“Lebanon is in danger of death”, three Lebanese soldiers killed this Thursday in an Israeli strike

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Lebanon is in danger of death three Lebanese soldiers killed

Jean-Yves Le Drian, Emmanuel Macron’s representative for Lebanon, affirms that the “country is living in enormous tension, Lebanon is in mortal danger”, he warned on LCI.

The essentials

  • Invited on the LCI set Wednesday evening, the former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emmanuel Macron’s representative for Lebanon Jean-Yves Le Drian called on the Israeli army to stop attacks targeting civilians in Lebanon: “We must stop these actions against the Lebanese population We understand that there are targets linked to Hezbollah, but we also see that there is considerable collateral damage and a population in disarray. Because if this continues, it is. Lebanon itself which is in danger I have said on several occasions that Lebanon is in mortal danger.

  • This Thursday, the Lebanese army said that three of its soldiers, including an officer, died, killed by Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon, close to the border with Israel. “The Israeli enemy targeted members of the Lebanese army in the vicinity of the village of Yater, Bint Jbeil (south), while they were carrying out an operation to evacuate wounded,” the Lebanese army specifies in a press release.

  • The Israeli army continued its bombings this Wednesday in the south of Beirut, in the locality of Tyre. A residential complex was notably targeted. According to an Israeli security source, the IDF is ready for “months” of fighting in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.

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09:52 – 20 Hezbollah terrorists killed, Israeli army announces

This Thursday, the Israeli army said it had killed “20 terrorists” from Hezbollah. “The Israeli army struck more than 160 Hezbollah targets across Lebanon,” she continued on Telegram. Several depots and “weapons manufacturing workshops belonging to Hezbollah” were also targeted by the IDF on Wednesday evening in the southern suburbs of Beirut. “All these sites are installed by Hezbollah below and inside civilian buildings in the heart of populated areas,” specifies the army.

09:01 – Macron brings together the international community to raise $400 million

Emmanuel Macron opens a press conference on Lebanon this Thursday, October 24, to try to mobilize the international community and raise 400 million dollars to help people displaced by the conflict in the Middle East. “This country, a friend of France, is today on the brink of the abyss,” declared Jean-Noel Barrot, French Minister of Foreign Affairs. This conference is expected to bring together more than 70 countries and around fifteen international organizations. The Lebanese Prime Minister will be present, as will various foreign ministers, Annalena Baerbock for Germany or Josep Borrell for the EU.

07:56 – “We risk having civil war movements”, warns Le Drian

“We need to speak with political Hezbollah” indicated Wednesday evening Jean-Yves Le Drian, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Emmanuel Macron’s representative for Lebanon. “Israel demands its security. Israel is right. Except that they say that the way to settle this matter is not with bombs, it is through discussion, which Israel, today, refuses. And This proposal for discussion was also validated by the United States. It was September 26. The text is still on the table,” he explains.

On the other hand, “We must stop these actions against the Lebanese population. We understand that there are targets linked to Hezbollah, but we also see that there is considerable collateral damage and a population in disarray. Because if that continues, it is Lebanon itself which is in danger. I have said on several occasions that Lebanon is in mortal danger,” he warns. “If the confrontation continues, we risk having civil war movements which would further prevent the peaceful solution of this problem” regrets the former minister.

23/10/24 – 22:38 – New intense exchanges between Israel and Hezbollah Wednesday evening

The evening was marked by new Israeli strikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut. According to the Lebanese National Information Agency, after calling on populations to evacuate several areas around 8:30 p.m., the Israeli army carried out 10 airstrikes. “Israeli raids on an area around Laylaki destroyed six buildings,” the agency said.

For its part, Hezbollah declared having struck a military industrial site located near Tel Aviv, in Israel, ensuring that it had “hit the target with precision”. The Israeli army, for its part, reports having recorded “around 135 projectiles” launched by Hezbollah from Lebanon at the Hebrew state.

23/10/24 – 8:33 p.m. – “I was extremely disappointed” by Emmanuel Macron, says Benyamin Netanyahu

The Israeli Prime Minister was the guest of CNews this Wednesday evening. On this occasion, Benjamin Netanyahu did not fail to return to the recent tensions between him and the President of the French Republic. “I spoke with Emmanuel Macron and I was extremely disappointed,” he said, believing that the head of state “is taking positions which are against our common interests, the interests of free societies”.

10/23/24 – 6:06 p.m. – Hezbollah confirms the death of Nasrallah’s expected successor

Hezbollah has confirmed the death of Hachem Safieddine, the expected successor to Hassan Nasrallah at the head of the Lebanese Islamist movement. The Israeli army announced last night that it had “eliminated” this senior figure from the Shiite group at the beginning of October during a strike near Beirut. In its statement, Hezbollah writes that the head of the Executive Council of the pro-Iranian movement, Hachem Safieddine, was killed along with other members of the party “in a Zionist raid.”

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