Sunday, October 13, 2024

Netanyahu: UN must withdraw Lebanon peacekeepers, Hezbollah using them as human shield


Netanyahu: UN must withdraw Lebanon peacekeepers, Hezbollah using them as human shield




Lebanon’s Prime Minister condemns his Israeli counterpart’s call to UN chief Antonio Guterres to remove international peacekeepers from the Lebanese side of the border, where clashes between Hezbollah and Israeli troops have intensified.

Lebanon “condemns (Benjamin) Netanyahu’s position and the Israeli aggression against UNIFIL” peacekeepers, says Najib Mikati. “The warning that Netanyahu addressed to… Guterres demanding the removal of the UNIFIL represents a new chapter in the enemy’s approach of not complying with international” norms, he adds.

Some 25 soldiers said injured today in Lebanon, 2 of them seriously

Netanyahu says IDF dismantling ‘Hamas strongholds’ in north Gaza’s Jabaliya

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the military is pressing operations in northern Gaza’s Jabaliya.

“Our brave soldiers are now in the heart of Jabaliya, where they are dismantling the Hamas strongholds,” says Netanyahu in a video statement issued by his office.

The IDF recently launched a fresh ground offensive to prevent the terror group from reestablishing itself in north Gaza.

Funerals to be held in both Iran and Iraq for IRGC general killed alongside Nasrallah

IDF calls on residents of 21 more villages in south Lebanon to evacuate

The Israel Defense Forces call on civilian residents of 21 more villages in south Lebanon to evacuate to areas north of the Awali River amid intensified fighting against Hezbollah.

“The IDF has no intention of harming you. For your own safety, you must evacuate your homes immediately and move immediately to the north of the Awali River,” IDF Arabic-language spokesman Col. Avichay Adraee writes on X. “To ensure your own safety, you must evacuate without delay.”

“Anyone who is near Hezbollah operatives, facilities or weapons is putting their life in danger,” Adraee warns

Gantz blasts reported CBS News refusal to say Jerusalem is in Israel: ‘The eternal capital of the Jewish people’

National Unity leader Benny Gantz pushes back after employees at CBS News were reportedly told by a senior executive not to refer to Jerusalem as being in Israel.

“Jerusalem’s status is clear and undisputed – the eternal capital of the Jewish people,” Gantz writes on X. “It has been so for millennia, and will always remain so. No attempt to distort or hide that reality will change it.”

CBS News’ senior director of standards and practices, Mark Memmott, made the comment on the status of Jerusalem in an August email to staff on “controversial” terms, the Free Press newsletter reported last week.

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