In a wooded valley close to the Israeli border, United Nations peacekeepers showed AFP journalists a Hezbollah bunker they had uncovered in southern Lebanon, a former bastion of the militant group. The UN Security Council voted on Thursday to end the mission of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) in 2027, with the…
Jun 27, 2025 10:56 PM IST The retaliatory airstrikes asserted that such actions violate existing agreements between Israel and Lebanon, as said by the IDF. The IDF (Israel Defence Forces), on Friday morning, attacked, in an airstrike, a site used to manage the Hezbollah terrorist organisation’s fire and defence system in the Beaufort Ridge area…
New drone footage on Thursday showed the full scale of destruction from Israeli bombardment across southern Lebanon after a cease-fire agreement was reached between Israel and Lebanon-based Hezbollah militants. For more than 60 days, Lebanese residents have watched stunned as Israeli strikes smashed into buildings, raising giant explosions and palls of smoke in the heart…
By Maya Gebeily BEIRUT (Reuters) – Israel said on Thursday that its ceasefire with Hezbollah was breached hours after Lebanese security sources said Israeli tanks attacked six areas of southern Lebanon, calling into question a truce reached after more than a year of fighting. A ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah took…
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…
Nov 03, 2024 10:59 PM IST Israel’s recent strikes in eastern Lebanon followed warnings of renewed attacks on Hezbollah. Netanyahu’s visit to the border marked his second this month. An airstrike near Sidon in southern Lebanon killed three people on Sunday, coinciding with bombings in the east and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to…