Death toll from Israeli strike on Beirut rises to 37, including 3 children and Hezbollah top commander

Two Hezbollah leaders were among those killed in an Israeli airstrike on a Beirut suburb , Israel&s military said Saturday, as Lebanon raised the death toll from the attack to 37, including women and children.

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Despite performative restraint in the Middle East, the broadening of war feels inevitable

For months, the refrain has been the same. Even as they backed Israel to the hilt, US officials repeatedly stressed that they didn&t want to see a wider war explode across the Jewish state&s northern border with Lebanon.

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Hezbollah official and 13 others killed in Israeli strike on Beirut

Israel launched an air strike that killed a senior Hezbollah military official in a densely populated Beirut neighborhood yesterday, the Israeli army said.

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At least nine killed and 60 wounded in Israeli strike on Beirut

An Israeli strike on Beirut killed at least nine people and wounded 60 others, Lebanese health officials said. The strike on Friday is the first Israeli attack on the Lebanese capital in months that came after Hezbollah pounded northern Israel with rockets.

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Hezbollah military commander killed as Israel bomb Beirut amid fears of war after pager attack injured thousands

The Israeli military has announced that its airstrike on a neighbourhood of Beirut killed Ibrahim Akil, a senior Hezbollah military official. There was no immediate confirmation of his death from Hezbollah.

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Israeli soldiers filmed pushing bodies of Palestinians off roof in West Bank

The Israeli military said on Friday it had opened an investigation after videos showed soldiers pushing what appear to be dead bodies off a roof in the occupied West Bank during a raid against Palestinian militants.

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