This Is Beirut, 01/05 20:19 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Gaza is filled with more debris and rubble than Ukraine, the United Nations said Wednesday, with the mammoth task of clearing it made all the more costly and dangerous by the sheer amount of asbestos and unexploded ordnance. Six months into the war between Israel and Hamas, the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) estimated the amount of ...
This Is Beirut, 01/05 18:34 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Egypt's top diplomat Sameh Shoukry said in a meeting on Wednesday with his French counterpart that parties "must show the necessary flexibility" to achieve a truce in Gaza "that stops the bloodshed of Palestinians." In a "quick visit" by French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné in Cairo, the pair "exchanged assessments on the ongoing truce ...
This Is Beirut, 01/05 11:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken renewed calls for Hamas to accept a ceasefire deal Wednesday as he started talks with Israel's leadership. "Even in these very difficult times we are determined to get a ceasefire that brings the hostages home -- and to get it now. And the only reason that it wouldn't be achieved is because of Hamas," Blinken ...
This Is Beirut, 30/04 23:36 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné met with his Israeli counterpart Israel Katz on Tuesday, as part of a 24-hour visit to Israel, the final leg of a regional tour that has already taken him to Lebanon and Saudi Arabia. Séjourné's visit to Israel comes at a time when ongoing Qatari, Egyptian, and American mediation brings hope for a ...
This Is Beirut, 30/04 21:28 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Tuesday that the military would launch a ground offensive on Gaza's far-southern Rafah city "with or without" a truce deal being negotiated with Hamas. He issued the warning despite strong concerns raised by top ally Washington and hours before the arrival of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken ...
This Is Beirut, 30/04 18:28 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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The UN's top court threw out Nicaragua's request on Tuesday for emergency measures to stop Germany sending military supplies to Israel because of its action in the Gaza war. International Court of Justice presiding judge Nawaf Salam said that the circumstances presented to the court did not warrant "provisional measures." Nicaragua hauled ...
This Is Beirut, 30/04 11:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
China said on Tuesday that rival Palestinian groups Hamas and Fatah met in Beijing recently for "in-depth and candid talks on promoting intra-Palestinian reconciliation." "The two sides fully expressed their political will to achieve reconciliation through dialogue and consultation, discussed many specific issues and made positive progress," ...
This Is Beirut, 29/04 21:11 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Columbia University Students defied an ultimatum set by their administration after talks over demonstrations supporting Gaza have faltered, on Monday, while in Paris, authorities cleared up student protests at Sorbonne University. Student demonstrators at Columbia University on Monday defied an ultimatum to disperse or face immediate ...
This Is Beirut, 29/04 19:12 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Hamas has been offered a 40-day ceasefire and the release of "potentially thousands" of Palestinian prisoners in return for freeing Israeli hostages, British Foreign Secretary David Cameron said on Monday. The Palestinian militant group has been given "a very generous offer of a sustained 40 days ceasefire, the release of potentially thousands of ...
This Is Beirut, 29/04 17:22 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The World Central Kitchen is to resume operations, according to an announcement made by its CEO Erin Gore. The nonprofit organization was supplying meals in Gaza until seven of its aid workers were killed by an Israeli strike nearly a month ago. The US-based charity, founded by celebrity Spanish-American chef Jose Andres, provides food to ...
This Is Beirut, 29/04 11:13 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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A Hamas delegation will arrive in Cairo on Monday, for the latest round of Gaza negotiations as diplomatic efforts intensify with Blinken's latest visit and Hamas and Israeli concessions. A Hamas delegation is due Monday in Egypt, where it will respond to Israel's latest proposal for a long-sought truce in Gaza and hostage release after almost ...
This Is Beirut, 28/04 23:05 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and War Cabinet Minister Benny Gantz called for Hamas to be destroyed, as planned by the government when it went to war after the Islamist movement's October 7 attack. "If you decide to raise a white flag and cancel the plan to occupy Rafah aimed at destroying Hamas in order to restore security to ...