Israel-Lebanon conflict updates: Fresh Israeli air strike kills nine in central Beirut

U.S. President Joe Biden said he was discussing possible Israeli strikes on Iranian oil facilities, in comments that sent oil prices spiking just a month before the U.S. polls

Updated - October 05, 2024 07:40 pm IST

A view shows smoke and flames, amid ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, near Nahariya, Israel, October 3, 2024.

A view shows smoke and flames, amid ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, near Nahariya, Israel, October 3, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters

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A fresh air strike hit an apartment in central Beirut killed nine people. Israel has been pounding areas of the country where the Hezbollah militant group has a strong presence since late September, but has rarely struck in the heart of the capital.

The Lebanese Army returned Israeli fire for the first time in nearly a year of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. 

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A total of 1,974 people have been killed, including 127 children, and 9,384 injured since the start of the Israeli attacks on Lebanon over the last year, the country’s Health Minister Firass Abiad said.

Meanwhile, Lebanon’s Transport Minister Ali Hamieh said that all border crossings were under government monitoring following Israeli accusations that Hezbollah was smuggling weapons from Syria through the Masnaa border crossing.

  • October 05, 2024 19:38
    ‘We had no choice but to defend and deter Israel,’ Iranian envoy on ballistic missile attack

    Iran’s Ambassador to India, Iraj Elahi, has described Iran’s ballistic missile attack on Israel “retaliation” and stressed that former Tehran had no option other than to defend and deter Tel Aviv from repeating such a crime.

    In an interview with ANI, Elahi said that the genocide in Gaza has been going on and Western nations are silent and are making no effort to stop the crimes of Israel in the region.

    When asked what prompted Iran’s ballistic missile attack on Israel, he said, “Just retaliation, just one thing retaliation. Israel has assassinated leader of Hamas inside Tehran, capital of Iran, and it violated Iranian sovereignty. So, we had no choice just to defend and deter Israel from repeating such a crime.”

    Iran launched approximately 200 ballistic missiles at targets in Israel on October 1. 

    - ANI

  • October 04, 2024 03:17
    Source close to Hezbollah says Israel launches 11 consecutive strikes on south Beirut

    A source close to Lebanon’s Hezbollah group said Israel had conducted 11 consecutive strikes on the group’s south Beirut stronghold, with AFP correspondents in the capital and beyond hearing the loud bangs.

    “Israel struck the southern suburbs 11 consecutives times,” the source said on the condition of anonymity. The bombardment was so intense that car alarms went off and buildings shook in Beirut and its outskirts.- AFP

  • October 04, 2024 00:59
    G7 voices ‘deep concern’ over ‘deteriorating situation’ in Mideast

    Leaders of the G7 countries on Thursday voiced concern over the “deteriorating situation” in the Middle East while warning against further “uncontrollable escalation” in the region.

    G7 leaders “express deep concern over the deteriorating situation in the Middle East and condemn in the strongest terms Iran’s direct military attack against Israel,” they said in a statement, warning that the “dangerous cycle of attacks and retaliation risks fuelling uncontrollable escalation... which is in no one’s interest”.- AFP

  • October 04, 2024 00:35
    Pentagon says it’s talking to Israel about response to Iran’s attack

    he Pentagon said on Thursday that it was in discussions with Israeli officials about their possible response to Iran’s missile attack earlier this week but declined to offer more details on those talks.

    “We are certainly talking to them about their response, but what their response might be, I’m just not going to speculate further on. But we do continue to engage with them,” said Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh. - Reuters

  • October 03, 2024 23:27
    U.S. President Biden says ‘discussing’ possible Israeli strikes on Iran oil facilities

    President Joe Biden said he was discussing possible Israeli strikes on Iranian oil facilities, in comments that sent oil prices spiking Thursday just a month before the U.S. presidential election.

    Mr. Biden told reporters at the White House however that he was not expecting Israel to launch any retaliation for Tehran’s missile barrage on Israel before Thursday at least.- AFP

  • October 03, 2024 23:03
    Humanitarian aid now a priority in Lebanon, say NGOs

    Leading humanitarian groups on Thursday called for a ceasefire in Lebanon, voicing concern at the growing impact of Israel’s conflict with Hezbollah on civilians.

    “The last couple of weeks have been a complete nightmare,” said Jennifer Moorehead, Lebanon country director for Save the Children.

    More than 1.2 million people or 20 percent of the population had left their homes and were on the move, she said, creating a “crisis of alarming proportions”, Beirut-based Moorehead told a video conference.

    Israel has launched massive air strikes on Hezbollah and this week sent ground forces across its northern border, which the Iran-backed group has hit with repeated rocket attacks in the last 12 months.

    -AFP

  • October 03, 2024 22:52
    Russian deputy foreign minister, Israeli envoy discuss situation in Middle East in Moscow

    Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov held a meeting with the Israeli envoy to Moscow Simona Halperin on Thursday, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

    The ministry said Bogdanov and Halperin discussed the situation in the Middle East, including Gaza and Lebanon, but provided no details.

    -Reuters

  • October 03, 2024 22:19
    Qatar emir pledges support for Lebanon under ‘brutal attacks’

    Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani on Thursday expressed his “full support” for Lebanon and said he ordered the provision of aid to the embattled country in light of attacks by Israel.

    “I affirm the State of Qatar’s full support for Lebanon and its brotherly people against the brutal attacks they are being subjected to,” the emir said on social media platform X, adding that he has ordered “rapid action and the provision of all necessary resources” to provide aid to affected communities.

    -AFP

  • October 03, 2024 21:55
    IMF says escalation of Middle East conflict could have significant economic consequences

    The International Monetary Fund said on Thursday that an escalation of the conflict in the Middle East could have significant economic ramifications for the region and the global economy, but commodity prices remain below the highs of the past year.

    IMF spokesperson Julie Kozack told a regular news briefing that the Fund is closely monitoring the situation in southern Lebanon with “grave concern” and offered condolences for the loss of life.

    “The potential for further escalation of the conflict heightens risks and uncertainty and could have significant economic ramifications for the region and beyond,” Kozack said. 

    -Reuters

  • October 03, 2024 21:45
    Gulf states sought to reassure Iran of their neutrality in Iran-Israel conflict, sources say

    Gulf Arab states sought to reassure Iran of their neutrality in the conflict between Tehran and Israel in meetings in Doha this week on the back of concerns that a wider escalation in violence could threaten their oil facilities, two sources told Reuters.

    Ministers from Gulf Arab states and Iran attending a meeting of Asian nations hosted by Qatar centred their conversations around de-escalation, the sources said.

    The Islamic Republic launched its largest ever assault on Israel on Tuesday in what it said was retaliation for Israel’s assassination of senior Hamas and Hezbollah leaders and its operations in Gaza and Lebanon.

    Tehran said its attack was over, barring further provocation, but Israel has promised to hit back hard.

    -Reuters

  • October 03, 2024 21:21
    Belgian journalists attacked and wounded during Beirut strikes

    Two Belgian journalists were attacked and wounded in Lebanon while reporting on air raids in Beirut, their employer said Thursday, as fighting raged between Israel and Hezbollah.

    VTM correspondent Robin Ramaekers and cameraman Stijn De Smet were beaten up and shot at by assailants accusing them of spying for Israel, the broadcaster said.

    “Last night there was a bombing in central Beirut. When Robin and Stijn wanted to run a report on that, they got wounded,” VTM’s parent company, DPG Media said in a statement.

    “Both are now in safety and are being cared for.”

    Ramaekers sustained facial injuries and was in hospital, while De Smet was discharged after receiving treatment for gunshot wounds to the leg.

    -AFP

  • October 03, 2024 20:59
    Hezbollah says it targeted Israeli military industries base in Haifa Bay

    Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah group said on Thursday it targeted Israel’s “Sakhnin base” for military industries in Haifa Bay with a salvo of rockets.

    -Reuters

  • October 03, 2024 20:42
    Foreigners flee Lebanon as Israeli offensive intensifies

    A growing number of countries evacuated citizens from Beirut on Thursday as Israel’s bombing of the Lebanese capital intensified and governments worldwide urged their citizens to get out.

    Dozens of Greeks and Greek Cypriots boarded a Greek military aircraft at Beirut airport, many of them children clutching soft toys and school bags. In the cramped conditions onboard, some played with glow sticks, while others slept on their parents’ laps as the plane left behind the smoking city below.

    Russia organised a special flight from Beirut on Thursday for the family members of Russian diplomats. Australia said it has organised hundreds of airline seats for its citizens to leave.

    -Reuters

  • October 03, 2024 20:20
    Biden says ‘nothing going to happen’ Thursday on Israeli strikes against Iran

    US President Joe Biden said he did not believe any Israeli strikes against Iran would come on Thursday, as the region tensely awaits a response to Tehran’s massive missile attack on Israel.

    “First of all, we don’t ‘allow’ Israel, we advise Israel. And there is nothing going to happen today,” Biden told reporters at the White House when asked if he would allow Israel to retaliate against Iran.

    -AFP

  • October 03, 2024 20:04
    WHO says 28 health workers killed in Lebanon over 24 hours

    The World Health Organization chief said on Thursday that 28 healthcare workers had been killed over the past 24 hours in Lebanon, where Israel has launched airstrikes and sent troops to fight Hezbollah in an escalating conflict.

    “Many (other) health workers are not reporting to duty and fled the areas where they work due to bombardments,” Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told an online press briefing. “This is severely limiting the provision of mass trauma management and continuity of health services,” he said.

    -Reuters

  • October 03, 2024 19:44
    Lebanon says Israeli fire killed over 40 rescuers, firefighters in 3 days

    Lebanon’s health minister said Thursday more than 40 rescuers and firefighters were killed by Israeli fire in three days, with 97 killed overall since Hezbollah and Israel began clashing last October.

    “In the past three days, more than 40 martyrs have fallen in Lebanon among those working in ambulances and fire trucks,” Firass Abiad told reporters, adding that 97 “paramedics and firefighters” had been killed since fighting began. The toll includes rescuers in organisations affiliated with Hezbollah or other Lebanese parties.

    -AFP

  • October 03, 2024 19:32
    Israel says struck Hezbollah intelligence HQ in Beirut

    The Israeli military said it hit Hezbollah’s intelligence headquarters in Beirut on Thursday amid a flurry of strikes targeting the group’s positions in the Lebanese capital.

    Israeli fighter jets “struck targets belonging to Hezbollah’s intelligence headquarters in Beirut, including terror operatives belonging to the unit, intelligence-gathering means, command centres and additional terrorist infrastructure,” the military said in a statement.

    -AFP

  • October 03, 2024 19:13
    Iran summons European envoys over criticism of attack on Israel

    Iran summoned the German and Austrian ambassadors on Thursday after their governments rebuked the Islamic republic over its missile attack on Israel, state media reported.

    The move, according to the official IRNA news agency, was in response to the “unacceptable measures” by Germany and Austria in summoning the Iranian envoys over Iran’s attack on Tuesday.

    -AFP

  • October 03, 2024 18:53
    Emirates halts Iran, Iraq, Jordan flights over ‘regional unrest’

    Dubai-based Emirates Thursday cancelled flights to Iraq, Iran and Jordan for three days over “regional unrest”, after an Iranian missile strike on Israel stoked fears of a wider war.

    “Emirates is cancelling all flights to/from Iraq (Basra and Baghdad), Iran (Tehran), and Jordan (Amman) on 4th and 5th October due to regional unrest” with immediate effect, said the airline.

    The Middle East’s biggest airline had previously announced cancellations between Dubai and Beirut until October 8, as several other carriers also put some services on hold.

    Qatar Airways has temporarily suspended flights to and from Iraq, Iran and Lebanon, said a statement on its website which did not specify when they would resume.

    -AFP

  • October 03, 2024 18:45
    1,974 people killed since start of Israeli attacks on Lebanon

    A total of 1,974 people have been killed, including 127 children, and 9,384 injured since the start of the Israeli attacks on Lebanon over the last year, the country’s health minister Firass Abiad said on Thursday. 

    -Reuters

  • October 03, 2024 18:25
    Iran may have had role in Israeli embassy attacks in Nordics: Swedish intelligence

    Swedish intelligence agency Sapo said Thursday that Iran could have been involved in explosions and gunfire around Israeli embassies in Sweden and Denmark this week.

    “There are some things that could point in that direction. In part due to the choice of targets and modus operandi, but that is an assumption rather than pure knowledge,” Fredrik Hallstrom, head of operations at the Sapo agency, told a press conference after being asked about reports of Iranian links to the attacks.

    -AFP

  • October 03, 2024 18:16
    Lebanese army says it fired back at Israeli forces after soldier killed

    The Lebanese army said on Thursday that a soldier was killed in an Israeli strike on a military post in southern Lebanon, adding that soldiers fired back at the source of the fire.

    It is the first time the army has fired back at Israeli forces since the conflict began a year ago, a Lebanese security source told Reuters.

  • October 03, 2024 18:11
    Israel extends evacuation warnings in Lebanon, signaling a wider offensive

    The Israeli military on Thursday warned people to evacuate a city and other communities in southern Lebanon that are north of a U.N.-declared buffer zone, signaling that it may widen a ground operation launched earlier this week against the Hezbollah militant group.

    Israel has told people to leave Nabatieh, a provincial capital, and other communities north of the Litani River, which formed the northern edge of the border zone established by the U.N. Security Council after the 2006 war in a resolution that both sides accuse the other of violating.

    At least eight Israeli soldiers have been killed in clashes with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, where Israel announced the start of what it says is a limited ground incursion earlier this week. The region was meanwhile bracing for Israeli retaliation following an Iranian ballistic missile attack.

    -AP

  • October 03, 2024 17:57
    Israeli strikes bomb Beirut, thousands forced to the streets
  • October 03, 2024 17:55
    About 3,000 Russian and CIS citizens want to leave Lebanon, TASS says

    About 3,000 nationals of Russia and and other countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) have expressed their intention to leave Lebanon, Russian news agency TASS reported on Thursday, citing a source.

    Russia’s emergencies ministry said earlier that it had started evacuating people.

    -Reuters

  • October 03, 2024 17:45
    Lebanon state media says new Israeli strikes hit south Beirut

    Lebanon’s state-run media said three Israeli air strikes hit Hezbollah’s south Beirut stronghold on Thursday, the latest raids following a night of intense bombardment.

    “Enemy aircraft launched three strikes on (Beirut’s) southern suburbs,” the official National News Agency reported.

    -AFP

  • October 03, 2024 17:31
    Iran rejects G7 statement on Iran’s attack against Israel as ‘biased’

    Iran views the Group of Seven (G7) condemnation of its attack on Israel as “biased and irresponsible”, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said in a statement on Thursday.

    Iran launched more than 180 missiles at Israel on Tuesday in what it said was retaliation for the killings of militant leaders and aggression in Gaza and Lebanon.

    In a statement on Wednesday, Group of Seven (G7) leaders condemned Tehran’s attack. They expressed “strong concern” over the crisis in the Middle East but said a diplomatic solution was still viable and a region-wide conflict was in no one’s interest.

    -Reuters

  • October 03, 2024 17:21
    Lebanese Red Cross says Israeli strike wounded 4 of its medics, killed 1 Lebanese soldier

    The Lebanese Red Cross said an Israeli strike wounded four of its paramedics and killed a Lebanese army soldier as they were evacuating wounded people from the south.

    It said the convoy near the village of Taybeh, which was accompanied by Lebanese troops, was targeted Thursday despite coordinating its movements with UN peacekeepers.

    - AP

  • October 03, 2024 17:03
    Emirates cancels Iran, Iraq, Jordan flights up to October 5

    Dubai-based Emirates today said it has cancelled flights to Iraq, Iran and Jordan for three days over “regional unrest”, after an Iranian missile strike on Israel stoked fears of a wider war.

    “Emirates is cancelling all flights to/from Iraq (Basra and Baghdad), Iran (Tehran), and Jordan (Amman) on 4th and 5th October due to regional unrest,” said the airline, which also halted services to the destinations today.

  • October 03, 2024 16:37
    Russia begins evacuating its citizens from Lebanon, Ifax reports

    Russia has started evacuating citizens from Lebanon and a special flight left Beirut today with the family members of Russian diplomats, Emergencies Minister Alexander Kurenkov said.

    About 60 people will arrive in Russia from Lebanon today, his Ministry said.

    “The evacuation is carried out on the instructions of Russian President Vladimir Putin,” the Ministry said.

    Russia often also helps evacuate citizens from other former Soviet republics in such situations.

    - Reuters

  • October 03, 2024 16:34
    Lebanese army says one soldier killed in Israeli attack on rescue convoy

    The Lebanese army said one soldier was killed and another injured in an Israeli strike while carrying out an evacuation and rescue mission with the Lebanese Red Cross in the southern town of Taybeh.

    - Reuters

  • October 03, 2024 16:28
    Israeli strike in Beirut kills nine

    As Israel extends evacuation warnings north of the U.N. buffer zone in Lebanon, its Health Ministry says at least 9 people were killed in the Israeli strike in central Beirut Israel.

    It is also running DNA tests on remains they have obtained to identify others.

  • October 03, 2024 16:10
    Belgian journalists injured in Beirut bombing

    Two Belgian journalists were injured in Lebanon while reporting on overnight air raids in Beirut, their employer said today, as fighting raged between Israel and Hezbollah.

    VTM correspondent Robin Ramaekers suffered facial injuries and cameraman Stijn De Smet was being treated for a leg wound, according to a statement by the broadcaster’s parent company, DPG Media.

    “Last night there was a bombing in central Beirut. When Robin and Stijn wanted to run a report on that, they got injured,” the firm said, adding the pair were being treated in hospital. Both are now in safety and are being cared for,” it further said.

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  • October 03, 2024 16:07
    Loud blasts heard in countryside near Damascus, Syria state news agency says

    Loud explosions were heard today in the countryside around the Syrian capital Damascus, the state news agency SANA reported. No further details were immediately given.

    - Reuters

  • October 03, 2024 16:06
    Israel extends evacuation warnings north of U.N. buffer zone in Lebanon

    The Israeli military has ordered the evacuation of villages and towns in southern Lebanon that are north of a United Nations-declared buffer zone established after the 2006 war.

    The warning issued today signalled a possible broadening of Israel’s incursion into southern Lebanon, which until now has been confined to areas close to the border.

    - AP

  • October 03, 2024 15:58
    Israel kills Hamas militant once jailed for role in West Bank lynchings

    Israel has killed Abdel-Aziz Salha, a West Bank Hamas militant who had been jailed for life for taking part in the lynching of two Israeli reservists in Ramallah in 2000 but later deported to Gaza in a prisoner swap, Hamas media and medics said.

    Salha was killed in an Israeli airstrike on a tent inside Al-Aklouk School, which shelters displaced Palestinians, in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip earlier on today, medics said. There has been no immediate Israeli comment on Salha’s death and it was unclear if he had been deliberately targeted.

    He was freed along with more than 1,000 other Palestinians in an October 2011 swap with Hamas for Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who had spent five years in captivity in Gaza.

    - Reuters

  • October 03, 2024 15:43
    Israel warns residents of 20 more Lebanese towns to evacuate

    The Israel Military today warned the residents of 20 more towns to evacuate to make themselves safe from the military attack.

    Yesterday, the Military asked the people of 26 towns to evacuate and relocate to a safe area. They added twenty more towns to the list.

    IDF spokesperson Avichay Adraee announced this through a post on his official X handle.

    “Anyone who is near Hezbollah elements, installations, and combat equipment is putting his life at risk. Any house used by Hezbollah for its military needs is expected to be targeted,” the post further said.

  • October 03, 2024 15:27
    Ninety-nine Palestinians killed in 24 hours, says Health Ministry

    The Palestine Health Ministry said that ninety-nine Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip in the last 24 hours. It also reported that 169 people were wounded in the same period of time.

    The Ministry also updated the number of people killed since October 7, the beginning of the ongoing conflict.

    - Reuters

  • October 03, 2024 15:21
    41,788 Palestinians killed in Gaza offensive since October 7, Health Ministry says

    Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip has killed at least 41,788 Palestinians and wounded 96,794 since October 7, the Palestinian enclave’s Health Ministry said today.

    - Reuters

  • October 03, 2024 14:47
    Hezbollah says it confronted an attempt by Israeli forces to advance at the Lebanese border

    Lebanon’s Hezbollah said it confronted on Thursday (October 3, 2024)an attempt by Israeli forces to advance at the Fatima Gate border roundabout, according to a statement published by the militant group. - Reuters

  • October 03, 2024 14:43
    Israeli military accuses Hezbollah of smuggling arms from Syria

    Israeli army spokesperson Avichay Adraee accused the Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah on Thursday (October 3, 2024) of smuggling weapons from Syria through the Masnaa border crossing. Lebanon’s Hezbollah said it confronted on Thursday an attempt by Israeli forces to advance at the Fatima Gate border roundabout, according to a statement published by the militant group.- Reuters

  • October 03, 2024 14:38
    Israel Military says it has killed head of Hamas Government in Gaza Strip

    Israel Military says it has killed head of Hamas Government in Gaza Strip. The Israeli military said on Thursday (October 3, 2024) it had “eliminated” Rawhi Mushtaha, the head of the Hamas government in Gaza, along with senior security officials Sameh al-Siraj and Sami Oudeh in strikes three months ago. - Reuters

  • October 03, 2024 14:31
    Iranian President says Iran will give “stronger and more crushing” response to Israel

    Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian says Tehran will definitely give a “stronger and more crushing” response to Israel if it commits the “slightest” mistake.

    Iranian President who has met Hamas representative in Qatar criticised the empty promises by Western countries on Wednesday (October 2, 2024), reports Press TV, an Iranian state-owned news network. He condemned the way Israel has committed atrocities on Palestine. 

    His statement come after Iran’s missiles attack on Israel after which Israel Prime Minister also vowed retaliation. U.S. President Joe Biden has warned Iran and promised assistance to Israel against Iran.

    Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian meets with Hamas leader Khaled Mashal, in Doha, Qatar, October 2, 2024. Iran's Presidency/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.

  • October 03, 2024 14:11
    Iran’s U.N. ambassador says Iran’s missile attack was a proportionate response to Israel’s continued terrorist acts

    Amir Saeid Iravani, Iran’s U.N. ambassador, told an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday (October 2, 2024) that the missile attack on October 1 was “a necessary and proportionate response to Israel’s continued terrorist aggressive acts over the past two months.”

    He says Iran has “consistently pursued peace and stability” and that Israel sees Iranian restraint “not as a gesture of goodwill but as a weakness to exploit.”

    “Each act of restraint taken by Iran has only emboldened Israel to commit greater crimes and more acts of aggression,” Mr. Iravani said. “Consequently, Iran’s response was necessary to restore balance and deterrence.”

    He also accused the United States of complicity “in Israel’s crimes” by helping to arm the nation after the October 7 attacks by Hamas in southern Israel. - AP

    Iran's Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani speaks with diplomats after a United Nations Security Council meeting at U.N. headquarters in New York City, U.S., October 2, 2024. REUTERS/Stephani Spindel

  • October 03, 2024 13:53
    Israeli strike in Beirut killed seven health and rescue workers

    An Islamic health organization in Lebanon said that an Israeli strike in the capital Beirut killed seven health and rescue workers.

    The airstrike early in the residential Bashoura district targeted an apartment in a multi-story building that houses an office of the Health Society, a group of civilian first responders affiliated to Hezbollah. It was the closest strike to the central down-town district of Beirut, where the United Nations and government offices are located.

    In Gaza also a dozens of health workers have been killed by Israeli attacks. - AP

    Smoke rises over Dahieh in Beirut's southern suburbs, after overnight Israeli air strikes, amid ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, as seen from Sin El Fil, Lebanon, October 3, 2024. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

  • October 03, 2024 13:41
    Israeli military says it killed approximately 15 Hezbollah members in southern Lebanon

    The Israeli military said on Thursday (October 3, 2024) it killed approximately 15 Hezbollah members after striking the municipality building of southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil where it said fighters of the Iran-backed group were operating. - Reuters

    A resident walks amid the devastation following an overnight Israeli airstrike that targeted the neighbourhood of Haret Hreik in Beirut's southern suburbs on October 3, 2024. Israel kept up its bombardment of Beirut after Iran launched its second, and largest, attack on Israel in months, which prompted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to warn Tehran would pay. (Photo by AFP)

  • October 03, 2024 13:36
    U.K. charters flights to support its citizens wishing to leave Lebanon

    The British government has chartered a limited number of flights to support its citizens to leave Lebanon, it said on Thursday, repeating its advice for them to leave the country immediately.

    More than 150 British nationals and dependents left Beirut on a government chartered flight on Wednesday, the statement said.

    “To meet the demand for the charter flight on Wednesday, additional flights will depart from Beirut-Rafic Hariri International Airport from Thursday (October 3, 2024). The flights will continue for as long as the security situation allows,” it added.- Reuters

  • October 03, 2024 13:26
    UN special coordinator for Lebanon says only anxiety and fear are omnipresent

    UN special coordinator for Lebanon Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert has written in her social media account ‘X’ that no sirens has been played before the airstrikes launched by Israel on Beirut. She expressed her despair as countless Israeli bombardments is shaking the city. Earlier on October 1, she posted a statement issued from the office of UN special coordinator for Lebanon expressing concern for the Lebanese people and the consequences of escalation of war on Lebanon.

  • October 03, 2024 12:57
    Qatar’s Emir: What is happening in the region is a ‘collective genocide’

    Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani said on Thursday (October 3, 2024) what is happening in the region is a ‘collective genocide’ and that his country has always warned of Israel’s ‘impunity’. - Reuters

  • October 03, 2024 12:25
    Beirut’s legendary club turns to displacement shelter

    With no sign of ending of Israel’s airstrikes and bombardments on Lebanon, thousands of Lebanese citizens have become homeless, while some people are also fleeing to Syria as Israel is targeting the residential areas in Beirut.

    Displaced people walk inside the famous Skybar club, which became a shelter for the displaced who fled, amid ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces in Beirut's southern suburbs and its surroundings, in Beirut, Lebanon October 2, 2024. REUTERS/Louisa Gouliamaki

  • October 03, 2024 12:06
    Palestinian activist wins prize for peaceful resistance

    Palestinian activist Issa Amro on Thursday (October 3, 2024) accepted the Right Livelihood prize, considered by some an alternative Nobel, for his “nonviolent resistance to Israel’s illegal occupation” in the West Bank, the jury said.

    Mr. Amro was born in the city of Hebron, a flashpoint West Bank city where roughly 1,000 Jewish settlers live under heavy Israeli military protection amid some 200,000 Palestinians.

    The 44-year-old founded the Youth Against Settlements group, which campaigns against the proliferation of Jewish settlements in the territory, communities widely regarded as illegal under international law.

    “It’s a miracle that I still exist,” said Mr. Amro.

    (FILES) Prominent Palestinian activist Issa Amro is welcomed by supporters after he was released on bail by a Palestinian court, in the West Bank city of Hebron on September 10, 2017, following his prior arrest on September 4. Palestinian activist Issa Amro on October 3, 2024 accepted the Right Livelihood prize -- considered by some an alternative Nobel -- for his "nonviolent resistance to Israel's illegal occupation" in the West Bank, the jury said. (Photo by HAZEM BADER / AFP)

  • October 03, 2024 11:51
    Yemen’s Huthis claim drone attack on Tel Aviv

    Yemen’s Iran-backed Huthi rebels on Thursday (October 3, 2024) said they carried out a drone attack on Tel Aviv, although there was no direct confirmation from Israeli authorities.

    In a statement, the Huthis said they “carried out a military operation targeting a vital target in the Jaffa (Tel Aviv) area in occupied Palestine with a number of Jaffa drones”.

    “The operation achieved its goals successfully as the drones reached their targets without the enemy being able to confront or shoot them down.”

    The Israeli military said it intercepted “a suspicious aerial target” off central Israel overnight, without giving further details.- AFP

  • October 03, 2024 11:43
    Deadly strike on central Beirut: A total of 17 overnight air raids had hit Beirut on October 3

    A total of 17 overnight air raids had hit Beirut by dawn on Thursday, October 3. 

  • October 03, 2024 11:20
    Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei says interventions of U.S. and European countries responsible for conflicts in the Middle East

    Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says that the Middle East countries will live in peace if the American and European forces can be eliminated from the region. He condemned Western intervention in the region in the name of advocating peace and cited them as a root cause of war and raging conflicts.

  • October 03, 2024 10:44
    Japan readies military jets for evacuations of its citizens from Lebanon

    Japan on Thursday (October 3, 2024) dispatched two Self Defense Force planes to prepare for a possible airlift of Japanese citizens from Lebanon.

    Two C-2 transport aircraft are expected to arrive in Jordan and Greece on Friday, Japan NHK national television reported.

    Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi told reporters that there has been no report of injury involving the about 50 Japanese nationals in Lebanon.

    Japan dispatched SDF aircraft in October and November 2023 to evacuate more than 100 Japanese and South Korean citizens from Israel.

  • October 03, 2024 10:34
    Lebanese continue to flee to Syria to escape Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon.

    Associated Press reported on October 2, of hundreds of people gathering at the Jousieh border crossing, one of several points of entry into Syria. The crossing is around 30 kilometers (18 miles) from Syria’s central city of Homs, where many said they were headed.

    Lebanon said on October 2 that almost 240,000 people, mostly Syrians, have crossed to Syria since Israel began pounding the country last week with intense air strikes.

    A woman carries a mattress over her head as she enters Syria from Lebanon via the Jusiyeh border crossing with Quseir in Syria's central Homs province on October 2, 2024. Lebanon said on October 2 that almost 240,000 people, mostly Syrians, have crossed to Syria since Israel began pounding the country last week with intense air strikes on what it says are Hezbollah targets. (Photo by LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)

  • October 03, 2024 10:06
    Hezbollah’s says latest Israeli airstrike targeted the group’s health unit

    The latest airstrike started a fire in an apartment in a multi-story building in the residential Bashoura district, not far from the United Nations headquarters, the prime minister’s office and parliament. Ambulances rushed to the scene. There was no warning issued ahead of the strike. 

    Israel is also carrying its military offensive on Gaza at the same time it is attacking Beirut. The recent strike comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed retaliation to Iran’s missile attack on Israel and the killing of eight Israeli soldiers.

  • October 03, 2024 09:55
    China urges UN Security Council to de-escalate Middle East crisis

    China called on the United Nations Security Council to take “urgent actions” to de-escalate the situation in the Middle East as Israel launched fresh air strikes in Lebanon.

    China’s permanent representative to the U.N., Fu Cong, said during a Security Council briefing on Wednesday, that it needed to make clear and unequivocal demands to stop the cycle of violence over the Israeli-Lebanon conflict.

    Mr. Fu said the spreading Middle East conflict had already caused an unprecedented humanitarian disaster, with Gaza having become a “hell on earth,” and over 1.2 million people displaced in Lebanon.- Reuters

  • October 03, 2024 09:36
    Australia books 500 seats for its citizens to leave Lebanon

    Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong said on Thursday her government had booked 500 seats on commercial aircraft for Australian citizens, permanent residents and their families to leave Lebanon on Saturday.

    The seats are available to 1,700 Australians and their families known to be in Lebanon on two flights from Beirut to Cyprus, Wong said.

    “What I would say to Australians who wish to leave, please take whatever option is available to you,” Wong told reporters in Geelong, Australia.

    “Please do not wait for your preferred route,” she added.

    -AP

  • October 03, 2024 09:04
    UN decries Israeli ban on secretary-general entering the country

    Israel’s Foreign Minister said on Wednesday (October 2, 2024) that he was barring U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who demanded an end to the ‘sickening cycle of escalation’, from entering the country because he had not “unequivocally” condemned Iran’s missile attack on Israel.

    Iran fired more than 180 ballistic missiles at Israel on Tuesday (October 1, 2024) amid an escalation in fighting between its proxy in Lebanon, Hezbollah, and Israel. Many were intercepted mid-air but some penetrated missile defences. No casualties were reported.

    Read the full story,

    Israel bars U.N. secretary-general from entering country

    Israel bars UN Secretary-General for not condemning Iran's missile attack, emphasizing defence of citizens and national dignity.

  • October 03, 2024 08:48
    Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is due to deliver a rare speech from Friday prayer

    As a larger conflict between Iran and Israel looms large with U.S. supporting and threatening Iran of consequences, Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is due to deliver a rare speech from Friday prayer, on October 4. The last time Mr. Khamenei led Friday prayers was after Iran launched ballistic missiles on air bases of US forces in Iraq following the 2020 killing of revered Revolutionary Guards commander Qasem Soleimani in a US drone strike near the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.

  • October 03, 2024 08:37
    Satellite images appear to show damage to Israeli air base after Iranian attack

    Satellite images appear to show damage to Israeli air base after Iranian attack. Iran has said that they launched nearly 200 missiles at Israel on Tuesday (October 1, 2024) as a deterrent to Israeli violence. 

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to retaliate, but an Iranian commander threatened wider strikes on infrastructure if Israel did so. Meanwhile Israel is continuing its airstrikes on Beirut and as per Lebanon Heath Ministry six people have been killed in central Beirut. - AP

    This satellite image taken by Planet Labs PBC shows a damaged hangar at Israel's Nevatim Air Base, on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024. AP/PTI(AP10_03_2024_000002B)

  • October 03, 2024 08:22
    Pride and fear in Iran after missile attack on Israel

    On the streets of Tehran, a small crowd celebrated Iran’s missile attack on Israel while others are worried about the consequences of the Islamic Republic’s boldest move yet in a year of escalating Middle East conflict. 

    Local media carried footage of what Iran said were 200 missiles as they were fired towards Israel on Tuesday (October 1, 2024) evening, while state television played upbeat music over the images and showed crowds of a few hundred people celebrating the attacks in the capital and other cities across the country.- AFP

    A demonstrator waves a Palestinian flag while gathering with others in the rain for an anti-Israel protest in Tehran's Palestine Square on September 28, 2024, after the Iran-backed Lebanese Hezbollah group confirmed reports of the killing of its leader Hassan Nasrallah in an Israeli air strike in Beirut the previous day. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP)

  • October 03, 2024 07:50
    Deadly Israeli strike on central Beirut after soldiers killed

    Israel carried out a deadly air raid on Thursday (October 3, 2024) on a Hezbollah rescue facility in central Beirut, Lebanese sources said, after multiple Israeli ground troops were killed near the border.

    The latest Israeli strike on the Hezbollah rescue facility killed at least six people, according to a Lebanese health ministry toll.

    In Lebanon more than 1,900 people have been killed and 9,000 wounded during almost a year of cross-border fighting between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah, with most of the deaths in the past two weeks, according to Lebanese government statistics.- AFP

  • October 03, 2024 07:37
    Palestinian officials say 51 killed in Israeli strikes on southern Gaza

    Palestinians describe massive raid in Gaza. The Health Ministry in Gaza said at least 51 people were killed and 82 wounded in the operation in Khan Younis that began early Wednesday (October 2, 2024). Records at the European Hospital show that seven women and 12 children, as young as 22 months old, were among those killed. - AP

  • October 03, 2024 07:30
    American killed in Israel’s military campaign in Lebanon, family and US lawmaker say

    An American from Dearborn, Michigan, was killed in Lebanon in an Israeli airstrike, according to the man’s daughter, friend and the U.S. congresswoman representing his constituency.

    His daughter, Nadine Jawad, said in a statement that her father was killed in an Israeli strike in Lebanon on Tuesday (October 1, 2024) “while trying to save innocent lives.” She added that in his final days, her father chose to stay near a hospital to help the elderly and the disabled.

    Israel’s recent military campaign in Lebanon has killed hundreds, wounded thousands and displaced over a million.- Reuters

  • October 03, 2024 07:22
    Eight Israeli soldiers dead as Hezbollah claims to repel incursion

    Hezbollah said it repelled an Israeli infiltration into southern Lebanon on October 2, as Israel reported eight soldiers were killed — its first losses since launching cross-border raids this week.

    The clashes came hours after Iran launched its largest missile attack yet on Israel, its sworn enemy. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Tehran would pay for its “big mistake”. - AFP

  • October 03, 2024 07:18
    ‘Sickening cycle of escalation’ in Mideast must stop, says UN chief Antonio Guterres

    U.N. chief Antonio Guterres called Wednesday for an end to the “sickening cycle of escalation” in the Middle East, while specifically condemning Iran over its latest missile attack after facing harsh criticism from Israel.

    Read the story here:

    'Sickening cycle of escalation' in Mideast must stop, says UN chief Antonio Guterres

    UN chief calls for end to Middle East escalation, condemns Iran's missile attack, Israel's response. Diplomatic tensions rise.

  • October 03, 2024 07:10
    India ‘deeply concerned’ at escalation of security situation in West Asia, says MEA

    India is “deeply concerned” about the escalating situation in the West Asian region after Iran fired hundreds of missiles that hit targets in and around capital Tel Aviv. A statement from the Ministry of External Affairs urged that the conflict should not take a wider regional shape.

    Read the full story here:

    India calls for restraint as attacks escalate in West Asia

    India says closely monitoring escalating tensions between Iran and Israel, with advisories urging Indians to avoid travel to both countries.

  • October 03, 2024 07:10
    Israel attacks Dahiyeh

    Three missiles from Israel hit the southern suburb of Dahiyeh, where Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed last week, and loud explosions were heard, Lebanese security officials said. The southern suburbs came under more than a dozen Israeli strikes on Wednesday.

    -Reuters

  • October 03, 2024 07:10
    Israel strikes heart of Beirut, killing six

    Israel bombed central Beirut in the early hours of Thursday (October 3, 2024), killing at least six people, after its forces suffered their deadliest day on the Lebanese front in a year of clashes against Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah.

    Israel said it conducted a precise air strike on Beirut. A security source said it targeted a building in central Beirut’s Bachoura neighbourhood close to parliament, the nearest Israeli strikes have come to Lebanon’s seat of government.

    At least six people were killed and seven wounded, Lebanese health officials said. 

    -Reuters

    Fire and smoke rise over Beirut's southern suburbs after a strike, amid ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, as seen from Sin El Fil, Lebanon, October 3, 2024. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

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