BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese President Michel Aoun has asked Russian ambassador Alexander Rudakov for satellite images from Aug. 4, 2020, when a huge explosion rocked Beirut s port, according to a Lebanese presidency tweet on Friday. The blast killed more than 215 people, injured thousands and destroyed swathes of the Lebanese capital. The lead investigator of the probe into the explosion, Judge Tarek Bitar, in May asked a number of countries for imagery, according to the Lebanese National News Agency. It did not name the countries. Top politicians, including Aoun, have repeatedly lamented a lack of cooperation from countries with requests to provide satellite pictures from the day of the blast. Former Prime Minister Hassan Diab asked France and Italy for images, but has said he did not receive them. The probe into the blast, one of the world s largest non-nuclear explosions, is stalling amid a smear campaign against Bitar and pushback from powerful factions. Many Lebanese are angry tha
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Israel Threatens Lebanon Over Rocket Attacks, Syria Warns Israel Against Airstrikes
On 7/20/21 at 9:05 PM EDT
The head of the Israeli military has threatened further retaliation to any additional attacks launched from across the northern border with Lebanon, while neighboring Syria has issued a warning to Israel after accusing it of recent airstrikes.
In remarks delivered Tuesday during a visit to Israel s Northern Command, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Aviv Kochavi spoke out in response to the launching of two rockets from Lebanese territory toward Israel s Western Galilee region. The IDF said late Monday, early Tuesday local time, one rocket was intercepted by the Iron Dome Defense System, while the other landed in an open field.