par This Is Beirut, 2023-12-31 19:20 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
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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 ...
par ici, 2023-12-31 19:15 - Reading : less than a minute
Hezbollah deputy leader Sheikh Naim Qassem declared on Sunday that Israel is “unable” to impose its conditions regarding the presence of the pro-Iranian group at the Lebanese-Israeli border. “Israel is proposing and attempting to create the impression of having options to facilitate the return of Israelis displaced from the northern ...
par This Is Beirut, 2023-12-31 16:35 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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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, ...
par This Is Beirut, 2023-12-31 16:12 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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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, ...
par This Is Beirut, 2023-12-31 13:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The US Navy sank three Houthi rebel vessels in the Red Sea after they attacked a container ship, amid rising tensions from multiple Houthi assaults on commercial and merchant vessels in the region. The US military said Sunday its Navy helicopters fired at Iran-backed Houthi rebel boats off Yemen that were attacking a cargo ship, with Yemeni ...
par Amine Jules Iskandar, 2023-12-31 12:08 - Reading : 8 minute(s)
If ISIS tried to carry out ethnic cleansing based on takfirism, Hezbollah has devised the notion of "takhuinism" (accusation of treason) to subjugate Lebanon in an atmosphere of terror. Every Christian is potentially labeled as a Zionist agent. The military tribunal has become Hezbollah's instrument of oppression, where any accused individual is ...
par This Is Beirut, 2023-12-30 22:49 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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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, ...
par Chelsea Al Arif, 2023-12-30 20:45 - 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 30, 2023.
par This Is Beirut, 2023-12-30 17:40 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The leader of the Lebanese Forces (LF), Samir Geagea, declared that “what is happening on the southern border is not the result of a legal decision.” Geagea is referring to the artillery exchanges between Hezbollah and Israel that began on October 8, the day after Hamas attacked the Jewish state. “This decision was not established by the ...
par This Is Beirut, 2023-12-30 13:33 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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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 ...
par Bassam Abou Zeid, 2023-12-30 10:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Several ambassadors and heads of diplomatic missions have duly noted the absence of any official response condemning the recent attacks suffered by UNIFIL forces in South Lebanon that resulted in an injury. A source within the United Nations expressed astonishment at the official leniency shown by Lebanese authorities, which is causing them to ...
par This Is Beirut, 2023-12-29 22:03 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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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 ...