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UN Warns Of ‘Full-Scale’ War On Israel-Lebanon Border Where Indian Peacekeepers Posted

July 6, 2024 admin

The world organisation has warned of a “heightened risk of a full-scale war” along the Lebanon-Israel border where 901 Indian peacekeepers are deployed. “The UN is deeply concerned at the increase in the intensity of exchanges of fire across the Blue Line yesterday, which heightens the risk of a full-scale war”, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s spokesperson’s…

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Iran Warns Israel Of “Obliterating” War If Lebanon Attacked

June 29, 2024 admin

The war in Gaza began in October when Hamas operatives attacked Israel. (Representational) Tehran, Iran: Iran on Saturday warned that “all Resistance Fronts”, a grouping of Iran and its regional allies, would confront Israel if it attacks Lebanon. The comment from Iran’s mission to New York comes with fears of a wider regional war involving…

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Amid Gaza war, Israel warns could send Lebanon ‘back to Stone Age’

June 27, 2024 admin

Israel launched air strikes on Gaza on June 27 after warning Hezbollah, Hamas’s ally in Lebanon, to avoid a large-scale war that would send the neighbouring country “back to the Stone Age”. Defence Minister Yoav Gallant made the comment during a visit to Washington, where he discussed the Gaza war, long-running efforts toward a truce,…

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Hezbollah chief warns archenemy Israel against wider war with Lebanon

June 20, 2024 admin

Lebanon’s Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah speaks during a televised address at a memorial service for Taleb Abdallah, a senior field commander in the group who was killed on June 11 alongside three other Hezbollah fighters in an Israeli strike on the south Lebanon village of Jouaiyya, in Beirut’s southern suburbs, Lebanon on June 19,…

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Hezbollah attacks Israel after deadly south Lebanon strike

May 6, 2024 admin

Smoke rises above Lebanon, following an Israeli strike, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, as seen from Israel’s border with Lebanon in northern Israel on May 5, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Official media in Lebanon said an Israeli strike on May 5 on a southern village killed four family members, with…

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Child, Parents Killed In Israeli Strike In Lebanon: Report

May 5, 2024 admin

Israel says 11 soldiers and nine civilians have been killed on its side of the border. (File) Beirut: A local official in southern Lebanon said an Israeli strike on a village Sunday killed a couple and their child, the latest deadly incident in the border region. Israel and Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah group have exchanged regular…

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Israel says forces carrying out ‘offensive action’ in south Lebanon

April 25, 2024 admin

Israeli and Lebanese flags are seen in this illustration | Photo Credit: Reuters Israeli forces are carrying out “offensive action” across southern Lebanon, Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said Wednesday without specifying whether ground troops had crossed the border. “Many forces are deployed on the border and IDF (army) forces are carrying out offensive action currently…

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Israel Says Forces Carrying Out “Offensive Action” Across Southern Lebanon

April 24, 2024 admin

Israel says 11 soldiers and eight civilians have been killed on its side of the border. (File) Jerusalem: Israeli forces are carrying out “offensive action” across southern Lebanon, Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said Wednesday without specifying whether ground troops had crossed the border. “Many forces are deployed on the border and IDF (army) forces are…

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Amid Tensions With Iran, Israel Targets Hezbollah Training Camp In Lebanon

April 7, 2024 admin

One of the strikes was aimed at the town of Safri, near the eastern city of Baalbek Israel launched air strikes on the Bekaa Valley, in eastern Lebanon early on Sunday, two Lebanese security sources told Reuters, a few hours after the downing of an Israeli drone over Lebanon. The sources said that the Israeli…

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Israeli strike on Lebanese house kills five: state media

March 10, 2024 admin

Smoke billows above buildings following an Israeli strike in the southern Lebanese border village of Majdal Zoun on March 9, 2024, amid ongoing cross-border tensions as fighting continues between Israel and Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip. | Photo Credit: AFP At least five people were killed on March 9, four from the same family,…

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