2024-09-16 08:45 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
On Sunday, the Lebanese population was caught up in reports about leaflets supposedly dropped by an Israeli drone over the Wazzani and Ghajar areas. The leaflets, addressed to "residents and displaced persons" in the refugee camps, instructed them to evacuate their homes immediately and move north to the region of Khiam by 4 PM, warning them not ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-15 21:31 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
An Israeli border police officer was wounded in a stabbing attack on Sunday evening at a gate to Jerusalem's Old City, police said. The attack took place near the Damascus Gate in the historic walls of the Old City. "The stabbed officer was lightly wounded and was evacuated for medical treatment," the force said in a statement. "Border Police ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-15 20:40 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Israeli Ministry of Defense is recruiting African asylum seekers to carry out "potentially deadly" operations in Gaza in exchange for obtaining permanent resident status in Israel, according to reports by the Israeli media outlet Haaretz. Defense officials, speaking unofficially, confirmed to the center-left daily the existence of this ...
Hala Abdallah 2024-09-15 20:39 - 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 September 15, 2024.
This Is Beirut 2024-09-15 13:22 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
On Sunday, tensions between Hezbollah and Israel escalated on the southern front. In the early evening, Hezbollah announced that it had launched drones to attack the command headquarters of the Military Gathering Battalion in the Golan Division at the Yarden barracks, resulting in casualties and injuries. However, Israeli media reported that five ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-15 10:57 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
The Houthis issued an announcement on Sunday warning the residents of Tel Aviv, in central Israel, that the area had become an active war zone, urging them to evacuate to a "humanitarian zone" in the Negev desert. Earlier in the day, a missile triggered a rush to shelters in central Israel on Sunday, a rare incident that caused no casualties but ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-14 22:12 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Gaza's Civil Defense announced on Saturday the deaths of eleven people, including women and children, in an overnight Israeli airstrike on a house in Gaza City that was sheltering Palestinians displaced by the war. "We have recovered the bodies of eleven martyrs, including four children and three women, after an Israeli warplane carried out a ...
Hala Abdallah 2024-09-14 21:32 - 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 September 14th, 2024.
This Is Beirut 2024-09-14 21:16 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared in a meeting of the security cabinet that it was only a matter of time before the war on the Israeli-Lebanese border expands, according to remarks reported on Saturday by Israel's Channel 13. “We are heading for a vast campaign of one intensity or another,” Netanyahu said in part. During the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-14 20:21 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
An operation to tow an abandoned tanker struck by Houthis in August, threatening environmental disaster, began on Saturday and is still ongoing, a Greek Defense Ministry source told AFP. The Greek-flagged Sounion is being towed northwards under military escort, the source said. The tanker was hit last month by Iran-backed Houthis off the coast ...
2024-09-14 19:43 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Hezbollah Deputy Secretary-General Naim Qassem confirmed on Saturday that “the support front will be maintained in Lebanon as long as the war in Gaza continues,” adding that the extent of this support will depend on the scale of Israeli aggression, which is increasingly targeting civilians. He stressed that settlers will only be able to return ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-14 13:19 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
As concerns about a major escalation in southern Lebanon grow, military operations between Hezbollah and Israel continue to intensify. On Saturday evening, Israeli raids targeted several localities in the Hermel region north of the Bekaa, including Hosh al-Sayyed Ali and the Kawakh area. The Israeli army claimed to have bombed Hezbollah weapons ...