PodcastPodcast, The Take As a ceasefire is reached in Lebanon, the Israeli military intensifies its attacks across Gaza. A ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah has taken effect, aiming to end more than a year of war in Lebanon. As displaced families return home and celebrations erupt in Lebanon’s streets, uncertainty looms over how long the…
The administration of United States President Joe Biden is reported to have provisionally approved a $680m arms package to Israel, even as it asserts that it is pushing for peace in the Middle East. Reports of the arms deal on Wednesday come a day after Biden announced a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah and promised…
Israel and the Iran-backed group Hezbollah appear set to halt the war that has killed almost 3,800 people in Lebanon over the last year and left about 16,000 others wounded. President Biden is expected to announce Tuesday that the U.S. helped secure a ceasefire in Lebanon, ending the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, according to a…
By Hannah Confino and Laila Bassam Israel says it’s moving closer to Lebanon ceasefire JERUSALEM/BEIRUT – A senior Israeli official said on Monday Israel’s cabinet would meet on Tuesday to weigh a ceasefire deal with Hezbollah that could be cemented in coming days, and a Lebanese official said Beirut had been told by Washington that…
ROME (Reuters) – Lebanon on Monday condemned attacks on the United Nations peacekeeping mission (UNIFIL) stationed in its south, including last week’s rocket strike in which four Italian soldiers were lightly injured. The 10,000-strong multi-national UNIFIL mission is monitoring hostilities along the demarcation line with Israel, an area hit by fierce clashes between the Iran-backed…
Lebanon’s state media reported a slew of Israeli air strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs on Sunday, after the Israeli military posted evacuation calls online for parts of the Hezbollah bastion. AFPTV footage showed smoke billowing above the area on Sunday evening, following earlier raids in the afternoon. AFP journalists in the city and its outskirts…
JERUSALEM/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon’s Hezbollah fired heavy rocket barrages at Israel on Sunday, with Israeli media reporting that a building had been hit near Tel Aviv, after a powerful Israeli airstrike killed at least 20 people in Beirut the day before. Israel also struck Beirut’s Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs, where intensified bombardment over the last two…
Israeli airstrikes Saturday killed at least 11 people and injured dozens in central Beirut as diplomats scrambled to broker a cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah. Lebanon’s Health Ministry said the death toll in the country’s capital could rise as emergency responders dig through the rubble looking for survivors. DNA tests are being used to identify…
Text size When Lebanese carpenter Samir awoke in a panic Saturday to the sound of explosions and screams, he thought his own building in central Beirut had been hit by an air raid. As it turned out, the early morning air strike — which killed at least 11 people and injured 63, according to authorities…
Rescue teams using excavators search for missing people under the rubble of a destroyed building after Israeli airstrikes hit a residential area in the Basta neighborhood in central Beirut, Lebanon, on Saturday. At least 11 people were killed and 63 others injured, according to Lebanon’s Ministry of Health. Photo by Abbas Salman/EPA-EFE BEIRUT, Lebanon, Nov….