TEL AVIV, Israel — Israeli officials are stepping up threats against the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, warning that Israel is running out of patience as the two sides continue to trade fire along Israel’s volatile northern border. Benny Gantz, a member of Israel’s War Cabinet, said Wednesday that if the international community and the Lebanese … Read more
The Washington Post Exclusive Updated December 11, 2023 at 2:13 p.m. EST|Published December 11, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EST Remnants of a U.S.-produced white phosphorous smoke round found in Dheira, Lebanon. (William Christou for the Washington Post) Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave DHEIRA, Lebanon — Israel used U.S.-supplied white phosphorus munitions in … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave BEIRUT — News organizations and rights groups that investigated shelling that killed a journalist and injured others in Lebanon in October said their findings indicate that Israel was responsible. Two rights groups described the attack as a “war crime.” The shelling on Oct. 13 in southern Lebanon … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave BEIRUT — Airstrikes blamed on Israel killed four Lebanese civilians Tuesday, including two journalists, in a fresh escalation of fighting along the Israel-Lebanon border, where Hezbollah fighters and Israeli forces have been engaged in daily exchanges of fire over the past six weeks. A separate strike killed … Read more
BINT JBEIL, Lebanon — An Israeli airstrike in south Lebanon on Sunday evening killed four civilians, including a woman and three children, raising the likelihood of a dangerous new escalation in the conflict on the Lebanon-Israel border. Israeli troops and Hezbollah militants and their allies have been clashing for a month along the border since … Read more
October 19, 2023 at 7:17 p.m. EDT Two refugee women and their children pass time in the courtyard of the Tyre Technical School in Tyre, Lebanon on October 19, 2023. Several UN-schools in South Lebanon are currently sheltering Lebanese communities that were internally displaced due to the increase in violence between Israel and Lebanon at … Read more
Reuters videographer Issam Abdallah, who was killed in Israeli shelling of southern Lebanon, has been laid to rest in his hometown in a funeral procession attended by hundreds of people ByThe Associated Press October 14, 2023, 8:09 AM KHIAM, Lebanon — A Reuters videographer killed in Israeli shelling of southern Lebanon was laid to rest … Read more
Comment on this storyComment BEIRUT — A Reuters videographer was killed and six other journalists were wounded Friday in southern Lebanon when the area they were reporting from was struck by Israeli shelling, according to two colleagues who spoke to the injured journalists in the hospital, as well as an eyewitness. Charbel Francis, a cameraman … Read more
White phosphorus is a particularly incendiary weapon. When exposed to the air, the chemical ignites, creating flames that burn as hot as 1499°F. The thick smoke it produces can serve as a handy obscurant for militaries. But for the civilians on whom it rains down, it can cause severe fires and deep burns that go … Read more
(Adds statements from peacekeeping mission, UN special coordinator, background, paragraph 10 onwards) Oct 8 (Reuters) – Israel fired barrages of artillery into southern Lebanon on Sunday after Hezbollah targeted three Israeli military positions in the disputed Shebaa Farms. There were no immediate reports of casualties. On Saturday, the most serious attack in years by Palestinian … Read more