because the post had been “directly” hit.

It was the third such killing of a Lebanese soldier since the start of the escalation between the Iran-backed group and Israel on September 23.

04.10.2024 - 13:24 [ PressTV.ir ]

Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi makes unannounced visit to Beirut

For his part, Mikati briefed Araghchi on the latest situation in Lebanon, terming Israel‘s acts of aggression as a real example of war crimes.

While he lamented the inaction of the UN Security Council against the dangerous adventures of the Zionist enemy, the Lebanese prime minister appreciated the support of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Lebanese government and people amid unrelenting Israeli strikes.

04.10.2024 - 13:06 [ Al Jazeera ]

Live: Israel intensifies attacks on Lebanon, Gaza, occupied West Bank

Israel launches the heaviest air strikes on Beirut so far with dozens reportedly killed across Lebanon over the past day.
At least 18 Palestinians are killed in an Israeli jet fighter attack on the Tulkarem refugee camp in the occupied West Bank with the death toll expected to rise.

04.10.2024 - 12:51 [ theNationalnews.com ]

Israel strikes main Lebanon-Syria highway after overnight attacks on Beirut and West Bank

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi arrived in Beirut on Friday, the most senior international official to visit Lebanon since Nasrallah‘s killing. He arrived at Beirut’s airport, where overnight an Israeli strike landed nearby.

Mr Araghchi is confirmed to meet Prime Minister Najib Mikati and speaker of parliament Nabih Berri.

04.10.2024 - 12:31 [ Yahoo.com ]

Lebanon says Israeli strike cuts off main road to Syria

Lebanon said an Israeli strike on Friday cut off the main international road to Syria, after Israel said Hezbollah was transporting weapons through the tiny Mediterranean country‘s principal land border crossing.

The strike, which Israel has not commented on, comes after 310,000 people, mostly Syrians, have in recent days fled the war pitting Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon for relative safety in neighbouring Syria.

04.10.2024 - 12:14 [ FirstPost.com ]

After deadliest-in-decades airstrike in West Bank, Israel pounds Lebanon-Syria border crossing

According to AFP, the recent Israeli strikes were conducted near Lebanon’s Masnaa border crossing with Syria. Lebanon Transport Minister Ali Hamieh said that the Israeli authority struck the Lebanese side of the border, cutting off a road used by Lebanese fleeing to Syria.

03.10.2024 - 19:59 [ Anadolu ]

Death toll from Israeli assaults on Lebanon since last Oct. 8 reaches nearly 2,000: Health minister

The Lebanese health minister announced on Wednesday that the death toll from Israeli attacks on Lebanon has risen to 1,974, with another 9,384 injured since Oct. 8 of last year.

Firas Alabiad said at a press conference in Beirut that the Israeli onslaught has also claimed the lives of 127 children.

Israeli airstrikes have killed 40 staffers of medical and emergency teams, in addition to damaging dozens of healthcare facilities, he added.

03.10.2024 - 19:53 [ Middle East Eye ]

In photos: Israeli bombing of Beirut leaves trail of destruction

Smoke rises from buildings hit in an overnight Israeli air strike that targeted Beirut‘s southern suburbs on 3 October 2024

03.10.2024 - 18:59 [ Middle East Eye ]

WHO chief says 28 health workers killed by Israel in Lebanon in 24 hours

The director of the World Health Organisation Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference on Thursday that 28 health workers were killed in Israeli attacks over the past 24 hours in Lebanon.

„Many (other) health workers are not reporting to duty and fled the areas where they work due to bombardments,“ Ghebreyesus said in an online press briefing. „This is severely limiting the provision of mass trauma management and continuity of health services.“

03.10.2024 - 18:58 [ Reuters ]

Dozens of health workers killed in Lebanon over past day, WHO says

WHO‘s representative in Lebanon Dr Abdinasir Abubakar told the briefing that all of the healthcare workers killed in the past day had been on duty, helping with the wounded.
A total of nearly 2,000 people have been killed, including 127 children, and 9,384 injured since the start of Israeli attacks on Lebanon over the last year, the country‘s health ministry said. The WHO said this included 73 healthcare workers.

03.10.2024 - 18:48 [ Reuters ]

Israel calls for evacuations from south Lebanon and strikes Beirut suburb

The latest warnings took the number of southern towns subject to evacuation calls to 70 and included the provincial capital Nabatieh, suggesting another Israeli operation that could lead thousands more Lebanese to flee.

02.10.2024 - 01:39 [ Middle East Eye ]

At least 55 killed by Israeli strikes on Lebanon, health authorities say

At least 55 people were killed by Israeli strikes across Lebanon on Tuesday, Lebanon’s health ministry said, noting that over 150 were also wounded.

01.10.2024 - 14:33 [ Iraqi News Agency ]

PM holds Phone Call with Jordanian King

Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani made a phone call on Tuesday, to the King Jordan, King Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein, stressing the importance of coordination between Iraq and Jordan to deliver humanitarian aid and enhance international efforts to stop these attacks.

01.10.2024 - 11:31 [ IraqiNews.com ]

UN peacekeepers in Lebanon not able to patrol

United Nations peacekeepers in Lebanon have been unable to conduct patrols because of the intensity of Israeli strikes and Hezbollah’s rockets targeting Israel, a UN spokesman said Monday.

With more than 10,000 personnel, the peacekeeping force has been stationed in Lebanon since 1978, with its role strengthened after a 33-day conflict between Hezbollah and Israel in 2006.

30.09.2024 - 03:20 [ Middle East Eye ]

109 killed in Israeli air strikes on Sunday: Lebanese health ministry

The Lebanese health ministry has reported that Israeli air strikes on Sunday killed at least 109 individuals and left 364 others wounded across the country.

29.09.2024 - 17:35 [ Nachrichtenagentur Radio Utopie ]

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29.09.2024 - 17:14 [ NordicMonitor.com ]

Turkey excludes $2.5 bln Russian S-400 missiles from new air defense system project

(August 9, 2024)

In an earlier statement in 2020 to CNN Türk, Russian Ambassador to Turkey Alexei Yerkhov said, ‘Whether [the system] is used or not is a decision for the country that owns it. Turkey purchased the product they wanted from us. The owner of this system is Turkey. It is entirely dependent on what Turkey decides. Whether you go to the beach with it, carry potatoes or mount a machine gun on it for war, keeping it in the ‘garage’ is your right.”

29.09.2024 - 17:01 [ Al Jazeera ]

Erdogan: Turkey to produce S-500s with Russia after S-400 deal

(May 19, 2019)

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said Turkey and Russia would jointly produce S-500 defence systems after Ankara’s controversial purchase of the S-400 missile defence system from Moscow.

29.09.2024 - 16:55 [ Anadolu ]

Turkish president condemns Israel’s attacks on Lebanon, calls for global action

Erdogan criticized the international community for enabling Israel‘s actions, saying that as Tel Aviv continues to receive „weapons and ammunition support from its backers,“ it becomes „increasingly reckless, defying all humanity, humanitarian values, and international law.“

He stressed that Israel‘s „politics of madness,“ already seen in Gaza and Ramallah, must not be allowed to spread to Lebanon and other countries in the region.

„No person of conscience can accept, justify, or deem such a massacre legitimate,“ he said.

29.09.2024 - 16:40 [ Reuters ]

Russia sees military coordination with Israel on Syria continuing

(February 26, 2022)

Following the 2015 Russian intervention in the Syrian civil war, Israel set up a „deconfliction mechanism“ with the big power to prevent them clashing inadvertently during Israeli strikes against Iranian deployments and arms transfers in the neighbouring Arab state.

Our military officials discuss the practical issues of this substantively on a daily basis. This mechanism has proven to be useful and will continue to work,“ the Russian embassy in Israel said in a statement.

29.09.2024 - 16:36 [ Anadolu ]

Russia condemns Israeli attacks on Lebanon

(September 24, 2024)

„Indiscriminate Israeli strikes on residential areas under the pretext that Hezbollah weapons are being stored there led to massive civilian casualties and significant destruction of civilian infrastructure,“ Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement.

Citing the Lebanese Health Ministry, Zakharova said that at least 492 people, including around 150 women and children, were killed by Israel’s „armed aggression“ on Monday.

29.09.2024 - 16:08 [ Times of Oman ]

Lebanon’s caretaker PM calls for national unity amid threats

In a statement during an emergency cabinet session, Mikati urged the Lebanese people to demonstrate national responsibility in such a way as to preserve national unity and solidarity, explaining that Lebanon’s unity has been its strongest weapon in face of the Israeli enemy’s criminal schemes and attempts to spread division.

29.09.2024 - 15:55 [ France24.com ]

More than 1,000 Lebanese people killed in Israeli strikes in less than two weeks

Israeli airstrikes across large parts of Lebanon have killed at least 1,030 people – including 156 women and 87 children – in less than two weeks, according to Lebanon‘s Health Ministry. For more information, Yuka Royer interviews Ettie Higgins, Deputy Representative at UNICEF, in Beirut, Lebanon.

29.09.2024 - 15:50 [ APNews.com ]

AP images offer a close-up look at the smoldering site of Nasrallah’s assassination

Onlookers at the site Sunday clambered over large slabs of concrete, surrounded by high piles of twisted metal and wreckage. Several craters, likely used by rescuers to penetrate under the site of the explosion were visible, some of them apparently up to 30 meters (100 feet) deep.

A few Hezbollah workers were using a bulldozer to excavate around one of the craters, some of them apparently dug by rescuers to reach the dead. State security and investigators were nowhere to be seen.

28.09.2024 - 21:43 [ Middle East Eye ]

At least 1,640 Lebanese killed by Israel since 8 October: Report

Among those killed by Israeli strikes are 104 children and 194 women. Additionally, 41 health and ambulance workers have been killed and 111 others have been injured since the onset of the war.

28.09.2024 - 16:21 [ Al Jazeera ]

Netanyahu violating state sovereignty with complicity of US, Europe: French MP

“Appalled by the scale of the ongoing massacre in Lebanon,” Jean-Luc Melenchon, a left-wing French politician and a former Member of the European Parliament, said in a post on X.

“Netanyahu is violating the sovereignty of states throughout the region with the complicity of Europe and the USA. The genocide in Gaza is spreading without limits.”

28.09.2024 - 16:09 [ APnews.com ]

Dramatic footage shows strike and explosions in Beirut

Video shows the moment Israeli strikes hit Choueifat, an area on the outskirts of Beirut, in the early hours of Saturday.
Published 2:41 AM GMT+2, September 28, 2024

28.09.2024 - 15:31 [ Al Jazeera ]

‘Not justifiable attacking densely populated areas – but world does nothing’

Commenting on the Israeli claims of killing Nasrallah, military and security analyst Elijah Magnier has told Al Jazeera that the focus should be “on the several buildings that all disappeared under the ground, with all their inhabitants,” as a result of the Israeli air attack on Friday.

“It’s absolutely considered a war crime and a crime against humanity – and it’s not in any way considered a collateral damage,” he told Al Jazeera.

“The percentage of the people who are killed in such a populated and dense area – it’s not justifiable,” Magnier said.

28.09.2024 - 15:15 [ Middle East Eye ]

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah killed in Beirut strike, group confirms

The statement did not mention who would succeed Nasrallah or how the group would respond to the assassination of its long-time leader.

According to analysts, the man widely regarded as Nasrallah‘s heir, Hashem Safieddine, was still alive after Friday‘s attack.

28.09.2024 - 13:43 [ France24.com ]

Israel targets Hezbollah command near Beirut as Lebanon death toll tops 700

(September 27, 2024)

The Israeli military struck Hezbollah‘s central command in the southern Beirut suburbs on Friday, with Israeli TV reporting that Hamas chief Hassan Nasrallah was the focus of the strikes. The latest bombardment came as the death toll from Israeli strikes inside Lebanon surpassed 700 since Monday, according to the health minister.

28.09.2024 - 11:52 [ Middle East Eye ]

Israel says 85 bombs dropped in attempt to assassinate Nasrallah

Israeli Army Radio reported that military aircraft deployed approximately 85 bunker-busting bombs, each carrying one ton of explosives, in an attempt to assassinate Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.

The bombs were dropped in civilian areas, resulting in numerous casualties.

28.09.2024 - 11:10 [ Times of India ]

„5,000-pound bunker busters“: Iran condemns US „complicity“ in Israeli strikes; top developments

Iran has condemned the United States of America for being ‚complicit‘ in the Israeli strikes conducted on Gaza and Lebanon. It has also accused Israel of using over 5,000-pound bunker buster bombs „gifted“ by the US in its fresh strikes on residential areas in Beirut. The States responded saying that it had no prior information of the strikes.
Meanwhile, IDF said that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed after being the target of these strikes which knocked out six buildings.

28.09.2024 - 10:56 [ Al Jazeera ]

New ‘bunker buster’ bombs used in Beirut attack

(September 27, 2024)

Elijah Magnier, a military analyst, says the ordnance used by Israel in its latest attack on Beirut is a “very new type of bomb” – the GBU-72.

The weapon is “an advanced 5,000-pound [2,200kg] bunker buster that was created in 2021”, Magnier told Al Jazeera.

The bomb has not been used in the past for the “same objective”, he said, suggesting Israel wanted to “confirm the kill and wanted to make sure nobody is going to be alive”.

It was dropped with a fraction of delay, which allowed the bomb to reach the bunker under the ground and bring down entire structures, Maginer explained.

28.09.2024 - 10:35 [ Middle East Eye ]

Israeli military says it killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut strike

The military says it also killed several other commanders from the Lebanese group in overnight strikes on the country.

Hezbollah has yet to confirm any casualties from Israel‘s latest attacks.

27.09.2024 - 19:55 [ News9 live / Youtube ]

Breaking News | Lebanese TV shows aftermath of Israeli strike on Beirut

Footage broadcast by al-Manar TV showed at least one smouldering crater at the site of an Israeli strike on Beirut on Friday (September 27).

27.09.2024 - 19:43 [ Sky News / Youtube ]

Watch live: Multiple blasts heard in Beirut

Thick clouds of smoke can be seen rising from the Lebanese capital after multiple explosions were heard, according to witnesses from Reuters news agency.

At least 25 people have been killed in Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon today, according to the country‘s health minister.

27.09.2024 - 19:25 [ Middle East Eye ]

War on Lebanon: Israeli jets pound Beirut with series of massive air strikes

Israeli fighter jets launched a series of massive air strikes on a crowded area in the Haret Hreik neighbourhood in the south of Lebanon‘s Beirut on Friday, causing widespread destruction with fears of a large death toll.

At least 10 explosions rocked the capital‘s southern suburbs, a densely-populated area colloquially known as Dahiyeh, with large clouds of black smoke rising over the city.

The attacks appeared to be the largest Israeli strikes on Beirut since the 2006 war with Lebanon.

27.09.2024 - 04:11 [ Middle East Eye ]

Forty-eight people killed in Israeli raids on Beqaa Valley and Mount Lebanon

The Lebanese health ministry has said that 48 people have been killed and 73 others wounded in Israeli air strikes in the areas of the Beqaa Valley and Mount Lebanon.

26.09.2024 - 16:58 [ National News Agency Lebanon - nna-leb.gov.lb ]

Public Health Ministry’s Emergency Operations Center: Two martyrs, fifteen injured in initial toll from enemy airstrike on Beirut southern suburb

The Public Health Ministry’s Emergency Operations Center on Thursday released a statement announcing that “the Israeli enemy’s airstrike on the Beirut southern suburbs led, according to an initial toll, to the martyrdom of two persons and the injury of 15, including a woman in critical condition.“

26.09.2024 - 16:53 [ Al Jazeera ]

Israel attacks Lebanon live: New strikes target Beirut

Israeli army says it has launched strikes on Beirut with sources saying a Hezbollah commander was the target.
The Israeli PM’s office has released a statement on Netanyahu’s X page saying the “news about a ceasefire is not true” and he vows to carry on attacks on Lebanon.

25.09.2024 - 23:25 [ Google News USA ]

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25.09.2024 - 22:29 [ Reuters ]

Israel army chief says strikes in Lebanon prepare possible ground assault

„You hear the jets overhead; we have been striking all day,“ General Herzi Halevi told Israeli troops on the border with Lebanon, according to a statement from the military.
„This is both to prepare the ground for your possible entry and to continue degrading Hezbollah.“

25.09.2024 - 21:57 [ Truthout.org ]

Israeli Airstrikes in Lebanon Kill at Least 569, Displace Tens of Thousands

The Israeli military is reportedly preparing to invade Lebanon while continuing to launch extensive airstrikes across the country, forcing tens of thousands to flee. Lebanon’s Health Ministry reports the death toll has reached at least 569 people, with more than 1,800 wounded. Israeli strikes have killed United Nations employees, medical workers, at least one journalist and 50 children over the past two days. Meanwhile, Hezbollah launched dozens of rockets at Israel, including a long-range missile fired toward Tel Aviv that was intercepted by Israeli air defense systems. “Lebanese civilians are paying the price,” says Aya Majzoub in Beirut, Amnesty International’s deputy director for the Middle East and North Africa, who calls Israel’s attacks “unprecedented” and “devastating.” “In a single day, on Monday, more than 500 people were killed. … It is one of the highest daily death tolls in recent global wars.”

24.09.2024 - 08:57 [ Indianexpress.com ]

Israel-Hezbollah War Live Updates: After 492 killed, Netanyahu urges Lebanese civilians to evacuate, says ‘Hezbollah using you as human shields’

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a recorded message, urged Lebanese civilians to heed their calls to evacuate, ahead of its widening air campaign against Hezbollah, news agency AP reported. “Israel’s war is not with you. It’s with Hezbollah. For too long, Hezbollah has been using you as human shields… Starting this morning, the IDF has warned you to get out of harm’s way. I urge you, take this warning seriously. Don’t let Hezbollah endanger your lives and the lives of your loved ones… Once our operation is finished, you can come back safely to your homes,” Netanyahu said.

23.09.2024 - 23:24 [ United Nations ]

Dramatic uptick in violence as Guterres voices grave alarm at Lebanon-Israel escalation

The UN mission which patrols the Blue Line separting Lebanon and Israel, UNIFIL, expressed „grave concern for the safety of civilians“, amid what has been the deadliest day of violence and bombing by Israel since the October terror attacks sparked the regional crisis.

Lt. Gen. Aroldo Lázaro, Head of Mission and Force Commander of UNIFIL, has contacted both Lebanese and Israeli parties, emphasizing the urgent need for de-escalation. „Efforts are ongoing to reduce tensions and halt the shelling“, the mission added.

Any further escalation of this dangerous situation could have far-reaching and devastating consequences, not only for those living on both sides of the Blue Line but also for the broader region.

Attacks on civilians are not only violations of international law but could amount to war crimes, UNIFIL reminded.

23.09.2024 - 22:38 [ National News Agency (NNA) Lebanon ]

Israeli enemy airstrike targets building in Beirut’s southern suburb’s Bir Al Abed area

(3 hours ago)

National News Agency correspondent on Tuesday reported that the Israeli enemy targeted a building in the Bir Al-Abed area in Beirut’s southern suburbs with 3 missiles.

Civil defense and rescue teams rushed to the targeted building in the southern suburb.

23.09.2024 - 21:20 [ Middle East Eye ]

Live: Israeli strikes on Lebanon kill at least 356 people

Israel says it is preparing for next stages of Lebanon operation, as US sending additional troops to Middle East