par This Is Beirut, 03/05 10:53 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Ongoing disagreements are preventing the release of hostages, according to i24 News sources. Hamas continues to demand a complete halt to fighting. Despite an offer from Egypt, endorsed by Israel, Hamas seems reluctant to accept the proposed agreement, labeled "extremely generous" by Antony Blinken, said the Israeli media on Friday. Experts ...
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 This Is Beirut, 02/05 22:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
US President Joe Biden insisted on Thursday that "order must prevail" on college campuses after weeks of turmoil, clashes with police, and mass arrests involving student protests against Israel's war with Hamas in Gaza. Biden, who until now had remained tight-lipped on the student unrest, spoke just hours after hundreds of police moved in to ...
par Chelsea Al Arif, 02/05 20:37 - 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 2nd, 2024.
par This Is Beirut, 02/05 20:01 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
A UN agency stated on Thursday that rebuilding war-wracked Gaza will cost an estimated $30 billion to $40 billion and require an effort on a scale unseen since World War II. "The United Nations Development Programme's initial estimates for the reconstruction of... the Gaza Strip surpass $30 billion and could reach up to $40 billion," said UN ...
par This Is Beirut, 02/05 10:58 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
As a new ceasefire proposal sits on the table and the United States urges Hamas to accept it, pressure from the Israeli public against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remains intense. Protesters and relatives of hostages have blocked the main highway in Tel Aviv, chanting, "It's either the hostages or Rafah." Protesters are urging the Israeli ...
par This Is Beirut, 01/05 23:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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US top diplomat Antony Blinken urged Hamas on Wednesday to accept a Gaza truce plan, despite an Israeli warning that the army will keep fighting the Palestinian militant group after any ceasefire. "Hamas needs to say yes and needs to get this done," said Blinken, who was in Israel on his seventh Middle East crisis tour since the war broke out in ...
par This Is Beirut, 01/05 23:15 - Reading : less than a minute
Tensions persisted on Wednesday at the southern front, where exchanges of artillery fire between Hezbollah and Israel continued intermittently throughout the day. The Israeli army raided a house in Tayr Harfa, without causing any casualties, as well as the area between Blat and Marwahin in the western sector. Israel also bombed Tal al-Nahas. In ...
par This Is Beirut, 01/05 22:08 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Colombian President Gustavo Petro said Wednesday that his country will sever diplomatic ties with Israel, whose leader he described as "genocidal," over its war in Gaza. "Tomorrow (Thursday) diplomatic relations with the state of Israel will be severed... for having a genocidal president," Petro, a harsh critic of the devastating war against ...
par Chelsea Al Arif, 01/05 21:53 - 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 1, 2024.
par This Is Beirut, 01/05 20:19 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Gaza is filled with more debris and rubble than Ukraine, the United Nations said Wednesday, with the mammoth task of clearing it made all the more costly and dangerous by the sheer amount of asbestos and unexploded ordnance. Six months into the war between Israel and Hamas, the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) estimated the amount of ...
par This Is Beirut, 01/05 18:34 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Egypt's top diplomat Sameh Shoukry said in a meeting on Wednesday with his French counterpart that parties "must show the necessary flexibility" to achieve a truce in Gaza "that stops the bloodshed of Palestinians." In a "quick visit" by French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné in Cairo, the pair "exchanged assessments on the ongoing truce ...