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Buried for 14 hours after Israeli strike, Lebanese toddler makes recovery

Rescuers did not expect to find two-year-old Ali Khalifeh alive after an Israeli strike on southern Lebanon killed his entire family and left him trapped under the rubble for 14 hours.

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12 Israeli airstrikes target Dahieh overnight

Israeli air strikes hit Beirut's southern suburbs overnight Friday shortly after Israel's military warned residents to leave parts of the area.

An air raid hit near the Lebanese University in Hadath and another on the Burj al-Barajneh suburb.

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3 killed, over 30 hurt by Israeli strikes on Tyre

Three people were killed and over 30 injured in several Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon's southern port city of Tyre, the health ministry said.

The ministry said that this toll is preliminary, as rescue workers were searching for people trapped under rubble.

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UNIFIL accuses Israel of deliberate attacks on positions

UNIFIL has accused the Israeli army of deliberately attacking its positions and of recently destroying part of a fence and a concrete structure in a UNIFIL position in Ras Naqoura.

"Yesterday, two IDF excavators and one IDF bulldozer destroyed part of a fence and a concrete structure in a UNIFIL position in Ras Naqoura. In response to our urgent protest, the IDF denied any activity was taking place inside the UNIFIL position," UNIFIL said in a statement.

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Geagea says accepts presidential vote session boycotted by Shiites

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea has said that he would accept that a parliamentary session be held to elect a new president without the participation of the Shiite MPs in it.

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Halevi says Israel to use force against 'violations' if Lebanon solution reached

There is “nothing more symbolic of victory” than the safe return of displaced residents to north Israel, Israeli army chief Herzi Halevi told heads of local authorities during a meeting in the north.

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Bou Saab: Reaching ceasefire possible within few weeks

Deputy Speaker Elias Bou Saab on Friday said that Israel is “obliged to resort to a diplomatic solution” with Lebanon and that “the atmosphere is suitable for that.”

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Israeli army blows up houses in 3 Lebanese border villages

Lebanese state media said the Israeli army on Friday detonated explosives planted inside houses in three border villages that have been battered by the Israel-Hezbollah war.

"Since this morning, the Israeli enemy's army has been carrying out bombing operations inside the villages of Yaroun, Aitaroun and Maroun al-Ras in the Bint Jbeil area, with the aim of destroying residential homes there," the official National News Agency said, the latest in a string of similar incidents that have impacted the flashpoint border area.

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Hezbollah attacks bases in south Tel Aviv and near Haifa

Hezbollah said its fighters launched missiles at an air base in central Israel on Friday, the latest attack by the Iran-backed group in more than a month of war.

Hezbollah said it "targeted the Tel Nof Air Base, south of Tel Aviv... with a salvo of advanced missiles."

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Blinken to keep working to end Gaza and Lebanon wars in remainder of term

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken plans to keep working to end the Gaza and Lebanon wars in his time remaining before handing over to President-elect Donald Trump, the State Department said Thursday.

"We will continue to pursue an end to the war in Gaza, an end to the war in Lebanon, a surge of humanitarian assistance (to Gaza), and that is our duty to pursue those policies right up until noon on January 20 when the president-elect takes office," State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters.

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