This Is Beirut 2024-05-25 01:12 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
France's president, Emmanuel Macron, Qatar's prime minister and the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan held talks Friday on the Gaza war and ways to set up a Palestinian state alongside Israel, the French presidency said. Macron organized the meeting amid growing international concerns over the Israel-Hamas war. It came a few ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-24 22:59 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The US-built temporary pier on the coast of Gaza has delivered 97 trucks of aid since operations began a week ago, a UN spokesman said Friday, after what he called a "rocky start." The UN World Food Programme "took possession of 97 trucks since the floating dock came into operation" on May 17, Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for UN chief Antonio ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-24 21:46 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi agreed in a call Friday with his US counterpart Joe Biden to allow UN aid through the crucial Kerem Shalom crossing to conflict-torn Gaza, the White House said. "President Biden welcomed the commitment from President al-Sisi to permit the flow of UN-provided humanitarian assistance" through the crossing, it ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-24 21:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has downplayed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s thinly veiled threats of “Israeli plans to restore security on the northern border” with Lebanon. “Netanyahu thinks he can wage psychological warfare, talking about surprises he’s planning, to show that he’s strong on this level. To which I ...
Lyne Sammouri 2024-05-24 21:06 - 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 May 24, 2024.
This Is Beirut 2024-05-24 21:01 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The European Union is studying whether it could play a role monitoring the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt after Israel's war with Hamas ends, officials said Friday. The 27-nation bloc set up a mission in 2005 to help monitor the crossing, but that was suspended two years later after militant Islamists Hamas took control of ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-24 18:47 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The Houthis on Friday claimed an attack using ships, drones and missiles, on a Greek-owned ship off Yemen's coast. The attack "targeted the ship Yannis, which belongs to a Greek company, Eastern Mediterranean Maritime, as it passed through the Red Sea," the group's military spokesman, Yahya Saree, said in a statement. The Joint Maritime ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-24 18:01 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The top United Nations court on Friday ordered Israel to halt military operations in Rafah "immediately," a landmark ruling likely to increase mounting international pressure on Israel more than seven months into the Gaza war. South Africa, who is pursuing the case, hailed the ruling, with Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor saying it was a "much ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-24 17:47 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The International Court of Justice (ICJ), top United Nations court, ordered on Friday Israel to halt military operations in Rafah, a landmark ruling likely to increase mounting international pressure on Israel more than seven months into the Gaza war. ICJ rulings are legally binding, but the court has no concrete means to enforce them. Israel ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-24 17:35 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Following a relatively quiet morning, Israel resumed its raids on Lebanese villages, which it has been targeting since the opening of the southern front on October 8, 2020. A strike against the center of Mays el-Jabal killed two Hezbollah members, Hassan Adel Chaabi and Husein Nabil Mawla, and wounded an unknown number. Hezbollah responded to ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-24 15:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The head of the CIA is expected in Paris on Friday or Saturday to try to relaunch talks with Israel on a truce in Gaza, a Western source close to the matter told AFP. Israel gave the green light on Thursday to the resumption of negotiations for the release of hostages held in Gaza, while talks on a truce with the Palestinian Islamist movement ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-24 15:16 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said on Friday that he had decided to "sever the connection" between Spain's diplomatic mission and Palestinians in the occupied West Bank over Madrid's recognition of a Palestinian state. "I have decided to sever the connection between Spain's representation in Israel and the Palestinians, and to prohibit the ...