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Lebanon says Israel attack on Syria violates airspace, wants UN action

3 days ago
The Foreign Ministry denounced Monday the latest Israeli attack on the coastal region of Syria. It condemned the Israeli violation of Lebanon's airspace to fire missiles on the neighboring war-torn country. "We will file a complaint to the United Nations Security Council against the ongoing Israeli violations," the ministry said. Israel had launched a missile […]
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AMERICANS RARELY SEE THE TRUE FACE OF ISRAEL’S BOMBING OF GAZA

6 days ago
By shying away from graphic images of death, news organizations sanitize the violence of Israeli aggression against Palestinians. By Elise Swain, Alice Speri WHEN A CEASEFIRE on Sunday night ended a three-day Israeli offensive in the Gaza strip, over 350 Palestinians were wounded and 46 were dead, including 16 children, according to Palestinian officials. Media coverage in […]
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BREAKING NEWS - Nasrallah says Israel mistaken if it thinks it can repeat Gaza fiasco in Lebanon

2 weeks ago
Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Saturday warned Israel against making a “miscalculation” towards Lebanon similar to the one he said it has made towards Gaza, where it has launched a major military operation against the Islamic Jihad group. “We in Hezbollah are following up on what’s happening hour by hour and we’re in constant […]
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Jumblat worried about Hezbollah warmongering, says country can't eat rockets

3 weeks ago
Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat on Tuesday urged Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah to avoid a war with Israel, as he called for electing a new president who has a “clear program.” “There are rockets but will the Lebanese eat rockets?” Jumblat said in an interview on LBCI television. “We tell (Hezbollah chief) Sayyed […]
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BREAKING NEWS - Israel launches new air strikes on Gaza

2 months ago
Israeli air strikes hit Hamas military sites in the Gaza Strip on Saturday in response to rocket fire from the Palestinian enclave run by the Islamist movement, the Israeli army said. "A short while ago, in response to the rocket attack, (Israeli military) aircraft struck a number of Hamas terror targets in the Gaza Strip," […]
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Gaza and Israel trade blows

4 months ago
Palestinian militants fired volleys of rockets from Gaza into Israel, which responded with air strikes in the early hours of Thursday in the biggest escalation since an 11-day war last year. A rocket from Gaza on Wednesday evening fell harmlessly in a garden in the southern Israeli city of Sderot, police said. Israel struck back […]
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BREAKING NEWS - Jewish extremists defy Israeli police ban, headed to Aqsa mosque

4 months ago
A group of Israeli ultra-nationalists said it is determined to go ahead with a flag-waving march around predominantly Palestinian areas of Jerusalem's Old City later Wednesday, brushing aside a police ban of an event that served as one of the triggers of last year's Israel-Gaza war. In a sign of the already heated atmosphere, a […]
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Gantz won't let Hezbollah get game-changer weapons

9 months ago
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz has vowed that Israel will not allow advanced weaponry to reach Iran’s regional proxies, amid a recent uptick in Israeli airstrikes in Syria. “Fifteen years ago, this place burned from Hizbullah rockets,” he said at the inauguration of a new factory opened by Israeli weapons maker Rafael in the northern […]
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BREAKING NEWS - Israel continues to pound Gaza strip

11 months ago
Israeli fighter jets struck Hamas sites in Gaza in response to rocket firing towards Israel on Friday evening, an Israeli army spokesman said in a twitter post early on Saturday. Sirens warning of incoming rocket fire sounded near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip late on Friday, the Israeli military said. The sirens were sounded […]
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US investigating arms firms Raytheon for possible bribes in Qatar

12 months ago
U.S. authorities are investigating whether payments by U.S. weapons maker Raytheon Technologies Corp RTX.N to a consultant for the Qatar Armed Forces may have been bribes intended for a member of the country's ruling royal family, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. A lawsuit filed in California in 2019 included allegations […]
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BREAKING NEWS - Israel shells Lebanon for supposed breach of peace

1 year ago
The Israeli military said its artillery shelled southern Lebanon early Tuesday after two rockets were fired from Lebanon into Israeli territory. The army said in a statement that aerial defenses intercepted one of the rockets, and the second fell in an open area. No injuries or damage were reported. The rocket fire from Lebanon was […]
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Americans insist none of their people harmed in Syria, Iraq retaliatory attacks

1 year ago
U.S. forces in eastern Syria took indirect fire on Saturday but initial reports did not indicate any casualties or damage, a U.S. defense official told Reuters. The incident was the latest in a series of attacks on U.S. personnel in Iraq and Syria in recent days. The official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said […]
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Israel wants provocative right-wing march in Old City

1 year ago
Israeli officials said on Tuesday they would allow a right-wing march in Jerusalem’s Old City to go ahead next week under certain conditions, a day after police barred the event’s route fearing it would rekindle conflict between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza. Several right-wing Israeli groups had planned a flag-waving procession through the walled […]
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Blinken headed to Mideast this week

1 year ago
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Israel and the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank on Wednesday and Thursday as part of Washington’s efforts to build on the Gaza truce, a source briefed on the planning said on Saturday. US, Israeli and Palestinian officials have not published Blinken’s full itinerary. The State Department […]
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France in tussle with US over Security Council resolution, EU makes separate peace bid

1 year ago
China’s UN ambassador says France is seeking a UN Security Council resolution calling for a cease-fire between Israel and Palestinian militants who control Gaza. Zhang Jun, the current council president, confirmed that France’s UN Ambassador Nicolas De Riviere informed the council during the third round of closed consultations Tuesday on the conflict that a resolution […]
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