At least 40 killed as Israel pounds Lebanon, Lebanese officials say
Updated: 9:15am (AEDT) Beirut, Lebanon Reuters Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon over the last day have killed at least 40 people including several children, Lebanese authorities said on Saturday, after heavy Israeli bombardment pounded the southern suburbs of the capital Beirut overnight. At least seven people were killed in the coastal city of Tyre late on […]
Palestinians say 100,000 residents trapped in Israel’s north Gaza offensive
Cairo, Egypt Reuters Israeli tanks thrust deeper on Monday into two north Gaza towns and a historic refugee camp, trapping around 100,000 civilians, the Palestinian emergency service said, in what the military said were operations to eliminate regrouping Hamas militants. The Israeli military said soldiers captured around 100 suspected Hamas militants in a raid into […]
Israeli airstrikes turn Lebanon’s Tyre into ghost town
Tyre, Lebanon Reuters Thunderous booms followed by black columns of smoke in the sky, ancient ruins with no tourists, and a seashore without fishermen or beach-goers. War has turned Lebanon’s idyllic port city of Tyre into a ghost town. A fisherman sits at the port city of Tyre, amid ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli […]
Blinken urges halt to Middle East conflict as Israel bombs historic Lebanese city
Tyre, Lebanon/Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Reuters US Secretary of State Antony Blinken pushed on Wednesday for a halt to fighting in Gaza and a diplomatic solution to conflict in Lebanon, but Israeli strikes on an historic Lebanese port city proved there was no respite yet. Huge clouds of smoke billowed above residential buildings in Tyre, a […]
Israeli strike in south Lebanon kills 10, injures five, state news agency says
Beirut, Lebanon Reuters Around 10 people were killed, including two children, and five were wounded by an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in the city of Nabatieh in south Lebanon, state news agency NNA said on Saturday. The victims were all Syrian citizens, NNA said, adding that a final toll of the strike would […]
Postcards: In south Lebanon, conflict casts long shadow over Christmas
Reuters correspondents report from Tyre…