JERUSALEM: Israel’s new prime minister paid an unannounced visit to the border with Lebanon on Tuesday, threatening to unleash a harsh military response to what he described as “unacceptable” aggression by the Lebanese militant Hezbollah group.

The visit came at a time of heightened tensions with Hezbollah, a heavily armed group that fought Israel during a monthlong war in 2006.

RIYADH: The Arab Interior Ministers Council will host a conference for officials responsible for tourism security in Tunis on Wednesday, Saudi Press Agency has reported.
Representatives from Arab interior ministries, the Arab League, the Gulf Cooperation Council, the World Tourism Organization, the Arab Tourism Organization, and Naif Arab University for Security Sciences will attend the conference.

BEIRUT: A delegation from the American Task Force for Lebanon has stressed the importance of “establishing a social economic program before it is too late.”

The call came after the delegation — accompanied by US ambassador to Lebanon Dorothy Shea — held talks with several Lebanese officials on Monday.

RAMALLAH: A Palestinian village surrounded by three Israeli settlements and an Israel Defense Forces military camp is in the grip of a severe water crisis, community leaders have revealed.

Nearly 3,500 residents of Duma village in Jordan Valley in the northern West Bank are struggling to find enough drinking water to meet their basic needs and sustain livestock. And many of them cannot afford the $100 cost of buying a water tank.

AL-MUKALLA: Rights groups on Monday urged governments worldwide to donate generously to a UN fundraising campaign to rescue an oil tanker in Yemen.

Organizations including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Mwatana for Human Rights, and International Crisis Group wrote a joint letter calling on the US, the UK, the EU, and others to swiftly allocate funds to the UN emergency operations to prevent the tanker from triggering a major environmental disaster.