Nadim Gemayel has organised a neighbourhood watch in Lebanon/ The sound of war is loud at night in Beirut’s eastern Achrafieh neighbourhood. Residents can hear Israeli air strikes hitting the Lebanese capital’s southern suburbs, known as Dahieh. Some can even see the explosions lighting up the ...
Israel's parliament voted on Monday evening to ban the UN's Palestinian refugee agency (Unrwa) from operating within Israel and occupied East Jerusalem. Contact between Unrwa employees and Israeli officials will be banned, crippling its ability to operate in Gaza and the Israeli-occupied West ...
Palestinian women walk past a UN vehicle at an Unrwa centre in Khan Younis/ People in war-torn Gaza are already struggling with a deep humanitarian crisis - but now they fear it will get much more difficult because of Israel’s ban on the biggest UN agency which operates there. “Unrwa means ...
File photo of Qassem at a memorial service for a senior Hezbollah commander in June/ Hezbollah has announced the group’s deputy secretary general will become its new head. Naim Qassem replaces long-term leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli air strike in Beirut last month. He is ...
At least 93 people are dead or missing after an Israeli air strike on the town of Beit Lahia in northern Gaza, the Hamas-run health ministry says. Rescuers said a five-storey residential building was hit, and videos on social media showed bodies covered in blankets on the floor. There has been ...
Sharmahd had told relatives he had been denied adequate healthcare while in custody/ Iran has executed German-Iranian dissident Jamshid Sharmahd, following his conviction for "leading terror operations", state media is reporting. Sharmahd was sentenced to death last year for "corruption on ...
The Bekaa Valley, seen here last week, is a Hezbollah stronghold/ At least 60 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on Lebanon's eastern Bekaa Valley, the Lebanese health ministry said. Two children were killed in the strikes on 12 areas in the Baalbek region, officials said. And 58 people ...
Israel has passed two laws banning the UN's Palestinian refugee agency (Unrwa) from operating in Israel, and in occupied areas under its control, by large majorities. A number of countries, including the US, the UK and Germany, have expressed serious concern about the move. Ahead of the vote, ...
Humanitarian organisations have been helping to move patients elsewhere after Israeli forces withdrew from Kamal Adwan hospital/ Only one doctor remains at Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital following a days-long Israeli raid, a spokesman for the Hamas-run health ministry has said. In a video ...
Satellite images analysed by BBC Verify show damage to a number of military sites in Iran from Israeli air strikes on Saturday. They include sites experts say were used for missile production and air defence, including one previously linked to Iran’s nuclear programme./ Satellite imagery ...
