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Israeli strike kills 4 civilians in southern Lebanon, state media says

Lebanese state media and the town’s municipality report that an Israeli airstrike in the town of Mays al Jabal in south Lebanon has killed four civilians and wounded several others.

Samir Geagea, leader of the Christian Lebanese Forces party, gestures as he speaks during an interview with the Associated Press, in Maarab east of Beirut, Tuesday, April 30, 2024. Geagea blasted the Shiite militant group Hezbollah for opening a front with Israel to back up its ally Hamas, saying it has harmed Lebanon without making a dent in Israel's crushing offensive in the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanese Christian leader says Hezbollah’s fighting with Israel has harmed Lebanon

French Foreign Minister Stephane Sejourne, left, speaks with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri during their meeting in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, April 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Top French diplomat arrives in Lebanon in attempt to broker a halt to Hezbollah-Israel clashes

Municipal police officers patrol outside a villa where the Lebanese money changer Mohammad Srour, 57, was found tortured and killed in Monte Verdi neighbourhood of Beit Meri, Lebanon, Tuesday, April 16, 2024. Lebanon’s interior minister alleged Wednesday that the mysterious abduction and killing of a Hezbollah-linked Lebanese financier in a villa on the edge of a quiet mountain resort town earlier this month was likely the work of Israeli operatives. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Lebanon says Israeli agents likely killed Hezbollah-linked currency exchanger near Beirut

An anti-war advertising poster with Arabic words that read: Lebanon doesn't want the war," appears on a street in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, March 26, 2024. A war of words that has unfolded in Lebanon show longstanding schisms in the small country over Hezbollah, now amplified by the militant group's role in the Lebanon-Israel border clashes and by fears that an already crisis-hit Lebanon could be dragged into an all-out war.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

A Lebanese nun’s request to pray for Hezbollah fighters highlights schisms over the group’s weapons

Top French diplomat visits Lebanon in attempt to broker a halt to Hezbollah-Israel clashes

French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné arrived in Lebanon Sunday as part of ongoing diplomatic attempts to broker a de-escalation in the ongoing conflict on the Lebanon-Israel border. (AP video by Ali Sharafeddine)

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Israeli military releases video said to show strikes on several Hezbollah targets in Lebanon

Israeli drone strike on car kills Hezbollah commander in South Lebanon

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Hezbollah fires heavy rockets at northern Israel after deadliest day of Israeli strikes on Lebanon

The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has fired rockets with heavy warheads at towns in northern Israel.

Paramedic workers search for victims in the rubble of a paramedic center that was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike early Wednesday in Hebbariye village, south Lebanon, Wednesday, March 27, 2024. The Israeli airstrike on a paramedic center linked to a Lebanese Sunni Muslim group killed several people of its members. The strike was one of the deadliest single attacks since violence erupted along the Lebanon-Israel border more than five months ago. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

Israeli strikes in Lebanon kill 16, militant rockets kill 1 Israeli as cross-border violence soars

Lebanon’s state news agency says Israeli airstrikes killed nine people in southern Lebanon, including paramedics who were preparing to respond to the first strike.

The Secretary-General of the Islamic Group Sheikh Mohammed Takkoush, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, March 26, 2024. Takkoush allied with Hamas and Hezbollah said Tuesday they are closely coordinating with both groups along the southern border with Israel where they have claimed responsibility for several attacks over the past months. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanese Sunni militant group head says coordination with Shiite Hezbollah is vital to fight Israel

The head of a Lebanese Sunni political and militant group that has joined the Shiite militant group Hezbollah in its fight against Israel on Lebanon’s border says the conflict has helped strengthen cooperation between the two groups.

Senior Hezbollah security official makes rare visit to UAE to discuss detained Lebanese

A senior official with Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group has made a rare visit to the United Arab Emirates to discuss the case of a dozen Lebanese citizens detained in the oil-rich nation over alleged links to the Lebanese group.

Israeli flags decorate rooms of Israelis who evacuated from cities and towns along the border with Lebanon, in kibbutz Ginosar hotel, northern Israel, Tuesday, March 5, 2024. Around 60,000 Israelis who evacuated from cities and towns along the border with Lebanon are grappling with the question of when they will be able to return home. Hezbollah began launching rockets towards Israel one day after Hamas-led militants stormed into southern Israel on Oct. 7. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israelis evacuated from the Lebanese border wonder if they’ll ever return

Around 60,000 Israelis who evacuated from cities and towns along the border with Lebanon are grappling with the question of when they will be able to return home.

FILE- The U.S. Treasury Department building is shown at dusk in Washington on June 6, 2019. A top U.S. Treasury official visiting Beirut pressed Lebanese authorities to prevent funds from being funneled to Hamas by way of Lebanon, officials said. Jesse Baker, deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury for Asia and the Middle East in the Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes, met with Lebanese politicians and officials from the financial sector Thursday March 7 and Friday, March 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

US Treasury official pushes Lebanon to halt the flow of funding to Hamas

A top U.S. Treasury official has pressed Lebanese authorities to prevent funds from being funneled to Hamas by way of Lebanon during a visit to Beirut.

Israeli strikes kill 7 Hezbollah members in south Lebanon

Lebanese officials and media say an Israeli drone strike hit a car in south Lebanon and killed three Hezbollah members.

A Lebanese army vehicle block a road leading to a destroyed warehouse, background, which was attacked by Israeli airstrikes, on the outskirts of the Hezbollah stronghold village of Buday, near Baalbek town, east Lebanon, Monday, Feb. 26, 2024. The Israeli military says its air force struck targets of the militant Hezbollah group "deep inside Lebanon," where residents reported explosions near the northeastern city of Baalbek. (AP Photo)

Israel’s air force strikes deep inside Lebanon, killing 2 people, after Hezbollah downs a drone

The Israeli military says its air force has struck targets of the militant Hezbollah group deep inside Lebanon. At least two Hezbollah members were killed.

Israeli female paramedic soldiers take cover from the wind made by a landing military helicopter during an exercise simulating evacuation of wounded people in northern Israel, near the border with Lebanon, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel vows to target Lebanon’s Hezbollah even if cease-fire reached with Hamas in Gaza

Israel’s defense minister vowed to step up attacks on Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group even if a cease-fire is reached with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Amal Atwi, the mother of Hussein Jalal Mohsin, who was killed in an Israeli strike last night, mourns during his funeral procession in Qantara village, south Lebanon, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. The civilian death toll from two Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon has risen to 10, Lebanese state media reported Thursday, making the previous day the deadliest in more than four months of cross-border exchanges. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

Israeli airstrikes killed 10 Lebanese civilians in a single day. Hezbollah has vowed to retaliate

Lebanon’s state-run news agency says the civilian death toll from two Israeli strikes in Lebanon the day before has now risen to 10, making it the single deadliest day in more than four months of near-daily cross-border exchanges.

An Israeli medical team evacuate a person injured by a rocket fired from Lebanon, at Ziv hospital in Safed, northern Israel, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024. Israeli media reported 1 killed and eight wounded in the rocket attack. The town, which is around 12 kilometers (7 miles) from the border is farther south than most of the daily border skirmishes with Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group. (AP Photo/Gil Eliyahu)

A look at the arsenals of Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia as cross-border strikes escalate

The slow-simmering cross-border conflict between Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group and Israeli forces has escalated, reviving fears that the daily clashes could expand into an all-out war.

French Foreign Minister Stephane Sejourne, left, meets with Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024. Sejourne arrived in Beirut earlier in the day on an official visit to discuss the situation in the Middle East and tensions along the Lebanon-Israel border. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Efforts intensify to bring calm to the Lebanon-Israel border in parallel with Gaza cease-fire talks

Lebanese politicians told The Associated Press that foreign diplomats have put forward proposals to bring calm to the volatile Lebanon-Israel border, in parallel with the ongoing Gaza cease-fire negotiations.

Spanish U.N. peacekeepers stand on a hill overlooking the Lebanese border villages with Israel in Marjayoun town on Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Israel and Lebanon are prepping for a war neither wants, but many fear it’s becoming inevitable

The prospect of a full-scale war between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia terrifies people on both sides of the border, but some see it as an inevitable fallout from Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza.

A Lebanese army officer stands next of a destroyed car in the southern town of Bazouriyeh, Lebanon, Saturday, Jan. 20, 2024. An Israeli drone strike on the car near the Lebanese southern port city of Tyre killed two people, the state-run National News Agency reported. (AP Photo/Mohammad Zaatari)

Strike kills Hezbollah fighter, civilian in Lebanon, amid seeming Israeli shift to targeted killings

Lebanese state media and health officials say an Israeli airstrike has hit two vehicles near a Lebanese army checkpoint in south Lebanon.

Mourners carry the coffin of senior Hezbollah commander Wissam Tawil during his funeral procession in the village of Khirbet Selm, south Lebanon, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024. The elite Hezbollah commander who was killed in an Israeli airstrike Monday in southern Lebanon fought for the group for decades and took part in some of its biggest battles. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Hezbollah launches drone strike on base in northern Israel but military says there’s no damage

Hezbollah says it launched a drone strike at the Israeli army’s northern headquarters in retaliation for recent strikes in Lebanon that killed top Hamas and Hezbollah officials.

This undated picture released by Hezbollah Military Media, shows senior Hezbollah commander Wissam Tawil, left, who was killed in Kherbet Selem village, south Lebanon, on Monday, Jan. 8, 2024, sitting next of slain Iran's Quds force General Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in Baghdad by a U.S. drone strike in January 2020. An Israeli airstrike killed Tawil, who is an elite Hezbollah commander in southern Lebanon, the latest in an escalating exchange of strikes along the border that have raised fears of another Mideast war even as the fighting in Gaza exacts a mounting toll on civilians.(Hezbollah Military Media, via AP)

Slain Hezbollah commander fought in some of the group’s biggest battles, had close ties to leaders

The elite Hezbollah commander who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon fought for the militant group for decades and took part in some of its biggest battles.

In this picture released by Hezbollah Military Media, shows senior Hezbollah commander Wissam Tawil who was killed in Kherbet Selem village, South Lebanon, on Monday, Jan. 8, 2024. Tawil a senior Hezbollah commander was killed in an Israeli airstrike that hit his car in southern Lebanon, a security official told The Associated Press. (Hezbollah Military Media, via AP )

Israeli strike kills an elite Hezbollah commander in the latest escalation linked to the war in Gaza

Hezbollah identified the slain fighter as Wissam al-Tawil. He is the most senior Hezbollah militant to have been killed since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack into southern Israel.

A Hezbollah supporter passes next to a portrait that shows top Hamas official Saleh Arouri who was killed Tuesday in Beirut by apparent Israeli strike, during a ceremony to mark the fourth anniversary of the assassination of slain Iran's Quds force General Qassem Soleimani assassination, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

With each strike, fears grow that Israel, the US and Iran’s allies are inching closer to all-out war

In the last week alone, an Israeli airstrike has killed a Hezbollah commander in Lebanon, Hezbollah struck a sensitive Israeli base with rockets and Israel killed a senior Hamas militant with an airstrike in Beirut.

FILE - Planes are grounded due to the coronavirus pandemic at the Rafik Hariri International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon, on March 19, 2020. The information display screens at Beirut’s international airport have been hacked by domestic anti-Hezbollah groups, as clashes between the Lebanese militant group and the Israeli military continue to intensify along the border. Departure and arrival information Sunday was replaced by a message accusing the Hezbollah group of putting Lebanon at risk of an all-out war with Israel. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

Lebanon airport screens display anti-Hezbollah message after being hacked

The information display screens at Beirut’s international airport have been hacked by domestic anti-Hezbollah groups, as clashes between the Lebanese militant group and the Israeli military continue to intensify along the border.

Smoke rises following an Israeli bombardment in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Sunday, Jan.7, 2024. The army is battling Palestinian militants across Gaza in the war ignited by Hamas' Oct. 7 attack on Israel. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Israel says Hezbollah struck a sensitive air traffic base in the north and warns of ‘another war’

The increase in fighting across the border with Lebanon as Israel battles Hamas militants in Gaza gave new urgency to U.S. diplomatic efforts as Antony Blinken prepared to visit Israel on his latest Mideast tour.

Smoke rises after an Israeli strike in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammed Dahman)

Hezbollah, Israel trade heavy cross-border fire as Blinken seeks to prevent regional escalation

Israel and Lebanon-based Hezbollah have traded fire in one of the heaviest days of cross-border fighting in recent weeks.

Palestinian demonstrators wave Hamas and their national flags during a protest against the killing of top Hamas official Saleh Arouri in Beirut, in the West Bank town of Arura, on Friday, Jan. 5, 2024. Arouri, the No. 2 figure in Hamas, was killed in an explosion blamed on Israel. He is the highest-ranked Hamas figure to be killed in the nearly three-month war between Israel and Hamas. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Hezbollah leader says his group must retaliate for suspected Israeli strike in Beirut

The leader of the Lebanese militia Hezbollah says his group must retaliate after a presumed Israeli strike hit a Beirut neighborhood this week, killing a senior Hamas official.

Sheik Naim Kassem, Hezbollah's deputy leader speaks during a memorial of a Hezbollah fighter who killed few days ago in South Lebanon by an Israeli airstrike, in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Dec. 28, 2023. Israeli officials are stepping up threats against Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group, warning that Israel is running out of patience as the two sides continue to trade fire along Israel's volatile northern border. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

As Gaza war grinds on, tensions soar along Israel’s volatile northern border with Lebanon

Israeli officials are stepping up threats against the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. They warn that Israel is running out of patience as the two sides continue to trade fire along Israel’s volatile northern border.

Indictment against high-ranking Hezbollah figure says he helped plan deadly 1994 Argentina bombing

A high-ranking member of Hezbollah’s Islamic Jihad Organization has been charged in a New York federal court with terrorism offenses, though he remains at large.

French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna, speaks during a press conference at the Pine Palace, which is the residence of the French ambassador, in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Dec. 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

France urges Lebanese leaders to work on bringing calm along the border with Israel

France’s foreign minister is urging Lebanese leaders to work on reducing tensions along the border with Israel, warning that the raging Israel-Hamas war, now in its third month, could spread to other parts of the region.

Hussein, brother of Hezbollah fighter Ali Hassan al-Atat, who was killed by an Israeli strike, lies on top of his brother's coffin during his funeral procession in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, Lebanon, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

US national security adviser says a negotiated outcome is the best way to end Lebanon-Israel tension

U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan says he has discussed with Israeli officials the volatile situation along the Lebanon-Israel border.

U.N. peacekeepers patrol next to a damage house in the Lebanese side of the Lebanese-Israeli border in the southern village of Marwahin, Lebanon, Saturday, Nov. 25, 2023. With a cautious calm prevailing over the border area in south Lebanon Saturday, the second day of a four-day cease-fire between Hamas and Israel, villages that had emptied of their residents came back to life at least briefly. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Hezbollah and Israeli troops exchange fire along the border as 2 people are killed in Lebanon

Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group has attacked several Israeli army posts along the border. And two Lebanese citizens were killed when Israel shelled a village in southern Lebanon.

Ali, son of Abbas Mohammed Raad, the son of the head of Hezbollah's parliamentary bloc, Mohammed Raad, who was killed by an Israeli strike, lies on top of his father's coffin during his funeral procession in the southern town of Jbaa, Lebanon, Thursday, Nov. 23, 2023. The militant Hezbollah group fired more than 50 rockets at military posts in northern Israel on Thursday, a day after an Israeli airstrike on a home in southern Lebanon killed five of the group's senior fighters. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Hezbollah fires rockets at north Israel after an airstrike kills 5 of the group’s senior fighters

The militant Hezbollah group has fired more than 50 rockets at military posts in northern Israel. The waves of rockets sent over the border represented one of the most intense bombardments since Hezbollah started attacking Israeli posts in the country’s north at the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war

Israeli drone fires missiles at aluminum plant in south Lebanon

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency says an Israeli drone has fired two missiles at an aluminum plant outside the market town of Nabatiyeh, causing a fire and wide damage.

Supporters of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah group raise their fists in salute as they listen to a speech by Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah via video link, during a ceremony marking the "Hezbollah Martyr Day," in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, Lebanon, Saturday, Nov. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Hezbollah says it is introducing new weapons in ongoing battles with Israeli troops

The leader of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group says his fighters have introduced new weapons including a missile with a heavy warhead in the ongoing fighting along the Lebanon-Israel border.