par This Is Beirut, 22/03 16:33 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israel reported the seizure of 800 hectares (1,977 acres) of land in the West Bank on Friday, deemed as "state lands" by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, marking the largest such action in decades. Israel reported Friday the seizure of 800 hectares (1,977 acres) of land in the occupied West Bank, which activists called the largest action of its ...
par This Is Beirut, 22/03 21:43 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Lebanon will lodge a complaint against Israel at the UN Security Council, accusing it of disrupting navigation systems and civil aviation around Beirut airport, the foreign ministry said on Friday. Since the Gaza war erupted on October 7, the Iran-backed Hezbollah movement, a Hamas ally, has been exchanging near-daily cross-border fire with the ...
par This Is Beirut, 22/03 22:11 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
American Task Force on Lebanon Amos Hochstein Israel
The American Task Force for Lebanon (ATFL) hosted a reception in Michigan with White House Senior Advisor Amos Hochstein and members of the Lebanese American community. The event, which took place on March 19, presented an opportunity for Hochstein to discuss US leadership in promoting peace along the Lebanon-Israel border. He briefed the local ...
par This Is Beirut, 23/03 20:01 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
A top Israeli commander has said troops will continue their operation at Gaza's largest hospital Al-Shifa until the last militant is «in their hands». Israeli forces launched the operation in and around Al-Shifa hospital on Monday, saying senior Hamas operatives were based at the sprawling compound. Days of heavy fighting have followed, with ...
par This Is Beirut, 23/03 20:07 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The exchange of fire between Hezbollah and Israel continued on Saturday at Lebanon's southern border. Israeli aircraft targeted the Syrian Nationalist Socialist Party office in Kfar Kila. The head of the party's information department, Maan Hamiyeh, said the office was totally destroyed in the raid, with no injuries. In Aita al-Shaab, the air ...
par This Is Beirut, 24/03 13:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
A Southern MP revealed that Amal Movement combatants withdrew from the war on the border "after confrontations took an unacceptable turn." This MP explained to his visitors that this kind of confrontation leads to escalation and contributes to further igniting the war, which would increase the magnitude of the destruction and damage. Indeed, ...
par This Is Beirut, 24/03 13:57 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
For the first time since the start of hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel on the southern border, an Israeli airstrike hit on Sunday early afternoon the western Bekaa region, targeting a car on the main road of the town of Al-Suwairi. According to information obtained by This is Beirut, the car that was targeted was a blue Skoda Rapid ...
par This Is Beirut, 24/03 14:12 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
UN Chief Antonio Guterres emphasized on Sunday, during a visit to Cairo, the urgency of delivering aid to Gaza, urging Israel to remove obstacles hindering relief efforts. He reiterated calls for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire. United Nations chief Antonio Guterres said on Sunday in Cairo that delivering the necessary aid to ...
par This Is Beirut, 24/03 18:12 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The exchange of fire continued between Israel and Hezbollah on Sunday until late afternoon, following a day marked by intense Israeli airstrikes. Ali Mohammad Faqih, a man from Nasriyeh, was killed in an Israeli raid on the village of Odaisseh. Israeli military planes targeted a house on the outskirts of the village of Aita al-Shaab without any ...
par This Is Beirut, 24/03 20:07 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The Palestinian Red Crescent said on Sunday that Israeli forces were besieging two hospitals in southern Gaza, days after the Army began targeting Hamas in and around the territory's biggest medical center. Israel has mounted several raids at and near hospitals in Gaza since the war began last October, claiming that fighters are operating in ...
par Tylia El Helou, 24/03 20:19 - Reading : less than a minute
This is Beirut brings you a daily recap of the situation in Gaza. Here are the main highlights for March 24th, 2024.
par This Is Beirut, 24/03 21:01 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
French President Emmanuel Macron told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday that any forced transfer of people from the southern Gaza city of Rafah would constitute "a war crime." And he repeated his opposition to any Israeli military operation to fight Hamas in Rafah, where most of Gaza's population has taken shelter after months ...
