par This Is Beirut, 31/05 15:23 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A long-standing resolution urging WHO action on towering health needs in the Palestinian territories hung in the balance on Friday, after Israel secured an amendment requiring the text to mention hostages held in Gaza. The largely technical text presented on Wednesday by a group of Arab countries, including the Palestinians, to the World Health ...
par This Is Beirut, 30/05 22:35 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Intense shelling and gunfire rocked Rafah in southern Gaza on Thursday, after Israel declared it had seized a strategic corridor along the Palestinian territory's border with Egypt. Israel launched its military incursion into Rafah in early May despite international objections over the safety of civilians sheltering in the city. A strike that ...
par Chelsea Al Arif, 30/05 21:33 - 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 30, 2024.
par This Is Beirut, 30/05 20:41 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Iran is recruiting members of Swedish criminal gangs, some of them children, as proxies to commit "acts of violence" against Israel and others in Sweden that Tehran considers a threat, Sweden's intelligence agency said Thursday. The announcement came two weeks after night-time gunfire was reported outside Israel's embassy in Stockholm, and three ...
par This Is Beirut, 30/05 19:57 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Human rights activists on Thursday criticized Beirut's decision to stop asking the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate and prosecute alleged war crimes committed by Israel in Lebanon since the Israel-Hamas war erupted. "Our initial optimism about the Lebanese government's decision has given way to deep disappointment," said Amnesty ...
par This Is Beirut, 30/05 19:56 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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The centrist party of Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz said Thursday it had submitted a bill to dissolve parliament and hold an early election. "The head of the National Union Party, Pnina Tamano-Shata, has put forward a bill to dissolve the 25th Knesset. This follows the request of party leader Minister Benny Gantz to move forward in ...
par This Is Beirut, 30/05 18:24 - Reading : less than a minute
Israel has still not replied to the roadmap submitted by Paris to restore calm on the southern border, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs' spokesman, Christophe Lemoine, said in a press briefing on Thursday. “We've had a relatively positive response from the Lebanese part, but I don't think we've had any feedback from Israel at this ...
par This Is Beirut, 30/05 09:29 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Israeli army continued its offensive on Rafah on Thursday, while Israel's National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi stated that the conflict might continue until the end of the year. "We anticipate another seven months of engagement to solidify our gains and accomplish our objective of dismantling Hamas's power and military capabilities," Hanegbi ...
par This Is Beirut, 30/05 09:10 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Chinese President Xi Jinping called on Thursday for a peace conference on the war between Israel and Hamas, as he addressed Arab leaders at a forum aimed at bolstering ties with the region. Xi is this week hosting Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Emirati President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and several other Arab leaders. Itself ...
par This Is Beirut, 29/05 23:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said an Israeli strike on central Syria on Wednesday killed three Syrian fighters working with Hezbollah. "Three Syrian fighters working with the Lebanese Hezbollah group were killed in an Israeli strike targeting a military site... in the eastern countryside of Homs," said the ...
par This Is Beirut, 29/05 22:37 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Israeli Army said on Wednesday that it had gained "operational control" over the strategic Philadelphi corridor along the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. "We have established operational control" over the 14-kilometer (8.5-mile) corridor, a military official told reporters on condition of anonymity. The seizure of the Philadelphi ...
par This Is Beirut, 29/05 21:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Conflict continued in southern Lebanon on Wednesday evening. Hezbollah announced targeting the Raheb, Ramia, and Shatula sites of the Israeli Army. The faction also announced that it launched "a sequential composite attack on the Baghdad site, starting with targeting the site and its defenders and the spread of its soldiers with rocket-propelled ...
