Middle East|According to CNN, the UN refused Israel’s request to move peacekeepers from the Lebanese border.
Israel continued bombing Lebanon the night before Saturday. In addition, Israeli forces clashed with the extremist organization Hezbollah near the Lebanese border.
A member of the Hamas military regime and his family were killed in an Israeli attack on the Beddaw refugee camp in northern Lebanon. The Lebanese and Palestinian media reported on the matter al-Jazeera by.
According to media reports, Israel carried out an aerial attack early Saturday on an apartment building in a Palestinian refugee camp located near Tripoli, about 80 kilometers north of the capital Beirut.
The extremist organization Hamas has confirmed that a member of its military administration, his wife and two young daughters were killed in the attack. In a statement, Hamas vowed to avenge the attack.
of Lebanon a series of explosions were heard over the southern suburbs of the capital Beirut in the morning. Pictures taken from the area near the airport showed smoke rising from the area.
The explosions were preceded by an Israeli evacuation call, when the Israeli armed forces warned residents of the area to evacuate. There was still no information on the possible consequences of the explosions early Saturday morning.
The extremist organization Hizbullah, meanwhile, said in the morning that it clashed with Israeli forces in the Lebanese border area. Hezbollah had previously said it had forced Israeli soldiers to withdraw from the area.
Hezbollah said the soldiers then made another attempt to advance towards the village of Odaisseh, where they encountered the organization’s fighters.
According to Hezbollah, the fighting was still going on Saturday morning.
The UN refused At Israel’s request to move its peacekeepers away from the vicinity of the Lebanese border, the news channel reported CNN on the night before Saturday.
The request came just days before Israel launched its ground attack on Lebanon earlier this week.
The UN UNIFIL forces, which also include Finnish peacekeepers, had received a request to release several of their positions near the blue line. The blue line refers to the UN-defined border area between Lebanon and Israel.
The UN had known how to expect possible Israeli ground attacks, so it decided to stay in its positions, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix had told on Thursday.
The headquarters of the Finnish Army said on Friday that Finnish peacekeepers will continue their duties despite the intensified fighting in Lebanon and the attacks by Israel.
United States gives humanitarian aid to Lebanon in the amount of 157 million dollars, or about 142 million euros, an Israeli newspaper reported, among other things Haaretz.
The US foreign minister told about it on Friday Antony Blinkenaccording to which aid is directed to those affected by the conflict in the region.
“This funding will meet the new and existing needs of internally displaced people, those who have fled to Lebanon, and the communities that care for them,” said Blinken.
He added that the help will also support those who flee to neighboring Syria.
The emergency package includes, among other things, food, shelter, blankets, hygiene items and water.
Israel’s attack on Lebanon has forced an estimated more than a million people to flee their homes. There were already at least one million Syrian refugees in the country.
The UN refugee agency UNHCR said on Monday that a hundred thousand Lebanese and Syrians had fled from Lebanon to Syria.
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