This is Beirut, 16/01 23:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Gaza Palestine Israel Hamas Fatah
The Palestinian committee set to govern post-war Gaza has begun its work in Cairo, a member told AFP on Friday. Formed on Wednesday as the second phase of the US-brokered Gaza ceasefire deal came into effect, the committee is made up of 15 technocrats charged with administering the Palestinian territory after the Hamas-Israel war. The ...
This is Beirut, 14/01 19:15 - Reading : less than a minute
The majority of Palestinian factions and the presidency offered their support for the Palestinian technocratic committee meant to govern Gaza, after mediator Egypt announced on Wednesday that all parties had agreed on its members. In a statement, Palestinian factions including Hamas and Islamic Jihad said they had agreed "to support the ...
This is Beirut, 13/01 09:10 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Hamas Banks Fatah Israel Kuwait
Hamas is preparing to hold internal elections to rebuild its leadership following Israel's killing of several of the group's top figures during the war in Gaza, sources in the movement said on Monday. "Internal preparations are still ongoing in order to hold the elections at the appropriate time in areas where conditions on the ...
This is Beirut, 2025-12-30 12:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Lebanese Army Fatah Lebanon Joseph Aoun Palestine Mahmoud Abbas
Members of the Fatah movement on Tuesday handed over their weapons to the Lebanese Army (LAF) from the movement’s center in Jabal al-Halib, located on the outskirts of the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in the Saida district of southern Lebanon. The LAF deployed in the vicinity of the handover site and reinforced security measures to ...
Mario Chartouni, 2025-11-04 16:55 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Donald Trump UN Security Council Fatah Gaza International Stabilization Force
Two years after the outbreak of the Gaza conflict, the United States is seeking to establish a new framework for stability in the enclave. On Monday, Washington submitted a draft resolution to the UN Security Council to create an international stabilization force tasked with ensuring security and transitional governance in the Palestinian ...
Mario Chartouni, 2025-10-27 16:15 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Palestine Donald Trump Benjamin Netanyahu Fatah Hamas
Following a meeting in Cairo on Friday, the main Palestinian factions, including Hamas, announced that they had agreed to entrust the administration of the Gaza Strip to a temporary Palestinian committee composed of independent technocrats. According to a statement posted on Hamas’s website, the committee will oversee day-to-day affairs and ...
Michel Touma, 2025-10-13 08:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Donald Trump Fatah Hamas Hezbollah Gaza Sharm el-Sheikh
The cloth doesn’t make the cleric… The old saying fits neatly when it comes to Hamas and the latest turn in the war it launched on October 7, 2023, with its massive and deadly offensive against Israel from Gaza. Two years into a conflict that has plunged the Palestinian population into a nightmare, the Islamist movement has just endorsed, ...
Mario Chartouni, 2025-09-23 19:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Hamas Palestine Benjamin Netanyahu Fatah Clan
In a landscape ravaged by nearly two years of war between Israel and Hamas, local figures are stepping in to fill the void left by the weakening of the Palestinian movement in Gaza. In Kizan al-Najjar, a depopulated village south of Khan Younes in the southern enclave, Hossam al-Astal, a former Palestinian Authority officer, has announced the ...
This is Beirut, 2025-09-19 13:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Emmanuel Macron Fatah Palestine France Palestinian authority
Palestinian authorities have arrested a key suspect in an antisemitic attack on a Jewish restaurant in Paris which left six people dead in Paris in 1982, French prosecutors said on Friday. The announcement comes as France gears up to formally recognise Palestine's statehood at the United Nations General Assembly on Monday. The office of the ...
This is Beirut, 2025-08-29 14:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Lebanon Fatah Lebanese Army camps palestinians
The Lebanese Army on Friday continued to collect weapons from Palestinian camps for the second consecutive day, as part of the government’s plan to ensure that arms remain under state control and to bolster security inside the camps. The handover included various types of weapons, shells, and ammunition, which were received by the ...
This is Beirut, 2025-08-28 10:35 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Lebanon Fatah Lebanese Army Palestinians Camps Arms South
The Lebanese Army on Thursday launched its largest weapons collection operation since the end of the civil war, targeting Palestinian refugee camps both south and north of the Litani River. The initiative is part of the government’s efforts to ensure that arms remain solely under state control. The campaign began in the Tyre region, ...
Bassam Abou Zeid, 2025-08-23 13:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Lebanese official sources said that US envoy Tom Barrack and US official Morgan Ortagus will return to Beirut on Tuesday, bringing Israel’s response on withdrawals, the cessation of attacks and assassinations, and the release of prisoners, along with a US proposal on renewing UNIFIL’s mandate. According to these sources, the Presidency and ...