UNSC delegation meets Lebanon’s Aoun, tours south amid Israeli escalation
Visit comes as Hezbollah leader slams Lebanon’s recent civilian-led talks with Israel as a ‘free concession’.

Visit comes as Hezbollah leader slams Lebanon’s recent civilian-led talks with Israel as a ‘free concession’.



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Martyrs’ Square became the symbolic backdrop for interfaith solidarity amid the country’s political paralysis.
Israel killed 13 people, including two children, in Syria on Friday after locals resisted an incursion by its army.

Israel has carried out its deadliest incursion into southern Syria since the fall of President Bashar al-Assad.

Video shows funeral processions in Syria’s Beit Jinn, after Israeli raids and missile strikes killed at least 13 people.

Israel launched a series of air strikes on the villages of Jarmak and Mahmoudiya in southern Lebanon on Thursday.

Nearly 10,000 Israeli violations have been recorded in Lebanon in the year since the Hezbollah-Israel ceasefire.

Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr explains what’s going on in Lebanon, a year after the Israel–Hezbollah ceasefire was agreed.
Israel has repeatedly struck Lebanon since a ceasefire last year, but Sunday’s Beirut attack was an escalation.

Pope Leo XIV has called on Israel and Hezbollah to abandon armed responses and seek dialogue following an Israeli strike
At least 13 civilians, including 11 children, were killed in the Israeli strike on Ein El-Hilweh camp.