Iran Warns About Any New 'Israeli Adventure' in Lebanon

A damaged gate and debris are seen at a football pitch after a reported strike from Lebanon fell in Majdal Shams village in the Israeli-annexed Golan area on July 28, 2024. (Photo by Menahem Kahana / AFP)
A damaged gate and debris are seen at a football pitch after a reported strike from Lebanon fell in Majdal Shams village in the Israeli-annexed Golan area on July 28, 2024. (Photo by Menahem Kahana / AFP)
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Iran Warns About Any New 'Israeli Adventure' in Lebanon

A damaged gate and debris are seen at a football pitch after a reported strike from Lebanon fell in Majdal Shams village in the Israeli-annexed Golan area on July 28, 2024. (Photo by Menahem Kahana / AFP)
A damaged gate and debris are seen at a football pitch after a reported strike from Lebanon fell in Majdal Shams village in the Israeli-annexed Golan area on July 28, 2024. (Photo by Menahem Kahana / AFP)

Iran warned Israel on Sunday against what it called any "new adventure" in Lebanon, in a statement issued by foreign ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani.

Israeli authorities blamed Iran-backed Hezbollah for a rocket attack that hit a football ground in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, killing 12 people on Saturday, and vowed to inflict a heavy response. Hezbollah denied any responsibility for the strike.

Israeli aircraft carried out attacks against Hezbollah in Lebanon overnight, the Israeli military said on Sunday, after the rocket that was fired at the soccer pitch.

The Israeli ambulance service said 13 more people were wounded by the rocket that hit the pitch which was filled at the time with children and teenagers.

"Overnight, the IAF struck a series of Hezbollah terror targets both deep inside Lebanese territory and in southern Lebanon, including weapons caches and terrorist infrastructure in the areas of Chabriha, Borj El Chmali, and Bekaa, Kfarkila, Rab El Thalathine, Khiam, and Tayr Harfa," the Israeli military said.



22 Dead in Shelling of Sudan's Besieged El-Fasher

Internally displaced women wait in a queue to collect aid from a group at a camp in Gadaref on May 12, 2024. (AFP)
Internally displaced women wait in a queue to collect aid from a group at a camp in Gadaref on May 12, 2024. (AFP)
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22 Dead in Shelling of Sudan's Besieged El-Fasher

Internally displaced women wait in a queue to collect aid from a group at a camp in Gadaref on May 12, 2024. (AFP)
Internally displaced women wait in a queue to collect aid from a group at a camp in Gadaref on May 12, 2024. (AFP)

Besieging Sudanese forces pounded El-Fasher on Saturday, witnesses said, killing 22 people in Darfur's last city outside their control, according to a hospital source.

El-Fasher has become a key battleground in the 15-month-long war pitting the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) against the regular army.

The battle for the North Darfur state capital, seen as crucial for humanitarian aid in a region on the brink of famine, has raged for more than two months.

Witnesses said El-Fasher had come under heavy artillery bombardment by the RSF on Saturday, according to AFP.

"Some houses were destroyed by the shelling," one witness said.

It was the deadliest reported bombardment since the start of the month, when 15 civilians were killed in the shelling of another city market.

Intense fighting for El-Fasher erupted on May 10, prompting a siege by the RSF that has trapped hundreds of thousands of civilians.

Last month, the UN Security Council passed a resolution demanding an end to the siege.

US mediators are to make a new attempt in Switzerland next month to broker an end to the fighting. The talks are due to open on August 14.