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Salam meets with Saudi crown prince in Mecca

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam met Sunday in Mecca with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman after performing the Eid al-Fitr prayer with him at Mecca’s Grand Mosque.

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Netanyahu says Israel 'respects' Lebanon and its army

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel is enforcing a tough and uncompromising policy in Lebanon.

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Qassem threatens 'other options' if diplomacy fails

Hezbollah chief Sheikh Naim Qassem has said in a speech broadcast overnight that he could not accept continued Israeli attacks on Lebanon, a day after Israel’s first strike on Beirut since a November ceasefire.

"This aggression must end. Israel... bombed Beirut's southern suburbs for the first time since the truce... we cannot allow this to continue," Qassem said in a televised address.

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Aoun to hold meetings in Lebanon over latest Israeli escalation

The Israeli attack that targeted Beirut’s southern suburbs for the first time since the latest war will be discussed in meetings that President Joseph Aoun is expected to hold following his return from France on Friday evening, informed sources said.

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Iran urges 'decisive measures' from int'l community after Israel's attack on Dahieh

Iran has described the "excuses" put forward to justify Israel's attack Friday on a Beirut southern suburb as "completely unjustified and baseless."

Foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei called for "decisive measures" from the international community to address the "lawlessness" of Israel's continual use of military force from Gaza to Syria and Lebanon.

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How will latest Israel-Lebanon escalation affect the tenuous ceasefire?

An already fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah appeared to be on shaky ground Friday after rockets fired from Lebanon into northern Israel triggered Israeli airstrikes in the southern suburbs of Beirut.

The rocket launch from Lebanon was the second in a week, after a lull since December. In both cases, Hezbollah denied being behind the attacks.

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Syria, Lebanon sign border security deal in Saudi Arabia

The defense ministers of Lebanon and Syria signed an agreement in Jeddah "to address security and military threats" along their common border, the official Saudi Press Agency reported on Friday.

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US says Lebanon must disarm Hezbollah as per 'agreement'

Lebanon must disarm Hezbollah as agreed under the terms of the November truce with Israel, the U.S. State Department said Friday, after rocket fire prompted Israel to bomb Beirut's southern suburbs for the first time since the agreement came into effect.

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US sanctions 'evasion network' supporting 'Hezbollah finance operations'

The United States said Friday that it slapped sanctions on a Lebanon-based “sanctions evasion network” that supports Hezbollah’s “finance team, which oversees commercial projects and oil smuggling networks that generate revenue for Hezbollah.”

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Ortagus says ceasefire violation came from Lebanon, Israel had right to respond

Deputy U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Morgan Ortagus said that Friday’s ceasefire violation came from Lebanon and that Israel had the right to respond.

She was speaking to Al-Arabiya TV after Israel carried out an airstrike in Beirut’s southern suburbs, the first since the end of the war, in response to two rockets that were fired from Lebanon.

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