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Additionally, the IAF struck terrorists who were operating inside a structure adjacent to IDF troops in southern Lebanon. Following the strike, numerous secondary explosions were identified, indicating the presence of large quantities of weapons in the area,
El Araeb was responsible for numerous anti-tank missile attacks in northern Israel,
We have got to reach a cease-fire, both as it relates to what's happening in Lebanon, and of course Gaza
Asked about the latest airstrikes in Lebanon, US Vice President Kamala Harris told reporters in Las Vegas I don't think we are currently in a situation that the two countries are seeking an all-out direct war,
Hamid, a 29-year-old university student in Tehran, told AFP on Thursday We have been making clear to the government of Israel that they have an obligation under international humanitarian law to allow food and water and other needed humanitarian assistance to make it into all parts of Gaza,
Accordingly, the IDF instructed the UN forces in the area to remain in protected spaces, following which the forces opened fire in the area,
Israel's statement said, adding it maintains routine communication with UNIFIL We are there because the [UN] security council has asked us to be there. So we are staying until the situation becomes impossible for us to operate,
We have got to reach a ceasefire,
Harris told reporters as she departed Las Vegas, while commenting on the situations in Gaza and Lebanon The solution to this crisis is a not a weaker Lebanon. It's a strong and truly sovereign Lebanon, protected by a legitimate security force, embodied in the Lebanese Armed Forces,
Canada calls for the protection of peacekeepers and humanitarian workers, and for all parties to comply with international humanitarian law,
the foreign ministry said in a statement posted on social media platform X It's all well and good for the Biden administration to say that they want to give Israel that space to attack Hezbollah and degrade its capability,
said Mohamad Bazzi, director of the Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University Since November 2022, Hezbollah's obstruction and the failures of the international community — particularly the Quintet of the U.S., France, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Egypt — have left Lebanon without a president for nearly two years,
said Fadi Nicholas Nassar, the U.S.-Lebanon Fellow at the Middle East Institute But the problem is that also means an open-ended war against Lebanon, an open-ended war that has been harming a tremendous number of Lebanese civilians, and that's displaced now 1 million people in Lebanon,
The IDF's indiscriminate attacks against UNIFIL [U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon], which wounded two of our peacekeepers, clearly demonstrates how Israel positioned itself above international law, above impunity and above our shared values of peace,
Hari Prabowo, deputy permanent representative of Indonesia to the United Nations, said Thursday Far too many people are paying an unimaginable price, with over 2,000 killed, many more wounded and hundreds of thousands displaced,
U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert said Wednesday It's also shown that it will go against U.S. wishes,
Both things could be true and at the same time,
she said, underscoring the need for a cease-fire deal We are deeply concerned about reports that Israeli forces fired on two positions and a tower used by UN peacekeepers in Lebanon.”
A spokesperson for the White House National Security Council said This situation has put our peacekeepers at serious risk,
Not in central Beirut, I could never imagine in central Beirut,
said Sawson Moussa, 50, as she looked at the damage