This is Beirut 2024-11-23 04:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Violent Israeli strikes hit the center of Beirut early this morning, at around 4 o'clock. At least four bombs, potentially bunker-buster ammunitions, hit the Basta el-Fawka district and were heard in many other neighborhoods. At least one building was destroyed and several others damaged. The strikes happened less than a hundred meters ...
This is Beirut 2024-11-22 22:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Hassan Nasrallah Hezbollah Israel
Ali Larijani, senior advisor to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, declared on Friday, that Hezbollah “has not yet used its important weapons” in its war against Israel. In parallel, he emphasized that “if they did, the equation would change radically on the ground and in the region.” In a conversation with the Iranian news ...
This is Beirut 2024-11-22 20:10 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Hezbollah Israel South Lebanon conflict
The surge in violence persisted on Friday with Israeli airstrikes targeting Beirut’s southern suburbs and south Lebanon, as fierce fighting raged in southern villages between Hezbollah combatants and Israeli troops advancing deeper into Lebanese territory. New evacuation warnings were issued by the Israeli army to residents of Hadath, Ghobeiri ...
Vanessa Kallas 2024-11-22 19:45 - Reading : less than a minute
Trapped in no man's land on the war-torn Lebanon-Syria border, taxi drivers risk their lives to earn a living by transporting passengers between two deep craters created by Israeli airstrikes.
This is Beirut 2024-11-22 18:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Amos Hochstein Hezbollah Israel Lebanese Army Ceasefire
US Presidential envoy Amos Hochstein wrapped up his regional tour on Friday, aimed at promoting an American proposal for a ceasefire in Lebanon, leaving Tel Aviv without issuing any public statements after his meetings. Israeli officials also remained tight-lipped, even as the Israeli military escalated its raids and advanced further into Lebanese ...
This is Beirut 2024-11-22 17:03 - Reading : less than a minute
On Lebanon's Independence Day, we ask legal experts whether the main principles of the National Pact have ever been fully implemented. #IndependenceDay
This is Beirut 2024-11-22 16:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Hezbollah South Lebanon UNIFIL Israel
Four Italian soldiers were lightly hurt in a rocket "attack" on the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon, Rome said on Friday, with Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani saying initial evidence pointed to Hezbollah. "It is believed that there were two missiles. From what it appears, they are believed to have been launched by Hezbollah," he said in ...
Marc Kaloustian 2024-11-22 16:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
November 20, 2024, I’m boarding the return flight from Dubai to Beirut. The news isn’t great, but I’m used to it — uncertainty clings to me like a second skin. I’m Lebanese. That imperceptible tension between the unparalleled joy of coming home and the unbearable insecurity of feeling trapped there is my daily reality. I accept it ...
Johnny Kortbawi 2024-11-22 13:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Refined comments pour in during the national holidays: Independence Day, Flag Day, the First Liberation Day, the Second and the Nineteenth. Yet, no one truly believes in the poetry written for these occasions. The mandate era is increasingly seen as more merciful than the independence we now endure, constantly violated by those surrounding ...
Michel Touma 2024-11-22 11:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Hezbollah Independance National Pact
For many years, the Lebanese have marked the anniversary of November 22 with a sense of disillusionment, reflecting on the advanced state of decline of Lebanon’s independence, proclaimed in 1943. This feeling of bitterness has been exacerbated by a series of regional interventions, which have fostered a chronic climate of instability and discord ...
This is Beirut 2024-11-22 10:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
On the 81st Independence Day in Lebanon, well-wishes have been expressed by various political figures and foreign embassies. Locally, Maronite Patriarch Bechara Rai highlighted the dual grief felt by Lebanese citizens—amidst war and governance turmoil, emphasizing the need for collective will to face the nation's crises. He stressed that true ...
Élie-Joe Kamel 2024-11-22 10:00 - Reading : less than a minute
The Lebanese flag was raised, the national anthem was sung in all the sections, and there were artistic and educational workshops... A spectacular 81st Independence Day was celebrated at the Collège Sainte-Famille in Jounieh despite everything.