Hezbollah’s cheap fibre-optic drones are creating new challenges for Israeli troops in southern Lebanon, forcing the military to adapt its tactics against an increasingly lethal threat. The Israeli military – considered one of the most advanced in the world – has confirmed two soldiers and one civilian contractor killed in explosive drone attacks in under a week, with several others wounded despite a ceasefire in place since mid-April. The devices are small, cheap and readily available, like...
The Global Sumud Flotilla denounced the interception as "piracy", while Israel's foreign ministry called the flotilla a "PR stunt".
The Iranian Merchant Mariners Syndicate blamed US and Israeli attacks on Iran's ports and commercial fleet for deaths.
Activist Omer Aslan says Israel’s interception of 22 boats late Wednesday will not stop the Global Sumud Flotilla.
Widespread Israeli attacks on civilian targets in Lebanon are a repeated tactic from Gaza.
At least nine people - including two children - were killed, according to Lebanon's health ministry.
Israeli attacks and threats on southern Lebanon escalate, as Lebanese government calls out Israel's ceasefire violations
Israel says it targeted Hezbollah, but experts say the evidence proves otherwise.
Activists sailing on dozens of boats attempting to break Israel’s maritime blockade of the Gaza Strip to deliver humanitarian aid say Israeli forces intercepted them overnight Wednesday into Thursday, detaining the crews while the flotilla was sailing hundreds of kilometres from Gaza near the southern Greek island of Crete. The Global Sumud Flotilla set sail earlier this month from Barcelona. Organisers have said more than 70 boats and 1,000 people from around the world would be participating,...
Organisers of a Gaza-bound aid mission say their vessels are being intercepted by Israeli military speedboats.
Seven out of 58 vessels captured by Israel near Crete as flotilla aims to deliver aid to Gaza under blockade.
Israel and Hezbollah are still fighting in Lebanon despite a US-brokered ceasefire that began 12 days ago.
Immune to jamming and invisible to radar, the low-cost drones are piercing through Israel’s multibillion-dollar systems.
They are among five people officials say were killed in successive attacks on Tuesday.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun says Israel violating international law that protects civilians and humanitarian workers.
As the US-Israeli war on Iran enters a third month, there is no imminent sign of a break in the deadlock between Washington and Tehran. These are the main takeaways from what happened overnight. What did Trump say? After welcoming Britain’s King Charles III in Washington on Tuesday, US President Donald Trump lashed out at German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. “I am doing something with Iran, right now, that other Nations, or Presidents, should have done long ago,” Trump wrote in a social media...
US president says Iran has reached out and asked Washington to lift its naval blockade on Iranian ports.
Video captured massive explosions in southern Lebanon in what the Israeli military called strikes on a Hezbollah tunnel.
An Al Jazeera visual probe maps the systematic demolition of Lebanon's border towns, mirroring the devastation in Gaza.
Settler violence surges deeper into Palestinian-administered areas, and Gaza's police forces are decimated further.
Despite setbacks, Hezbollah emerges as a key player, tied to Lebanon’s stability and US-Iran negotiations.
Iran-linked group reiterates defiance; Israeli defence minister threatens to ‘burn all of Lebanon'.
Israeli airstrikes hit southern Lebanon as ceasefire falters, killing at least 14 and forcing new displacement.
Satellite images taken reveal the Israeli military's massive scale of damage to towns in south Lebanon.
Lebanon’s health ministry said Israeli strikes on the country’s south on Sunday killed 14 people, the deadliest day since a ceasefire in the Israel-Hezbollah war came into force over a week ago. It came as Israel and the Iran-backed group traded fresh accusations of breaching the fragile truce, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying the military was “vigorously” targeting Hezbollah and the group vowing to keep responding to “violations”. Israel’s military has carried out repeated strikes...
Israel has violated the so-called Gaza “ceasefire” more than 2,400 times. Al Jazeera’s Hala Al Shami explains.
Hezbollah rejects allegations from Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu that it is undermining the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire.
Israel escalates attacks and expands control in Gaza Strip, sidelining the new US-backed technocratic administration.
Israel destroys solar panels in south Lebanon
Lebanese state media reported a series of new Israeli strikes in the country’s south on Saturday night, after attacks earlier in the day killed six people despite a recently extended ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hezbollah. The new attacks followed orders from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the military to “forcefully attack Hezbollah targets” after the army accused it of breaching the truce. Lebanon’s health ministry had said earlier that “Israeli enemy strikes on a...
Raids on a truck and a motorcycle in the town of Yohmor al-Shaqif kill four people, state media report.
Israeli air strikes, tank shelling in Gaza killed at least 12 Palestinians, including six police officers.
Hamas says the Israeli escalation represents the failure of the international community to uphold the truce in Gaza.
Israeli forces killed six Hezbollah fighters in an exchange of fire in the area of Bint Jbeil, southern Lebanon.
UN report says Hezbollah rocket attacks on Israel may have breached international humanitarian law.
Trump has extended the Lebanon ceasefire by 3 weeks. But Israel has been accused of using the truce to further its war.
Mourners attended the funeral of Amal Khalil, a journalist who was killed in an Israeli attack in south Lebanon.
From protests to quiet resistance, dissent is rising inside the United States military over the US-Israel war on Iran.
Disruption to fuel and fertiliser supplies due to the Strait of Hormuz closure will hit crop yields, UNDP chief warns.
After the US and Israel launched a war on Iran on February 28, Tehran blocked the Strait of Hormuz.
An Israeli air strike near a mosque in Gaza killed at least five Palestinians, including three children.
Khalil was killed and her colleague injured in what Lebanese officials are calling a 'double-tap' strike by Israel.
In areas of southern Lebanon it has occupied since agreeing last week to a ceasefire with Hezbollah, the Israeli army has been destroying homes it says were used as outposts by the Iran-backed militant group. But the demolitions were happening on such a wide scale that residents, Lebanese officials and UN peacekeepers were increasingly worried that large numbers of people displaced by the latest war would have nowhere to return if the fragile truce holds. From a hill overlooking Beit Lif - about...
Lebanon's prime minister accused Israel of war crimes after IDF attacks on Red Cross vehicles also stopped rescuers from reaching the site.
Israel has killed journalist Amal Khalil and injured Zeinab Faraj in a ‘double-tap’ attack in southern Lebanon.
Critics say Israeli attacks on Christian sites challenge claims of a Judeo-Christian shared heritage and mutual respect.
Journalists wounded in Israeli attacks in at-Tiri, Lebanon's National News Agency (NNA) reports.
Israel is 'deliberately' attacking Lebanon's water, experts say, aiming to displace or kill south Lebanon's population.
Destruction of a statue of Jesus in Lebanon is disturbing, but Israel’s genocide is what really demands our outrage.
Two people have been killed after Israeli settlers opened fire on a school in the occupied West Bank.
Israel attacks mosque in Lebanon in another ceasefire violation
Al Jazeera’s Linh Nguyen explains Israeli drones above the skies in Lebanon, which critics call a "digital occupation."
Lebanese armed group Hezbollah said it fired rockets and drones into northern Israel on Tuesday, accusing the Israeli military of violating a ceasefire ahead of US-mediated talks between the Israeli and Lebanese governments this week. The Israeli military earlier said Iran-aligned Hezbollah had fired several rockets towards its troops operating in southern Lebanon, in what it described as a “blatant violation” of the ceasefire agreement. It was not immediately clear if the incidents were the...
Lebanon's disaster management unit raises death toll from weeks of Israeli attacks to 2,454, with 7,658 people injured.
Mourners across Lebanon are burying victims of the war with Israel during a 10-day ceasefire.
The image appears to show an Israeli soldier using a sledgehammer to strike the head on a statue of a crucified Jesus that had fallen off a cross
A photo of an Israeli soldier smashing a statue of Jesus Christ in southern Lebanon has sparked widespread outrage.
Energy markets have seen wild swings since the US and Israel attacked Iran on 28 February.
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Sunday that the military had been instructed to use “full force” in Lebanon – even during the continuing ceasefire – should Israeli troops face any threat. “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and I have instructed the IDF to act with full force, both on the ground and from the air, including during the ceasefire, in order to protect our soldiers in Lebanon from any threat,” Katz said at a function in the occupied West Bank. Later in the day, the army...
Israel and the US have been at war with Iran since Feb 28th. All sides have suffered, but it wasn’t always this way.
Israeli attacks on healthcare across Iran, Lebanon and Gaza
Images show Israel building permanent military bases in Gaza as US-backed reconstruction plans stall.
The Israeli 'Yellow Line' in Lebanon raises fears that a temporary military zone could become a longer-term occupation.
Families travel south to inspect destroyed homes, unsure whether to stay as concerns about renewed conflict increase.
Israeli attacks have killed at least 57 medical workers in Lebanon since early March. It is a pattern lifted from Gaza.
It is the first time Israel has referred to such a 'yellow line' in Lebanon, after using a similar measure in Gaza.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei warned the navy was ready to inflict ‘new bitter defeats’ on the US and Israel.
Al Jazeera correspondents on the ground report that Israeli bulldozers are also continuing home demolitions.
Ambulance workers in Lebanon recall Israeli ‘triple-tap’ targeted strikes which killed four paramedics and wounded six.
A Lebanese man who returned to southern Lebanon removes the Israeli flag from Beaufort Castle (Qalaat al-Shaqif).
Tens of thousands of people forcibly displaced by Israeli attacks on Lebanon use first day of ceasefire to return home.
President Joseph Aoun promised to work to preserve Lebanon's sovereignty and freedom.
The halt to weeks of fighting is being celebrated in Lebanon, but it will be difficult to ensure it lasts.
Hezbollah warns it has its 'finger on the trigger' in case of Israeli violations of the temporary ceasefire.
Celebrations in Lebanon as a 10-day ceasefire begins, opening the door to talks on a longer-term Israel-Lebanon deal.
A 10-day truce between the two countries is now in effect, with Iran-backed Hezbollah voicing support, as negotiations continue between the US and Iran.
Celebratory gunfire heard in Beirut as truce takes effect, though Lebanese military reports violations.
People in Beirut describe how the Israel war has turned their lives upside down.
Few Israelis see this truce as a way out of the conflict with Hezbollah, the BBC's Lucy Williamson writes.
Lebanon’s residents say they are wary of trusting that Israel will abide by the ceasefire agreement announced by Trump.
A 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon has gone into effect. It began at midnight local time (21:00 GMT).
Tensions linger as evacuees await clarity on the ceasefire’s terms before risking a return to war-torn villages.
Firefighters worked to extinguish a fire after a rocket attack from Hezbollah hit Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel.
Israel’s widening wars and disregard for its traditional allies are deepening international criticism and isolation.
Israeli strikes in the vicinity of a hospital in southern Lebanon destroyed buildings and several emergency vehicles.
BBC Verify analysis found more than 1,400 buildings had been destroyed since 2 March.
An Israeli triple-tap attack on rescue workers in southern Lebanon has killed four and left several others injured.
At least 2,167 people have been killed and more than 7,000 injured in Israeli attacks on Lebanon since March 2.
The Israeli army has bombed buildings in southern Lebanon’s Bint Jbeil district.
The experts call Israel's bombardment of Lebanon on April 8 'a blatant violation of the UN Charter'.
Israel strikes hit southern Lebanon and Hezbollah fires rockets at Israel, a day after rare direct negotiations.
The weaponisation of logistics has caused severe shortage of fuel, food and medicines piling misery on Palestinians.
Hezbollah lawmaker Hassan Fadlallah says negotiating 'with the enemy is wrong', warns of 'internal division'.
Palestinians in Gaza recorded victims of an Israeli strike on the Shati refugee camp being rushed to a medical facility.
An Israeli airstrike on a police vehicle in Gaza City killed at least four people, including a three-year-old child.
Video captured the moment a drone exploded in northern Israel’s Nahariya, about 10 kilometres from the Lebanese border.
Israel wants to expand in the Middle East. Its failure to defeat Iran is a major setback for its hegemonic plans.