French President Emmanuel Macron is organizing a conference on Lebanon this Thursday, October 24 in Paris with the hope of mobilizing the international community to raise at least 400 million dollars requested by the United Nations to help people displaced by the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.
In Lebanon, intense Israeli aerial bombardments hit the southern suburbs of Beirut on Wednesday evening, a stronghold of Hezbollah, targeted by seventeen strikes which destroyed several buildings, according to the Lebanese news agency Ani, and caused a huge explosion . Still according to this source, these are the most significant bombings in this sector since the start of the war between Israel and Hezbollah a month ago.
Information to remember:
⇒ Syria reports Israeli strikes in Damascus and near Homs
⇒ Intense Israeli bombardments on the southern suburbs of Beirut
⇒ A conference on Lebanon is organized this Thursday in Paris
07:10
Three Lebanese soldiers killed by Israeli fire
The Lebanese army said Thursday that three of its soldiers, including an officer, were killed by Israeli fire in southern Lebanon, not far from the Israeli border. “The Israeli enemy targeted members of the Lebanese army in the vicinity of the village of Yater, (in the region of) Bint Jbeil (south), while they were carrying out an operation to evacuate wounded, this which led to the death of three martyrs including an officer,” the army said in a statement.
It had already announced on Sunday the death of three of its soldiers in Israeli fire on one of its vehicles in the south of the country, where the Israeli army is carrying out incursions against pro-Iranian Hezbollah. American Defense Minister Lloyd Austin expressed “deep concern” to his Israeli counterpart on Wednesday about these shots.
06:50
Syria reports Israeli strikes in Damascus and near Homs
The official Syrian agency Sana reported early this Thursday morning Israeli strikes on a “residential building” in the Kafr Sousa district of Damascus and on a military site near Homs (west), where according to this source, a soldier died and seven were injured.
“At around 3:40 a.m. (2:40 a.m. Paris time), the Israeli enemy launched an air attack from the occupied Syrian Golan and northern Lebanon that targeted two sites in the Kafar Souseh neighborhood of Damascus and a military site near Homs,” Sana said, citing a military source. The province of Homs borders Lebanon, where Israel is at war against Hezbollah, a movement supported – like Syria – by Iran.
“All the ingredients” are there for a military and humanitarian “storm” in Syria, the UN special envoy warned earlier on Wednesday, expressing alarm at the fallout from hostilities in the Middle East which are already having ” serious consequences” for the country. “The flames of conflict are unleashed in the occupied Palestinian territories, including Gaza, and in Lebanon. And the heat is also felt in Syria,” Geir Pedersen told the Security Council. “The escalation is already having a major impact on Syria and Syrian civilians. I want to send a clear warning signal: a regional spillover in Syria is alarming and could become much worse, with serious implications for Syria and security and international peace.
06:40
Intense Israeli bombardments on the southern suburbs of Beirut
Intense Israeli aerial bombardments hit the southern suburbs of Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold, on Wednesday evening, targeted by seventeen strikes which destroyed several buildings, according to the Lebanese agency, and caused a huge explosion.
According to the Lebanese news agency Ani, these are the most significant bombings in this area since the start of the war between Israel and the pro-Iranian Islamist movement Hezbollah a month ago.
06:30
Humanitarian aid and ceasefire on the menu at the conference on Lebanon in Paris
French President Emmanuel Macron opens a conference on Lebanon this Thursday with the hope of mobilizing the international community to raise at least 400 million dollars demanded by the United Nations to help people displaced by the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.
This conference will bring together more than 70 participants, including the Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati, the Lebanese Foreign Ministers Abdallah Bou Habib, the German Annalena Baerbock, the Canadian Mélanie Joly, the head of diplomacy of the European Union Josep Borrell, and even around fifteen international organizations. Even if in the absence of the main protagonists – Israel and Iran were not invited and American Secretary of State Antony Blinken will not make the trip – diplomatic progress in Paris should be limited.
06:15
Trump touts his near-daily conversations with Netanyahu
Donald Trump boasted this Wednesday of his almost daily conversations with Benjamin Netanyahu, claiming to have a “very good relationship” with the Israeli Prime Minister.
“Bibi called me yesterday, he had called me the day before,” declared the Republican candidate for the White House, about Benjamin Netanyahu. “We have a very good relationship,” he said during a campaign rally in the US state of Georgia. And added: “We will work with them very closely.”