Gaza

War Diary: Day 139

This is Beirut brings you a daily recap of the situation in Gaza. Here are the main highlights for February 22, 2024.

War Diary: Day 138

This is Beirut brings you a daily recap of the situation in Gaza. Here are the main highlights for February 21, 2024.

Israel Kills Three Palestinians in Jenin, West Bank

Israeli troops killed three Palestinian 'terrorists' during an overnight raid in the northern West Bank city of Jenin, the military said on Wednesday. The Palestinian health ministry confirmed at least one death in the Israeli operation, the latest in a months-long military crackdown across the occupied West Bank since Hamas's October 7 attack on ...

War Diary: Day 103

This Is Beirut brings you a daily recap of the situation in Gaza. Here are the main highlights for January 17, 2024.

War Diary: Day 86

This is Beirut brings you a daily recap of the situation in Gaza. Here are the main highlights for December 31, 2023.

Bleak Prospects for Israel-Hamas War

The situation in Gaza continued to deteriorate on Sunday, December 31st, as the world prepares for New Year's celebrations. On a regional scale, tensions are sharply escalating in Iraq, Syria and the Red Sea. Israeli strikes pounded Gaza on Sunday as both sides near the end of a dark year, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that the war ...

Israel Ready to Allow Ships for Gaza Aid

Israel is ready to allow ships to deliver aid to the Gaza Strip as part of a proposed sea corridor from Cyprus, announced Israel's Foreign Minister on Sunday, as cited by Reuters. “It can start immediately,” Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said to Tel Aviv radio station 103 FM, as reported by Reuters. Additionally, Cohen explained that Britain, ...

Israel Replaces Foreign Minister Cohen

The Israeli government approved the appointment of a new foreign minister to replace Eli Cohen on Sunday as part of a pre-arranged reshuffle. Israel Katz, the current energy minister, will exchange positions with Cohen in a ministerial rotation, pending parliamentary approval. Cohen will retain his position as a member of the security cabinet, ...

Netanyahu Ready to Drag Out the War to Achieve His Goals

The war between Israel and Hamas, which entered its 85th day on Sunday, was triggered by a bloody and unprecedented attack perpetrated by the Palestinian Islamist movement on Israeli soil from the Gaza Strip on October 7. Some 1,140 people, mostly civilians, were killed in the attack, according to an AFP count based on the latest Israeli figures, ...

War Diary: Day 85

This is Beirut brings you a daily recap of the situation in Gaza. Here are the main highlights for December 30, 2023.

‘Exhausted’ Gazans Hope for Ceasefire by 2024

The displaced Palestinians are exhausted, as the never-ending war enters its 13th week. As international mediation continues, Gazans hope to see an end to this war, by the new year. Fighting raged on Saturday in the Gaza Strip, where displaced Palestinians found themselves "exhausted" by the relentless Israeli army offensive against Hamas in the ...

WHO Warns of Growing Threat of Infections in Gaza

In a post on social network X, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) warned of the "growing threat of infectious diseases" in the Gaza Strip. He said that WHO staff on the ground were working daily on controlling and monitoring these infections. The WHO chief said on Friday that he was "very concerned" about the growing threat posed by ...