par This Is Beirut, 31/07 12:22 - Reading : less than a minute
Hezbollah condemned Israel's killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on Wednesday, warning his death will only increase the resolve of Iran-backed "resistance" groups. Hamas said Haniyeh was killed in an Israeli strike in the Iranian capital, where he was attending the swearing-in of the country's new president, and vowed the act "will not go ...
par This Is Beirut, 31/07 08:59 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
In its first public statement hours after the Israeli air attack on its stronghold south of Beirut, Hezbollah did not confirm the death of Fouad Shokr, the top military commander whom Israel claimed to have killed, but did acknowledge that he was present in the targeted building. In a statement on Wednesday morning, the pro-Iranian group said the ...
par This Is Beirut, 31/07 04:07 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israel struck Hezbollah's stronghold in South Beirut on Tuesday in retaliation for rocket fire from Lebanon that killed 12 children over the weekend, saying it had killed the commander responsible for the attack. Israel's army said its jets had "eliminated" Fouad Shokr, a senior Hezbollah commander responsible for carrying out an attack on the ...
par This Is Beirut, 30/07 22:05 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Following several days of apprehension, Israel retaliated to the attack on Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights, by carrying out a drone attack Tuesday evening on Beirut’s southern suburb, a Hezbollah hotbed. Two persons were killed, including a woman, and at least 30 others wounded, among them six children, according to a preliminary casualty ...
par This Is Beirut, 30/07 21:08 - Reading : less than a minute
Israeli media have revealed that the target of the assassination operation conducted in the southern suburbs of Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold, was Commander Fouad Shokr, also known as "Hajj Mohsen." According to Israeli authorities, Shokr was involved in military activities and had participated in the 1983 attack against the Marines in Beirut ...
par This Is Beirut, 30/07 20:21 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
An explosion ripped through Haret Hreik, in the heart of Beirut’s southern suburb on Tuesday evening, caused by an Israeli drone attack that targeted a building housing Hezbollah’s Shura Council. The targeted building is located in the vicinity of Bahman Hospital, which is run and operated by the Iranian-backed group. According to initial ...
par This Is Beirut, 30/07 15:56 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Tensions remain high on the southern front as an Israeli raid targeted the Jebchit locality in the Nabatieh district early Tuesday afternoon, injuring three people. Ambulances were quickly dispatched to transport the wounded to nearby hospitals. Preliminary reports indicate that Hezbollah intercepted the Israeli planes using air defense systems. ...
par This Is Beirut, 30/07 12:57 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Druze leaders in the annexed Golan Heights have distanced themselves from Israeli threats to retaliate against Hezbollah for a deadly rocket strike on a Druze Arab town in the territory. Most of Majdal Shams's around 11,000 mainly Druze residents still identify as Syrian more than half a century after Israel seized the Golan Heights from Syria ...
par Philippe Abi-Akl, 30/07 08:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Benjamin Netanyahu had not yet finished his official meetings in Washington when the situation escalated on the Lebanon front due to a “stray” shell hitting a playground in Majdal Shams in the occupied Golan Heights, resulting in the deaths of some 12 children. International efforts intensified to contain the situation and prevent the southern ...
par Malo Pinatel, Roya Afzali, 29/07 21:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
A redeployment in anticipation of a response expected to be particularly forceful. On Monday, Iranian-backed fighting forces in Syria were redeployed from the southwestern part of the country to the region of Bou Kamal, according to information obtained by This is Beirut from Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights ...
par This Is Beirut, 29/07 21:25 - Reading : less than a minute
Regarding the expected Israeli strike on Lebanon, the United States State Department stated that "Israel striking Beirut is a hypothesis and we will not comment on that now," claiming that the rocket that fell on Majdal Shams was launched from an area controlled by Hezbollah. The US State Department announced that it is holding talks to ensure ...
par This Is Beirut, 29/07 21:22 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The United States is confident that a wider war between Israel and Hezbollah can be avoided, despite a deadly rocket attack in the annexed Golan Heights that killed 12 children, the White House said Monday. US and Israeli officials had conversations at "multiple levels" over the weekend following the attack, and the risk of a full-blown conflict ...