Hamas Leader to Visit Egypt for Gaza Ceasefire Talks

par ici, 2023-12-19 23:11 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh is scheduled to meet with Egyptian officials on Wednesday to discuss a ceasefire in Gaza and a potential prisoner exchange with Israel, according to a source close to the Palestinian militant group. This visit marks the first time Hamas engages in talks with Cairo regarding a hostage deal since the conclusion of the ...

Gaza Hospital Out of Service after Israeli Army Raid

par This Is Beirut, 2023-12-19 23:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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The Israeli army's incursion on Tuesday, led to the cessation of operations at one of the few remaining hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip, according to the facility's director. One of the last remaining hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip stopped operating on Tuesday after being stormed by the Israeli army, its director said. Fadel Naim told ...

War Diary: Day 74

par Tylia El Helou, 2023-12-19 23:03 - Reading : less than a minute

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This is Beirut brings you a daily recap of the situation in Gaza. Here are the main highlights for December 19, 2023.

In Gaza, Journalists Are Both Witnesses and Victims

2023-12-19 14:22 - Reading : less than a minute

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Security Council Struggling to Find Consensus on Gaza

par This Is Beirut, 2023-12-19 10:38 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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The UN Security Council is struggling to speak with one voice ahead of a vote expected on Tuesday regarding a new resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. A vote may occur as soon as Tuesday morning if negotiations succeed in breaking an impasse 10 days after a US veto. On December 8, despite unprecedented pressure from UN Secretary-General ...

Evergreen Halts Shipping Services to Israel

par This Is Beirut, 2023-12-18 18:32 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Taiwan's major shipping company, Evergreen, announced the immediate suspension of its cargo shipments to Israel, citing the "escalation of the war situation." Taiwan shipping giant Evergreen said on Monday that it was suspending its Israeli cargo shipments with immediate effect. Due to "escalation of war situation in recent days, Evergreen will ...

Colonna, in Beirut, Urges Restraint

par This Is Beirut, 2023-12-18 16:14 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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France's Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna on Monday urged restraint, in meetings with senior officials in Beirut, seeking to de-escalate tensions along the Lebanon-Israel border amid near-daily exchanges of fire. Colonna met with caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati and parliament speaker Nabih Berri, calling for responsibility and restraint a ...

Hamdan: Hamas Ready for Long Months of War

par This Is Beirut, 2023-12-18 14:49 - Reading : less than a minute

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Ousama Hamdan, a leading Hamas official in Lebanon, declared on Monday that his movement "is prepared to wage war for many months to come," considering that the Israeli Defense Minister "is attempting a headlong rush." Hamdan also maintained Hamas's position that the Israeli aggression must end before any exchange of prisoners can take ...

Raad: Over 100 Hezbollah Combatants Killed

par This Is Beirut, 2023-12-18 14:00 - Reading : less than a minute

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MP Mohammad Raad, head of Hezbollah's parliamentary bloc, revealed on Monday that over one hundred of his party's fighters have been killed since the confrontations in south Lebanon started on October 8, a day after the Gaza war erupted. Raad's own son, a fighter with the party, was killed on November 22 in an Israeli air raid that targeted a ...

Israel Faces Increasing Criticism Over Gaza Operations

par This Is Beirut, 2023-12-18 13:37 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Israel faced mounting international pressure on Monday over the rising civilian death toll and the destruction of hospitals in Gaza as it pressed on with its war against Hamas militants in the besieged Palestinian territory. The United Nations Security Council was set to vote on Monday on a new resolution calling for an 'urgent and sustainable ...

HRW: Israel Using Starvation as a Weapon of War in Gaza

par This Is Beirut, 2023-12-18 12:22 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Human Rights Watch on Monday accused the Israeli government of intentionally starving civilians in Gaza as part of its offensive in the besieged Palestinian territory. “The Israeli government is using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare in the occupied Gaza Strip, which is a war crime,” the group charged in a report. “Israeli ...

Untying the Gordian Knots and Peace-Making

par Charles Chartouni, 2023-12-18 09:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

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Political and military events are overlapping and questioning notions, dynamics and taxonomies. The Gaza war and its immediate bloody antecedents have elicited a set of political, strategic and ethical controversies that question notional equivocations, sequential linearity and clear-cut scenarios. The terror attack on South Israel is a blatant ...