An Israeli airstrike on Saturday struck a vehicle travelling in southern Lebanon, killing at least three people, including two journalists working for Lebanese media outlets Al Mayadeen and Al-Manar. The incident has drawn sharp condemnation from Lebanese authorities and media organisations, while the Israeli military asserted that at least one of those killed was an active member of Hezbollah’s intelligence apparatus. The Incident Al Mayadeen Media Network announced the death of its South Lebanon correspondent, Fatima Ftouni, along with her brother Mohammad Ftouni, following the strike. Al-Manar TV correspondent Ali Hassan Shaib — widely known among colleagues as Hajj Ali Shoeib — was also killed in the same attack. According to Al Mayadeen’s correspondent Jamal Ghourabi, the vehicle was visibly marked as a press car and was struck by four precision missiles. He further reported that paramedics who subsequently arrived at the scene were also targeted, resulting in the death of one par...
Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi (Ansar Allah) movement confirmed on Saturday that it had carried out its first military operation against Israel since the start of the US-Israeli war on Iran exactly one month ago, firing a barrage of ballistic missiles at what it described as "sensitive Israeli military sites in southern occupied Palestine." The attack, confirmed by both the Houthis and the Israeli military, signals a potentially significant widening of a conflict that has already drawn in multiple regional actors. In an official statement published by the Houthi-controlled Sana'a News Agency (SABA), the Yemeni Armed Forces framed the strike as a direct fulfilment of prior commitments to intervene militarily in support of Iran and allied "resistance fronts" in Lebanon, Iraq, and Palestine. "This operation coincided with the heroic operations carried out by our mujahideen brothers in Iran and Hezbollah in Lebanon," the statement read, adding that operati...