par David Hale, 20/02 15:41 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
As America and its allies grapple with the conflict in the Middle East, a study of history can help American policymakers learn from their predecessors' successes and failures. Because Lebanon is a microcosm of the Middle East, the past conduct of American diplomacy there offers a wealth of experience to help guide Washington through the current ...
par This Is Beirut, 20/02 13:36 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israeli warplanes carried out airstrikes on Tuesday morning on the southern outskirts of the towns of Mays al-Jabal and Hula in the Marjayoun district, in the Wazzani area near the parks, the vicinity of Hamames hill towards Wazzani, Dhayra and Marwahin. Hezbollah retaliated by targeting an assembly of Israeli soldiers in the vicinity of the ...
par This Is Beirut, 20/02 12:57 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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What Israel does in Palestinian territories represent an even more extreme version of apartheid than what was experienced in South Africa before 1994, Pretoria told the International Court of Justice on the 20th of February. Israel is applying an even more extreme version of apartheid in the Palestinian territories than experienced in South ...
20/02 12:09 - Reading : less than a minute
Former President Michel Aoun stated, “We are not bound to Gaza by a defense treaty,” hinting at the cross-border exchange between Hezbollah and the Israeli army in the South. On X, he noted that “the entity capable of coordinating fronts is the Arab League.” “However, a segment of the Lebanese people made its choice, and the government ...
par This Is Beirut, 19/02 23:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The United States has introduced a fresh draft resolution to the United Nations Security Council featuring some of the sternest language on its behalf. The resolution proposes a temporary ceasefire and asserts that an Israeli attack on Rafah under present conditions would carry "significant implications" for regional security. The United States ...
par gdeveloper, 19/02 22:28 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israeli drones conducted two airstrikes in the Ghazieh area, south of the city of Saida, marking the first attacks of their kind since the outbreak of conflict on the southern border. Initial reports suggest over a dozen people were wounded. According to reports, the airstrikes targeted a warehouse used for manufacturing tires and generators, as ...
par This Is Beirut, 19/02 20:43 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
United Nations human rights experts urged for an impartial investigation into reported Israeli violations against Palestinian women and girls. These alleged abuses encompass killings, rape and sexual assault. UN rights experts called Monday for an independent probe into alleged Israeli abuses against Palestinian women and girls, including ...
par This Is Beirut, 19/02 17:18 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Hezbollah's network of secret tunnels in Lebanon is "more sophisticated" than that of Hamas in Gaza. According to an article published on Sunday in the French daily Libération, "Since the 1980s," the pro-Iranian militia, whose "military power is far superior to that of Hamas, has been building, with the help of North Korea, an underground ...
19/02 16:36 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iran has warned Hezbollah not to give Israel cause to launch a full-scale war along the Israel-Lebanon border, fearing it would risk gains it believes it has made in the region since Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, according to a report by the Washington Post. Iranian officials, who met with the Hezbollah leadership earlier this month, ...
par This Is Beirut, 19/02 09:45 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israel has threatened to invade Gaza's Rafah by the start of Ramadan if Hamas does not return the remaining hostages by then, despite international pressure to protect Palestinian civilians sheltering in the southern city. With prospects for truce talks dimmed, the United States and other governments, as well as the United Nations, have issued ...
par This Is Beirut, 18/02 22:10 - Reading : less than a minute
The Israeli Prime Minister has approved a proposal by far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir to limit the number of Muslims entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque during Ramadan, Israeli Channel 13 has reported. Israel’s Shin Bet, the country's internal intelligence service, has warned against such a move, according to Channel 13. Israeli ...
par This Is Beirut, 18/02 18:29 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Two Palestinian men, aged 19 and 36, were killed in a raid by Israeli forces on Sunday, February 18, in the Tulkarm refugee camp, north of the West Bank. An Israeli Border Police officer was severely wounded during the clashes. Israeli forces killed two Palestinian men during a raid in a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, the ...