This Is Beirut 2024-05-08 21:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Police forcibly cleared an encampment of pro-Palestinian protesters at George Washington University in the United States capital on Wednesday, arresting dozens in the latest clash with students demonstrating over the Israeli offensive in Gaza. Republicans in Congress had pressured local authorities to act on the encampment, summoning Washington's ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-08 20:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Benjamin Netanyahu Palestine Hamas
An Israeli official said visiting CIA Director Bill Burns and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed Wednesday "the possibility" of suspending military operations in Gaza's Rafah in exchange for Hamas freeing hostages. Netanyahu and the US spy chief, who has been involved in mediation efforts in the Israel-Hamas war, met in Jerusalem as part ...
2024-05-08 20:29 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Benjamin Netanyahu Palestine Hamas
Could there possibly be two versions of a ceasefire proposal for Gaza? Could there have been a modified version unbeknownst to Israeli authorities? According to Israeli statements, the Egyptian-Qatari proposal for a ceasefire in the enclave, approved by Hamas on Monday, differs from the one previously endorsed by Tel Aviv. However, there appears ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-08 19:43 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon highly escalated Wednesday. Five people were killed in two Israeli raids. The first one targeted a three-storey house in Khiam, destroying it, and killing three members of the Al-Qods brigade, the military branch of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The second one targeted a structure in Odaisseh where two members ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-08 18:49 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Hospitals in the southern Gaza Strip have only three days of fuel left, the head of the World Health Organization said on Wednesday, due to closed border crossings. Despite international objections, Israel sent tanks into the overcrowded southern city of Rafah on Tuesday and seized the nearby crossing into Egypt which is the main conduit for aid ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-08 18:48 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant warned Israeli soldiers deployed near the border with Lebanon that their mission there "is not completed" and that "there could be a heated summer" ahead. Gallant, who made the comments during a tour of north Israel, nonetheless reaffirmed that Tel Aviv does not want a war with Lebanon. In a conversation ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-08 14:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
French police detained 86 people following an operation to remove students staging a pro-Palestinian occupation at the Sorbonne university in Paris, prosecutors said Wednesday. Those arrested in the police operation on Tuesday night were being held for a variety of public order offences, said the statement. They include wilful damage, rebellion, ...
Michel Touma 2024-05-08 13:07 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Hundreds of young people have recently occupied numerous campuses in the United States and some European countries, pitching tents in a similar scenario. This is a reminder of the 2006 occupation of downtown Beirut by Hezbollah and its local cohorts. Therefore, these young people are unwittingly the tree that hides the forest. On the surface, the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-08 12:59 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon highly escalated Wednesday, causing several casualties and extensive material damage. Three people were killed in a raid that targeted a three-story house in the village of Khiam, flattening it to the ground. Residential areas in Aïtaroun also came under intense Israeli artillery fire, while warplanes carried ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-08 12:01 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Qatar called on the international community on Wednesday to prevent a "genocide" in Rafah following Israel's seizure of the Gaza city's crossing with Egypt and threats of a wider assault. In a statement the Gulf state, which has been mediating between Israel and militant group Hamas, appealed "for urgent international action to prevent the city ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-08 11:51 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The US has paused bomb shipments to Israel on Wednesday, whilst Israelis launched airstrikes across Gaza, and Cairo negotiators rush to establish "last chance" ceasefire deal. Israel struck targets in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday after seizing the main border crossing with Egypt, where negotiators were working to make good on their "last chance" ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-08 10:29 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israel said it reopened the Kerem Shalom border crossing to humanitarian aid for Gaza Wednesday, four days after closing it in response to a rocket attack that killed four soldiers. "Trucks from Egypt carrying humanitarian aid, including food, water, shelter equipment, medicine and medical equipment donated by the international community are ...