Hezbollah hits Israeli base, says it does not want wider war
Beirut, LebanonReuters Hezbollah attacked an Israeli army base with explosive drones deployed from Lebanon on Tuesday, hitting the position for the first time in what the Iran-backed group declared part of its response to recent Israeli assassinations in Lebanon. Also on Tuesday, an Israeli attack killed three Hezbollah fighters in south Lebanon, sources familiar with […]
Hezbollah chief says group “cannot be silent” after Hamas leader’s killing, warns Israel against spreading Gaza war
Beirut, Lebanon/Cairo, Egypt/Gaza Reuters The head of Lebanon’s Hezbollah said on Wednesday it “cannot be silent” after the killing of Hamas’ deputy leader in Beirut and warned that his heavily armed forces would fight to the finish if Israel chose to extend war from Gaza to Lebanon. Israeli forces meanwhile kept up their aerial and […]
Postcards: In south Lebanon, conflict casts long shadow over Christmas
Reuters correspondents report from Tyre…
Slain Lebanese schoolgirl sisters among latest victims of Mideast war
Aynata, Lebanon Reuters Sisters Rimas, Daline and Lianne Chour were preparing to travel to Beirut for temporary schooling there because of escalating clashes between Israel and Hezbollah militants in their native southern Lebanon. When they set off on Sunday, a missile Lebanon says Israel fired hit their car, killing all three and their grandmother, and […]
Lebanon must be kept out of Hamas-Israel war, Patriarch says
Beirut, LebanonReuters Lebanon’s top Christian cleric urged state officials on Monday to shield Lebanon from the war between Palestinian Islamist group Hamas and Israel, as the Lebanese Shi’ite group Hezbollah clashes with Israeli forces at the border. Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros Al-Rai holds a mass in the memory of victims of August 4, 2020 Beirut […]
Israel strikes Gaza ambulance; Netanyahu rejects halt without hostage release
Gaza/Tele Aviv, Israel/Beirut, LebanonReuters Israel struck an ambulance near a Gaza hospital on Friday in an attack the military said targeted militants, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected calls by Washington’s top diplomat for a halt to fighting unless hostages held by Hamas are freed. Warning Israel and the US of a potential regional war, […]
Lebanese boats warned off fishing areas amid border clashes
Tyre, Lebanon Reuters Fishermen in the Lebanese city of Tyre are among those counting the costs of war in the Middle East. As Israel and Hezbollah clash, it is too dangerous to sail into nearby fishing grounds. “Already our fish were scarce. Now we have the war,” said fisherman Imad Azuzu. “If we venture a […]
Israelis, Lebanese pack bags for indefinite exile amid fears of border war
Tiberias, Israel/Beirut, LebanonReuters Israeli and Lebanese residents on both sides of escalating border clashes say they have never felt such tension. Fearing their hometowns could become the main front in a war between Israel and the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah, the most powerful military and political group in Lebanon, they have packed their bags and […]
Lebanon Christian cleric urges state control of weapons after clash
Beirut Reuters Lebanon’s top Christian cleric called for state control over weapons on Sunday, days after a deadly clash between Christian villagers and the heavily armed group Hezbollah over an overturned truck of ammunition. A Hezbollah member and a Christian resident were killed in Wednesday’s exchange of fire in the village of Kahaleh, near Beirut, […]
Two killed in clash between Lebanon’s Hezbollah, Christian villagers – sources
Beirut, LebanonReuters Two people were killed in Lebanon on Wednesday in an exchange of fire between Hezbollah members and residents of a Christian village after a truck belonging to the heavily armed Shi’ite group overturned in the area, security sources said. A member of the Iran-backed Hezbollah and a resident of the mountain village of […]