par This Is Beirut, 22/07 12:38 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Yemeni Houthis threatened Israel on Sunday with “huge retaliation” to its deadly strikes on the still-burning port of Hodeidah, in a new regional escalation linked to the war in Gaza, now in its tenth month. The Israeli strike, the first claimed by Israel in Yemen, set oil tanks ablaze at the vital port and came a day after the first ...
par This Is Beirut, 21/07 20:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israel has started vaccinating its troops in Gaza against polio and supplying vaccines for the Palestinian population after health agencies said the virus has been found in the territory, the military said Sunday. Army authorities have begun "a broad vaccination operation for all ground troops, both regular and reserves," said a military ...
par This Is Beirut, 21/07 18:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Israel's first attack on Yemen's Houthis, who have defied months of strikes by the United States and Britain, will likely only embolden them, analysts say. Saturday's strike on the port city of Hodeidah, which the Yemeni insurgents say killed six people and triggered a massive fire, will provide the Houthis with “political capital,” said ...
par This Is Beirut, 20/07 20:08 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Israeli warplanes killed three people in the Houthi-controlled Yemeni port of Hodeida, the Houthi's said Sunday after the group's deadly drone attack in Tel Aviv. The strikes on the vital port, which triggered a raging fire and plumes of black smoke, are the first claimed by Israel in the Arabian peninsula's poorest country, about 2,000 ...
par This Is Beirut, 20/07 17:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Saturday was marked by an attack by the Al-Qassam brigades on Shomera, in the Upper Galilee, carried out from Lebanese territory. In a statement published on Saturday, the armed wing of Hamas claimed responsibility for firing a salvo of rockets at the command of the 300 brigade command post. In addition, an Israeli raid targeted a building in the ...
par This Is Beirut, 19/07 21:17 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Tensions increased on the southern front on Friday afternoon after a civil defense volunteer was injured and another was suffocated in an Israeli strike while putting down a fire resulting from an earlier raid on houses in Bir Al Muslabiyat and Al-Abbad Junction. Israeli artillery hit the center of Hula, and Wadi Al Bayad, before targeting ...
par Rayan Chami, 19/07 20:01 - Reading : less than a minute
From Gaza to Lebanon, This Is Beirut brings you a daily recap of the war between Hamas and Israel and its repercussions on the region. Here are the main highlights for July 19th, 2024.
par This Is Beirut, 19/07 09:21 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A drone claimed by Yemen's Houthi rebels slipped through Israel's vaunted air defence system on Friday to hit a Tel Aviv building near a US embassy annex, killing one person. The Houthis fired at Tel Aviv a "new drone called 'Yafa', which is capable of bypassing the enemy's interception systems," the Iran-backed Yemeni movement's spokesman, Yahya ...
par Victoria C. Werling, 18/07 21:27 - Reading : less than a minute
From Gaza to Lebanon, This Is Beirut brings you a daily recap of the war between Hamas and Israel and its repercussions on the region. Here are the main highlights for July 18th, 2024.
par This Is Beirut, 18/07 17:54 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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An Israeli parliament vote to oppose a Palestinian state as an "existential threat", just days ahead of a visit by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington, brought Palestinian and international criticism on Thursday. The 120-member Knesset, late on Wednesday, passed by 68 votes to nine a resolution that said a Palestinian state on land ...
par This Is Beirut, 18/07 17:51 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Amnesty International, on Thursday, called on Israel to end the indefinite detention of Gaza Palestinians and what it called "rampant torture" in its prisons. "Israeli authorities must end their indefinite incommunicado detention of Palestinians from the occupied Gaza Strip, without charge or trial ... (which is) in flagrant violation of ...
par This Is Beirut, 18/07 09:23 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israeli drone strikes escalated in Lebanon on Thursday. A raid targeted a vehicle in the Tyre caza, on the road to Jbal el-Botm, killing one person. A fire also broke out on the outskirts of Aitaroun in Blida after a raid by the Hebrew State. #LEBANON A raid targeted a vehicle in the Tyre caza, on the road to Jabal el-Botm, killing one person ...