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CNA
9 hours ago
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Israel strikes Beirut, targeting Hezbollah drone factories
BEIRUT: A series of Israeli air strikes hit Beirut's southern suburbs on Thursday (Jun 5) night, after the military said it would target underground Hezbollah drone factories. Plumes of smoke were seen billowing from the Lebanese capital, shortly after huge numbers of people had fled the area, clogging the roads with traffic. Lebanese news agency ANI said it counted nearly a dozen strikes, including two which were "very violent". AFP journalists in the city heard at least two strong detonations. "The IDF (military) is currently striking terror targets of the Hezbollah aerial unit," the Israeli military said in a statement on Telegram. Less than two hours earlier, its Arabic-language spokesman Avichay Adraee had warned on social media that residents of the suburbs were "located near facilities belonging to the terrorist organisation Hezbollah" and should evacuate immediately. In a separate statement, the military had said it would "soon carry out a strike on underground UAV (drone) production infrastructure sites that were deliberately established in the heart of (the) civilian population" in Beirut. The United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon wrote on X that the strikes "generated renewed panic and fear", and called for a "halt to any actions that could further undermine the cessation of hostilities". "Established mechanisms and diplomatic instruments are at the disposal of all sides to address disputes or threats, and to prevent unnecessary and dangerous escalation," it added. Lebanon's President Joseph Aoun in a statement voiced "firm condemnation of the Israeli aggression" and "flagrant violation" of a Nov 27 ceasefire "on the eve of a sacred religious festival", the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha. He said the strikes were "irrefutable proof of the aggressor's refusal ... of a just peace in our region". Prime Minister Nawaf Salam also issued a statement condemning the strikes as a "flagrant violation of Lebanese sovereignty" and of a 2006 UN resolution. SUSPECTED DRONE PRODUCTION One resident described grabbing her children and fleeing her home in the southern suburbs after receiving an ominous warning before the strikes. "I got a phone call from a stranger who said he was from the Israeli army," said the woman, Violette, who declined to give her last name. Israel also issued an evacuation warning for the village of Ain Qana, located in southern Lebanon around 20km from the Israeli border. The Israeli military then launched a strike on a building there that it alleged was a Hezbollah base, ANI reported. Israel and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah engaged in more than a year of hostilities that began with the outbreak of the Gaza war and culminated in an intense Israeli bombing campaign and ground incursion into southern Lebanon. The November ceasefire sought to end the fighting - which left Hezbollah severely weakened - but Israel has continued to regularly carry out strikes in Lebanon's south. Strikes targeting Beirut's southern suburbs, considered a Hezbollah stronghold, have been rare, however. "Following Hezbollah's extensive use of UAVs as a central component of its terrorist attacks on the state of Israel, the terrorist organisation is operating to increase production of UAVs for the next war," the military statement said, calling the activities "a blatant violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon". Under the truce, Hezbollah fighters were to withdraw north of the Litani river, about 30km from the border, and dismantle their military posts to the south. Israel was to pull all its troops from Lebanon, but it has kept them in five positions it deems "strategic" along the frontier. The Lebanese army has been deploying in the south and removing Hezbollah infrastructure there, with prime minister Salam saying Thursday that it had dismantled "more than 500 military positions and arms depots" in the area.
Al Arabiya
29-05-2025
- General
- Al Arabiya
Gaza civil defense says 44 killed in Israel strikes Thursday
Gaza's civil defense agency said Israeli strikes killed 44 people on Thursday, including 23 in an attack on a home in the center of the Palestinian territory. 'Forty-four people have been killed in Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip,' civil defense official Mohammad Al-Mughayyir told AFP. 'Twenty-three people were killed, others injured and several (are) missing following an Israeli air strike on the Qreinawi family's home east of Al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.' Developing
CNA
26-05-2025
- Politics
- CNA
Israel-Hamas war: More than 50 people killed in latest Israeli strikes, say Gaza officials
More than 50 people have been killed in Israeli air strikes across Gaza overnight, including one that hit a school sheltering displaced Palestinians. It is the latest in an expanded assault by the Israeli military aimed at defeating Hamas. The IDF said the school compound was housing terrorists. Rescuers say 33 people were killed in the strike, many of them women and children. Trent Murray reports from Tel Aviv.
BBC News
26-05-2025
- BBC News
Israeli strikes across Gaza kill 24, medics and officials say
At least 24 Palestinians have been killed in two separate Israeli air strikes overnight, including a strike on a school sheltering displaced families in central Gaza, according to medics and civil defence strike targeted Fahmi Al-Jargawi School in Gaza City, which had been housing hundreds of displaced people who fled the northern town of Beit Lahia, currently under intense Israeli military assault.A spokesperson for Gaza's Hamas-run Civil Defence agency said 20 bodies, including children, were recovered from the school - many of them severely burned - after fires engulfed two classrooms turned into living Israeli military has been contacted for comment. "Flames were everywhere. I saw charred bodies lying on the ground," said Rami Rafiq, a resident living across from the school, in a phone call with BBC. "My son fainted when he saw the horrific scene."Video footage shared online showed large fires consuming parts of the school, with graphic images of severely burned victims, including children, and survivors suffering critical reports said among the dead was Mohammad Al-Kasih, the head of investigations for the Hamas police in northern Gaza, along with his wife and before the school strike, another Israeli air strike hit a home in central Gaza City, killing four more people, the Hamas-run health ministry twin attacks are part of a broader Israeli offensive that has escalated in the northern part of the enclave over the past week. On Friday, an Israeli strike on the home of a Palestinian doctor in Gaza killed nine of her 10 children. Dr Alaa al-Najjar's 11-year-old son was injured, along with her husband, Hamdi al-Najjar, who is in critical nine children - Yahya, Rakan, Raslan, Gebran, Eve, Rival, Sayden, Luqman and Sidra - were aged between just a few months old and 12. The Israeli military has said the incident is under review. Meanwhile, the Red Cross said two of its staff were killed in a strike on their home in Khan Younis on killing of Ibrahim Eid, a weapon contamination officer, and Ahmad Abu Hilal, a security guard at the Red Cross Field Hospital in Rafah "points to the intolerable civilian death toll in Gaza", the ICRC said, repeating its call for a ceasefire. On Sunday, the head of a controversial US and Israeli-approved organisation that sought to use private firms to deliver aid to Gaza resigned. In a statement by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, executive director Jake Wood said it had become apparent that plans to set up distribution hubs would not meet the "humanitarian principles" of independence and imposed a total blockade on Gaza on 2 March that lasted 11 weeks before it allowed limited aid to enter the territory in the face of warnings of famine and mounting international military body Cogat said on Saturday morning that 388 trucks carrying aid had entered Gaza since Monday. The UN says much more aid - between 500 to 600 trucks a day - is 20 countries and organisations met in Madrid on Sunday to discuss ending the war in Gaza. Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares called for an arms embargo on Israel if it did not stop its launched a military campaign in Gaza in response to Hamas's cross-border attack on 7 October 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken least 53,939 people, including at least 16,500 children, have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the territory's health ministry.
Jordan Times
25-05-2025
- Politics
- Jordan Times
Gaza rescuers say six killed in pre-dawn Israeli strikes
A Palestinian man holding a child looks on as children sit inside a house targeted in an Israeli strike at the Nuseirat camp for refugees in the central Gaza Strip on May 24, 2025 (AFP photo) GAZA CITY, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES — Rescuers in Gaza said six people were killed and several more wounded in pre-dawn Israeli air strikes in the north and centre of the Palestinian territory on Sunday. Civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal said five people were killed in a strike on a home in Jabalia, in the person was killed in a drone strike on tents sheltering displaced people west of Nuseirat in central Gaza, he Israeli military has stepped up its Gaza operations in recent days in what it has described as a renewed push to destroy Saturday afternoon, the military said it had carried out strikes on more than 100 targets throughout Gaza over the past health ministry said Saturday that at least 3,747 people had been killed in the territory since a ceasefire collapsed on March 18, taking the war's overall toll to 53,901, mostly October 2023 attack on Israel that triggered the war resulted in the deaths of 1,218 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official figures. Militants also took 251 hostages, 57 of whom remain in Gaza including 34 the Israeli military says are dead.
