This Is Beirut 2023-12-26 20:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Starting next year, Roumieh prison and the women's prisons in Baabda, Zahlé and Tripoli will be deprived of food. The six companies delivering food to these prisons have announced that they will suspend their services from December 31. The reason: a lack of funds and unpaid bills. In a memo sent to the General Directorate of the Internal ...
This Is Beirut 2023-12-26 16:32 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The weekly meeting of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM), headed by its leader Gebran Bassil, was marked by the presence of his father-in-law, former President of the Republic Michel Aoun. According to information obtained by This is Beirut, this participation comes in the wake of "unjustified" absences of several FPM members from party meetings ...
This Is Beirut 2023-12-26 14:54 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
As part of his policy of openness to different political factions, leader of the Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) MP Teymour Joumblatt paid a visit to the head of the Marada movement, Sleiman Frangieh, at his residence in Bnechai on Tuesday morning. Joumblatt was accompanied by a PSP delegation comprising MPs Akram Chehayeb and Wael Abou Faour, ...
This Is Beirut 2023-12-26 14:51 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Army Commander Gebran Bassil Joseph Aoun
Army Commander General Joseph Aoun conveyed his best wishes to caretaker Minister of National Defense Maurice Sleem on the occasion of Christmas when he visited him at the Ministry of Defense in Yarzeh on Tuesday, in an apparent move to ease tensions between them. The visit comes in the wake of the parliament’s vote in favor of extending the ...
This Is Beirut 2023-12-26 10:53 - Reading : less than a minute
The Lebanese naval forces carried out a rescue mission on Tuesday, successfully saving illegal Syrian migrants from a boat bound for Cyprus. Fifty-four people, including children, were on board the makeshift boat, which was about to sink off the coast of northern Lebanon when it broke down. The migrants managed to contact the authorities to ask ...
This Is Beirut 2023-12-25 19:38 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Escalating tensions between Hezbollah and Israel continued in southern Lebanon despite Christmas celebrations on Monday, December 25. As of Monday afternoon, Israel resumed artillery shelling on the outskirts of Odaisseh, Tallet al-Mourtan in Sarda, Jabal al-Labbouneh, and the surroundings of Naqoura and Jabal al-Alam. In addition, the shelling ...
ici 2023-12-25 14:56 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The Greek Orthodox Metropolitan of Beirut, Bishop Elias Audi, led a poignant Christmas service on Monday, deploring the lack of humanity among world leaders in the face of the killing of civilians in the raging Gaza war, in its third month. "I raise a prayer for the entire world to understand that the message of the Lord's birth is a call for ...
ici 2023-12-25 12:38 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Maronite Patriarch Bechara al-Rai blamed Lebanese officials for the woes plaguing Lebanon and its people, and called for a “spiritual revolution” that would lead to the election of a president of the republic and put Lebanon back on track. At his Christmas Day sermon in Bkerke on Monday, Rai said, “Let this Christmas bring about a ...
This Is Beirut 2023-12-25 11:53 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israel carried out several airstrikes on southern Lebanese border towns on Monday morning, following heavy overnight clashes that did not taper off despite Christmas celebrations. A series of air raids targeted the outskirts of Aita al-Shaab and Tal al-Raheb, as well as Aitaroun, as of 7:00 AM this morning. The sound of exploding missiles ...
2023-12-25 09:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The moral and strategic equivocations of the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas, far from being incidental, are inherent to the political narrative and the military purview that underlie the massacres of October 7, 2023. The nihilistic attack reflects Hamas's political vision and concurs with the strategic objectives of Iranian power politics: ...
This Is Beirut 2023-12-24 18:48 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A new Christmas tree has been installed in the square of the Saint George Greek Orthodox Church in Tripoli's Zahiriya region. It is meant to replace the first tree, which was completely burnt down by flames caused by a Molotov cocktail thrown at it by unknown assailants at dawn on Sunday. The reinstallation of the Christmas tree was entirely ...
This Is Beirut 2023-12-24 16:13 - Reading : less than a minute
The Greek-Orthodox Metropolitan of Beirut, Archbishop Elias Audi, denounced the behavior of a large portion of people who value "social rank," respecting only "the rich, feudal, and bourgeois" and "rejecting the poor, needy, and weak." “The world is now built on interests, and man is driven by his instincts, desires, and self-centeredness," he ...