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Shin Bet, Israel's internal intelligence agency, foiled an attempt by Hezbollah to assassinate a former senior Israeli security official using an explosive device, the security agency announces. The attack was intended to have been carried out in the coming days, according to the Shin Bet. Hezbollah was also responsible for a bombing in Tel ...
par This Is Beirut, 03/01 15:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The assassination on Tuesday of Saleh al-Arouri, a founding member of the Al-Qassam Brigades (the armed wing of Hamas) and vice-president of Hamas' political bureau, prompted numerous reactions in Lebanese political circles on Wednesday, with various leaders denouncing a "violation" of sovereignty. The leader of the Kataeb party, Samy Gemayel, ...
par Charles Chartouni, 19/02 09:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Alexeï Navalny Assassination Russia Ukraine
The assassination of dissident leader Alexei Navalny is no fait divers. It brings us back to picture the nightmares of the deaths of the Gulag convicts, the “banality of evil” (Banalität des Bösen) and the steadfastness of the internal opposition to Vladimir Putin. It highlights the deep-seated fears of the cynical and bloody autocrat and ...
par This Is Beirut, 09/04 19:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The Lebanese Forces (LF) said on Tuesday that three factors led to the murder of Pascal Sleiman, the party’s coordinator in Jbeil. A statement by the LF’s media office said, “It is firstly linked to the illegal (armed) presence of Hezbollah under the pretext of being a resistance movement, which has led to a paralysis in state institutions, ...
par This Is Beirut, 19/05 14:14 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Assassination Robert Fico Russia Slovak Prime Minister slovakia
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico's life is no longer in danger following an assassination attempt, Deputy Prime Minister Robert Kalinak said on Sunday. Fico has been in the hospital since Wednesday, when a lone gunman shot him four times, including in the abdomen. "He has emerged from the immediate threat to his life, but his condition remains ...
par Michel Touma, 20/05 14:44 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Assassination diplomacy Ebrahim Raisi Hussein Amir-Abdullahian
“The butterfly effect” refers to a phenomenon where an event occurring in one place can trigger significant consequences in a distant area. The Lebanese people have experienced this effect for decades. Now, they face it once again with the deaths of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hussein Amir-Abdullahian, ...
par Ali A. Hamadé, 16/07 16:35 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Assassination Donald Trump Joe Biden President of the United States
The assassination attempt on former President and current presidential candidate Donald Trump was deeply shocking for the American people. Who would have imagined that one of the most protected figures in the country could be targeted during an electoral rally, despite the extensive presence of the Secret Service and numerous snipers on nearby ...
par This Is Beirut, 31/07 09:01 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Assassination Iran Ismail Haniyeh Israel-Hamas war
Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of Hamas' political bureau, was killed Wednesday in an Israeli airstrike in Iran. [readmore url="https://thisisbeirut.com.lb/israel-hamaswar/277344"] Reactions are flooding in from across the globe. Haniyeh's son, Abdoul Salam Ismail Haniyeh, stated that his father had “gotten what he wanted. We are in a state of ...
par This Is Beirut, 01/08 17:59 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Assassination Hamas Iran Ismail Haniyeh Israel
Ismail Haniyeh, a top leader of Hamas, was assassinated on Wednesday by an explosive device covertly smuggled and placed in the Tehran guesthouse where he was residing, according to a New York Times report citing seven Middle Eastern officials, including two Iranians, and one American official. Citing five of the aforementioned Middle Eastern ...
28/09 18:16 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Several Lebanese political figures mourned the death of Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah, killed on Friday in the Israeli strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs. Among them former president and Free Patriotic Movement chief Michel Aoun, former Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblatt and the leaders of the Marada Movement ...
