Middle East

As Israel continues to bombard southern Lebanon, thousands of civilians are fleeing their homes. Lebanon’s health ministry says 558 people have been killed, including 50 children, in strikes since Monday. The BBC’s Carine Torbey visited a school in the capital Beirut, which has been turned into a shelter for the …

Thousands of people flee southern Lebanon as Israel continues to bombard the area. The Lebanese health ministry says 558 people have been killed and 1,835 injured in Israeli strikes since Monday – the deadliest day in Lebanon since the end of the civil war in 1990. As the BBC’s Lina …

Thousands of Lebanese have been fleeing the south of the country after Israel launched hundreds of air strikes beginning as day broke. Across southern Lebanon families scrambled together belongings and headed north in cars and trucks and on motorcycles as the Israeli military struck targets it said were linked to …

Video from a beach in Tyre, southern Lebanon – just 19km (12 miles) north of the Israeli border – shows several clouds of smoke rising after Israeli air strikes in the region. At least 274 people were killed and more than 700 injured in the strikes on Monday, according to …

Even before the current escalation, well over 100,000 Lebanese had to leave their homes because of Israeli strikes, with no immediate expectation of being able to return. We are seeing yet another very large escalation by the Israelis. Perhaps their calculation is that they believe Hezbollah is in such a …

Hezbollah did not comment on the Israeli claims that it had hidden weapons in houses, but the group said in a statement that it had responded to the “Israeli enemy’s attacks” by firing rockets at three Israeli military bases in northern Israel, as well as a weapons manufacturing facility in …

Hezbollah launched a barrage of rockets from Lebanon overnight, landing much deeper into Israel than in previous attacks. Residential buildings in Kiryat Bialik were set alight and some people were injured. Rescue teams arrived at the scene to treat the wounded, while Israeli security forces cordoned off the area. Source …

Citing the head of Iran’s Red Crescent, state TV said earlier on Sunday that 24 people were missing. According to Reuters news agency, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian expressed condolences to the victims’ families. “I spoke with ministers and we will do our best to follow up,” Pezeshkian said in televised …

After the pager and walkie-talkie explosions across Lebanon earlier this week, there has been a deepened sense of unease in the Middle Eastern country. It was an unprecedented security breach that indicated how deeply Israel had managed to penetrate the group’s communication system. Many of the explosions occurred simultaneously, with …

Under international law, soldiers are obliged to ensure that bodies, including those of enemy fighters, are treated with respect. The IDF said it carried out a counterterrorism operation in Qabatiya, during which four militants were killed in an “exchange of fire” and three others were killed after a drone strike …

The BBC went to the registered office of BAC Consulting, situated in a residential area of the Hungarian capital, Budapest. The address appeared to be shared by 12 other companies – and no-one in the building could tell us anything about BAC Consulting at all. Officials in Hungary say the …

In his televised address on Thursday, Hassan Nasrallah said of Tuesday and Wednesday’s attacks: “The enemy crossed all rules, laws and red lines. It didn’t care about anything at all, not morally, not humanely, not legally.” “This is massacre, a major aggression against Lebanon, its people, its resistance, its sovereignty, …

On Thursday morning, Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon fired two anti-tank missiles across the border, followed by drones. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said two Israeli soldiers were killed and a third seriously wounded. The latest exchanges come at a time when Israel says its military focus has shifted away …

Livestream footage of the Beirut skyline showed the moment devices exploded across the city on Wednesday, after thousands of walkie-talkies exploded in Lebanon. Explosions were also seen in other locations in the country – including during a funeral – in footage shared on social media. Just a day earlier, thousands …

An Israeli citizen has been arrested on suspicion of being involved in a plot by Iran to assassinate Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other top officials, Israel’s security services say. Israeli police and domestic intelligence said the man was smuggled twice into Iran and received payment to carry out “missions”. …

Lebanon’s health minister said an eight-year-old girl and an 11-year-old boy were among the dead, as well as several healthcare workers from Dahiyeh, in southern Beirut, who had been using pagers. Of the 2,800 people who were wounded, about 750 were in the south of Lebanon, 150 in the Bekaa …

At least nine people have been killed and more than 300 others wounded by a second wave of explosions from wireless communication devices in Lebanon, the country’s health ministry says. Media reports say walkie-talkies used by the armed group Hezbollah blew up in the southern suburbs of the capital Beirut, …

A report in the Wall Street Journal said that just before the attack, Shukr received a message asking him to go to his seventh floor apartment, where he was easier to hit. Hezbollah furiously denied the report, but as yesterday’s dramatic events proved, Hezbollah’s networks – their supply chains and …

American predictions that a ceasefire in Gaza is close have come up again against two seemingly immovable objects. One is the Hamas leader, Yahya Sinwar, who wants Israel out of the Gaza Strip permanently, as well as a big release of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the remaining Israeli hostages …

Lebanon said 12 people have been killed, including an eight-year-old girl and an 11-year-old boy, after handheld pagers used by members of the armed group Hezbollah to communicate exploded across the country. Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon was among 2,800 others who were wounded by the simultaneous blasts in Beirut and …