Skip next section UN Security Council backs Guterres after Israel bars him from country
10/04/2024October 4, 2024
UN Security Council backs Guterres after Israel bars him from country
The UN Security Council has affirmed its full support for after Israel banned him from entering the country.
The 15-member body said in a statement that “any decision not to engage with the UN Secretary-General or the United Nations is counterproductive, especially in the context of escalating tensions in the Middle East.”
The statement did not name Israel.
The UN’s most powerful body also “underscored the need for all member states to have a productive and effective relationship with the secretary-general and to refrain from any actions that undermine his work and that of his office.”
The UN statement comes after Israel’s — not welcome — in the country.
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Skip next section Palestinian officials say 18 killed in Israeli strike on West Bank
10/04/2024October 4, 2024
Palestinian officials say 18 killed in Israeli strike on West Bank
At least 18 people were killed at the following an Israeli airstrike, said the Palestinian Health Ministry.
The Israeli military says the strike killed a local Hamas leader, Zahi Yaser Abd al-Razeq Oufi.
It accused Oufi of participating in and said he was in the process of planning another assault.
The air raid was the deadliest in the West Bank since 2000, the AFP news agency quoted a Palestinian official as saying.
The Palestinian movement Fatah, a Hamas rival based in West Bank, called for demonstrations on Friday to honor the “heroic martyrs” of Tulkarm.
Tulkarm was one of the towns and Palestinian refugee camps targeted during a
alongside the war in Gaza which began after Hamas, which is designated as a terrorist organization by a number of countries, attacked Israel on October 7.
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Skip next section Israel orders new Lebanon evacuations
10/04/2024October 4, 2024
Israel orders new Lebanon evacuations
Israel’s military has ordered residents of more than 20 towns in southern to evacuate their homes as it continued with a cross-border incursion.
The latest warnings took the number of southern towns subject to evacuation calls to 70.
Among the towns affected is the provincial capital Nabatieh as well as other communities north of the Litani River, which formed the northern edge of the border zone established by the UN Security Council after Israel and fought
The announcement suggests the Israeli military may widen a ground operation launched earlier this week
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Skip next section WHO says 28 health workers killed in Lebanon in the past day
10/04/2024October 4, 2024
WHO says 28 health workers killed in Lebanon in the past day
The said 28 health workers in Lebanon were killed in the past day, and it called for a cease-fire.
The UN health agency said access to medical care is becoming limited as three dozen health facilities closed in the south and five hospitals were either partly or fully evacuated in Beirut.
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus described the dire situation, noting that health workers are not showing up at their jobs because they’ve fled areas that have been bombed.
He said WHO had to scrap plans to fly in medical and trauma supplies Friday because Beirut international airport is mostly closed.
Lebanon’s health minister, meanwhile, said Israeli strikes that hit hospitals and health care centers violate international law.
The Lebanese Red Cross also said an Israeli strike wounded four of its paramedics and killed a Lebanese army soldier as they were evacuating wounded people from the south.
It said the convoy near the village of Taybeh, which was accompanied by Lebanese troops, was targeted Thursday despite coordinating its movements with UN peacekeepers.
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military.
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Skip next section Israeli strikes hit close to Beirut’s international airport
10/04/2024October 4, 2024
Israeli strikes hit close to Beirut’s international airport
At least one Israeli strike early on Friday hit outside the perimeter of Beirut’s international airport, Reuters news agency reported, citing a source in the Lebanese Ministry of Transport and Public Works.
Earlier in the evening, a source close to Hezbollah told AFP an Israeli strike had targeted a warehouse next to Beirut airport, in the capital’s south.
The extent of the damage was not immediately clear.
Israel also launched renewed strikes on Beirut’s southern suburb of Dahiyeh, a stronghold of the Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah, near midnight on Thursday.
The air raids targeted Hezbollah official Hashem Safieddine, rumored successor to assassinated Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, report Axios and the New York Times.
Safieddine’s fate was not clear, he said.
Israel’s military has not yet commented on whether it targeted Safieddine.
sri/wd (Reuters, AP, AFP, dpa)
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