This is Beirut, 23/12 16:40 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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London police on Tuesday arrested Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg during a demonstration held in support of pro-Palestinian hunger strikers, according to Palestinian activist groups. The group Prisoners for Palestine said in a statement that Thunberg was detained under the UK’s Terrorism Act while attending what it described as a ...
This is Beirut, 18/12 20:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Hamas Israel Palestine United Nations
Several Israelis entered the Gaza Strip on Thursday in defiance of army orders and held a symbolic flag-raising ceremony to call for the reoccupation and resettlement of the Palestinian territory. The army acknowledged the breach in a statement, saying the group had been under constant observation and reiterating that entry into the area is ...
Salam El Zaatari, 17/12 18:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah Lebanon Israel Palestine Iran
After the 2024 Israel–Hezbollah war, Iran and its main regional proxy faced a grim reality. Hezbollah survived the war, but its top leadership had been assassinated, much of its arsenal destroyed, thousands of its fighters killed, and it was forced to retreat from south of the Litani. In response, Iran and Hezbollah have shifted from kinetic ...
This is Beirut, 12/12 16:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Donald Trump Benjamin Netanyahu Lebanon Palestine Hamas
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to arrive in Washington on Monday, December 29, for talks with President Donald Trump, focusing on regional developments, including the Trump administration’s plan for Gaza and rising tensions with Lebanon. On Sunday, Netanyahu said he expects the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire plan to be ...
This is Beirut, 12/12 13:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Foreign Minister Youssef Raggi told Al Jazeera on Friday that Lebanon has received warnings from various Arab and international sources indicating that Israel may be preparing a large-scale military operation against the country. Raggi said the Lebanese government is intensifying diplomatic contacts to prevent any potential Israeli strikes on the ...
This is Beirut, 11/12 13:37 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Israel said on Thursday Hamas "will be disarmed" as part of the US-sponsored peace plan for Gaza, after a top leader from the Palestinian Islamist movement suggested a weapons freeze. The ceasefire, in effect since October 10, halted the war that began after Hamas's deadly attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. But it remains fragile ...
This is Beirut, 11/12 10:45 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Hamas International Criminal Court Israel Palestine Amnesty International
Amnesty International on Thursday accused Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups for the first time of crimes against humanity, including extermination, during and after the October 7, 2023 attack that sparked the war in Gaza. "Palestinian armed groups committed violations of international humanitarian law, war crimes, and crimes against ...
Hussain Abdul-Hussain, 10/12 16:15 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Lebanon Israel Palestine Syria Tom Barrack
U.S. envoy Tom Barrack keeps warning that Lebanon will be “reabsorbed” into Syria unless Hezbollah is disarmed, a historically unfounded threat from someone who derides the Sykes-Picot boundaries as colonial nonsense yet treats Syria’s borders as sacrosanct. His selective anti-colonialism spares Syria, disregards Kurdish and Druze ...
This is Beirut, 04/12 21:15 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Israel Palestine Benjamin Netanyahu Hamas Hostage
Israel awaited the return of the last hostage remains held by Palestinian militants in Gaza, as the military said on Thursday that those of a Thai national had been identified after they were handed over. Under the first phase of the US-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, militants were due to return all 48 hostages they held ...
This is Beirut, 02/12 12:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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The Israeli military said Tuesday it had killed two assailants it said attacked soldiers in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank. The army said the first attack took place Monday evening near Hebron, in the south of the Palestinian territory, where a female soldier was lightly injured in a car ramming attack. In a statement, it said that ...
This is Beirut, 27/11 19:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Negotiations are under way to ensure safe passage for dozens of Hamas fighters holed up in tunnels in southern Gaza, multiple sources close to the talks told AFP on Thursday. Israeli media has reported that for weeks, between 100 and 200 Hamas militants have remained trapped in a network of tunnels under the city of Rafah, in an area of the Gaza ...
This is Beirut, 26/11 10:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Palestine Benjamin Netanyahu Hamas Israel Hostages
Israel announced Wednesday that a body handed over by Gaza militants was that of Dror Or, one of the last three deceased hostages held in the Palestinian territory. The Islamic Jihad militant group located the body on Monday in the central Gaza Strip and on Tuesday transferred it to the Red Cross, acting as a neutral intermediary. The coffin was ...