Skip next section Dozens killed in Israeli strike in Syria: Monitor
11/21/2024November 21, 2024
Dozens killed in Israeli strike in Syria: Monitor
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has updated the death toll from an Israeli strike on the Syrian city of Palmyra to 61. The Syrian Defense Ministry put the death toll at 36, mostly comprising or other Iran-backed militias.
Palmyra is famous for its Greco-Roman ruins, a UNESCO World Heritage Site that has been at risk for over a decade due to the Syrian civil war.
Israel has not commented on the strike but has said it is trying to curtail Hezbollah’s influence across the region.
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Skip next section US Democrats fail in bid to stop Israeli weapons sales
11/21/2024November 21, 2024
US Democrats fail in bid to stop Israeli weapons sales
A group of led by Bernie Sanders, an independent senator of Vermont, failed in an attempt to block US arms exports to Israel.
Sanders accused Washington of “complicity” in “atrocities” being carried out in Gaza.
“Nobody is going to take anything you say with a grain of seriousness,” the recently reelected 83-year-old said to his colleagues.
“They will say to you, ‘You’re concerned about China, you’re concerned about Russia, you’re concerned about Iran.’ Well, why are you funding the starvation of children in Gaza right now?”
The three resolutions he put forward garnered only about 20 votes, meaning dozens of fellow Democrats declined to vote in favor.
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Skip next section US envoy to present Hezbollah cease-fire deal to Netanyahu
11/21/2024November 21, 2024
US envoy to present Hezbollah cease-fire deal to Netanyahu
US diplomat Amos Hochstein has arrived in Israel after a stop in Beirut, Lebanon, to discuss drafted in Washington.
The truce deals with the conflict between Israel and the Iran-backed militants in Lebanon, not with in .
Hochstein is due to meet personally with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“What we have seen is [Israel] accomplish a number of important objectives,” US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters ahead of the meeting.
“We have seen [Israel], over the course of the last couple months, really be quite effective in clearing out Hezbollah infrastructure close to the border, which is why we believe we’re in the place that we can get a diplomatic resolution now,” Miller added.
According to the , some 3,000 Lebanese civilians have been killed as between Hezbollah and Israel in recent months.
es/sms (AP, AFP, dpa, Reuters)
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