Rayan Chami, 2024-04-05 20:57 - Reading : less than a minute
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 April 5th, 2024.
This Is Beirut, 2024-04-05 19:33 - Reading : less than a minute
CIA Director Bill Burns will travel to the Egyptian capital Cairo this weekend for talks on freeing hostages held in Gaza, US media said on Friday. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby declined to say if Burns would be involved but told journalists that "the United States will be present for those talks." Burns will meet Mossad chief ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-04-05 19:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed serious concern on Friday over reports that Israel was using artificial intelligence to identify targets in Gaza. According to a report in the Israeli magazine +972, Israel used artificial intelligence to identify targets in Gaza, in some cases with as little as 20 seconds of human ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-04-05 19:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Thousands of people chanted against Israel and the United States at Friday's funeral for seven Iranian Revolutionary Guards, two of them generals, who were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Syria. Guards chief General Hossein Salami warned that Israel "cannot escape the consequences" of Monday's strike, which levelled the five-storey consular ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-04-05 14:48 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The Israeli Army claimed on Friday that it was targeting a "Hamas gunman" when it killed seven aid workers in Gaza, admitting that it had made a series of "serious mistakes," while Warsaw asked for a "criminal inquiry" into those events. Israel said on Friday that it was targeting a "Hamas gunman" when it killed in Gaza seven aid workers whose ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-04-05 12:12 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The UN Human Rights Council called on Friday for a halt to all arms sales to Israel in its war against Hamas in Gaza, in a resolution that evoked fears of genocide against Palestinians. The UN Human Rights Council demanded on Friday a halt in all arms sales to Israel, highlighting warnings of "genocide" in its war in Gaza, which has killed more ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-04-05 11:23 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Former US President Donald Trump said that Israel is "losing the PR war" in Gaza because of the images coming out of the territory and it must end the conflict quickly. "Every night, they're releasing tapes of a building falling down. They shouldn't be releasing tapes like that," Trump said in an interview broadcast on The Hugh Hewitt Show on ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-04-05 10:44 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Benjamin Netanyahu Palestine Hamas
Israel announced on Friday that it would allow a "temporary" delivery of aid to the besieged Gaza Strip, threatened by famine, via the port of Ashdod and the Erez crossing, a day after an unusual warning from its major American partner. Israel announced on Friday that it would allow "temporary" aid deliveries into famine-threatened northern Gaza, ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-04-04 21:38 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Over 600 lawyers urged the British government to halt arms exports to Israel after three Britons were killed in a strike, citing concerns over potential breaches of international law and the worsening situation in Gaza. A letter signed by more than 600 lawyers on Thursday placed more pressure on the UK government to suspend arms export licences ...
Lyne Sammouri, 2024-04-04 21:21 - Reading : less than a minute
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 April 4th, 2024.
This Is Beirut, 2024-04-04 21:18 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
President Joe Biden spoke by phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Thursday amid growing domestic pressure to set conditions on US military support amid domestic outrage over the killing of seven aid workers in Gaza. In their first call since Monday's Israeli strike that killed the employees of the US-based World Central Kitchen ...
2024-04-03 23:08 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Benjamin Netanyahu Benny Gantz Palestine Hamas
Israeli Minister Benny Gantz, a member of the Israeli war cabinet and the main political rival of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, called for early legislative elections on Wednesday. "We will soon be calling on voters, and for that, we must agree on a consensual date in September for the legislative elections," said Gantz, who is also a member ...