Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea has described the war in Gaza as an "open hell" that he doesn't want Lebanon to experience too.
"We support the people of Gaza and we are trying to spare Lebanon this hell," Geagea said, as he called again for the implementation of U.N. resolution 1701.
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Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah will make a televised address Friday, Hezbollah said in a statement, in his first appearance since the breakout of the war in Gaza and the confrontations in south Lebanon.
Full StoryAn Israeli tank shell hit Monday a house in the town of Aita al-Shaab, causing no casualties. The Israeli army also shelled with white phosphorus and flares the Shebaa valley, Halta, Bastra and Kfarshouba after it had fired 12 shells, including white phosphorus bombs, on the outskirts of the Israeli al-Raheb post near the southern town of Aita al-Shaab.
Israeli warplanes had also targeted at dawn al-Labbouneh, near the southern Lebanese town of Naqoura, and fired 15 shells at al-Musheirifa.
Full StoryThe Lebanon branch of Hamas’ Qassam Brigades on Sunday announced firing 16 rockets from Lebanon at Nahariya in northern Israel in response to “the occupation’s crimes against our people in Gaza.”
The military wing of Lebanon’s Jamaa Islamiya, which calls itself al-Fajer Forces, meanwhile claimed responsibility for another rocket attack on Israel’s Kiryat Shmona, saying the projectiles targeted the Israeli army’s posts around and inside the Israeli settlement.
Full StoryCyprus has received an influx of 458 Syrian migrants from Lebanon in one week and is bracing for more as the Israel-Hamas war threatens to spread, officials said on Sunday.
Authorities said 194 Syrians arrived late on Saturday aboard four boats from Lebanon and were taken to the Pournara reception center outside Nicosia.
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Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati met Sunday in Doha with the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani.
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Hezbollah on Sunday morning targeted the Misgav Am Israeli military post on Lebanon's border with the appropriate weapons, Hezbollah's al-Manar TV said.
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A Lebanese judge has decided to evict former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn from his luxury home, a judicial official said Saturday, four years after an investment firm accused him of "trespassing."
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Nearly 29,000 people have been displaced in Lebanon amid deadly exchanges between Hezbollah fighters and the Israeli army, a United Nations agency.
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A shell hit the headquarters of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in south Lebanon on Saturday, its spokesman said in the second such incident since the Israel-Hamas war erupted in Gaza.
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