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Following the warning of the infiltration of hostile aircraft that were activated in the area west of Lakish a short time ago, the Air Force successfully intercepted an unmanned aircraft that crossed into the territory of the country,
the IDF said in an official statement on X (formerly Twitter). 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,
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 Both things could be true and at the same time,
she said, underscoring the need for a cease-fire deal It's also shown that it will go against U.S. wishes,
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,
The kitchen windows exploded... and my son started crying,
I went out to throw out the rubbish, opened the door of the lift and the strike hit" and he was propelled to the ground
I'm not scared usually, but it was like an earthquake,
That’s far away from southern Lebanon and from the southern suburbs of Beirut, and that’s very concerning to the Lebanese because it shows the Israeli air campaign is widening across the country,
Any deliberate attack on peacekeepers is a grave violation of international humanitarian law,
UNIFIL said in a statement, The Israeli enemy's attacks on the capital Beirut this evening resulted in an updated toll of 22 people killed and 117 others injured,
Lebanon's health ministry said