This Is Beirut 11/03 12:01 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The Muslim holy month of Ramadan started on Monday in Gaza with no truce in sight as the US, Qatari and Egyptian mediators failed to reach agreement on it. The weeks of talks in Cairo aimed for a six-week truce and the release of many of the hostages taken on October 7 that Hamas is still holding. In return, Israel would free Palestinian ...
11/03 11:52 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
A simple overview of the regional and international landscapes is enough to gauge the gaping voids and expanding hazards. The complexities of the world order are building up on the intersection between internal conflicts and the emerging fault lines of the new Cold War. Tackling these issues from both analytical and strategic standpoints ...
This Is Beirut 10/03 20:51 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Israel's Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said Sunday aid delivered via a planned maritime route would go "to those who need it" in Gaza, where famine looms after five months of war. Gallant travelled to the "shores of Gaza" on a military boat to inspect "preparations being made for the construction of a sea dock" that would receive humanitarian ...
Tylia El Helou 10/03 20:41 - Reading : less than a minute
This is Beirut brings you a daily recap of the situation in Gaza. Here are the main highlights for March 10th, 2024.
This Is Beirut 10/03 13:06 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Maronite Patriarch Bechara al-Rai reterated time and again "the urgent need to immediately elect a President of the Republic." In his Sunday sermon in Bkerke, he praised the initiative of the National Moderation Bloc and the efforts of the Quintet ambassadors aimed at facilitating an end to the presidential election deadlock. "We look positively ...
This Is Beirut 10/03 12:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Hezbollah and Israel escalated exchange of heavy fire across the border Sunday with Hezbollah firing two rounds of rockets and missiles at northern Israel and the occupied Shebaa farms. Hezbollah said it fired “dozens of Katyusha-type rockets” at the Mochav farming village in the locality of Meron in the morning in retaliation to an Israeli ...
Ali A. Hamadé 10/03 12:38 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
After an eventful Super Tuesday, during which fifteen states cast their votes for the Democratic and Republican primaries, Donald Trump and Joe Biden emerged as the undisputed leaders of the political arena. This widely anticipated scenario, foreseen by many observers, left Nikki Haley – Trump’s only serious contender – with no other option ...
Hala Abdallah 09/03 22:57 - Reading : less than a minute
This is Beirut brings you a daily recap of the situation in Gaza and southern Lebanon. Here are the main highlights for March 9th, 2024.
This Is Beirut 09/03 20:26 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israel said on Saturday its spy chief had met with his US counterpart as part of efforts to secure the release of hostages still held in Gaza. "The head of the Mossad, David Barnea, met yesterday (Friday) with the head of the CIA, Bill Burns, as part of the ceaseless efforts to advance another hostage release deal," Prime Minister Benjamin ...
This Is Beirut 09/03 19:57 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Five people were killed and more than nine injured in a raid on Saturday night carried out by the Israeli army on a house in Khirbet Selm, in southern Lebanon, as artillery exchanges between Israel and Hezbollah intensified in the evening. Earlier today, two other people were injured in a raid on Dhayra, with Israel conducting several raids on ...
This Is Beirut 09/03 17:34 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Jesse Baker, deputy assistant secretary of the US Treasury for Asia and the Middle East in the Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes, pressed the Lebanese authorities to take “proactive measures” to prevent funds from being channeled to Hamas through Lebanon, according to a US Treasury official, who spoke with AP on condition of ...
This Is Beirut 09/03 13:34 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A boat carrying desperately needed aid for war-ravaged Gaza, where the UN has repeatedly warned of famine, was prepared to sail from Cyprus as deadly fighting raged on Saturday between Israeli troops and Hamas militants ahead of Ramadan. The sea route aims to counter access restrictions, which humanitarians and Western governments have blamed on ...