UN peacekeepers on patrol near the border between Lebanon and Israel/ UN peacekeepers on patrol near the border between Lebanon and Israel (AFP Photo/Mahmoud ZAYYAT)/ Avivim (Israel) (AFP) - An escalation between Israel and Hezbollah has ended after a brief exchange of fire, but tensions ...
Israel said it retaliated with around 100 artillery shells targeting the Hezbollah squad that fired the missiles (AFP Photo/Mahmoud ZAYYAT)/ Beirut (AFP) - Lebanon's Hezbollah movement and Israel traded cross-border fire on Sunday, in a spat that came after a week of heightened tensions between ...
A UN peacekeeper (UNIFIL) patrols the border with Israel, in the village of Khiam, Lebanon September 2, 2019. REUTERS/Ali Hashisho/ MAROUN AL-RAS, Lebanon (Reuters) - The Lebanon-Israel border area was quiet on Monday, after Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah group and the Israeli army exchanged ...
A UN peacekeeper (UNIFIL) patrols the border with Israel in the village of Khiam/ MAROUN AL-RAS, Lebanon (Reuters) - The Lebanon-Israel border area was quiet on Monday, after Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah group and the Israeli army exchanged cross-border fire on Sunday. Israel's military said ...
Israeli soldiers stand near artillery units deployed in Hula Valley in the north of Israel near the Lebanon border on Sunday./ JERUSALEM — The Lebanese militia Hezbollah fired missiles at an Israeli military border post on Sunday in what it called payback for an a week earlier that killed two ...
Smoke rises from Israeli army shells that landed in the southern Lebanese border village of Maroun Al-Ras, Lebanon, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2019. The Lebanese army says Israeli forces have fired some 40 shells on the outskirts of several border villages following an attack by the militant Hezbollah ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks on as he arrives to review an honor guard with his Ethiopian counterpart Abiy Ahmed during their meeting in Jerusalem/ JERUSALEM/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel was prepared for any scenario after a ...
Smoke rises from Israeli army shells that landed in the southern Lebanese border village of Maroun Al-Ras, Lebanon, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2019. The Lebanese army says Israeli forces have fired some 40 shells on the outskirts of several border villages following an attack by the militant Hezbollah ...
Israeli soldiers sit next artillery units deployed in Hula Valley north of Israel near the Israeli-Lebanon border - REX/ Israel said it was returning fire Sunday after anti-tank missiles were launched at its territory from Lebanon, raising fears of a serious escalation with Hizbollah after a ...
Israeli soldiers stand next to shells and a mobile artillery unit near the Israeli side of the border with Syria in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights August 26, 2019. REUTERS/Amir Cohen/File Photo/ BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Lebanese military said an Israeli drone, which violated Lebanon’s ...
Hezbollah fired antitank missiles into northern Israel on Sunday, prompting Israel to fire volleys of artillery against three villages in southern Lebanon in a sharp escalation of already high tensions. Both sides of the border had been bracing for confrontation after a threat by Hezbollah to ...
Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, speaks via a video link, during the first day of Ashoura, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019. TThe leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah categorically denied Israeli claims about his group having factories to produce ...
BEIRUT, Sept 1 (Reuters) - The Lebanese military said an Israeli drone, which violated Lebanon's airspace, dropped incendiary material and sparked a fire in a pine forest by the border on Sunday. The fires near the border in Lebanon "originate with operations by our forces in the area," the ...
JERUSALEM/BEIRUT, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Israel's military said on Sunday anti-tank missiles from Lebanon targeted an army base and vehicles and that it responded with fire into southern Lebanon. Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah group said its fighters destroyed an Israeli military vehicle, killing ...
Lebanon's Hezbollah, Israel trade fire at border * Tensions rising since drone attack in Beirut suburbs * The two enemies last fought a war in 2006 (Adds Iranian officials, UNIFIL statement, details) JERUSALEM/BEIRUT, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that ...
- Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah exchanged fire with the Israeli army along the volatile border Sunday, fulfilling a vow to avenge Israeli strikes but stopping short of a major escalation. The shelling had subsided within hours with no casualties and the threat of immediate escalation ...
Tensions rose after drone attack in Beirut suburbs JERUSALEM/BEIRUT, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel was prepared for any scenario after a cross-border clash with Lebanon's Hezbollah but neither side seemed eager for another conflict. Israel's ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ Images have emerged purportedly showing smoke rising above Lebanon's Maroun al-Ras village after Israeli strikes The Lebanese Shia militant group, Hezbollah, has fired several anti-tank rockets into northern Israel in retaliation for a ...
BEIRUT/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Hezbollah said on Saturday its field commanders were ready to respond to an attack a week ago that the Lebanese group blamed on Israeli drones, after Israel’s military ordered extra forces to deploy near the border./ FILE PHOTO: A banner depicting Hezbollah leader ...
Fighters with the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement parade in a southern suburb of the capital Beirut to mark al-Quds International Day on May 31, 2019. (Photo by AFP)/ A senior Hezbollah official says the Lebanese resistance movement will hit targets deep inside the Israeli-occupied ...
56PM [Updated: Mon Sep 2, 2019 01:22PM ]/ Artillery shells are lined up beside an Israeli self-propelled artillery gun, near the Lebanese border on the outskirts of the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shemona, on September 1, 2019. (Photo by AFP)/ Iran has strongly condemned the Israeli regime's ...
21PM [Updated: Mon Sep 2, 2019 01:21PM ]/ An Israeli reconnaissance balloon flies over Meiss Ej Jabal village in the southern Lebanon on September 2, 2019. (Photo by National News Agency)/ The Israeli military has launched a reconnaissance balloon over the southern part of Lebanon, a day after ...
20AM [Updated: Mon Sep 2, 2019 07:29AM ]/ This picture taken on September 1, 2019 from a location near the northern Israeli town of Avivim, close to the border with Lebanon, shows fires and smoke rising after Lebanon's resistance movement Hezbollah fired anti-tank missiles into northern Israel. ...
23PM [Updated: Sun Sep 1, 2019 05:37PM ]/ The secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) says protecting the interests of the Lebanese people is the main approach followed by the Hezbollah resistance movement, adding that the movement enjoys significant popular support in the ...
06PM [Updated: Sun Sep 1, 2019 01:09PM ]/ The photo shows an Israeli shell after it slammed into the Jabal al-Rous area in the occupied Shebaa Farms and Kfarshouba Hills, southern Lebanon, on September 1, 2019. (Photo by Lebanon’s official National News Agency)/ Israeli artillery units have ...
55PM [Updated: Sun Sep 1, 2019 01:59PM ]/ Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah says it has targeted an Israeli military vehicle near the border with the occupied Palestinian lands, killing and injuring all forces on board. Following the attack on Sunday, Israeli military sources confirmed that ...
20AM [Updated: Mon Sep 2, 2019 06:21AM ]/ This picture taken on September 1, 2019 from a location near the illegal settlement of Avivim, shows a fire blazing in a field along the border with Israel on the Lebanese side following an exchange of fire. (Photo by AFP)/ As Hezbollah chief Sayyed ...
34PM [Updated: Sat Aug 31, 2019 07:39PM ]/ A speech by the Lebanese Shiite Muslim Hezbollah movement leader Hassan Nasrallah is transmitted on a large screen in the Lebanese capital Beirut's southern suburbs on August 31, 2019. (AFP photo)/ Leader of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah ...
Netanyahu's plan reportedly faces opposition from military chiefs/ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to propose fully reoccupying the Gaza Strip when he meets his security cabinet, Israeli media say. "The die has been cast. We're going for the full conquest of the Gaza Strip – and ...
'It's a new kind of cruelty', says Gaza hostage's brother/ The brother of an Israeli hostage held in the Gaza Strip has told the BBC that a Hamas video showing him emaciated and weak is a "new form of cruelty" that has left his parents shattered. Hamas released the footage of Evyatar David, 24, ...
The open letter urges Donald Trump to help end the suffering/ A group of some 600 retired Israeli security officials, including former heads of intelligence agencies, have written to US President Donald Trump to pressure Israel to immediately end the war in Gaza. "It is our professional ...
The boat carrying more than 150 migrants sank in the Gulf of Aden/ At least 68 migrants have died after a boat with about 157 people on board sank off the coast of Yemen in bad weather. The vessel capsized off the southern province of Abyan on Sunday, Yemen's chief for the International ...
The Palestine Red Crescent Society shared pictures showing heavy damage to its headquarters/ The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has accused Israeli forces of attacking its headquarters in the Gaza Strip, killing one worker and injuring three others. The humanitarian organisation said the ...
Hugo Bachega, Middle East correspondent in Jerusalem and Mallory Moench, BBC News in London/ Crowds of protesters gathered in Tel Aviv over the weekend demanding the immediate release of the hostages/ Western leaders have condemned videos of emaciated Israeli hostages filmed by their captors in ...
Hugo Bachega, Middle East correspondent in Jerusalem & Alys Davies, BBC News in London/ Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has visited the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem and prayed there, violating a decades-old arrangement covering one of the most sensitive ...
A file picture from February shows a group of armed Hamas fighters during the handover of Israeli hostages/ Hamas has reaffirmed that it will not agree to disarm unless a sovereign Palestinian state is established, in response to one of Israel's key demands in talks about a ceasefire in Gaza. ...
One of the major reasons why Britain's prime minister Sir Keir Starmer - following France and then in turn followed by Canada - has a plan to recognise a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly in September is to turn the two-state solution into a real diplomatic plan again, instead of the ...
Mark Carney announces Canada's plans to recognise a Palestinian state/ Prime Minister Mark Carney has said Canada plans to recognise a Palestinian state in September, becoming the third G7 nation to make such an announcement in recent days. Carney said the move depended on democratic reforms, ...