Bulldozers demolishing homes in southern Lebanon, as seen from northern Israel. Photograph: Ariel Schalit/AP View image in fullscreen Bulldozers demolishing homes in southern Lebanon, as seen from northern Israel. Photograph: Ariel Schalit/AP Construction equipment multinationals may be aiding Israe…
Police salute during a procession with the body of Constable Marc Pinizzotto, who was killed in the line of duty conducting a raid earlier in the day, in Toronto on 11 June 2026. Photograph: Canadian Press/Shutterstock View image in fullscreen Police salute during a procession with the body of Const…
Abdiqadir Salah has shrapnel in his back and thigh but treatment costs $1,000. His mother says: ‘What’s worse than being [unable to] do anything for [my] wounded children?’ Photograph: Family View image in fullscreen Abdiqadir Salah has shrapnel in his back and thigh but treatment costs $1,000. His …
Abdiqadir Salah has shrapnel in his back and thigh but treatment costs $1,000. His mother says: ‘What’s worse than being [unable to] do anything for [my] wounded children?’ Photograph: Family View image in fullscreen Abdiqadir Salah has shrapnel in his back and thigh but treatment costs $1,000. His mother says: ‘What’s worse than being [unable to] do anything for [my] wounded children?’ Photograph: Family Seven-year-old Abdiqadir was hit in a US airstrike. Without a $750 operation, he may lose his ability to walk Abdiqadir Salah was pierced by shrapnel in a bombing that killed 12 in Somalia. But as the US denies civilians were hurt they face no hope of compensation Read more: Killed walking home from school: why did Somali children become targets of US drone strikes? A seven-year-old boy who was riddled with shrapnel during a deadly US airstrike in Somalia faces losing his ability to walk unless he has a £750 emergency operation. But Abdiqadir Salah’s family cannot afford the surgery and the US – which refuses to admit that any civilians were killed or injured during its attack six months ago – appears unwilling to pay compensation to those affected by airstrikes in Somalia. Why is the US bombing Somalia – and who are the airstrikes killing? Read more Shards of shrapnel are lodged in two places in Abdiqadir’s back and in his upper thigh after US airstrikes that killed at least 12 civilians, including eight children. It is the deadliest attack on civilians in Somalia during either Trump administration and one of the worst since the botched 1993 US military operation in Mogadishu known as Black Hawk Down . A Guardian investigation into the strikes in the town of Jamaame raises myriad questions over US intelligence, how the targets were selected and why children were hit while they were in the open and were likely to have been clearly identifiable to the drone’s strike team. His mother said Abdiqadir was in the street outside his family home in Jamaame on 15 November 2025 when he was struck by a missile. View image in fullscreen Marian Haji Abdi Guled fled the missiles with her three injured children, hiding in surrounding countryside. Photograph: Mohamed Gabobe “That’s where three of my children got wounded. All three of them were laying on the ground covered in blood,” said Marian Haji Abdi Guled. “When I tried to tend to them, shells began falling everywhere. Every step you took, or direction you turned, there were shells and missiles raining everywhere. “There was no warning before the strikes but we could [hear] drones hovering above town before the strikes. It was very loud.” After the attack, Guled took her three injured children into the surrounding countryside to flee the drones. Her eldest, Mohamed, 16, had shrapnel lodged in his fingers, while her daughter Sumaya, 14, had three metal fragments lodged in her head, which have since been removed. Abdiqadir’s X-rays, which have been viewed by the Guardian, show shrapnel still lodged near his
Police salute during a procession with the body of Constable Marc Pinizzotto, who was killed in the line of duty conducting a raid earlier in the day, in Toronto on 11 June 2026. Photograph: Canadian Press/Shutterstock View image in fullscreen Police salute during a procession with the body of Const…
Police salute during a procession with the body of Constable Marc Pinizzotto, who was killed in the line of duty conducting a raid earlier in the day, in Toronto on 11 June 2026. Photograph: Canadian Press/Shutterstock View image in fullscreen Police salute during a procession with the body of Const…
Police salute during a procession with the body of Constable Marc Pinizzotto, who was killed in the line of duty conducting a raid earlier in the day, in Toronto on 11 June 2026. Photograph: Canadian Press/Shutterstock View image in fullscreen Police salute during a procession with the body of Const…
Israel launches fresh strikes on Lebanon despite Trump criticism 9 hours ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Olivia Ireland Watch: Why is Trump furious with Netanyahu over strikes on Lebanon? Israeli forces have carried out new strikes in southern Lebanon, state media say, despite renewed criticism from US President Donald Trump of Israel's actions in the country. Israeli drone strikes injured several people in Mansouri and Aaziyyeh on Wednesday, while jets attacked Nabatieh al-Fawqa and Kfar Tebnit, Lebanon's National News Agency reported. Israel's military has not commented, but it did say five soldiers were injured in a drone attack in Lebanon by the Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah. Mediator Pakistan has said the deal between the US and Iran to end the war includes Lebanon. On Tuesday, Trump said Israel's prime minister needed "to be more responsible with respect to Lebanon". Speaking at the G7 summit in France, he also said that Israel had been fighting Hezbollah for "too long and too many people are being killed". Both Israel and Hezbollah have carried out attacks against each other since the US-Iran agreement was announced on Sunday night. Earlier that day, an Israeli air strike on Beirut in response to a cross-border rocket attack by Hezbollah had put pressure on attempts to finalise the deal. Trump told the G7 that he had a "great relationship" with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but said he "didn't like that he did an attack... that was too much". He added: "Without the United States, there would be no Israel. Without me, there would be no Israel because no other president was willing to do what I did." Netanyahu said on Monday that Israeli forces would remain in Lebanon "for as long as necessary". On Tuesday, after Lebanese media reported that four people had been killed in Israeli strikes, Iran's top military command warned Israel of a "harsh response" if it did not end its "malice" in southern Lebanon. EPA Smoke rises from a border area in southern Lebanon following an Israeli strike Lebanon was drawn into the war between Israel, the US and Iran on 2 March, when Hezbollah launched rockets into Israel in retaliation for a strike that killed Iran's supreme leader. Israel responded by launching a bombing campaign across Lebanon and invading a significant part of the country's south. More than 3,800 people have been killed in Lebanon during the conflict, according to the country's health ministry, whose figures do not differentiate between combatants and civilians. Israeli authorities say 30 soldiers and four civilians have been killed on both sides of the border. Hezbollah's leader, Naim Qassem, declared in a televised address on Wednesday that the US-Iran agreement was a "great victory" and urged Lebanon to "benefit from this pivotal point". He also said Lebanon's negotiations with Israel should be limited to issues of "mutual security", and that its main demand should be the restoration of its sovereignty through th
Critical infrastructure includes power plants, hospitals and airports. King’s College hospital in London was affected by a ransomware attack in 2024. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA View image in fullscreen Critical infrastructure includes power plants, hospitals and airports. King’s College hospital in L…
Abdiqadir Salah has shrapnel in his back and thigh but treatment costs $1,000. His mother says: ‘What’s worse than being [unable to] do anything for [my] wounded children?’ Photograph: Family View image in fullscreen Abdiqadir Salah has shrapnel in his back and thigh but treatment costs $1,000. His …
Police salute during a procession with the body of Constable Marc Pinizzotto, who was killed in the line of duty conducting a raid earlier in the day, in Toronto on 11 June 2026. Photograph: Canadian Press/Shutterstock View image in fullscreen Police salute during a procession with the body of Const…
Israel launches fresh strikes on Lebanon despite Trump criticism 9 hours ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Olivia Ireland Watch: Why is Trump furious with Netanyahu over strikes on Lebanon? Israeli forces have carried out new strikes in southern Lebanon, state media say, despite renewed crit…
Abdiqadir Salah has shrapnel in his back and thigh but treatment costs $1,000. His mother says: ‘What’s worse than being [unable to] do anything for [my] wounded children?’ Photograph: Family View image in fullscreen Abdiqadir Salah has shrapnel in his back and thigh but treatment costs $1,000. His …
Police salute during a procession with the body of Constable Marc Pinizzotto, who was killed in the line of duty conducting a raid earlier in the day, in Toronto on 11 June 2026. Photograph: Canadian Press/Shutterstock View image in fullscreen Police salute during a procession with the body of Const…
Abdiqadir Salah has shrapnel in his back and thigh but treatment costs $1,000. His mother says: ‘What’s worse than being [unable to] do anything for [my] wounded children?’ Photograph: Family View image in fullscreen Abdiqadir Salah has shrapnel in his back and thigh but treatment costs $1,000. His …
Bulldozers demolishing homes in southern Lebanon, as seen from northern Israel. Photograph: Ariel Schalit/AP View image in fullscreen Bulldozers demolishing homes in southern Lebanon, as seen from northern Israel. Photograph: Ariel Schalit/AP Construction equipment multinationals may be aiding Israe…
Israel launches fresh strikes on Lebanon despite Trump criticism 8 hours ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Olivia Ireland Watch: Why is Trump furious with Netanyahu over strikes on Lebanon? Israeli forces have carried out new strikes in southern Lebanon, state media say, despite renewed crit…
Abdiqadir Salah has shrapnel in his back and thigh but treatment costs $1,000. His mother says: ‘What’s worse than being [unable to] do anything for [my] wounded children?’ Photograph: Family View image in fullscreen Abdiqadir Salah has shrapnel in his back and thigh but treatment costs $1,000. His …
Bulldozers demolishing homes in southern Lebanon, as seen from northern Israel. Photograph: Ariel Schalit/AP View image in fullscreen Bulldozers demolishing homes in southern Lebanon, as seen from northern Israel. Photograph: Ariel Schalit/AP Construction equipment multinationals may be aiding Israeli war crimes, experts say Images show Israeli military using six companies’ bulldozers and excavators to demolish south Lebanon villages Human rights experts have alleged that six multinational construction equipment conglomerates may be aiding and abetting war crimes by supplying excavators and bulldozers to Israel, after photos and videos showed the Israeli military using their equipment to demolish villages in south Lebanon. The Guardian geolocated and verified images showing the Israeli military using excavators made by six companies – Caterpillar, Volvo, Hyundai, Doosan, Hitachi and Komatsu – to destroy homes, public utilities, shops and other structures across southern Lebanon. Israel has levelled entire villages inside the “yellow line”, a 608 sq km area occupied by Israel along the Lebanese-Israeli border. At least 46 villages in south Lebanon have suffered heavy damage, most of it caused by demolitions carried out after the 17 April Lebanon-Israel ceasefire, according to a satellite analysis by Bellingcat. The Israeli military said it was destroying Hezbollah infrastructure, with Israel’s defence minister, Israel Katz, calling for “all homes in Lebanese villages near the border” to be destroyed to “remove threats”. However, Human Rights Watch has said that Israel’s wide-scale destruction of villages could amount to wanton destruction – a war crime. Displaced residents have watched from afar as videos show craters and vast fields of rubble where their family homes once stood. Video showed the Israeli military using foreign-produced excavators to destroy homes Much of that destruction is being carried out by excavators and bulldozers produced and sold to Israel by foreign companies. Two pictures taken by the Associated Press on 12 and 15 April in the Lebanese border town of Mays al-Jabal show excavators from all six companies among flattened houses, as well as Hyundai, Caterpillar and Komatsu excavators actively destroying homes. Videos from the Lebanese border towns of Naqoura and Debel in April also showed the Israeli military using foreign-produced excavators to destroy homes and other infrastructure. Surveillance footage captured the Israeli military using a Volvo excavator to destroy solar panels and water infrastructure in Debel, a key source of electricity and water for the residents of the besieged town. The Israeli military, commenting on the incident in Debel, said the actions seen in the video were “not in line with the IDF’s values”, and that the incident was under investigation. Human rights experts said that supplying the construction equipment that enables the Israeli military to destroy homes and villages in south Lebanon could
Abdiqadir Salah has shrapnel in his back and thigh but treatment costs $1,000. His mother says: ‘What’s worse than being [unable to] do anything for [my] wounded children?’ Photograph: Family View image in fullscreen Abdiqadir Salah has shrapnel in his back and thigh but treatment costs $1,000. His …
