After thousands of pagers across Lebanon exploded on Tuesday and killed 12 people, the country was rocked again when walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah detonated on Wednesday. The incident has further stoked tensions between Israel and Hezbollah and raised the risks of an all-out war.
The 193-member General Assembly adopted the resolution, with 124 nations voting in favour, 14 against and 43 abstentions, including that by India. Those abstaining included Australia, Canada, Germany, Italy, Nepal, Ukraine and the United Kingdom.
Multiple explosions occurred Wednesday at the site of a funeral for three Hezbollah members and a child killed by exploding pagers the day before. Hezbollah’s Al Manar TV reported explosions in multiple areas of Lebanon, which it said were the result of walkie-talkies detonating.
Lebanon's Hezbollah said on Wednesday it attacked Israeli artillery positions with rockets in the first cross-border attack since the Tuesday pager blasts.
They carried umbrellas painted with watermelon images in support of the Palestinian cause amid the Israel-Hamas war. The watermelon colours are the same as those on the Palestinian flag and the fruit has come to symbolise Palestinian solidarity.
The long-forgotten communication device has recently resurfaced in the spotlight following a series of explosions that injured over a thousand people in Lebanon.
A Hezbollah official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the detonation of the pagers was the "biggest security breach" the group had been subjected to in nearly a year of war with Israel.
Hezbollah is a powerful part of the "Axis of Resistance", an alliance of Iran-backed groups across the Middle East that also includes the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, which ignited the Gaza war by attacking Israel on October 7.
"Amani has a superficial injury and is currently under observation in a hospital," Fars quoted a source as saying. More than 1,000 people across Lebanon, including Hezbollah fighters and medics, were wounded on Tuesday when the pagers they use to communicate exploded.
Thousand of people were wounded in Beirut’s suburbs and other parts of Lebanon after their handheld pagers exploded Tuesday, Lebanese state media and security officials said.
The explosions took place amid heightened violence between Israel and Hezbollah, who have been engaged in cross-border warfare since the Gaza war erupted last October in the worst such escalation in years.
Israel's military reported that a surface-to-surface missile launched from Yemen struck an uninhabited area in central Israel, resulting in no injuries. Just before the impact, air raid sirens had blared in Tel Aviv and throughout central Israel, prompting residents to seek shelter.
Israeli strikes tore a huge crater, set tents ablaze and buried Palestinian families alive under sand in a supposedly safe zone of southern Gaza before dawn on Tuesday. Earlier Gaza claimed at least 40 killed but later minimised the death toll in a revised announcement.
The Israeli military claimed to target Hamas militants operating from within a command-and-control centre in the camp, which was denied by Hamas. Meanwhile, India has reiterated support for a ceasefire "as soon as possible" in Gaza owing to the mounting death and destruction.
Three Israelis were shot and killed Sunday at the border crossing between the West Bank and Jordan, Israeli officials said, in what appeared to be an attack linked to the 11-month-old war in Gaza.
After a building containing her home was demolished by an Israeli air strike, Abu Mustafa, a brave teacher, set up a classroom on the rubble under a tent.
Thursday marked the 52nd anniversary of the attack by Palestinian militants on the Israeli delegation at the 1972 Munich Olympics, which ended with the death of 11 Israeli team members, a West German police officer and five of the assailants.
Netanyahu's stance on the Philadelphi corridor has threatened to derail ceasefire efforts in Gaza as Hamas and other negotiators have called for a full Israeli withdrawal. Israel claims Hamas smuggles weapons and supplies through the corridor located at Gaza's border with Egypt.
As funeral prayers were recited over his daughter’s body, her father, Osama Musleh, was overcome with grief. He recounted that the teenager had looked out the window in response to the sound of gunfire and was found with a gunshot wound to her forehead.
At least six people were detained at the scene at Copenhagen University after some 20 people had blocked the entrance to a building and three entered, a police spokesperson said.
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