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SvennoJ on 16 November 2024
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Israel takes UN peacekeeping chief on tour of Lebanon border

The Israeli military took UN peacekeeping chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix on a tour of the border area between Israel and Lebanon on Friday.

“We met with the commander of Northern Command General Ori Gordin who briefed [Lacroix] on the weapons and terror infrastructures that the [Israeli military] discovered in South Lebanon,” Amir Weissbrod, the deputy director general for the UN and International Organisations Division at the ministry, said in a post on X.

Weissbrod added that they “discussed ways to implement effectively resolution 1701” and visited the village of Metula to “witness firsthand the reality on the ground and the security challenges for the Israeli civilians in the towns and villages near the border”.

Earlier this week, Lacroix said that redeploying the Lebanese armed forces in southern Lebanon would constitute “an absolutely central element” of any ceasefire agreement.

UNIFIL peacekeepers have come under repeated fire from the Israeli military in the weeks since Israel significantly ramped up its attacks on Lebanon and launched a ground invasion of the southern parts of the country.




Paramedic killed in attack on southern Lebanese town

The Israeli military has attacked the town of Burj Rahha in southern Lebanon’s Tyre district, killing a paramedic and injuring seven other people, Lebanon 24 reports. The paramedic’s death comes following two separate attacks on civil defence centres in Lebanon on Thursday.

At least 12 rescue workers were killed when Israeli forces bombed a civil defence centre in the village of Douris, south of the city of Baalbek, while four rescue workers were among six killed in a strike on Arabsalim in Nabatieh.


Two attacks target eastern Lebanon’s West Bekaa

Two Israeli air raids have targeted the village of Libbaya in West Bekaa in eastern Lebanon, according to our colleagues at Al Jazeera.


Israel ‘pushing more and more for endless war’

Uri Misgav, a commentator with Israel’s Haaretz newspaper, says the far-right government of Netanyahu is becoming increasingly unpredictable as war rages in Lebanon and Gaza.

Misgav expressed concern over Netanyahu’s threat to order the military deeper into Lebanon if a truce with Hezbollah is not reached. “Israel doesn’t have enough soldiers to back up these plans in my opinion. It’s very hard to tell what Netanyahu is doing,” he told Al Jazeera.


Israeli military shoots down 2 more drones from Lebanon

It shot down the drones that crossed from southern Lebanon into northern Israel. Air attack sirens were activated across northern Israel, the military said, due to concerns of metal fragments falling to the ground from interceptor missiles deployed to destroy the drones.

Sixteen alerts were issued for towns in the area on Saturday morning.

The Israeli military earlier shot down two drones as they crossed the border from southern Lebanon in the same region.

No injuries or damage to property have been reported so far.


Israel strikes Beirut’s southern suburb

A plume of smoke has been seen rising over the buildings in the Haret Hreik area of Beirut, according to the AFP news agency, shortly after the Israeli army ordered an evacuation for residents near two buildings. Lebanon’s National News Agency also reported “a very violent raid” on Haret Hrek.


Footage shows Israeli attack on Beirut’s southern suburbs

Lebanese media outlets have published footage documenting the first moments of the Israeli air strikes on some buildings in the Haret Hreik area in the southern suburbs of the capital. The video below was verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking agency, Sanad.


Israel launches series of raids in southern Lebanon’s Nabatieh

An Israeli warplane has bombed a house in the Qalaa neighbourhood in the village of Sir al-Gharbiya north of the Litani River in the Nabatieh governorate, destroying it completely, according to the National News Agency (NNA).

In the same governorate, a series of air strikes also targeted the villages of al-Jumayjimah, Chaqra and Barashit in the Bint Jbeil district, the agency said.

Also in Nabatieh, an Israeli aircraft bombed a three-storey family home in the village of Ebba, NNA reported.