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Air France, Transavia halt Beirut flights until Tuesday

Flights to Beirut by Air France and low-cost carrier Transavia France will remain suspended until at least Tuesday due to "security" concerns in the region, parent company Air France-KLM said on Saturday.

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Iran mission to UN wants Hezbollah to hit deeper inside Israel

Iran said on Saturday it expects Lebanon's Tehran-backed Hezbollah to hit deeper inside Israel and no longer be confined to military targets after Israel killed the Hezbollah military commander.

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Thousands throng dance show in Beirut despite soaring tensions with Israel

As Hezbollah's leader threatened Israel with crushing retaliation for killing their top commander, thousands in Beirut flocked to a dance extravaganza in a stark illustration of Lebanon's deep divisions.

In the capital's southern suburbs -- a Hezbollah stronghold -- tens of thousands of black-clad women and men in military uniform joined Thursday's funeral procession for slain commander Fouad Shukur.

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Sweden shuts Lebanon embassy amid fears of escalation

Sweden said Saturday it was shutting its embassy in Beirut amid fears the war in Gaza could escalate into a region-wide conflict, after urging thousands of its citizens to leave Lebanon.

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Israel strikes convoy of trucks entering Lebanon from Syria

A source close to Hezbollah said late Friday that Israel carried out strikes on a convoy of trucks entering Lebanon from Syria.

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MP Alain Aoun officially expelled from FPM

MP Alain Aoun of the Strong Lebanon bloc has been officially expelled from the Free Patriotic Movement, the FPM’s media department said on Friday.

The FPM said the decision follows “two recommendations issued by the FPM’s Council of Elders that is led by (former) president Michel Aoun.”

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UK urges deescalation on Blue Line as ministers visit Lebanon

UK Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, accompanied by Defense Secretary John Healey, ended a one-day visit to Lebanon yesterday, Thursday, the British embassy said.

 

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Report: Netanyahu says ready for talks with Hamas, Hezbollah

Two days after the assassination of Hezbollah’s top military commander Fouad Shukur and Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu informed international mediators that “Israel has become readier to engage in a deal over Gaza,” a media report said.

“Bring me the other party so that I talk to them over the deal!” the pro-Hezbollah al-Akhbar newspaper quoted Netanyahu as saying.

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Mikati: We are advocates of peace and we stress our right to defend our land

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Friday stressed that “in the face of the systematic and dangerous Israeli escalation,” Lebanon “can only stress its right to defend its land, sovereignty and dignity with all means available.”

“We have informed brotherly and friendly countries that we are advocates of peace not war, because we are seeking sustainable stability through regaining the occupied parts of our dear south and compelling the Israeli enemy to implement U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701 with all its stipulations,” Mikati said, during a visit to the Army Command on the occasion of Army Day.

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Hezbollah resumes operations after Shukur's funeral

Hezbollah targeted Friday Israeli soldiers in the Dhaira post with artillery shells and a post in the occupied Kfarshouba Hills, as it resumed its operations against Israel, three days after Israel killed a top Hezbollah commander.

Israeli drones meanwhile raided the southern towns of Rab Tlatine and Dhaira.

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