GAZA: A tour of various areas in Gaza City, namely the universities district, Al-Sinaa Street, Omar Mukhtar Street, and Al-Bahr Boulevard, shows how this once-vibrant part of the strip has been reduced to rubble after weeks of relentless bombardment.
Gaza City was the most populated part of the besieged Palestinian enclave before Oct. 7, when Israel launched a bombing campaign in retaliation for a deadly Hamas attack inside Israel.
Beirut: The United Nations’ peacekeeping mission in Lebanon on Thursday called on authorities to investigate an attack in the country’s south that left one of the force’s members wounded.
Groups of young men in Lebanon’s south — a stronghold of the powerful Iran-backed Hezbollah group, where the UN force had previously suffered attacks — blocked UNIFIL patrols twice since Wednesday, it said.