This Is Beirut 2024-08-13 13:45 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir led hundreds of Israelis into the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in annexed east Jerusalem on Tuesday and performed prayers marking a Jewish holiday, sources said. Ben Gvir, who has often defied the Israeli government's longstanding ban on Jewish prayer at the mosque compound, vowed to "defeat Hamas" ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-13 12:59 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Tension continued on the southern front between Hezbollah and Israel on Tuesday morning. Israeli artillery fire targeted the outskirts of Marjayoun, Aita al-Shaab, and Kfar Kila. Israeli reconnaissance aircraft flew intensively on Monday evening and Tuesday morning over villages in the Tyre and Bint Jbeil districts. According to Israeli media, ...
Malo Pinatel 2024-08-13 11:53 - Reading : 8 minute(s)
"It is more common to love God than your neighbor because it costs less," said the French writer Alfred Bougeard. A proverb that the Israeli Air Force (IAF) seems to be trying to put into practice in the skies of Lebanon. A practice highlighted, beyond the bombings devastating the south of the country — and sometimes the east — by a scene ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-13 11:26 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Palestinian official media said Israeli troops shot a man dead in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday during a raid to demolish the apartments of two detained Palestinian suspects. "The occupation soldiers fired bullets and tear gas, killing a young man who was hit in the chest," Palestinian official news agency, Wafa, reported. When contacted by ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-13 10:58 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The United States and European allies called on Iran to "stand down" on Monday, as fears mounted over an imminent attack on Israel that could spark an all-out war in the Middle East. Tensions are soaring in the region, with the United States rushing a missile submarine and an aircraft carrier group in a show of support for its key ally. Iran and ...
2024-08-13 09:22 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
On the eve of the scheduled resumption of ceasefire talks concerning Gaza, Israel launched an attack on Al-Tabieen school in the eastern Gaza Strip, killing over a hundred displaced people in a single strike. This massacre is likely to impact the negotiations set to begin on the 15th of this month according to the American-Qatari-Egyptian ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-12 21:33 - Reading : less than a minute
The armed wing of Palestinian group Hamas said Monday its militants had shot and killed an Israeli hostage and wounded two others, both women, "in two separate incidents" in Gaza. "In two separate incidents, two (Hamas) soldiers assigned to guard enemy prisoners fired at a Zionist prisoner, killing him immediately, and also injured two female ...
Rayan Chami 2024-08-12 20:40 - 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 August 12, 2024.
This Is Beirut 2024-08-12 18:01 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Gaza officials told AFP on Monday they had identified 75 of the 93 Palestinians killed in an Israeli air strike on a school building, while Israel's military said the weekend raid had "eliminated" 31 militants. Civil defense rescuers in the Hamas-ruled territory said the Al-Tabieen religious school in Gaza City was struck on Saturday as displaced ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-12 13:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Recent Israeli killings of key figures in Iran-backed groups have sparked tensions and led to predictions of imminent Iranian retaliation before August 15. The deaths of Hezbollah's Fouad Shokr and Hamas' Ismail Haniyeh, respectively, have prompted strong reactions from both groups. Iran has vowed revenge for the assassination of Haniyeh on its ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-12 11:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The exchange of fire between Hezbollah and Israel continued on Monday afternoon at Lebanon's southern border. In the early evening, the public garden of Maroun al-Ras was targeted by a guided missile. Israeli bombardments also targeted Bourj el-Moulouk, Aita al-Shaab, Kfarchouba, Chebaa, Naqoura, and Chihine. Phosphorus shells fired at a ...
2024-08-12 10:53 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The ongoing wars in Gaza, South Lebanon and South-West Syria are quite perplexing since we have a hard time imagining their outcomes. What makes these concatenated cycles of violence intractable and open to various entanglements and invariable destructiveness? Aside from the centennial legacy bequeathed by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the ...