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Netanyahu Aims to 'Dramatically Change' Region With New Peace Accords

This is Beirut, 2024-12-23 19:01 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Nawaf Salam Benjamin Netanyahu Houthi Movement Gaza

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told lawmakers Monday that Israel's war in Gaza had offered opportunities to sign new peace accords with Arab nations and "dramatically change the face of" the Middle East. "Moderate Arab countries view Israel as a regional power and a potential ally. I intend to seize this ...

UN Peacekeepers Urge Israel to Accelerate South Lebanon Withdrawal

This is Beirut, 2024-12-23 17:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

Nawaf Salam Joseph Aoun South Lebanon United Nations

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) on Monday urged the Israeli military to speed up its withdrawal from the area, nearly a month after a ceasefire came into effect. “UNIFIL strongly urges accelerated progress in the Israeli army withdrawal from and the Lebanese Army deployment in south Lebanon,” the force said in a ...

Mikati and Aoun in Marjayoun to Inspect Situation of Army at the Border

This is Beirut, 2024-12-23 12:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Nawaf Salam Joseph Aoun South Lebanon Najib Mikati

The army announced on the X platform that “the Commander-in-Chief of the army arrived at the Seventh Infantry Brigade post at the François Hajj Barracks in Marjayoun, where he met with officers and soldiers to fine-tune their missions and operations.” For his part, Mikati announced, from the army barracks in Marjayoun, plans to meet with the ...

Joumblatt Delivers 13-Point Memorandum to Al-Sharaa

This is Beirut, 2024-12-23 11:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Nawaf Salam Lebanon Damascus Walid Jumblatt

Following Sunday’s visit to Syria by the former head of the Progressive Socialist Party (PSP), Walid Joumblatt, a 13-point memorandum was submitted to Syria’s new leader, Ahmad al-Sharaa. The memorandum focuses on establishing “healthy and stable relations” between Beirut and Damascus. It also provides a potential roadmap for addressing ...

Mossad Agents Reveal Details of Pager Operation to CBS

This is Beirut, 2024-12-23 10:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

Nawaf Salam Hezbollah Beirut pagers Benjamin Netanyahou

Two Mossad agents who planned the pager attack in Beirut gave an interview on Monday to the American network CBS. According to the agents, the bombs were made in Israel by the Mossad, and the pagers were directly sold by Israel to Hezbollah through front companies. Hezbollah reportedly purchased over 16,000 pagers at “a good price,” according ...

Lebanon and Syria, the Tangled Web

Charles Chartouni, 2024-12-23 09:42 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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The political evolutions in both countries are quite ambivalent since they usher in a new political era beset by the pitfalls and the dirty arcane of domestic and regional power politics. The downfall of Hezbollah and the Assad regime is dawning a new chapter in the life of both Lebanon and Syria, notwithstanding their societal and political ...

Israeli Women Mobilise Against Ultra-Orthodox Military Exemptions

This is Beirut, 2024-12-23 09:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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Exhausted by more than 14 months of war, the wives and mothers of Israeli soldiers are uniting in protest against exemptions from conscription for ultra-Orthodox men. For several Saturday evenings, the bridge over a key highway that runs between Bnei Brak, an ultra-Orthodox suburb of Tel Aviv, and Givat Shmuel, a bastion of religious Zionists ...

Despite Hopes Of a Ceasefire, Violence Continues In Gaza

This is Beirut, 2024-12-23 03:20 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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Despite growing hopes of a ceasefire, the violence continues in the Gaza Strip, where 35 people have been killed in the last 24 hours according to the Civil Defence of the Palestinian territory, ravaged by more than a year of war between Hamas and Israel. The Islamist movement Hamas and two other Palestinian groups had suggested on Saturday that ...

Netanyahu Vows to Act With 'Force, Determination' Against Yemen's Houthis

This is Beirut, 2024-12-22 20:48 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Nawaf Salam Benjamin Netanyahu Yemen Houthi Movement

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday vowed to retaliate against Yemen's Houthi rebels after they fired a missile at Tel Aviv, warning that Israel would target what he described as the last remaining arm of "Iran's axis of evil". The Houthis struck Israel's commercial hub on Saturday with what they claimed was ...

Syrian Leader Vows State Monopoly Over Weapons

This is Beirut, 2024-12-22 20:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Nawaf Salam Syria Ahmad al-Sharaa

Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa said Sunday all weapons would come under state control during a press conference with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, who urged the lifting of sanctions on Syria. Sharaa said that after upcoming consultations with defense and military officials on a new structure for the military, armed "factions will ...

Israel Hands Over Seven Lebanese to Red Cross via UNIFIL

This is Beirut, 2024-12-22 18:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Nawaf Salam Hezbollah UNIFIL

The Israeli army transferred on Sunday seven Lebanese detainees to the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) at the Ras al-Naqoura crossing point. These individuals were arrested in the southern villages of Wazzani and Tayr Harfa following the ceasefire implementation on November 27. The detainees – Ahmed Haidar, Jaafar Haidar, ...

Gaza Rescuers Say Israeli Strikes Kill 28

This is Beirut, 2024-12-22 14:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Nawaf Salam Hamas Palestine Gaza war

Gaza's civil defense agency said Israeli strikes overnight and early Sunday killed at least 28 Palestinians, including at one family's home and at a school building the Israeli military said was used by Hamas. On the ground in Gaza, civil agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal said that at least 13 people were killed in an air strike on a house in ...

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