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Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has urged members of the European Union to suspend the bloc’s free trade agreement with Israel over its actions in Gaza and Lebanon. Both Spain and Ireland have been in talks with other EU nations for months over reviewing the EU-Israel Association Agreement on the basis Israel may be breaching…
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An Israeli strike has hit the north Lebanese majority-Christian region of Aitou for the first time in a year of hostilities, according to local media reports. Lebanese media also said Israeli jets had struck several villages in the Baalbek district in the Bekaa Valley. Israel has said it is targeting Hezbollah strongholds in the south of…
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US defence secretary Lloyd Austin has told his Israeli counterpart that Israel should be taking all necessary measures to ensure the safety and security of UN peacekeepers in Lebanon and the Lebanese Armed Forces. In the call with Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant, Mr Austin also said Israel should pivot away from military operations in…
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Israeli airstrikes have forced around 40% of Lebanon’s 1.5 million students from their homes, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). It comes as the start of the school year for public schools in Lebanon has been postponed until 4 November, with around 60% of public schools currently being used…
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Donald Trump says Joe Biden’s lack of conversation with Benjamin Netanyahu is “pathetic” and that Israel’s prime minister is not listening to him. Mr Biden spoke with Mr Netanyahu last week in what was the first known conversation between the two leaders since August. Mr Trump, the Republican presidential candidate for the upcoming US election,…
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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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Israel’s military said that one of its tanks entered a United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) post while trying to evacuate injured soldiers today. Earlier, UNIFIL said its peacekeepers in Ramyah, southern Lebanon, were in shelters when two Israeli tanks “forcibly entered” their position, requesting that the base “turn out its lights”. The tanks…
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The US has confirmed it is sending a Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) battery to Israel. The highly advanced defence system possesses the ability to fend off ballistic missiles inside or outside the atmosphere during their final, or terminal, phase of flight. The THAAD interceptor doesn’t carry a warhead, instead relying on its own…
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The US will send an advanced anti-missile system to Israel and troops to operate it. The Terminal High-Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) can defend against long, medium and short-range ballistic missiles. The system will be used “to help bolster Israel’s air defences following Iran’s unprecedented attacks against Israel on 13 April 13 and again on 1…
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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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Israel is facing heavy criticism over its attacks on UN peacekeeping positions in Lebanon. A UN source said Israel had injured two people when it fired on peacekeepers in southern Lebanon this morning. The UN peacekeeping mission known as UNIFIL is stationed in southern Lebanon to monitor hostilities along the demarcation line with Israel – an area…
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Many European leaders on Monday called for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip while repeating their support for the two-state solution. Since Israel launched a large-scale offensive in Gaza to retaliate against a surprise attack by Hamas on the southern Israeli border on Oct. 7 last year, 41,909 Palestinians have been killed, and 97,303…
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U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday condemned the massacre of innocent people by Hamas and mourned the loss of civilian lives in Gaza in a call with Israeli President Isaac Herzog as the world marks the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas. Expressing his “deepest condolences” to the 1,200 innocent people killed…
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United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Filippo Grandi visited the Jdeidet Yabous crossing on the border between Syria and Lebanon on Monday, Syria’s state news agency SANA reported. “I’m at the Syrian/Lebanese border, where a quarter of a million people have crossed since September 23, when Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon escalated,” Grandi said Monday…
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