This Is Beirut, 16/07 19:27 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The civil defense agency in the Gaza Strip said three air strikes killed more than 40 people within an hour across the war-stricken Palestinian territory. Israel confirmed carrying out two of the strikes that civil defense spokesman Mahmud Bassal said killed at least 44 people and left dozens more wounded. The Gaza Health Ministry stated that at ...
This Is Beirut, 16/07 10:52 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told two top Israeli officials Monday of the "unacceptably high" civilian casualties in Israel's bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip, his spokesman said. The Israeli military has launched several deadly attacks in recent days including on a refugee camp and multiple UN-run schools where civilians were ...
This Is Beirut, 15/07 21:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The civil defense agency in Gaza said on Monday that an Israeli strike on a school in Gaza City killed at least one person. The strike on Salah al-Din School in Gaza City's Al-Rimal neighborhood was the latest to hit schools, many of which have been turned into shelters for people displaced by the Israel-Hamas war in the Palestinian ...
This Is Beirut, 15/07 12:53 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The Israeli army continues its bombardment of Gaza as ceasefire talks seem to be at an impasse. Hamas announced on Sunday that it is withdrawing from the negotiations following a deadly strike that targeted the leader of the al-Qassam Brigades, Mohammed Deif. Hamas Pulling Out of Gaza Truce Talks A Hamas official said on Sunday that the ...
Rayan Chami, 14/07 19:53 - 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 July 14th, 2024.
This Is Beirut, 14/07 18:01 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Another Israeli attack on a UN school housing hundreds of displaced Palestinians in the camp of Nuseirat, killed and wounded scores of people earlier Sunday, marking the latest deadly assault on Gaza’s civilians, according to reports carried by Doha-based Al Jazeera. Footage from the Abu Oraiban school shows injured children lying on the ground ...
This Is Beirut, 14/07 10:22 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
A Hamas official said Sunday the Palestinian group was withdrawing from Gaza truce talks, following a deadly Israeli strike that targeted militant commander Mohammed Deif more than nine months into the war. The Islamist group's military chief Deif was "well and directly overseeing" operations, another Hamas official told AFP, despite the bombing ...
This Is Beirut, 13/07 22:17 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
In a press conference held at the Defense Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the Hebrew state on Saturday evening, providing an update on the ongoing military campaign against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Netanyahu confirmed that Israeli airstrikes had targeted key Hamas military leaders, including ...
This Is Beirut, 13/07 14:18 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The health ministry in Gaza said an Israeli strike on Saturday killed 90 people at the Al-Mawasi camp for war displaced in the south of the Palestinian territory. Mohammed Deif, the leader of Hamas's al-Qassam Brigades, was according to Israeli army targeted in this attack. Israeli media reported that Rafa Salama, the commander of Hamas's Khan ...
This Is Beirut, 12/07 14:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Hamas is suggesting during ceasefire negotiations that an independent government of non-partisan figures run post-war Gaza and the Israeli-occupied West Bank, a member of the Palestinian Islamist movement's political bureau said on Friday. “We proposed that a non-partisan national competency government manage Gaza and the West Bank after the ...
This Is Beirut, 11/07 20:26 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanded Thursday that Israel retain control of key Gaza territory along the border with Egypt as part of any accord to suspend the war with Hamas. The condition conflicts with Hamas's position that Israel must withdraw from all Gaza territory after a ceasefire. Speaking after the return of Israeli negotiators ...
This Is Beirut, 11/07 19:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
More than 60 news organizations, including some of the world's largest, signed an open letter Thursday calling on Israel to immediately end restrictions on international media entering and reporting from Gaza. CNN, BBC, Agence France-Presse (AFP) and the Associated Press were among 64 media groups demanding greater access to the enclave that has ...