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 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 19:27 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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The Biden administration suspended a shipment of US-made munitions to Israel last week, two Israeli officials told the US media outlet Axios on Sunday, May 5. This is the first time Washington has blocked an arms shipment to Tel Aviv since the start of the conflict. A few days earlier, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken had told Netanyahu that ...
par This Is Beirut, 05/05 18:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Al Jazeera went off-air in Israel Sunday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government decided to shut it down following a long-running feud, a move the Qatar-based channel decried as "criminal". Netanyahu declared on X that the government had "unanimously decided: the incitement channel Al Jazeera will be closed in Israel". The ...
05/05 12:01 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
An Israeli raid on a house in the center of Mays al-Jabal on Sunday morning left a family of four civilians dead, father Fadi Hnaiki and his sons Mohammed and Ahmed, as well as his second wife Maya Ammar. The raid also resulted in several injuries. Ambulance teams promptly evacuated the wounded to hospitals in the region. Meanwhile, civil defense ...
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 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, 03/05 18:48 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Yemen's Houthi movement on Friday threatened to extend their attacks on Israel-bound shipping to the Mediterranean after months of strikes on vessels in the Red Sea. The Iran-backed Houthis, who say they are acting in support of Palestinians during the Israel-Hamas war, said the escalation would take effect "immediately". It involves "the ...
par This Is Beirut, 03/05 18:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Britain on Friday announced sanctions on four Israeli "extremist settlers" and two groups over violence in the West Bank. The sanctions follow what the foreign ministry in London called an "unprecedented rise" in settler violence over the past year. As the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip continues, Britain said the measures ...
par gdeveloper, 03/05 16:08 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israeli army spokesperson, Avichae Adraee, revealed on Friday that “the 282nd Brigade carried out a surprise exercise to simulate an offensive operation on the northern front”. In a tweet on X, Adraee indicated that troops of the brigade have been conducting offensive and defensive missions on the Lebanese borders for the past three ...
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, 03/05 10:58 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Israel's Iron Dome defense system has long shielded it from incoming rockets. Now it is building a "cyber dome" to defend against online attacks, especially from arch foe Iran. "It is a silent war, one which is not visible," said Aviram Atzaba, the Israeli National Cyber Directorate's head of international cooperation. While Israel has fought ...