Source: Agencies
Security & Justice
Southern Lebanon Endures Massive Damage: 40,000 Homes Leveled Across 37 Towns
Israeli forces have systematically destroyed entire neighborhoods in southern Lebanon, leveling more than 37 towns and wiping out over 40,000 residential units, according to Lebanon's National News Agency.
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Gaps in Coastal Radar Enabled Israeli Raid in Batroun, Army Commander Says
Lebanon’s army chief, General Joseph Aoun, detailed to Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati how Israeli forces likely exploited gaps in the country's coastal radar system during the recent raid carried out in Batroun. The briefing comes as Lebanese officials seek answers on how Israel’s elite Shayetet 13 unit carried out the landing undetected.
Monday, November 4, 2024
Opinion
The Emptying of Baalbek Is a Moment to Take Stock
“Large numbers of people continue to flee their homes every day, as Israel’s military operations in Lebanon have been going on unabated.” These disturbing words could be from almost any news report about Israel’s invasion of its northern neighbour over the past month. However, they can be found in a report by the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre issued on July 27, 2006.
Saturday, November 2, 2024
A Future Without Hezbollah
At the end of September, when Israel’s campaign to destroy Hezbollah was reaching its height, I met one of the group’s supporters in a seaside café in western Beirut. He was a middle-aged man with a thin white beard and the spent look of someone who had not slept for days. He was an academic of sorts, not a fighter, but his ties to Hezbollah were deep and long-standing.
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Sports
Tottenham Forward Son Heung-min Crowned Asia’s International Player of the Year
Tottenham forward Son Heung-min was crowned as Asia’s International Player of the Year for the fourth time by the Asian Football Confederation at its annual awards ceremony Tuesday.
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Real Madrid Launch Investigation into Racist Insults After El Clasico Defeat
Real Madrid has launched an investigation into racist insults directed at players during Saturday’s 4-0 home loss to Barcelona in LaLiga, it said on Sunday.
Monday, October 28, 2024
Friday 5 April 2024 14:07:10
Poland Calls for International Probe into Israel's Killing of 7 Aid Workers in Gaza
Poland has called for an international investigation into the deaths of seven aid workers, including a Polish citizen, during an Israeli air strike on Gaza on Monday.
"We demand an international investigation into the case, (and) we demand that Poland also participate in the investigation," Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz was quoted as saying by the state-run PAP news agency Thursday evening.
In line with President Andrzej Duda's remarks, he emphasized that the Polish government expects Israel to compensate the victims' families.
Apology, compensation, and clarification are all measures of decency, Kosiniak-Kamysz stressed.
In a related development, Israeli Ambassador to Poland Yakov Livne was summoned to the Foreign Ministry for remarks about the killing and accusations of widespread antisemitism in Poland, the news agency reported.
Earlier on Thursday, Polish President Andrej Duda said the Israeli envoy in Warsaw has tried to jeopardize relations with Tel Aviv due to his attitude and remarks regarding Israel's killing of a Polish aid worker in Gaza.
Damian Sobol, a volunteer for the World Central Kitchen charity in Gaza, was killed Monday along with six others when an Israeli airstrike hit the convoy he was traveling in.
