1 week ago Israel steps up strikes in Lebanon targeting Hezbollah official

Israel targeted the chief of staff of Lebanon’s Iran-aligned Hezbollah group in a strike in the capital Beirut’s southern suburbs, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said on Sunday. The strike is the first on the capital’s southern suburbs in months and is known for housing Hezbollah officials. The target of the strike was military official Ali Tabtabai, according to an Israeli source briefed on the strike and a Lebanese security source. Netanyahu’s office did not say whether...

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2 w. ago Israeli strike on Palestinian camp in Lebanon kills 13, deadliest since ceasefire

An Israeli air strike on a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon on Tuesday killed 13 people and wounded several others, state media and government officials said. It was the deadliest strike on Lebanon since a ceasefire in the Israel-Hezbollah war a year ago. The drone strike hit a car in the car park of a mosque in the Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp on the outskirts of the coastal city of Sidon, the state-run National News Agency said. The Lebanese Health Ministry said 13 people were killed...

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2 w. ago Lebanon says Israeli strike that killed principal was ‘martyrdom of a citizen’

An Israeli strike killed a Lebanese man in the south of the country on Sunday, according to the Lebanese health ministry and the country’s main news agency. The Israeli military did not immediately respond to an Agence France-Presse query but has previously said it reserves the right to strike militant targets in Lebanon it deems a threat. The ministry said the strike hit a car in the town of al-Mansouri, south of Tyre and just over 10 km (6 miles) from the Israeli border, and “resulted in the...

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2 w. ago Israeli strike in Lebanon kills man in car amid tensions with UN peacekeepers

An Israeli strike killed a Lebanese man in the south of the country on Sunday, according to the Lebanese health ministry and the country’s main news agency. The Israeli military did not immediately respond to an Agence France-Presse query but has previously said it reserves the right to strike militant targets in Lebanon it deems a threat. The ministry said the strike hit a car in the town of al-Mansouri, south of Tyre and just over 10km (6 miles) from the Israeli border, and “resulted in the...

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2 w. ago Israeli strike in Lebanon kills Hezbollah operative amid tensions with UN peacekeepers

Israel’s military said Monday it had killed a Hezbollah operative in southern Lebanon, a region that has witnessed several attacks despite the ceasefire between Israel and the Iran-backed group. “Yesterday evening (Sunday)... The IDF struck and eliminated Hezbollah terrorist Muhammad Ali Shuweikh in the Mansouri area in southern Lebanon,” the military said in a statement. The army said the targeted operative was the local representative for Hezbollah in the area. “He was responsible for...

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3 w. ago Nexperia restarts chip shipments from China, but tensions with the EU linger

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3 w. ago Civilians or terrorists? Israeli drone strike kills 2 Lebanese brothers

Israeli strikes in Lebanon killed three people and wounded several more on Saturday, according to the Lebanese health ministry, with Israel announcing one of the attacks had hit arms smugglers from a group affiliated with Hezbollah. The National News Agency reported that two brothers from the town of Shebaa were hit while driving on a road on the slopes of Mount Hermon in southeastern Lebanon, “causing their SUV to catch fire and resulting in their deaths”. The Israeli military confirmed that...

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