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A view across the demarcation into Metula, Israel as seen from the Lebanese side of the demarcation line. But a Lebanese source familiar with the matter ruled this out. Hezbollah may only be compelled to join an Iranian war effort if the strike leads to further escalation, the same Lebanese source said. It provided a glimpse of how Hezbollah might attempt to overwhelm Israel’s defensive systems as Iran conducts its expected attack. From one of Spain’s bases near the demarcation line, there is a clear view of a microcosm of Lebanon’s long-standing border issues with Israel.

Persons: Kafr, Lebanon CNN —, ”, Juan Garcia Martinez, Charbel Mallo, —, Mohammad Reza Zahidi, “, Ali Khamenei, Sina Toosi, Yemen’s Houthis, ” Nasrallah, Israel –, Mallo, CNN Hezbollah’s, Hector Alonso, CNN’s MJ Lee, Natasha Bertrand, Zeena Saifi, Oren Liebermann Organizations: Lebanon CNN, CNN, UN, United Nations, Iran’s, Center for International, Hezbollah, Spanish UNIFIL, Israel Locations: Kafr Kila, Lebanon, Galilee, Spanish, Israel, Metula, Lebanese, Iran, Damascus, UNIFIL, Iranian, Gaza, Ghajar, Syrian, al

☆ Syria Blames Israel for Deadly Airstrike in Damascus
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-21 | by ( Adam Sella | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Syrian state media reported on Wednesday that an airstrike on a residential building in Damascus had killed two people, and said that Israel was responsible for the attack. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the war in Syria, said that a third person had been killed by shrapnel from the attack, which also damaged surrounding buildings. A strike last February in the same neighborhood killed at least five people. At the time, a senior Western diplomat said the strike was targeting Iranians near a site used by the Iranian military. While Israel did not comment on the latest attack, it has acknowledged hundreds of past strikes on Iran-linked targets in Syria.

Persons: Israel Organizations: Syrian, Human Rights Locations: Damascus, Kafr Sousa, Britain, Syria, Western, Israel, Iran

When the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) shut all access to Gaza following Hamas’ deadly attack last Saturday, these men became stuck. Ismail Abd Almagid’s wife and five children – four girls and one boy – are in Gaza while he is staying in the refugee camp. When Abd Almagid got his permit to work in Israel in October last year, it felt like winning the lottery. Many of the men at the Dheisheh refugee camp are in the same situation – they are the only members of their families to have a job. A view of the Deheisheh refugee camp in the West Bank.

Persons: –, Khan Younis, Ismail Abd Almagid’s, Misk, Tala, ’, ”, Abd Almagid, “ I’d, that’s, ” Ismail Abd Almagid, Ivana Kottasova, “, they’d, Marwan Saqer, Dheisheh, ” Saqer Organizations: West Bank CNN, West Bank, Israel Defense Forces, CNN, IDF, Palestinian Ministry of Health, United Nations, CNN Sunday, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Israel, Gazans, Palestinian Authority, UN’s, Works Agency for Palestine Refugees Locations: Gaza, Israel, Khan, Egypt, Kafr Qassem, Tel Aviv, Bethlehem, Jerusalem

☆ Egyptian Opposition Candidate Ends Campaign for Presidential Poll
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-13 | by ( Oct. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +2 min

In order to stand in the presidential vote, candidates were required to collect endorsements from 25,000 members of the public across 15 governorates, or from 20 sitting members of parliament, by Oct. 14. The campaign for Tantawy, who has 2 million followers on Facebook, said he had been able to gather 14,116 endorsements, including just 54 in his home city of Kafr El Shaikh. Sisi, a former army chief, was elected in 2014 and 2018 with 97% of the vote. In 2019 the constitution was amended to allow him to stand for a third term. (Reporting by Farah Saafan; Writing by Aidan Lewis; editing by Grant McCool)

Persons: Abdel Fattah al, Ahmed el, Sisi, Tantawy's, Tantawy, Kafr El Shaikh, Tantawi, Farah Saafan, Aidan Lewis, Grant McCool Organizations: Authority, Facebook Locations: CAIRO, Kafr El, Cairo

☆ Live updates: Israel says it is 'at war' after Hamas surprise attack
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-08 | by ( Tara Subramaniam | Andrew Raine | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

The United Nations peacekeeping mission in south Lebanon said their peacekeepers remain in position even after an exchange of fire between Hezbollah and Israel earlier Sunday. “Early this morning, UNIFIL peacekeepers detected several rockets fired from southeast Lebanon toward Israeli-occupied territory in the general area of Kafr Chouba, and artillery fire from Israel to Lebanon in response," United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said on X, formerly Twitter. Our peacekeepers remain in their positions and on task. UNIFIL said they're available to help de-escalate the situation. “We urge everyone to exercise restraint and make use of UNIFIL’s liaison and coordination mechanisms to de-escalate to prevent a fast deterioration of the security situation”, it added.

Organizations: United Nations, United Nations Interim Force, UNIFIL Locations: Lebanon, Israel, Kafr Chouba

☆ Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian Fighter in Northern West Bank Raid
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-22 | by ( Sept. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +2 min

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian militant during a raid in the occupied West Bank on Friday, the seventh person killed this week as President Mahmoud Abbas sought to revive statehood talks amid efforts to further integrate Israel into the Middle East. In a statement, they said he was shot while confronting Israeli soldiers who raided the village of Kafr Dan near the northern West Bank city of Jenin. The Israeli military said soldiers opened fire at suspects who shot at and hurled an explosive device at its forces during a weapons search operation in Kafr Dan. Violence in the West Bank violence has surged for over a year, with stepped up Israeli military raids, increased settler assaults on Palestinian villages and a spate of Palestinian attacks targeting Israelis. Israel occupied the West Bank, which Palestinians want as the core of an independent state, in a 1967 Middle East war.

Persons: Mahmoud Abbas, Kafr Dan, Benjamin Netanyahu's, Joe Biden, Netanyahu, Abbas, Ali Sawafta, Henriette Chacar, James Mackenzie, Christina Fincher Organizations: West Bank, Reuters, Islamic, Defense, Children International, U.S, United Nations General Assembly, UN Locations: RAMALLAH, West, Palestinian, Israel, Kafr, West Bank, Jenin, Kafr Dan, Palestine, New York, Saudi Arabia

☆ Palestinian gunman opens fire at Israeli checkpoint and is shot dead, police say
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-24 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

RAMALLAH, West Bank, June 24 (Reuters) - A Palestinian militant opened fire at an Israeli checkpoint in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, wounding a security guard before he was shot dead by forces at the scene, Israel's police said. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, an armed group associated with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party, claimed the gunman as a member. Police distributed a photo of an M-16 rifle they said was used by the gunman to carry out the shooting. Violence surged this week in the West Bank, where for over a year the military has conducted regular sweeps leading to repeated clashes with Palestinian fighters amid a spate of Palestinian street attacks on Israelis. The past few days saw deadly clashes in the city of Jenin, a fatal Palestinian shooting attack near a settlement, attacks on Palestinian villages by settlers and a rare Israeli air strike in the West Bank against militants.

Persons: Israel's, Mahmoud Abbas, Fatah, WAFA, Jake Sullivan, Maayan Lubell, Ali Sawafta, William Mallard, Toby Chopra Organizations: West Bank, Martyrs Brigade, Palestinian, Police, White House, Thomson Locations: RAMALLAH, West, Palestinian, Kafr Aqab, Jenin, Israel, East Jerusalem, Gaza, Jerusalem, Ramallah

☆ One tourist killed, five injured in Tel Aviv attack -officials
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-07 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/4] Israeli officials work at the scene of a shooting attack in Tel Aviv, Israel April 7, 2023. REUTERS/Nir EliasTEL AVIV, April 7 (Reuters) - One tourist was killed and five others were wounded in a Tel Aviv car ramming attack on Friday, Israeli authorities said. A police officer who was nearby arrived at the scene to find several people wounded and an overturned car near a popular Tel Aviv promenade. The nationality of the tourist who was killed in Tel Aviv was not yet known. Israel's Magen David Adom ambulance service said all the victims in the Tel Aviv attack were tourists.

☆ One tourist killed, five injured in Tel Aviv attack
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-07 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

TEL AVIV, April 7 (Reuters) - An Italian tourist was killed and five other tourists were wounded in a Tel Aviv car ramming attack on Friday, Israeli and Italian officials said. A police officer who was nearby arrived at the scene to find several people wounded and an overturned car near a popular Tel Aviv promenade. [1/4] Israeli officials work at the scene of a shooting attack in Tel Aviv, Israel April 7, 2023. REUTERS/Nir Elias 1 2 3 4It was the second deadly attack on Friday, after two Israeli sisters were killed when their car was shot up in the occupied West Bank. Israel's Magen David Adom ambulance service said all the victims in the Tel Aviv attack were tourists.

[1/2] Police officers stand amid the rubble of a damaged building at the site of a rocket attack in the Kafr Sousa neighbourhood of central Damascus, Syria, February 19, 2023. Its support for Damascus and the Lebanese group Hezbollah has drawn regular Israeli air strikes meant to curb Tehran's extraterritorial military power. A source close to the Syrian government with knowledge of Sunday's strike and its target said it hit a gathering of Syrian and Iranian technical experts in drone manufacturing, though he said no top-level Iranian was killed. "The strike hit the centre where they were meeting as well as an apartment in a residential building. On Sunday, the Iranian Foreign Ministry condemned what it described as attacks on "residential buildings in Damascus which killed and maimed innocent Syrian citizens".

☆ Quake deals new blow to Syrian medics after years of war
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-21 | by ( Khalil Ashawi | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

AL-DANA, Syria, Feb 21 (Reuters) - As a nurse working near the frontlines of the Syrian war, Ibrahim Zeidan endured many desperate moments including when shelling destroyed a hospital, leaving him trapped by rubble. But he says an earthquake which hit the region on Feb. 6 has proved the most difficult challenge yet for medics in the rebel-held region, overwhelming health facilities already battered by more than a decade of conflict. The night of the disaster, Zeidan oversaw the evacuation of infants from the hospital where he was working in the town of al-Dana. CCTV footage from the hospital showed masonry falling and equipment shaking as the quake struck. Zeidan previously worked at a hospital that operated out of a cave in the Kafr Zeita region of the rebel-held northwest.

☆ Russia condemns Israeli strike on Damascus
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-19 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/2] Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova listens during the annual news conference of Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (not pictured) in Moscow, Russia January 18, 2023. REUTERS/Shamil ZhumatovFeb 19 (Reuters) - Russia's Foreign Ministry on Sunday said that it strongly condemned an Israeli air strike on the Syrian city of Damascus and its surroundings, calling it a "flagrant violation" of international law. "We strongly urge the Israeli side to stop armed provocations against the Syrian Arab Republic and refrain from steps that are fraught with dangerous consequences for the entire region," spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. Witnesses and officials said an Israeli rocket strike early on Sunday hit a building in central Damascus's Kafr Sousa neighbourhood near a large, heavily guarded security complex close to Iranian installations, killing five people. Reporting by Reuters Editing by David GoodmanOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Israeli missile strikes building in central Damascus, several casualties
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-18 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

AMMAN, Feb 19 (Reuters) - An Israeli rocket strike hit a building in the Kafr Sousa neighborhood of central Damascus early on Sunday, near a large security complex close to Iranian installations, witnesses and an official source said. The strike damaged several buildings in the densely populated district close to Omayyad square in the heart of the capital, where multi-storey security buildings are located within residential areas. A police official said on state media that there were several casualties and injured. An Israeli military spokesperson declined comment. For almost a decade, Israel has been carrying out air strikes against suspected Iranian-sponsored weapons transfers and personnel deployments in next-door Syria.

☆ Two Palestinians killed in West Bank raids, Palestinians say
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-02 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/3] Israeli forces demolish the home of Palestinian assailant Ahmad Aabed in Kafr Dan village near Jenin in the Israeli-occupied West Bank January 2, 2023. REUTERS/Raneen SawaftaJERUSALEM, Jan 2 (Reuters) - Two Palestinians, including a 17-year-old, were shot dead during clashes with the Israeli military near the occupied West Bank city of Jenin early on Monday, Palestinian sources said. A statement from the Israeli military confirmed soldiers were operating in the area in order to demolish the home of assailants Israel says were involved in the killing of an Israeli soldier last year. Last year saw the worst levels of violence in the West Bank in more than a decade, much of it concentrated around Nablus and the nearby city of Jenin, with at least 150 Palestinians and more than 20 Israelis killed. Reporting by Emily Rose and Ali Sawafta; Editing by Bradley PerrettOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Turkish troops deploy in Syrian town to halt inter-rebel fighting
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Suleiman Al-Khalidi | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

AMMAN, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Turkish troops deployed on Tuesday in an area in northwestern Syria to try to halt fighting between rival rebel factions opposed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, witnesses and rebel forces said. HTS forces should be withdrawn from the area immediately," the U.S. Embassy in Damascus said. Turkey's large military presence, with thousands of troops stationed in a string of bases in northwest Syria, had held back Russian-backed Syrian forces from seizing the rebel-held area. A senior official in the coalition fighting HTS said they had reinforced positions around the city to repel any attempt by the jihadists to take it over. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by Suleiman Al-Khalidi; Editing by Angus MacSwanOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Calm returns to Syria rebel enclave after deadly internecine fighting
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-16 | by ( Suleiman Al-Khalidi | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

"In the latest battles after its control of Afrin, HTS now has a large security role compared to what it had. Turkey is the leading backer of mainstream rebel factions. Its strong military presence in northwest Syria has held back Russia and Damascus from seizing the remaining opposition area. Turkey had stepped up its intervention to end the fighting that left scores killed, a senior rebel commander who requested anonymity said. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by Suleiman Al-Khalidi; Editing by Will DunhamOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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