#israel-hezbollah-conflict

#israel-hezbollah-conflict

"You are located near buildings used by Hezbollah, and for your own safety you must evacuate them immediately," the Arabic-language spokesperson for the Israeli military said on Saturday afternoon. Then something rather unusual happened. The Lebanese army requested that, instead of an Israeli air strike, it should be allowed to inspect the premises for weapons itself. In what Israeli media would later describe as a "rare" and "unprecedented" event, the Israelis agreed and called the air strike on Yanouh off.

The strike came amid an ongoing escalation in Israeli strikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon in recent weeks over what Israel claims is an effort by the militant group to rearm and rebuild its military capability in Lebanon. Israeli intelligence officials claimed Tabatabai was the leading voice inside Hezbollah against the Lebanese government's decision to disarm the group. They claim he pushed to end the ceasefire and resume the fighting with Israel.

"The area is populated by civilians," the resident said, and "the sports ground was reduced to rubble, and there [were] many victims."

What you need to know Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and many others are expected to embark on an aid flotilla to Gaza that will first disembark from Spain. It comes as a global hunger monitor has declared parts of Gaza to be in a famine. Meanwhile, Israel claimed to have struck infrastructure belonging to Iran-backed political party and militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon.