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Israel-Hezbollah border skirmishes: Latest developments

Israel shelled Monday the outskirts of the southern border towns of Alma al-Shaab, al-Naqoura, and al-Khiyam.

Meanwhile, Israeli residents near Lebanon's border have been asked to stay home over a suspected security incident.

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Lebanon mourns Rimas, Taline, Layan, killed by Israeli strike with grandmother

Students in Lebanon observed Monday a moment of silence for Rimas, Taline and Layan, ages 10, 12 and 14, and their grandmother who were killed Sunday evening by an Israeli airstrike in the southern town of Ainata.

The death of the three children and their grandmother raised the number of civilians killed on the Lebanese side in the border clashes between Hezbollah and Israel to at least 14, despite Hezbollah's warning that if Israel kills Lebanese civilians, it will be considered a violation of the rules of engagement and it will retaliate by attacking civilian targets.

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Report: No ceasefire in south Lebanon, Gaza before Arab summit

All the ongoing military developments and diplomatic efforts do not indicate that there will be any imminent agreement on a ceasefire in Gaza or on Lebanon’s southern front, informed political sources said.

Such an agreement will not be reached before the emergency Arab summit that will be held in Riyadh on November 11, the sources added, in remarks to al-Joumhouria newspaper published Monday.

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UK withdraws some diplomats from Lebanon over fears of wider conflict

The British Foreign Office said on Monday it was pulling out some of its embassy staff from Lebanon over fears that Israel's war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip could widen into the region.

"Events in Lebanon are fast moving. The situation has potential to deteriorate quickly and with no warning," the Foreign Office said in updated travel advice for Lebanon.

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Report: US tells Iran and Hezbollah it's ready to back Israel militarily

The U.S. administration has warned Iran and Hezbollah that it is ready to intervene against them if they attack Israel, a media report said on Monday.

"The Biden administration has … sent messages to Iran and Hezbollah, through regional partners including Turkey, that the United States would be prepared to intervene militarily against them if they launched attacks against Israel," the New York Times quoted officials as saying.

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Al-Rahi: 1701 compels Israel, Hezbollah to instantly halt all attacks

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Monday said he strongly condemns “this genocidal, destructive and displacement war against the Palestinian people.”

“We express solidarity with them, defend their cause, support the two-state solution and call on the international community to work on stopping this war,” the patriarch added.

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Kahlil Gibran's hometown Bsharre celebrates 'The Prophet' centennial

Nestled in the mountains of northern Lebanon, a museum dedicated to Kahlil Gibran in his hometown of Bsharre has been celebrating the centennial of "The Prophet", the renowned author's most famous work.

Since it was first published in the United States in 1923, millions of copies of "The Prophet" have been sold worldwide, with the book becoming a literary classic that has been translated into dozens of languages from the original English.

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Hezbollah fires rockets at Kiryat Shmona in response to killing of civilians

Hezbollah on Sunday said it fired rockets at Israel’s north in response to the killing of Lebanese civilians in an Israeli drone strike earlier in the day.

“In response to the brutal and ugly crime that the Zionist enemy committed this afternoon by targeting a civilian car on the al-Maaysra road between Ainata and Aitaroun, which resulted in the martyrdom of a woman and her three toddler grandchildren, the jihadi fighters of the Islamic Resistance shelled the Kiryat Shmona settlement with several Katyusha rockets,” Hezbollah said in a statement.

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3 children and woman killed in Israeli strike on car in south Lebanon

Four relatives of a journalist were killed on Sunday in an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon, the official Lebanese news agency said, adding that the journalist was also wounded.

The border area between Lebanon and Israel has seen multiple exchanges of fire, in particular between Hezbollah and Israel, since the start of the Israel-Hamas war triggered by the Palestinian group's October 7 attacks.

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Hezbollah says it targeted an Israeli military vehicle

Hezbollah said Sunday that it targeted an Israeli military vehicle across the border with guided missiles, killing and wounding its crew members.

The Israeli military confirmed in a statement that an antitank missile was launched from Lebanon at Yiftah in northern Israel, and said it was striking the sources of fire. It did not confirm whether there were casualties.

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