par Chelsea Al Arif, 01/05 21:53 - Reading : less than a minute
From Gaza to Lebanon, This is Beirut brings you a daily recap of the war between Hamas and Israel and its repercussions on the region. Here are the main highlights for May 1, 2024.
par This Is Beirut, 01/05 23:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Antony Blinken Benjamin Netanyahu Palestine Hamas Israel
US top diplomat Antony Blinken urged Hamas on Wednesday to accept a Gaza truce plan, despite an Israeli warning that the army will keep fighting the Palestinian militant group after any ceasefire. "Hamas needs to say yes and needs to get this done," said Blinken, who was in Israel on his seventh Middle East crisis tour since the war broke out in ...
par This Is Beirut, 02/05 10:58 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
As a new ceasefire proposal sits on the table and the United States urges Hamas to accept it, pressure from the Israeli public against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remains intense. Protesters and relatives of hostages have blocked the main highway in Tel Aviv, chanting, "It's either the hostages or Rafah." Protesters are urging the Israeli ...
par This Is Beirut, 02/05 20:01 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
A UN agency stated on Thursday that rebuilding war-wracked Gaza will cost an estimated $30 billion to $40 billion and require an effort on a scale unseen since World War II. "The United Nations Development Programme's initial estimates for the reconstruction of... the Gaza Strip surpass $30 billion and could reach up to $40 billion," said UN ...
par Chelsea Al Arif, 02/05 20:37 - Reading : less than a minute
From Gaza to Lebanon, This is Beirut brings you a daily recap of the war between Hamas and Israel and its repercussions on the region. Here are the main highlights for May 2nd, 2024.
par This Is Beirut, 02/05 22:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
US President Joe Biden insisted on Thursday that "order must prevail" on college campuses after weeks of turmoil, clashes with police, and mass arrests involving student protests against Israel's war with Hamas in Gaza. Biden, who until now had remained tight-lipped on the student unrest, spoke just hours after hundreds of police moved in to ...
par This Is Beirut, 03/05 10:53 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Ongoing disagreements are preventing the release of hostages, according to i24 News sources. Hamas continues to demand a complete halt to fighting. Despite an offer from Egypt, endorsed by Israel, Hamas seems reluctant to accept the proposed agreement, labeled "extremely generous" by Antony Blinken, said the Israeli media on Friday. Experts ...
par This Is Beirut, 03/05 15:23 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Police entered Paris' Sciences Po university on Friday to remove dozens of students staging a pro-Gaza sit-in in the entrance hall, AFP journalists saw, as protests fire political debate about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. One student told reporters "around 50 students were still inside the rue Saint-Guillaume site" when police ...
par This Is Beirut, 04/05 13:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Armed groups in Gaza, including one with presumed Hamas links, last month robbed the Bank of Palestine of some $70 million, French daily Le Monde reported Saturday. The funds were taken from the vaults of several branches of the bank, it said, citing a Bank of Palestine document sent to "certain international partners" detailing the ...
par This Is Beirut, 04/05 22:43 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Talks resumed in Cairo on Saturday on ways to achieve a truce in the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, against a backdrop of mutual accusations by the warring parties of obstructing any agreement. Talks resumed in Egypt Saturday aimed at halting months of war in Gaza between Hamas and Israel that have triggered protests around the ...
par Rayan Chami, 05/05 20:39 - Reading : less than a minute
From Gaza to Lebanon, This is Beirut brings you a daily recap of the war between Hamas and Israel and its repercussions on the region. Here are the main highlights for May 5th, 2024.
par This Is Beirut, 05/05 21:21 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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A Hamas official said on Sunday that the group's delegation to the Gaza truce talks in Cairo was leaving for Qatar after disagreements with Israel over demands to end the war persisted. A meeting in Cairo on a proposed truce linked to the release of hostages in the Gaza Strip ended on Sunday without any concrete progress, while Israel and Hamas ...
