2024-07-22 15:37 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
On Monday morning, a Lebanese Armed Forces unit discovered a drone on the outskirts of Aaiha in the Rachaya district and called in the engineering unit to dismantle it. Early in the morning, Israeli shells hit Jabal al-Sadana in the Hasbaya district, between Rachaya al-Foukhar and Kfar Hammam, on the outskirts of Kfarchouba, damaging several ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-22 15:11 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Hostages and Missing Families Forum, an Israeli campaign group, announced on Monday that two captives held by Hamas in Gaza had died. The deaths of Yagev Buchshtab, 35, and Alex Dancyg, 76, who were abducted during the October 7 attack by Hamas, are a "stark reminder of the urgency" to bring the hostages home, the forum said in a ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-22 12:38 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Yemeni Houthis threatened Israel on Sunday with “huge retaliation” to its deadly strikes on the still-burning port of Hodeidah, in a new regional escalation linked to the war in Gaza, now in its tenth month. The Israeli strike, the first claimed by Israel in Yemen, set oil tanks ablaze at the vital port and came a day after the first ...
Chelsea Al Arif 2024-07-21 21:11 - 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 July 21st, 2024.
This Is Beirut 2024-07-21 20:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israel has started vaccinating its troops in Gaza against polio and supplying vaccines for the Palestinian population after health agencies said the virus has been found in the territory, the military said Sunday. Army authorities have begun "a broad vaccination operation for all ground troops, both regular and reserves," said a military ...
2024-07-21 19:30 - Reading : less than a minute
This Is Beirut 2024-07-21 18:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Israel's first attack on Yemen's Houthis, who have defied months of strikes by the United States and Britain, will likely only embolden them, analysts say. Saturday's strike on the port city of Hodeidah, which the Yemeni insurgents say killed six people and triggered a massive fire, will provide the Houthis with “political capital,” said ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-21 11:31 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The Israeli military said on Sunday that it intercepted a missile fired from Yemen towards the Red Sea resort town of Eilat, after Israel bombed a port held by the country's Houthi regime. “The projectile did not cross into Israeli territory. Rocket and missile sirens were sounded following the possibility of falling shrapnel,” a military ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-21 11:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to deliver a landmark speech to the US Congress on Wednesday as he fights off intense pressure to quickly cut a Gaza war ceasefire deal with Hamas. Netanyahu, Israel's longest-serving premier, will become the first foreign leader to address a joint meeting of the two chambers four times – pulling ...
Chelsea Al Arif 2024-07-20 21:31 - 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 July 20th, 2024.
This Is Beirut 2024-07-20 20:08 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Israeli warplanes killed three people in the Houthi-controlled Yemeni port of Hodeida, the Houthi's said Sunday after the group's deadly drone attack in Tel Aviv. The strikes on the vital port, which triggered a raging fire and plumes of black smoke, are the first claimed by Israel in the Arabian peninsula's poorest country, about 2,000 ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-20 17:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Saturday was marked by an attack by the Al-Qassam brigades on Shomera, in the Upper Galilee, carried out from Lebanese territory. In a statement published on Saturday, the armed wing of Hamas claimed responsibility for firing a salvo of rockets at the command of the 300 brigade command post. In addition, an Israeli raid targeted a building in the ...