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Municipal police officers patrol outside a villa where the Lebanese money changer Mohammad Srour, 57, was found tortured and killed in Monte Verdi neighbourhood of Beit Meri, Lebanon, Tuesday, April 16, 2024. Lebanon’s interior minister alleged Wednesday that the mysterious abduction and killing of a Hezbollah-linked Lebanese financier in a villa on the edge of a quiet mountain resort town earlier this month was likely the work of Israeli operatives. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Lebanon says Israeli agents likely killed Hezbollah-linked currency exchanger near Beirut

By Bassem Mroue and Kareem Chehayeb - Associated Press

Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati speaks during a conference announcing a French reconstruction plan for the Beirut Port, in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, March 13, 2024. Mikati has denied all allegations of money laundering after a complaint was filed in France by two anti-corruption groups this week. The complaint against Najib Mikati was formally filed Tuesday, April 2, 2024, to France’s National Financial Prosecutor’s office by French anti-corruption non-governmental organization Sherpa and the Collective of Victims of Fraudulent and Criminal Practices. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)

Lebanon’s billionaire prime minister denies allegations of money laundering in France

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Paramedic workers search for victims in the rubble of a paramedic center that was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike early Wednesday in Hebbariye village, south Lebanon, Wednesday, March 27, 2024. The Israeli airstrike on a paramedic center linked to a Lebanese Sunni Muslim group killed several people of its members. The strike was one of the deadliest single attacks since violence erupted along the Lebanon-Israel border more than five months ago. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

7 Lebanese and an Israeli killed in an exchange of fire along the Lebanon-Israel border

By Mohammad Zaatari and Melanie Lidman - Associated Press

A Lebanese army officer stands next to a destroyed car in the southern outskirts of Tyre, Lebanon, Wednesday, March 13, 2024. An Israeli drone strike Wednesday targeting a car in southern Lebanon near the coastal city of Tyre killed a member of Hamas and at least one other person. (AP Photo/Mohammad Zaatari)

An Israeli drone strikes a car in southern Lebanon and kills a member of Hamas’ military wing

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Islamic Group known as Jamaa Islamiya, carry the body of their comrade Mohammad Riad Mohyeldin, who was killed in an apparent Israeli strike on Sunday, during his funeral procession in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, March 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

A pair of Israeli airstrikes deep into northeastern Lebanon kills at least two people, officials say

By Kareem Chehayeb and Suleiman Amhaz - Associated Press

An Israeli Apache helicopter fires flares over the Gaza Strip as seen from southern Israel, Monday, March 4, 2024. The army is battling Palestinian militants across Gaza in the war ignited by Hamas' Oct. 7 attack into Israel. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

At least 17 killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Gaza

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Israeli security forces in Kiryat Shoma, northern Israel, evacuate a wounded Thai man after he was hit by an anti-tank missile fired from Lebanon, in a nearby village on Monday, March 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

U.S. senior envoy in Beirut to press calm along Lebanon-Israel border as a truce in Gaza is pursued

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

A Lebanese army vehicle block a road leading to a destroyed warehouse, background, which was attacked by Israeli airstrikes, on the outskirts of the Hezbollah stronghold village of Buday, near Baalbek town, east Lebanon, Monday, Feb. 26, 2024. The Israeli military says its air force struck targets of the militant Hezbollah group "deep inside Lebanon," where residents reported explosions near the northeastern city of Baalbek. (AP Photo)

Israel’s air force strikes deep inside Lebanon, killing 2 people, after Hezbollah downs a drone

By Bassem Mroue and Melanie Lidman - Associated Press

Mourners carry coffins of seven civilians from a one family who were killed in a building by an Israeli airstrike on Wednesday night, during their funeral procession, in Nabatiyeh town, south Lebanon, Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024. The fatalities marked a significant escalation in more than four months of cross-border exchanges, triggered by the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

What to know about the situation in the Middle East this week

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Palestinians fleeing the Israeli offensive on Khan Younis arrive at Rafah, Gaza Strip. Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024. AP Photo/Hatem Ali)

Israeli forces storm main hospital in southern Gaza after prolonged standoff and partial evacuation

By Wafaa Shurafa and Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Civil defence and rescue workers remove rubbles from a building that was attacked Wednesday night by an Israeli airstrike, in Nabatiyeh town, south Lebanon, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. The airstrike killed and injured several people and child, Lebanon's state news agency reported. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

Hezbollah vows to retaliate after Israeli airstrikes kills 10 Lebanese civilians

By Mohammed Zaatari and Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri delivers a speech in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Aug. 31, 2009, Shiite Muslim spiritual leader, Imam Moussa Sadr, seen in the picture right, who disappeared on a trip to Libya in 1978. A delegation of Libyan justice officials in Beirut has reopened discussions with Lebanese officials over the fate of a prominent Lebanese cleric who went missing in Libya decades ago and the potential release of late dictator Moammar Gadhafi’s son, who has held without charges in Lebanon since 2015, according to Lebanese officials. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)

A Libyan delegation reopens talks in Lebanon on missing cleric, release of Gadhafi’s detained son

By Bassem Mroue and Abby Sewell - Associated Press

A Lebanese army officer stands next of a destroyed car in the southern town of Bazouriyeh, Lebanon, Saturday, Jan. 20, 2024. An Israeli drone strike on the car near the Lebanese southern port city of Tyre killed two people, the state-run National News Agency reported. (AP Photo/Mohammad Zaatari)

Strike kills Hezbollah official in Lebanon, amid apparent Israeli shift to targeted killings

By Mohammed Zaatari and Abby Sewell - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, attends a meeting with Israel's Foreign Minister Israel Katz, second right, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024, as part of his weeklong trip aimed at calming tensions across the Middle East. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool Photo via AP)

In Israel, Blinken looks to planning for postwar Gaza as bombardment, fighting continue to rage

By Matthew Lee, Najib Jobain and Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Civil defense workers search for survivors inside an apartment following a massive explosion in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024. The TV station of Lebanon's Hezbollah group says top Hamas official Saleh Arouri was killed Tuesday in an explosion in a southern Beirut suburb.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Fears grow that Israel, the U.S. and Iran’s allies are inching closer to all-out war

By Joseph Krauss - Associated Press

Palestinians gather around their relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip in front of the morgue of Al Aqsa Hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, on Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Hezbollah fires rockets at Israel in ‘initial response’ to killing of top leader from allied Hamas

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People take care of injured after an explosion in Kerman, Iran, Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024. Explosions at an event honoring a prominent Iranian general slain in a U.S. airstrike in 2020 have killed at least 73 people and wounded over 170 others, state-run media in Iran reported Wednesday. (AP Photo/Mahdi Karbakhsh Ravari)

Deadly explosions at memorial for Iranian general add new edge to regional tensions

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Palestinian demonstrators wave Hamas flags and shout slogans during a protest following the killing of top Hamas official Saleh Arouri in Beirut, in the West Bank city of Nablus on Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024. Arouri, the No. 2 figure in Hamas, was killed in an explosion blamed on Israel. He is the highest-ranked Hamas figure to be killed in the nearly three-month war between Israel and Hamas. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Israel suspected as drone strike kills senior Hamas officials in Beirut

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Palestinians flee the Israeli ground offensive in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Mohammed Dahman)

On foot and by donkey cart, thousands flee widening Israeli assault in Gaza

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An Israeli surveillance tower that was struck by Hezbollah is seen from the village of Duhaira in south Lebanon on the border with Israel, Saturday, Nov. 25, 2023. With a cautious calm prevailing over the border area in south Lebanon Saturday, the second day of a four-day cease-fire between Hamas and Israel, villages that had emptied of their residents came back to life at least briefly. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Lebanese residents of border towns come back during a fragile cease-fire

By Abby Sewell - Associated Press