This Is Beirut, 2024-06-18 15:39 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
A document drawn up by the Israeli army's military intelligence on September 19, 2023 warned that Hamas was training for a large-scale invasion of the Jewish state, according to information revealed on Tuesday by Israeli public broadcaster Kan News, citing anonymous security sources. According to Kan News, the document details a series of ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-06-18 12:36 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Israeli strikes on Tuesday killed at least 13 people in central Gaza, the civil defence agency in the Palestinian territory said, although fighting has largely subsided as Muslims mark Eid al-Adha. An Israeli announcement at the weekend of a daily "pause" of military activity to facilitate aid flows coincided with the Muslim holiday and has ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-06-17 22:47 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Israel struck Gaza on Monday and witnesses reported blasts in the besieged territory's south, but fighting has largely subsided after a day of relative calm and as Muslims marked Eid al-Adha. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dissolved his war cabinet, a government spokesman said, reflecting fractures at the top of the country's ...
2024-06-17 12:21 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
An Israeli government spokesman on Monday said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had dissolved the war cabinet following the resignation earlier this month of centrist leader Benny Gantz. David Mencer, spokesman at the prime minister's office, told reporters the war cabinet was a "prerequisite" for former army chief and defense minister Gantz to ...
2024-06-17 08:02 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Conflict scenarios are complex and foreshadow cycles of destructive violence resembling total war. Diplomacy has proven ineffective in containing the recurrent rounds of violence and offering an alternative road map to the dominant ideological and strategic impasses and power politics. The Palestinians are still subjected to the sway of the ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-06-16 21:23 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Gaza saw its first day of relative calm in months on Sunday, after Israel's military said it would "pause" fighting daily around a southern route to facilitate aid flows, following repeated United Nations warnings of famine in the Palestinian territory. "The first day of Eid al-Adha could almost be considered compared with the previous days," ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-06-14 12:32 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
An Israeli court has extended for 35 days the government's shutdown of Qatar-based television news channel Al Jazeera, the justice ministry said on Friday. Al Jazeera, which broadcasts in Arabic and English, went off the air in Israel under an initial 45-day order early last month. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government has had a ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-06-13 18:51 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Certain Gazans are growing frustrated with Hamas, over delays in ending the war that has destroyed so many lives. Some Gazans have criticized Hamas, which rules the besieged Palestinian territory, for failing to end the war with Israel that has devastated their lives. Hamas has "led the Palestinian people into a war of annihilation", said Umm ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-06-12 18:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken vowed Wednesday to work to seal a Gaza ceasefire agreement, saying not all Hamas demands were acceptable but voicing hope gaps could be closed. Consulting with key mediator Qatar on the Hamas response to the plan outlined by US President Joe Biden, Blinken said the Palestinian group could have given a "clear ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-06-12 12:14 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
A UN investigation concluded on Wednesday that Israel has committed 'crimes against humanity' during the war in Gaza, including that of "extermination", while saying Israeli and Palestinian armed groups have both committed war crimes. The independent Commission of Inquiry's report is the United Nations' first in-depth investigation into the ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-06-12 10:33 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Violence against children in armed conflicts reached "extreme levels" in 2023, particularly in Gaza and Sudan, according to a forthcoming UN report obtained by AFP on Tuesday. The United Nations' annual "Children in Armed conflict" report placed the Sudanese army as well as the rival Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on the blacklist for "the killing ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-06-11 23:03 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Hamas gave its official response to the latest truce proposal for Gaza on Tuesday, calling for a "complete halt" to Israeli "aggression" as fighting raged in the Palestinian territory. The response came after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, on his eighth Middle East tour since the October 7 Hamas attack that sparked the war, pushed the ...