The health ministry said an Israeli strike killed three people Tuesday in the country’s south, the latest such raid despite a November ceasefire.
"The strike launched by an Israeli enemy drone on a vehicle" in the Nabatieh district town of Kfar Dajjal "resulted in the death of three people", the ministry said in a statement carried by the official National News Agency.
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Israel carried out airstrikes in parts of south Lebanon, including in Iqlim al-Tuffah.
Monday’s airstrikes were more intense than the usual near-daily ones that Israel has carried out since a ceasefire ended its 14-month war with Hezbollah in November.
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Turkish airline Pegasus has scrapped flights to Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon until June 30, and Iran until July 30, as global airlines suspended or reduced flights in the Middle East amid the Israel-Iran conflict.
Flights of Air France's low-cost carrier Transavia from Paris to Beirut have also been suspended until June 30 while the Tel Aviv route is closed until September 7.
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Hezbollah chief Sheikh Naim Qassem warned in an interview published Monday that “the attack on Iran will have hefty prices because the entire region is in danger.”
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The statement issued Sunday morning by President Joseph Aoun was followed by “a series of domestic and foreign contacts, especially with the Americans, that focused on keeping Lebanon away from war and abiding by neutrality,” the Nidaa al-Watan newspaper reported on Monday.
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Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri reconfirmed Monday that Hezbollah will certainly not join the Israel-Iran war as local media reports said that Amal, Hezbollah and the Lebanese government have been discussing, away from the spotlight, the need to keep Lebanon out of the conflict.
Sources told Asharq al-Awsat newspaper, in reports published Monday, that Hezbollah will not join the fray and "give Israel pretexts" to drag Lebanon into a new war.
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The U.S. administration has asked Lebanon to reach “presidential consensus” on the decision of monopolizing arms between President Joseph Aoun, Speaker Nabih Berri and PM Nawaf Salam ahead of referring such a decision to Cabinet for formal approval, Al-Jadeed TV has reported.
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The U.S. decision to evacuate family members and non-emergency U.S. government personnel from Lebanon is part of the precautionary measures taken across the region following the U.S. strikes on Iran, media reports said.
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The Lebanese Army inspected Monday a building in Hay al-American in Hadath in search of military equipment.
Army forces had inspected buildings in the area, once with a bulldozer, at the request of the five-member committee supervising the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire.
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President Joseph Aoun, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri and Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi have condemned a weekend suicide attack on a Greek Orthodox church in Damascus that killed 22 people.
Al-Rahi condemned "the targeting of Christians in the East" while Berri said that "terrorism has no sect or religion" and "terrorists are enemies of God, regardless to which religion they belong."
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