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Tunisia Court Upholds 18-month Sentence for Presidential Candidate Zammel

A poster of imprisoned presidential candidate Ayachi Zammel is displayed at the entrance of his electoral headquarters on September 16, 2024, in Tunis, ahead of presidential election. (Photo by FETHI BELAID / AFP)
A poster of imprisoned presidential candidate Ayachi Zammel is displayed at the entrance of his electoral headquarters on September 16, 2024, in Tunis, ahead of presidential election. (Photo by FETHI BELAID / AFP)
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Tunisia Court Upholds 18-month Sentence for Presidential Candidate Zammel

A poster of imprisoned presidential candidate Ayachi Zammel is displayed at the entrance of his electoral headquarters on September 16, 2024, in Tunis, ahead of presidential election. (Photo by FETHI BELAID / AFP)
A poster of imprisoned presidential candidate Ayachi Zammel is displayed at the entrance of his electoral headquarters on September 16, 2024, in Tunis, ahead of presidential election. (Photo by FETHI BELAID / AFP)

A Tunisian appeal court on Thursday upheld an 18-month prison sentence handed down to presidential candidate Ayachi Zammel, his lawyer said, two days before the vote is held.

Zammel, who has been in prison for a month, is one of three candidates running for the presidency, along with current President Kais Saied and politician Zouhair Maghzaoui.

Tunisians head to the polls Sunday.

Fourteen hopefuls were barred from joining the race, after election organizers ruled they had failed to provide enough signatures of endorsement, among other technicalities.
Some have been jailed after being convicted of forging signatures.

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Lebanese Red Cross Says Israeli Strike Killed 4 of its Medics, Lebanese Soldier

Smoke billows after Israeli Air Force airstrikes in southern Lebanon villages, amid cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, as seen from Sasa, northern Israel, October 3, 2024. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart
Smoke billows after Israeli Air Force airstrikes in southern Lebanon villages, amid cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, as seen from Sasa, northern Israel, October 3, 2024. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart
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Lebanese Red Cross Says Israeli Strike Killed 4 of its Medics, Lebanese Soldier

Smoke billows after Israeli Air Force airstrikes in southern Lebanon villages, amid cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, as seen from Sasa, northern Israel, October 3, 2024. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart
Smoke billows after Israeli Air Force airstrikes in southern Lebanon villages, amid cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, as seen from Sasa, northern Israel, October 3, 2024. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart

The Lebanese Red Cross said Thursday that an Israeli strike killed four of its paramedics and a Lebanese army soldier as they were evacuating wounded people from the south.

It said the convoy near the village of Taybeh, which was accompanied by Lebanese troops, was targeted despite coordinating its movements with UN peacekeepers.

An escalation in the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah over the past two weeks has led to clashes between the two sides inside Lebanon.

Hezbollah began firing rockets into Israel at the start of the Gaza war in support of Hamas, causing the evacuation of tens of thousands of residents whom Israel says need to return home.

In Lebanon, nearly 1,900 people have been killed and more than 9,000 wounded in Lebanon in nearly a year of cross-border fighting, with most of the deaths occurring in the past two weeks, according to Lebanese government statistics.

More than a million Lebanese have been forced to flee their homes.

In a separate development, the Israeli military ordered the evacuation of villages and towns in southern Lebanon that are north of a United Nations-declared buffer zone established after the 2006 war. The warnings issued Thursday signaled a possible broadening of Israel’s incursion into southern Lebanon, which until now has been confined to areas close to the border.

At least eight Israeli soldiers were killed in clashes with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, where Israel announced the start of what it says is a limited ground incursion earlier this week.