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More Airlines Cancel Beirut Flights Amid Escalation

People watch the sunset along Beirut's seafront corniche as an aircraft approaches to land at Rafic Hariri International Airport on July 29, 2024. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)
People watch the sunset along Beirut's seafront corniche as an aircraft approaches to land at Rafic Hariri International Airport on July 29, 2024. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)
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More Airlines Cancel Beirut Flights Amid Escalation

People watch the sunset along Beirut's seafront corniche as an aircraft approaches to land at Rafic Hariri International Airport on July 29, 2024. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)
People watch the sunset along Beirut's seafront corniche as an aircraft approaches to land at Rafic Hariri International Airport on July 29, 2024. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)

Greece's Aegean Airlines and Germany's Condor cancelled flights to Beirut on Tuesday, the latest airlines to suspend services to the Lebanese capital in recent days as tensions escalate between Israel and Hezbollah.
Aegean said it would suspend flights until Thursday, while Condor cancelled Tuesday's flight from Dusseldorf, Reuters reported.
Air France and Lufthansa Group carriers Swiss, Eurowings and Lufthansa on Monday announced flight cancellations.
A number of other carriers have suspended, delayed or cancelled some flights, although Beirut's Rafic Hariri International Airport listed arrivals on Tuesday from airlines including Pegasus, Emirates, Royal Jordanian, EgyptAir, Iran Air, Qatar Airways and Etihad.
Lebanon has been bracing for retaliation from Israel since a strike on Saturday in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights killed 12 children and teenagers. Hezbollah has denied blame.

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Israel Says Hit Around 10 Hezbollah Targets in Lebanon, Killed One Fighter

A picture taken from the outskirts of south Lebanon's village of Aitaroun shows smoke billowing after a raid carried out by Israeli warplanes on December 17, 2023. (Photo by AFP)
A picture taken from the outskirts of south Lebanon's village of Aitaroun shows smoke billowing after a raid carried out by Israeli warplanes on December 17, 2023. (Photo by AFP)
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Israel Says Hit Around 10 Hezbollah Targets in Lebanon, Killed One Fighter

A picture taken from the outskirts of south Lebanon's village of Aitaroun shows smoke billowing after a raid carried out by Israeli warplanes on December 17, 2023. (Photo by AFP)
A picture taken from the outskirts of south Lebanon's village of Aitaroun shows smoke billowing after a raid carried out by Israeli warplanes on December 17, 2023. (Photo by AFP)

The Israeli army said Tuesday it had struck around 10 Hezbollah targets overnight in seven different areas of south Lebanon, killing one fighter from the Iran-backed militant group.

The army also "struck a Hezbollah weapons storage facility, terror infrastructure sites, military structures and a launcher in southern Lebanon", the army said, AFP reported.

The strikes came after a rocket fired from Lebanon hit a Druze Arab town in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights on Saturday and killed 12 children aged between 10 and 16.

On a visit to Majdal Shams on Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Israel would deliver a "severe response" to the strike.

Israel says the rocket that killed the children was an Iranian-made Falaq and was fired by its ally Hezbollah.

Hezbollah has denied responsibility for firing the rocket though it claimed multiple launches towards Israel on Saturday.

Israeli forces and Hezbollah have been engaged in near-daily clashes along the border since the start of the Israel-Hamas war on October 7.

The violence has so far killed 22 soldiers and 24 civilians on the Israeli side, including in the Golan, according to army figures.