This Is Beirut 2024-04-15 11:52 - Reading : less than a minute
Amid soaring tensions following Iran’s unprecedented drone and missile attack on Israel, fire exchanges on southern Lebanon’s front went on Sunday night with an Israeli raid that targeted a house in the village of Siddiqin, in the Tyre region. Nine people were wounded and taken to nearby hospitals in the night raid which totally flattened ...
2024-04-14 23:05 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Fadi Hanna, whose candidacy was backed by the Free Patriotic Movement and Hezbollah, was elected president of the Order of Engineers of Beirut on Sunday, succeeding to Aref Yassine. He beat his rival Pierre Geara, supported by the Future Movement, the Lebanese Forces and the Kataeb, by a margin of more than 500 votes: 4,634 votes for Fadi Hanna ...
2024-04-14 19:50 - Reading : less than a minute
Caretaker Minister of Education and Higher Education Abbas Halabi has announced the resumption of classes on Monday, April 15, after the Fitr holiday. Schools and institutes located in border villages in South Lebanon are however exempt from this measure. Halabi gave their directors the freedom to decide whether to resume classes or not, in ...
2024-04-14 19:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israel Sunday struck a Hezbollah site in Lebanon's east near the Syrian border, the Israeli army and a source from the Iran-backed group said, as tensions soared after Iran directly attacked Israel. The Hezbollah source told AFP that "the Israeli strike targeted an area... near Baalbek and targeted a two-story building belonging to Hezbollah," ...
2024-04-14 18:28 - Reading : less than a minute
German airline Lufthansa announced on Sunday that, due to the situation in the Middle East, it will "suspend its regular flights to and from Tel Aviv, Erbil and Amman until at least Tuesday, April 16," as well as those to "Beirut and Tehran that will remain suspended until at least Thursday, April 18." The group, which includes Lufthansa and the ...
2024-04-14 17:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The Archbishop of Beirut, Elias Audi, believes that displaced Syrians in Lebanon have the right to live in dignity, "in their own country, and not at the expense of the Lebanese." "Lebanon's salvation can only be at the hands of leaders who will put the country's interests above all others, disregarding their egoism, their personal interests, and ...
2024-04-14 16:27 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Middle East Airlines (MEA) has announced, in a press release, its flight schedules for Sunday April 14 and early Monday April 15, to and from Beirut. These can be viewed at the following links: for flights from Beirut, for flights to Beirut. MEA also announced it updated flights schedule for Monday April 15.
2024-04-14 15:39 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iranian ambassador to Lebanon Mojtaba Amani hailed, on Sunday, his country’s drone and missile strikes against Israel as a successful act to “punish” the Hebrew state for attacking Tehran’s consulate in Damascus on April 1. “Iran has proved that it has succeeded in its move to punish Israel and is determined to defend itself,” Amani ...
2024-04-14 15:25 - Reading : less than a minute
An expected 40,000 voters are set to vote today in the Order of Engineers and Architects of Beirut to a elect a new president, as well as five new members of the Council. Results are expected after the ballots close at 7:30 PM. [readmore url="https://thisisbeirut.com.lb/lebanon/244100"]
This Is Beirut 2024-04-14 13:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Caretaker Minister of Public Works and Transport Ali Hamiye declared on Sunday morning that Lebanon "has reopened its airspace at 7 AM, and the airport will gradually resume normal operations today." "Operations should return to normal by the end of the day," he announced during a tour of the airport. Following the Iranian attack on Israel on ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-14 13:08 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Maronite Patriarch Bechara Rai considered that "the obstinacy in preventing the election of a President of the Republic undermines the (national) pact and the 'culture of unity in diversity' because the President is the guarantor of national unity and his absence leads to the disintegration of the Lebanese family." In his Sunday sermon, Rai ...
Chelsea Al Arif 2024-04-14 11:01 - Reading : less than a minute
After the escalations between Israel and Iran on Saturday night, Lebanese citizens immediately feared a spillover of the conflict to Lebanon, prompting them to brace for potential escalation.