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                                                                                         WORLD NEWS Friday 5 July 2024
             Hezbollah fires over 200 rockets into Israel after killing of senior


             commander



            By KAREEM CHEHAYEB                                                                                                  Nasser was of great impor-
            Associated Press                                                                                                    tance  to  Hezbollah,  which
            BEIRUT  (AP)  —  The  Leba-                                                                                         said he took part in battles
            nese Hezbollah group said                                                                                           in  conflicts  in  Syria  and
            it  launched  over  200  rock-                                                                                      Iraq  from  2011  until  2016
            ets  on  Thursday  at  several                                                                                      and  fought  in  the  group’s
            military  bases  in  Israel  in                                                                                     last war with Israel in 2006.
            retaliation  for  a  strike  that                                                                                   Two other senior Hezbollah
            killed one of its senior com-                                                                                       commanders  have  also
            manders.                                                                                                            been killed.
            The  attack  by  the  Iran-                                                                                         The  U.S.  and  France  are
            backed militant group was                                                                                           continuing   to   scramble
            one  of  the  largest  in  the                                                                                      to  prevent  the  skirmishes
            monthslong  conflict  along                                                                                         from spiraling into an all-out
            the  Lebanon-Israel  border,                                                                                        war, which they fear could
            with  tensions  escalating  in                                                                                      spillover  across  the  region.
            recent weeks.                                                                                                       Washington  in  its  shuttle
            The Israeli military said “nu-                                                                                      diplomatic  efforts  initially
            merous projectiles and sus-                                                                                         hoped  for  calm  along  the
            picious  aerial  targets”  had                                                                                      Lebanon-Israel  border  in  a
            entered  its  territory  from                                                                                       deal that is not linked to the
            Lebanon,  many  of  which                                                                                           war in Gaza.
            it  said  were  intercepted.   Hezbollah fighters attend the funeral procession of their comrade, senior commander   However, since the U.S. has
            It  confirmed  the  death  of   Mohammad Naameh Nasser, who was killed by an Israeli airstrike that hit his car in the southern   called for Hamas to agree
            one soldier in the barrage.   costal town of Tyre, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, July 4, 2024.   to  a  cease-fire  proposal
                                                                                                               Associated Press
            It  said  about  200  “projec-                                                                                      presented   by   President
            tiles”  were  launched  to-  tional  News  Agency  re-    Hours  after  the  killing,  Hez-  jected by the international  Joe  Biden,  it  has  said  that
            ward  the  Israeli-annexed  ported that an Israeli drone  bollah  launched  scores  of  community.                  an end to the war in Gaza
            Golan Heights and over 20  strike of Houla killed at least  Katyusha rockets and Falaq  Hashem  Safieddine,  head  would lead to calm in Leb-
            drones  into  Israeli  territory,  one person. Israeli jets also  rockets  with  heavy  war-  of  Hezbollah’s  Executive  anon and northern Israel as
            but that it had intercepted  broke  the  sound  barrier  heads  into  northern  Israel  Council,  vowed  that  the  well.
            some of them.                over the Lebanese capital,  and the Golan. It launched  group will continue its retal-  The relatively low-level con-
            After  Hezbollah’s  attack,  Beirut,  and  other  areas  in  more  rockets  on  Thursday  iatory  attacks,  “targeting  flict  erupted  shortly  after
            Israel  struck  various  towns  the country.              and  said  it  had  also  sent  new sites they never imag-  the  outbreak  of  the  war
            in  southern  Lebanon.  The  Israel  on  Wednesday  ac-   exploding  drones  into  sev-  ined would be hit.”        in  Gaza.  Hezbollah  says  it
            Israeli military said it hit He-  knowledged  that  it  had  eral  bases.  Israel  captured  “The enemy sometimes ac-  is  striking  Israel  in  solidarity
            zbollah’s  “military  struc-  killed Mohammad Naameh  the Golan, a strategic pla-      knowledges these hits and  with  Hamas,  another  Iran-
            tures”  in  the  southern  bor-  Nasser, who headed one of  teau, from Syria in the 1967  sometimes does not, but it  allied  group  that  ignited
            der  towns  of  Ramyeh  and  Hezbollah’s  three  regional  Mideast war in a move that  is  certain  that  there  have  the  war  in  Gaza  with  its
            Houla.                       divisions  in  southern  Leba-  is recognized by the United  been many casualties,” he  Oct. 7 attack into southern
            Lebanon’s  state-run  Na-    non, a day earlier.          States  but  otherwise  re-  said at Nasser’s funeral.    Israel. q

             U.S. citizen Woodland convicted of drug-related charges by

             Moscow court. He’s sentenced to 12.5 years



            MOSCOW  (AP)  —  Robert  hasn’t been proven.              cited court officials as say-  tenced  by  a  Russian  court  partment, citing privacy is-
            Woodland,  a  Russia-born  Lawyer Stanislav Kshevitsky  ing  that  Woodland  also  and  that  the  embassy  in  sues, said it would have no
            U.S.  citizen,  was  convicted  also  said  that  Woodland  holds Russian citizenship.  Moscow was closely moni-    further comment.q
            of drug-related charges by  has been suffering from un-   Arrests of Americans in Rus-  toring  the  case.  The  de-
            a  Moscow  court  and  sen-  specified  mental  health  is-  sia  have  become  increas-
            tenced  to  12  1/2  years  in  sues. He didn’t provide any  ingly  common  as  relations
            prison  on  Thursday,  court  details,  but  said  that  the  between   Moscow   and
            officials  and  his  lawyers  court  didn’t  take  those  is-  Washington  sink  to  Cold
            said.                        sues into account.           War  lows.  Washington  ac-
            He  was  found  guilty  of  at-  Russian  media  reported  cuses Moscow of targeting
            tempted trafficking of large  that  his  name  matches  a  its  citizens  and  using  them
            amounts  of  illegal  drugs  U.S.  citizen  interviewed  in  as   political   bargaining
            as  part  of  an  organized  2020 who said he was born  chips,  but  Russian  officials
            group,  according  to  an  in  the  Perm  region  in  1991  insist they all broke the law.
            online  statement  released  and adopted by an Ameri-     Some    have    been    ex-
            by court officials, and sen-  can  couple  at  age  2.  He  changed  for  Russians  held
            tenced to 12 1/2 years in a  was arrested in January.     in the U.S., while for others,
            maxim security penal colo-   He said he traveled to Rus-  the  prospects  of  being  re-
            ny.  His  lawyers  told  report-  sia  to  find  his  mother  and  leased  in  a  swap  are  less
            ers  after  the  verdict  was  eventually  met  her  on  a  clear.                     U.S. citizen Robert Woodland is escorted to a court room prior
            delivered  Thursday  that  TV  show  before  deciding  The  U.S.  State  Department    to a court session on drug-related charges in Moscow, Russia,
            they  will  appeal  the  ruling  to  move  to  Russia.  Russian  said Thursday it was aware   Thursday, July 4, 2024.
            because  Woodland’s  guilt  news  agency  Interfax  has  that a U.S. citizen was sen-                                           Associated Press
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