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Hezbollah willing to bend, not break for a truce

More than a month into its war with Israel, Hezbollah says it is ready for a truce, but there are limits to what it can accept after suffering devastating attacks, analysts say.

The Iran-backed group said Wednesday it would accept a ceasefire, if offered and if the terms were "suitable," acknowledging it had been dealt "painful" blows by Israel.

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Israeli airstrikes on villages in northeastern Lebanon kill 10 people

Lebanon’s state news agency says two separate Israeli airstrikes on Friday in the country's northeast have killed 10 people.

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Some defiant south Lebanese stay put in face of Israeli fire

Cattle farmer Khairallah Yaacoub refused to leave south Lebanon despite a year of Hezbollah-Israel clashes. When full-scale war erupted, he and four others were stranded in their ruined border village.

Yaacoub is among a handful of villagers in the war-battered south who have tried to stay put despite the Israeli onslaught.

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Lebanese 'orphaned of their land' as Israel blows up homes

The news came by video. Law professor Ali Mourad discovered that Israel had dynamited his family's south Lebanon home only after footage of the operation was sent to his phone.

"A friend from the village sent me the video, telling me to make sure my dad doesn't see it," Mourad, 43, told AFP.

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WHO 'deeply concerned' about 'rising attacks' on Lebanon healthcare

The World Health Organization said Friday it was deeply concerned about Israeli attacks hitting healthcare workers and facilities in Lebanon, in its war against Hezbollah.

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UN envoy says war puts Lebanon heritage sites 'in deep peril'

The U.N.'s special coordinator for Lebanon on Friday said the country's cultural heritage was being endangered by Israeli strikes on the ancient Lebanese cities of Tyre and Baalbek, home to UNESCO-designated Roman ruins.

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UN aid agency says there's a new wave of displacement from Dahieh after Israeli strikes

The U.N. humanitarian aid coordination agency is pointing to a new “wave of displacement” in Beirut's southern suburbs after the Israeli army issued new orders for people to leave.

Spokesman Jens Laerke of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Aid, citing local officials, says the new displacement orders for the capital’s southern suburbs were followed shortly afterward by heavy airstrikes.

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Israel strikes eastern city of Baalbek

The official National News Agency on Friday reported an Israeli strike on the eastern city of Baalbek, following heavy air raids on the area in recent days.

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Mikati accuses Israel of rejecting truce after Dahieh strikes

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati accused Israel of rejecting a ceasefire after the Israeli military bombed Beirut's southern suburbs for the first time this week on Friday.

At least 10 strikes hit the southern suburbs before dawn after the Israeli military issued evacuation warnings, with AFPTV footage showing explosions and clouds of smoke.

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Israeli airstrike on the edge of Qmatiyeh kills 3 and wounds 5

Lebanon’s Health Ministry said an Israeli airstrike on a mountain town overlooking Beirut has killed three people and wounded five.

The ministry gave no further details about the early Friday airstrike on the edge of Qmatiyeh, in the Aley district southeast of Beirut.

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