Nasrallah Warns Israeli Army Against Targeting Civilians in Lebanon

Participants carry a portrait of Hezbollah chief Hasan Nasrallah in Beirut on July 17, 2024.  (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)
Participants carry a portrait of Hezbollah chief Hasan Nasrallah in Beirut on July 17, 2024. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)
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Nasrallah Warns Israeli Army Against Targeting Civilians in Lebanon

Participants carry a portrait of Hezbollah chief Hasan Nasrallah in Beirut on July 17, 2024.  (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)
Participants carry a portrait of Hezbollah chief Hasan Nasrallah in Beirut on July 17, 2024. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah warned on Wednesday the Israeli military against targeting civilians in Lebanon, saying the group will target new Israeli towns and villages otherwise.

“If your tanks came to Lebanon and southern Lebanon ... you won't have any left,” he said in a televised address to commemorate Ashoura.

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said Tuesday two separate Israeli airstrikes in south Lebanon killed five Syrian citizens, including three children.

NNA said the first drone strike killed two Syrian citizens who were riding a motorcycle near the southern village of Kfar Tibnit.

It added that the three children were killed later in the day in an airstrike on an agricultural land in the village of Im al-Tout near the border.

On Monday, an Israeli airstrike on a home in the southern town of Bint Jbeil killed a Hezbollah member and his two sisters.

Since the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza started on Oct. 7, Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon have killed over 450 people, mostly Hezbollah members but also include about 90 civilians and non-combatants. On the Israeli side, 21 soldiers and 13 civilians have been killed.



Israeli Delegation Arrives Cairo for Gaza Ceasefire Talks

Palestinians gather amidst the rubble of Moussa family's destroyed home following an Israeli airstrike, in Al-Maghazi refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, 29 March 2024. EPA/MOHAMMED SABER
Palestinians gather amidst the rubble of Moussa family's destroyed home following an Israeli airstrike, in Al-Maghazi refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, 29 March 2024. EPA/MOHAMMED SABER
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Israeli Delegation Arrives Cairo for Gaza Ceasefire Talks

Palestinians gather amidst the rubble of Moussa family's destroyed home following an Israeli airstrike, in Al-Maghazi refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, 29 March 2024. EPA/MOHAMMED SABER
Palestinians gather amidst the rubble of Moussa family's destroyed home following an Israeli airstrike, in Al-Maghazi refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, 29 March 2024. EPA/MOHAMMED SABER

An Israeli delegation has arrived in Egypt to continue ceasefire talks as Israel and Hamas consider the latest proposal. That’s according to three Egyptian airport officials who didn’t give details. International mediators continue to push Israel and Hamas toward a phased deal that would halt the fighting and free about 120 hostages held by the militant group in Gaza, The AP reported.

Talks between the sides were rattled over the weekend when Israel said it targeted Hamas’ military commander in a massive strike. His status remains unclear.

Two international courts have accused Israel of war crimes and genocide – charges Israel denies. Most of Gaza’s 2.3 million people are crammed into squalid tent camps in central and southern Gaza. Israeli restrictions, fighting and the breakdown of law and order have limited humanitarian aid efforts, causing widespread hunger and sparking fears of famine.

Meanwhile, Israel released 13 Palestinians after detaining them for weeks, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society said Wednesday.

The Palestinian paramedic group said they were taken from an Israeli checkpoint in the Gaza Strip to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central city of Deir al-Balah. Some wept when they were reunited with their relatives. Others showed signs of bruising to journalists.

One of those released, Zakaria Abu al-Eish, said he was caring for his ill father in the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza when Israeli forces stormed their home and detained him.

“For 55 days, I was handcuffed, blindfolded, deprived from sleeping, no rest, even food they brought us was for animals,” al-Eish told The AP. “If you eat or not, no one cares. They dealt with us as non-humans.”