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War Diary: Day 240

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 2nd, 2024.

The Interlocking Impasses and Cascading Tragedies

The tragic events of Rafah are quite illustrative of the interlocking impasses that characterize the ongoing war dynamics and their destructive fallouts. The dramatic turn, far from being incidental, reflects the in-built gridlocks of a conflict dynamic meant to perpetuate, feed on intentional victimization and lead to open-ended warfare. The ...

Southern Front: Three Hezbollah Fighters Killed in Israeli Raids

Three Hezbollah's fighters were killed in Israeli raids on Monday, as artillery exchanges between the group and the Israeli army in Southern surged in intensity, following a weekend marked by heightened violence. The Israeli army announced that it had eliminated a “senior member" of Hezbollah's technical unit in a strike in the Tyre region on ...

Iran's Khamenei Predicts the "Destruction" of Israel Over Gaza War

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday praised Hamas' unprecedented October 7 attack against Israel and predicted the "destruction" of their common enemy. Khamenei, 85, was speaking at an event to mark 35 years since the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic. He said that the October 7 attack ...

Slovenian Opposition Submits Motion to Delay Recognition of Palestinian State

Slovenia's conservative opposition on Monday filed a motion that delays the country's recognition of a Palestinian state, a parliamentary spokeswoman said, following last month's recognition by three other European states. Slovenian lawmakers had been scheduled to vote on Tuesday on whether to recognize a Palestinian state, just days after Spain, ...

Netanyahu Labels Biden's Ceasefire Plan for Gaza as 'Partial'

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu views a plan outlined by US President Joe Biden for a truce in Gaza and hostage release deal as “partial,” a government spokesman said on Monday. Biden presented on Friday what he labelled an Israeli three-phase plan that would eventually end the fighting, free all hostages held by Palestinian ...

Iranian Adviser Killed in Israeli Strike on Syria

Iranian media said that an adviser was killed in an early Monday Israeli strike on Syria's northern city of Aleppo, which a war monitor said killed 16 members of pro-Iran groups. “During last night's attack by the Zionist regime on Aleppo, Saeed Abyar, one of the IRGC advisers in Syria, was martyred,” said Iran's Tasnim news agency, referring ...

War Diary: Day 241

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 3, 2024.

US Sees Israeli 'Willingness' for Gaza Deal

Israel has shown willingness to agree to a ceasefire and hostage release deal set out by US President Joe Biden, and it is up to Hamas to make a move, a top White House official said on Monday. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan's comments came despite growing doubts over the plan, which Biden described as an Israeli initiative, but has seen ...

Arab FMs Support Biden's Gaza Ceasefire Plan

The foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Egypt and Jordan issued a joint statement on Monday expressing support for United States President Joe Biden’s latest effort to secure a hostage-ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas. The aforementioned foreign ministers of the five countries held a virtual meeting ...

Israel Army Announces Death of Four Hostages in Gaza

The Israeli army on Monday announced the deaths of four hostages in the Gaza Strip, following their abduction by Hamas during the militants' attack on October 7. "(Israeli army) representatives have informed the families of Chaim Perry, Yoram Metzger, Amiram Cooper and Nadav Popplewell, who were brutally abducted to the Gaza Strip on October 7, ...

Israeli War Cabinet to Discuss Tuesday Night Escalation at the Lebanese Border

Tension mounted on Tuesday on the southern border, while Hezbollah and the Israeli army intensified their exchange of fire. The escalation, which has been ongoing since Sunday and has prompted some Israeli officials, to increase their threats against a country dragged into this war by Hezbollah, will be discussed at night by the Israeli war ...