This is Beirut, 25/11 21:47 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Israel said the Red Cross had on Tuesday handed over the coffin of a hostage held in Gaza, adding that the remains would soon be taken for forensic identification. Prior to this latest handover, the remains of three deceased hostages were still being held in the Gaza Strip, two Israelis and one Thai national. Hamas and its allies have been ...
This is Beirut, 25/11 13:15 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Israel said on Tuesday that a delay by the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad in handing over a hostage body, which the group said it had located on Monday during search operations in central Gaza, constituted a "violation" of the fragile ceasefire. A source in Islamic Jihad, who requested anonymity, confirmed the body belonged to one of ...
This is Beirut, 25/11 09:35 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Israel's armed forces announced late Monday that its personnel had killed a man they held responsible for a ramming attack in the occupied West Bank last year. "After a pursuit of a year and a half," the officers killed Ala Raouf Shetiyya, Israel's army, police, intelligence, and counterterrorism forces said in a joint statement. "The terrorist ...
Charles Chartouni, 25/11 09:30 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
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The epilogue of the cascading wars that have taken place since October 7, 2023, was quite promising since the destruction of Iran’s regional proxy network was a good omen. For the first time, the region was able to imagine the possibility of extracting itself from the tight clasp of Iranian Shiite imperialism. Nonetheless, however bright the ...
Sana Richa Choucair, 23/11 15:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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On January 1, 2025, the United States tightened its technological embargo on China, doubling tariffs on a wide range of strategic goods, from semiconductors to industrial equipment. Beijing retaliated ten days later with countermeasures targeting American agricultural products, adding a new chapter to the escalating economic confrontation between ...
This is Beirut, 22/11 18:46 - Reading : less than a minute
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office accused Hamas of violating the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on Saturday and said that in response, Israeli forces had killed five "senior Hamas terrorists." "Today, Hamas violated the ceasefire again, sending a terrorist into Israeli-held territory to attack Israeli soldiers. In ...
This is Beirut, 21/11 18:16 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israel's military on Friday said a strike on a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon earlier this week had killed "13 Hamas terrorists". Lebanese authorities said Tuesday's strike on Ain al-Helweh camp killed at least 13 people, without giving their identities. "Thirteen Hamas terrorists were eliminated in a precise ...
This is Beirut, 20/11 22:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Gaza health authorities said fresh Israeli air strikes killed five people on Thursday, as ceasefire mediator Qatar warned the renewed attacks threatened to undermine the fragile weeks-long truce between Israel and Hamas. The new strikes came the morning after one of the deadliest days in the Gaza Strip since the truce began on October 10. Qatar, ...
Natasha Metni Torbey, 19/11 20:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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The Israeli strike that targeted the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh in southern Lebanon on Tuesday night has brought back into focus a question that had mostly stayed out of the spotlight in the conflict, at least since the November 27, 2024 ceasefire, which shifted attention primarily to Hezbollah: Is Hamas in the process of rebuilding ...
This is Beirut, 18/11 15:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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One person was killed and three were wounded in a stabbing attack in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, Israeli emergency services said. Paramedics and an army medical force "established the death of a man aged 30 with a stab wound and referred three injured people" to two Jerusalem hospitals, Magen David Adom (MDA), Israel's equivalent of the ...
This is Beirut, 18/11 08:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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The UN Security Council voted Monday in favor of a US-drafted resolution bolstering Donald Trump's Gaza peace plan that includes the deployment of an international force and a path to a future Palestinian state. There were 13 votes in favor of the text, which US President Trump said would lead to "further Peace all over the World," with only ...
This is Beirut, 17/11 16:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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The UN Security Council will meet on Monday at 5 p.m. (10 p.m. GMT) to vote on the American resolution endorsing Donald Trump’s peace plan for Gaza. The text, the result of weeks of complex diplomatic negotiations, calls for the deployment of an “international stabilization force” tasked with securing borders, supporting the ...