The Palestinian movement Hamas announced Monday that its leader in Lebanon was killed in an airstrike in the south of the country, where the Israeli army is carrying out raids against Hezbollah.
Jean-Noël Barrot arrived in Beirut on Sunday, the first Western diplomat to visit Lebanon since the intensification of Israeli strikes.
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HAMAS LEADER KILLED IN LEBANON
The Palestinian movement Hamas announced that its leader in Lebanon had been killed in an airstrike in the south of the country, where the Israeli army is carrying out raids against Hezbollah. “Fatah Sharif Abou al-Amine, the leader of Hamas in Lebanon and member of the movement’s leadership abroad”, was killed in a strike on his house in the Al-Bass camp in southern Lebanon , indicates a Hamas press release. The official Lebanese agency ANI reported an airstrike on the camp near the city of Tyre, in the south of the country.
FPLP
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) announced the death of three of its members in an Israeli strike in Beirut on Monday, the first targeting the heart of the Lebanese capital since the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023 .
The PFLP, a left-wing secular Palestinian organization, described as terrorist by Israel and the European Union, supports the Lebanese Hezbollah in its operations carried out in northern Israel, “in support” of Hamas.
A Lebanese security source had indicated a little earlier “that at least four people were killed in an Israeli drone strike targeting an apartment in Beirut intramuros, and belonging to Jamaa Islamiya”, from the Muslim Brotherhood and target of several Israeli strikes since the start of the escalation on October 8 on the Israeli-Lebanese border. The source indicated that at least two of the four dead were members of the PFLP.
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Political party and Islamist militia, how Hassan Nasrallah’s Hezbollah became a state within a state in Lebanon. ⬇️
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A Lebanese security source reports four deaths in an Israeli strike on a residential apartment in Beirut today, the first targeting the heart of the capital since the Palestinian Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.
According to this source, “at least four people were killed in an Israeli drone strike targeting an apartment belonging to Jamaa Islamiya in Beirut intramural.” This Lebanese Sunni Islamist group has supported Hezbollah in its operations carried out in northern Israel “in support” of Hamas in Gaza since October 2023.
HEZBOLLAH TARGETED
The Israeli army announces having struck dozens of targets of the Islamist movement Hezbollah in Lebanon before dawn. “Air Force combat planes attacked dozens of targets of the terrorist organization Hezbollah in the Bekaa region,” said a Civil Defense spokesperson on Telegram, specifying: “Among the targets attacked, dozens of launchers and buildings where weapons were stored.
Lebanon: Israel targets dozens of Hezbollah targetsSource : TF1 Info
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Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot arrived in Beirut on Sunday evening, the first senior Western diplomat to visit Lebanon since the intensification of Israeli strikes targeting the Lebanese pro-Iranian movement Hezbollah. According to his services, Jean-Noël Barrot should “exchange with local authorities and provide French support, particularly humanitarian”. He delivered emergency health aid to the Lebanese Minister of Health, before a working meeting on the situation of French nationals.
A Frenchman was killed in Israeli strikes in Lebanon, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Sunday, the second French victim since the intensification of Israeli strikes against the Lebanese pro-Iranian movement Hezbollah. “We confirm the death of a second Frenchman. We will give more details later”indicated the ministry. An 87-year-old French woman died last Monday after a “strong explosion” in a village in the south of the country.
At least 105 dead according to Lebanese authorities
The Israeli army again carried out violent raids against Hezbollah on Sunday in which nearly 105 people died, two days after killing its leader Hassan Nasrallah as well as dozens of members of the pro-Iranian Lebanese Shiite Islamist movement. This escalation raises fears that the entire Middle East will fall into open conflict, with consequences that are as devastating as they are unpredictable.
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Paris and Washington, joined by Arab, Western and European countries, called on Wednesday for an “immediate 21-day ceasefire” between Israel and Hezbollah to “give diplomacy a chance.” An initiative to which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not follow up before the UN General Assembly. He gave the green light to the bombing of a Beirut neighborhood which resulted in the death of Hassan Nasrallah.
President Macron said he was opposed to Lebanon “becoming a new Gaza”, citing the “absolutely shocking” number of civilian casualties. Prime Minister Michel Barnier, for his part, described“extremely serious” the situation and affirmed “concern about safety” French people on site.
