This is Beirut, 2024-11-24 14:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Air raid sirens were activated in several areas of central and northern Israel on Sunday, the army said, after projectiles were fired from Lebanon. The sirens sounded in "a number of areas in central Israel" and in different parts of the country's north, the military said. It added in separate statements that 18 projectiles crossed from Lebanon ...
This is Beirut, 2024-11-24 13:20 - Reading : less than a minute
At least “one Lebanese soldier was killed and eighteen others wounded, some of them seriously” in an Israeli strike on Sunday, shortly before noon, targeting a Lebanese army checkpoint at Amriyeh, located between Tyre and Naqoura in southern Lebanon, the troop said in a statement. Teams of rescue workers and firemen from the Lebanese Civil ...
This is Beirut, 2024-11-24 13:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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The UN special envoy for Syria said on Sunday that it was “extremely critical” to end the fighting in Lebanon and Gaza to avoid the country being pulled into a regional war. “We need now to make sure that we have immediately a ceasefire in Gaza, that we have a ceasefire in Lebanon, and that we avoid Syria being dragged even ...
This is Beirut, 2024-11-24 12:45 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Lebanon President Parliament Ceasefire
Maronite patriarch Bechara Rai strongly condemned the fact that the ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel is being negotiated in the absence of a President of the Republic, a position at the head of the State which has been vacant since October 31, 2022. He stated that this “renders the talks illegitimate,” as it is an integral part of the ...
This is Beirut, 2024-11-24 11:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
While the Israelis reported on Sunday morning that the Israeli ground operation in Khiam in the south of the country was “gathering pace,” a precarious calm was observed in Beirut's southern suburbs. However, at 9 AM, the mayor of Bourj al-Barajneh, Atef Hassan Mansour, issued an urgent evacuation call to residents. In a statement, he said, ...
Makram Haddad, 2024-11-24 11:15 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Lebanon Football War Tragedy Hussein Haroun Hassan
On Saturday, Hussein Haroun Hassan, who was part of the promising young talents of the club, was killed while helping in a humanitarian mission in the south. The Israeli airstrike that hit the Hoch region in the south took his life while he was part of a rescue group from “Hayaa el Sohiyya” tasked with transporting the wounded ...
Marc Saikali, 2024-11-24 09:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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And therein lies the issue: global attention quickly wanes when conflicts drag on and defy familiar reference points. This is happening again. The current war in Lebanon is no longer front-page news. A journalist friend at a major Paris newsroom told me that his editors were reluctant to send him on assignment to Beirut because the situation was ...
Fady Noun, 2024-11-24 09:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
As “good” Lebanese, we celebrate our independence amidst chaos and bombs. An entire book could be written about how we became Lebanese, after being fragments of many other identities. I could recount my own journey of rediscovering memory and identity—borrowing the title of an overlooked book by John Paul II—how I stopped ...
This is Beirut, 2024-11-23 20:33 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin stressed that the United States was dedicated to a diplomatic resolution in Lebanon and urged Israel to improve "dire" conditions in Gaza, in a call Saturday with his Israeli counterpart. Austin "reiterated US commitment to a diplomatic resolution in Lebanon that allows Israeli and Lebanese ...
Tylia El Helou, 2024-11-23 17:00 - Reading : less than a minute
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In an interview with This Is Beirut, the Assistant Director at the Atlantic Council's Rafik Hariri Center and Middle East Programs, Nour Dabboussi, explains how the election of Donald Trump will impact the MENA region and how this election will impact US policy towards Lebanon.
Victoria C. Werling, 2024-11-23 16:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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It is 4 PM when we enter Chiyah, a neighborhood in Beirut’s southern suburbs. Navigating through debris, we make our way to the site of the latest Israeli airstrike, which occurred just a few hours earlier. A five-story building lies gutted, its top two floors reduced to rubble. Despite the devastation, the main street running ...