This is Beirut, 27/10 23:07 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Hamas handed over the remains of a deceased hostage on Monday as the Palestinian group came under increasing pressure to return its remaining deceased captives as promised under the Gaza ceasefire. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said Israeli forces had received a coffin containing what Hamas said was the sixteenth of 28 ...
Mario Chartouni, 27/10 16:15 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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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 ...
This is Beirut, 27/10 15:25 - Reading : less than a minute
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Israel has lifted the state of emergency for areas near the border with Gaza for the first time since Hamas's October 2023 attack, Defence Minister Israel Katz announced on Monday. "I have decided to adopt the (Israeli military's) recommendation and to lift, for the first time since October 7, the special state on the home front," a statement ...
This is Beirut, 27/10 12:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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The families of Israeli hostages on Monday demanded that the next steps in the US-brokered Gaza ceasefire be put on hold until Hamas returns the remaining bodies of dead captives. "Hamas knows exactly where every one of the deceased hostages is held. Two weeks have passed since the deadline set in the agreement for the return of all 48 hostages, ...
Charles Chartouni, 27/10 09:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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What’s dumbfounding is the equivocation of Hamas and Hezbollah toward the projected normalization initiated by President Trump. Nothing is new, since their obstructionism stems from ideological and strategic considerations. Whatever mediations are attempted by the U.S. and its associates, the state of mind within both formations is not inclined ...
Michel Touma, 27/10 08:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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When irrationality and reckless behavior come to define the actions of a powerful political faction, it doesn’t take long before red lines are dangerously breached. As a result, serious threats hang over the lives of populations directly exposed to the faction’s erratic excesses. This is exactly what we are witnessing today among several of ...
This is Beirut, 26/10 17:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted on Sunday that Israel would decide for itself when to strike its foes and which countries could join an international security force in Gaza, as Egyptian recovery crews arrived. The Egyptian convoy, captured on camera by AFP reporters in Khan Younes in the south of the Gaza Strip, included heavy ...
Sana Richa Choucair, 26/10 15:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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In this final week of October, the Disarmament Week set by the United Nations resonates with new urgency. On one front, Washington has issued an ultimatum to Hamas to disarm under Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan. On another, the Lebanese government is under US pressure to disarm Hezbollah, a key Iranian proxy in the region. Tehran remains ...
This is Beirut, 24/10 10:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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As the first phase of US President Donald Trump’s proposed plan moves forward, discussions are intensifying over the possible deployment of an international security force in Gaza, intended to take over from Hamas. The initiative’s first step involves disarming the Islamist movement, a highly sensitive task amid a fragile ceasefire and mutual ...
Marie de La Roche Saint-André, 24/10 09:45 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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Long sidelined by the United States on Gaza and in wider regional affairs, Turkey is staging a forceful comeback, driven both by the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the Gaza agreement brokered by US President Donald Trump. Ankara has played a pivotal role as intermediary between Hamas and Washington, helping to persuade the ...
Marc Saikali, 23/10 08:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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More than half of Ici Beyrouth and This is Beirut’s audience lives between France, North America and Africa. Those of you reading from these far-off lands are lucky enough not to be, like us, lulled from dawn to dusk by the relentless hum of drones. Yes, they are back. And this time, they are flying even lower. Beirutis have gone all out, ...
Tylia El Helou, 22/10 19:00 - Reading : less than a minute
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On this week’s episode of This is America, we cover the ceasefire in Gaza and the disarming of Hezbollah. We also feature an interview with Matthew Levitt, Fromer-Wexler Senior Fellow at the Washington Institute, to discuss the latest events in the region and the potential path to peace between Lebanon and Israel.