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Mikati chairs broad ministerial meeting on latest developments

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Monday presided over a broad ministerial meeting that discussed the latest security and military developments in Lebanon and the region.

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Israel strikes Baalbek district, Iqlim al-Tuffah after Hezbollah attacks Golan twice

An Israeli airstrike destroyed a building in the Baalbek district town of al-Nabi Sheet on Sunday morning, following violent Israel airstrikes at dawn on the Jabal Safi area in Iqlim al-Tuffah, deep in south Lebanon.

A source within Hezbollah said Israel struck one of its buildings in Lebanon's east, close to the Syrian border, as tensions soared after Iran directly attacked Israel.

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Israel strikes deep in south after Hezbollah launches rockets, drones

Israel on Saturday said its fighter jets attacked a "major Hezbollah military complex" in the al-Rihan area in Jezzine, deep in south Lebanon, after Hezbollah launched "40 rockets" and two suicide drones from Lebanon.

Hezbollah for its part said it fired "dozens of Katyusha rockets" at Israeli artillery positions Friday, a bombardment it said was in response to Israeli strikes in the south.

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Army arrests minor who hurled firebomb at SSNP office in Jdita

Army intelligence agents on Friday arrested in the Bekaa town of Taalabaya a Lebanese minor who had hurled a firebomb at an office for the Syrian Social Nationalist Party in Bekaa’s Jdita, the army said.

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Mikati and Berri discuss situations in south Lebanon and Gaza

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati held talks Friday in Ain el-Tineh with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri.

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Geagea says 'confrontation' will continue, but it's not 'sectarian or ethnic'

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Friday vowed that “the confrontation will continue,” in the wake of the murder of LF official Pascal Sleiman in the Jbeil district.

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At Sleiman's funeral, al-Rahi says refugees a 'threat' but urges against attacking them

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Friday presided over the funeral service of slain Lebanese Forces official Pascal Sleiman in Jbeil.

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SSNP ambulance torched in Bayssour after Jdita incident

A parked ambulance belonging to the Syrian Social Nationalist Party has been torched in the Aley district town of Bayssour, a day after gunmen fired shots at the party’s office in Bekaa’s Jdita, where they also hung a Lebanese Forces flag.

The Progressive Socialist Party and other parties condemned the Bayssour incident and warned of attempts to stir strife in the country amid the tensions that followed the murder of LF official Pascal Sleiman in the Jbeil district.

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UNIFIL chief warns danger of Israel-Hezbollah escalation is 'real'

UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander Lt. Gen. Aroldo Lázaro warned Wednesday that "Ramadan should be a time of peace and reflection, but the current situation along the Blue Line has deeply affected these notions."

"For the end of Ramadan on the occasion of Eid El Fitr, UNIFIL calls for a return to the cessation of hostilities; and a move towards a permanent ceasefire and a long-term solution to the conflict," Lázaro said in a statement marking Eid El Fitr.

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LF says Hezbollah is at least indirectly responsible for Sleiman’s murder

The Lebanese Forces on Tuesday stressed that the probe into the murder of LF’s Jbeil coordinator Pascal Sleiman should be “clear, transparent, public, frank and accurate with its details and circumstances.”

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