par This Is Beirut, 02/05 23:27 - Reading : less than a minute
Thursday was marked by sporadic exchanges of fire between Hezbollah and Israel in southern Lebanon. The Israeli air force raided a house under construction in Markaba in Marjayoun, while artillery shells fell on the outskirts of Alma al-Shaab and the Labbouneh region, south of Naqoura. The Israeli Army also published a video on the X platform ...
par Bassam Abou Zeid, 04/05 14:51 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Despite the ongoing war between Hezbollah and Israel in southern Lebanon and the absence of a long-term solution, reports have emerged regarding preparations to implement security measures along the Lebanese-Israeli borders, notably by a British team, in order to build observation towers in the area. According to detailed information, the British ...
par This Is Beirut, 05/05 15:33 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Shiite religious authority Ali al-Amin emphasized that Hezbollah cannot represent all Shiites and underscored the harm its policies have inflicted on both Shiites and Lebanon, in an interview with Independent Arabia. He also touched upon the desires of Lebanese Shiites to create a fair and equitable state. On his opposition to the relationship ...
par This Is Beirut, 05/05 20:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Tension on the southern front escalated further on Sunday, with an intensification of exchanges of fire between Hezbollah and Israel following the morning raid on Mays al-Jabal, which left four civilians from the same family dead and several others wounded. A salvo of dozens of rockets was fired at Kiryat Shmona from southern Lebanon by Hezbollah ...
par Charles Chartouni, 06/05 09:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The ongoing negotiations shepherded by the US and Saudi Arabia offer a suitable platform to tackle the equivocations of a deliberately mounted conflict and its self defeating premises. This conflict is intractable by definition and was initially conceived to prevent the possibility of diplomatic intermediation. The offer of a 40-day truce ...
par This Is Beirut, 06/05 10:56 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israeli warplanes launched an airstrike at around 1:30 a.m. on Monday on a factory in the town of Sefri, near Baalbeck, which led to the injury of three civilians. The raid also targeted an uninhabited building, the stones of which littered the neighboring Rayak-Baalbek International Road. The border area in the eastern sector of south Lebanon is ...
par This Is Beirut, 07/05 21:09 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Lebanon's Hezbollah said it attacked northern Israel on Tuesday, including with "explosive-laden drones," a day after an assault claimed by the Iran-backed movement killed two soldiers there. At the same time, other drones "targeted one of the Iron Dome (air defense system) platforms south of the Ramot Naftali barracks," the Hezb added. The ...
par Bassam Abou Zeid, 08/05 08:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The seat of the Maronite Patriarchate in Bkerke is expected to witness on Friday (May 10) the final review of the draft of a national document that has been the subject of intense discussions among the Lebanese Forces (LF), the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM), the Kataeb Party and other Christian groups, under the auspices of the Patriarchate. All ...
par This Is Beirut, 08/05 12:59 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon highly escalated Wednesday, causing several casualties and extensive material damage. Three people were killed in a raid that targeted a three-story house in the village of Khiam, flattening it to the ground. Residential areas in Aïtaroun also came under intense Israeli artillery fire, while warplanes carried ...
par This Is Beirut, 08/05 18:48 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant warned Israeli soldiers deployed near the border with Lebanon that their mission there "is not completed" and that "there could be a heated summer" ahead. Gallant, who made the comments during a tour of north Israel, nonetheless reaffirmed that Tel Aviv does not want a war with Lebanon. In a conversation ...
par This Is Beirut, 08/05 22:48 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The damage caused by Israeli bombardments in southern Lebanon, after seven months of fire exchange between Hezbollah and Israel, amounts to around $1.5 billion, the head of the Southern Council, Hashem Haidar, told AFP on Wednesday. According to Haidar, Israeli bombardments and raids have caused considerable damage to infrastructure, estimated at ...
par Bassam Abou Zeid, 10/05 20:56 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Christian forces – notably the Lebanese Forces (LF), the Kataeb and the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) – who gathered at the seat of the Maronite Patriarchate in Bkerke on Friday, have tentatively agreed on a draft formula regarding Hezbollah's weapons. This formula would be part of the national charter that Bkerke is expected to declare in the ...
