Longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah, and strikes last night on Apartment Complex In Beirut. Israel claims that hezbollah was using the complex as in underground headquarters. This represents a major escalation of the backand forth between Israel And Hezbollah, which israel has intensified in the last couple weeks. The strikes killed several other Highranking Hezbollah officials and the iranian State News that says in revolutionary Guard General was killed in the same strike. Lebanon lawns and more than 100 wounded in the strikes. That number is expected to rise. Nasrallah is a travertine cleric, who has led the group since 1992 and has grown the group in most powerful Running Back and forth and the reason both militarily and political terry. It is what is called a state within a state. He also led the group through decades of conflict with israel, participate in the Syrian Civil War On Behalf of of the regime and help back others in the region including the houthis in yemen. The national
violence in the middle east exploding literally. reports of more than 100 dead as explosions rock a ceremony for a slain rainian general killed four years ago today, a top hamas leader taken out in beirut. containerships come under attack in the red sea and many companies say good-bye, we don t even want to be near the red sea. who leon panetta says we need to do to stop it. we are all over it. welcome. i m neil cavuto. let s get to it with jennifer griffin with the very latest at the pentagon keeping track of these developments and boy, they came fast and furious. well, absolutely, neil. the u.s. has pushed back on the allegations from iranian officials that they were involved in the twin bombings that killed more than 100 iranians making their way to the grave of general soleimani. the united states was not involved in any way. any suggestion to the contrary is ridiculous. we have no reason to believe that israel was involved in this explosion. today marks the fourt
The criteria for membership. Of the 15 council members, 12 voted yes while britain and switzerland abstained. We agree that the people of the West Bank And Gaza must be given the political perspective of a credible route to a Palestinian State and a new future, and it needs to be irreversible. This is not entirely in our gift but our recognition of a Palestinian State should be part of it. We believe that such recognition of Palestinian Statehood should not come at the start of a new process but it doesnt have to be at the very end of the process. The palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas condemned the us veto as quote unfair, unethical and unjustified, saying in a statement that it challenged the will of the international community, which strongly supports palestine s full membership. The push to recognise its statehood comes after more than six months of war in gaza while israel continues expanding settlements in the occupied west bank. Thats a move widely considered a violation of int
substantial pressure to reduce and minimise any response it makes to iran in response to iran s attack at the weekend, and it s coming under pressure from different angles. from the united nations, you have got antonio guterres, the un secretary general, saying, look, because we are now in a place of maximum danger, we need to be in a position of maximum restraint, warning that if there is an escalatory act by the israelis, then potentially, we could have a full scale regional war. that s the pressure from the un. then, from the other side you have pressure from the iranians themselves, doing everything they can to try to deter any israeli counter attack. so, you have got a revolutionary guard general saying, look, if israel attacks hard, we might have to revise our nuclear strategy. you ve got the iranian foreign minister at the united nations, saying, look, if israel
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