Tag: Lebanon
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Emirates bans pagers, walkie-talkies onboard after Lebanon blasts
Dubai-based airline Emirates has banned pagers and walkie-talkies onboard its planes following sabotage attacks in Lebanon and extended flight cancellations for Middle East destinations due to regional escalation. “All Passengers travelling on flights to, from or via Dubai are prohibited from transporting pagers and walkie-talkies in checked or cabin baggage,” the carrier said, weeks after…
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Hassan Nasrallah’s body found intact; suffocated from toxic fumes
Newsweek reveals that, according to a report released by Israeli media, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s death was caused by suffocation from toxic fumes after an Israeli airstrike hit the bunker he was hiding in. The report states that the deceased leader’s body was believed to have been pulled from the rubble after the building around…
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Lebanon PM calls for ceasefire with Israel
Lebanon’s Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Monday called for a ceasefire in the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah during a meeting with French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot in Beirut. “The key to the solution is to put an end to the Israeli aggression against Lebanon and to revive the appeal launched by the United States…
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Pope slams Israel for ‘immoral’ use of force in Gaza and Lebanon
Pope Francis on Sunday slammed the “immoral” use of force in Lebanon and Gaza amid ongoing Israeli strikes in both places. “A country that acts this way with force, no matter the country, and that acts in such an excessive manner, (lends itself to) immoral actions,” said Francis when asked about the consequences of Israeli…
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Israeli airstrike kill over 700 in Lebanon; claims Hezbollah Hassan Nasrullah dead
Israel has shifted the focus of its aggression from Gaza to Lebanon, where heavy bombing has killed more than 700 people and displaced around 118,000 over the past few days. Israeli military announced on Saturday that Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah was killed in a massive strike on Beirut the previous night. “Hassan Nasrallah is dead,”…
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Lebanon’s Hezbollah in disarray as 20 killed, 450 injured in second wave of device blasts
A second deadly wave of unprecedented explosions in the strongholds of Lebanon’s Hezbollah left it in disarray on Thursday, hours before a major speech by its beleaguered leader, Hassan Nasrallah. The latest batch of device explosions killed 20 people and wounded more than 450 others on Wednesday, officials said, stoking fears of a full-blown war with Israel.…
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Amid Gaza genocide, Israel aims to send Lebanon “back to Stone Age”
Israel launched air strikes on Gaza Thursday after warning Hezbollah, Hamas’s ally in Lebanon, to avoid a large-scale war that would send the neighbouring country “back to the Stone Age”. Defence Minister Yoav Gallant made the comment during a visit to Washington, where he discussed the Gaza war, long-running efforts toward a truce, and ways…
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Pakistani news channel’s hilarious mistake skewered on social media
Private news channel GTV made a hilarious mistake as they shared a tweet as a statement from a Hezbollah leader’s son; whereas the tweet was actually from a common netizen on Twitter. GTV mistook netizen Hadi Nasrallah as the son of Hezbollah leader Syed Hassan Narallah and this has unleashed a laughing riot on Twitter.…
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Hezbollah Launched Over 100 Rockets At Israeli Positions
Lebanon’s Hezbollah said Tuesday it launched over 100 rockets at Israeli military positions in retaliation for a strike on the country’s east that killed one person the day before. Hezbollah and Israel have exchanged near-daily cross-border fire since the genocide in Gaza erupted in October, but several Israeli strikes have recently hit Hezbollah positions further…
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100 DAYS: Genocide in Gaza
100 days back, on October 7, 2023, Hamas took Israel by surprise in a move that came as a consequence of more than seventy years of occupation, killings, destruction, and displacement of the Palestinians. Israel took this instance of response as an excuse to go all out in attempts to exterminate Gazans from their land:…