Israeli Energy Minister Eli Cohen on Monday accused the United Nations’ UNIFIL peacekeepers in south Lebanon of being a “useless” force that failed to protect Israelis from Hezbollah attacks. Cohen called on UNIFIL to withdraw as fighting ramps up. “The State of Israel will do everything to ensure the safety of its citizens, and if…
The Israeli army has intensified its ground offensive in southern Lebanon, deploying a fourth division in its fight against the Islamist Hezbollah militia. A division is a large military unit composed of several brigades and typically includes thousands of soldiers. The army said the 146th Reserve Division has been operating in the western sector of…
Israeli President Isaac Herzog has called on the world to support Israel in the fight against its enemies, as he spoke during a ceremony to mark one year since the Hamas terrorist attack. ‘This is a scar on humanity. This is a scar on the face of the Earth,’’ he said on Monday at the…
An Israeli drone attack targeted and destroyed a weapons depot in the coastal Syrian city of Jableh before daybreak Thursday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. The attack carried out via drones and warplane missiles leveled the depot and caused massive explosions heard from long distances, said the UK-based watchdog group. It added that…
Iran has extended the closure of its airspace as it expects Israeli retaliation following its attack on the enemy country on Tuesday evening. All flights have been cancelled until 5 am (0130 GMT) on Thursday to maintain aviation security, state news agency ISNA reported, citing a spokesman for the aviation authority. Iran initially closed the…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed that Israel would retaliate against Iran’s missile attack, during which 180 missiles were fired toward Israel. “Iran made a big mistake, and it will pay for it,” said Netanyahu during a Security Cabinet meeting, which discussed Israel’s ground campaign in Lebanon and possible responses to Iran’s missile attack….
Since the beginning of Israel’s massive aerial campaign on Lebanon which was launched last week, some 1,000 people have fled the country to neighbouring Syria. The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Monday. Some 60 per cent of them are believed to be Syrian refugees that previously fled to Lebanon amid the civil war that…
At least 14 paramedics have been killed in Israeli airstrikes over the past two days, Lebanese officials reported on Sunday. The Israeli military targeted areas near a hospital in the Bekaa Valley in the east, forcing its temporary closure, the Lebanese Health Ministry reported. The ministry condemned the strikes as a violation of international law,…
Escalated Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon killed 16 members of four Syrian families, including women and children, a war monitor reported. The death toll among Syrian refugees, who had fled the war in Syria seeking safety in Lebanon, continues to rise as the conflict intensifies between Israel and Hezbollah, a Britain-based war monitor said. With Monday’s…
South Africa will in October file additional papers to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to provide evidence on the Israeli genocide case, said the South African Presidency. In 2023, South Africa approached the ICJ seeking an interdict for the court to force Israel to stop attacking Palestine and declare it genocide. The world court…
