2024-04-11 19:22 - Reading : less than a minute
Armed men in a black Prado jeep with tinted windows and no license plates abducted two Syrians in Baalbeck-Hermel in northeastern Lebanon. They took their cell phones and the money they had on them before releasing them, near the Makneh town. The two were on their way to Homs, north of Damascus. They were in a cab on the Chtoura-Baalbeck-Qaa road ...
2024-04-07 10:38 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israeli fighter jets launched strikes shortly after midnight on Sunday. They targeted a vacant warehouse in the town of Sefri in the Baalbeck district and strategic positions along the eastern Lebanese mountain range near the outskirts of Janta, close to the Lebanese-Syrian border, without causing human casualties. Israel announced that the ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-03-31 10:54 - Reading : less than a minute
In an incident near the Lebanese border, a Jeep carrying Syrian families overturned on the Bodai-Baalbeck road, resulting in multiple injuries. The families, consisting of 15 Syrian passengers, had entered Lebanon clandestinely, with the help of armed individuals. Upon the arrival of military intelligence at the scene of the accident, a ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-03-26 16:07 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
In retaliation to Hezbollah’s attack on the Meron air base, the Israeli Army announced that it had hit Baalbeck. An Israeli airstrike targeted Wadi Fuara near the city of Hermel, where the sound of explosions was heard and plumes of smoke were observed, according to the National News Agency (NNA). Simultaneously, an Israeli airstrike targeted a ...
2024-03-24 10:19 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israeli warplanes raided a four-story building in Baalbeck late on Saturday night in the Al-Asseera neighborhood, close to the house of Hezbollah leader Hassan al-Lakkis. As ambulances rushed to the scene, preliminary information indicated that three people were wounded in the raid. Baalbeck-Hermel Governor Bashir Khodor urged citizens to be ...
Michel Touma, 2024-03-13 12:02 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
A pivotal moment in history... Such is the characterization one could give to the monumental gathering that took place at Martyrs' Square and its surrounding streets in downtown Beirut on March 14, 2005. This date will forever be etched in Lebanon's annals, as several hundred thousand individuals (over a million, as per various sources) converged ...
2024-03-13 11:06 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Lebanon will file a complaint against Israel before the UN Security Council following the Hebrew state’s series of attacks on residential areas around the city of Baalbeck and in neighboring villages, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday. “In accordance with the directives of the Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdallah Bou ...
2024-03-13 10:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israel further expanded its attacks on Lebanese territory on Wednesday morning, targeting for the first time the main city of Tyre, hours after a series of strikes hit the region of Baalbeck in eastern Lebanon. An Israeli drone fired rockets at a car on the Al-Hawsh road south of the city, killing two persons and injuring one, according to This ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-03-12 10:42 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Dozens of rockets were launched on Tuesday morning from South Lebanon towards Israeli locations in the Galilee and the Golan Heights. The Israeli Army reported that 100 rockets targeted the Golan Heights from Lebanon. It also reported that its warplanes “attacked a short while ago three platforms from which rockets were launched towards the ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-03-11 23:11 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
On Monday evening, the Israeli Army carried out a strike in Baalbeck, for the second time since Hezbollah opened the southern front on October 8, the day after the start of the war in Gaza, but also since the July 2006 war between Hezbollah and the Hebrew state. According to preliminary information obtained by This is Beirut, between two and four ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-02-27 23:19 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Following the Israeli strike against Hezbollah positions in Baalbeck on Monday, attacks between the pro-Iranian group and the Hebrew state escalated on Tuesday, while, according to the US State Department, Israel wants a “diplomatic solution” to its conflict with Hezbollah. Hezbollah fired a salvo of rockets at western Galilee, while the ...