par This Is Beirut, 05/06 19:40 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Kataeb leader MP Samy Gemayel noted that “the security situation in Lebanon is precarious and uncontrollable due to the proliferation of illegal weapons by Hezbollah and its allies, who have established a law of the jungle.” He also stated that “anyone who opposes Hezbollah's policies is under threat in Lebanon.” “I wouldn't be ...
par This Is Beirut, 05/06 22:24 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The United States warned on Wednesday against an "escalation" in Lebanon, following Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's remarks about a potential operation, stating that such conflict would only harm Israeli security. "We don't want to see that escalation of the conflict, which would just lead to further loss of life from both Israelis ...
par This Is Beirut, 06/06 15:07 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israel is sending mixed signals, alternating between its threats of a widening conflict with Hezbollah and its rejection of war with Lebanon. According to Israeli media, former Israeli Defense Minister and chief of the National Unity Party Benny Gantz called on Thursday morning for “the mayors of the North to prepare for the difficult days that ...
par This Is Beirut, 06/06 16:16 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Former Deputy Prime Minister, MP Ghassan Hasbani, underlined the suspicious “coincidence” of the “sudden” reappearance of the Islamic State at a time Amal and Hezbollah face pressure. In comments made to LBCI television on Wednesday evening, Hasbani argued that there seems to be a correlation between the emergence of the Islamic State in ...
par This Is Beirut, 07/06 12:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The Biden administration has warned Israel that a "limited war" in Lebanon could push Iran to intervene, reports Axios. President Joe Biden hopes to avoid further regional conflagration, that may escalate towards direct conflict between Iran and Israel, Axios said on Thursday. Iran and Israel traded direct strikes in April, in an unprecedented ...
par Joanne Naoum, 07/06 14:35 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Hezbollah did not stop at involving Lebanon unwillingly in the war against Israel “in support of Gaza”, but went as far as involving civilians in a donation campaign to finance the purchase of missiles, and the acquisition of drones to continue its fight against the Hebrew state. At war since October 8, the pro-Iranian party has broadcasted, ...
par This Is Beirut, 09/06 10:54 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The cross-border exchange between Hezbollah and Israel continues relentlessly. Fires from Israeli missiles are igniting the regions in the South of Lebanon. In the latest field developments, Hezbollah's air defenses launched surface-to-air missiles at dawn toward an Israeli warplane in the skies of southern Lebanon, forcing it to retreat beyond ...
par Amine Jules Iskandar, 09/06 11:39 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
As Lebanese society has grown indifferent to accusations of “collaboration with the Zionist enemy,” Hezbollah has shifted its focus to the new hot topic of the 2019 popular uprising: corruption. Every target it aims to undermine is now accused of this offense. Its political, media and legal apparatus promptly mobilizes to fabricate the ...
par This Is Beirut, 09/06 20:51 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
South Lebanon witnessed increased fire exchange amid intense operations on Sunday, as Hezbollah mourned Ali Khalil Hamad from Aitaroun, born in 1988. The Israeli Radio announced that sirens sounded in Upper Galilee for the fourth time in half an hour after Hezbollah declared “launching missiles at Sammaka site in Kfarchouba hills and achieving ...
par This Is Beirut, 10/06 12:43 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
A recent wave of panic in southern Lebanon has been triggered by a series of alarming messages, causing widespread distress among residents. The source of these messages is unclear, but some are believed to have been “pranks” by local Lebanese citizens. In Bazouriya, a WhatsApp message received just after midnight warned of an imminent ...
par Bassam Abou Zeid, 10/06 17:48 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The saga of the presidential election in Lebanon keeps unfolding with a series of initiatives that have yet to translate into tangible outcomes. The five-nation Quintet Committee (France, US, Qatar, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia) is in full swing, in parallel to Qatar's own initiative and the efforts of the French presidential envoy, Jean-Yves Le Drian. ...
par This Is Beirut, 10/06 20:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The exchange of fire between Hezbollah and the Israeli army continued until late afternoon Monday. Hezbollah announced in the afternoon that it had shot down an Israeli Hermes 900 drone over Iqlim al-Tuffah airspace with a surface-to-air missile. The Israeli army confirmed “the shooting down of an air force drone in the skies over Lebanon, the ...
