{"id":120238,"date":"2024-10-30T23:59:49","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T16:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=120238"},"modified":"2024-10-30T23:59:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T16:59:49","slug":"middle-east-latest-israel-issues-evacuation-warning-for-the-entire-baalbek-city-in-eastern-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=120238","title":{"rendered":"Middle East latest: Israel issues evacuation warning for the entire Baalbek city in eastern Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Israeli army issued an evacuation warning for residents in the entire eastern Lebanese city of Baalbeck, along with surrounding areas and key routes in the Bekaa Valley. The area marked for evacuation includes the ancient Roman temple complex, inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage site.<\/p>\n<p>Lebanon\u2019s Heath Ministry said more than 2,790 people have been killed and 12,700 wounded since Oct. 8, 2023, when Hezbollah began firing rockets into Israel, drawing retaliation. <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mideast-wars\">Israeli ground forces<\/a><\/span> invaded southern Lebanon at the beginning of October.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/un-unrwa-israel-palestinians-gaza-refugees-laws-6cc2518b83eaecd3f813df59588b539f\">United Nations agencies rallied<\/a><\/span> Tuesday around their <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-hamas-war-un-aid-refugees-29932f8d12c4fa748daa03e3689dc536\">fellow organization, UNRWA<\/a><\/span>, that provides aid to Palestinian refugees, after <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-un-aid-refugees-16bc0524adc947b95abe25d7d9eca038\">Israel\u2019s parliament took steps to ban it<\/a><\/span> in the coming months. The foreign ministers of Cyprus and Luxembourg say the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees is \u201cindispensable\u201d to providing food, education and health care to Palestinians. Turkey\u2019s Foreign Ministry called Israel\u2019s decision a \u201cclear violation of international law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>United States President Joe Biden\u2019s administration says it is seeking an explanation from Israel about its attack Tuesday on a town in northern Gaza that Palestinians say <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-lebanon-hezbollah-iran-news-10-29-2024-befe1b42ef25599539198fa04e089f04\">killed at least 88 people<\/a><\/span>, including dozens of women and children. <\/p>\n<p>The death toll from <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-hamas-war-one-year-anniversary-cf123f95609051e8e8eaf6aebe661b6a\">more than a year<\/a><\/span> of the <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/israel-hamas-war\">Israel-Hamas war<\/a><\/span> in Gaza has passed 43,000, Palestinian officials reported Monday, without distinguishing between civilians and combatants. The <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/israel-hamas-war\">Israel-Hamas war<\/a><\/span> began after Hamas-led militants stormed into Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people \u2014 mostly civilians \u2014 and abducting 250 others.<\/p>\n<h2>___<\/h2>\n<p>Here\u2019s the latest:<\/p>\n<h2>Residents decry lethal airstrikes on Lebanese city of Sidon<\/h2>\n<p>SIDON, Lebanon \u2014 The day after airstrikes shook Sidon, the Lebanon coastal city\u2019s streets were veiled in dust and rubble. Six people were killed and 37 were wounded, according to Lebanon\u2019s Health Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>Excavators sifted through the debris, loading trucks with remnants of destroyed homes. Residents cleared shattered glass and plaster from gaping walls. The airstrikes hit two residential buildings opposite Sayyed Shohada, a Hezbollah-linked complex.<\/p>\n<p>Local resident Abdullah Habli called the attack \u201ca massacre against civilians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis building they bombed had no one in it. It housed poor, struggling people. This street is an ordinary residential street with ordinary, civilian residents. There are no weapons here,\u201d Habli added.<\/p>\n<p>Before the strikes, Israel had warned 16 southern villages to evacuate north of the Awwali River \u2014 but Sidon received no such warning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI haven\u2019t seen any military activity here at all,\u201d said Mahmoud Al Ghoul, displaced from Mays al Jabal in the Marjeyoun province.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(Israel) always claims Hezbollah fighters or weapons are in the area. But many of the areas it strikes have no Hezbollah, no Amal movement, or any other party,\u201d said Ali Al-Amin, who had been displaced from Tyre, another Lebanese city.<\/p>\n<h2>Main highway linking Syria with Lebanon reopens after strikes<\/h2>\n<p>BEIRUT \u2014 The main Damascus-Beirut highway has reopened after the Lebanese Army cordoned it off following strikes on two vehicles along the route, a Lebanese Civil Defense official told The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>A strike targeted a van in Aaraya along the highway connecting Beirut to Syria. Local media reported that the van was carrying weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Following the strike, the Lebanese Army announced plans to detonate unexploded ordnance in the Aaraya area of Mount Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>Local officials condemned \u201cthe use of international roads and civilian vehicles for the movement of gunmen and the transfer of weapons and ammunition,\u201d warning that it \u201cexposes passers-by and the residents of the two towns to risks that affect their lives and properties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement urged the Lebanese Army and security forces to \u201cintervene immediately to prevent the use of international roads and safe areas for military purposes\u201d to protect civilian safety.<\/p>\n<p>Along the same highway, another vehicle was struck in the town of Qmatieh in the Aley province. Details of the target remain unclear.<\/p>\n<p>The commander of the Lebanese Civil Defense\u2019s southern district fire and rescue unit, Saad Al Ahmar, told the AP that his team participated in extinguishing fires in the areas of both strikes. He said the road has now been reopened, though traffic is heavy.<\/p>\n<h2>UN Security Council warns Israel against attempts to dismantle UNRWA<\/h2>\n<p>UNITED NATIONS \u2013 The U.N. Security Council has warned Israel against any attempts to dismantle the U.N. agency that is a lifeline for Palestinian refugees in Gaza and demanded that all parties allow it to continue working in the embattled enclave.<\/p>\n<p>In a strongly worded statement Wednesday, the U.N.\u2019s most powerful body called the agency, known as <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-hamas-war-un-aid-refugees-29932f8d12c4fa748daa03e3689dc536\">UNRWA<\/a><\/span>, \u201cthe backbone of all humanitarian response in Gaza.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It stressed that \u201cno organization can replace or substitute UNRWA\u2019s capacity and mandate to serve Palestinian refugees and civilians in urgent need of life-saving humanitarian assistance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Council members expressed \u201cgrave concern\u201d at legislation adopted by Israel\u2019s parliament on Monday banning UNRWA from operating in the Palestinian territories &#8212; Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The law takes effect in 90 days.<\/p>\n<p>The council urged the Israeli government \u201cto abide by its international obligations, respect the privileges and immunities of UNRWA and live up to its responsibility to allow and facilitate full, rapid, safe and unhindered humanitarian assistance in all its forms into and throughout the entire Gaza Strip, including the provision of sorely needed basic services to the civilian population.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gaza is in the throes of an escalating humanitarian crisis, with virtually its entire 2.3 million population surviving without enough food and the threat of famine looming.<\/p>\n<p>The Security Council emphasized UNRWA\u2019s \u201cvital role\u201d in providing education, health care, relief and social services to Palestinian refugees not only in the Palestinian territories but in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has alleged that some of UNRWA\u2019s 13,000 staff members in Gaza participated in the Hamas attacks last year that sparked the war in Gaza. It also has said hundreds of UNRWA staff have militant ties and that it has found Hamas military assets in or under the agency\u2019s facilities.<\/p>\n<h2>Israeli military says T<\/h2>\n<h2>uesday\u2019s strike on Gaza building was targeted<\/h2>\n<p>JERUSALEM \u2014 An Israeli military official says the target of Tuesday\u2019s attack on a five-story building that Gaza health officials reported resulted in scores of deaths was a spotter with binoculars in the building, and that the intent was not to destroy the structure.<\/p>\n<p>The military official agreed to provide details only on condition of anonymity, citing military protocol and the ongoing investigation into the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The official said Wednesday the building was not known to be a shelter for civilians, and that it collapsed as a result of the strike on the spotter.<\/p>\n<p>The Gaza Health Ministry said Tuesday that at least 70 people were killed in the first of two strikes on the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya, and that more than half of the victims were women and children. The Israeli military had earlier said it was investigating the strike. The Gaza Health Ministry\u2019s casualty tolls do not differentiate between civilians and militant fighters.<\/p>\n<p>The official said there were discrepancies between the numbers of victims reported by authorities in Gaza and what Israeli intelligence indicates, and that the victims included known militants. The official did not provide detailed evidence to support that assertion.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli military has repeatedly struck shelters for displaced people in recent months. It says it carries out precise strikes targeting Palestinian militants and tries to avoid harming civilians, but the strikes often kill women and children.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014By Adam Schreck<\/p>\n<h2>Israeli hospital officials say rocket from Lebanon wounded 2<\/h2>\n<p>JERUSALEM \u2014 Hospital officials in Israel say a rocket fired from Lebanon has wounded two men, one seriously.<\/p>\n<p>The men were wounded by rocket shrapnel on Wednesday in Metula, an Israeli town just across the border from Lebanon, said a spokesperson for the Rambam Hospital, where they were airlifted.<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military.<\/p>\n<p>Hezbollah has fired thousands of rockets into Israel since Oct. 8, 2023, when it opened fire in solidarity with Hamas a day after its cross-border attack from the Gaza Strip. All-out war erupted last month, when Israel carried out large waves of airstrikes and killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and most of his senior commanders. Israel launched a ground invasion at the start of October.<\/p>\n<h2>Israel issues an evacuation warning for the entire Baalbek city in eastern Lebanon<\/h2>\n<p>BEIRUT \u2014 For the first time in the ongoing <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mideast-wars\">Israel-Hezbollah war<\/a><\/span>, the Israeli army has issued an evacuation warning for residents in the entire eastern city of Baalbek, along with surrounding areas and key routes in the Bekaa Valley.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Wednesday, a drone strike targeted a van on Lebanon\u2019s Aaraya highway, a major road linking Beirut to the Bekaa, about 10 kilometers (6 miles) from the Lebanese capital, resulting in flames, according to Lebanese state media. Another vehicle in Bchamoun, roughly 10 kilometers (6 miles) southeast of Beirut, was also targeted, as reported by the state-run National News Agency. This is the first time in the conflict that the area is targeted.<\/p>\n<p>The number of casualties and the intended targets were not yet known.<\/p>\n<p>The area marked in Wednesday\u2019s evacuation order includes the ancient Roman temple complex, inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. On Oct. 6, an Israeli strike hit some 700 meters (750 yards) away from the ancient citadel, which houses two of the largest Roman temples in the world.<\/p>\n<h2>Norway wants clarity on Israel\u2019s obligation to Palestinians under international law<\/h2>\n<p>OSLO, Norway \u2014 Norway is asking for a clarification on Israel\u2019s responsibility under international law when preventing the United Nations, international humanitarian organizations and states from helping Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe international community cannot accept that the U.N., international humanitarian organizations and states face systematic obstacles to being able to work in Palestine and provide humanitarian aid to the Palestinians under occupation,\u201d Prime Minister Jonas Gahr St\u00f8re said Wednesday. \u201cIt undermines the Palestinians\u2019 right to vital aid. Then we have to react.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, also known as UNRWA, provides essential services to millions of Palestinians across the Middle East and has underpinned aid efforts in Gaza throughout the <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/israel-hamas-war\">Israel-Hamas war<\/a><\/span>. Legislation barring it from operating in Israel <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-lebanon-hezbollah-iran-news-10-28-2024-6894ad0ffa997d49742908a0e8c952b9\">passed with an overwhelming majority<\/a><\/span> Monday. Israel says UNRWA has allowed itself to be infiltrated by Hamas, with the militants siphoning off aid and using the agency\u2019s facilities as shields. UNRWA denies the allegations, saying it is committed to neutrality and acts quickly to address any wrongdoing by its staff.<\/p>\n<p>Norway has called for a resolution in the U.N. General Assembly that asks the International Court of Justice \u201cto give an advisory opinion on the duties of Israel as an occupying power to facilitate aid to the population of Palestine.\u201d Gahr St\u00f8re added that a number of countries have expressed support for the initiative, in addition to UNRWA.<\/p>\n<p>Under international law, Israel has an obligation to help the Palestinian population under occupation, Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith this initiative, Norway wants to establish that no country can rise above its obligations under international law,\u201d Barth Eide said. \u201cWe see similar trends in other countries \u2014 that leaders try to undermine humanitarian law and aid work in situations of crisis and conflict. 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