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UNRWA chief Lazzarini says silent war taking place in West Bank, over 700 people killed since Oct 7, 2023, all countries have resumed contributions to UNRWA but one. -
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UNIFIL spokesperson says devastation and destruction pf many villages in Lebanon along the Blue Line, and even beyond, is shocking, our positions have been repeatedly targeted in Lebanon, putting peacekeepers in danger. -
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Residents of southern Lebanon received calls from a Lebanese number ordering them to immediately distance themselves 1,000 metres from any post used by Hezbollah, a
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reporter in the south said.
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Lebanon's Hezbollah says targeted with missiles Mossad intelligence agency HQ and military intelligence unit on Tel Aviv outskirts, used new missile "Fadi 4". -
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UNIFIL says HQ, nearby positions in southern Lebanon 'repeatedly hit', two peacekeepers are in hospital from a fall after Israeli tank struck watchtower, Israeli military 'deliberately fired at and disabled' UN security cameras. -
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Israeli forces have acted illegally by shooting at positions used by UN peacekeepers in Lebanon, Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto said, denouncing it as a possible war crime. "This was not a mistake and not an accident," Crosetto told a news conference. -
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EU's foreign policy chief Borrell says decision by United States to give Israel one month to resolve Gaza humanitarian crisis is insufficient, too many will die in that time, situation is a 'catastrophe'. -
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Israeli tank fired on Wednesday at a watchtower at UN peacekeepers main base in southern Lebanon's Naqoura, two UN peacekeepers were lightly injured as a result of falling after watchtower came under Israeli tank fire, UN source tells
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The batteries of the walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah were laced with a highly explosive compound known as PETN, a Lebanese source familiar with the device's components told
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An Israeli strike hit the north Lebanon region of Aitou on Monday, residents and Lebanese broadcasters said, the first time the Christian-majority area has been attacked by Israel in a year of hostilities. -
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UN Security Council expresses deep concern for civilian casualties, destruction of civilian infrastructure in Lebanon, calls for full implementation of resolution 1701, recognizes 'need for further practical measures to achieve that outcome'. -
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Lebanese army says soldier killed in Israeli strike on military post in southern town of Bint Jbeil, soldiers fired back at sources of fire. -
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Congrats to Reuters photojournalist
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for winning World Press Photo of the Year Award. Taken on October 17, 2023, the photo shows a Palestinian woman embracing her 5-year-old niece's body who was killed in an Israeli strike at Nasser hospital in the southern Gaza Strip.
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At least 600 people seeking refuge from Israeli strikes in monastery in the southern Lebanese town of Rmeish, local residents tell
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A Lebanese security official and a diplomat told
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it appears that Israel wants to drive UNIFIL along with Hezbollah to behind the Litani River. The official said Israeli forces were fighting for access to strategic overlook points which are where UNIFIL bases are located.
UNIFIL had decided to relocate 300 peacekeepers in southern Lebanon to larger bases temporarily for their safety, UN peacekeeping chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix told the UN Security Council on Thursday. -
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At least 23 Syrians, mostly women and children, killed in Israeli strike on Lebanese Bekaa town of Younine last night, mayor tells
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French President Emmanuel Macron urges Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian to support a "general de-escalation" in the Middle East during a conversation, presidential office says. -
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Freed Israeli hostage says she was taken into tunnels inside Gaza that looked like "spiderweb", doctor saw her during her captivity. -
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Israeli forces fired at an observation post belonging to UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon on Friday, injuring two, UN source tells
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Qatar Prime Minister says Gaza ceasefire talks at stalemate, Rafah operation has sent things backwards, there could be a deal in a matter of days but no clarity from Israel on how to end the war. -
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The Turkish lira weakened to a record low just off 20 against the dollar ahead of this weekend's presidential election runoff which will decide whether President
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extends his rule into a third decade.
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Israel's military offensive in the Gaza Strip has killed at least 41,689 Palestinians, the Palestinian enclave's health ministry said on Wednesday. A total of 51 Palestinians have been killed in the past 24 hours, the ministry said in a statement. -
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Late on Friday, medics said 33 people, mostly women and children, were killed and 85 others were wounded in Israeli strikes that destroyed at least three houses in northern Gaza's Jabalia. The Israeli military said it was unaware of that incident. -
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The chief of staff of Ireland’s Defense Forces, which has around 340 personnel serving in UNIFIL, said Friday’s attack was deliberate. "An observer tower with a round from a tank directly into it, which is a very small target, has to be very deliberate, and it's a direct fire."
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Lebanon's Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri received a phone call from US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken which lasted about 40 minutes, during which they discussed the situation in Lebanon, speaker office says. -
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German Chancellor Scholz, on Israeli arms deliveries, says there are deliveries and there will be in the future, we will not accept Iran attacking Israel with rockets, Iran is playing with fire. -
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The last video Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah posted on X, 20 minutes before he was killed by an Israeli tank shell that targeted him and 6 other journalists in southern Lebanon, today a year ago. Israel still has not confirmed if it has completed a preliminary investigation.
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Senior Iranian official tells
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after reported strike by Israel on Iran: There is no plan for immediate retaliation, no clarification on who is behind incident.
Nine days into a major Israeli operation in northern Gaza, the Palestinian enclave's health ministry says dozens of people have been confirmed killed, with many dozens of others feared dead on roads and under the rubble of houses beyond the reach of medical teams. -
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A UN inquiry accused Israeli forces of deliberately killing, torturing medical personnel and targeting medical vehicles in Gaza. It cited the death of Hind Rajab along with family members and two medics who came to rescue her from under Israeli fire as they evacuated. -
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Israel said it had targeted the intelligence headquarters of Hezbollah in Lebanon overnight and was assessing the damage on Friday after a series of strikes on senior figures in the group that Iran's Supreme Leader dismissed as counterproductive. -
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Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) says entire Gaza Strip remains at risk of famine, recent surge in violence in Gaza means there are growing concerns that famine may occur. -
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At the UN we're always asked to do more & give more. So, when we make a decision, at the will of the American ppl, abt where to locate OUR embassy, we don't expect those we've helped to target us. On Thurs there'll be a vote criticizing our choice. The US will be taking names.
UNIFIL said an Israeli bulldozer had knocked over barriers at UN positions near the Blue Line denoting the frontier between Lebanon and Israel, while tanks had moved into the vicinity. -
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Iran's Quds Force commander Esmail Qaani has not been heard from since Israeli strikes on Beirut late last week, two senior Iranian security officials told
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Ukraine's President Zelenskiy on his way to Arab League meeting in Saudi Arabia, will travel to G7 meeting in Hiroshima from Jeddah on French government plane. -
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IMF says Lebanon’s economic crisis worsened by failure to take policy action, ‘resistance from vested interests to reforms’, delay in finance sector restructuring has cost depositors $10 bln since 2020. -
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Iran and Saudi Arabia sign joint statement in China, agree to start arrangements to reopen embassies and consulates, resume flights, facilitate visas for citizens, resume bilateral visits of official and private sector delegations. -
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Israeli strikes have killed at least 2,169 people in Lebanon over the last year, the Lebanese government said on Thursday in its daily update. The majority have been killed since Sept. 23, when Israel expanded its military campaign. -
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Five MSF staff were trapped in Gaza's Jabalia camp, MSF project coordinator Sarah Vuylsteke said. "I don't know what to do; at any moment we could die. People are starving. I am afraid to stay, and I am also afraid to leave," she quoted Haydar, an MSF driver, as saying. -
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Italian PM Meloni, in call, tells Israeli counterpart Netanyahu attacks on UN peacekeepers in Lebanon are unacceptable, calls for full implementation of UNSC Resolution 1701, stresses urgent need for de-escalation in region. -
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French President Macron calls for an end to arms exports used in Gaza and Lebanon: "This is in no way a call to disarm Israel but a call to stop any destabilization in this part of the world," he said on Friday. -
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Two dead in clashes in Lebanon between Hezbollah, residents of Christian town over overturned lorry truck, two security sources tell
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