UNIFIL reported on Saturday a fifth injured peacekeeper on Friday evening in southern Lebanon. “We do not yet know the origin of the shot,” specifies the UN force. For its part, the Israeli army on Saturday ordered residents of southern Lebanon to “not return” to their homes, claiming to be “targeting Hezbollah posts” in the region. Follow our live stream.
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UNIFIL reported on Saturday a fifth injured peacekeeper on Friday evening in southern Lebanon. “We do not yet know the origin of the shot,” specifies the UN force.
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Lebanon reported nine deaths in Israeli raids on two villages, north and south of Beirut.
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As Israel celebrates Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, criticism rains down on the Jewish state, whose army admitted to having injured two peacekeepers during an attack against a “threat”, near a position of the United Nations Interim Force (UNIFIL) in southern Lebanon.
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The Lebanese Islamist movement Hezbollah claims to have fired “missiles” at an Israeli military base near Haifa, the large city in northern Israel, “targeting an explosive materials factory”.
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