par This Is Beirut, 09/04 10:45 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The French Foreign Minister has suggested sanctioning Israel over aid access to Gaza, whilst influential Senator Elizabeth Warren says Israeli actions in Gaza may be "genocide". France's Foreign Minister put forward on Tuesday the possibility of sanctions on Israel to pressure it to get humanitarian aid into Gaza. "There must be levers of ...
par This Is Beirut, 08/04 23:21 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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The White House said on Monday that negotiators had presented Hamas with a proposal for a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal, but that it was up to the Palestinian militant group to decide. Talks in Cairo over the weekend involving CIA chief William Burns, Israel, Hamas, and Qatar were "serious," but it was too early to say whether they ...
08/04 20:51 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Tensions persist on the southern front between Hezbollah and Israel. On Sunday night, two Hezbollah members were killed in an Israeli raid on the village of Sultaniyeh (Bint Jbeil district), including a field commander of the al-Radwan forces, according to information obtained by the Reuters news agency from security sources. The raid targeted a ...
par This Is Beirut, 08/04 19:52 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The EU mission escorted 68 ships and repelled 11 attacks since it was established less than two months ago, according to a report by the Associated Press. It only defends vessels and does not engage in military strikes. The Iran-backed Houthis, who control much of war-torn Yemen, have been targeting the vital shipping lane since November in a ...
par This Is Beirut, 08/04 19:51 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Pope Francis met on Monday relatives of several Israelis taken hostage by Hamas in the October 7 attacks, the Vatican said. The 87 year-old Argentinian pontiff previously met a group of relatives of hostages at the Vatican in November. On the same day, he met Palestinians who have family in Gaza. Members of five Israeli families had a private ...
par This Is Beirut, 08/04 15:53 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Iran's foreign minister once more leveled accusations against the United States, On Monday, alleging its endorsement of a lethal strike, attributed to Israel, which obliterated Tehran's consulate in Damascus last week. This statement came following the inauguration of a new consulate in the Syrian capital. Iran's foreign minister again accused the ...
par This Is Beirut, 08/04 13:34 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Nicaragua and Germany crossed swords at the UN's top court on Monday, with Managua saying Berlin was "pathetic" to supply aid to Gazans while also providing Israel with weapons, a case the top German lawyer dismissed as "grossly biased". Nicaragua has hauled Germany before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to demand judges impose emergency ...
par This Is Beirut, 08/04 13:17 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Clashes between Israel and Hezbollah continued relentlessly on Monday, six months after the front in South Lebanon was opened by the pro-Iranian party to support Hamas in Gaza. The Israeli military said that it killed a Hezbollah commander, identified as Ali Ahmed Hussein of Hezbollah's elite Radwan Forces, in an overnight airstrike on the town ...
par This Is Beirut, 08/04 12:13 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Conflicting reports emerged around ceasefire negotiations in Cairo. Egyptian media reported "significant progress," whilst Palestinian officials reportedly claimed "no significant progress." Talks in Cairo towards a Gaza truce and hostage release deal made "significant progress," Egyptian state-linked media reported on Monday, more than half a ...
par Maureen Décor, 08/04 09:23 - Reading : less than a minute
Six months after the start of Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon, This is Beirut revisits the key dates of a conflict that is escalating.
par This Is Beirut, 07/04 22:44 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Thousands of Israelis gathered outside the Knesset on Sunday to call for the release of the hostages kidnapped by Hamas militants in Gaza six months ago on October 7. This comes as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government are facing major popular scrutiny and disapproval for their lingering inaction towards reaching a ceasefire deal ...
par This Is Beirut, 07/04 22:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Israeli Army claimed on Sunday to have completed a “new phase” in its preparations for war in Lebanon, where deadly exchanges of fire with Hezbollah are intensifying. In its statement, “Preparing for the transition from defense to attack,” published on its website, the Israeli Army said it had “completed in recent days a new phase ...