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Israel strikes Beirut for the first time since a ceasefire ended the latest Israel-Hezbollah war
Israel on Friday launched an attack on Lebanon’s capital for the first time since a ceasefire ended the latest Israel-Hezbollah war in November.
Associated Press reporters in Beirut heard a loud boom and witnessed smoke rising from an area in the city’s southern suburbs that Israel’s military had vowed to strike.
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It marked Israel’s first strike on Beirut since a ceasefire took hold last November between it and the Hezbollah militant group, though Israel has attacked targets in southern Lebanon almost daily since then.
Israel’s army said it hit a Hezbollah drone storage facility in Dahiyeh, which it called a militant stronghold. The strike came after Israel, which accuses Hezbollah of using civilians as human shields, warned residents to evacuate the area.
The area struck is a residential and commercial area and is close to at least two schools.
Israeli officials said the attack was retaliation for rockets it said were fired from Lebanon into northern Israel. They promised strikes on Beirut would continue unless Lebanon’s government worked to ensure such attacks ceased.
«We will not allow firing at our communities, not even a trickle,» Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. «We will attack everywhere in Lebanon, against any threat to the State of Israel.»
A bomb dropped from an Israeli jet falls before hitting a building in Dahiyeh, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, March 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Hezbollah denied firing the rockets, and accused Israel of seeking a pretext to continue attacking Lebanon.
Lebanon’s government ordered all schools and universities in Beirut’s southern suburb of Hadath to close for the day. Residents were seen fleeing the area in cars and on foot ahead of the strike.
Hezbollah began launching rockets, drones and missiles into Israel the day after the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel by its Hamas allies ignited the war in Gaza. Palestinian militants killed about 1,200 in Israel and abducted 251 others during the 2023 attack.
The Israel-Hezbollah conflict exploded into all-out war last September when Israel carried out waves of airstrikes and killed most of the militant group’s senior leaders. The fighting killed over 4,000 people in Lebanon and displaced about 60,000 Israelis.
Under the ceasefire, Israeli forces were supposed to withdraw from all Lebanese territory by late January. The deadline was extended to Feb. 18, but Israel has remained in five border locations while carrying out dozens of strikes on what it said were Hezbollah targets in southern and eastern Lebanon. Last week, Israeli airstrikes on several locations in Lebanon killed six people.
Speaking in Paris, Lebanon’s President, Joseph Aoun, said the Beirut area strike was a continuation «of Israel’s violations of the agreement» sponsored by France and the U.S.
During a joint news conference with Aoun, French President Emmanuel Macron called the attack «unacceptable,» and promised to address it with Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump. Macron said that the U.S. can exert pressure on Israel.
A U.S. State Department spokeswoman called on Lebanon’s government to act.
«Israel is defending its people and interests by responding to rocket attacks from terrorists in Lebanon,» the spokeswoman, Tammy Bruce, said Friday. «We expect the Lebanese Armed Forces to disarm these terrorists to prevent further hostilities.»
The U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, said the escalation had created «a critical period for Lebanon and the wider region.»
Israeli strikes in other parts of Lebanon on Friday killed three people and wounded 18, including children and women, in the southern village of Kfar Tibnit, said Lebanon’s health ministry.
The strikes comes less than two weeks after Israel ended its ceasefire with Hamas with surprise strikes that killed hundreds of people in Gaza. Earlier this month, Israel halted deliveries of food, fuel, medicine and humanitarian aid to Gaza’s roughly 2 million Palestinians.
Israel has vowed to escalate the war until Hamas returns 59 hostages it still holds — 24 of them believed to be alive. Israel is demanding that the group give up power, disarm and send its leaders into exile.
Hamas has said it will only release the remaining captives in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, a lasting ceasefire and an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.
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Israel’s offensive in the Strip has killed over 50,000 people and wounded 114,000, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which does not say how many were civilians or combatants.
The ministry said Friday that nearly 900 have been killed in Gaza since the ceasefire ended in mid-March, including more than 40 over the past 24 hours.
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EEUU cuestionó la decisión del Supremo Tribunal Federal de Brasil de encarcelar a Jair Bolsonaro: “Amenaza la democracia”
El Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos, a través de su Oficina de Asuntos del Hemisferio Occidental, criticó la decisión del juez Alexandre de Moraes, miembro del Supremo Tribunal Federal de Brasil, de imponer prisión domiciliaria al ex presidente Jair Bolsonaro. El comunicado, publicado en redes sociales y replicado en portugués, sostiene que la medida “amenaza la democracia” y restringe el derecho del ex mandatario a expresarse públicamente.
“El ministro Alexandre de Moraes, ya sancionado por los Estados Unidos por violaciones de derechos humanos, continúa usando las instituciones brasileñas para silenciar a la oposición y amenazar la democracia. Imponer aún más restricciones a la capacidad de Jair Bolsonaro de defenderse públicamente no es un servicio público. ¡Dejen a Bolsonaro hablar!”, expresó la oficina en su cuenta oficial.
El pronunciamiento se enmarca en la ley Magnitsky, que permite a EEUU sancionar a funcionarios extranjeros implicados en violaciones graves de derechos humanos. Según el mismo mensaje, la administración estadounidense también sancionará a quienes colaboren o incentiven ese tipo de conductas.
En mayo, la misma oficina había emitido un mensaje en portugués en el que advertía que “ningún enemigo de la libertad de expresión de los estadounidenses será perdonado”, en respuesta a una política de restricción de visados anunciada por el secretario de Estado. Ese comentario fue interpretado por simpatizantes de Bolsonaro como una crítica indirecta al Supremo Tribunal Federal.
De acuerdo con la periodista Malu Gaspar, del diario O Globo, sectores bolsonaristas con contacto en la Casa Blanca bajo el liderazgo de Donald Trump anticipan nuevas sanciones contra jueces brasileños tras la reciente orden de arresto.
El fallo de De Moraes fue dictado tras considerar que Bolsonaro incumplió medidas cautelares impuestas en el marco de la investigación por su presunto rol en los intentos de revertir los resultados de las elecciones presidenciales de 2022. El ex jefe de Estado participó por videollamada en una manifestación realizada el domingo en varias ciudades de Brasil, lo que violaría la prohibición de utilizar redes sociales o comunicarse públicamente, impuesta por la Justicia.
En respuesta a la decisión judicial, el senador Flávio Bolsonaro, hijo del ex presidente, solicitó este lunes que el Senado brasileño inicie un proceso de destitución contra el magistrado De Moraes. En declaraciones a CNN Brasil, calificó la orden de prisión domiciliaria como “cobarde” e “inmoral”, y acusó al juez de arrastrar a la Corte Suprema hacia un “gran desgaste institucional”.
“No tiene condiciones de seguir en el cargo”, afirmó el senador, quien aseguró contar con respaldo suficiente en la Cámara Alta y anunció que planteará la destitución ante el presidente del Senado.
Aunque la familia Bolsonaro ya había planteado anteriormente la destitución de De Moraes, la propuesta no había logrado respaldo significativo en el Senado. Sin embargo, Flávio Bolsonaro vincula esta nueva ofensiva con las sanciones impuestas recientemente por la administración de Donald Trump, que congeló activos del magistrado en Estados Unidos por presuntas violaciones a los derechos humanos. “Es una demostración de venganza por las sanciones”, sostuvo el legislador.
Por su parte, Eduardo Bolsonaro, otro hijo del ex presidente y actual diputado federal, calificó la decisión judicial como un “abuso de poder crudo para silenciar al líder de la oposición”.
La orden de prisión domiciliaria también prohíbe que Bolsonaro reciba visitas no autorizadas por el Supremo Tribunal Federal de Brasil. Pese a estas restricciones, mensajes firmados por él fueron leídos en distintas marchas opositoras realizadas durante el fin de semana, donde se exigió la amnistía para los acusados de participar en los actos de golpismo de enero de 2023 y se respaldaron las sanciones impuestas por Trump contra De Moraes.
La investigación contra Bolsonaro por su supuesto liderazgo en un intento de golpe de Estado avanza en el Supremo y podría concluir antes de fin de año. El ex presidente enfrenta una pena potencial de más de 40 años de prisión. La situación ha elevado la tensión entre el Poder Judicial brasileño y sectores de la derecha nacionalista, y empieza a generar repercusiones en la política exterior de Brasil.
(Con información de EFE y AFP)
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WATCH: Ramaswamy takes on claim Black history swept ‘under the table’ at Cincinnati town hall
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At a Cincinnati town hall Monday held in the wake of brutal beating of a White woman that went viral online, Vivek Ramaswamy was put on the spot by an audience member who claimed Black history has been swept «under the table» in America.
Answering the man’s concerns, the Ohio Republican candidate for governor said, «We have to confront what is true. Not just what makes us comfortable.» But he also praised America as a country built on ideals and that strives to uphold them, however imperfectly.
The questioner, identified by his first name Robert, told Ramaswamy that when it came to the debate over public safety in the U.S., he does not take a partisan side, but Robert complained that the history of Black people in America has not been adequately part of contemporary conversations around public safety.
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«You have to understand how our people feel, because we were brought here in slave ships over 400 years ago, and we were treated like animals, like cattle hung on trees, families separated, our heritage taken from us so that we didn’t know who we were as a people. Now, I say, you act like this is a new thing. This balance that you see out here,» Robert posed to Ramaswamy.
«Well, look over the 400 years of all the violence that was perpetrated on our people… You want to sweep our history under the table, but you don’t sweep the Ashkenazi Jews with the Hitler thing under the table. All the things that you did to the other races of people, you don’t sweep that under the table. But when it comes down to the black Negro, we can always sweep what happened to us under the table.»
A questioner tells Vivek Ramaswamy at Cincinnati town hall about crime and public safety that the history of Black folks has been swept under the rug, particularly when it comes to the debate around rising crime in the U.S. (Fox News)
In response to the question, Ramswamy quipped about how the difficult question was proof that the night’s questions were not pre-screened by him or his team. Ramswamy candidly added that the question made him a bit «uncomfortable» but said leaders should be expected to answer such difficult questions.
«Of course, we’re not perfect. In fact, we’re destined to never be perfect because we’re not a nation comprised of gods, we’re a nation comprised of human beings, and we’re a nation founded on a set of ideals. So, that means you will always be imperfect,» Ramaswamy said in response to the race-conscious question.
Ramaswamy pointed to China and Iran to further explain his point.
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«Nobody ever criticizes China, or Iran, or whatever for hypocrisy, because to be a hypocritical nation, you have to have ideals in the first place,» Ramaswamy said.
Republican gubernatorial candidate in Ohio, Vivek Ramaswamy, fielded questions at a town hall Monday evening in Cincinnati, focused largely on crime and public safety. (Fox News)
«I’m not going to say America was perfect for every chapter of our national history. Of course not. We’re a nation founded on ideals. We’re nation founded on human beings, so we’ll always fall short of those ideals,» Ramaswamy continued. «But I would rather live in a country that has ideals and falls short of them. Than to live in a country with no ideals at all.»
While Ramaswamy went on to say that no one’s ethnic history should be swept under the rug, he also posited that last week’s history, referring to a widely publicized public beating caught on camera in Cincinnati that went viral and caused an uproar of criticism over public safety and crime, should not be ignored either.
«We have to confront what is true. Not just what makes us comfortable, but precisely when it does not,» Ramaswamy said.
Sarah Heringer recounts the fateful night her husband defended her life from a violent robber who invaded their home in June during Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s Monday night town hall event focused on crime and public safety. (Andrew Mark Miller/Fox News)
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As Ramaswamy concluded his response to the question about race, the potential Ohio governor noted one part of the questioner’s ask, which «land[ed] with [him] a little bit differently.»
«When you say our people, when I hear that, I’m thinking that ‘our people’ is everybody in this room. I see black, white, brown, man, woman. These are our people. America is our people. Ohio is our people. Cincinnati is our people. And I believe it is the God-given right of every person to be able to live a life free of violence,» Ramaswamy said before ending his response to the question. «And may I even say, if you’re a hard-working American, to go into your city whether you’re black or white without fear of actually being assaulted or battered, that ought to be the birthright of every American. That’s what I want for ‘our people.’»
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