This is Beirut, 13/10 11:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Hamas handed over the 20 surviving Israeli hostages on Monday under a ceasefire agreement, as US President Donald Trump and other world leaders geared up for a summit on Gaza. In Tel Aviv, a huge crowd which gathered to support hostage families erupted in joy, tears and song as news broke of the first releases, though the pain for the loss of ...
This is Beirut, 13/10 11:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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US President Donald Trump arrived Monday morning at Ben Gurion Airport for a short visit to Israel, the first stop on a Middle East tour described as a mission for peace. Welcomed by President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump is set to continue to Egypt, where an international summit in Sharm el-Sheikh will focus on ...
This is Beirut, 13/10 11:20 - Reading : less than a minute
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As part of Donald Trump’s peace plan, Hamas hands over the first Israeli hostages to the Red Cross. In Tel Aviv, thousands cheer on Hostages Square as the remaining detainees are set to be released in exchange for Palestinian prisoners.
Charles Chartouni, 13/10 09:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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President Trump has proven to be a tough dealmaker and a skillful negotiator who knows how to leverage whatever resources are at hand to promote and sustain peace processes against all odds. His diplomatic approach is based on the common sense of a businessman turned politician at the helm of an “imperial republic.” His hard-nosed realism ...
Michel Touma, 13/10 08:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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The cloth doesn’t make the cleric… The old saying fits neatly when it comes to Hamas and the latest turn in the war it launched on October 7, 2023, with its massive and deadly offensive against Israel from Gaza. Two years into a conflict that has plunged the Palestinian population into a nightmare, the Islamist movement has just endorsed, ...
This is Beirut, 12/10 17:24 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel was ready to receive all hostages held in Gaza, ahead of their exchange on Monday for Palestinian prisoners under a ceasefire agreement with Hamas. "Israel is prepared and ready for the immediate reception of all our hostages," Netanyahu said in a statement issued on Sunday. Israel will not ...
Bassam Abou Zeid, 12/10 15:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Israeli airstrikes targeting bulldozers and excavators in Msayleh, southern Lebanon, on Saturday were not an isolated incident. Similar attacks occurred earlier, on September 3, in the Ansariyeh region. Heavy machinery, including excavators and bulldozers, has been repeatedly struck in several towns and villages along—and even beyond—the ...
Sana Richa Choucair, 12/10 15:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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This week, negotiation took center stage. After nearly two years of war in Gaza, Israel and Hamas have reached an agreement on a ceasefire and the release of hostages — a breakthrough brokered in Egypt with the support of the United States, Qatar, Egypt and Turkey. The deal marks the first phase of US President Donald Trump’s 20-point peace ...
This is Beirut, 12/10 12:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israel plans to destroy what remains of Hamas's network of tunnels under Gaza, working with US approval after its hostages are freed, it said Sunday. Defense Minister Israel Katz said the operation would be conducted under an "international mechanism" led by the United States, sponsor of the three-day-old Gaza ceasefire. "Israel's great ...
This is Beirut, 12/10 12:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Lebanon said Sunday that one of its members was wounded by an Israeli grenade dropped near a UN position in the country's south, the third incident of its kind in just over a month. The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) has been working with the Lebanese army to support a November ...
This is Beirut, 12/10 08:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Three Qatari diplomats were killed and two injured in a car crash on Sunday near the Egyptian town of Sharm el-Sheikh, according to the Gulf state's embassy. Diplomats and official delegations had descended on the Red Sea resort town in recent days to negotiate a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal. Egyptian state-linked media Al-Qahera News ...
This is Beirut, 12/10 05:25 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Hamas will begin releasing Israeli hostages held in Gaza on Monday morning, a top official from the Palestinian militant group told AFP, before US President Donald Trump chairs an international summit in Egypt on his peace plan for the region. As part of the deal's first phase, Hamas, whose deadly attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023 sparked ...