Nasrallah Vowing Escalation Against Israel: 'The Price of Blood Will be Blood'

This Is Beirut 16/02 18:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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During his speech commemorating Hezbollah's "martyred fighters" on Friday, the group's Secretary General, Hassan Nasrallah, vowed to retaliate for Wednesday's deadly Israeli raids on Nabatiyeh and Sawaneh, in which more than 12 people were killed, including three Hezbollah fighters. "The enemy should understand that it went too far by targeting ...

Macron Signals Openness to Recognizing Palestinian State

This Is Beirut 16/02 17:07 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Amidst the Gaza conflict, French President Macron stated that France isn't ruling out recognizing Palestine. He spoke in Paris with Jordan's King Abdullah II, following Netanyahu's rejection of a recognition plan. "The recognition of a Palestinian state is not a taboo for France," President Emmanuel Macron said at a joint press conference in ...

Two Dead in Shooting in Southern Israel

This Is Beirut 16/02 16:54 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

Israel

Two people were killed in Israel when a gunman opened fire on a crowded bus stop near the southern town of Kiryat Malakhi on Friday, according to sources from the hospital and the police. Two people who were brought to Kaplan Medical Center had been declared dead, a spokeswoman for the facility told AFP. Four others were wounded in the shooting, ...

Mikati Condemns Israeli Aggression at Munich Conference

This Is Beirut 16/02 16:37 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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At the 60th Munich Security Conference in Germany, Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati condemned Israel's ongoing aggression against southern Lebanon. "While Lebanon emphasizes the need for stability in the region and calls on all parties to refrain from escalation, we find Israel continuing its aggression, which prompts us to ask: what steps ...

Russia Invites Hamas and Other Palestinian Factions for Talks

This Is Beirut 16/02 16:32 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Russia has invited Hamas and other Palestinian factions, including Fatah, to Moscow for talks on the Israel-Hamas war and other issues in the Middle East. Moscow, which for years tried to court good relations with all major players in the region, has grown increasingly critical of Israel and its Western backers amid the ongoing war in Gaza. ...

Seven Lebanese Villages Were Annexed to Israel

Natasha Metni Torbey 16/02 15:51 - Reading : 7 minute(s)

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In a series of four articles, This is Beirut revisits three key elements of the Lebanese-Israeli border dispute and a fourth, which is now forgotten. The first focuses on the Ras el Naqoura tunnel, owned by the Lebanese State and registered under land registry number 28/Naqoura. However, following Israel’s occupation, it has been transformed ...

South Lebanon: Beirut Requests Security Council Intervention

This Is Beirut 16/02 14:09 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

At the request of caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati, the caretaker Minister of Foreign Affairs, Abdallah Bou Habib, instructed Lebanon's Permanent Representative to the United Nations to submit a complaint to the UN Security Council, dated Thursday, February 15, against Israel. This official complaint follows a series of deadly attacks by the ...

Growing Concerns Over Gaza Hospital After Israeli Raid

This Is Beirut 16/02 13:47 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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There was growing concern on Friday over a key Gaza hospital a day after a raid by the Israeli Army, with the Hamas-run territory's Health Ministry saying several patients had died there due to a lack of oxygen. The ministry said the power was cut off and the generators stopped after the raid at the Nasser hospital in the southern city of Khan ...

Netanyahu Rejects any International Recognition of a Palestinian State

This Is Beirut 16/02 11:53 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Israel

Netanyahu once again affirmed his unwilligness to support the establisment of a Palestinian state at the end of the war. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said late Thursday that he rejected a plan for international recognition of a Palestinian state, saying such an initiative "would offer an enormous reward to terrorism". Netanyahu's ...

South Lebanon: Five Dead, Extensive Damage in Israel Strikes

This Is Beirut 16/02 11:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

Israel

Israeli warplanes launched a series of airstrikes shortly after midnight, targeting several towns in southern Lebanon. The attacks caused extensive damage to the targeted areas' homes, properties and crops. The towns of Naqoura, Jabal al-Labbouneh, Alma al-Shaab, Tayr Harfa and Yarine in the western sector were among those hit in the initial wave ...

Retaliation Attacks Intensify Along Southern Border

This Is Beirut 15/02 22:42 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Cross-border violence continued unabated on Thursday, following the grave developments in South Lebanon a day before, described as the deadliest since October 8. Israeli airstrikes targeted the village of Blida in the early evening. Initial reports said four people were wounded as a result of the attacks on a residential building and a civilian ...

War Diary: Day 132

Victoria C. Werling 15/02 22:04 - Reading : less than a minute

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This Is Beirut brings you a daily recap of the situation in southern Lebanon and Gaza. Here are the main highlights for February 15th, 2024.