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The message we want to send to Israel is that if you stop your army, the UN can also change its approach in that part of Lebanon, so that we can peacefully achieve what you’re now trying to do by attacking Hezbollah’s bases militarily,
Italian defence minister Guido Crosetto said The State of Israel places great importance on the activities of Unifil and has no intention of harming the organization or its personnel,
foreign minister Israel Katz said Yet again we see direct and apparently deliberate fire on a Unifil position,
the mission said in a statement U.S. Central Command forces conducted multiple airstrikes on numerous Iran-backed Houthi weapons storage facilities within Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen,
a U.S. defense official said, ... according to ABC News In the south, we saw pictures of Israel detonating a whole village, the village of Mhaibib, that’s just on the border,
We remind the IDF and all actors of their obligations to ensure the safety and security of UN personnel and property and to respect the inviolability of UN premises at all times,
the peacekeeping mission said We are extremely concerned by the dangerous escalation in Lebanon, affirm our support for the Lebanese people,
the GCC said in a joint statement with the EU following a summit in Brussels We have real concerns with respect to... the laws of war and the principles of distinction, proportion and proportionality,
spokesman Jeremy Laurence told reporters on Monday They were a decent family,
said the father of four, blood stains still visible on the rubble-strewn ground beside him We are no match for the United States,
Israel’s main ally, ... said Sarkis I blame the man who came here. Why did you put us in this mess
said Alwan, who is now forced to rent a house in the coastal town of Chekka, several kilometres (miles) away It’s a massacre that happened in my home,
Hezbollah has brought us into a war from which we can no longer escape,
We are afraid every day that Israel will come and target us, because wherever there is a (Hezbollah) commander, they target him,
We will conduct negotiations under fire, I said that on the first day, I said it in Gaza, I said it here - this is our tool,
he told soldiers operating in southern Lebanon Qana always gets its share,
Mayor Mohammed Krasht told the AP, referring to the town's grim history What solution can be hoped for in light of this reality?"
This attack follows other incidents in which civilians and civilian infrastructure have been targeted across Lebanon,
One of the objectives is to avoid a general conflagration,
the news agency AFP reported one official as saying Netanyahu clarified that Israel would not agree to any arrangement that does not provide this (a buffer zone) and which does not stop Hezbollah from rearming and regrouping,