Israel Not Killing Priests or Taking Over Southern Lebanon
“Israel is actively killing priests and taking over southern Lebanon despite cease-fire”
Summary
Israel has conducted airstrikes in southern Lebanon that have killed civilians, but there is no evidence of priests being killed. The conflict continues with exchanges of fire, yet Israel is not taking over southern Lebanon; the area remains contested and not under Israeli control. The claim of a cease‑fire being ignored by an Israeli takeover and priest killings is unsupported.
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- Israeli airstrikes kill 5 in southern Lebanon as Hezbollah rockets hit open areas in Israel | PBS News
On Friday, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun told a visiting delegation from the European Union that European countries should pressure Israel to commit to the ceasefire and abstain from "detonating and bulldozing " homes in villages under Israeli occupation.
- Israel | PBS News
Three Palestinian teenagers have been killed in the occupied West Bank this week in a spike of renewed violence, the latest shot dead by Israeli forces during a mid-week raid.
- Israeli airstrikes kill 5 in southern Lebanon as Hezbollah rockets hit open areas in Israel
On Friday, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun told a visiting delegation from the European Union that European countries should pressure Israel to commit to the ceasefire and abstain from “detonating and bulldozing ” homes in villages under Israeli occupation.
- Israel: Latest news and updates | NBC News
Drones killed an Israeli soldier in southern Lebanon and injured at least a dozen others in northern Israel on Thursday, two seriously.
- Trump Calls Iran Strikes a ‘Trifle,’ and the Latest on the Hantavirus Outbreak - The New York Times
The agreement has curbed the violence somewhat, but Israel and Hezbollah have been exchanging daily attacks in the southern part of the country. And this week, Israel launched an airstrike in the suburbs of Beirut. It hit an apartment building in a densely-populated area where Hezbollah holds sway. The Israeli military said it was targeting and killed a commander of the Iran-backed militia.
- From Gaza to Lebanon, videos posted by Israeli soldiers draw scrutiny and outrage | Arab News
DUBAI: Videos posted online by Israeli soldiers inside bomb-damaged homes and villages in southern Lebanon are drawing growing condemnation, reviving memories of similar footage that surfaced during Tel Aviv’s war on Gaza. The clips, many apparently filmed and uploaded by the soldiers themselves, ...
- Israel news, updates on the war with Hamas - breaking stories, video, analysis and opinion | CNN
View the latest news and videos, including politics and breaking news headlines on the Israel-Hamas war.
- Israel + News | The Guardian
Hangings are latest in wave of near-daily killings as authorities seek to instil fear amid war with US and Israel
- Human rights in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory Amnesty International
Israel continued to conduct almost daily air strikes on southern Lebanon, killing more than 127 civilians according to the OHCHR, the UN human rights office (see Lebanon entry).
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