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Know Anyone Who Thinks Racial Profiling Is Exaggerated? Watch This, And Tell Me When Your Jaw Drops.
This video clearly demonstrates how racist America is as a country and how far we have to go to become a country that is civilized and actually values equal justice. We must not rest until this goal is achieved. I do not want my great grandchildren to live in a country like we have today. I wish for them to live in a country where differences of race and culture are not ignored but valued as a part of what makes America great.
Saturday, September 21, 2024
Death Toll Rises After Israeli Strike in Beirut: Live Updates - The New York Times
Live Updates: With Death Toll Rising, Tensions Run High After Israeli Strike in Beirut
"Hezbollah said a senior leader was among those killed, the day after confirming the death of a top commander wanted by the U.S. Lebanon’s Health Ministry said the death toll had risen to at least 37 and included women and children.
Missiles, rockets and artillery shells flew back and forth over the Israel-Lebanon border on Saturday, as families in Beirut awaited news of loved ones who were missing after an Israeli airstrike that killed senior Hezbollah commanders in a residential building a day earlier.
The Israeli military said it struck 180 targets in southern Lebanon in one hour on Saturday, including thousands of rocket launcher barrels that “were ready for immediate use to fire into Israeli territory.”
Gaza’s rescue services said the Saturday strike on Gaza’s Zeitoun School killed mostly women and children.Omar Al-Qattaa/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Israel said it struck a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City on Saturday because it believed Hamas militants were using the building as a command center. Palestinian health authorities said the attack killed 22 people, mostly women and children, who had sought shelter at the school, and did not confirm any combatant deaths.
Israel has conducted dozens of airstrikes on schools across the Gaza Strip, structures that thousands of Gazans have sought shelter in as they are displaced by fighting across the embattled enclave. The Israeli army said the compound was being used as a Hamas “command and control center,” a claim it has repeatedly made in justifying itsincreasingly frequent strikeson schools serving as shelters.
Sept. 21, 2024, 11:17 a.m. ET
The sound of Israeli surveillance drones above Beirut has been incessant since the deadly airstrike on Friday. Even for a country used to surveillance drones, this is unusual.
Fighters wearing the insignia of the Hezbollah’s Radwan force during a training exercise in southern Lebanon in May 2023.Wael Hamzeh/EPA, via Shutterstock
Hezbollah said Saturday that Ahmed Wahbi, a commander it described as a leader and trainer in the group’s elite Radwan force, had been killed in an airstrike along with the force’s founding commander,Ibrahim Aqeel, and other Hezbollah members.
As is common for Hezbollah military operatives, Mr. Wahbi had little public profile while he was alive, but an obituary distributed by Hezbollah-linked media said he played a leading role in Hezbollah’s support for Hamas after the latter’s assault on Israel on Oct. 7. Hezbollah has launched attacks on northern Israel through the war in Gaza to support Hamas.
Jake Sullivan, the White House national security adviser, said, “the risk of escalation is real.”Eric Lee/The New York Times
President Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, told reporters on Saturday that the fighting in Lebanon poses an “acute” risk that the war will escalate.
An Israeli airstrike on Friday targeting a meeting of Hezbollah leaders killed 37 people, including a senior leader of the militant group, which is based in Lebanon and is backed by Iran. Hezbollah has promised to retaliate against Israel, raising fears that the war in the Gaza Strip, ignited by the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attack on Israel, could spread to Lebanon and elsewhere.
Sept. 21, 2024, 10:48 a.m. ET
Rocket fire from Lebanon ignited several brush fires around the city of Safed on Saturday, Israeli media said. It said 10 firefighting teams, including four aerial units, were working to combat the flames. Three more firefighting teams were battling flames in Kadita, a border town in the country’s far north.
Sept. 21, 2024, 10:34 a.m. ET
The Israeli military said it had struck 180 targets across southern Lebanon within the last hour, including thousands of rocket launcher barrels. It said the launchers "were ready for immediate use to fire into Israeli territory." It also said 90 rockets entered Israeli from Lebanon on Saturday.
Sept. 21, 2024, 10:32 a.m. ET
Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati, has canceled a planned trip to New York for U.N. General Assembly meetings, according to a statement from his office. The statement said the decision was a result of “Israel’s aggression on Lebanon.”
Rescue workers on Saturday at a suburban Beirut residential building that was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike a day earlier.Diego Ibarra Sanchez for The New York Times
After a nightlong vigil, with an untold number of hours of waiting still ahead, Najwa Qubaisi pushed away every relative who tried to coax her from the concrete skeleton of the building that had once been home to her grandson and his family.
“How can I leave? I can’t,” she said, her eyes puffy from hours of crying. “I want to stay until I get some kind of news.”
A beach on Saturday in Tel Aviv was a marked contrast to the tensions in northern Israel near the border with Lebanon.Menahem Kahana/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Northern Israel was bracing for a potential counterattack from Hezbollah on Saturday, after aweek of apparent Israeli attacksin Lebanon killed dozens, including Hezbollah commanders, and wounded thousands more.
Many towns across the border area have been largely empty since the cross-border fighting drove tens ofthousands of peoplefrom their homes last October when the war between Israel and Hamas, a Hezbollah ally, began in the Gaza Strip.
Sept. 21, 2024, 9:15 a.m. ET
At least 37 people have now been killed following the Israeli strike in Beirut’s southern suburbs on Friday, said Lebanon’s health ministry. Rescue teams were continuing to search through the rubble, according to the statement.
Sept. 21, 2024, 7:39 a.m. ET
The Israeli military said it was again striking at Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, but the attack appeared so far to be confined to southern Lebanon where such strikes have beenfrequent. Lebanon's state-run news agency said Israel had launched airstrikes across parts of southern and eastern Lebanon where the group is dominant.
Sept. 21, 2024, 7:31 a.m. ET
Nadav Shoshani, a spokesman for the Israeli military, said it killed at least 16 Hezbollah fighters in the Friday strike in Beirut, which flattened a residential building in the city’s crowded southern suburbs. That appears to correspond with a list released by Hezbollah earlier in the day of members who had been killed.
Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
A wounded person outside the American University hospital in Beirut after hand-held pagers exploded across Lebanon on Tuesday.Mohamed Azakir/Reuters
They are just the latest attacks — including a series against Iran’s nuclear program — that have embarrassed enemies and demonstrated Israel’s prowess at using military technology and intelligence in ways that suggest it can strike anywhere and at any time.
Sept. 21, 2024, 7:08 a.m. ET
As Israel braces for a potential Hezbollah counterattack, the government on Saturday closed the airspace in the northern part of the country to all private flights. The restrictions, which apply to airspace north of the city of Hadera, do not impact commercial flights, the military said, and are being imposed “to maintain the security of flights and in accordance with operational activity.”
Sept. 21, 2024, 6:03 a.m. ET
Lebanon’s minister of health, Firass Abiad, said 70 people had been killed since Tuesday as a result of Israeli attacks — not only from the Friday airstrike, but the pager and walkie-talkie explosions on Tuesday and Wednesday, which intelligence agencies say was an Israeli operation.
News ANALYSIS
Hezbollah supporters mourning the deaths of two people after a second wave of explosions followed this week’s pager attack.Diego Ibarra Sanchez for The New York Times
For the second time in less than two months, Israel located and killed Hezbollah’s most senior and secretive military figures as they held covert meetings near Beirut. And in between those strikes, Israel incapacitated hundreds, if not thousands, of the group’s rank-and-file members by remotely blowing up their pagers and walkie-talkies.
Hezbollah’s response so far:calls for vengeanceand routine rocket fire into northern Israel.
Sept. 21, 2024, 5:17 a.m. ET
Lebanon’s health minister, Firas Abiad, said the number of people killed in Israel's strike in the southern suburbs of Beirut had risen to 31, including three children and seven women. At least 68 more people were wounded, he said.
The scene of a truck bombing on Oct. 23, 1983, at a U.S. Marine base near Beirut Airport that killed 241 American servicemen.Associated Press
The American Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, after a car bomb, in 1983.Associated Press
In the annals of Middle East violence, it can be hard to pick moments that stand out, but 1983 was a watershed year because of suicide bombings in Beirut that left at least 360 people dead, the majority of them U.S. Marines.
A meeting of the U.N. Security Council was called on Friday to address the growing conflict between Israel and Lebanon.Stephani Spindel/EPA, via Shutterstock
Members of the United Nations Security Council called on Friday for an investigation into operations in Lebanon — widely attributed to Israel — that detonated the pagers and walkie-talkies of Hezbollah operatives en masse, killing dozens and injuring thousands, including several children.
The nature of the attacks, which transformed ordinary objects into weapons, raised alarms and drew widespread condemnation at the meeting.
News Analysis
People gathering at the scene of an Israeli strike in the southern suburbs of Beirut on Friday.Bilal Hussein/Associated Press
Exploding pagers on Tuesday. Detonating walkie-talkies on Wednesday. An unusually intense barrage of bombs on Thursday. And a huge strike on southern Beirut on Friday.
Israeli attacks on Hezbollah, the Lebanese militia, this week constitute a significant escalation in the 11-month war between the two sides. For nearly a year, Israel and Hezbollah have fought a low-level conflict, mostly along the Israeli-Lebanese border, that has gradually gathered force without ever exploding into an all-out war."
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