1701 Remains the Obligatory Route to a Ceasefire

Michael Al Andary 29/07 16:14 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Abdallah Bou Habib Amos Hochstein Hezbollah Israel

Caretaker Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib revealed that the Lebanese government has asked Hezbollah to withdraw beyond the Litani River in accordance with UN Resolution 1701. In response, Hezbollah has demanded the Israeli withdrawal from the Shebaa Farms and Kfarchouba hills as a precondition. In an interview with Al-Hadath TV on Sunday, Bou ...

Israeli Drone Strikes on Shaqra Leave Two Dead and Three Injured

This Is Beirut 29/07 10:34 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

Hezbollah

Israeli drones conducted two airstrikes early on Monday morning, targeting a car and a motorcycle on the road between Shaqra and Hula, South of Lebanon. The attacks killed two people and injured three others, including a toddler, according to reports from the Civil Defense in the South. A motorbike approached the targeted car while members of ...

Editorial – Iran's Expansionism and Collateral Damage

Michel Touma 29/07 10:07 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Hezbollah Israel

Another massacre, another senseless tragedy. This time, it’s the innocent lives of twelve children and teenagers that have been claimed by a missile strike in Majdal Shams, a Druze village in the Golan Heights under Israeli sovereignty. They were participating in, or merely watching, a soccer match. This horrific event underscores the ...

War Diary: Day 296

Tylia El Helou 28/07 20:56 - Reading : less than a minute

Palestine Hamas Israel

From Gaza to Lebanon, This is Beirut brings you a daily recap of the war between Hamas and Israel and its repercussions on the region. Here are the main highlights for July 28, 2024.

The Golan Heights, a Strategic House of Many Mansions

This Is Beirut 28/07 18:32 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Hezbollah Israel

The Golan Heights, a rocky plateau where 12 youths were killed Saturday amid clashes between Lebanon's Hezbollah and Israeli forces, is a strategic territory partially captured by Israel from Syria. Following the conquest of about two-thirds of the plateau during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, Israel in 1981 annexed the area in a move not recognized ...

Blinken on All Fronts During Japan Visit

This Is Beirut 28/07 16:46 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Antony Blinken

United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke about a number of current international issues, with Israel-Lebanon at the forefront, at a press conference on Sunday, during a trip to Japan planned to strengthen defense ties between the two countries. Blinken said that there was "every indication" that Hezbollah was behind a rocket strike ...

Zoom in on the Falaq-1 Rocket That Hit Majdal Shams

Malo Pinatel 28/07 13:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

Hezbollah

As the town of Majdal Shams, located on the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, is still recovering after the missile attack that killed twelve people, the Israeli army has reported that the projectile was likely an Iranian-made Falaq-1 rocket. We know it is a Falaq rocket with a 53 kg warhead," said Israeli Army Chief of Staff General Herzi Halevi. ...

War Diary: Day 295

Rayan Chami 27/07 21:06 - Reading : less than a minute

Palestine Hamas Israel

From Gaza to Lebanon, This is Beirut brings you a daily recap of the war between Hamas and Israel and its repercussions on the region. Here are the main highlights for July 27, 2024.

Attack on Majdal Shams: Hezbollah Accused

This Is Beirut 27/07 20:48 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

Israeli emergency services announced on Saturday that rocket fire from Lebanon into the Golan Heights in northern Israel had left 11 people dead and 34 injured, including seven children in critical condition, according to Magen David Adom, the Israeli equivalent of the Red Cross. The Israeli army, for its part, accused Hezbollah of firing a ...

Four Hezbollah Fighters Killed on Southern Front

This Is Beirut 27/07 19:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Hezbollah

Artillery exchange between Hezbollah and the Israeli army carried on intermittently on Saturday. Late in the afternoon, Hezbollah announced the death of four of its fighters, Naim Ali Farhat, Mohammad Ali Moustafa Mreish, Ahmad Hikmat Moussa and Hassan Helal al-Saidi. Earlier, the Israeli Air Force conducted two raids on houses in Kfar Kila, ...

Gaza: Deadly Israeli Strike on School, Borrell Calls for Ceasefire

This Is Beirut 27/07 16:13 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Josep Borrell Palestine Israel

The Health Ministry in Gaza said an Israeli strike Saturday on a school killed 30 people, after a days-long military operation further south left around 170 dead, according to the civil defense agency. Since July 6, at least eight schools – including the latest one – have been hit, leaving more than 100 people dead, based on a tally of tolls ...

Israel Claims to Have Intercepted Drone from Lebanon in Israeli Waters

27/07 12:23 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

Israel

Despite the prevailing impressions among most official, diplomatic, internal and external security entities that the confrontations on the southern border front with Israel could expand into a full-scale war, fears have grown that the reality on this front, which has effectively turned into a front of attrition, will be prolonged indefinitely. On ...