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During their interventions, the three countries also reiterated the end of coercive and unilateral measures by the United States Government against Latin American nations.

The foreign ministers of Cuba, Bolivia and Nicaragua denounced on Thursday the foreign interference of the United States in the internal affairs of other countries, Position taken during the 24th Meeting of the Political Council of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Treaty on Trade of the Peoples (ALBA – TCP).

Cuban Chancellor Bruno Rodriguez said that “the regional oligarchies are resorting to policies apparently banished as coups d’état with the connivance of the US government”.

In that regard, he referred to the coup against Bolivia in 2019 and the latest attempt. He also mentioned the allegations made in this regard by the Governments of Honduras and Colombia.

Rodríguez denounced: “Today we see with concern how one of the founding countries of this alliance is attacked with marked belligerence. Venezuela is once again facing the economic, political and media arsenal of imperialism and right-wing extremism aimed at dynamising its sovereign process of economic, social and cultural development”.

“Our brothers in Nicaragua are equally the target of unjust unilateral measures and fierce interference campaigns by the US government,” he added.

He also mentioned that Cuba is suffering the most brutal, prolonged and intense aggression against its economy and its people, and that the United States Government keeps it on the arbitrary and unilateral list of states which allegedly sponsor terrorism.

Rodríguez also denounced the genocide against the Palestinian people. “We demand a wide, Just and lasting settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the basis of the establishment of two states, enabling the Palestinian people to exercise their inalienable right to self-determination and to have an independent and sovereign state within the pre-1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital and with the guarantee of return of refugees”.

“Our country supports the General Assembly of the United Nations to take decisive and immediate action and decide once and for all the full membership of the State of Palestine in the UN».

Valdrack Jaentschke: “The worthy, free and sovereign peoples of the world are facing old and new forms of aggression”.

Nicaragua’s Foreign Minister, Valdrack Jaentschke, said that the Venezuelan people continues along with President Nicolás Maduro “to face all the aggressions and destabilizations of the imperialists victoriously”.

Jaentschke stated: “Humanity is in critical moments, moments of birth of a new history, of the emergence of a new world order more just, more collective, more solidary and as all birth the emergence of this new world order, multipolar, without hegemonies that are imposed is hard, is difficult, it’s painful”.

He stressed that the world’s worthy, free and sovereign peoples face old and new forms of aggression. “The rifles and gunboats of the past, today reborn in new forms of aggression euphemistically called sanctions, are the same military interventions and the same interferences perpetrated by the Yankee empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries”. He also expressed his solidarity with Venezuela and Cuba.

Celinda Sosa: “We must continue on the path of peace”

The Bolivian Foreign Minister, Celinda Sosa, stressed that people face serious challenges in the face of the multiple crises that the world is experiencing today.

Sosa confirmed that the hegemonic powers and imperialism threaten our unity. “We must continue along this path our commitment to the defence of sovereignty and non-intervention in our internal affairs”.

Also condemned the blockade imposed on Cuba by the White House and demanded that it be lifted immediately and likewise excluded from the list of countries sponsoring terrorism, “an unfair measure affecting its economy and preventing the full development of Cubans”.

Sosa also demanded an immediate cessation of the coercive measures imposed on Nicaragua and Venezuela, and of the Israeli genocide against the people of Palestine.

This statement follows rumors circulating on social media suggesting that Nasrallah was targeted during the Israeli regime's large aerial assault on the Dahiya neighborhood of southern Beirut on Friday.

Reports also said Sayyed Hashem Safieddine, head of Hezbollah’s Executive Council was safe, with Iran’s Tasnim news agency citing informed sources in Lebanon as saying that no Hezbollah commander was martyred in the Israeli terrorist attacks.

Six buildings were razed to the ground as a result of the Israeli aggression on the southern suburb of Beirut.

Lebanon’s Health Ministry says at least two people have been martyred and 76 others injured in the attack.

The Israeli army radio said that F-35 aircraft carried out the aggression using bunker-buster bombs.

Israeli media reports said the regime had informed the United States of the attack shortly before it was carried out.

Lebanese media said civil defense personnel were working to extinguish the fire that broke out in the area and evacuate the injured.

Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati reacted to the attack, saying the international community must deter the Israeli enemy and stop its tyranny and the war of extermination it is waging against Lebanon.

Mikati said the Israeli attack shows the regime’s lack of interest in international calls for a ceasefire.

At approximately 1 a.m. Israeli occupation warplanes executed a series of raids, specifically targeting residential buildings in al-Laylaki, al-Kafaat, Choueifat, Burj al-Barajneh, and al-Hadath.

This comes after the Israeli occupation military carried out, Friday, several airstrikes that hit residential neighborhoods in the Haret Hreik area in the Southern Suburbs of the Lebanese capital Beirut.

It is worth noting that the Israeli occupation's spokesperson had made an announcement that further airstrikes would target Beirut's suburbs and has condemned residents to forced displacement. Additionally, the targeted region continues to house thousands of Lebanese people as these attacks have remained unprecedented since 2006 when "Israel" invoked the Dahiye Doctrine.

The occupation forces' statement claimed that Hezbollah was hiding weapons amongst civilian homes, but the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon released a statement denying any such claims. Hezbollah's media office issued a statement noting it "denied the Israeli occupation's false claims about the presence of weapons or weapons stores in the civilian buildings it targeted in the southern suburbs of Beirut at dawn on Saturday."

Moreover, Al Mayadeen's correspondent confirmed that there was no military activity in the areas targeted by the occupation, stressing that all the targets hit by the bombing were civilian and included residential buildings, in addition to the Ghandour factory for food industries.

In parallel, sirens have also sounded in the occupied city of Safad and its surrounding areas.

In the third operation, drones of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq attacked a vital target located in the north of occupied Palestine.

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq announced a second operation against the Israeli occupation, this time against a military target located north of occupied Palestine.

In their first operation, the Resistance announced launching drones toward a vital target in the southern part of the occupied Palestinian territories.

In their statement, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq "confirms its continuation in striking the enemy's strongholds with increasing intensity."

It is important to note that the operations come in defense of Lebanon and Palestine as the Israeli genocidal war continues.

Iraqi Resistance conducts three operations against Israeli occupation yesterday

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq announced on Friday that it successfully struck a vital Israeli target in occupied Palestine using an advanced Al-Arqab cruise missile, as well as a military target in the occupied Syrian Golan using drones.

This brought the number of operations carried out by the Resistance, on that day, to a total of three. Only a few hours earlier, the Iraqi Resistance drone struck a target in the occupied Syrian Golan.

In a statement, the Iraqi Resistance affirmed that the operation came as part of its continued support of the people of Palestine and Lebanon, as well as "in response to the massacres committed by the aggressive entity against civilians, including children, women, and the elderly."

The Islamic Resistance reiterated its commitment to "striking the enemy's strongholds with increasing intensity."

“We have to build a fairer and more effective international order,” said French President Emmanuel Macron in his address to the United Nations General Assembly.

He called for a cessation of hostilities, while equating the Israeli aggressions that left hundreds dead, including children and women, with the attacks against military targets by the Lebanese resistance.

French President Emmanuel Macron used his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday to urge Israel and the Lebanese group Hezbollah to stop hostilities on the border between the two countries.

The president made no mention of the multiple indiscriminate killings from air strikes, although he did “firmly” call on Israel to stop the escalation in Lebanon.

At the same time, he stressed the importance of respecting the “blue line”, the border line drawn by the UN between Israel and Lebanon, at a time when the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) chiefs told the local press that they are prepared to carry out a land invasion in southern Lebanon.

In this regard, Macron warned that an extension of military operations on Lebanese territory would have serious consequences. “There cannot and must not be a war in Lebanon,” the president affirmed, stressing that the situation in Gaza has already generated too many civilian casualties.

“The war in Gaza has gone on too long, and there is no justification for the tens of thousands of Palestinian civilian casualties,” he stressed.

The president also called for a new phase in Gaza, focused on the cessation of hostilities, the return of humanitarian aid and the protection of the civilian population. However, France's condemnation of the Israeli regime has, for the time being, been no more than declarative.

Nevertheless, Macron noted that his country is ready to participate in any initiative that can save lives and ensure the safety of those involved.

On the other hand, Macron advocated a reform in the UN Security Council, seeking to limit the use of the veto in cases of mass crimes.