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New Delhi: Israel continued ferocious rounds of airstrikes on Hezbollah’s key strongholds in southern Beirut in Lebanon today. These strikes, which began last night in the heart of the capital city, sent plumes of thick smoke billowing into the sky, sparking fear and chaos in densely populated civilian areas. The operations marked Israel’s most intense…
United Nations: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed at the UN Friday to press his country’s offensive against Lebanon’s Hezbollah, dashing hopes for a 21-day truce proposed by France and the United States this week. Netanyahu’s highly anticipated turn at the UN, during which he repeatedly denounced the global organization as anti-Israel, was met with…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has firmly rejected a ceasefire proposal backed by the United States, which called for a 21-day pause in hostilities with Lebanon. The refusal came as Israel continues its military operations against Hezbollah, with no signs of de-escalation in sight. Netanyahu, who was in New York to address the United Nations…
Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday his government had not responded to a push by the United States and its allies for a 21-day ceasefire in Israel’s fight with the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah. “It is an American-French proposal, which the prime minister has not even responded to,” said a statement from…
File photo Israeli security services said on Thursday they had arrested an Israeli citizen on suspicion of involvement in an Iranian-backed assassination plot targeting prominent people including the prime minister. It said the person was a businessman with connections in Turkey who had attended at least two meetings in Iran to discuss the possibility of…
Hundreds of pagers exploded across Lebanon, killing at least eight people in a coordinated attack. Hezbollah blamed on Israel. Iran’s ambassador in Beirut was among 2,750 people injured, including “more than 200 of them critically”, by the exploding pagers. The exploding pagers killed and wounded Hezbollah members, sources close to the Iranian ally said. Over…
Hezbollah says the campaign is in support of its Palestinian ally. Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced an expansion of the country’s war goals on Tuesday to include the return of northern residents who fled cross-border fire traded with Hamas ally Hezbollah. “The political-security cabinet updated the goals of the war this evening, so…
A key demand of the protesters has been for Netanyahu to sign a ceasefire with Hamas (file). Sydney: As protests grow, Benjamin Netanyahu clings to power in what appears to be a gambit to shape his own political and legal future, regardless of the cost. War-weary and angry, hundreds of thousands of Israelis are taking…
The Gaza cease-fire and hostage release deal talks hit another obstacle after Hamas reportedly made a new demand surrounding which prisoners Israel should release. Negotiators increasingly fear that neither Israel nor Hamas is truly motivated to reach a deal to halt the 11-month war.Earlier this week, US, Qatari and Egyptian negotiators were working through the…
Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted on retaining control of the corridor. Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that Israel will only agree to a permanent ceasefire in Gaza that guarantees the border area between southern Gaza and Egypt could never be used as a lifeline for the Islamist movement Hamas. “Until that happens,…