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SvennoJ 5 hours ago

Exactly the same playbook as in Gaza

Aftermath of fatal Israeli attack on Lebanese journalists


The destroyed car of Lebanese journalists Al Mayadeen reporter Fatima Ftouni and cameraman Mohammed Ftouni, and Al-Manar reporter Ali Shaib, killed by a targeted Israeli strike, in Jezzine, southern Lebanon, March 28


Lebanon says preparing to file complaint to UNSC over killed journalists

Lebanon’s Information Minister Paul Morcos says that his ministry and the Foreign Ministry are preparing to file a complaint to the UN Security Council over Israel’s targeting of journalists.

Earlier an Israeli strike killed a journalist working for Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV and another for the pro-Hezbollah Al Mayadeen channel in southern Lebanon, and a third journalist working as a camera person.

Morcos “stressed that Lebanon will not treat such attacks as normal and is committed to national unity,” he said in a statement. Marcos also “called for reaffirming and enforcing international protections for journalists and warned against any attempt to weaken these safeguards”.

 

Lebanon says more than 1,180 killed in Israeli strikes since March 2

Lebanon’s Ministry of Health says that at least 1,189 people have been killed and 3,427 others injured in Israeli attacks on the country since March 2.

Israeli strike kills Lebanese soldier, says Lebanese army

An Israeli air raid in the southern Lebanese town of Deir al-Zahrani has killed one Lebanese soldier, Lebanon’s National News agency cites the army as saying.



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SvennoJ 4 hours ago

Israeli settler attacks surge in the West Bank, taking advantage of Iran war: Report

Israeli settlers have sharply escalated attacks across the occupied West Bank since the start of the US-Israeli war on Iran on the 28 February, according to Palestinian officials.

Mu’ayyad Sha’ban, head of the Palestinian Authority’s Commission Against the Wall and Settlements, said settlers carried out 443 attacks over the past month, according to a report carried by the Wafa news agency.

“[Israeli settlers] are taking advantage of the state of unrest to intensify their attacks on Palestinian villages and communities … aimed at changing the demographic reality,” he was quoted as saying.

Here are the latest developments over the last month:

  • At least nine Palestinians have been killed in Israeli settler attacks.
  • Six Bedouin communities have been forcibly displaced, affecting 58 families, or 256 people, including 79 women and 166 children.
  • Israeli settlers have attempted to establish 14 new illegal colonial outposts.
  • At least 123 acts of sabotage have been recorded, including 18 arson attacks.
  • Three religious sites were targeted, including an attempted arson attack on the Muhammad Fayyad Mosque in Duma and an assault on the Majdal Bani Fadil Mosque. Israeli forces and settlers continue to storm Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and restrict Palestinian access.

Israeli forces kill Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank

Israeli attacks across Gaza and the occupied West Bank continue to kill and wound people.

Here are the latest developments:

  • The Wafa news agency said an Israeli air raid hit a vehicle east of Khan Younis city in southern Gaza, killing one Palestinian and injuring several.
  • Earlier in the day, two brothers were killed and other people injured, some critically, after Israeli forces attacked Gaza City.
  • Medical sources say the death toll from Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza has risen to 72,268 killed and 171,995 wounded since October 7, 2023.
  • Since last year’s October “ceasefire”, at least 692 people have been killed and 1,895 wounded, while 756 bodies have been recovered from under the rubble.
  • In the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said Israeli soldiers shot and killed Adam Dahman, a 15-year-old boy in a refugee camp on Friday, who was buried on Saturday.
  • The ministry says at least 1,054 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces or settlers in the West Bank since the start of the genocide in October 2023.