Foreign Secretary David Lammy calls for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah after escalating tensions, urging both sides to step back from the brink of war following talks in Paris.
LISTEN: Israel has announced that the Hezbollah leaders killed in the Beirut strike were planning to murder and kidnap citizens in a 'similar manner' to October 7, edging the Middle East closer to the brink of all-out war.
People gather at the scene of an Israeli missile strike in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Friday, Sept. 20, 2024 Lebanese health authorities have so far only confirmed that eight people died in the attack, with 59 injured. The target in the strike was Hezbollah operations manager Ibrahim Aqil, Israeli media reports citing security sources
Israel has not commented on the blasts, but has stepped up its campaign against Hezbollah since they began on Tuesday, striking dozens of rocket launchers in southern Lebanon last night. The Iranian embassy in Lebanon condemned Israel's attack on Beirut's southern suburbs as 'Israeli madness that crossed all lines' by targeting residential buildings, it said in a post on X.
The group's leader Hassan Nasrallah said in an address yesterday that pager and walkie talkie bomb attacks 'could be called a declaration of war' - fuelling fears that a major conflict could erupt at any time. The Israeli military said today that 120 missiles were launched at areas of the Golan Heights, Safed and the Upper Galilee, some of which were intercepted.
Israel said previously that it struck hundreds of rocket launchers and other Hezbollah infrastructure on Thursday night. 'Additionally, the IDF struck Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure and a weapons storage facility in multiple areas in southern Lebanon.' In a direct response during his address on Thursday, Nasrallah said Israelis displaced from their homes near the Lebanon border because of the fighting would not be able to return until the war in Gaza ends.
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