Israel ramps up airstrikes, calls for evacuations from south Lebanon as it hits Beirut suburb
Nearly 2,000 people have been killed, including 127 children, and 9,384 injured since the start of the Israeli attacks on Lebanon over the last year, the country’s health minister Firass Abiad said on Thursday.
Source reveals Iran’s spiritual leader Ayatollah Khamenei warned Hezbollah boss Nasrallah of Israeli plot to kill him
Iran’s fears for the safety of Khamenei and the loss of trust, within both Hezbollah and Iran’s establishment and between them, emerged in the conversations with 10 sources for this story, who described a situation that could complicate the effective functioning of Iran’s Axis of Resistance alliance of anti-Israel irregular armed groups.
Prospects of wider Middle East war rise after Iran missile attack on Israel that’s vowed to retaliate
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to strike back. “Iran made a big mistake tonight – and it will pay for it,” he said at the outset of an emergency political security cabinet meeting late on Tuesday, according to a statement.
Israeli warplanes bomb Lebanon from the skies as US warns of Iran missile attack
Many Lebanese said they were prepared to resist Israeli forces: “Not just Hezbollah, all of Lebanon will fight this time. All of Lebanon is determined to fight Israel for the massacres it committed in Gaza and Lebanon,” said Abu Alaa, a Sidon resident.
Top Hamas commander killed in Lebanon was UNRWA staff on forced leave on suspicion of ties with militia group
The UN’s internal watchdog has been investigating UNRWA since Israel in January accused 12 of its staffers of being involved in the October 7 attack on Israel, in which armed militants killed 1,200 people and abducted some 250 others. The allegations led more than a dozen donor countries to suspend their funding, causing an initial cash crunch of about $450 million dollars.
Rwanda reports eight deaths linked to Ebola-like Marburg virus days after it declared an outbreak
The World Health Organization was scaling up its support and will work with Rwandan authorities to help stop the spread, WHO’s Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Saturday on the social media platform X.
Unrelenting Israeli strikes and kill Hamas leader in Lebanon, three Palestinian leaders in Beirut
The intensifying Israeli bombardments have killed a string of top officials of the Iran-backed Hezbollah, Israel’s arch-enemy. On Sunday, Israel carried out airstrikes on dozens of Hezbollah targets throughout Lebanon and against the Iran-aligned Houthi militia in Yemen.
Israeli bombs fall as Kenyan, Ethiopian, Filipino and other migrant workers are stranded in Lebanon, passports confiscated
While the bombs fall, the death toll grows, and there are rumours of both a ceasefire and an Israeli ground invasion. Wangari is simply hoping for a new job so she can keep scraping together money to send to her five-year-old son in Nairobi. His name, Jayson, is tattooed across her arm as a reminder of why she is in Lebanon.
Who were the seven high-ranking Hezbollah officials killed in Israeli attacks in past week?
Since 1992, Nasrallah had led the group through several wars with Israel and oversaw the party’s transformation into a powerful player in Lebanon. Hezbollah entered Lebanon’s political arena while also taking part in regional conflicts that made it the most powerful paramilitary force.
No let up: Three Palestinian top leaders killed in Israel strike in Beirut
Israel’s increasing frequency of attacks against the Hezbollah militia in Lebanon and the Houthi militia in Yemen have prompted fears that Middle East fighting could spin out of control and draw in Iran and the United States, Israel’s main ally.
