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Suspense Abounds Over Palestinian Health Resolution

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 ...

France Bans Israeli Firms From Upcoming Defense Fair

French authorities banned Israeli defense firms from exhibiting at a trade show next month near Paris, organizers said on Friday. “By decision of the government authorities, there will be no stand for the Israeli defense industry at the Eurosatory 2024 fair,” organizers Coges Events said. Neither Coges nor the Defense Ministry provided an ...

South Lebanon: One Dead in Drone Strike on Naqoura

A medic from the Islamic Health Committee, affiliated with Hezbollah, was killed and another was injured in an Israeli drone strike on an ambulance in Naqoura. The deceased was 45-year-old Haidar Jahir, also known as Amir, according to a statement from the party. The medics were working to extinguish a fire caused by Israeli shelling in the ...

Lebanon Files Complaint Against Israel Over Targeting School Bus

The Permanent Mission of Lebanon to the United Nations, based on the instructions of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants, filed a complaint to the Security Council regarding an "Israeli strike that targeted a car carrying a Lebanese citizen, resulting in his death. The same raid also damaged a school bus transporting students to Shoukin ...

Biden Sets Out Plan for Gaza Peace; Hamas Say Proposal is "Positive"

US President Joe Biden said on Friday that Israel had offered a new roadmap towards permanent peace in Gaza, urging Hamas to accept the surprise deal as it was "time for this war to end." In his first major address outlining a solution to the eight-month conflict, Biden said the proposal started with a six-week phase that would see Israeli forces ...

War Diary: Day 238

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 31st, 2024.

Southern Lebanon: Three Killed in an Israeli Raid on Naqoura, Yaroun and Adloun

Tensions rose in the evening at the southern front between Hezbollah and the Israeli army, which carried out a series of raids on several areas in south Lebanon, killing two men in Naqoura and Yaroun, and one woman in Adloun. In the evening, Israeli aircraft raided a home in Adloun, killing the woman and wounding others. Late in the afternoon, ...

War Diary: Day 239

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 June 1st, 2024.

Egypt to Host Talks With Israel, US Over Rafah Crossing

Egypt will host Israeli and US officials on Sunday to discuss the reopening of the Rafah crossing, a vital conduit for aid into Gaza, a state-linked news outlet reported. Al-Qahera News, which has links to Egyptian intelligence, quoted a senior official it did not identify as saying Cairo was demanding "a total Israeli withdrawal" from the ...

Latest Developments: Two Killed in South Lebanon's Persisting Violence

Following a day of heavy fire exchanges across the border between Hezbollah and Israel, including drone attacks that hit targets deep into Lebanon, in the region of Baalbeck, unrelenting violence continued on Sunday. The Tallet al-Sanawbar between Hamamas and Khiam was shelled in the early morning hours, causing it to catch fire. Several ...

South Lebanon: Alarming Surge in Violence Continues Unabated

An alarming surge in fire exchanges between Hezbollah and the Israeli army was observed on Sunday, with violence continuing unabated. Late Sunday afternoon, Hezbollah announced that it had shelled the occupied Golan Heights for the second time in the space of a few hours. Hezbollah fighters “shelled (...) the headquarters of the 210th Golan ...

Gallant Says ‘Assessing Alternative’ to Hamas Rule in Gaza

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Sunday that Israel was "assessing a governing alternative" to Hamas in the Gaza Strip after its war against the Palestinian militant group ends. Gallant had previously said he opposed Israeli military rule in Gaza, where Hamas seized power from the Palestinian Authority in 2007. "While we conduct our important ...