More than 100 commercial airline seats have been secured for Australians trying to leave Lebanon as dire warnings continue for people to evacuate amid an escalation of conflict in the region. Flights across Monday and Tuesday carried dozens of Australians out, while another scheduled flight for Thursday will add to the tally. WATCH THE VIDEO … Read more
Sirens have sounded across central Israel after missiles were launched from Iran, according to the Israel Defense Forces. Orders to shelter in place were sent to Israelis’ mobile phones and announced on national television. Earlier, US officials said it had indications that Iran was preparing to imminently launch a ballistic missile attack against Israel that … Read more
Victorian mother Fiona Ollaik is stuck in Beirut, Lebanon, with her four children and is desperate for the Albanese Government to assist them getting out of the country, as Israel’s military launches its ground invasion. The family, originally from Werribee, in Melbourne’s south-west, was forced onto the streets after sources from Israel called saying their … Read more
Hezbollah’s deputy leader has vowed to continue fighting Israel and says the militants are ready to confront any Israeli ground invasion of Lebanon, in his first public comments since the killing of chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah. Israel would not achieve its goals and Hezbollah knew the battle might be long, Naim Qassem said in a … Read more
Israel has killed Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in a powerful air strike in Beirut, dealing a heavy blow to the group as it reels from an escalating campaign of Israeli attacks. The Israeli military said on Saturday it had eliminated Nasrallah in the strike on the group’s central command headquarters in Beirut’s southern suburbs … Read more
Israel has launched air strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs and other areas of Lebanon a day after carrying out a massive attack on Hezbollah’s headquarters it says killed the group’s leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah. The Iran-backed Hezbollah has yet to issue any statement on the status of Nasrallah, who has led the group for 32 … Read more
Thousands of Australians in Lebanon are being warned to leave immediately as rocket exchanges with Israel narrow the window to escape safely. Foreign Minister Penny Wong expressed alarm at the escalation of the conflict and called for Australians to get out, while spearheading a push to better protect humanitarian workers in conflict zones. Australia was … Read more
Israel intercepted a missile fired by Hezbollah near Tel Aviv on Wednesday, an unprecedented attack by the militant group that reached deep into the country’s commercial heartlands and marked a new escalatory step in the conflict between the two sides. People in Tel Aviv and the central city of Netanya woke up to sirens on … Read more
An Israeli air strike on the southern suburbs of Beirut has killed a Hezbollah commander who was a leading figure in its rocket division, two security sources in Lebanon said, as fears of a full-fledged war in the Middle East mount. The sources identified the commander who was killed on Tuesday as Ibrahim Qubaisi. The … Read more
Israel has attacked hundreds of Hezbollah targets in air strikes that Lebanese health authorities say killed at least 270 people, marking the deadliest escalation since the 2006 conflict and the deadliest day in nearly a year of conflict. After some of the heaviest cross-border exchanges of fire since the hostilities flared, Israel warned people to … Read more
