This Is Beirut 2023-12-12 23:39 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati encouraged the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on Tuesday to redirect its support for Syrian refugees “through incentive projects in their country to encourage them to return, rather than staying as refugees in Lebanon.” This occurred during a meeting with the Commissioner of the UNHCR ...
This Is Beirut 2023-12-12 20:35 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Videos showing the airport flooded on Tuesday morning quickly went viral: passengers wading through water in the building, water falling on the escalators, sweepers working together to clear the water. For once, the infrastructure has nothing to do with the flooding which motorists are mainly accustomed to on Lebanese ...
This Is Beirut 2023-12-12 20:01 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Firas al-Abiad German Ambassador
As part of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) readiness and response plan to address the ongoing border conflict and its associated medical emergencies, the German Ambassador handed over Trauma and Emergency Surgical Kits (TESK) procured through the WHO to the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) on December 12. Minister of Public Health Dr. ...
This Is Beirut 2023-12-12 19:13 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The Lebanese Forces (LF) and caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati engaged in a heated debate on Tuesday over a proposal to convene a Cabinet meeting to discuss postponing the retirement of Army Commander-in-Chief General Joseph Aoun. The LF expressed astonishment at the invitation from caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati to this meeting, which ...
2023-12-12 18:36 - Reading : less than a minute
In the wake of a thunderstorm, Beirut International Airport grapples with widespread flooding, both outside and within its facilities.
This Is Beirut 2023-12-12 17:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Dory Chamoun Fadi Masri Joseph Aoun
Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri received the President of the Beirut Bar Association, Fadi Masri, on Tuesday, along with the new members of the Bar Council. Berri and Masri stressed the need to urgently proceed with the election of a new head of state, which represents “an essential condition for the proper functioning of ...
This Is Beirut 2023-12-12 14:12 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The exchange of fire between Hezbollah and the Israeli Army resumed on Tuesday morning in southern Lebanon, after a tumultuous night. In a first such incident, interceptor missile fragments landed near the Yater public school (Bint Jbeil), terrifying the students who were in class. Fragments of the missile, which exploded above Yater, fell on the ...
2023-12-12 08:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
General François Hage was killed three months after leading the army to a resounding victory in its battle against Islamist terrorists in Nahr el-Bared in 2007. In 2007, during the one hundred and five days of the military operation led by General François Hage against the terrorist organization Fateh el-Islam, in the Palestinian camp of Nahr ...
2023-12-12 07:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Gebran Tueni, the prominent Lebanese journalist and politician, is fondly remembered on the 18th anniversary of his tragic passing. As the former editor-in-chief of the renowned Lebanese daily, An-Nahar, Tueni fearlessly reported on critical issues, challenging the status quo and advocating for democratic values. His life's journey, however, was ...
Rolla Beydoun 2023-12-11 22:25 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
General Joseph Aoun Lebanese Parliament
The delay in the retirement of the Army Commander-in-Chief, General Joseph Aoun, is almost a done deal. Instead of retiring next January 10, General Aoun would stay in office for another year, or at least six months, depending on the decision made by the MPs. This delay would come through the vote on a draft law on Thursday during the ...
This Is Beirut 2023-12-11 19:04 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The Saydet el-Jabal Gathering declared on Monday that “Lebanon’s salvation increasingly depends on the implementation of UN Security Council resolutions 1559, 1680 and 1701.” Resolution 1701 brought an end to the war between Israel and Lebanon in 2006. Resolutions 1559 and 1680, adopted in 2004 and 2006 respectively, call for “the ...
This Is Beirut 2023-12-10 16:43 - Reading : less than a minute
Gisèle Khoury Hervé Magro Human Rights Day Kurt Georg Stöckl-Stillfried
French Ambassador to Lebanon Hervé Magro and German Ambassador to Lebanon Kurt Georg Stöckl-Stillfried wrote simultaneously on their X (formerly Twitter) accounts that on Human Rights Day, “Our thoughts are with greatly missed journalist Gisèle Khoury to whom we are posthumously awarding the French—German Prize for Human Rights 2023, ...