22/09 18:13 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A military “escalation” is not in Israel's “interest,” warned White House spokesman John Kirby on Sunday, following days of high tension in the Middle East. “We don't believe that escalating this military conflict is in their interest,” he said on ABC television, assuring that the United States shared this sentiment "directly" with ...
This Is Beirut 22/09 15:19 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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The global news channel Al Jazeera said that armed and masked Israeli forces raided its office in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on Sunday and issued a 45-day closure order. It was the latest salvo in a long-running feud between the Arab broadcaster and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government, which has worsened during the war in ...
This Is Beirut 22/09 11:52 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Amid rising tensions after the increasing fire exchange between Hezbollah and Israel, the UN Special Coordinator to Lebanon, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, reiterated on Sunday that “no military solution will make either side safer, as the region is on the brink of an imminent catastrophe.” “With the region on the brink of an imminent ...
This Is Beirut 22/09 10:14 - Reading : less than a minute
The toll from Friday’s Israeli bombardment on the southern suburbs of Beirut rose to 51 on Sunday. The Emergency Operations Center of the Ministry of Public Health had declared earlier that 45 people had been killed. 6 bodies have been recovered since. Meanwhile, search and rescue teams, ambulance services, and civil defense personnel are ...
This Is Beirut 22/09 10:06 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Tensions are on the rise in south Lebanon after a tense night as Hezbollah announced “raiding military industrial complexes specializing in electronic equipment, north of Haifa with dozens of rockets.” Hezbollah declared that this operation is “an initial response to the brutal massacre committed by Israel on Tuesday and Wednesday.” In a ...
Chelsea Al Arif 21/09 21:45 - 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 September 21, 2024.
This Is Beirut 21/09 21:14 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Saturday evening, Israeli forces carried out a new series of violent raids on southern Lebanon, after torching several areas in the afternoon. Media outlets reported that the Israeli army announced the start of this new round of raids. “In a series of raids on southern Lebanon, about 180 targets and thousands of rocket launchers that were ...
This Is Beirut 21/09 18:54 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Gaza's civil defense agency reported 21 killed in an Israeli strike on Saturday, the latest attack on a school sheltering displaced Palestinians where the Israeli military said it targeted militants. A spokesman for the civil defense agency, Mahmoud Bassal, said more than half the dead at the Gaza City school were children. According to ...
Bassam Abou Zeid 21/09 17:08 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Israeli military operations targeting Hezbollah have clearly shown that Israeli intelligence, particularly the Mossad, is capable of infiltrating Hezbollah on both human and technological levels. This level of infiltration has made assassination attempts and bombings successful, as demonstrated by the assassination of military commander Fouad ...
Fady Noun 21/09 16:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Lebanon has delivered a powerful lesson in humanity and unity to Israel, Iran and Hezbollah through the wave of solidarity, empathy and compassion that followed the Israeli attacks on September 17 and 18. In the face of the horrors of disfigured faces, doctors and nurses worked through the night, pushing themselves to the brink of exhaustion to ...
This Is Beirut 21/09 16:03 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
76 people were killed in Israeli attacks on Hezbollah this week. The Ministry of Public Health's Emergency Operations Center issued a further update on the death toll from the Israeli attack on Beirut's southern suburbs yesterday, indicating that the number of victims had risen to thirty-seven. A few hours earlier, caretaker Minister of Public ...
This Is Beirut 21/09 10:47 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Just a year after announcing that diplomatic ties with Israel were getting closer, Saudi Arabia's de facto leader has shut down talk of normalization as the Israel-Gaza war threatens to spread. The tougher tone from Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman came the same day that exploding walkie-talkies killed members of Lebanon's Hezbollah movement, ...