This Is Beirut 2024-07-26 19:06 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israel on Friday slammed a UN rights expert for "anti-Semitism" after she endorsed a social media post comparing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler. Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the rights situation in the Palestinian territories, has faced harsh criticism from Israel previously, especially ...
2024-07-26 19:02 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Israeli military is gearing up for a “decisive offensive” against Hezbollah, according to Major General Ori Gordin, the commanding officer in the country’s north. This comes after months of deadly exchanges across the border, which intensified following the October 7 attack by Hamas on southern Israel, sparking the ongoing war in the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-26 15:46 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Border clashes between Hezbollah and Israel continued on Friday. Israeli warplanes destroyed one house and damaged three others in an attack on the outskirts of Markaba, killing two Hezbollah fighters. Both had apparently succumbed to wounds they had sustained. The pro-Iranian group first announced the death of one combatant, identified as ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-26 11:58 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Several rockets were launched on Thursday against a base hosting troops from the US-led coalition in Iraq, security officials said. "Four rockets fell in the vicinity" of Ain al-Assad base in Anbar province, an Iraqi security source said. Another security official said an attack occured with "a drone and three rockets" that fell close to the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-26 03:14 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Kamala Harris signaled a major shift on US Gaza policy Thursday, with the presidential hopeful telling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to seal a peace deal and insisting she would not be "silent" on the suffering in the Palestinian enclave. Ripping up outgoing President Joe Biden's playbook of mostly behind-the-scenes pressure on ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-25 23:11 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The United Arab Emirates called Thursday for a "temporary international mission" for post-war Gaza to restore order and address the humanitarian crisis in the devastated territory. This came after Arab heads of state called at a summit in May for the deployment of United Nations peacekeepers across the occupied Palestinian territories, an idea ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-25 21:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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President Joe Biden pushed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to quickly reach a Gaza ceasefire Thursday, with a friendly handshake masking tense ties and questions over the outgoing United States leader's relevance. The two leaders put on a good-humored show for the cameras as they met in the Oval Office at the White House, just four days ...
Chelsea Al Arif 2024-07-25 20:34 - 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 25, 2024.
This Is Beirut 2024-07-25 17:36 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Continuous fire exchange prevailed on the southern border on Thursday as Israeli warplanes carried out an air strike early in the afternoon on the outskirts of the cemetery in the town of Rab Thalathin, resulting in one death and several injuries, according to information obtained by This Is Beirut. Phosphorus shells also targeted the town of Mays ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-25 13:45 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Iran, and Hamas on Thursday denounced the US Congress for welcoming Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, in a highly controversial congressional address. Netanyahu spoke to the US Congress for the record breaking fourth time on Wednesday. [readmore"https://thisisbeirut.com.lb/world/275118"] "Palestinian children are slaughtered every ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-25 11:33 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Vladimir Putin met Syrian president Bashar al-Assad in Moscow to discuss what the Russian leader described as an "escalation" in the Middle East, images on television showed Thursday. The meeting late Wednesday comes at a time when Russia, which saved Assad's government through its military intervention in 2015 during a civil war, could mediate ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-24 21:28 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appealed for his country and the United States to stand together in a landmark speech Wednesday aimed at rallying support from a US Congress divided over his military campaign in Gaza. "For the forces of civilization to triumph, America and Israel must stand together," Netanyahu said, after arriving to ...