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Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant on Tuesday said that Hezbollah’s new chief, Naim Qassem, was a “temporary appointment” and that he won’t last “long”. His reaction came hours after the Iran-backed group announced that it had chosen deputy head Naim Qassem to succeed Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli strike in Lebanon’s Beirut…
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Palestinians gather as they register for medical check ups at a health center run by United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Deir Al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, October 29, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters A single Israeli air strike on a residential block left nearly 100 dead on…
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Beirut, Lebanon: Lebanon said an Israeli strike on Tyre on Monday killed seven people, with the Israeli army later issuing an evacuation call for swathes of the southern coastal city. An “Israeli enemy strike this morning on a building” in the centre of Tyre killed “seven people and wounded 17 others”, a health ministry statement…
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Israel’s airstrikes “hit hard” Iran’s defences and missile production, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday, but Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the damage from Saturday’s attack should not be exaggerated. With warfare raging in Gaza and Lebanon, direct confrontation between Israel and Iran risks spiralling into a regional conflagration. But a day…
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Beirut, Lebanon: Lebanon’s health ministry said at least eight people were killed and 25 others wounded Sunday in an Israeli strike near the southern city of Sidon, where an AFP correspondent said a building was targeted. The strike hit a densely-populated area in a Sidon suburb that saw an influx of families displaced from areas…
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A picture clicked by AP photographer Bilal Hussein. A flock of birds fly as smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP We watch video after video, consuming the world on our handheld devices in bites of…
Iran warned on Saturday it would defend itself after Israeli air strikes killed at least two soldiers and further stoked fears of a full-scale regional war in the Middle East. Israel warned Iran would “pay a heavy price” if it responded to the strikes, and the United States, Germany and Britain demanded Tehran not escalate…
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Commuters drive along a street in Tehran on October 26, 2024. Residents of Tehran awoke and went about their business as planned on October 26 after their sleep was troubled by Israeli strikes that triggered blasts that echoed across the city. | Photo Credit: AFP Israel bombed military targets in Iran on Saturday (October 26,…
Armoured vehicles of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) patrol the Marjayoun area in southern Lebanon on October 24, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hezbollah. | Photo Credit: AFP United Nations peacekeepers said on Friday (October 25, 2024) that Israeli soldiers fired at one of their observation posts in south…
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Jerusalem: The Israeli army said Friday that a strike that killed three journalists in south Lebanon was “under review”, maintaining that it had targeted Hezbollah militants. “Earlier today, following intelligence information, the IDF (army) struck a Hezbollah military structure in Hasbaya in southern Lebanon,” the military said in a statement to AFP. “The strike was…
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