An Israeli airstrike on Beirut killed a senior Hezbollah commander on Tuesday as cross-border rocket attacks by both sides increased fears of a full-fledged war in the Middle East and Lebanon said only Washington could help end the fighting.
Amid Israel-Hezbollah strikes, Lebanon says only US can stop fighting
Ukraine war briefing: Trump expected to snub Zelenskyy as Biden backs Kyiv
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An official on Trump’s campaign said the Republican nominee will not meet this week with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy while he is in the US. No meeting has been scheduled between the two, the official told the Associated Press, despite a statement from Ukrainian officials last week that said Zelenskyy had planned to see the former president.
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Donald Trump said the US needs to “get out” of the war in Ukraine and that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris had no plan to do so. “Biden and Kamala got us into this war in Ukraine, and now they can’t get us out,” Trump said in a speech in Georgia. The US does not have troops in Ukraine but has given military and humanitarian assistance. Speaking in Savannah, Trump raised two historical conflicts to suggest Moscow would not lose. “What happens if they win? That’s what they do, is they fight wars. As somebody told me the other day, they beat Hitler, they beat Napoleon. That’s what they do. They fight. And it’s not pleasant.”
Israel strike kills 22 in Gaza school, says Hamas-run health ministry
An Israeli air strike on a school in Gaza City has killed at least 22 Palestinians, mostly women and children, according to Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry.
The school, closed during the war, was housing displaced people, the health ministry said.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it targeted a Hamas command centre which Israel said the militant group was using to "plan and carry out terrorist attacks”.
Hamas has denied using schools and other civilian sites for military purposes.
The Hamas-run government media office said the people killed in Saturday's strike in the al-Zaytoun area included several children and six women.
Gaza's civil defence agency reported the same death toll and added that one of the women was pregnant.
Zelensky to present 'victory plan' to Biden, Harris and Trump
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is set to present a "plan for victory" in the country's war with Russia to President Joe Biden during this week's visit to the US.
Zelensky also intends to present the plan to Congress and the two candidates in the US presidential election: Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump.
He is expected to ramp up efforts to persuade the US and its allies to allow Ukraine to fire the missiles they supplied deep into Russian territory for the first time in the war.
Zelensky's visit to the US coincides with efforts from the White House to prepare a new $375m (£283m) military aid package for Ukraine.
Lebanon counts nearly 500 killed in a day of Israeli strikes, with over 1,600 wounded
Analysts have called it the largest campaign of Israeli aerial strikes against Hezbollah, the Iran-backed Lebanese militia, since the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war.
Lebanon's Health Ministry has raised the death toll to 492, including 35 children, as well as 1,645 people injured in the Israeli attacks.
Israel and Hezbollah have been trading attacks back and forth across the Israeli-Lebanese border since the war in Gaza began in October last year. Hezbollah's leadership says it is acting out of solidarity with Palestinians and the Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza.
TVNL Comment: Will no one stop the US from financing the killing and genocide being waged by Israel? The entire region will blow up soon. Watch this space.
Israeli strikes kill at least 274 in Lebanon as the US is planning to send more troops to the Middle East
The Pentagon announced Monday that it is bolstering its forces in the Middle East as tensions between Israel and Hezbollah spike.
The move, with an undisclosed number of troops, follows Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon on Hezbollah targets that killed at least 274 people and wounded more than a thousand, according to Lebanon's health ministry, and increasing rocket and missile fire on Israel.
“In light of increased tensions in the Middle East and out of an abundance of caution, we are sending a small number of additional U.S. military personnel forward to augment forces already in the region,” said Air Force Maj. Pat Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary. “For operations security reasons, we won’t comment on or provide specific details.”
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Netanyahu weighs plan to force civilians out of north Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is considering implementing a plan that would involve forcing all Palestinian civilians to leave northern Gaza, and then refusing to allow any aid in to the remaining people, laying siege to the area, according to a former general for the IDF.
News that Netanyahu was considering the plan was first reported by CNN on Sunday.
The plan was formulated by a group of retired Israeli generals, led by Giora Eiland, who was head of Israel's National Security Council from 2004 to 2006.
It does not address whether Palestinians would be allowed to return to northern Gaza in the future if Israel were to carry out the plan.
TVNL Comment: This is the next move in Israel's land grab. They already are selling Gaza beachfront property in NYC. But only to Jewish buyers.
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