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The four Israeli soldiers killed in a Hezbollah drone attack on an army base in northern Israel have been named. Sergeant Omri Tamari, Sergeant Yosef Hieb, Sergeant Yoav Agmon and Sergeant Alon Amitay, all 19, died in the attack. Seven others were severely wounded in the strike, the Israeli military said. Israel’s national rescue service…
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Last night’s drone attack on Binyamina is Israel’s “first major setback” after two weeks of progress in Lebanon. The Israeli military says four people died in the strike, which hit an army base adjacent to the town, located on Israel’s Mediterranean coast. The IDF has stepped up its attacks on what it says are Hezbollah…
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Reports from one of the hospitals in northern Israel where people injured from a drone attack confirm that at least 36 people are receiving treatment after the Binyamina attack. The Hillel Yaffe hospital – just over five miles away from the site of the attack – is currently dealing with 36 casualties. Six of those…
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A spokesperson for UN secretary general Antonio Guterres says attacks against UN peacekeepers in Lebanon “may constitute a war crime”. There have been a growing number of encounters between Israeli forces and United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) peacekeepers in recent days. A series of strikes have hit peacekeeping positions and personnel, most of…
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Hezbollah’s priority right now is defeating Israel militarily, the head of Hezbollah’s media office, Mohammad Afif, has said. “Tel Aviv is only the start, Israel has only seen so little,” he said. “Our absolute priority now is to defeat the enemy and force them to stop the aggression. “However, any internal or external political effort…
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We have been reporting today that two people from UNIFIL, the UN’s peacekeeping mission in Lebanon, were injured when Israel fired on them yesterday. Now, the IDF has commented on the incident and said the peacekeepers were “inadvertently hurt during IDF combat against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon”. “The IDF expresses deep concern over incidents of…
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More than two days after the huge Israeli airstrike that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, smoke is still rising from the scene. People are flocking to the site this weekend – some to pay their respects and pray, others to see what is left of their homes. The Friday night strike had levelled multiple high-rise…
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The UK defence secretary has urged Britons again to leave Lebanon. Leaving the Cabinet Office a short while ago after chairing an emergency COBRA meeting about the Middle East crisis, John Healey said: “Our concern is always for the safety of British nationals. “And our advice to them is to leave Lebanon now, that hasn’t…
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The Israeli military says it killed Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Muhammad Qubaisi in an airstrike on Beirut. He was in charge of Hezbollah’s missiles and rockets force. Qubaisi was struck alongside other central commanders of Hezbollah’s missiles and rockets force, the military has said in a statement. It adds that he joined Hezbollah in the 1980s and…
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The heads of United Nations agencies are demanding an “end to the appalling human suffering and humanitarian catastrophe” in Gaza. It comes almost one year since the war between Israel and Palestinian militants Hamas began. “We cannot do our jobs in the face of overwhelming need and ongoing violence,” the top UN officials said in…
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At least 100 people in Lebanon have been killed in Israeli airstrikes, its health ministry has now said. The figure has doubled from 50 given in an earlier update. This would make it the deadliest day in Lebanon since the conflict started in October. The number of people wounded has risen to 400. Israel says…
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The airstrikes in southern Lebanon seemed to have sparked an exodus as people scramble to leave the area and head for the capital, Beirut. The education minister, Dr Abbas Halabi, said some schools in Beirut, Mount Lebanon, Chouf and Aley will be used as shelters for those fleeing. There are already 160,000 displaced Lebanese who’ve…
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There are several routes of escalation in the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, says former national security adviser Sir Mark Lyall Grant. He tells Sky News that Israel “probably has the greater incentive to escalate this conflict than the other side”. It could target Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah; Lebanese civilian infrastructure, as it has done…
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It’s Monday, so before we start another week of our coverage, here’s everything you need to know as tensions continue to rise in the Middle East… Week of escalation Fears of a wider regional conflict increased over the last week, as cross-border attacks between Israel and Lebanon-based Hezbollah reached new heights. On Tuesday and Wednesday,…
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Defense Minister Yoav Gallant ordered the Israel Defense Forces to recall some 15,000 reservists who had been released from active service in the past years but are still under 35 years old to boost the army’s manpower reserves, the IDF said in a statement. “In light of an assessment of the situation and the extent…
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Iran and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Sunday highlighted the necessity of effective measures to stop the ongoing Israeli attacks against the Gaza Strip and ensure the entry of humanitarian aid into the enclave. In a phone call, Iranian Caretaker Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani and UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al…
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