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Coalition lawmakers, in an effort led by an MK from Netanyahu's Likud party, called for the 'full occupation' of southern Lebanon up to the Litani River and urged the security cabinet to reject the IDF's plans to establish only a narrow security strip

• UN official says Israeli forces destroy 17 surveillance cameras linked agency’s office in Naqura • Indonesia receives bodies of three peacekeepers slain by Israel BEIRUT: Israel’s military renewed its strikes on the southern Lebanese city of Tyre on Saturday, severely damaging buildings and a major hospital, as international tensions escalated over the safety of United Nations peacekeepers caught in the crossfire. As Indonesia received the bodies of three of its UN peacekeepers killed while deployed in Lebanon, a UN security official told AFP that Israeli forces destroyed 17 surveillance cameras linked to the UNIFIL main headquarters in Naqura. The bodies of the three Indonesian men arrived in Jakarta on Saturday. Their flag-draped coffins were carried into an airport hall on the shoulders of uniformed comrades for a ceremony attended by President Prabowo Subianto. Family members wept over the coffins, each fronted by a photograph of the dead soldier in a gold frame. The fatalities occurred in two separate ...

With Trump's deadline set to expire, the U.S. is preparing for action on Iran, Israel's influence over Washington is waning and Iran has its own targets, too. Meanwhile, a quagmire with no exit strategy is emerging in Lebanon

Guy Ludar, 21, was killed in a friendly fire incident while arresting an operative linked to Hezbollah in south Lebanon. Another soldier was seriously wounded. With his death, the number of soldiers killed in Lebanon in the current war rose to 11

The officials added that a potential cease-fire in Iran should not be linked to a halt in fighting in Lebanon, which is expected to persist. The IDF aims to ensure that Hezbollah doesn't return to border villages, and whether it plans to raze all homes in the area remains unclear

The parents said that one goal of the current invasion is to divert Hezbollah's fire toward IDF troops in Lebanon and away from northern Israel's residents. Hezbollah said on Wednesday that more than half of its attacks targeted IDF soldiers in Lebanon

Israeli strikes killed 27 people in Lebanon on Thursday, wounding a further 105, the country's Health Ministry said. According to the ministry, Israeli fire has killed 1,345 in Lebanon since the beginning of the Iran war in late February, including 125 children

Without access to medical services, goods or family members remaining on the other side of the Litani River, residents in south Lebanon tell Haaretz of an isolated reality – and their fear that the situation will prolong indefinitely

The four soldiers were killed in a close-range fight with gunmen in southern Lebanon, according to the IDF. 'We waited for you at home, and you came back – but in a coffin,' said one of the soldiers' father

The four soldiers were killed in a close-range fight with gunmen in southern Lebanon, according to the IDF. The Israeli military also said that gunmen fired an anti-tank missile at forces evacuating the wounded soldiers

Iran's Foreign Ministry said its ambassador to Lebanon will remain in his post, effectively defying Beirut's decision to declare him persona non grata. 'Lebanon is in practise occupied by Iran,' Israeli foreign minister Gideon Sa'ar said in response

Entire neighborhoods have been destroyed, hospitals are being attacked, and more than a million people have been displaced - but international aid to Lebanon is more limited than ever, and residents are once again realizing that their situation is not being taken into account by leaders

Ben Zion is the sixth Israeli soldier killed in southern Lebanon since the conflict reignited after the November 2024 cease-fire collapsed, following a series of anti-tank and rocket attacks that have wounded others and prompted IDF strikes in the region

Social media users have accused the anti-Hezbollah MTV Lebanon channel of everything from clickbait to treason for promoting a video of an IDF soldier in southern Lebanon. 'The first Arab channel… promoting the Israeli occupation army,' one critic wrote

On Sunday, March 29, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the military to expand the “security zone” in southern Lebanon.

Moshe Yitzchak Hacohen Katz, 22, from New Haven, Connecticut, served in the Paratroopers Brigade. He is the fifth IDF soldier killed in southern Lebanon since Israel's war with Iran began

An Israeli strike killed three journalists on Saturday in south Lebanon, with authorities denouncing the attack as a “war crime”. Lebanese television news channel Al Manar said its reporter Ali Shoaib and reporter Fatima Ftouni, from Lebanese pan-Arab broadcaster Al Mayadeen, were killed when their vehicle was hit. Lebanon’s information minister, Paul Morcis, later said Ftouni’s brother, Mohammed, a cameraman, had also been killed. Al Mayadeen said that the Israeli airstrike “directly struck a vehicle clearly marked as a press car in which she and fellow journalists were travelling”. It added that Shoaib and Ftouni’s brother were also in the vehicle. “According to Al Mayadeen’s correspondent Jamal Ghourabi, Israel targeted Fatima’s vehicle with four precision missiles. After that, when ambulances arrived on the scene, paramedics were then targeted, leading to the martyrdom of one paramedic, reflecting an obvious attempt to assassinate press crews and even paramedics attempting to reach them,” the report said....

Four other soldiers were lightly wounded in the incident in which he was killed. Volansky is the fourth soldier killed in south Lebanon since the war with Iran began, and the third to be killed by anti-tank missiles

Staff Sergeant Ori Greenberg, 21, is the third soldier to be killed in southern Lebanon since the start of Israel's war with Iran. On Wednesday, a mortar shell severely wounded an IDF soldier in Lebanon, and a reservist was severely wounded by rocket fire

Lebanon's Health Ministry said Israeli strikes have killed 22 people in the country within the past 24 hours, adding that Israeli fire has killed 1,094 people in Lebanon since March 2. Israel reportedly struck the country's south more than 30 times on Wednesday