par This Is Beirut, 29/02 15:52 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Why did Israel extend its air raids to the Bekaa and suddenly start bombing Baalbeck, a Hezbollah stronghold, targeting arms depots belonging to the pro-Iranian formation? For some, this escalation in the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah is linked to the downing of the Israeli Hermes 450 surveillance drone, which was shot down for the first ...
par This Is Beirut, 29/02 15:31 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Israel hit a car used by Hezbollah in Syria, close to the Lebanese border, and also struck near Damascus on Thursday, a war monitor said, hours after similar attacks near the Syrian capital. "An Israeli drone targeted a car belonging to Hezbollah in the Homs countryside near the Syrian-Lebanese border," said Rami Abdel Rahman, who heads the ...
par Tylia El Helou, 29/02 14:52 - Reading : less than a minute
Journalist and writer at the Washington Post, Suzan Haidamous, said to Political Pulse that both UN Resolution 1701 and the Two-State Solution are not applicable in their current states, as concerned parties are not willing to compromise on their objectives and refuse to lower the stakes at hand. She also stressed the fact that Iran will not ...
par This Is Beirut, 29/02 14:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Lebanon is preparing its written response to the French proposal for resolving the situation in southern Lebanon and is coordinating with Hezbollah to this end. This proposal, which also aims to reach a settlement on the delineation of the land border with Israel, was submitted to the government by the head of French diplomacy, Stéphane ...
par This Is Beirut, 27/02 23:19 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Following the Israeli strike against Hezbollah positions in Baalbeck on Monday, attacks between the pro-Iranian group and the Hebrew state escalated on Tuesday, while, according to the US State Department, Israel wants a “diplomatic solution” to its conflict with Hezbollah. Hezbollah fired a salvo of rockets at western Galilee, while the ...
par This Is Beirut, 27/02 22:15 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Kataeb political bureau considered that any initiative aimed at facilitating the election of a president of the Republic should be accompanied by “a goodwill gesture from those attempting to impose their will and delay the election of a president to secure their candidate,” alluding to Amal and Hezbollah. According to the Kataeb, the ...
par This Is Beirut, 27/02 19:24 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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The United States and Britain declared new sanctions on Tuesday, targeting a deputy commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and a member of the Houthi movement. The United States and Britain announced fresh sanctions on Tuesday against an Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) deputy commander, alongside a Houthi ...
par This Is Beirut, 27/02 14:01 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Political circles close to Hezbollah claim that a ceasefire in Gaza would only be followed in southern Lebanon on the armed group's terms. It would refuse a shaky compromise, and would not commit to a ceasefire on the Lebanese front without knowing Hamas' position on the truce agreement currently being negotiated. The pro-Iranian militia ...
par Philippe Abi-Akl, 27/02 09:00 - Reading : 7 minute(s)
As per the last updates from the Paris 2 meeting held last Friday, negotiations for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip are expected to resume. Representatives from Egypt, Qatar, the United States and Israel, along with a delegation from Hamas, are scheduled to convene in Doha for discussions. This will be followed by further talks in Cairo aimed at ...
par This Is Beirut, 26/02 20:42 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
One of Hezbollah's military officials, Hassan Hussein Salameh from al-Houjjair, was killed on Monday in an Israeli strike that targeted his moving vehicle. Salameh was in al-Majadel, a village approximately 15 kilometers from the border. Two other Hezbollah fighters were also killed in earlier air raids conducted by the Israeli military against ...
par This Is Beirut, 26/02 13:28 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The Israeli army carried out at least two strikes on Hezbollah targets near the Lebanese city of Baalbeck on Monday. This is the first strike on Lebanon's east after almost five months of cross-border clashes since October 8, the day after the start of the war in Gaza. According to preliminary reports, two people were killed. The Israeli Army ...
par This Is Beirut, 25/02 19:54 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
After a relatively calm Sunday morning, hostilities resumed in southern Lebanon with renewed artillery exchanges between Hezbollah and Israel. Israeli bombardments intermittently targeted the outskirts of Kfarhamam, Rachaya al-Foukhar, Markaba, Aita al-Shaab, Kfarchouba, and Blida, where a Hezbollah fighter was killed. According to the Israeli ...