Lebanon must disarm Hezbollah as agreed under the terms of a truce, the US State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce says, after rocket fire prompted Israel to bomb Beirut for the first time since the agreement came into effect. SOUNDBITE
Firefighters extinguish fires in cars burnt on Beirut’s airport road after Hezbollah supporters blocked the road for a second evening. A vehicle emblazoned with the logo of the UN peacekeeping force was among the torched cars as supporters of militant group Hezbollah again blocked the road to Beirut airport. IMAGES
Hezbollah supporters block the Beirut airport road and burn tyres to protest a decision barring two Iranian planes from landing in the Lebanese capital. An official at Beirut’s Rafic Hariri International Airport told AFP that the Ministry of Public Works and Transport had asked the facility to inform Mahan Air that Lebanon could not welcome
French President Emmanuel Macron, visiting Lebanon to lend his support to the new leadership, meets members of the Red Cross in Beirut. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron, on a visit to Lebanon to lend his support to the new Lebanese leadership, attends a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Beirut. IMAGES
France’s President Emmanuel Macron meets with French General Jean-Jacques Fatinet, the Chief of Staff of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), as well as two officials responsible for supervising the ceasefire between the Israeli army and Hezbollah, following his arrival in Beirut IMAGES
Lebanese lawmakers meet at the parliament in Beirut to elect a president after more than two years of deadlock, in a much-needed step to help lift the war-battered country out of financial crisis. IMAGES
Aftermath of an Israeli strike on central Beirut’s Hamra district, home to residential buildings, restaurants, offices, shops, the American University of Beirut and its associated hospital. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would bring a US-brokered proposal for a ceasefire with Hezbollah in Lebanon to his security cabinet for a vote as soon as
Smoke billows after Israel bombs the busy Beirut neighbourhood of Hamra. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he would bring a US-brokered proposal for a ceasefire with Hezbollah in Lebanon to his security cabinet for a vote as soon as this evening. IMAGES
