Middle East

“They will not understand what happened and how it happened, they will see the results,” Gallant said. Elsewhere in the Middle East region, fighting has continued between Hezbollah and Israel, with four people killed in an Israeli air strike on a Lebanese village near the southern city of Sidon. In …

Hezbollah can still rely on staunch support in the neighbourhoods where it is the dominant force in political and social life, and among the Shia communities of mixed areas. Several Shia residents of the Mar Elias neighbourhood said they stood completely behind the group. “We are all Hezbollah here, whatever …

The Israeli military says it is expanding its ground offensive against Hezbollah by moving into a new zone in the south-west. The incursion will be backed by a fourth division in the coastal sector, bringing the total number of soldiers deployed to fifteen thousand. On Monday, Israeli forces warned people …

Syria’s state news agency, Sana, cited a military source as saying that the building was hit by three missiles launched by Israeli aircraft from the direction of the occupied Golan Heights. Photographs from the scene showed emergency services personnel inspecting significant damage to apartments on the first, second and third …

This is the third time Israeli forces have gone into Jabalia and its refugee camp over the past year, with the last operation in May displacing tens of thousands of people, killing hundreds and causing widespread destruction. On Monday, Jabalia resident Asmaa Tayeh told the BBC that she and her …

The IDF also said its aircraft had carried out a new round of strikes on Hezbollah targets in Beirut’s southern suburbs, where the group has a strong presence, and other areas of Lebanon on Tuesday. Earlier, it announced that a strike in the capital on Monday had killed the commander …

After weeks of stunning tactical success, Israel’s prime minister seems to harbour grand ambitions. In a direct address to the Iranian people, he hinted that regime change was coming in Tehran. “When Iran is finally free, and that moment will come a lot sooner than people think, everything will be …

In nearby communities which were also attacked by Hamas gunmen, smaller events were held. Elsewhere, Netanyahu visited the Iron Sword memorial in Jerusalem for victims of the Hamas attacks, lighting a candle to “remember our fallen, our hostages”. In Tel Aviv’s biggest park, Israeli families gathered in for an event …

The BBC’s Rushdi Abualouf, who has reported from Gaza for decades, spent weeks documenting the conflict from inside the territory, only leaving with his family on 20 November for the sake of their safety. He sheds light on the challenges of reporting the war from inside and outside of Gaza. …

Three weeks of intense Israeli strikes and other attacks in Lebanon have killed more than 1,400 people, including 22 on Sunday, and displaced another 1.2 million, according to Lebanese authorities. Hezbollah – a Shia Islamist political, military and social organisation that wields considerable power in Lebanon – has remained defiant …

According to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Hezbollah fired more than 135 rockets into northern Israel on Sunday. Approximately five projectiles crossed from Lebanon after air raid sirens sounded in the Carmel and Bay areas of Haifa at 23:22 local time (20:22 GMT), an IDF statement said. “Interceptors were fired. …

On 7 October, it will be one year since the attacks on southern Israel by Hamas gunmen, where around 1,200 people were killed and 251 people were taken hostage. Hadas Kalderon from Nir Oz survived the attack but her mother and niece were murdered. Her two youngest children were kidnapped …

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Video footage posted on social media over the weekend showed widespread and significant destruction in Dahieh, with multi-storey buildings reduced to rubble. A senior member of staff at the Al Rassoul Al-Azam hospital, one of the few remaining emergency healthcare facilities in Dahieh, which sits just150 metres from Dr Diab’s …

Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon and the capital Beirut continued overnight, while Israel has also issued fresh evacuation orders. The BBC’s Hugo Bachega visited the scene of one strike in southern Beirut and found a building completely flattened. He said residents told him there was a sweet shop in the …

Earlier, the Hamas-run civil defence agency said 21 people were killed and a large number wounded in the strike on the mosque, according to the AFP news agency. Sunday’s strikes occurred almost exactly one year on from 7 October 2023, when Hamas gunmen attacked Israel, killing around 1,200 people and …

In a video released by his office, Netanyahu said “Israel will win with or without their support”, adding that calling for an arms embargo was “a disgrace”. In an interview with the French broadcaster, which was recorded on Tuesday and aired on Saturday, Macron said “France is not delivering any” …

Video footage shows a fireball rising above Lebanon’s capital overnight following another strike on the city. Reports suggest it may have hit a petrol station, according to a map provided by the Israeli military. The blast came after Israel’s military warned people in a southern suburb to evacuate. A BBC …

Video footage shows a fireball rising above Lebanon’s capital overnight following another strike on the city. Reports suggest it may have hit a petrol station, according to a map provided by the Israeli military. The blast came after Israel’s military warned people in a southern suburb to evacuate. A BBC …

The next day, at around 19:30 local time, 10 million Israelis were sent running for bomb shelters across the country after Iran launched nearly 200 ballistic missiles at Israel. The nation’s air defence system sprang into action – and allies including the US and UK were involved in repelling the …