Israel strikes southern suburbs of Beirut for the first time in nearly a week
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Israel strikes southern suburbs of Beirut for the first time in nearly a week

Israeli jets struck the southern suburbs of Beirut early Wednesday for the first time in six days, Lebanese state media reported. The casualty count was not yet clear. The attack comes just one day after caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said the United States government gave him some assurances of…

Israeli airstrikes hit Beirut, cut off crossing into Syria
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Israeli airstrikes hit Beirut, cut off crossing into Syria

Israel carried out a series of massive airstrikes overnight in southern suburbs of Beirut and another that cut off the main border crossing between Lebanon and Syria. The new wave of strikes came after Israel warned people to evacuate communities in southern Lebanon that are outside a United Nations-declared buffer…

Israeli strikes on Gaza kill at least 7 as people flee south Lebanon
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Israeli strikes on Gaza kill at least 7 as people flee south Lebanon

Palestinian officials say Israel’s strikes early Tuesday killed at least seven people in Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis. At least 15 others, including women and children, were injured in the strikes, they said. Israel’s military says it will do “whatever is necessary” to push Hezbollah away from Lebanon’s border…

Dozens killed in Israeli strikes on Hamas command center in Gaza humanitarian area
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Dozens killed in Israeli strikes on Hamas command center in Gaza humanitarian area

The Israeli military launched airstrikes on a designated humanitarian zone in Gaza where the IDF said Hamas terrorists were embedded — killing at least 40 people and injuring dozens of others, according to Palestinian authorities. At least four Israeli missiles struck the tent encampment near Khan Younis which is now…

US ‘kinetic strike’ takes out senior leader of terrorist group aligned with al Qaeda in Syria
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US ‘kinetic strike’ takes out senior leader of terrorist group aligned with al Qaeda in Syria

US Central Command announced Friday that forces in Syria had successfully killed terrorist group senior leader Abu-‘Abd al-Rahman al-Makki. According to CENTCOM, al-Makki was killed in a “targeted kinetic strike” in Syria. Al-Makki was a council member and senior leader with Hurras al-Din, which is ideologically aligned with Al-Qaeda in Syria. He…

Israeli strike on a Gazan school kills scores of Palestinians: Letters
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Israeli strike on a Gazan school kills scores of Palestinians: Letters

The Issue: An Israeli airstrike on a school in Gaza, which was reported to contain Hamas militants. In its nearly two decades of administering Gaza, Hamas did little to develop Gaza’s economy — yet spent more than $1 billion building an extensive network of underground tunnels and embedding themselves under…