Yahoo News Netanyahu says Israel "will stand alone" if it has to after threatened US arms holdup
JERUSALEM (AP) — Netanyahu says Israel "will stand alone" if it has to after threatened US arms holdup.
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The TelegraphHow Hezbollah turned Lebanon into a mafia state
Lokman Slim – intellectual, writer and Hezbollah critic – eased his frame into the front of the black Toyota hire car and pointed it in the direction of home.
- The Telegraph
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has been silent for months - now some Israelis believe he has been killed
In a windowless room, somewhere in the bowels of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) headquarters, Chief of Staff Lt Gen Herzi Halevi jabbed his index finger forward.
- PA Media: UK News
IDF threat to Unifil ‘outrageous’, Irish president says
It comes amid escalating tensions in the region.
- PA Media: UK News
Government backs police action against shows of support for Hezbollah
Tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched through London on Saturday.
- CNN
Yazidi woman captured by ISIS rescued in Gaza after more than a decade in captivity
A 21-year-old Yazidi woman has been rescued from Gaza where she had been held captive by Hamas for years after being trafficked by ISIS.
- The Telegraph
Russian drones hunt civilians in Kherson ‘safari’
It was a summer’s morning in Kherson. Tatiana and her 87-year-old father were making their way home after a food shop when she heard a sudden buzzing in the street.
- AFP
Macron criticises Israel on Gaza, Lebanon operations
French President Emmanuel Macron called Saturday for a halt on arms deliveries to Israel for use in Gaza, provoking a sharp response from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu."Yet, President Macron and other Western leaders are now calling for arms embargoes against Israel.
- Euronews
Ukraine says it killed Zaporizhzhia NPP security chief, branding him a 'collaborator'
The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, located in southern Ukraine, is the largest in Europe and prior to the 2022 Russian invasion, supplied Ukraine with around 30% of its electricity. It was seized by Russian forced in the early weeks of the war.
- PA Media: UK News
Arrests made as tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters gather in London
Officers have made 17 arrests so far, the Metropolitan Police said.
- AFP
Israel army says encircles Gaza's Jabaliya as Hamas rebuilds
The Israeli military said Sunday its forces surrounded the Jabaliya area of northern Gaza in response to indications that Hamas was rebuilding despite nearly a year of strikes and fighting.It cited intelligence suggesting the "presence of terrorists and terror infrastructure in the area of Jabaliya... as well as efforts by Hamas to rebuild its operational capabilities in the area".
- The Telegraph
Protesters march through London with ‘I love Hezbollah’ banners
Protesters brandishing banners in support of the terror group Hezbollah marched through central London on Saturday.
- The Guardian
‘I’ve aged 10 years in the past 10 days’: Australia’s Shia Muslims watch in horror as Lebanon bombarded
Sydney Shias reel at what they see as an invasion of their ancestral home as Sunnis decry the Australian political response
- CNN
‘Shocking,’ historic spike in anti-Jewish threats across the US, ADL says
Threats to Jews in the United States spiked over 200% in the one-year period since the deadly October 7th terrorist attack on Israel by Hamas, according to new data obtained by CNN from the Anti-Defamation League.
- Sky News
Met Police arrest 17 protesters during demonstrations over Middle East conflict
The Metropolitan Police say they have arrested 17 people during today's demonstrations over the conflict in the Middle East. Two sets of protests were held in the capital today, including one by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign and other groups, and a counter-protest organised by Stop the Hate. The Metropolitan Police say two people were arrested on suspicion of supporting a proscribed organisation.
- The Independent
Watch: Lebanese refugees fleeing Israeli strikes arrive in Turkey
Watch again as Lebanese people who fled their country out of fear for their safety amid Israel’s strikes arrived in southern Turkey on a ferry on Thursday, 3 October. It comes after Israel and Hezbollah, a group backed by Iran, clashed in intense ground battles in southern Lebanon for the first time in nearly two decades. Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed Iran “will pay” after it fired at least 180 ballistic missiles at Israel.
- Reuters
Israeli strikes batter Beirut in heaviest bombardment so far, witnesses say
BEIRUT/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli air attacks battered Beirut's southern suburbs overnight and early on Sunday, the most intense bombardment of the Lebanese capital since Israel sharply escalated its campaign against Iran-backed group Hezbollah last month. During the night, the blasts sent booms across Beirut and sparked flashes of red and white for nearly 30 minutes visible from several kilometres away. It was the single biggest attack of Israel's assault on Beirut so far, witnesses and military analysts on local TV channels said.
- The National
Pro-Palestine march calling for ceasefire organised this weekend in Scottish city
CAMPAIGNERS have called for an immediate ceasefire and for the UK Government to stop arm sales to Israel ahead of a protest in Edinburgh at the weekend ...
- PA Media: UK News
UK ‘in lockstep’ with global allies calling for Israeli restraint, says minister
Science and Technology Secretary Peter Kyle also said the UK was ‘on standby’ to remove British nationals from Lebanon.
- Associated Press
Lebanese worldwide fear for their homeland and loved ones as violence escalates
It was a year ago when Jomana Siddiqui visited Lebanon, where her father was born — and is now buried. Instead, Siddiqui, who lives in California, now worries about relatives there. As she watches from afar the violence and the recent escalation in Israel’s military campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon, Siddiqui thinks about the people she met during her visit, the kindness and generosity she encountered.
- Associated Press
Militants kill 6 Pakistani soldiers in a shootout
Militants killed six Pakistani soldiers in a shootout, the army said Saturday, the latest unrest in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan where armed groups including the Pakistani Taliban are active. It said six militants also were killed. The army said a separate operation killed two militants in Swat, also in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.