Israel hits Beirut and Tehran
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The killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in joint U.S.-Israeli strikes has sparked anger across Shiite communities worldwide and is raising fears of wider unrest. Protests have spread
As Israel intensifies its campaign against the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia, Lebanon is now teetering on the brink of being fully sucked into the escalating US and Israeli war on Iran – a fate the fragile Lebanese government has been desperate to avoid.
Israeli strike hits Hezbollah-aligned media building in Beirut’s southern suburbs following an evacuation warning.
Iranian drones struck the U.S. embassy in Saudi Arabia after previously hitting the mission in Kuwait. Washington responded by shutting both embassies and ordering non-emergency government personnel and their families to leave countries across the Middle East.
A commerical plane was filmed taking off from Beirut International Airport as Israel said it completed a “wave of strikes on Hezbollah command centers in Beirut” on March 3.The Israel Defense Forces
BEIRUT — Israel sent additional troops into southern Lebanon Tuesday and ordered residents of more than 80 villages to evacuate as the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group said it is ready for an open war, escalating the already volatile situation in the region.
The Israel Defense Forces launched retaliatory strikes on Beirut early March 2 after Hezbollah said it fired rockets and drones at a military base near Haifa in northern Israel. Hezbollah said the attack was in response to the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and framed it as defending Lebanon against continued Israeli aggression,
The American University of Beirut has long been a haven for cats abandoned in times if war or crisis, but in recent years the feline population has grown dramatically.
The State Department has ordered some staff in the U.S. Embassy in Beirut to begin to leave Lebanon, multiple sources familiar with the matter said.
An Israeli airstrike targeted the "Al-Manar" channel building in the Haret Hreik area of Beirut’s southern suburbs, following a prior warning issued by the Israeli army about the impending strike. A widely circulated photo showed black smoke rising from the site following the bombing.