The last moment of conflict in the Middle East today

12:53

Israel’s new attacks

The Israeli military announced the bombing of an underground tunnel leading from the Lebanese border to Syria.

12:18

Many people are working to clear the debris left by the new Israeli bombardment against Beirut. AFP

11:58

Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian attends Friday prayers in Tehran with Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. AFP

11:36

Israel announced that it had killed Mohammed Rashid Sakafi, the leader of Hezbollah’s communications network.

11:21

“Israel will never be able to conquer Hezbollah and Hamas,” Khamenei says.

“Resistance in the region will not diminish,” he stressed.

11:05

Iran’s supreme leader, next to a rifle, calls for a union of Muslim countries “against their common enemy”

Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei today said in his Friday sermon for the first time in five years that Muslim countries must “build a defense belt from Afghanistan to Yemen, from Iran to Gaza and Lebanon.” They all share “a common enemy”. Similarly, he has also defended the “legality” of the October 7 attacks against Israel, which killed 1,200 people, as well as the missile bombing a few days earlier.

Khamenei’s words came on the same day when Israeli forces bombed Beirut with the intention of killing the possible successor to Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah.

11:05

Israel rescues a young woman after she was kidnapped by Islamic State in the Gaza Strip for a decade

The Israeli military on Thursday announced the rescue of a young Yazidi girl who was kidnapped by the jihadist group Islamic State in Iraq when she was 11 and who was later taken to the Gaza Strip, where she was held by a member of Hamas. . “Almost a decade ago, when she was only 11 years old, she was kidnapped by members of the Islamic State and handed over to a Hamas member affiliated with the group in the Gaza Strip,” the Israeli military told XSocial. network.

11:03

devastation in beirut

A man looks at the destruction in Beirut after a new bombardment by the Israeli military. AFP

11:03

Awaiting a public sermon from Iran’s supreme leader, the first in nearly five years

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei will lead Friday prayers and deliver a public sermon that could shed light on the Islamic republic’s plans after a massive missile attack on enemy Israel. Khamenei’s unusual Friday sermon – his first in nearly five years – comes three days before the first anniversary of the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, which began with an attack by the Iran-backed Palestinian group on October 7.