INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
military fired on the headquarters of U.N
which has largely stayed on the sidelines of the conflict between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah and the U.N
peacekeeping mission in Lebanon raised alarm as Israel broadens its campaign against Hezbollah with waves of heavy airstrikes across the
country and a ground invasion at the border.In central Beirut, rescue workers combed Friday through the rubble of a collapsed building,
searching for survivors of an Israeli airstrike that killed at least 22 people and wounded dozens in the Lebanese capital the night
targets in Lebanon, killing more than 2,237 Lebanese including Hezbollah fighters, civilians and medical personnel according to the Lebanese
health ministry.Among them, the ministry reported late Friday, were a two-year-old and 16-year-old killed by airstrikes in the southern
village of Baysarieh.Hezbollah attacks have killed 29 civilians as well as 39 Israeli soldiers, both in northern Israel since October 2023,
and in southern Lebanon since Sept
30, when Israel launched its ground invasion.Israel strikes a Lebanese army checkpointOn Friday, the Lebanese army said an Israeli airstrike
hit a building near a military checkpoint in the southern Bint Jbeil province.The Israeli military said it had been targeting Hezbollah
positions in southern Lebanon when reports emerged that it had hit several Lebanese army soldiers
30, Lebanese soldiers withdrew some 5 kilometers (3 miles) from their observation posts along the border.The only direct clash between the
two national armies occurred on Oct
3, when Israeli tank fire hit a Lebanese army post also in the area of Bint Jbeil, killing a soldier and prompting Lebanese soldiers to
return fire.Both Lebanese troops and U.N
peacekeepers are deployed in southern Lebanon to enforce U.N
Hezbollah, and neither its soldiers nor the peacekeepers have been capable of preventing the Shiite militants from entrenching themselves in
Israel accuses Hezbollah of establishing militant infrastructure along the border in violation of the U.N
resolution.Israel hits U.N
peacekeepers again, wounding twoThe Israeli military opened fire near the U.N
the second time in as many days.An initial review by the Israeli army found that soldiers in southern Lebanon targeted what they believed to
be a threat located some 50 meters (yards) from the U.N
peacekeeping mission in Lebanon but ultimately struck the peacekeepers.One of the injured peacekeepers was hospitalized in the nearby city
of Tyre while the other received medical care on site, the United Nations force, known as UNIFIL, said
Both were identified as Sri Lankan.The army repeated its warning that UNIFIL personnel abandon their positions in areas where Hezbollah
militants launch rockets into Israel
explosions on Friday hit the same place they did the day before, when Israeli tank fire injured two Indonesian peacekeepers, damaged
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.The French foreign ministry accused Israel of deliberately firing at peacekeepers and summoned the
Israeli ambassador Friday in an official protest.In a call with his Israeli counterpart, U.S
was asking Israel to stop striking U.N
expanded its mission following the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war, allowing peacekeepers to patrol a buffer zone set up along the border.Beirut
residents left reeling from Israeli strikesFrom the Burj Abi Haidar neighborhood of central Beirut, civil defense workers dug through
The force of the explosion had flung his wife, Marwa Hamdan, against a wall and a piece of metal hit her in the head
strikes aimed to kill Wafiq Safa, a top security official with the group, but he was not in either targeted building at the time of the
The Israeli military had no comment on the reports.Another resident, Mohammed Tarhani, said he had moved in with his brother in Burj Abi
its rocket fire into Israel Friday, setting off air raid sirens just north of Tel Aviv
