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Al Arabiya
22-07-2025
- Politics
- Al Arabiya
Houthis claim missile attack targeting Israel's Ben Gurion Airport
Yemen's Houthi militant group said on Tuesday it had launched a ballistic missile at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv. The Houthis targeted Ben Gurion International Airport 'using a 'Palestine 2' hypersonic ballistic missile,' according to military spokesman Yarya Saree, who had hours earlier claimed a similar attack. The Israeli military said it had intercepted a missile launched from Yemen following the activation of air raid sirens in multiple regions across the country. The launch from Yemen follows an Israeli military attack on Houthi targets in Yemen's Hodeidah port on Monday in its latest assault on the Iran-backed militants, who have been striking ships bound for Israel and launching missiles against it. With Agencies.
Daily Tribune
13-07-2025
- Daily Tribune
Israeli strike on south Lebanon leaves one dead
Lebanon's health ministry said an Israeli strike in the south yesterday killed one person whom Israel described as a Hezbollah fighter. The attack was the latest despite a November ceasefire that sought to end more than a year of conflict between Israel and the Iranbacked group. The ministry said the Israeli strike hit a house in the village of Wata al-Khiam.
Daily Tribune
12-07-2025
- Politics
- Daily Tribune
Lebanese president rules out normalisation with Israel: statement
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun ruled out normalisation between his country and Israel yesterday, while expressing hope for peaceful relations with Beirut's southern neighbour, which still occupies parts of southern Lebanon. Aoun's statement is the first official reaction to Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar's statement last week in which he expressed his country's interest in normalising ties with Lebanon and Syria. Aoun 'distinguished between peace and normalisation', according to a statement shared by the presidency. 'Peace is the lack of a state of war, and this is what matters to us in Lebanon at the moment. As for the issue of normalisation, it is not currently part of Lebanese foreign policy,' the president said in front of a delegation from an Arab think tank. Lebanon and Syria have technically been in a state of war with Israel since 1948, with Damascus saying that talks of normalisation were 'premature'. The president called on Israel to withdraw from the five points near the border it still occupies. Israel was required to fully withdraw from southern Lebanon under a November ceasefire seeking to end its war with Iranbacked Hezbollah. Aoun said that Israeli troops in Lebanon 'obstruct the complete deployment of the army up to the internationally recognised borders'. According to the ceasefire agreement, Hezbollah must pull its fighters north of the Litani River, around 30 kilometres (20 miles) from the border with Israel, leaving the Lebanese army and UN peacekeepers as the only armed parties in the area.
