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At least 22 people were killed, including a Lebanese soldier, and more than 120 injured after the Israeli military opened fire on them in south Lebanon, the Lebanese health ministry said. It attacked residents who were trying to return to their homes as a 60-day deadline for Israeli troops to withdraw from south Lebanon expired.
The Israeli army claimed it had fired warning shots in multiple areas of southern Lebanon on Sunday after detecting threats posed by approaching people. The military said several suspects, who it claimed posed an imminent threat to troops, were detained and are being questioned.
Dramatic footage from local media outlets showed Israeli soldiers dragging a man out of a building and detaining him in the village of Houla. Other videos showed civilians standing face to face with an Israeli tank as locals, displaced from their homes for more than a year, sought to return.
The Israeli government had signalled on Friday that it intended to stay because the terms of a US-brokered ceasefire deal with Hezbollah had not been fully implemented. Israel has not said how long its forces would remain in the south.
Under the terms of the deal, the Lebanese Army and UN peacekeepers (Unifil) are supposed to deploy and increase their presence in the south as Israel withdraws. The Lebanese army has done so in many areas, but not all.
On Sunday, it slammed Israel for “its refusal to abide by the ceasefire agreement and withdraw from” Lebanon, after it accused it on Saturday of procrastinating.
In a joint statement, the top UN official in Lebanon and the commander of Unifil said “as seen tragically this morning, conditions are not yet in place for the safe return of citizens to their villages along the Blue Line”.
“Displaced communities, already facing a long road to recovery and reconstruction, are therefore once again being called on to exercise caution.”
A separate Unifil statement said Israel “must avoid firing at civilians within Lebanese territory” while urging Lebanese people to adhere to the directions of the Lebanese Army.
Outgoing Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati called on the countries sponsoring the ceasefire deal to “assume their responsibilities” by stopping Israel's violence and ensuring their soldiers leave Lebanese soil.
In Maroun El Ras, a transmission engineer working for Russia Today, was injured when Israeli opened fire on their reporting team.
The villages sit directly on the border that has been occupied by Israeli soldiers.
Lebanon's National News Agency reported that Israeli forces opened fire on residents of the villages after they crossed a barricade put up by Israeli forces.
Earlier on Sunday, Israeli military official Col Avichay Adraee ordered residents not to return to villages near the border. “No return to the village line marked on the map is permitted,” he said alongside a map which included Kfar Kila and Houla.
The White House said on Friday that a short, temporary ceasefire extension was urgently needed.
Dozens of villages in the south have been almost reduced to rubble by Israel, which claims it is striking and destroying Hezbollah's infrastructure. Lebanon has accused Israel of breaching the ceasefire deal hundreds of times.
“Lebanon's sovereignty and territorial integrity are non-negotiable, and I am following up on this issue at the highest levels to ensure your rights and dignity,” President Joseph Aoun said on Sunday.
Mr Aoun, who was recently an LAF commander, was elected earlier this month. It's hoped that his election, along with the designation of Prime Minister Nawaf Salam could bring new hope to Lebanon, a country that has been riddled with a myriad crises.
Among them was Israel's brutal war on the country, which killed more than 4,000 people. While Israel did succeed in wiping out Hezbollah's senior leadership, it also levelled numerous parts of Lebanon.
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The alternatives
• Founded in 2014, Telr is a payment aggregator and gateway with an office in Silicon Oasis. It’s e-commerce entry plan costs Dh349 monthly (plus VAT). QR codes direct customers to an online payment page and merchants can generate payments through messaging apps.
• Business Bay’s Pallapay claims 40,000-plus active merchants who can invoice customers and receive payment by card. Fees range from 1.99 per cent plus Dh1 per transaction depending on payment method and location, such as online or via UAE mobile.
• Tap started in May 2013 in Kuwait, allowing Middle East businesses to bill, accept, receive and make payments online “easier, faster and smoother” via goSell and goCollect. It supports more than 10,000 merchants. Monthly fees range from US$65-100, plus card charges of 2.75-3.75 per cent and Dh1.2 per sale.
• 2checkout’s “all-in-one payment gateway and merchant account” accepts payments in 200-plus markets for 2.4-3.9 per cent, plus a Dh1.2-Dh1.8 currency conversion charge. The US provider processes online shop and mobile transactions and has 17,000-plus active digital commerce users.
• PayPal is probably the best-known online goods payment method - usually used for eBay purchases - but can be used to receive funds, providing everyone’s signed up. Costs from 2.9 per cent plus Dh1.2 per transaction.
What can victims do?
Always use only regulated platforms
Stop all transactions and communication on suspicion
Save all evidence (screenshots, chat logs, transaction IDs)
Report to local authorities
Warn others to prevent further harm
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Dr Miriam Bradley, senior lecturer in humanitarian studies at the University of Manchester, has argued that, by the early 1980s, “several government policies combined to cause, rather than prevent, a famine which lasted from 1983 to 1985. Mengistu’s government imposed Stalinist-model agricultural policies involving forced collectivisation and villagisation [relocation of communities into planned villages].
The West became aware of the catastrophe through a series of BBC News reports by journalist Michael Buerk in October 1984 describing a “biblical famine” and containing graphic images of thousands of people, including children, facing starvation.
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Bob Geldof, singer with the Irish rock group The Boomtown Rats, formed Band Aid in response to the horrific images shown in the news broadcasts.
With Midge Ure of the band Ultravox, he wrote the hit charity single Do They Know it’s Christmas in December 1984, featuring a string of high-profile musicians.
Following the single’s success, the idea to stage a rock concert evolved.
Live Aid was a series of simultaneous concerts that took place at Wembley Stadium in London, John F Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, the US, and at various other venues across the world.
The combined event was broadcast to an estimated worldwide audience of 1.5 billion.
