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The Jewish state’s attacks are killing civilians and undermining diplomacy, the British foreign secretary has said.

Israeli attacks in Lebanon are killing civilians and must end, UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has said, after the Jewish state stepped up military activity against its northern neighbour.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has intensified airstrikes in recent days and moved deeper into Lebanese territory despite the ceasefire agreed in mid-April after more than a month of fighting.

On Sunday, Israeli troops seized Beaufort Castle, a 900-year-old Crusader fortress, while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had instructed the military “to expand its ground maneuver” against Lebanese armed group Hezbollah.

Netanyahu’s order could further complicate indirect talks between the US and Iran, with peace in Lebanon being among Tehran’s key demands for prolonging the truce with Washington.

In a post on X on Monday, Cooper said Israel’s military escalation in Lebanon “has killed and displaced civilians, destroyed infrastructure, and eroded space for diplomacy. It must end.”

She also called on Hezbollah to stop attacking Israel and lay down its arms.

“All sides must respect the ceasefire and engage with negotiations in good faith,” the foreign secretary said.

German Foreign Minister Johannes Wadephul said in a statement on Sunday that the Israeli advances are a “cause for serious concern,” warning that they could “exacerbate the already tense situation and trigger new waves of displacement within Lebanon.”

At least 12 civilians were killed by IDF strikes in Lebanon on Sunday, according to Al Jazeera.



Data from the Lebanese authorities suggests that more than 3,400 people have been killed, around 10,000 wounded, and over 1.6 million displaced in the country since Israel launched its military operation against Hezbollah in early March, just days after the US-Israeli attack on Iran.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke with both Netanyahu and Lebanese President Joseph Aoun by phone over the weekend in an attempt to push through a new proposal for a “gradual de-escalation” between Israel and Hezbollah. “This would create space for gradual de-escalation and an effective cessation of hostilities,” Rubio said.

As a first step, Rubio’s plan calls for Hezbollah to halt drone attacks on Israel, with the IDF refraining from escalating operations in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, in return, a source said.

According to the report, Aoun tried to advance the US proposal, but Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, who is close to Hezbollah, insisted the Israelis should stop “shooting first.”

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  1. Simple. The Lebanese are harbouring Hezbollah terrorists funded by Iran that attacked Israel. Israel has every right to retaliate. End of story.

  2. Gaza would not have happened, neither would Iran, neither would this bombing of Lebanon – if America was not involved in the supply of money, intelligence and weapons.
    No matter what the politics, the religious causes, or any reasons or excuses whatsoever, what was done to Gaza and its population was an abomination.
    And the UN and the international community did nothing.

    • America is now the United States of Israel, BUT-
      Let’s back up a bit;
      1861-1865- U.S. War between the States ie ‘Civil War’
      1868- Rothschild Banksters loan money to the U.S. Treasury in order to recoup war losses. The U.S. then forms the ‘United States Corporation’, nullifying Constitutional Common Law Government and replacing the same with Admiralty Commerce Law.
      1871- U.S. Congress votes to continue taxation in order to pay off the Rothschild loan which has higher variable usury interest rates,
      and allows Zionist Banksters to dictate monetary policy to the United States Corporation.
      1912- Concern over the Zionist totally taking-over the U.S. Treasury causes several wealthy persons to embark on a voyage to stop the proposed meeting on Jekyll Island, State of Georgia in the U.S., but never arrive as they were travelling on the Titanic, which was ordered to move at high speed thru the ice fields. The rest is history,…
      1913- U.S.President Woodrow Wilson is caught having an affair with a teen-aged girl, and is bribed by the J3w$ in the Rothschild Financial Network to sign the U.S. Treasury over to the privately-owned Rothschild (J3wi$h) system known as the Federal Reserve Bank, with the deceptive title of ‘reserve’ which it is not, as it’s a ‘private’ bank! The United States Corporation becomes the United States of Judea.
      1914- World War One begins with the Zionist builders and makers of war material in firm control of the financial, logistical, and political processes to allow the same. They make millions of dollars off of the war effort via supplying the same!
      1917- U.S. enters World War One via the sinking of the Lusitania, despite Germany warning Americans not to travel on British ships
      Decades later the Lusitania was discovered in fact to be shipping arms to England.
      1918- World War One ends, and the release of the Spanish Flu bioweapon in conjunction with the first high-powered radio station emitting EMF shortwave frequencies & wavelengths transmitting to Europe is unleashed, with million dying worldwide.
      1920- The illegal Balfour Declaration is made, with Great Britain allowing Jews via Rothschild to migrate to Palestine illegally!
      1926- The Great Miami Hurricane hits south Florida, resulting in mortgagees abandoning their storm-devastated properties and defaulting on their mortgages, leaves the Banks hedging the losses in the over-inflated stock markets
      1929- The Great Depression officially begins, although the foundation for the collapse occurred in 1926.
      1933 – Hitler and Roosevelt come to power in their respective countries. Judea immediately declares war on Germany.
      https://ia601901.us.archive.org/25/items/DailyExpressJudeaDeclaresWarOnGermanyBoycottOfGermanGoodsEN19331P./Daily%20Express%20-%20Judea%20declares%20War%20on%20Germany%20-%20Boycott%20of%20German%20Goods%20%28EN%2C%201933%2C%201%20p.%29_text.pdf
      1934- The Havara Agreement begins-
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdgqlXdr5yc
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5r03IaHpCY
      1939- World War Two begins, with Zionist Banksters financing both sides of the war.
      1948- Israel illegally created further enshrining the illegal Balfour Declaration
      The rest is a psychopathic history of murder, Mossad-orchestrated assassinations of mayhem, and the bankruptcy of nations and people on a global scale.
      And the wimpish, pussified world stands by and does…NOTHING!!!
      https://rumble.com/v630upq-60-minutes-israeli-mossad-agent-reveals-how-they-orchestrate-terrorism.html?mref=1htl22&mrefc=2

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