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On Friday, Israeli forces launched four strikes in the Hadath neighborhood in Beirut’s southern suburbs, an attack that recalls the area’s months-long bombing campaign last year when Israeli jets bombed the area.

According to Ali Hashem of Al Jazeera, “We are by the building that Israel has attacked, and it is total destruction here.” Many of the families who lived there watched as the building was destroyed by Israeli warplanes.

Hashem claimed that the attack damaged the area’s shops and apartments.

The Israeli military claimed that the drone-related target was a Hezbollah military storage facility.

The rocket launch, which was Israel’s second in a row, came after Lebanon fired rockets at Israeli territory. No other organization has claimed responsibility for the two times that Hezbollah has denied involvement.

According to a statement from his office, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam instructed the Lebanese army to quickly identify and detain the rocket fire’s perpetrators, saying it “threatens Lebanon’s stability and security.”

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz claimed that Beirut will not be peaceful as long as there is no peace in northern Israel. Katz claimed that the Lebanese government is directly responsible for the rocket fire.

Hezbollah and Israel exchanged fire for more than a year after the Lebanese armed group started firing rockets at northern Israel in October 2023 in a show of support for Hamas during Israel’s occupation of the Gaza Strip. Before the two parties agreed to end the fighting on November 27, Israel dramatically escalated the conflict in September and killed a large portion of Hezbollah’s leadership.

Israel should have withdrawn its troops from southern Lebanon, according to the US- and French-brokered agreement, but it has failed to do so in five locations. Hezbollah, for its part, agreed to abandon southern Lebanon under the Lebanese army’s exclusive military control and move its weapons and fighters north of the Litani River.

Israeli strike is criticized by Macron.

Joseph Aoun, the president of Lebanon, stated in Paris that the strike on the Beirut suburbs was a continuation of “Israel’s violations of the agreement” sponsored by France and the US.

French President Emmanuel Macron addressed the controversy with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump during a joint press conference with Aoun. He declared the attack “unacceptable.”

Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, the UN’s special representative for Lebanon, claimed that the conflict had “created a crucial period for Lebanon and the entire region.”

Concerned that the war from last year, which displaced more than 1.3 million people in Lebanon and destroyed much of the country’s south, might resume, Israel has promised to be strong in response to any threats to its security.

The first time Israel has responded to the ceasefire since the ceasefire is very relevant and consequential, according to political analyst Yossi Beilin.

According to Beilin, “the Americans and the French need to put an end to the current situation.” He claimed that although “Hezbollah is not Lebanon,” it is an “unibanded military” and that this is the challenge we are facing.

While a court fight is raging, the Trump administration has requested that the Supreme Court grant permission for Venezuelan migrants to return to El Salvador in response to a law from the 18th century that prohibited their deportation.

While Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act to justify the deportations is being litigated, the Department of Justice requested in a filing that US District Judge James Boasberg’s March 15 order, which was issued in Washington, DC, temporarily halt the removals of the Venezuelans, be overturned. The law from the 18th century has historically only been used during conflicts.

The president or the judiciary decides how to conduct sensitive national security-related operations, according to the Justice Department’s filing on Friday. The department wrote that “the Constitution provides a clear answer: the President.” A different choice cannot be made by the republic.

In a presidential proclamation calling the Tren de Aragua gang an invading force, President Donald Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act for the first time since World War II to justify the deportation of hundreds of people.

In the court filing, acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris wrote, “Here, the district court’s orders have rebuffed the President’s judgments regarding how to protect the Nation against foreign terrorist organizations and risk debilitating effects for delicate foreign negotiations.”

Flashpoint case

Five Venezuelan noncitizens who were being held in Texas were represented by lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union shortly after the announcement was made public.

The ACLU’s response was set for Tuesday, according to the court.

In response to the White House’s and the federal courts’ growing tension, the case has turned into a flashpoint.

Trump’s administration has argued that the temporary ban violated the president’s authority to decide matters of national security.

Trump received a rebuke from US Chief Justice John Roberts on March 18 when he demanded that Congress impeach Boasberg, which would have allowed him to leave the bench. Trump called Boasberg a “Radical Left Lunatic” and a “troublemaker and agitator,” according to Trump on social media. He was confirmed by the US Senate in 2011 with a bipartisan re-election in a 96-0 vote.

Following a contentious hearing that involved heated language, the DC Circuit upheld Boasberg’s order. Judge Patricia Millett told Justice Department attorney Drew Ensign that “Nazis received better treatment than this has happened here,” according to Judge Millett. We certainly disagree with the Nazi analogy, Ensign said.

Many of the deported Venezuelan migrants’ families dispute the alleged gang connections. According to one of the deportees’ lawyers, US officials incorrectly identified him as a gang member because of his tattoo of a crown in honor of his favorite team, Real Madrid. The Venezuelan professional football player and youth coach.

Without a hearing before an immigration or federal court judge, the Alien Enemies Act allows noncitizens to be deported under the law.

The US president reportedly sounded diplomatic toward Canada in a social media post describing the call on Friday. After months calling Carney’s successor Justin Trudeau “governor,” it should be noted that Trump now refers to the Canadian leader as his proper title as prime minister.

Trump emailed Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to say, “I just spoke with him.”

We came to a meeting immediately following Canada’s upcoming election to work on issues in politics, business, and other areas that will benefit both the United States of America and Canada, and it was a very productive call.

The statement was unspecific, but it did a different from Trump’s threats and hostile language toward Canada, which included repeated requests for the US to annex the nation and create its 51st state.

The two leaders’ first discussions on Friday since Carney’s takeover two weeks ago were those of Carney.

Less than 24 hours after Carney vehemently criticised Trump for putting more tariffs on Canadian goods, the call was made. Beginning on Wednesday, the US president had made 25-percent sales tax on imported vehicles.

The call on Friday was described as a “very constructive conversation,” according to Carney’s office.

The leaders “agreed to begin comprehensive negotiations about a new economic and security relationship right after the election,” the statement read.

However, Carney added that in response to the announcement of additional US trade actions on April 2 that his government would “put in place retaliatory tariffs to protect Canadian workers and our economy.”

Carney reaffirmed his opposition to “any attempts to weaken Canada, wear us down, or break us so that America can control us,” as he stated a day earlier.

He added that Trump’s influence on US-Canada relations has had a significant impact.

The Canadian prime minister declared to reporters on Thursday that the “old relationship we had with the United States is over,” citing “prolonged integration of our economies, tight security, and military cooperation.”

After taking office, Carney traveled to France and the United Kingdom. He has not yet arrived in the US, where he has traditionally been a close ally and trade partner for Ottawa.

He emphasized on Thursday that Canada should “pivot” its trade relationships away from the US.

Trump issued a warning earlier this week to Ottawa and the European Union against collaborating with Washington and threatening “far larger” tariffs.

Tamim Iqbal, the former Bangladeshi cricket captain, has since experienced a significant heart attack while playing in a local match.

The 36-year-old was made public on Friday. When he was taken to a nearby hospital on Monday with a severe chest pain, Mohammedan Sporting Club was leading the 50-over Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League match.

The next day, Tamim was moved to a bigger health facility in the capital, Dhaka, where doctors inserted stents to repair an arterial blockage.

Evercare Hospital’s doctor, Shahabuddin Talukder, said to reporters on Friday, “We have decided to discharge him today after observing his health condition.”

Tamim would need to continue a rehabilitation program and alter his lifestyle, he added.

The doctor continued, “We hope he will be able to return to cricket soon.”

On Wednesday, Abu Zafar of the Bangladeshi Ministry of Health and Family Welfare told reporters that Tamim’s future is uncertain.

Tamim won’t be able to participate in sports for the following three months. He will be able to return if everything goes well, he said.

He is a smoker, which raises the risk of heart attacks, he says. He must avoid it. He will need to heed medical advice.