This Is Beirut 21/07 11:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to deliver a landmark speech to the US Congress on Wednesday as he fights off intense pressure to quickly cut a Gaza war ceasefire deal with Hamas. Netanyahu, Israel's longest-serving premier, will become the first foreign leader to address a joint meeting of the two chambers four times – pulling ...
Chelsea Al Arif 20/07 21:31 - Reading : less than a minute
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 20th, 2024.
This Is Beirut 20/07 20:08 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Israeli warplanes killed three people in the Houthi-controlled Yemeni port of Hodeida, the Houthi's said Sunday after the group's deadly drone attack in Tel Aviv. The strikes on the vital port, which triggered a raging fire and plumes of black smoke, are the first claimed by Israel in the Arabian peninsula's poorest country, about 2,000 ...
This Is Beirut 20/07 17:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Saturday was marked by an attack by the Al-Qassam brigades on Shomera, in the Upper Galilee, carried out from Lebanese territory. In a statement published on Saturday, the armed wing of Hamas claimed responsibility for firing a salvo of rockets at the command of the 300 brigade command post. In addition, an Israeli raid targeted a building in the ...
This Is Beirut 19/07 21:17 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Tensions increased on the southern front on Friday afternoon after a civil defense volunteer was injured and another was suffocated in an Israeli strike while putting down a fire resulting from an earlier raid on houses in Bir Al Muslabiyat and Al-Abbad Junction. Israeli artillery hit the center of Hula, and Wadi Al Bayad, before targeting ...
Rayan Chami 19/07 20:01 - Reading : less than a minute
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 19th, 2024.
Natasha Metni Torbey 19/07 19:29 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
After nine hours and 2,000 km, the “Jaffa” drone, launched at dawn toward Tel Aviv in an attack claimed by the Yemeni Houthis, evaded interception. Was it luck or new military technology? It is 3:10 AM. An explosion occurred at Hayarkon, at the corner of Ben-Yehuda Avenue and Shalom-Aleichem Street, near the local branch of the US consulate, ...
This Is Beirut 19/07 18:40 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The ICJ has called Israel's occupation of the West Bank "illegal", Friday, in a non-binding advisory opinion. The UN's top court on Friday said Israel's decades-long occupation of Palestinian territory was "illegal" and needed to end as soon as possible. The advisory opinion of The Hague-based International Court of Justice (ICJ) is not binding, ...
This Is Beirut 19/07 13:56 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Britain announced on Friday the lifting of its January funding suspension for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) and committed to providing £21 million ($27 million) in new funds. “We are overturning the suspension of UNRWA funding,” British Foreign Secretary David Lammy told parliament, adding that the UN agency for Palestinian ...
This Is Beirut 19/07 09:21 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A drone claimed by Yemen's Houthi rebels slipped through Israel's vaunted air defence system on Friday to hit a Tel Aviv building near a US embassy annex, killing one person. The Houthis fired at Tel Aviv a "new drone called 'Yafa', which is capable of bypassing the enemy's interception systems," the Iran-backed Yemeni movement's spokesman, Yahya ...
Victoria C. Werling 18/07 21:27 - Reading : less than a minute
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 18th, 2024.
This Is Beirut 18/07 20:17 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Tension between Hezbollah and Israel increased Thursday on the southern front. The commander of Hezbollah's elite Radwan force, Ali Jaafar Maatouk, also known as Habib Maatouk, was killed in an Israeli raid on Jmaïmeh. Hezbollah confirmed Maatouk's death in an official statement. Hezbollah had previously announced the death of another of its ...