This Is Beirut, 01/01 10:23 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Israeli Army has reported the loss of 30 soldiers due to accidents or friendly fire incidents since October 7, as detailed in an official statement cited by Haaretz. According to information from The Jerusalem Post, this somber tally includes 18 fatalities resulting from “friendly fire,” two from “exceptional fire incidents,” and nine ...
This Is Beirut, 2023-12-31 19:20 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
The situation in Gaza continued to deteriorate on Sunday, December 31st, as the world prepares for New Year's celebrations. On a regional scale, tensions are sharply escalating in Iraq, Syria and the Red Sea. Israeli strikes pounded Gaza on Sunday as both sides near the end of a dark year, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that the war ...
This Is Beirut, 2023-12-31 16:35 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
CONFLICT Cyprus diplomacy Gaza Hamas
Israel is ready to allow ships to deliver aid to the Gaza Strip as part of a proposed sea corridor from Cyprus, announced Israel's Foreign Minister on Sunday, as cited by Reuters. “It can start immediately,” Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said to Tel Aviv radio station 103 FM, as reported by Reuters. Additionally, Cohen explained that Britain, ...
This Is Beirut, 2023-12-31 16:12 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Israeli government approved the appointment of a new foreign minister to replace Eli Cohen on Sunday as part of a pre-arranged reshuffle. Israel Katz, the current energy minister, will exchange positions with Cohen in a ministerial rotation, pending parliamentary approval. Cohen will retain his position as a member of the security cabinet, ...
This Is Beirut, 2023-12-30 22:49 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Benjamin Netanyahu Gaza Hamas Israel-Hamas
The war between Israel and Hamas, which entered its 85th day on Sunday, was triggered by a bloody and unprecedented attack perpetrated by the Palestinian Islamist movement on Israeli soil from the Gaza Strip on October 7. Some 1,140 people, mostly civilians, were killed in the attack, according to an AFP count based on the latest Israeli figures, ...
This Is Beirut, 2023-12-30 13:33 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Ceasefire Gaza Hamas international mediation
The displaced Palestinians are exhausted, as the never-ending war enters its 13th week. As international mediation continues, Gazans hope to see an end to this war, by the new year. Fighting raged on Saturday in the Gaza Strip, where displaced Palestinians found themselves "exhausted" by the relentless Israeli army offensive against Hamas in the ...
This Is Beirut, 2023-12-29 22:03 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Gaza Hamas HEALTH Humanitarian crisis
In a post on social network X, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) warned of the "growing threat of infectious diseases" in the Gaza Strip. He said that WHO staff on the ground were working daily on controlling and monitoring these infections. The WHO chief said on Friday that he was "very concerned" about the growing threat posed by ...
Tylia El Helou, 2023-12-29 20:12 - Reading : less than a minute
This is Beirut brings you a daily recap of the situation in Gaza. Here are the main highlights for December 29, 2023.
This Is Beirut, 2023-12-29 17:38 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Cairo Gaza Hamas Israel-Hamas Truce
Israeli bombardments continued to batter the Gaza Strip on Friday, December 29, while a Hamas delegation was expected in Cairo to discuss an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire. According to the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), around 100 thousand Gazan refugees have recently reached Rafah, on the border with Egypt. Israel ...
Tylia El Helou, 2023-12-27 21:21 - Reading : less than a minute
This is Beirut brings you a daily recap of the situation in Gaza. Here are the main highlights for December 27, 2023.
Michel Touma, 2023-12-27 16:13 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Unexpectedly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a strange jolt a few days ago. The leader of the Likud party found it necessary to publicly reassert his opposition to the Oslo Accords and spirit. The accords, the result of a bold and historic decision in 1993 by the Palestine Liberation Organization (under Yasser Arafat) and the ...
This Is Beirut, 2023-12-27 14:27 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Al-Aqsa Flood Gaza Hamas Iran IRGC
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) spokesman said on Wednesday, December 27 that the Hamas attacks on Israel on October 7 were carried out in revenge for the US drone strike that killed General Qassem Soleimani, former head of the al-Quds Force, the IRGC's foreign operations arm, on January 3, 2020. "Al-Aqsa Flood was one of the acts ...