US EditionFamilies take shelter in schools as Lebanon’s government calls Hezbollah’s strike on Israel illegal
Lebanon's government demands Hezbollah surrender weapons after cross-border attacks triggered Israeli airstrikes killing at least 72 and displacing 83,000, escalating regional tensions.
- On Monday, Lebanon's government banned Hezbollah's military activities and demanded it hand over weapons, while Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said only the state should decide on war and peace.
- Hezbollah said it struck to avenge the Saturday killing of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and framed the attacks as retaliation for repeated Israeli aggressions.
- Israel launched heavy airstrikes on Hezbollah-controlled Beirut suburbs, killing 31 and wounding 149, while the Israeli military warned around 50 communities to evacuate and called up more than 100,000 reservists.
- Lebanese civilians fled from the south and Beirut's southern suburbs on Monday, seeking refuge in schools in Beirut as highways jammed, with Ali Hamdan describing a seven-hour gridlock.
- The escalation marks the harshest stance yet toward Hezbollah, with officials saying it could fuel wider war and prompting the Prime Minister to call for international efforts to secure an Israeli commitment to stop strikes.
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The Israeli army had asked residents of neighborhoods in southern Lebanon to leave their homes as it planned to continue bombing alleged Hezbollah targets in the country.
The Lebanese people once again pay bloodyly the price of a conflict that is not their own.
Lebanese civilians caught up in Israel-Hezbollah conflict
Israel continued waves of heavy airstrikes in Beirut after Hezbollah began firing on Israel in support of Iran. Nearly 85,000 people have been displaced, according to the Lebanese government. The Israeli military has also started a ground incursion into southern Lebanon, while Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem said that the group “will not surrender.” Special correspondent Simona Foltyn reports.
Israel pushes into Lebanon as Hezbollah vows continued resistance
BEIRUT, March 5 — The leader of the Tehran-backed militant group Hezbollah vowed Wednesday to keep up its fight against Israel, whose forces pushed into several border towns and conducted air strikes around Lebanon for a third day.Lebanon was drawn into the Middle East war on Monday, when Hezbollah attacked Israel in response to the killing of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during US-Israeli strikes over the weekend.The group step…
The conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon is intensifying, and the Israeli army launched a ground offensive in southern Lebanon.
The conflict between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon continued to intensify on the fifth day of the Iran war. The Israeli army attacked several Hezbollah targets in Lebanon on Wednesday, including rocket bases in the south of the neighboring country. Hezbollah reported "direct battles" with the Israeli army. According to UN circles, the Israeli army invaded several villages in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah chief Naim Kassem declared th…
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