Lebanon

The group Animals Lebanon says it rescued Sara the lion cub from abuse by a Lebanese social media influencer, kept it safe in Beirut and sent it to a wildlife sanctuary in South Africa.

Foreign laborers, many from Thailand, are tending fields and livestock in an area Israel has declared off-limits to its own civilians amid ongoing military operations against Hezbollah.

A neighborhood watch group in a Christian Beirut neighborhood is on the lookout for militant operatives, which could make the area a target for Israeli airstrikes.

Israeli airstrikes killed at least 46 people in the Gaza Strip in the past day, medics said. In Lebanon, warplanes struck Beirut's southern suburbs and killed 33 people in the country on Tuesday.

As Israel intensified attacks in the Lebanese city of Baalbek, residents fled to an ancient Roman temple, hoping the site’s UNESCO status might save them.

The cleric takes over after Israel killed Hezbollah's longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah, in an airstrike in a Beirut suburb in late September.

Geitaoui Hospital has Lebanon's only unit specializing in burn treatment. Since Israel launched an air and ground invasion of the country to fight Hezbollah, burn cases have mounted.

The Gaza Health Ministry’s emergency service said that 11 women and 2 children were among those killed in the strikes late Saturday on several homes and buildings in the northern town of Beit Lahiya.

The Israeli military said that one of its airstrikes earlier this month killed Hashem Safieddine. There was no immediate confirmation from the militant group about the fate of top official.