Yahoo News Air raid sirens sound at Tel Aviv's international airport shortly after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lands
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Air raid sirens sound at Tel Aviv's international airport shortly after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lands.
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Flip-flop-wearing IDF reservist shoots at Tel Aviv gunmen
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Israel says kills Palestinian involved in soldier murder
The Israeli military said a strike on Gaza on Thursday killed a Palestinian who had waved his blood-stained hands at a crowd after a deadly attack on Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank more than two decades ago.The widely shared footage -- one of the most well-known images from the start of the second Palestinian intifada, or uprising -- showed Salha standing in an upstairs window of the Ramallah police station, waving his blood-stained hands at a crowd.
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Israel strike suspected near Russian air base in Syria
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Eight Israeli soldiers killed in Lebanon invasion gun battle
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Hezbollah has not committed violence, Lebanese ambassador tells BBC
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Exclusive-Iran's Khamenei warned Nasrallah of Israeli plot to kill him, sources say
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned Hezbollah leader Syyed Hassan Nasrallah to flee Lebanon days before he was killed in an Israeli strike and is now deeply worried about Israeli infiltration of senior government ranks in Tehran, three Iranian sources said. In the immediate aftermath of the attack on Hezbollah's booby-trapped pagers on Sept. 17, Khamenei sent a message with an envoy to beseech the Hezbollah secretary general to leave for Iran, citing intelligence reports that suggested Israel had operatives within Hezbollah and was planning to kill him, one of the sources, a senior Iranian official, told Reuters.
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Macron condemns Iran's attacks, mobilises French military in Middle East
French President Emmanuel Macron has said he strongly condemns Iran's latest attacks on Israel, adding that France has mobilised military resources in the Middle East.In a statement released Wednesday, Macron reiterated France's demand that the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah cease its terrorist actions against Israel and its population. The French president also insited that Lebanon's sovereignty and territorial integrity be reinstated in strict compliance with United Nations Security Council
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Israel-Iran latest: Beirut rocked by huge explosions with blast close to airport as civilians flee
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Blasts, shooting around Israeli embassies in Nordic capitals
Police in Denmark and Sweden said on Wednesday they were probing explosions and gunfire around Israeli embassies in their capitals which took place amid spiralling Middle East tensions.In Denmark, police said three Swedish nationals had been arrested after two blasts, likely from hand grenades, in the "immediate proximity" of the Israeli embassy in Copenhagen early Wednesday.
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British fighter jets ‘played part’ in defending Israel from Iranian attack
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Israeli airstrike targeting central Beirut causes major damage
STORY: :: An Israeli airstrike targets a building in central Beirut causing severe damage:: October 3, 2024:: Beirut, Lebanon:: "On the borders, members of Hezbollah killed Israeli soldiers, but Israel comes and kills people here, where ever there is a building they damage it, this is what they are able to do."Some could be seen making their way through the rubble while assessing the damage, large piles of debris blocking their way. A few stethoscopes lay among the ruins.An unnamed resident said the building that had been hit was an “emergency center” that helped the community.Israel bombed Beirut early on Thursday, killing at least six people, after its forces suffered their deadliest day on the Lebanese front in a year of clashes with Iran-backed Hezbollah.More than 1,900 people have been killed and over 9,000 wounded in Lebanon in almost a year of cross-border fighting, with most of the deaths occurring in the past two weeks, according to Lebanese government statistics.
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Hezbollah losses strengthen Turkey against Iran: analysts
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October 7 music festival survivor, IDF reservist hailed as a ‘hero’ after confronting shooters in Tel Aviv attack
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