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New York: The war between Israel and armed group Hezbollah is expected to wipe 9% off Lebanon’s national wealth as measured by GDP, the United Nations said on Wednesday, with the scale of hostilities and the economic fallout set to surpass the last war in 2006. The UN Development Programme’s rapid appraisal of the conflict’s…
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Senior Hezbollah leader Hashem Safieddine attends a funeral in Dahiyeh, Beirut, Lebanon, on September 18, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Hashem Safieddine, a strongman who rose through the ranks of the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah over decades to become the second-most powerful person within the organisation, has died. Safieddine, who was about 60, was…
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Just a month ago, south Beirut’s bustling streets were packed with traffic, families strolling about and youths in cafes, but now silence dominates the abandoned Hezbollah bastion, interrupted only by the sound of Israeli bombs. Escalating Israeli attacks since late September, after nearly a year of low-intensity cross-border exchanges, have reduced much of the Lebanese…
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Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday (October 19, 2024) accused Iran-backed Hezbollah of trying to assassinate him, with the Middle East already on edge after Israel had vowed retaliation for an Iranian missile barrage. Mr. Netanyahu’s office said a drone was launched toward his residence in the central town of Caesarea but he and…
Representational image only. File | Photo Credit: AFP The Israeli military said a drone spotted crossing into the country from Lebanon on Saturday (October 19, 2024) struck the central town of Caesarea, while two others were intercepted. “The drone “hit a structure in the area of Caesarea” without causing any casualties,” the military said, without…
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A view of a damaged site after an Israeli strike in Nabatiyeh. Beirut: Lebanon’s health ministry on Wednesday said 16 people were killed and 52 others wounded in Israeli strikes on municipal buildings in the southern city of Nabatiyeh, revising upwards an earlier toll. “Sixteen were martyred and 52 others wounded in the final toll…
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Displaced children draw at a school-turned shelter in Beirut, amid the ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, on October 15, 2024. | Photo Credit: REUTERS Strikes hit south Beirut on Wednesday (October 16, 2024), an AFP journalist saw, less than an hour after the Israeli military ordered residents to leave part of the Lebanese…
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected on Tuesday (October 15, 2024) the idea of a ceasefire in Lebanon that would leave Hezbollah close to his country’s northern border, as the militant group threatened to widen its attacks. Mr. Netanyahu’s comments came as the United States ramped up pressure over Israel’s conduct of the wars in…
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A woman walks outside accommodations housing Lebanese fleeing the war between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon, in al-Harjalah, south of the Syrian capital Damascus, on October 15, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP Israel, which began incursions into south Lebanon two weeks ago to battle Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah, has issued military evacuation orders affecting more…
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The rubble of a house destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in Deir Billa, Lebanon is pictured on October 13, 2024. Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu has called on the U.N. to remove UNIFIL peacekeeping forces in southern Lebanon immediately. File | Photo Credit: Getty Images The U.N. Security Council expressed “strong concern” Monday (October 14, 2024)…
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