Lebanon, IDF and Israel
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The Israeli military fired a new wave of airstrikes in Lebanon on Thursday, while Kuwait briefly came under fire by drones in skirmishes that threaten to end the cease-fire with Iran. The Israel Defense Forces said it had fired missiles aimed at Hezbollah rocket-launching sites in southern Beirut that were allegedly going to be used to attack the Jewish state.
A senior government figure in Iran told ITV News they are in contact with Pakistan to demand that Israel is committed to the ceasefire.
Confusion and tension are growing around the fragile ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran amid Israel’s ongoing strikes in Lebanon. Geoff Bennett discussed more with special correspondents Reza Sayah in Tehran and Simona Foltyn in Beirut.
Israeli airstrikes killed at least 28 people across Lebanon on Friday, including eight security personnel, according to the Health Ministry and the state-run news agency NNA. In Nabatieh, strikes near a government complex and a State Security office caused extensive destruction,
UN refugee agency warns that Lebanon is facing a worsening humanitarian crisis following what it described as the most intense Israeli strikes in the current conflict.
Jordan News Agency (Petra) on MSN
Israeli drone strikes kill three in southern Lebanon, injure anotherBeirut, Apr. 10 (Petra)-- Three Lebanese were killed and a fourth injured on Friday in a series of Israeli drone strikes targeting southern Lebanon. A Lebanese security source told the Jordan News Agency (Petra) correspondent in Beirut that Israeli warplanes have been carrying out intensive air raids since the morning on areas and towns across the districts of Tyre,
Israeli forces launched a large-scale aerial assault on Beirut on Wednesday, striking more than 100 targets in minutes, according to the Israeli military. The strikes came just hours after the United States and Iran announced a two-week ceasefire.
Four people were killed and two others injured on Friday in continued Israeli strikes targeting several areas in southern Lebanon,
Israel says the truce with Iran does not cover Lebanon. But Tehran says it does, and it has threatened to pull out of peace talks unless the bombing stops.
A British drone flew over Lebanon and circled near Baalbek on Wednesday, the day Israel hit Lebanon with a wave of strikes that killed more than 300 people - including 18 in the Bekaa Valley city. A Middle East Eye analysis of flight-tracking data has found that a Royal Air Force MQ-9B Protector drone departed from the RAF Akrotiri base in Cyprus on Wednesday morning and began flying over Lebanon at around 6:20am.
Only one oil products tanker and five separate dry bulk carriers have sailed through the Strait of Hormuz in the past 24 hours, according to analysis of data from ship trackers.