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Lebanon files UN complaint against Israel over pager attacks

Lebanon said Wednesday that it had filed a complaint with the United Nations' labour agency over deadly attacks on communication devices across the country in September, which it blames on Israel.Lebanese Labour Minister Mustafa Bayram called the attack an "egregious war against humanity, against technology, against work", saying his country had filed the complaint with the International Labour Organization in Geneva."It's a very dangerous precedent," he told journalists in the Swiss city at an event organised by the UN correspondents' association ACANU.
Source: Al Monitor
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'Save us': Gazans want Trump to end war with Israel

Palestinians in Gaza on Wednesday want Donald Trump, who won the US election, to end the war between Israel and Hamas that has devastated their territory.The conflict sparked by Hamas's October 7 attack has taken an appalling human toll in the Gaza Strip, displacing most of its residents, causing widespread hunger and death, and leaving hospitals struggling to cope."We were displaced, killed... there's nothing left for us, we want peace," Mamdouh al-Jadba, who was displaced to Gaza City from Jabalia, told AFP.
Source: Al Monitor
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Iranians fear Trump comeback will bring them more pain

When Donald Trump was last in the White House, he pursued a policy of "maximum pressure" against the Islamic republic of Iran, including punishing sanctions.Now that he is set to begin another term as US president in January, anxiety is mounting in Tehran that more of the same will follow.During Trump's first term, the United States also killed a revered Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps general in an air strike on Baghdad airport in Iraq.Such history between the two long-time adversaries casts a dark shadow over the prospect of relations improving.
Source: Al Monitor
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Israelis in Jerusalem see Trump return as 'God's plan'

Israelis in Jerusalem welcomed Donald Trump's US election triumph on Wednesday, hoping he might help end the wars devastating the region, while some called it "part of God's plan"."I believe in God, so this is part of God's plan," Esther Henderson, 44, a shopper in the ancient city's popular Mahane Yehuda market, told AFP."I feel like this is part of God showing us that the evil side, the more corrupt, the globalism, is starting to fall down," she said."It's not that I love Trump so much," said Henderson. "I just don't like what's been going on in the world lately."
Source: Al Monitor
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Hezbollah says tens of thousands of fighters ready to battle Israel

Hezbollah said Wednesday that tens of thousands of its militants were ready to fight Israel, adding that the US election result would have no bearing on the war in Lebanon.The Iran-backed group's leader also warned that nowhere in Israel would be "off-limits" to attacks, as the Israeli military said about 120 projectiles had been fired across the border on Wednesday.The Israeli military struck Hezbollah's main bastion of south Beirut after issuing an evacuation warning.
Source: Al Monitor
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