Israeli airstrike kills three in Lebanon

People inspect damage due to Israeli raids on Tulkarm refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. Pics/AP

An Israeli drone strike hit a car Tuesday morning in southern Lebanon, killing three people inside it, security officials in the area said. The strike on Ghandouriyeh, about 10 km from the border with Israel, came a day after a similar attack killed a commander with the militant Hezbollah group.

Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken - on an urgent mission aimed primarily at preventing the Israel-Hamas conflict from spreading into a regional war - said Monday that Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Turkey would consider participating in post-conflict reconstruction and governance of Gaza, which has been decimated by Israeli bombardment.

A man walks over devotees as he tries to reach the ‘Black Nazarene'

The UN humanitarian office says the intensifying Israeli offensive in central and southern Gaza has had "devastating consequences", driving up civilian casualties, severely curtailing aid operations in the region and risking the closure of three major hospitals.

Sri Lanka to join Red Sea operations

Sri Lanka's navy will join a US-led operation to protect merchant vessels sailing in the Red Sea against attacks by Houthi rebels. The rebels have targeted commercial ships moving through the critical Bab el-Mandeb Strait that links markets in Asia and Europe.

Filipino Catholics pray for Mideast peace

A massive crowd of mostly barefoot Catholic worshippers marched Tuesday in an annual procession in the Philippines' capital that paraded a centuries-old black statue of Jesus. Many said they were praying for peace in the Middle East, where tens of thousands of Filipinos work, as fears rise of a spread of the Israel-Hamas war. Considered a major annual Catholic event in Asia, the statue was not paraded for three years during the COVID pandemic to discourage larger crowds.

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