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Israel has denied having any involvement with an exploding pager attack which killed dozens and injured thousands of people across Lebanon and Syria.
Israeli president Isaac Herzog said he “rejects out of hand any connection” to the audacious operation carried out against Hezbollah last week.
At least 39 people were injured and 3,000 were wounded after the Shi’ite militia’s pagers and walkie-talkies simultaneously detonated across the Middle East on Tuesday and Thursday.
On Sunday, Israel said it struck around 290 targets inside Lebanon after Hezbollah launched just over 100 rockets at northern Israel in the most intense skirmish since the war in Gaza began almost a year ago.
Israel closed schools and in many northern areas of the country and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights early on Sunday, with reports of rockets hitting Haifa, a port city around 17 miles from the Lebanon border.
The exchange comes after Israel killed more than a dozen senior Hezbollah commanders in an air strike on the group’s stronghold of southern Beirut on Friday.
Top commander Ibrahim Aqil was slain alongside 15 other operatives after multiple missiles tore into the side of the apartment block he was in.
What to know about the growing conflict between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah
Alexander Butler23 September 2024 02:00
Israel will do ‘everything necessary’ to return evacuated residents to their homes
Israel’s defence minister Yoav Gallant has said that strikes on Lebanon will continue until it is safe for evacuated people in the north of Israel to return to their homes.
“Hezbollah has begun to feel some of the capabilities of the Israel Defence Forces, and there is already a very strong feeling of being persecuted, and we are seeing the results,” he said during a tour of Israeli Air Force facilities.
“These moves will continue until we reach a situation where we safely return the residents of the north to their homes – this is the goal, this is the mission, and we will do everything necessary to meet it,” he added.
Alexander Butler23 September 2024 01:00
Lammy ‘deeply concerned’ by violence in West Bank
David Lammy has said he was “deeply, deeply concerned” by events in the West Bank and left the door open for possible sanctions for those engaging in “escalatory behaviour”.
“I’m not announcing further sanctions today but that is kept under close review,” the UK foreign secretary told a Labour Party conference fringe event hosted by Labour Together.
“As you would expect, I’m deeply, deeply concerned by what I’ve seen at this point in time.” Asked whether he was referring to events in the West Bank, he said: “Yes.”
The Foreign Secretary was asked by an audience member at a fringe event at Labour conference when the Government would take the step of introducing a full arms embargo.
“We have suspended those licences that could be used to breach international humanitarian law in Gaza,” he said.
“I don’t think it would be quite right to suspend licences, for example, that the Israelis could use in relation to the Houthis, that Israel may need to use in relation to the challenges it has with other proxies in the area. I think that would be a mistake.
“It would lead to a wider war and an escalation that we here in the UK are committed to stopping, so I’m afraid I disagree with that position.”
Alexander Butler22 September 2024 23:00
What is Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Lebanese group?
Alexander Butler22 September 2024 22:00
Who is Ibrahim Aqil, the Hezbollah commander killed in an Israeli airstrike?
Alexander Butler22 September 2024 21:00
Watch: Israel hit by Hezbollah rockets in biggest attack yet as strikes intensify
Alexander Butler22 September 2024 20:00
Israel raids and shuts down Al Jazeera’s bureau in Ramallah in the West Bank
Alexander Butler22 September 2024 19:00
Watch: Hezbollah fires more than 100 rockets across Israel as fears of war mount
Alexander Butler22 September 2024 18:00
Watch: Israeli soldiers raid and shut down Al Jazeera bureau in occupied West Bank
Alexander Butler22 September 2024 17:00
Hezbollah attacks were ‘blows it could not have imagined’, Netanyahu says
The Israeli military’s attacks on Hezbollah over the past week were “blows it could not have imagined”, prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
Israel killed more than a dozen senior Hezbollah commanders in an air strike on the Shi’ite militia’s stronghold of southern Beirut on Friday.
Top commander Ibrahim Aqil was slain alongside 15 other operatives after multiple missiles tore into the side of the apartment block he was in.
“If Hezbollah has not understood the message, I promise you, it will understand the message,” Mr Netanyahu warned.
Alexander Butler22 September 2024 15:16
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