INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Flares were repeatedly launched over the Lebanese border town of Rmeish, lighting up the night sky.On Monday, Israeli Defence Minister Yoav
would support the aim of bringing home Israelis who have fled Hezbollah rockets during nearly a year of border warfare.The ground invasion
represents an escalating conflict in the Middle East between Israel and Iran-backed militants, sparked by an assault on Israel by
Palestinian militant group Hamas on October 7, 2023, that now threatens to suck in the US and Iran
military wing, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, according to two Palestinian security officials.The strike hit a building in the crowded Ain
al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp near the southern city of Sidon, the sources said
broke out nearly a year ago.In Syria, three civilians were killed and nine others injured in an Israeli airstrike on the capital Damascus,
Syrian state media said on Tuesday citing a military source
and took about 250 hostage in its assault on Israel, according to Israeli tallies
Israel in response launched a massive assault on Hamas in Gaza, reducing most of the Palestinian territory to rubble, displacing most of its
invasion into Lebanon follows its deadly detonation of booby-trapped Hezbollah pagers, two weeks of airstrikes, and its killing on Friday of
Hezbollah head Hassan Nasrallah, which dealt the group one of the heaviest blows in decades.The intensive air strikes have eliminated
several Hezbollah commanders but also killed about 1,000 civilians and forced one million to flee their homes, according to the Lebanese
A Reuters reporter witnessed a flash of light and a series of loud blasts about an hour after the Israeli military warned residents to
evacuate areas near buildings it said contained Hezbollah infrastructure south of the Lebanese capital.In the past 24 hours, at least 95
health ministry said early on Tuesday
with Israel, and in the last year of hostilities has not fired on the Israeli military.The White House and the US State Department did not
Israeli plans for a cross-border incursion
