Live Updates: Israeli army destroys houses in Lebanon's border village

Saturday, October 26, 2024

08:07 GMT — Lebanon's state media has reported that the Israeli army has destroyed houses in a border village.

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03:19 GMT — Microsoft fires employees who organised vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza

Microsoft has fired two employees who organised a vigil at the company's headquarters for Palestinians killed in Gaza during Israel's war.

The two employees told The Associated Press they were fired by phone call, several hours after a lunchtime event they organised at Microsoft's campus in Redmond, Washington.

Both workers were members of a coalition of employees called “No Azure for Apartheid" that has opposed Microsoft's sale of its cloud-computing technology to the Israeli government. However, they contended that the event was similar to other Microsoft-sanctioned employee-giving campaigns for people in need.

Microsoft said Friday it has “ended the employment of some individuals under internal policy” but declined to provide details.

02:13 GMT — Pro-Iran factions in Iraq claim responsibility for drone strike in Israel

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a loose network of pro-Iran factions, claimed responsibility early for a drone attack against a "military target" in northern Israel, following the announcement of Israeli strikes on Iran. "Islamic Resistance fighters in Iraq carried out a drone attack at dawn against a military target in Acre," in northern Israel, the group said in a statement on Telegram.

02:30 GMT — Hezbollah says carried out 48 attacks against Israeli army in single day

Hezbollah has said that its members carried out 48 attacks and confronting operations against the Israeli army, marking the highest record of attacks since October 8 in a single day.

Separate statements by the Lebanese group said it targeted 31 groups of Israeli soldiers in northern Israel and southern Lebanon with rockets and artillery shells. The group also attacked seven Israeli Merkava tanks inflicting fatalities.

Hezbollah added that it targeted three settlements in Safed city two times, five military sites and an artillery bunker in northern Israel with barrages of rockets.

The attacks included forcing an Israeli drone to leave Lebanon's airspace after targeting it with a surface-to-air rocket.

The Israel Hayom newspaper said it was "a record breaking" number of attacks for Hezbollah in one day since October 8, 2023.

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