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October 10, 2024 5:25 PM

Israeli troops fire at 3 UNIFIL positions in southern Lebanon, U.N. source says

Israeli troops opened fire at three positions held by U.N. peacekeepers in southern Lebanon on Thursday, according to a U.N. source who was not immediately able to specify the type of fire. The source said one of the locations fired at was UNIFIL's main base at Naqoura. There was no official statement from UNIFIL or immediate comment from the Israeli military. Hezbollah said earlier it had targeted an Israeli tank with guided missiles while it was advancing to the border area of Ras al-Naqour...

October 10, 2024 11:48 AM

Israel says it eliminates Hezbollah ‘Golan Heights’ member, Syrian media report Israeli airstrikes

Israel's military said it had eliminated a Hezbollah member in Syria who relayed intelligence against Israel in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, while Syrian media reported on Thursday that Israeli airstrikes hit targets in Syria. Israel, which has carried out strikes against Iran-linked targets in Syria for years, has ramped up its raids since the Oct. 7, 2023, attack by the Iran-backed Palestinian militant group Hamas on Israeli territory, which ignited Israel's war in Gaza. Israel has es...

October 10, 2024 9:45 AM

Israel carries out airstrikes on sites in Syria, state TV says

Israel carried out airstrikes targeting an industrial site in the Syrian city of Homs and a military site in the countryside near the city of Hama leaving only "some material damage," Syrian state TV said early on Thursday. Israel targeted a car manufacturing plant at the industrial site in Homs, which led to a fire breaking out there and firefighting teams are currently working to extinguish it, Syrian TV said, citing the director of the industrial site, Amer Khalil. Explosions were heard in ...

October 9, 2024 3:42 PM

Israel carries out new strikes in Gaza, UN chief says many trapped in north

At least 45 people were killed in Israeli military strikes on Gaza in the past 24 hours, Palestinian medics said on Wednesday, as Israeli forces pressed on with a raid on the Jabalia refugee camp in the enclave's north. The Israeli military says the raid, now in its fifth day, is intended to stop Hamas fighters staging further attacks from Jabalia and to prevent them regrouping. It has repeatedly issued evacuation orders to residents of Jabalia and nearby areas, but Palestinian and U.N. offici...

October 9, 2024 2:59 PM

Hamas, Fatah leaders to hold Palestinian unity talks in Cairo

Leaders from the militant group Hamas and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement will hold further unity talks in Cairo on Wednesday, a Hamas official told Reuters. According to Taher Al-Nono, the media adviser of the Hamas political chief, the Hamas delegation arrived in Cairo on Tuesday. It was led by Khalil Al-Hayya, the group's chief negotiator and Hamas' second-in-command, currently based in Qatar. "The meeting will discuss the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, and the ch...

October 9, 2024 8:58 AM

Israel has eliminated Nasrallah’s ‘successors’, says Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed that the country's forces have successfully targeted and eliminated potential successors to Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed during precision strikes on the Lebanese capital Beirut by Isreali Defence Forces. In a video message released on Tuesday (local time), Netanyahu said, "We've degraded Hezbollah's capabilities. We took out thousands of terrorists, including Nasrallah himself and Nasrallah's replacement, and the repl...

October 8, 2024 10:58 PM

Netanyahu says Israel has ‘taken out’ Nasrallah’s successors

Israeli forces have killed the would-be successors of late Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday, without naming them. "We've degraded Hezbollah's capabilities. We took out thousands of terrorists, including Nasrallah himself and Nasrallah's replacement, and the replacement of the replacement," Netanyahu said in a pre-recorded video message. Earlier, Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said Hashem Safieddine, the man expected to r...

October 8, 2024 3:50 PM

Israel begins ground operations in southwest Lebanon as Iran sends warning

Israel's military said on Tuesday it had begun ground operations in southwest Lebanon, expanding its incursions to a new zone a year after exchanges of fire began with armed group Hezbollah and amid pleas by the U.N. for a diplomatic solution. The regional tensions triggered a year ago by Palestinian armed group Hamas's attack on southern Israel have spiralled to a string of Israeli operations by land and air over Lebanon and direct attacks by Iran onto Israeli military installati...

October 8, 2024 11:48 AM

Israel-Hezbollah fighting intensifies, Hamas vows to rise again

Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel's third-largest city of Haifa and Hamas vowed to rise again as Israel looked poised to expand its offensive into Lebanon, a year after the devastating Hamas attack that sparked the Gaza war. Israelis held ceremonies and protests on Monday to mark the first anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Palestinian militant group Hamas as the Gaza conflict has spread across the Middle East and fanned fears of an all-out regional war. Hamas, which has seen...

October 7, 2024 11:46 PM

Hezbollah missiles hit Haifa, Israel steps up bombings in south Lebanon

Hezbollah missiles hit Haifa, Israel steps up bombings in south Lebanon Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel's third largest city Haifa on Monday as Israeli forces looked poised to expand ground raids into south Lebanon on the first anniversary of the Gaza war, which has spread conflict across the Middle East. Iran-backed Hezbollah, an ally of Hamas, the Palestinian militant group fighting Israel in Gaza, said it targeted a military base south of Haifa with "Fadi 1" missiles and launched another ...