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temporary ceasefire<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 though while many hoped it could signal the beginning of the end of the war, it\u2019s not clear that peace will last after <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//11//28//two-injured-as-israeli-troops-fire-on-people-returning-south-after-ceasefire-with-hezbolla/">Israel accused Lebanese militant group Hezbollah<\/strong><\/a> of breaching the deal on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Since October 2023, when the conflict escalated after Hezbollah launched rockets and missiles into Israel, there have been 158 attacks on healthcare facilities and personnel in Lebanon, killing 241 people and injuring nearly 300 others, according to a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////extranet.who.int//ssa//LeftMenu//Index.aspx#:~:text=Database%3A%20Reported%20attacks%20on%20health,published%20on%20the%20SSA%20dashboard.\"><strong>WHO database.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8877332\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//news//2024//11//27//france-says-israels-netanyahu-has-immunity-from-icc-arrest-warrant/">France says Israel's Netanyahu has immunity from ICC arrest warrant<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Eighty-two of those attacks, and 179 of the deaths, have occurred since September 23, when Israel increased heavy bombing across Lebanon, in particular targeting the Iran-backed Hezbollah in the south.<\/p>\n<p>More than <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//11//28//two-injured-as-israeli-troops-fire-on-people-returning-south-after-ceasefire-with-hezbolla/">3,760 people<\/strong><\/a> have been killed in Lebanon amid the conflict, according to health officials there, while more than 70 people in Israel have been killed.<\/p>\n<p>Many health workers are among the displaced in Lebanon, WHO officials said on Thursday, complicating efforts to rebuild the health system in parts of the country hit hard by the attacks.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Assessing the extent of damage to Lebanon\u2019s health system<\/strong><\/h2><p>Nabil Tabbal, a health information and risk assessment officer at the WHO, said nearly 10 per cent of hospitals have been damaged, and that the organisation is now working to get them operational for returning residents.<\/p>\n<p>Working with the ministry of health and other partners, WHO workers are now assessing the extent of the damage to hospitals and primary health centres, with the goal of identifying which ones need the least renovation and new equipment to start accepting patients.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8861404\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//health//2024//11//20//un-official-in-gaza-pregnant-women-at-risk-as-israel-cuts-off-humanitarian-aid/">UN official in Gaza: Pregnant women at risk as Israel cuts off humanitarian aid<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>For example, it appears that four hospitals \u2013 two in the capital of Beirut and two nearby \u2013 can likely be re-opened in the next four weeks if the ceasefire holds, said Dr Abdinasir Abubakar, the WHO\u2019s acting representative for Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of those hospitals, they have very extensive damage which cannot be repaired, which cannot be renovated, within 60 days or even six months,\u201d he told journalists.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cbackup plan,\u201d he added, is to bring more mobile clinics into the area to serve people who have been displaced by the war.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a master plan for us to help all the hospitals and primary healthcare facilities and all the health services to restart in most of the conflict areas, but I\u2019m sure to kickstart all the services 100 per cent, it will take some time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8837600\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//health//2024//11//07//polio-vaccination-campaign-finishes-in-gaza-after-violence-delayed-second-round/">Polio vaccination campaign finishes in Gaza, after violence delayed second round<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut definitely we do have a backup plan to at least provide critical health services\u201d for displaced people returning home.<\/p>\n<p>The officials also pressed for a permanent ceasefire that includes Gaza, where nearly 14 months of war have left more than 44,000 Palestinians dead.<\/p>\n<p>They said the situation is becoming more dire as winter approaches, humanitarian missions are blocked, and supplies of fuel and medicines run low.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ultimate solution is not aid, but peace,\u201d Tedros said.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1732811914,"updatedAt":1732816470,"publishedAt":1732814085,"firstPublishedAt":1732814085,"lastPublishedAt":1732814085,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/87\/97\/04\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_b38a4ec3-4fa5-5e82-a9c7-0f3489643c61-8879704.jpg","altText":"A displaced resident returns to his village in southern Lebanon, following a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hezbollah in November 2024.","caption":"A 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hezbollah ceasefire holds","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire appears to hold as Lebanese begin streaming back to their homes","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"With Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire holding, Lebanese residents head home","titleListing2":"Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire appears to hold as Lebanese begin streaming back to their homes","leadin":"A deal brokered by the US and France offers hope of a stable pause to hostilities that exploded after a year of low-level fighting.","summary":"A deal brokered by the US and France offers hope of a stable pause to hostilities that exploded after a year of low-level 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fled the fighting, as well as tens of thousands of Israelis who evacuated their homes along the two countries' border.\n\nThe deal does not address the war in Gaza.\n\nApproved by Israel late Tuesday, the deal calls for an initial two-month halt to fighting and requires Hezbollah to end its armed presence in southern Lebanon, while Israeli troops are to return to their side of the border.\n\nThousands of additional Lebanese troops and UN peacekeepers would deploy in the south, and an international panel headed by the United States would monitor compliance.\n\nIsrael says it reserves the right to strike Hezbollah should it violate the terms of the deal.\n\nIsrael is still fighting Hamas militants in Gaza in response to the group's cross-border raid into southern Israel in October 2023. But US President Joe Biden on Tuesday said his administration would make another push in the coming days to try to renew efforts for a deal in the war-ravaged Palestinian enclave.\n\nMeanwhile, as the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire took hold in Lebanon, fighting raged on in the Gaza Strip, where the Health Ministry said 33 bodies had been brought to hospitals over the past 24 hours \u2014 raising the death toll in the nearly 14-month-long war to 44,282. \n\nThe Israeli military claimed it had targeted dozens of Hamas-controlled sites in hard-hit northern Gaza, including weapons storage facilities and military structures, and that it had warned civilians to evacuate the area beforehand.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>With a temporary ceasefire deal between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah apparently holding, residents of southern Lebanon are streaming back to their homes despite warnings from the Israeli and Lebanese militaries that they avoid certain areas.<\/p>\n<p>The hope is that the ceasefire will bring an end to nearly 14 months of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, a conflict that began after Hamas' 7 October massacre last year and which escalated into all-out war in mid-September, threatening to pull Hezbollah's patron Iran and Israel into a broader conflagration.<\/p>\n<p>The US- and France-brokered pause in fighting offers a reprieve to 1.2 million displaced Lebanese people who have fled the fighting, as well as tens of thousands of Israelis who evacuated their homes along the two countries' border.<\/p>\n<p>The deal does not address the war in Gaza.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8875546,8875424\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//11//27//biden-says-ceasefire-between-israel-and-hezbollah-set-to-start-at-4am-local-time/">Ceasefire deal between Israel and Hezbollah comes into force<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//11//26//netanyahu-says-he-is-asking-cabinet-to-approve-israel-hezbollah-ceasefire-deal/">Following PM Netanyahu's recommendation, Israeli cabinet approves ceasefire deal with Hezbollah<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Approved by Israel late Tuesday, the deal calls for an initial two-month halt to fighting and requires Hezbollah to end its armed presence in southern Lebanon, while Israeli troops are to return to their side of the border.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of additional Lebanese troops and UN peacekeepers would deploy in the south, and an international panel headed by the United States would monitor compliance.<\/p>\n<p>Israel says it reserves the right to strike Hezbollah should it violate the terms of the deal.<\/p>\n<p>Israel is still fighting Hamas militants in Gaza in response to the group's cross-border raid into southern Israel in October 2023. But US President Joe Biden on Tuesday said his administration would make another push in the coming days to try to renew efforts for a deal in the war-ravaged Palestinian enclave.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, as the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire took hold in Lebanon, fighting raged on in the Gaza Strip, where the Health Ministry said 33 bodies had been brought to hospitals over the past 24 hours \u2014 raising the death toll in the nearly 14-month-long war to 44,282. <\/p>\n<p>The Israeli military claimed it had targeted dozens of Hamas-controlled sites in hard-hit northern Gaza, including weapons storage facilities and military structures, and that it had warned civilians to evacuate the area beforehand.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1732709436,"updatedAt":1732712579,"publishedAt":1732711787,"firstPublishedAt":1732711787,"lastPublishedAt":1732711787,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/87\/66\/62\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_be3e00a2-b0f8-5903-b224-61e91659638f-8876662.jpg","altText":"Displaced families carry mattresses as they prepare to return to their villages after a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah went into effect in Sidon, 27 November 2024","caption":"Displaced families carry mattresses as they prepare to return to their villages after a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah went into effect in Sidon, 27 November 2024","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo\/Mohammed Zaatari","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1600,"height":900}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":2886,"urlSafeValue":"naughtie","title":"Andrew 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5 LEBANON BEIRUT EXPLOSIONS","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"No comment: Residents react after fatal Israeli airstrike on residential building in central Beirut","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":null,"titleListing2":"No comment: Residents react after fatal Israeli airstrike on residential building in central Beirut.","leadin":"Local residents reacted after Israeli jets Tuesday struck a residential building killing 3 and injuring 26 in central Beirut in the Basta area, the second in days. \n\nThe strike comes hours before an anticipated ceasefire deal between Israel and the Lebanese Hezbollah militant group.","summary":"Local residents reacted after Israeli jets Tuesday struck a residential building killing 3 and injuring 26 in central Beirut in the Basta area, the second in days. \n\nThe strike comes hours before an anticipated ceasefire deal between Israel and the Lebanese Hezbollah militant 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BEIRUT AIRSTRIKES","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Israeli airstrikes hit 20 sites in Lebanon as ceasefire talks with Hezbollah show signs of progress","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Israeli airstrikes hit 20 sites in Lebanon before possible ceasefire","titleListing2":"Israeli airstrikes hit 20 sites in Lebanon as the Israeli cabinet considers ceasefire deal.","leadin":"An Israeli airstrike hit 20 sites in southern Lebanon and central Beirut. The strikes preceded talks on a US-mediated ceasefire with Hezbollah, with optimism expressed by officials ahead of a vote by Israel's security cabinet.","summary":"An Israeli airstrike hit 20 sites in southern Lebanon and central Beirut. The strikes preceded talks on a US-mediated ceasefire with Hezbollah, with optimism expressed by officials ahead of a vote by Israel's security cabinet.","keySentence":"","url":"israeli-airstrikes-hit-20-sites-in-lebanon-as-ceasefire-talks-with-hezbollah-show-signs-of","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2024\/11\/26\/israeli-airstrikes-hit-20-sites-in-lebanon-as-ceasefire-talks-with-hezbollah-show-signs-of","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"A massive explosion sent a thick plume of white smoke billowing over Tyre province in southern Lebanon on Tuesday afternoon. \n\nThis event followed airstrikes by Israeli warplanes, which hit 20 different sites within a span of two minutes, including areas in central Beirut, shortly after an evacuation alert was issued. \n\nThese attacks occurred just hours ahead of a potential ceasefire agreement between Israel and Lebanon, with officials from Israel, the US, Lebanon, and the international community expressing optimism about the situation. \n\nIsrael's security cabinet even scheduled a vote to discuss the acceptance of a US-mediated ceasefire with Hezbollah.\n\nThe Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reported that the seven buildings hit in the airstrikes were allegedly associated with Hezbollah, supposedly utilized for financial management and storage. \n\nThe strikes resulted in the death of three individuals and injuries to 26 others in central Beirut, where local residents claimed the buildings were residential.\n\nIn response, Hezbollah started launching attacks into northern Israel, purportedly to show solidarity with the Palestinians, just a day after Hamas executed its attack on October 7, 2023, which led to the Gaza invasion. \n\nSince then, both sides have been engaged in a continuous exchange of fire.\n\nSituation in Lebanon continues to intensify\n\nIn early September, Israel intensified its bombardment campaign and deployed troops into Lebanon, promising to halt Hezbollah's attacks. \n\nAccording to Lebanese health officials, over 3,760 individuals, many of whom were civilians, have died from Israeli strikes in Lebanon over the past year. \n\nThe ongoing bombardment has displaced 1.2 million people from their residences. Israel claims to have eliminated more than 2,000 members of Hezbollah. \n\nHezbollah's actions have forced around 50,000 Israelis to evacuate their homes in the northern regions, with its rockets reaching as far south as Tel Aviv. \n\nAt least 75 individuals have lost their lives, with more than half being civilians. 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Israel claims to have eliminated more than 2,000 members of Hezbollah. <\/p>\n<p>Hezbollah's actions have forced around 50,000 Israelis to evacuate their homes in the northern regions, with its rockets reaching as far south as Tel Aviv. <\/p>\n<p>At least 75 individuals have lost their lives, with more than half being civilians. Additionally, over 50 Israeli soldiers have died in ground operations in Lebanon.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1732634217,"updatedAt":1732644429,"publishedAt":1732641183,"firstPublishedAt":1732641183,"lastPublishedAt":1732641183,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/87\/50\/82\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_899b7dfb-caea-5243-ba53-3d478ca05873-8875082.jpg","altText":"One of the building that was struck in Beirut on 26.11.2024","caption":"One of the building that was struck in Beirut on 26.11.2024","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Hassan Ammar\/Copyright 2024 The AP. 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There are over 10,000 men and women deployed in the south. Thirty of them have been injured.\"\n\nSeveral UNIFIL posts have been hit since Israel began its ground invasion of Lebanon on 1 October, leaving some peacekeepers wounded.\n\nBorrell also expressed his support for the UN aid agency for Palestinian refugees, saying it plays an \"irreplaceable role in Gaza, but also here in Lebanon.\"\n\n\"The services that UNRWA provides to half a million of Palestinian refugees cannot be supplied by anyone else. And we condemn the law passed by the Israeli Knesset, and we continue urging the Israeli government not to implement this decision.\"\n\nThat was a reference to bills passed by the Israeli parliament at the end of October prohibiting UNRWA from operating within Israeli territory.\n\nIsrael has long been at odds with UNRWA, accusing it of turning a blind eye to Hamas members among its staff and of allowing the militant group to use its buildings as bases.\n\nUNRWA has repeatedly denied those allegations.\n\nPrior to meeting the UNIFIL commander, Borrell said the EU is ready to allocate \u20ac200 million to assist the Lebanese military deploy additional troops to the country's south.\u00a0\n\nBorrell called for more pressure on both Israel and Hezbollah to reach a ceasefire, saying one was pending a final agreement from Israel.\u00a0\n\nThose comments came after a meeting with Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, a Hezbollah ally, who has been mediating with the group.\n\nBeirut strikes continue\n\nMeanwhile, Israel continued air strikes on Beirut into Sunday night after Hezbollah fired about 250 rockets and other projectiles into Israel, wounding seven people in one of the militant group\u2019s heaviest barrages in months.\u00a0\n\nSunday's attacks in northern and central Israel came in response to deadly Israeli strikes in central Beirut on Saturday.\n\nMeanwhile, negotiators press on with ceasefire efforts to halt the all-out war.\n\nAnd Lebanon's military says an Israeli strike on a Lebanese army centre in the southwest killed one soldier and wounded 18 others.\n\nIsrael's military has expressed regret and said its operations are directed solely against the militants.\n\nThe militant group Hezbollah is ideologically aligned with Gaza-based Hamas and began firing into Israel the day after the war in the Strip started in October last year.\n\nHezbollah and Israel have traded almost daily fire, displacing tens of thousands on both sides of the border.\n\nOn 1 October 1, the Israeli military launched a ground operation into Lebanon with as many as 15,000 IDF troops believed to be in the country.\n\nIsraeli attacks have killed more than 3,500 people in the country, according to Lebanon's Health Ministry.\n\nAnd fighting has displaced about 1.2 million people, or a quarter of the country's population.\n\nOn the Israeli side, about 90 soldiers and nearly 50 civilians have been killed in bombardments in northern Israel and the fighting.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>The EU Foreign Policy chief Josep Borrell has said UN peacekeepers stationed in southern Lebanon have the \"strong support\" of the bloc after meeting their commander in Beirut.<\/p>\n<p>Borrell held talks with UNFIL's Head of Mission and Force Commander Lieutenant General Aroldo L\u00e1zaro during his visit to the Lebanese capital on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>That meeting comes days after four Italian soldiers were injured after two rockets exploded at a UNIFIL base in Shama, apparently fired by Hezbollah or one of its affiliate groups.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1860711556046012657\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"The attacks against UNIFIL are completely unacceptable,\" Borrell said in a statement after his meeting with L\u00e1zaro.<\/p>\n<p>\"UNIFIL is playing a key role in an increasingly challenging environment. There are over 10,000 men and women deployed in the south. Thirty of them have been injured.\"<\/p>\n<p>Several UNIFIL posts have been hit since Israel began its ground invasion of Lebanon on 1 October, leaving some peacekeepers wounded.<\/p>\n<p>Borrell also expressed his support for the UN aid agency for Palestinian refugees, saying it plays an \"irreplaceable role in Gaza, but also here in Lebanon.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">This conflict has already taken an international dimension and the international community cannot stay idle in front of what is happening here.<\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <div class=\"widget__authorText\">\n Josep Borrell\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"widget__author_descriptionText\">\n EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy\n <\/div>\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"The services that UNRWA provides to half a million of Palestinian refugees cannot be supplied by anyone else. And we condemn the law passed by the Israeli Knesset, and we continue urging the Israeli government not to implement this decision.\"<\/p>\n<p>That was a reference to bills passed by the Israeli parliament at the end of October prohibiting UNRWA from operating within Israeli territory.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has long been at odds with UNRWA, accusing it of turning a blind eye to Hamas members among its staff and of allowing the militant group to use its buildings as bases.<\/p>\n<p>UNRWA has repeatedly denied those allegations.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6667269439421338\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//87//11//70//808x539_cmsv2_50d5ecbd-33ba-5fe1-aa8d-ecb9e81bf499-8871170.jpg/" alt=\"Smoke rises from Israeli air strikes in the Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, 24 November, 2024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/87\/11\/70\/384x256_cmsv2_50d5ecbd-33ba-5fe1-aa8d-ecb9e81bf499-8871170.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/87\/11\/70\/640x427_cmsv2_50d5ecbd-33ba-5fe1-aa8d-ecb9e81bf499-8871170.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/87\/11\/70\/750x500_cmsv2_50d5ecbd-33ba-5fe1-aa8d-ecb9e81bf499-8871170.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/87\/11\/70\/828x552_cmsv2_50d5ecbd-33ba-5fe1-aa8d-ecb9e81bf499-8871170.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/87\/11\/70\/1080x720_cmsv2_50d5ecbd-33ba-5fe1-aa8d-ecb9e81bf499-8871170.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/87\/11\/70\/1200x800_cmsv2_50d5ecbd-33ba-5fe1-aa8d-ecb9e81bf499-8871170.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/87\/11\/70\/1920x1280_cmsv2_50d5ecbd-33ba-5fe1-aa8d-ecb9e81bf499-8871170.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Smoke rises from Israeli air strikes in the Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, 24 November, 2024<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Hassan Ammar\/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Prior to meeting the UNIFIL commander, Borrell said the EU is ready to allocate \u20ac200 million to assist the Lebanese military deploy additional troops to the country's south.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Borrell called for more pressure on both Israel and Hezbollah to reach a ceasefire, saying one was pending a final agreement from Israel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Those comments came after a meeting with Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, a Hezbollah ally, who has been mediating with the group.<\/p>\n<h2>Beirut strikes continue<\/h2><p>Meanwhile, Israel continued air strikes on Beirut into Sunday night after Hezbollah fired about 250 rockets and other projectiles into Israel, wounding seven people in one of the militant group\u2019s heaviest barrages in months.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sunday's attacks in northern and central Israel came in response to deadly Israeli strikes in central Beirut on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, negotiators press on with ceasefire efforts to halt the all-out war.<\/p>\n<p>And Lebanon's military says an Israeli strike on a Lebanese army centre in the southwest killed one soldier and wounded 18 others.<\/p>\n<p>Israel's military has expressed regret and said its operations are directed solely against the militants.<\/p>\n<p>The militant group Hezbollah is ideologically aligned with Gaza-based Hamas and began firing into Israel the day after the war in the Strip started in October last year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1860784122525851739\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Hezbollah and Israel have traded almost daily fire, displacing tens of 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Before his visit to Beirut, Borrell visited Cyprus and Jordan.","summary":"The EU's Foreign Policy chief Josep Borrell\u2019s visit to Lebanon comes at the end of a Middle East tour related to the ongoing wars in Gaza and Lebanon. Before his visit to Beirut, Borrell visited Cyprus and Jordan.","keySentence":"","url":"eu-to-allocate-over-200mln-to-lebanese-military-as-ceasefire-talks-continue","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/11\/24\/eu-to-allocate-over-200mln-to-lebanese-military-as-ceasefire-talks-continue","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The EU is ready to allocate \u20ac200 million to assist the Lebanese military deploy additional troops to the country's south, according to the bloc's Foreign Policy Chief, Josep Borrell.\u00a0\n\nBorrell called for more pressure on both Israel and Hezbollah to reach a ceasefire, saying one was pending a final agreement from Israel.\u00a0\n\nBorrell spoke on Sunday after meeting with Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, a Hezbollah ally, who has been mediating with the group.\n\n\"As the European Union we are supporting the Lebanese people, the Lebanese army and the Lebanese institutions,\" he said. \n\n\"I have asked Prime Minister Mikati what and how we can support your army, not only financially, but also technically.\" \n\nThe emerging agreement would pave the way for the withdrawal of Hezbollah militants and Israeli troops from southern Lebanon below the Litani River, in accordance with the U.N. Security Council resolution that ended the 2006 war. \u00a0\n\nLebanese troops would patrol the area, with the presence of UN peacekeepers.\u00a0\n\nLebanon's army reflects the religious diversity of the country and is respected as a national institution, but it does not have the military capability to impose its will on Hezbollah or resist Israel's invasion.\u00a0\n\nICC arrest warrants\n\nBorrell also reiterated the EU's support for the International Criminal Court (ICC), which on Thursday issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defence minister and Hamas' military chief, accusing them of crimes against humanity in connection with the 13-month war in Gaza.\u00a0\n\n\"The decisions of the International Criminal Court, they are not political. They are fully taken in accordance with international law. It has to apply to everybody. And we strongly support the court,\" Borrell said.\u00a0\n\n","htmlText":"<p>The EU is ready to allocate \u20ac200 million to assist the Lebanese military deploy additional troops to the country's south, according to the bloc's Foreign Policy Chief, Josep Borrell.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Borrell called for more pressure on both Israel and Hezbollah to reach a ceasefire, saying one was pending a final agreement from Israel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Borrell spoke on Sunday after meeting with Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, a Hezbollah ally, who has been mediating with the group.<\/p>\n<p>\"As the European Union we are supporting the Lebanese people, the Lebanese army and the Lebanese institutions,\" he said. <\/p>\n<p>\"I have asked Prime Minister Mikati what and how we can support your army, not only financially, but also technically.\" <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1860710037506679174\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The emerging agreement would pave the way for the withdrawal of Hezbollah militants and Israeli troops from southern Lebanon below the Litani River, in accordance with the U.N. Security Council resolution that ended the 2006 war. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lebanese troops would patrol the area, with the presence of UN peacekeepers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lebanon's army reflects the religious diversity of the country and is respected as a national institution, but it does not have the military capability to impose its will on Hezbollah or resist Israel's invasion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>ICC arrest warrants<\/h2><p>Borrell also reiterated the EU's support for the International Criminal Court (ICC), which on Thursday issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defence minister and Hamas' military chief, accusing them of crimes against humanity in connection with the 13-month war in Gaza.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\"The decisions of the International Criminal Court, they are not political. They are fully taken in accordance with international law. It has to apply to everybody. And we strongly support the court,\" Borrell said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1732457112,"updatedAt":1732933006,"publishedAt":1732477465,"firstPublishedAt":1732477465,"lastPublishedAt":1732933006,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/87\/08\/68\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_7ad5e259-f3f4-50f6-a129-b5200e3946fe-8870868.jpg","altText":"European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell gives a statement to the media after his meeting with Lebanese Parliament speaker Nabih Berri, in Beirut, Lebanon","caption":"European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell gives a statement to the media after his meeting with Lebanese Parliament speaker Nabih Berri, in Beirut, Lebanon","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Hassan Ammar\/Copyright 2024 The AP. 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strikes on the Lebanese capital Beirut as diplomats scramble to broker a ceasefire.\n\nLebanon's Health Ministry said 66 people were wounded in the strikes, the fourth such attacks on central Beirut in less than a week.\n\nThe strikes early on Saturday morning destroyed an eight-story building with a legislator for Hezbollah saying none of the group\u2019s officials were inside at the time.\n\nThe attack also stripped the facades from nearby buildings and crumpled cars.\n\n\"The area is residential, with closely packed buildings and narrow streets, making the situation challenging,\" said Walid Al-Hashash from the Lebanese Civil Defence.\n\n\"We are working with two excavators and the work is ongoing, so I cannot estimate when it will be completed.\"\n\nIsrael's military did not comment on the casualties.\n\nThe latest escalation comes after US envoy Amos Hochstein\u00a0travelled to the region in a bid to strike a deal to end months of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah that has erupted into full-blown war.\n\nTwo Western diplomatic officials described disputed points between Israel and Lebanon in ceasefire negotiations.\n\nThe current proposal calls for a two-month ceasefire during which Israeli forces would withdraw from Lebanon and Hezbollah would end its armed presence along the southern border south of the Litani River.\n\nThousands more Lebanese army troops would patrol the border area with UN peacekeepers and an international committee would monitor the deal's implementation.\n\nThe officials said Israel wanted more guarantees that Hezbollah's weapons are removed from the border area.\n\nIsraeli officials have said they would not agree to a deal that did not explicitly grant them freedom to strike in Lebanon if they believe Hezbollah is violating it.\n\nLebanese officials have said the inclusion of such a term would violate their country's sovereignty.\n\nAnd Hezbollah leader Naim Kassem said this week that the militant group would not agree to a deal that does not entail a \"complete and comprehensive end to the aggression.\"\n\nLebanon and Israel also dispute which countries would sit on the monitoring committee. The officials said Israel refused to allow France, which has been close with Lebanon since its colonial rule there ended. Lebanon refused to have Britain, a close ally of Israel.\n\nThe militant group Hezbollah is ideologically aligned with Gaza-based Hamas and began firing into Israel the day after the war in the Strip started in October last year.\n\nHezbollah and Israel have traded almost daily fire, displacing tens of thousands on both sides of the border.\n\nOn 1 October 1, the Israeli military launched a ground operation into Lebanon with as many as 15,000 IDF troops believed to be in the country.\n\nIsraeli attacks have killed more than 3,500 people in the country, according to Lebanon's Health Ministry.\n\nAnd fighting has displaced about 1.2 million people, or a quarter of the country's population.\n\nOn the Israeli side, about 90 soldiers and nearly 50 civilians have been killed in bombardments in northern Israel and the fighting.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>At least 20 people have been killed in Israeli air strikes on the Lebanese capital Beirut as diplomats scramble to broker a ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p>Lebanon's Health Ministry said 66 people were wounded in the strikes, the fourth such attacks on central Beirut in less than a week.<\/p>\n<p>The strikes early on Saturday morning destroyed an eight-story building with a legislator for Hezbollah saying none of the group\u2019s officials were inside at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The attack also stripped the facades from nearby buildings and crumpled cars.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1860228668100063743\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"The area is residential, with closely packed buildings and narrow streets, making the situation challenging,\" said Walid Al-Hashash from the Lebanese Civil Defence.<\/p>\n<p>\"We are working with two excavators and the work is ongoing, so I cannot estimate when it will be completed.\"<\/p>\n<p>Israel's military did not comment on the casualties.<\/p>\n<p>The latest escalation comes after US envoy Amos Hochstein\u00a0travelled to the region in a bid to strike a deal to end months of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah that has erupted into full-blown war.<\/p>\n<p>Two Western diplomatic officials described disputed points between Israel and Lebanon in ceasefire negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>The current proposal calls for a two-month ceasefire during which Israeli forces would withdraw from Lebanon and Hezbollah would end its armed presence along the southern border south of the Litani River.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6993180409175449\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure 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deal's implementation.<\/p>\n<p>The officials said Israel wanted more guarantees that Hezbollah's weapons are removed from the border area.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli officials have said they would not agree to a deal that did not explicitly grant them freedom to strike in Lebanon if they believe Hezbollah is violating it.<\/p>\n<p>Lebanese officials have said the inclusion of such a term would violate their country's sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>And Hezbollah leader Naim Kassem said this week that the militant group would not agree to a deal that does not entail a \"complete and comprehensive end to the aggression.\"<\/p>\n<p>Lebanon and Israel also dispute which countries would sit on the monitoring committee. The officials said Israel refused to allow France, which has been close with Lebanon since its colonial rule there ended. Lebanon refused to have Britain, a close ally of Israel.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6666666666666666\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//87//04//60//808x539_cmsv2_56746019-2023-546d-8950-320b595ac1a4-8870460.jpg/" alt=\"Rescue teams working on the site of an Israeli air strike in Beirut, 23 November, 2024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/87\/04\/60\/384x256_cmsv2_56746019-2023-546d-8950-320b595ac1a4-8870460.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/87\/04\/60\/640x427_cmsv2_56746019-2023-546d-8950-320b595ac1a4-8870460.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/87\/04\/60\/750x500_cmsv2_56746019-2023-546d-8950-320b595ac1a4-8870460.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/87\/04\/60\/828x552_cmsv2_56746019-2023-546d-8950-320b595ac1a4-8870460.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/87\/04\/60\/1080x720_cmsv2_56746019-2023-546d-8950-320b595ac1a4-8870460.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/87\/04\/60\/1200x800_cmsv2_56746019-2023-546d-8950-320b595ac1a4-8870460.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/87\/04\/60\/1920x1280_cmsv2_56746019-2023-546d-8950-320b595ac1a4-8870460.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Rescue teams working on the site of an Israeli air strike in Beirut, 23 November, 2024<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Hussein Malla\/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The militant group Hezbollah is ideologically aligned with Gaza-based Hamas and began firing into Israel the day after the war in the Strip started in October last year.<\/p>\n<p>Hezbollah and Israel have traded almost daily fire, displacing tens of thousands on both sides of the border.<\/p>\n<p>On 1 October 1, the Israeli military launched a ground operation into Lebanon with as many as 15,000 IDF troops believed to be in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli attacks have killed more than 3,500 people in the country, according to Lebanon's Health Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>And fighting has displaced about 1.2 million people, or a quarter of the country's population.<\/p>\n<p>On the Israeli side, about 90 soldiers and nearly 50 civilians have been killed in bombardments in northern Israel and the fighting.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1732435512,"updatedAt":1732503448,"publishedAt":1732440926,"firstPublishedAt":1732440926,"lastPublishedAt":1732440926,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/87\/04\/60\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_ad103dbb-de52-53f0-8cb8-b42b07b723ae-8870460.jpg","altText":"Rescue workers search for victims at the site of an Israeli air strike that hit central Beirut, 23 November, 2024","caption":"Rescue workers search for victims at the site of an Israeli air strike that hit central Beirut, 23 November, 2024","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Hussein Malla\/Copyright 2024 The AP. 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LEBANON AIRSTRIKE","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"At least 11 killed and dozens injured in Israeli strikes on Beirut as diplomats push for ceasefire","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"At least 11 killed and dozens injured in Israeli strikes on Beirut","titleListing2":"At least 11 killed and dozens injured in Israeli strikes on Beirut as diplomats push for ceasefire","leadin":"The strikes came a day after heavy bombardment of Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs and as heavy ground fighting between Israeli forces and Hezbollah militants continues in southern Lebanon, with Israeli troops pushing further into the country.","summary":"The strikes came a day after heavy bombardment of Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs and as heavy ground fighting between Israeli forces and Hezbollah militants continues in southern Lebanon, with Israeli troops pushing further into the country.","keySentence":"","url":"at-least-11-killed-and-dozens-injured-in-israeli-strikes-on-beirut-as-diplomats-push-for-c","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/11\/23\/at-least-11-killed-and-dozens-injured-in-israeli-strikes-on-beirut-as-diplomats-push-for-c","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"At least 11 people were killed and dozens more injured after Israeli airstrikes devastated parts of central Beirut on Saturday \u2013 with diplomats scrambling to broker a ceasefire in the country.\u00a0\n\nThe strike destroyed an eight-story building, leaving a crater in the ground, and was the fourth on the Lebanese capital in less than a week.\u00a0\n\nLebanon\u2019s civil defence said the death toll was provisional as emergency responders were still digging through the rubble looking for survivors.\u00a0\n\nA separate drone strike in the southern port city of Tyre killed one person and injured another, according to the country's National News Agency.\u00a0\n\nIsrael\u2019s military did not issue a warning for residents to evacuate prior to the strikes in central Beirut and would not comment on those strikes or on the one in Tyre.\u00a0\n\nThe news comes as heavy ground fighting between Israeli forces and Hezbollah militants continues in southern Lebanon, with Israeli troops pushing farther from the border.\u00a0\n\nUS envoy Amos Hochstein travelled to the region this week in an attempt to broker a ceasefire deal to end the more than 13 months of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, which escalated into full-on war over the last two months.\u00a0\n\nMore than 3,500 people have been killed and over 15,000 wounded by Israeli bombardment in Lebanon, according to the Lebanese health ministry. 1.2 million people, or a quarter of the Lebanese population, were reportedly displaced by the fighting.\u00a0\n\nOn the Israeli side, about 90 soldiers and nearly 50 civilians have been killed by rockets, drones and missiles in northern Israel and in fighting in Lebanon.\u00a0\n\n","htmlText":"<p>At least 11 people were killed and dozens more injured after Israeli airstrikes devastated parts of central Beirut on Saturday \u2013 with diplomats scrambling to broker a ceasefire in the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The strike destroyed an eight-story building, leaving a crater in the ground, and was the fourth on the Lebanese capital in less than a week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lebanon\u2019s civil defence said the death toll was provisional as emergency responders were still digging through the rubble looking for survivors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A separate drone strike in the southern port city of Tyre killed one person and injured another, according to the country's National News Agency.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s military did not issue a warning for residents to evacuate prior to the strikes in central Beirut and would not comment on those strikes or on the one in Tyre.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The news comes as <a 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the fighting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On the Israeli side, about 90 soldiers and nearly 50 civilians have been killed by rockets, drones and missiles in northern Israel and in fighting in Lebanon.\u00a0<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1732358306,"updatedAt":1732373258,"publishedAt":1732360588,"firstPublishedAt":1732360588,"lastPublishedAt":1732365447,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/97\/60\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_bbeb8f9f-bcfa-58f1-8255-3ac5ad088ca1-8869760.jpg","altText":"Rescue workers search for victims at the site of an Israeli airstrike that hit central Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024.","caption":"Rescue workers search for victims at the site of an Israeli airstrike that hit central Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Hassan Ammar\/Copyright 2024 The AP. 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control ceasefire deal","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"\u2018There's nothing left to lead\u2019: Who controls Hezbollah now?","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"\u2018There's nothing left to lead\u2019: Who controls Hezbollah now?","titleListing2":"\u2018There's nothing left to lead\u2019: Who controls Hezbollah now?","leadin":"With an Israeli onslaught decimating its leadership, one of the most entrenched and resilient militant groups in the Middle East is struggling to keep itself together.","summary":"With an Israeli onslaught decimating its leadership, one of the most entrenched and resilient militant groups in the Middle East is struggling to keep itself together.","keySentence":"","url":"theres-nothing-left-to-lead-who-controls-hezbollah-now","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2024\/11\/23\/theres-nothing-left-to-lead-who-controls-hezbollah-now","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"As the US continues its efforts to finalise a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hezbollah, the Lebanese militia group\u2019s new leader, Naim Qassem, this week took to the airwaves to issue one of his first speeches since taking office in late October.\n\nHe tried to strike a conciliatory tone, saying Hezbollah \"had agreed to the Biden-Macron ceasefire deal on 23 September\", but blamed his Israeli rivals for its failure, noting that they had assassinated the group's longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah, just four days later.\n\nStill, Qassem was defiant despite the the huge human and military cost Hezbollah has incurred in the last few months, offering a stark choice for Hezbollah fighters: \u201cvictory or martyrdom\u201d.\n\nBut despite Qassem\u2019s bellicose message and confident tone, many experts in the region are questioning whether Hezbollah\u2019s famous resilience can continue for much longer.\n\nMichael Stephens, a Middle East expert at the London-based Royal United Services Institute, told Euronews that Hezbollah has been severely damaged by Israel\u2019s campaign, and is a fundamentally changed organisation as a result.\n\n\u201cThe days of big funerals, the days of big leadership elections are over,\u201d he said. \u201cAnything they do will be penetrated by Israel, which makes it exceedingly dangerous.\u201d\n\nKenneth Roth, a former director of Human Rights Watch who has been closely monitoring events in the region, told Euronews that Hezbollah\u2019s leadership \"has been decimated\u201d.\n\nIsrael has killed multiple senior officials in Hezbollah\u2019s political and military wings this year, including six leaders in the same week as Nasrallah\u2019s assassination. Among them were the deputy head of its political council Nabil Kaouk, and the commanders of the militia\u2019s drone, missile, and elite fighting forces.\n\nStephens speculated that, based on the Hezbollah leader\u2019s own words, Qassem himself is more likely to face \u201cmartyrdom\u201d than victory.\n\n\u201cHe won't be around long. I guarantee you by this time next year, he won't be around,\u201d Stephens said, concluding, \u201cthey\u2019re in deep s***\u201d.\n\n\u2018Way down the hierarchy\u2019: Who is Naim Qassem?\n\nBorn into a Shia family in southern Lebanon, Sheikh Naim Mohammad Qassem grew up in Beirut and studied theology under the prominent Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah, whose preaching has been cited as a major inspiration for Hezbollah.\n\nQassem started his career as a chemistry teacher, but never strayed far from radical Shia politics and joined the Shia-aligned militia the Amal Movement in the 1970s before leaving in 1979.\n\nFrom there he became a founding member of Hezbollah in the 1980s, and was appointed its deputy secretary general in 1991, a position he retained until being elevated to lead the organisation this year.\n\nHowever, many Middle East observers are questioning how much actual authority Qassem actually wields. \n\n\u201cThis guy's way down the hierarchy,\u201d Roth told Euronews.\n\nStephens agreed, saying that Hezbollah is \u201cgoing down to third tier people\u201d and suggesting that \u201cregional commanders\u201d may now control a patchwork of localised battalions with Qassem acting more as a ceremonial figurehead.\n\nThe sledgehammer that wasn't\n\nGiven that Israel has wiped out much of the central leadership of Hezbollah \u2014 along with more than 3,500 fighters \u2014 since hostilities erupted in the wake of the 7 October attacks and Israel\u2019s military campaign in Gaza, some wonder how the once highly-organised militia group will actually enforce any ceasefire deal amongst its own fighters.\n\nAs Stephens put it, \u201cIf they don't, Israel will just keep mowing them down, and they're doing it rather successfully, albeit at a horrible and terrible cost\u201d.\n\nThe US proposals would supposedly allow Israel to continue targeted strikes within Lebanon, a move that has been widely criticised for being \u201cone-sided\u201d.\n\nHezbollah\u2019s main international backer, Iran, has also reportedly pushed the group to accept the terms of the deal. Israel has struck multiple targets inside Iran in recent months, and the government in Tehran is not keen to incur further attacks. And with Hezbollah's capacity badly undercut, the group's utility as an Iranian proxy is dramatically reduced.\n\n\u201cThey were a sledgehammer to deter Israel from attacking Iran,\" Roth said. \"That sledgehammer has turned out to be a toothpick.\u201d\n\n","htmlText":"<p>As the US continues its efforts to finalise a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hezbollah, the Lebanese militia group\u2019s new leader, Naim Qassem, this week took to the airwaves to issue one of his first speeches since taking office in late October.<\/p>\n<p>He tried to strike a conciliatory tone, saying Hezbollah<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.newsalist.net//naym-qasm-alrd-ala-qsf-byrwt-qsf-wst-tl-abyb///"> <\/a>\"had agreed to the Biden-Macron ceasefire deal on 23 September\", but blamed his Israeli rivals for its failure, noting that they had assassinated the group's longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah, just four days later.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Qassem was defiant despite the the huge human and military cost Hezbollah has incurred in the last few months, offering a stark choice for Hezbollah fighters: \u201cvictory or martyrdom\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>But despite Qassem\u2019s bellicose message and confident tone, many experts in the region are questioning whether Hezbollah\u2019s famous resilience can continue for much longer.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8856674,8855060\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//11//15//israeli-shell-hits-unifil-base-in-lebanon-italy-seeks-clarification/">Israeli shell hits UNIFIL base in Lebanon, Italy seeks clarification<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//11//17//israel-kills-hezbollahs-chief-spokesman-in-lebanon/">Israel kills Hezbollah's chief spokesman in Lebanon<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Michael Stephens, a Middle East expert at the London-based Royal United Services Institute, told Euronews that Hezbollah has been severely damaged by Israel\u2019s campaign, and is a fundamentally changed organisation as a result.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe days of big funerals, the days of big leadership elections are over,\u201d he said. \u201cAnything they do will be penetrated by Israel, which makes it exceedingly dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kenneth Roth, a former director of Human Rights Watch who has been closely monitoring events in the region, told Euronews that Hezbollah\u2019s leadership \"has been decimated\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has killed multiple senior<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.pbs.org//newshour//world//who-were-the-7-hezbollah-leaders-killed-over-the-past-week/"> <\/a>officials in Hezbollah\u2019s political and military wings this year, including six leaders in the same week as Nasrallah\u2019s assassination. Among them were the deputy head of its political council Nabil Kaouk, and the commanders of the militia\u2019s drone, missile, and elite fighting forces.<\/p>\n<p>Stephens speculated that, based on the Hezbollah leader\u2019s own words, Qassem himself is more likely to face \u201cmartyrdom\u201d than victory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe won't be around long. I guarantee you by this time next year, he won't be around,\u201d Stephens said, concluding, \u201cthey\u2019re in deep s***\u201d.<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018Way down the hierarchy\u2019: Who is Naim Qassem?<\/h2><p>Born into a Shia family in southern Lebanon, Sheikh Naim Mohammad Qassem grew up in Beirut and studied theology under the prominent Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah, whose preaching has been cited as a major inspiration for Hezbollah.<\/p>\n<p>Qassem started his career as a chemistry teacher, but never strayed far from radical Shia politics and joined the Shia-aligned militia the Amal Movement in the 1970s before leaving in 1979.<\/p>\n<p>From there he became a founding member of Hezbollah in the 1980s, and was appointed its deputy secretary general in 1991, a position he retained until being elevated to lead the organisation this year.<\/p>\n<p>However, many Middle East observers are questioning how much actual authority Qassem actually wields. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis guy's way down the hierarchy,\u201d Roth told Euronews.<\/p>\n<p>Stephens agreed, saying that Hezbollah is \u201cgoing down to third tier people\u201d and suggesting that \u201cregional commanders\u201d may now control a patchwork of localised battalions with Qassem acting more as a ceremonial figurehead.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>The sledgehammer that wasn't<\/strong><\/h2><p>Given that Israel has wiped out much of the central leadership of Hezbollah \u2014 along with more than<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.aljazeera.com//news//liveblog//2024//11//20//live-israeli-tanks-fire-on-gaza-hospital-treating-malnutrition/"> <\/a>3,500 fighters \u2014 since hostilities erupted in the wake of the 7 October attacks and Israel\u2019s military campaign in Gaza, some wonder how the once highly-organised militia group will actually enforce any ceasefire deal amongst its own fighters.<\/p>\n<p>As Stephens put it, \u201cIf they don't, Israel will just keep mowing them down, and they're doing it rather successfully, albeit at a horrible and terrible cost\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The US proposals would supposedly allow Israel to continue targeted strikes within Lebanon, a move that has been widely criticised for being \u201cone-sided\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Hezbollah\u2019s main international backer, Iran, has also reportedly pushed the group to accept the terms of the deal. Israel has struck multiple targets inside Iran in recent months, and the government in Tehran is not keen to incur further attacks. And with Hezbollah's capacity badly undercut, the group's utility as an Iranian proxy is dramatically reduced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were a sledgehammer to deter Israel from attacking Iran,\" Roth said. \"That sledgehammer has turned out to be a toothpick.\u201d<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1732266498,"updatedAt":1732352023,"publishedAt":1732345224,"firstPublishedAt":1732345224,"lastPublishedAt":1732345254,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/76\/00\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_589987f4-98cf-56d3-81ca-645eb8e9bc2d-8867600.jpg","altText":"A man holds a picture of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and shouts anti-Israel slogans at the site of an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut.","caption":"A man holds a picture of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and shouts anti-Israel slogans at the site of an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Hassan Ammar\/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":4088,"height":2300}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":3236,"urlSafeValue":"holyoke","title":"Gregory Holyoke","twitter":"@GregoryHolyoke"}],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":168,"slug":"lebanon","urlSafeValue":"lebanon","title":"Lebanon","titleRaw":"Lebanon"},{"id":30104,"slug":"israel-hezbollah-conflict","urlSafeValue":"israel-hezbollah-conflict","title":"Israel-Hezbollah conflict","titleRaw":"Israel-Hezbollah 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ITALIAN SOLDIERS WOUNDED","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Four Italian soldiers wounded in Hezbollah strikes on UN peacekeeping base in Lebanon","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Four Italian soldiers injured in Hezbollah strikes on UNIFIL base","titleListing2":"Four Italian soldiers wounded as Hezbollah strikes UN peacekeeping base in Lebanon","leadin":"Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni described the attack as 'unacceptable' and expressed sympathy for the officers and their families.","summary":"Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni described the attack as 'unacceptable' and expressed sympathy for the officers and their families.","keySentence":"","url":"four-italian-soldiers-wounded-in-hezbollah-strikes-on-un-peacekeeping-base-in-lebanon","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2024\/11\/22\/four-italian-soldiers-wounded-in-hezbollah-strikes-on-un-peacekeeping-base-in-lebanon","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Four Italian soldiers were injured on Friday at the UN peacekeeping mission headquarters in Lebanon after the base was hit by rockets allegedly fired by the militant group Hezbollah or its affiliated groups.\n\nThe Italian soldiers were slightly injured when two exploding 122mm rockets hit the U.N. mission base in Shama in southern Lebanon, Italy\u2019s Defense Ministry said.\n\nAccording to initial reports, the rockets hit parts of the UNIFIL premises and where blue helmets had taken refuge after alert level 3 had been triggered.\n\nItalian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni described the attack as 'unacceptable' and expressed sympathy for the officers and their families.\n\n\"Such attacks are unacceptable, and I renew my call for the parties on the ground to ensure, at all times, the safety of Unifil soldiers and to work together to quickly identify those responsible,\" she said.\n\nForeign Minister Antonio Tajani echoed Meloni's words. \"Just as we told Israel to pay the utmost attention, so we tell Hezbollah just as firmly that the Italian military cannot be touched,\" said Tajani.\n\nEarlier on Friday, a spokesman for the mission known as UNIFIL, Andrea Tenenti, said UNIFIL was monitoring \u201cheavy clashes\u201d between Israeli troops and Hezbollah fighters in different areas in south Lebanon, including the coastal town of Naqoura and the village of Chamaa to the northeast.\n\nSeveral UNIFIL posts have been hit since Israel began its ground invasion of Lebanon on 1 October, leaving some peacekeepers wounded.\n\nThe latest comes a day after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defence minister, and a Hamas military leader. The ICC accused them of war crimes and crimes against humanity over their 13-month war in Gaza and the October 2023 attack on Israel.\n\nAccording to the Gaza Health Ministry, more than 44,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the war broke out. \n\nGaza Health Ministry does not distinguish between civilians and combatants in its count, but it has said that more than half of the fatalities are women and children. The Israeli military says it has killed over 17,000 militants without providing any evidence.\n\nIsrael launched airstrikes against Lebanon after Hezbollah began firing rockets, drones, and missiles into Israel the day after Hamas\u2019 attack last year. \n\nAfter almost a year of low-level combat, a full-scale war broke out in September\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Four Italian soldiers were injured on Friday at the UN peacekeeping mission headquarters in Lebanon after the base was hit by rockets allegedly fired by the militant group Hezbollah or its affiliated groups.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian soldiers were slightly injured when two exploding 122mm rockets hit the U.N. mission base in Shama in southern Lebanon, Italy\u2019s Defense Ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>According to initial reports, the rockets hit parts of the UNIFIL premises and where blue helmets had taken refuge after alert level 3 had been triggered.<\/p>\n<p>Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni described the attack as 'unacceptable' and expressed sympathy for the officers and their families.<\/p>\n<p>\"Such attacks are unacceptable, and I renew my call for the parties on the ground to ensure, at all times, the safety of Unifil soldiers and to work together to quickly identify those responsible,\" she said.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani echoed Meloni's words. \"Just as we told Israel to pay the utmost attention, so we tell Hezbollah just as firmly that the Italian military cannot be touched,\" said Tajani.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Friday, a spokesman for the mission known as UNIFIL, Andrea Tenenti, said UNIFIL was monitoring \u201cheavy clashes\u201d between Israeli troops and Hezbollah fighters in different areas in south Lebanon, including the coastal town of Naqoura and the village of Chamaa to the northeast.<\/p>\n<p>Several UNIFIL posts have been hit since Israel began its ground invasion of Lebanon on 1 October, leaving some peacekeepers wounded.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8865912,8867216\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//11//22//biden-calls-icc-war-crimes-arrest-warrant-for-netanyahu-outrageous/">European leaders give mixed reactions on Netanyahu's war crimes arrest warrant<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//11//21//icc-issues-arrest-warrants-for-netanyahu-gallant-and-hamas-leader-deif/">ICC issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant and Hamas leader Deif<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The latest comes a day after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defence minister, and a Hamas military leader. The ICC accused them of war crimes and crimes against humanity over their 13-month war in Gaza and the October 2023 attack on Israel.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Gaza Health Ministry, more than 44,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the war broke out. <\/p>\n<p>Gaza Health Ministry does not distinguish between civilians and combatants in its count, but it has said that more than half of the fatalities are women and children. The Israeli military says it has killed over 17,000 militants without providing any evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Israel launched airstrikes against Lebanon after Hezbollah began firing rockets, drones, and missiles into Israel the day after Hamas\u2019 attack last year. <\/p>\n<p>After almost a year of low-level combat, a full-scale war broke out in September<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1732280984,"updatedAt":1732308337,"publishedAt":1732308309,"firstPublishedAt":1732308309,"lastPublishedAt":1732308309,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/85\/18\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_bd1b6c94-2f9d-5659-ad84-a6803643b948-8868518.jpg","altText":"Unifil Base in Lebanon","caption":"Unifil Base in Lebanon","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Leo Correa\/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved.","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1024,"height":683}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":157,"slug":"israel","urlSafeValue":"israel","title":"Israel","titleRaw":"Israel"},{"id":168,"slug":"lebanon","urlSafeValue":"lebanon","title":"Lebanon","titleRaw":"Lebanon"},{"id":9123,"slug":"hezbollah","urlSafeValue":"hezbollah","title":"Hezbollah","titleRaw":"Hezbollah"},{"id":30104,"slug":"israel-hezbollah-conflict","urlSafeValue":"israel-hezbollah-conflict","title":"Israel-Hezbollah conflict","titleRaw":"Israel-Hezbollah 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Lebanon ceasefire","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"US signals progress on Lebanon ceasefire, but critics voice scepticism from all sides","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"US's Lebanon ceasefire proposal met with scepticism on all sides","titleListing2":"US signals progress on Lebanon ceasefire, but critics voice scepticism from all sides","leadin":"Middle East experts from across the spectrum told Euronews they all see the proposals as unworkable, but for very different reasons.","summary":"Middle East experts from across the spectrum told Euronews they all see the proposals as unworkable, but for very different reasons.","keySentence":"","url":"us-signals-progress-on-lebanon-ceasefire-but-critics-voice-scepticism-from-all-sides","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2024\/11\/21\/us-signals-progress-on-lebanon-ceasefire-but-critics-voice-scepticism-from-all-sides","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"On Wednesday, US special envoy Amos Hochstein travelled from Lebanon to Israel to continue ceasefire negotiations after making \"additional progress\" during a second day of talks with lawmakers representing Hezbollah in Beirut.\n\nHochstein, who is leading the outgoing Biden administration's efforts to end 14 months of war, said he was hopeful that the trip to Israel would \"bring [the ceasefire deal] to a close if we can\".\n\nThe diplomacy seeks to end a conflict between Israeli forces and the Iranian-supported militia group, in which Israel has launched its fifth ground invasion of Lebanon and killed several senior Hezbollah commanders, including long-time leader Hassan Nasrallah.\n\nThe US-proposed deal is based on the re-implementation of a UN resolution that ended the 2006 Lebanon war fought between Israel and Hezbollah. \n\nUN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1701 stipulates no paramilitary activities by Hezbollah in the buffer zone south of Lebanon's Litani river, which is located 32 kilometres north of the Israeli border. While Israeli forces would withdraw from Lebanon under the deal, they would retain the ability to strike targets that they consider a threat.\n\nThe resolution was first passed in 2006, following Israel\u2019s most recent invasion of southern Lebanon in response to the kidnapping of IDF soldiers. Attempts since then to enforce the resolution have been widely criticised as ineffective, and many analysts doubt that this time around will be any different, even if all sides agree to the deal.\n\nBad blood on both sides\n\nWalid Phares, a Lebanese-American former Middle East advisor to Donald Trump who remains close with the US President-elect, told Euronews that the proposal wouldn't lead to any meaningful cessation of fighting while Hezbollah maintains a presence in southern Lebanon.\n\n\"The current proposed deal to stop the war between Hezbollah and Israel is based on the premise that both sides would apply UNSCR 1701,\" he noted, adding that the resolution \"has not been implemented since 2006, thus if not modified, it won't work\".\n\nFor Phares, this is because the resolution has no provision for the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), a peacekeeping mission established in 1978, to militarily force Hezbollah to withdraw from near the Israeli border. \n\n\"UNIFIL has no Chapter 7 mandate to stop Hezbollah or any allied militia to return to the south, as they've done in 2000, in 1996, 2006, and since,\u201d he said, referring to a chapter of the UN Charter which enables the United Nations \"to take urgent military measures\" in order to \"maintain or restore international peace and security\".\n\nPhares said that he believed that the older UN resolution 1559, \"which calls for disarming all militias\" in Lebanon including Hezbollah, was the only way to reach a meaningful cessation of hostilities. The current proposals \"would simply be a postponement of the conflict and would ultimately harm the Lebanese population, security in the region, and stability\". \n\nTrita Parsi, an Iranian-American co-founder of The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft \u2014 a think tank \u2014 also viewed the proposals as ineffective but said that he saw unwillingness from Israel as the greatest obstacle. \"The main problem is that Israel's idea of a ceasefire is one in which Israel does not need to cease fire,\" Parsi said.\n\nThe former executive director of Human Rights Watch, Kenneth Roth, agreed. \"It's basically telling Hezbollah don't shoot, but we will periodically shoot,\u201d he told Euronews.\n\n\"That's a one-sided agreement, that's not a ceasefire,\" he added.\n\nA representative for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declined to provide comment to Euronews.\n\nIran: down but not out\n\nAuthorities in Tehran are reportedly pushing for Hezbollah to accept the terms of the ceasefire. Although Iran has engaged in the conflict at times, including firing 180 ballistic missiles at Israel in October, many analysts say that the Islamic Republic is trying to not escalate the wider war. \n\n\"The Islamic regime in Iran at this point wants to reach ceasefire in Gaza, Lebanon and in general terms across the region. It is in their interest to do so,\" said Phares, pointing to the country\u2019s relations with China and Russia as well as the US as a contributing factor.\n\nThis was echoed by Parsi.\n\n\"Iran is facing a lot of problems at home and its priority has been sanctions relief through a deal with the US, not a regional war with Israel,\" he said.\n\nAnd Hezbollah\u2019s severe weakening by Israel has only entrenched this position in Tehran, according to the analysts.\n\nAs Roth explained, Iran saw Hezbollah as its \"sledgehammer\" against Israel \u2014 but that \"that sledgehammer has turned out to be a toothpick\". \n\n\u2018No credibility left\u2019: Biden's uphill battle\n\nHochstein is a close ally of US President Joe Biden, and some see the ceasefire negotiations as a last-ditch attempt by the outgoing administration to leave a legacy in the region that includes the return of peace.\n\nHowever, for many experts, any possible ceasefire deal in Lebanon will be overshadowed by the ongoing war in Gaza and a region that remains more volatile and less stable than it has been in decades.\n\n\"Biden was a huge disappointment,\" Roth said, referring to the US president\u2019s actions in the region. As Hochstein arrived in Israel, the US vetoed the latest UN Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. \"That was utterly unnecessary. There's no electoral cost to Biden,\" added Roth.\n\nOn the topic of Biden, Parsi was even more direct \u2014 saying that \"he has completely caved to Israel\" and calling the US president \"more (like) Israel's lawyer than an actual mediator\". He concluded that Biden and the US have \"no credibility left in the Middle East outside of Israel\".\n\n\u2018Wildcard\u2019: Trump shakes things up\n\nHowever, both Roth and Parsi were doubtful about whether Trump would be able to change things in his second term. \n\n\"No one knows what direction Trump will go,\" Parsi said. Trump needs \"de-escalation in the Middle East, which necessitates reining in Israel,\" including in Lebanon, he added.\n\nRoth conceded that \"Trump has enormous leverage over Netanyahu. The question is, will he exercise it?\"\n\n\"The big question is whether Trump greenlights large-scale forced displacement in Gaza. You know, does he greenlight another Nakba? He's got a history of giving Netanyahu most of what he wants,\" Roth added.\n\nYet not all analysts were so pessimistic.\n\nPhares, who was with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on the weekend for a \"social occasion\", said he expected and hoped that \"the next four years will bring peace, stability and a greater US unity and consensus for US foreign policy\".\n\nThe advisor noted that his vote for Trump in the presidential election this month was \"based on the rejection of the Iran Deal, [and to] counter jihadism\". Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal at the start of his first term as US president in 2017.\n\nMichael Stephens, an associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute \u2014 a London-based think tank \u2014 called Trump a \"wild card\", but pointed to Netanyahu\u2019s respect for the US President-elect. \n\n\"Trump has said to Netanyahu that this needs to be over by the time he gets into office. No more conflict, no more violence. I think Netanyahu has more or less understood that if he's going to stay in Trump's good books for four years, he's got to do something about it,\" Stephens said. \n\nOverall, though, Stephens was less positive. \"It's a very sad state of affairs, but it's the one we're in.\"\n\n","htmlText":"<p>On Wednesday, US special envoy Amos Hochstein travelled from Lebanon to Israel to continue ceasefire negotiations after making \"additional progress\" during a second day of talks with lawmakers representing Hezbollah in Beirut.<\/p>\n<p>Hochstein, who is leading the outgoing Biden administration's efforts to end 14 months of war, said he was hopeful that the trip to Israel would \"bring [the ceasefire deal] to a close if we can\".<\/p>\n<p>The diplomacy seeks to end a conflict between Israeli forces and the Iranian-supported militia group, in which Israel has launched its fifth ground invasion of Lebanon and killed several senior Hezbollah commanders, including long-time leader Hassan Nasrallah.<\/p>\n<p>The US-proposed deal is based on the re-implementation of a UN resolution that ended the 2006 Lebanon war fought between Israel and Hezbollah. <\/p>\n<p>UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1701 stipulates no paramilitary activities by Hezbollah in the buffer zone south of Lebanon's Litani river, which is located 32 kilometres north of the Israeli border. While Israeli forces would withdraw from Lebanon under the deal, they would retain the ability to strike targets that they consider a threat.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution was first passed in 2006, following Israel\u2019s most recent invasion of southern Lebanon in response to the kidnapping of IDF soldiers. Attempts since then to enforce the resolution have been widely criticised as ineffective, and many analysts doubt that this time around will be any different, even if all sides agree to the deal.<\/p>\n<h2>Bad blood on both sides<\/h2><p>Walid Phares, a Lebanese-American former Middle East advisor to Donald Trump who remains close with the US President-elect, told Euronews that the proposal wouldn't lead to any meaningful cessation of fighting while Hezbollah maintains a presence in southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>\"The current proposed deal to stop the war between Hezbollah and Israel is based on the premise that both sides would apply UNSCR 1701,\" he noted, adding that the resolution \"has not been implemented since 2006, thus if not modified, it won't work\".<\/p>\n<p>For Phares, this is because the resolution has no provision for the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), a peacekeeping mission established in 1978, to militarily force Hezbollah to withdraw from near the Israeli border. <\/p>\n<p>\"UNIFIL has no Chapter 7 mandate to stop Hezbollah or any allied militia to return to the south, as they've done in 2000, in 1996, 2006, and since,\u201d he said, referring to a chapter of the UN Charter which enables the United Nations \"to take urgent military measures\" in order to \"maintain or restore international peace and security\".<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8862548,8855250\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//11//20//us-envoy-says-truce-between-israel-and-hezbollah-in-lebanon-is-within-our-grasp/">US envoy says truce between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon is 'within our grasp'<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//11//16//lebanese-leader-asks-iran-to-help-secure-a-ceasefire-between-hezbollah-and-israel/">Lebanese leader asks Iran to help secure a ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Phares said that he believed that the older UN resolution 1559, \"which calls for disarming all militias\" in Lebanon including Hezbollah, was the only way to reach a meaningful cessation of hostilities. The current proposals \"would simply be a postponement of the conflict and would ultimately harm the Lebanese population, security in the region, and stability\". <\/p>\n<p>Trita Parsi, an Iranian-American co-founder of The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft \u2014 a think tank \u2014 also viewed the proposals as ineffective but said that he saw unwillingness from Israel as the greatest obstacle. \"The main problem is that Israel's idea of a ceasefire is one in which Israel does not need to cease fire,\" Parsi said.<\/p>\n<p>The former executive director of Human Rights Watch, Kenneth Roth, agreed. \"It's basically telling Hezbollah don't shoot, but we will periodically shoot,\u201d he told Euronews.<\/p>\n<p>\"That's a one-sided agreement, that's not a ceasefire,\" he added.<\/p>\n<p>A representative for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declined to provide comment to Euronews.<\/p>\n<h2>Iran: down but not out<\/h2><p>Authorities in Tehran are reportedly pushing for Hezbollah to accept the terms of the ceasefire. Although Iran has engaged in the conflict at times, including firing 180 ballistic missiles at Israel in October, many analysts say that the Islamic Republic is trying to not escalate the wider war. <\/p>\n<p>\"The Islamic regime in Iran at this point wants to reach ceasefire in Gaza, Lebanon and in general terms across the region. It is in their interest to do so,\" said Phares, pointing to the country\u2019s relations with China and Russia as well as the US as a contributing factor.<\/p>\n<p>This was echoed by Parsi.<\/p>\n<p>\"Iran is facing a lot of problems at home and its priority has been sanctions relief through a deal with the US, not a regional war with Israel,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>And Hezbollah\u2019s severe weakening by Israel has only entrenched this position in Tehran, according to the analysts.<\/p>\n<p>As Roth explained, Iran saw Hezbollah as its \"sledgehammer\" against Israel \u2014 but that \"that sledgehammer has turned out to be a toothpick\". <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//86//64//38//808x539_cmsv2_5cc890e2-ea4e-53b6-a41d-81edad623242-8866438.jpg/" alt=\"sraeli warplanes fly over Dahiyeh, in the southern suburbs of Beirut.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/64\/38\/384x256_cmsv2_5cc890e2-ea4e-53b6-a41d-81edad623242-8866438.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/64\/38\/640x427_cmsv2_5cc890e2-ea4e-53b6-a41d-81edad623242-8866438.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/64\/38\/750x500_cmsv2_5cc890e2-ea4e-53b6-a41d-81edad623242-8866438.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/64\/38\/828x552_cmsv2_5cc890e2-ea4e-53b6-a41d-81edad623242-8866438.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/64\/38\/1080x720_cmsv2_5cc890e2-ea4e-53b6-a41d-81edad623242-8866438.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/64\/38\/1200x800_cmsv2_5cc890e2-ea4e-53b6-a41d-81edad623242-8866438.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/64\/38\/1920x1281_cmsv2_5cc890e2-ea4e-53b6-a41d-81edad623242-8866438.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">sraeli warplanes fly over Dahiyeh, in the southern suburbs of Beirut.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Bilal Hussein\/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>\u2018No credibility left\u2019: Biden's uphill battle<\/h2><p>Hochstein is a close ally of US President Joe Biden, and some see the ceasefire negotiations as a last-ditch attempt by the outgoing<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////theintercept.com//2024//11//19//biden-israel-gaza-aid-white-house-staffers///"> administration<\/a> to leave a legacy in the region that includes the return of peace.<\/p>\n<p>However, for many experts, any possible ceasefire deal in Lebanon will be overshadowed by the ongoing war in Gaza and a region that remains more volatile and less stable than it has been in decades.<\/p>\n<p>\"Biden was a huge disappointment,\" Roth said, referring to the US president\u2019s actions in the region. As Hochstein arrived in Israel, the US vetoed the latest UN Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. \"That was utterly unnecessary. There's no electoral cost to Biden,\" added Roth.<\/p>\n<p>On the topic of Biden, Parsi was even more direct \u2014 saying that \"he has completely caved to Israel\" and calling the US president \"more (like) Israel's lawyer than an actual mediator\". He concluded that Biden and the US have \"no credibility left in the Middle East outside of Israel\".<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018Wildcard\u2019: Trump shakes things up<\/h2><p>However, both Roth and Parsi were doubtful about whether Trump would be able to change things in his second term. <\/p>\n<p>\"No one knows what direction Trump will go,\" Parsi said. Trump needs \"de-escalation in the Middle East, which necessitates reining in Israel,\" including in Lebanon, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Roth conceded that \"Trump has enormous leverage over Netanyahu. The question is, will he exercise it?\"<\/p>\n<p>\"The big question is whether Trump greenlights large-scale forced displacement in Gaza. You know, does he greenlight another Nakba? He's got a history of giving Netanyahu most of what he wants,\" Roth added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8855060,8848178\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//11//15//israeli-shell-hits-unifil-base-in-lebanon-italy-seeks-clarification/">Israeli shell hits UNIFIL base in Lebanon, Italy seeks clarification<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//11//13//injured-gazan-children-brought-to-lebanon-for-treatment-are-again-caught-up-in-war/">Injured Gazan children brought to Lebanon for treatment are again caught up in war<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Yet not all analysts were so pessimistic.<\/p>\n<p>Phares, who was with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on the weekend for a \"social occasion\", said he expected and hoped that \"the next four years will bring peace, stability and a greater US unity and consensus for US foreign policy\".<\/p>\n<p>The advisor noted that his vote for Trump in the presidential election this month was \"based on the rejection of the Iran Deal, [and to] counter jihadism\". Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal at the start of his first term as US president in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Stephens, an associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute \u2014 a London-based think tank \u2014 called Trump a \"wild card\", but pointed to Netanyahu\u2019s respect for the US President-elect. <\/p>\n<p>\"Trump has said to Netanyahu that this needs to be over by the time he gets into office. No more conflict, no more violence. I think Netanyahu has more or less understood that if he's going to stay in Trump's good books for four years, he's got to do something about it,\" Stephens said. <\/p>\n<p>Overall, though, Stephens was less positive. \"It's a very sad state of affairs, but it's the one we're in.\"<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1732201142,"updatedAt":1732209455,"publishedAt":1732209426,"firstPublishedAt":1732209426,"lastPublishedAt":1732209426,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/64\/38\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_f8b4182a-ecaf-5c4e-a060-223c1c90a103-8866438.jpg","altText":"Smoke rises from an Israeli airstrike in Maashouka neighbourhood in Tyre, south Lebanon.","caption":"Smoke rises from an Israeli airstrike in Maashouka neighbourhood in Tyre, south Lebanon.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Hussein Malla\/Copyright 2024 The AP. 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ENVOY SAYS HEZBOLLAH ISRAEL TRUCE WITHIN GRASP","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"US envoy says truce between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon is 'within our grasp'","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"US envoy says truce between Israel and Hezbollah is 'within grasp'","titleListing2":"US envoy says truce between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon is 'within our grasp'","leadin":"Peace talks between Israel and the militant group Hezbollah centre around troops from both forces withdrawing from a UN buffer zone in southern Lebanon.","summary":"Peace talks between Israel and the militant group Hezbollah centre around troops from both forces withdrawing from a UN buffer zone in southern Lebanon.","keySentence":"","url":"us-envoy-says-truce-between-israel-and-hezbollah-in-lebanon-is-within-our-grasp","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2024\/11\/20\/us-envoy-says-truce-between-israel-and-hezbollah-in-lebanon-is-within-our-grasp","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"A US envoy conducting truce talks between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon said that an agreement to end the war between the pair was \"within our grasp\" on Tuesday. \n\nHezbollah's allies in the Lebanese government reported the militant group responded positively to a proposal that both its fighters and Israel ground forces withdraw from a UN buffer zone in southern Lebanon, according to Amos Hochstein, a representative from the Biden administration.\n\nIn such a scenario, the buffer zone would be policed by thousands of additional UN peacekeepers and Lebanese troops. \n\nHochstein said he and Lebanon's parliament speaker, who is mediating for the group, held \"constructive talks\".\n\n\"It\u2019s ultimately the decisions of the parties to reach a conclusion to this conflict. ... It is now within our grasp\u201d Hochstein said, adding that the Lebanese side was now waiting to hear the outcome of Hochstein's talks with Israeli officials. \n\nSticking points remain\n\nDespite his positivity, Hochstein admitted that technical details of a potential truce are still unresolved. \n\nIsrael is likely to call for more enforcement along the buffer zone which demarcates the two countries, including the ability to conduct military operations against threats from Hezbollah. \n\nThe buffer zone, known as the \"blue line\", was first established by the United Nations in 2000 for the purposes of seeing if Israel had fully withdrawn from Lebanon. \n\nIt is patrolled by the peacekeeping soldiers from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) which was set up to create an area in the south of the country free of armed forces other than those of the Lebanese army. \n\nLebanon is likely to oppose further military operations along the buffer zone, where members of UNIFIL have reported being hit by rocket attacks after tensions between Israel and Hezbollah have escalated. \n\nOn Tuesday, four troops were injured when a rockets hit a UNIFIL base in southern Lebanon in two separate incidents in the village of Ramyah near the border between Israel and Lebanon. \n\nIsraeli Defence Forces (IDF) blamed Hezbollah for the incident.\n\nIsrael has accused UNIFIL of turning a blind eye to Hezbollah, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanding the force pull out of \"combat areas.\"\n\nThe United Nations has insisted that its peacekeeping forces will remain in the region, as the leaders of Italy, France, the UK and Germany have condemned attacks on peacekeepers as against international law. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>A US envoy conducting truce talks between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon said that an agreement to end the war between the pair was \"within our grasp\" on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Hezbollah's allies in the Lebanese government reported the militant group responded positively to a proposal that both its fighters and Israel ground forces withdraw from a UN buffer zone in southern Lebanon, according to Amos Hochstein, a representative from the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p>In such a scenario, the buffer zone would be policed by thousands of additional UN peacekeepers and Lebanese troops. <\/p>\n<p>Hochstein said he and Lebanon's parliament speaker, who is mediating for the group, held \"constructive talks\".<\/p>\n<p>\"It\u2019s ultimately the decisions of the parties to reach a conclusion to this conflict. ... It is now within our grasp\u201d Hochstein said, adding that the Lebanese side was now waiting to hear the outcome of Hochstein's talks with Israeli officials. <\/p>\n<h2>Sticking points remain<\/h2><p>Despite his positivity, Hochstein admitted that technical details of a potential truce are still unresolved. <\/p>\n<p>Israel is likely to call for more enforcement along the buffer zone which demarcates the two countries, including the ability to conduct military operations against threats from Hezbollah. <\/p>\n<p>The buffer zone, known as the \"blue line\", was first established by the United Nations in 2000 for the purposes of seeing if Israel had fully withdrawn from Lebanon. <\/p>\n<p>It is patrolled by the peacekeeping soldiers from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) which was set up to create an area in the south of the country free of armed forces other than those of the Lebanese army. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8855060,8799786\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//10//18//unacceptable-italian-pm-meloni-denounces-israeli-attacks-on-unifil/">'Unacceptable': Italian PM Meloni denounces Israeli attacks on UNIFIL<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//11//15//israeli-shell-hits-unifil-base-in-lebanon-italy-seeks-clarification/">Israeli shell hits UNIFIL base in Lebanon, Italy seeks clarification<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Lebanon is likely to oppose further military operations along the buffer zone, where members of UNIFIL have reported being hit by rocket attacks after tensions between Israel and Hezbollah have escalated. <\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, four troops were injured when a rockets hit a UNIFIL base in southern Lebanon in two separate incidents in the village of Ramyah near the border between Israel and Lebanon. <\/p>\n<p>Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) blamed Hezbollah for the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has accused UNIFIL of turning a blind eye to Hezbollah, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanding the force pull out of \"combat areas.\"<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations has <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//10//15//netanyahu-doubles-down-on-demand-that-unifil-leaves-combat-zone/">insisted that its peacekeeping forces will remain in the region, as the leaders of Italy, France, the UK and Germany have condemned attacks on peacekeepers as against international law. <\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1732083472,"updatedAt":1732104724,"publishedAt":1732086578,"firstPublishedAt":1732086578,"lastPublishedAt":1732086578,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/25\/48\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_31ee0cc5-6a5e-56f2-98ba-c374eae7294e-8862548.jpg","altText":"A pro-Hezbollah giant banner with religious words, sets in front of destroyed buildings hit by Israeli airstrikes on Dahiyeh, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday","caption":"A pro-Hezbollah giant banner with religious words, sets in front of destroyed buildings hit by Israeli airstrikes on Dahiyeh, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1024,"height":576}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":2940,"urlSafeValue":"paternoster","title":"Tamsin 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It was the third Israeli strike in the heart of Beirut in two days.\n\nThe US has been working on a proposal to end hostilities that would remove Israeli ground forces from Lebanon and push Hezbollah forces away from the Israeli border. \n\nMore Lebanese troops and UN peacekeepers would be sent to the buffer zone in southern Lebanon as part of the deal.\n\nSince late September, Israel has dramatically escalated its bombardment of Lebanon, vowing to severely weaken Hezbollah and end its rocket barrages into Israel.\n\nHezbollah began firing rockets on 8 October 2023, a day after Hamas\u2019 attack on southern Israel ignited the war in Gaza. Both groups are supported by Iran. \n\nThe strikes have drawn retaliation from Israel, and the fighting has escalated dramatically in recent weeks.\n\nIsraeli strikes have left more than 3,500 dead in Lebanon and almost 15,000 wounded, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry, while the fighting has displaced nearly 1.2 million people \u2014 a quarter of Lebanon\u2019s population.\n\nOn the Israeli side, 87 soldiers and 50 civilians, including some foreign labourers who work in agriculture, have been killed by attacks involving rockets, drones and missiles.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>A US envoy has arrived in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, in an attempt to reach a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hezbollah. <\/p>\n<p>Amos Hochstein, a senior adviser to United States President Joe Biden, arrived on Tuesday, a day after Hezbollah reportedly responded positively to a US draft proposal to end the war in the region, which has been raging without an end in sight for more than 13 months.<\/p>\n<p>Hochstein\u2019s arrival came hours after an Israeli strike in central Beirut killed five people and wounded others. It was the third Israeli strike in the heart of Beirut in two days.<\/p>\n<p>The US has been working on a proposal to end hostilities that would remove Israeli ground forces from Lebanon and push Hezbollah forces away from the Israeli border. <\/p>\n<p>More Lebanese troops and UN peacekeepers would be sent to the buffer zone in southern Lebanon as part of the deal.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//86//05//00//808x539_cmsv2_5bc8fbc4-93ac-554c-9a20-ac02533fb396-8860500.jpg/" alt=\"A man looks from a damaged building a day after it was hit by a rocket fired from Lebanon, in Ramat Gan, central Israel, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/05\/00\/384x256_cmsv2_5bc8fbc4-93ac-554c-9a20-ac02533fb396-8860500.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/05\/00\/640x427_cmsv2_5bc8fbc4-93ac-554c-9a20-ac02533fb396-8860500.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/05\/00\/750x500_cmsv2_5bc8fbc4-93ac-554c-9a20-ac02533fb396-8860500.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/05\/00\/828x552_cmsv2_5bc8fbc4-93ac-554c-9a20-ac02533fb396-8860500.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/05\/00\/1080x720_cmsv2_5bc8fbc4-93ac-554c-9a20-ac02533fb396-8860500.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/05\/00\/1200x800_cmsv2_5bc8fbc4-93ac-554c-9a20-ac02533fb396-8860500.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/86\/05\/00\/1920x1281_cmsv2_5bc8fbc4-93ac-554c-9a20-ac02533fb396-8860500.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A man looks from a damaged building a day after it was hit by a rocket fired from Lebanon, in Ramat Gan, central Israel, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Oded Balilty\/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Since late September, Israel has dramatically escalated its bombardment of Lebanon, vowing to severely weaken Hezbollah and end its rocket barrages into Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Hezbollah began firing rockets on 8 October 2023, a day after Hamas\u2019 attack on southern Israel ignited the war in Gaza. 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Israel also bombed several buildings in Beirut's southern suburbs, where Hezbollah has long been headquartered, after warning people to evacuate.\n\nMohammed Afif, the head of media relations for Hezbollah, was killed in a strike on the Arab socialist Baath party's office in central Beirut, according to a Hezbollah official who was not authorized to brief reporters and spoke on condition of anonymity.\n\nAfif had been especially visible after all-out war erupted between Israel and Hezbollah in September and the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in an Israeli airstrike. Last month, Afif hastily wrapped up a press conference in Beirut ahead of Israeli strikes.\n\nThere was no Israeli evacuation warning before the strike in central Beirut. An Associated Press photographer at the scene saw four bodies and four wounded people, but there was no official word on the toll. People could be seen fleeing. There was no comment from the Israeli military.\n\n\u201cI was asleep and awoke from the sound of the strike, and people screaming, and cars and gunfire,\" said Suheil Halabi, a witness. \"I was startled, honestly. This is the first time I experience it so close.\u201d\n\nThe last Israeli strike in central Beirut was on Oct. 10, when 22 people were killed in two locations.\n\nHezbollah began firing rockets, missiles and drones into Israel the day after Hamas\u2019 October 7, 2023 attack ignited the war in Gaza. Israel launched retaliatory airstrikes in Lebanon and the conflict steadily escalated, erupting into war in September. Israeli forces invaded Lebanon on Oct. 1.\n\nHezbollah has continued to fire dozens of projectiles into Israel daily and has expanded their range to central Israel. The attacks have killed at least 76 people, including 31 soldiers, and caused some 60,000 people to flee in the north. A rocket barrage on the northern city of Haifa on Saturday damaged a synagogue and wounded two civilians.\n\nMore than 3,400 people have been killed in Lebanon, according to the country\u2019s Health Ministry, and over 1.2 million driven from their homes. It is not known how many of the dead are Hezbollah fighters.\n\nLebanon's army, largely on the sidelines, said an Israeli strike on Sunday hit a military centre in southeastern Al-Mari, killing a soldier and wounding three others. There was no immediate Israeli comment.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>The latest in targeted killings of senior Hezbollah officials came as Lebanese officials considered a United States-led cease-fire proposal. Israel also bombed several buildings in Beirut's southern suburbs, where Hezbollah has long been headquartered, after warning people to evacuate.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed Afif, the head of media relations for Hezbollah, was killed in a strike on the Arab socialist Baath party's office in central Beirut, according to a Hezbollah official who was not authorized to brief reporters and spoke on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>Afif had been especially visible after all-out war erupted between Israel and Hezbollah in September and the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in an Israeli airstrike. Last month, Afif hastily wrapped up a press conference in Beirut ahead of Israeli strikes.<\/p>\n<p>There was no Israeli evacuation warning before the strike in central Beirut. An Associated Press photographer at the scene saw four bodies and four wounded people, but there was no official word on the toll. People could be seen fleeing. There was no comment from the Israeli military.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was asleep and awoke from the sound of the strike, and people screaming, and cars and gunfire,\" said Suheil Halabi, a witness. \"I was startled, honestly. This is the first time I experience it so close.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The last Israeli strike in central Beirut was on Oct. 10, when 22 people were killed in two locations.<\/p>\n<p>Hezbollah began firing rockets, missiles and drones into Israel the day after Hamas\u2019 October 7, 2023 attack ignited the war in Gaza. Israel launched retaliatory airstrikes in Lebanon and the conflict steadily escalated, erupting into war in September. Israeli forces invaded Lebanon on Oct. 1.<\/p>\n<p>Hezbollah has continued to fire dozens of projectiles into Israel daily and has expanded their range to central Israel. The attacks have killed at least 76 people, including 31 soldiers, and caused some 60,000 people to flee in the north. A rocket barrage on the northern city of Haifa on Saturday damaged a synagogue and wounded two civilians.<\/p>\n<p>More than 3,400 people have been killed in Lebanon, according to the country\u2019s Health Ministry, and over 1.2 million driven from their homes. It is not known how many of the dead are Hezbollah fighters.<\/p>\n<p>Lebanon's army, largely on the sidelines, said an Israeli strike on Sunday hit a military centre in southeastern Al-Mari, killing a soldier and wounding three others. 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Five-year-old Adam Afana had nearly lost his left arm in a blast that killed his father and sister. His arm was paralysed, and he needed complex surgery to correct the nerve damage.\n\nAt the time, Lebanon was already embroiled in a low-simmering conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. For months, the conflict in Lebanon was mainly confined to the southern border area, far from Beirut.\n\nAbu Sitta said he chose Lebanon for the wounded children's treatment because the Mediterranean country has specialists with wide experience treating war injuries.\n\nBut months after their arrival, children like Adam are now caught up in yet another war some fear will end in Gaza-like destruction. In September, IDF forces launched a large-scale offensive in Lebanon, pummelling wide swathes of Lebanon with airstrikes, including Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs and some sites within the city centre.\n\nAdam Afana's uncle, Eid Afana, said the escalation in Lebanon \u201creminds us of the beginning of the war in Gaza.\u201d Afana said the sound of airstrikes frightened Adam, who felt the war was pursuing them.\n\n\u201cWhat we hope for Lebanon is that what happened in Gaza won\u2019t happen here \u2014 that the beginning and the ending won\u2019t both be the same,\u201d Afana said.\n\n'All wars are waged on children'\n\nThe Ghassan Abu Sitta Fund has stopped bringing wounded Palestinian children to Lebanon but continues to treat existing patients \u2014 with some challenges.\n\nSince arriving in Beirut, Adam has undergone a procedure to clear infection from his bones, neurosurgery and has been doing regular physiotherapy sessions. He can now slightly clench his hand when he puts effort into it.\n\nBut the final operation - a muscle transfer and surgery to repair the damaged nerves in his arm - is on hold.\n\n\u201cThere\u2019s just a handful of people who specialise in this globally, and we were expecting one of them to come to Lebanon,\u201d Abu Sitta said. The trip has been delayed due to the escalation in Lebanon.\n\nWhen he first launched the programme, Abu Sitta hoped to treat 50 Palestinian children from Gaza at any given time. Unable to bring more patients in, the team is shifting its resources towards treating Lebanese children.\n\nThe numbers of wounded Lebanese children are still far lower than in Gaza. As of last week, Lebanon\u2019s Ministry of Public Health said 192 children had been killed and at least 1,255 wounded since October 2023. In Gaza, more than 13,000 children have been killed and thousands more have been wounded, according to Gaza's Health Ministry.\n\nAbu Sitta said the wounds of children in Lebanon are \u201cidentical to the injuries of Palestinian children from Gaza.\u201d Most were wounded while at home. They suffered \u201ccrush injuries to the limbs, blast injuries to the face,\u201d and often \u201cmultiple members of the family killed at the same time,\u201d he said.\n\n\u201cAs in Gaza, this war takes its toll on children,\u201d he said. \u201cAll wars are waged on children.\u201d\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Since the beginning of Israel's war in Gaza over a year ago, Lebanon has been a place of refuge for many wounded Gazan children.<\/p>\n<p>Ghassan Abu Sitta, a British-Palestinian surgeon active in Gaza at the start of the war, facilitated the arrival of around a dozen severely wounded Palestinian children through the Ghassan Abu Sitta Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>The first of the wounded children arrived in Lebanon in May. Five-year-old Adam Afana had nearly lost his left arm in a blast that killed his father and sister. His arm was paralysed, and he needed complex surgery to correct the nerve damage.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Lebanon was already embroiled in a low-simmering conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. For months, the conflict in Lebanon was mainly confined to the southern border area, far from Beirut.<\/p>\n<p>Abu Sitta said he chose Lebanon for the wounded children's treatment because the Mediterranean country has specialists with wide experience treating war injuries.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.66640625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//84//81//78//808x539_cmsv2_5ef03bcd-fbbb-5769-b634-f2da645371d2-8848178.jpg/" alt=\"Adam Afana, 5, receives physiotherapy at a clinic in Mar Elias Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/84\/81\/78\/384x256_cmsv2_5ef03bcd-fbbb-5769-b634-f2da645371d2-8848178.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/84\/81\/78\/640x427_cmsv2_5ef03bcd-fbbb-5769-b634-f2da645371d2-8848178.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/84\/81\/78\/750x500_cmsv2_5ef03bcd-fbbb-5769-b634-f2da645371d2-8848178.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/84\/81\/78\/828x552_cmsv2_5ef03bcd-fbbb-5769-b634-f2da645371d2-8848178.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/84\/81\/78\/1080x720_cmsv2_5ef03bcd-fbbb-5769-b634-f2da645371d2-8848178.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/84\/81\/78\/1200x800_cmsv2_5ef03bcd-fbbb-5769-b634-f2da645371d2-8848178.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/84\/81\/78\/1920x1280_cmsv2_5ef03bcd-fbbb-5769-b634-f2da645371d2-8848178.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Adam Afana, 5, receives physiotherapy at a clinic in Mar Elias Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Bilal Hussein\/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>But months after their arrival, children like Adam are now caught up in yet another war some fear will end in Gaza-like destruction. In September, IDF forces launched a large-scale offensive in Lebanon, pummelling wide swathes of Lebanon with airstrikes, including Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs and some sites within the city centre.<\/p>\n<p>Adam Afana's uncle, Eid Afana, said the escalation in Lebanon \u201creminds us of the beginning of the war in Gaza.\u201d Afana said the sound of airstrikes frightened Adam, who felt the war was pursuing them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we hope for Lebanon is that what happened in Gaza won\u2019t happen here \u2014 that the beginning and the ending won\u2019t both be the same,\u201d Afana said.<\/p>\n<h2>'All wars are waged on children'<\/h2><p>The Ghassan Abu Sitta Fund has stopped bringing wounded Palestinian children to Lebanon but continues to treat existing patients \u2014 with some challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Since arriving in Beirut, Adam has undergone a procedure to clear infection from his bones, neurosurgery and has been doing regular physiotherapy sessions. 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They suffered \u201ccrush injuries to the limbs, blast injuries to the face,\u201d and often \u201cmultiple members of the family killed at the same time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs in Gaza, this war takes its toll on children,\u201d he said. \u201cAll wars are waged on children.\u201d<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1731483722,"updatedAt":1731500669,"publishedAt":1731497008,"firstPublishedAt":1731497008,"lastPublishedAt":1731500654,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/84\/81\/78\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_9ed1b5eb-680d-5f69-8034-e8d3424a7e6f-8848178.jpg","altText":"Halima Abou Yassine, 7, lies on a hospital bed at the American University of Beirut Medical Center in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, July 15, 2024","caption":"Halima Abou Yassine, 7, lies on a hospital bed at the American University of Beirut Medical Center in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, July 15, 2024","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Hussein Malla\/Copyright 2024 The AP. 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The strike hit the village of Ain Yaaqoub in the northern Akkar region, which is home to Greek Orthodox and Sunni Muslim communities and far from the Hezbollah militant group\u2019s main areas of influence in the south and east.\n\nIsrael has struck increasingly deeper into Lebanon since its military escalation and ground invasion against Hezbollah in late September. Israel's first strike in the Akkar region was on 2 November and targeted a bridge near a Lebanese army checkpoint, cutting a key road leading to Syria.\n\nOn Monday, another Israeli airstrike hit a residential building in southern Lebanon, killing seven people and wounding seven others, according to Lebanon\u2019s Health Ministry. Israel's military said 190 rockets were fired from Lebanon on Monday, with rescue services saying at least five people were injured.\n\nIsrael Katz rejects Lebanon ceasefire\n\nOn Monday, Lebanon ceasefire talks appeared to gain traction as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s top strategic adviser met with US officials in Washington.\n\nStrategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer met with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, the State Department said. He also met White House senior advisers Amos Hochstein and Brett McGurk at the White House, according to a US official. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to comment publicly, said that Dermer is also expected to meet on Tuesday with national security adviser Jake Sullivan.\n\nDermer is also set to meet with Trump officials during his time in the US.\n\nEarlier on Monday, Israel\u2019s new foreign minister told reporters there has been \u201ccertain progress\u201d in cease-fire efforts with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Dermer is a close confidant of Netanyahu and last week travelled to Russia as part of ceasefire efforts, said an official familiar with the matter.\n\nThe official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss behind-the-scenes diplomacy, said Dermer is trying to rally Russian support for enforcing a ceasefire by helping ensure that Iran will no longer smuggle weapons to Hezbollah through Syria, which is a Russian ally.\n\nHowever, Israel's new Defence Minister Israel Katz ruled out a ceasefire in a post on X on Tuesday, saying the IDF \"will continue to hit Hezbollah with full force until the war goals are achieved.\" \n\n\"There will be no cease-fire in Lebanon and there will be no truce,\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, Palestinian medical officials say two Israeli strikes in Gaza killed at least 14 people, including two children and a woman, most in an Israeli-declared humanitarian zone.\n\nOne strike late Monday hit a cafeteria in the Muwasi \"humanitarian zone\" west of the city of Khan Younis, killing at least 11 people, including two children, according to officials at Nasser Hospital, where the casualties were taken.\n\nAnother strike early Tuesday hit a house in the urban Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, killing three people, including a woman, according to al-Awda Hospital, which received the casualties. The strike also wounded 11 others, it said.\n\n'Illegal annexation' of West Bank condemned by Josep Borrell\n\nIsraeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said in a speech on Monday that he will push for Israel to annex parts of the occupied West Bank after US President-elect Donald Trump takes office.\n\nSmotrich used the biblical term for the territory, saying, \u201c2025 will be the year [...] of sovereignty in Judea and Samaria.\"\n\nIsrael captured the West Bank in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and has built scores of settlements to cement its control over the area. But it has never annexed the territory, which is home to 3 million Palestinians who live under military rule.\n\nThe Palestinians want the West Bank, along with east Jerusalem and Gaza, to form an independent Palestinian state.\n\nEU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell \"unequivocally\" condemned Smotrich's speech in a post on X, calling it illegal.\n\nThe international community overwhelmingly considers the settlements, where some 500,000 Israelis live, to be illegal and obstacles to peace.\n\nSmotrich, along with other settler leaders, are counting on Trump to resume the pro-settler positions he took during his first term as president. \n\nDuring the first Trump administration, Washington reversed its longstanding policy and said settlements do not violate international law. Trump's Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also made an unprecedented visit to a Jewish settlement during that time.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>An Israeli airstrike destroyed a home in northern Lebanon on Monday, killing at least eight people and wounding 14 others, according to Lebanon's Health Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>Rescue teams scrambled to pull survivors from under the rubble, Lebanon\u2019s state media said, and a video widely circulated on social media showed the Lebanese Red Cross moving corpses encased in body bags.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli military did not immediately comment on the strike, and the target was not clear. The strike hit the village of Ain Yaaqoub in the northern Akkar region, which is home to Greek Orthodox and Sunni Muslim communities and far from the Hezbollah militant group\u2019s main areas of influence in the south and east.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has struck increasingly deeper into Lebanon since its military escalation and ground invasion against Hezbollah in late September. Israel's first strike in the Akkar region was on 2 November and targeted a bridge near a Lebanese army checkpoint, cutting a key road leading to Syria.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, another Israeli airstrike hit a residential building in southern Lebanon, killing seven people and wounding seven others, according to Lebanon\u2019s Health Ministry. Israel's military said 190 rockets were fired from Lebanon on Monday, with rescue services saying at least five people were injured.<\/p>\n<h2>Israel Katz rejects Lebanon ceasefire<\/h2><p>On Monday, Lebanon ceasefire talks appeared to gain traction as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s top strategic adviser met with US officials in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer met with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, the State Department said. He also met White House senior advisers Amos Hochstein and Brett McGurk at the White House, according to a US official. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to comment publicly, said that Dermer is also expected to meet on Tuesday with national security adviser Jake Sullivan.<\/p>\n<p>Dermer is also set to meet with Trump officials during his time in the US.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Monday, Israel\u2019s new foreign minister told reporters there has been \u201ccertain progress\u201d in cease-fire efforts with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Dermer is a close confidant of Netanyahu and last week travelled to Russia as part of ceasefire efforts, said an official familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss behind-the-scenes diplomacy, said Dermer is trying to rally Russian support for enforcing a ceasefire by helping ensure that Iran will no longer smuggle weapons to Hezbollah through Syria, which is a Russian ally.<\/p>\n<p>However, Israel's new Defence Minister Israel Katz ruled out a ceasefire in a post on X on Tuesday, saying the IDF \"will continue to hit Hezbollah with full force until the war goals are achieved.\" <\/p>\n<p>\"There will be no cease-fire in Lebanon and there will be no truce,\" he added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1856219485469839367\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Palestinian medical officials say two Israeli strikes in Gaza killed at least 14 people, including two children and a woman, most in an Israeli-declared humanitarian zone.<\/p>\n<p>One strike late Monday hit a cafeteria in the Muwasi \"humanitarian zone\" west of the city of Khan Younis, killing at least 11 people, including two children, according to officials at Nasser Hospital, where the casualties were taken.<\/p>\n<p>Another strike early Tuesday hit a house in the urban Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, killing three people, including a woman, according to al-Awda Hospital, which received the casualties. The strike also wounded 11 others, it said.<\/p>\n<h2>'Illegal annexation' of West Bank condemned by Josep Borrell<\/h2><p>Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said in a speech on Monday that he will push for Israel to annex parts of the occupied West Bank after US President-elect Donald Trump takes office.<\/p>\n<p>Smotrich used the biblical term for the territory, saying, \u201c2025 will be the year [...] of sovereignty in Judea and Samaria.\"<\/p>\n<p>Israel captured the West Bank in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and has built scores of settlements to cement its control over the area. But it has never annexed the territory, which is home to 3 million Palestinians who live under military rule.<\/p>\n<p>The Palestinians want the West Bank, along with east Jerusalem and Gaza, to form an independent Palestinian state.<\/p>\n<p>EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell \"unequivocally\" condemned Smotrich's speech in a post on X, calling it illegal.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1856098367186841879\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The international community overwhelmingly considers the settlements, where some 500,000 Israelis live, to be illegal and obstacles to peace.<\/p>\n<p>Smotrich, along with other settler leaders, are counting on Trump to resume the pro-settler positions he took during his first term as president. <\/p>\n<p>During the first Trump administration, Washington reversed its longstanding policy and said settlements do not violate international law. Trump's Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also made an unprecedented visit to a Jewish settlement during that time.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1731393178,"updatedAt":1731406864,"publishedAt":1731402678,"firstPublishedAt":1731402678,"lastPublishedAt":1731403090,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/84\/58\/30\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_34aef797-4e5d-52ee-8727-9fb32457ee19-8845830.jpg","altText":"Two men ride a scooter past a building that was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Nov. 11, 2024. ","caption":"Two men ride a scooter past a building that was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Nov. 11, 2024. 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apartment building on Tuesday after an Israeli strike hit the coastal town of Barja, according to Lebanon's Civil Defence. \n\nCivil defence official Mostafa Danaj said some of the neighbours have reported there are still people missing as a result of the strike, which came without warning. \n\nThe Israeli military has yet to comment on the explosion, the target of which is not yet known. \n\nA building resident, Muhyiddin Al-Qalaaji, said he was at work when the strike happened and heard the news from his wife.\n\n\"There are many dead and injured,\u201d he said as he carried out what he could salvage of the family's belongings on Wednesday morning.\n\nIsrael has continued to pound parts of Lebanon by air, as its troops also push into the southern part of the country. \n\nThe militant group Hezbollah, who Israel says it is fighting in Lebanon, launched 10 rockets toward Israel on Wednesday as both sides continue to exchange fire. \n\nA large portion of a rocket launched by Hezbollah 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Rockets also struck an open area near Israel\u2019s main airport, Israeli media reported, though the airport said flights were operating as normally.\n\nIsrael\u2019s Magen David Adom rescue services said there were no injuries.\n\nThe two sides have been clashing since Hezbollah started firing rockets across the border into Israel following the Hamas-led attack in Israel on 7 October last year. \n\nIsrael has focused its troops in Lebanon since mid-September, although it has continued to hit northern Gaza, killing hundreds of civilians. \n\nOn Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed his defence minister Yoav Gallant, replacing him with loyalist Israel Katz.\n\nThere are concerns Gallant's replacement is a sign that the Israeli leader is intent on pushing forward with his military aims, as Gallant promoted the idea that military force was a precondition for at least a temporary ceasefire. \n\nNetanyahu and Gallant have previously been at odds over the war in Gaza, but the prime minister avoided letting go of his rival before the US presidential election on Tuesday.\n\nGallant's dismissal has led to protests across the country, with protesters arguing for a ceasefire agreement that would release the remaining Israeli hostages held in Gaza by Hamas. \n\nA ceasefire deal has repeatedly stalled, with both sides not being able to agree on preconditions necessary to achieve temporary peace in the region. \n\nThe previous ceasefire deal was promoted by the Biden administration. On Wednesday morning, US media announced that he would be replaced by Donald Trump. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Rescuers pulled 30 bodies out of a damaged apartment building on Tuesday after an Israeli strike hit the coastal town of Barja, according to Lebanon's Civil Defence. <\/p>\n<p>Civil defence official Mostafa Danaj said some of the neighbours have reported there are still people missing as a result of the strike, which came without warning. <\/p>\n<p>The Israeli military has yet to comment on the explosion, the target of which is not yet known. <\/p>\n<p>A building resident, Muhyiddin Al-Qalaaji, said he was at work when the strike happened and heard the news from his wife.<\/p>\n<p>\"There are many dead and injured,\u201d he said as he carried out what he could salvage of the family's belongings on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has continued to pound parts of Lebanon by air, as its troops also push into the southern part of the country. <\/p>\n<p>The militant group Hezbollah, who Israel says it is fighting in Lebanon, launched 10 rockets toward Israel on Wednesday as both sides continue to exchange fire. <\/p>\n<p>A large portion of a rocket launched by Hezbollah slammed into a parked car in the central Israeli city of Raanana. Rockets also struck an open area near Israel\u2019s main airport, Israeli media reported, though the airport said flights were operating as normally.<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s Magen David Adom rescue services said there were no injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The two sides have been clashing since Hezbollah started firing rockets across the border into Israel following the Hamas-led attack in Israel on 7 October last year. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8834284,8824680\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//11//05//israels-pm-netanyahu-dismisses-defence-minister-yoav-gallant-in-surprise-announcement/">Israel's PM Netanyahu dismisses Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, citing 'crisis of trust'<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//11//04//fake-image-of-pro-israeli-banner-at-italian-football-match-goes-viral/">Fake image of pro-Israeli banner at Italian football match goes viral<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Israel has focused its troops in Lebanon since mid-September, although it has continued to hit northern Gaza, killing hundreds of civilians. <\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed his defence minister Yoav Gallant, replacing him with loyalist Israel Katz.<\/p>\n<p>There are concerns Gallant's replacement is a sign that the Israeli leader is intent on pushing forward with his military aims, as Gallant promoted the idea that military force was a precondition for at least a temporary ceasefire. <\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu and Gallant have previously been at odds over the war in Gaza, but the prime minister avoided letting go of his rival before the US presidential election on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Gallant's dismissal has led to protests across the country, with protesters arguing for a ceasefire agreement that would release the remaining Israeli hostages held in Gaza by Hamas. <\/p>\n<p>A ceasefire deal has repeatedly stalled, with both sides not being able to agree on preconditions necessary to achieve temporary peace in the region. <\/p>\n<p>The previous ceasefire deal was promoted by the Biden administration. On Wednesday morning, US media announced that he would be replaced by Donald Trump. <\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1730893049,"updatedAt":1730911510,"publishedAt":1730900022,"firstPublishedAt":1730900022,"lastPublishedAt":1730900022,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/83\/58\/38\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_883dde0b-9365-5abd-9ec2-125ff488a08c-8835838.jpg","altText":"Civil defense workers inspect the rubble of a destroyed building hit in an Israeli airstrike on Tuesday night, in Barja, Lebanon, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024.","caption":"Civil defense workers inspect the rubble of a destroyed building hit in an Israeli airstrike on Tuesday night, in Barja, Lebanon, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1024,"height":576}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":2940,"urlSafeValue":"paternoster","title":"Tamsin 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area.","keySentence":"","url":"israeli-airstrikes-devastate-dahiyeh-claim-24-lives-in-northeast-lebanon","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2024\/11\/01\/israeli-airstrikes-devastate-dahiyeh-claim-24-lives-in-northeast-lebanon","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Israel\u2019s air force pounded Beirut\u2019s southern suburb of Dahiyeh overnight, destroying dozens of buildings in several neighbourhoods. \n\nSeveral hours after the strikes, smoke was still rising from the rubble of some of the collapsed structures.\n\nLebanon\u2019s state-run news agency reported that Israeli airstrikes killed at least 45 people in the country's northeast on Friday. Officials have not yet released casualty figures from the Dahiyeh strikes.\n\nDespite growing pressure from the United States and others in the international community for a ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon, intensified Israeli strikes against the Hezbollah militant group are expanding beyond Lebanon\u2019s periphery.\n\nLebanon\u2019s Heath Ministry said more than 2,800 people have been killed and 13,000 wounded since 8 October 2023, when Hezbollah began firing rockets almost daily into Israel, drawing retaliation. \n\nIsraeli ground forces invaded southern Lebanon at the start of last month.\n\nAccording to Palestinian health officials, more than 43,000 people have been killed in Gaza during the year-long conflict between Israel and Hamas, without specifying how many of the casualties were civilians or combatants.\n\nThe war began after Palestinian militants stormed into Israel on 7 October 2023, killing some 1,200 people \u2014 mostly civilians \u2014 and abducting 250 others.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Israel\u2019s air force pounded Beirut\u2019s southern suburb of Dahiyeh overnight, destroying dozens of buildings in several neighbourhoods. <\/p>\n<p>Several hours after the strikes, smoke was still rising from the rubble of some of the collapsed structures.<\/p>\n<p>Lebanon\u2019s state-run news agency reported that Israeli airstrikes killed at least 45 people in the country's northeast on Friday. Officials have not yet released casualty figures from the Dahiyeh strikes.<\/p>\n<p>Despite growing pressure from the United States and others in the international community for a ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon, intensified Israeli strikes against the Hezbollah militant group are expanding beyond Lebanon\u2019s periphery.<\/p>\n<p>Lebanon\u2019s Heath Ministry said more than 2,800 people have been killed and 13,000 wounded since 8 October 2023, when Hezbollah began firing rockets almost daily into Israel, drawing retaliation. <\/p>\n<p>Israeli ground forces invaded southern Lebanon at the start of last month.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5626223091976517\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//82//79//58//808x454_cmsv2_b07a8982-ceb3-536b-b40c-9596f74bedc7-8827958.jpg/" alt=\"A man and his family ride a three-wheeled "tok-tok" past a car damaged by an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on Friday, Nov. 1, 2024.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/82\/79\/58\/384x216_cmsv2_b07a8982-ceb3-536b-b40c-9596f74bedc7-8827958.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/82\/79\/58\/640x360_cmsv2_b07a8982-ceb3-536b-b40c-9596f74bedc7-8827958.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/82\/79\/58\/750x422_cmsv2_b07a8982-ceb3-536b-b40c-9596f74bedc7-8827958.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/82\/79\/58\/828x466_cmsv2_b07a8982-ceb3-536b-b40c-9596f74bedc7-8827958.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/82\/79\/58\/1080x608_cmsv2_b07a8982-ceb3-536b-b40c-9596f74bedc7-8827958.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/82\/79\/58\/1200x675_cmsv2_b07a8982-ceb3-536b-b40c-9596f74bedc7-8827958.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/82\/79\/58\/1920x1080_cmsv2_b07a8982-ceb3-536b-b40c-9596f74bedc7-8827958.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A man and his family ride a three-wheeled "tok-tok" past a car damaged by an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on Friday, Nov. 1, 2024.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Hussein Malla\/Copyright 2024 The AP. All right reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>According to Palestinian health officials, more than 43,000 people have been killed in Gaza during the year-long conflict between Israel and Hamas, without specifying how many of the casualties were civilians or combatants.<\/p>\n<p>The war began after Palestinian militants stormed into Israel on 7 October 2023, killing some 1,200 people \u2014 mostly civilians \u2014 and abducting 250 others.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1730480810,"updatedAt":1730497397,"publishedAt":1730486937,"firstPublishedAt":1730486937,"lastPublishedAt":1730497394,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/82\/79\/58\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_297e2b6e-8a45-527a-a247-df0541c0eb19-8827958.jpg","altText":"Civil defense workers extinguish a fire as smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Nov. 1, 2024. 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BAALBEK STRIKES TWO","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Israeli airstrikes hit Lebanese city of Baalbek, home to UNESCO World Heritage Site","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Israeli airstrikes hit Baalbek, home to UNESCO World Heritage Site","titleListing2":"Israeli airstrikes hit Lebanese city of Baalbek, home to UNESCO World Heritage Site","leadin":"The IDF warned an entire Lebanese city to evacuate as they begun bombarding its outskirts in what they claim is the pursuit of militant group Hezbollah.","summary":"The IDF warned an entire Lebanese city to evacuate as they begun bombarding its outskirts in what they claim is the pursuit of militant group Hezbollah.","keySentence":"","url":"israeli-airstrikes-hit-lebanese-city-of-baalbek-home-to-unesco-world-heritage-site","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2024\/10\/30\/israeli-airstrikes-hit-lebanese-city-of-baalbek-home-to-unesco-world-heritage-site","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Israeli airstrikes pounded the eastern Lebanese city of Baalbek on Wednesday, according to Lebanon\u2019s state-run news agency, hours after the Israeli military issued an evacuation warning for residents in the entire city.\u00a0\n\nThe city\u2019s ancient Roman temple complex, inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, was included in the evacuation warning as well as Baalbek\u2019s surrounding area and key routes to Lebanon\u2019s Bekaa valley.\u00a0\n\nResidents evacuated en-masse with local media footage showing heavy traffic along Lebanese roads exiting the city.\u00a0\n\nFootage circulated online showed the onset of airstrikes on Baalbek, with the sound of intense explosions and the cries of children and families who remained in the area.\u00a0\n\nIn a post on his social media, local governor Bachir Khodr urged residents to avoid seeking refuge within the city\u2019s Roman temples.\u00a0Instead, he advised them to head to one of two destinations: Arsal, a town in the Baalbek province about 30km from the city or to the North Governorate.\u00a0\n\nIsrael claimed to be targeting fuel depots to halt the movement of weapons and artillery from Iran, but did not provide evidence of this activity.\u00a0\n\nUS State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said Israel has a responsibility to protect civilian infrastructure and cultural heritage sites.\n\nIn the region's deadliest day in a year, more than 60 people were killed in several towns surrounding Baalbek after multiple, overnight Israeli airstrikes into Tuesday.\n\nThe army said they were targeting fuel depots to halt the movement of weapons and artillery from Iran, without providing evidence of such activity.\u00a0\n\n\u00a0The Lebanese health ministry report more than 2,790 people have been killed and 12,700 wounded in Lebanon since 8 October 2023 \u2013 when Hezbollah began firing rockets into Israel.\u00a0\n\nThe conflict escalated sharply last month when Israeli ground forces invaded southern Lebanon. Around 1.2 million Lebanese people have been displaced by the conflict, according to government estimates.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Israeli airstrikes pounded the eastern Lebanese city of Baalbek on Wednesday, according to Lebanon\u2019s state-run news agency, hours after the Israeli military issued an evacuation warning for residents in the entire city.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The city\u2019s ancient Roman temple complex, inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, was included in the evacuation warning as well as Baalbek\u2019s surrounding area and key routes to Lebanon\u2019s Bekaa valley.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Residents evacuated en-masse with local media footage showing heavy traffic along Lebanese roads exiting the city.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Footage circulated online showed the onset of airstrikes on Baalbek, with the sound of intense explosions and the cries of children and families who remained in the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1851630237219422694\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In a post on his social media, local governor Bachir Khodr urged residents to avoid seeking refuge within the city\u2019s Roman temples.\u00a0Instead, he advised them to head to one of two destinations: Arsal, a town in the Baalbek province about 30km from the city or to the North Governorate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Israel claimed to be targeting fuel depots to halt the movement of weapons and artillery from Iran, but did not provide evidence of this activity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said Israel has a responsibility to protect civilian infrastructure and cultural heritage sites.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//82//39//34//808x539_cmsv2_d46f7ea7-0591-5c32-b2c0-f807480e5d30-8823934.jpg/" alt=\"People check their damaged houses at the site of an Israeli airstrike in Baalbek, east Lebanon, Monday, Oct. 7, 2024.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/82\/39\/34\/384x256_cmsv2_d46f7ea7-0591-5c32-b2c0-f807480e5d30-8823934.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/82\/39\/34\/640x427_cmsv2_d46f7ea7-0591-5c32-b2c0-f807480e5d30-8823934.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/82\/39\/34\/750x500_cmsv2_d46f7ea7-0591-5c32-b2c0-f807480e5d30-8823934.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/82\/39\/34\/828x552_cmsv2_d46f7ea7-0591-5c32-b2c0-f807480e5d30-8823934.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/82\/39\/34\/1080x720_cmsv2_d46f7ea7-0591-5c32-b2c0-f807480e5d30-8823934.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/82\/39\/34\/1200x800_cmsv2_d46f7ea7-0591-5c32-b2c0-f807480e5d30-8823934.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/82\/39\/34\/1920x1281_cmsv2_d46f7ea7-0591-5c32-b2c0-f807480e5d30-8823934.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">People check their damaged houses at the site of an Israeli airstrike in Baalbek, east Lebanon, Monday, Oct. 7, 2024.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Hassan Ammar\/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In the region's deadliest day in a year, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//10//29//at-least-60-dead-following-israeli-strikes-in-east-lebanon/">more than 60 people were killed<\/strong><\/a> in several towns surrounding Baalbek after multiple, overnight Israeli airstrikes into Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The army said they were targeting fuel depots to halt the movement of weapons and artillery from Iran, without providing evidence of such activity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1851606950376624162\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u00a0The 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