This Is Beirut 01/09 16:54 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Artillery exchanges resumed on Sunday on the southern front after a relatively calm morning. In the afternoon, four people were injured in an Israeli strike on Aita al-Shaab, according to a statement by the emergency operations center of the Ministry of Health. Israeli artillery fired two mortar shells towards shepherds on the outskirts of ...
This Is Beirut 01/09 12:28 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Sunday to "settle the score" with Hamas after the military had recovered the bodies of six hostages from a Gaza tunnel. "Those who kill hostages do not want an agreement" for a Gaza truce, Netanyahu said in a statement, telling Hamas leaders that "we will hunt you down, we will catch you and we ...
This Is Beirut 01/09 10:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Israel's medical emergency service announced the death of a third person in Sunday's shooting attack in the occupied West Bank. It said the death of a 50-year-old man had been confirmed at a hospital where he had been evacuated after being shot along with two others who had previously been declared dead in the attack near Tarkumiya crossing near ...
This Is Beirut 01/09 10:14 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Israel's military announced on Sunday the discovery of six dead hostages in a Gaza tunnel, as medics in the Palestinian territory braced for pauses in fighting for a polio vaccination drive. The hostages' remains were recovered on Saturday "from an underground tunnel in the Rafah area" and formally identified in Israel, a military statement ...
Lyne Sammouri 31/08 20:33 - 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 31, 2024.
This Is Beirut 31/08 17:45 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Concrete slabs and sheet metal were piled high alongside streets in Jenin on Saturday, as residents assessed the damage from Israel's latest West Bank raid even as explosions persisted nearby. The scars of ongoing clashes in the occupied Palestinian territory, which began on Wednesday as part of what Israel has described as a "counter-terrorism ...
This Is Beirut 31/08 17:06 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A health official said that a polio vaccination campaign began in Gaza on Saturday after the war-torn territory recorded its first case of the disease in a quarter-century. Local health officials, along with the United Nations and NGOs, "are starting today the polio vaccination campaign in the central region," Moussa Abed, the director of primary ...
This Is Beirut 31/08 10:52 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Israel pressed on with a large-scale military operation in the occupied West Bank for a fourth day on Saturday, as fierce fighting raged in the nearly 11-month Gaza war. As clashes and explosions persisted in the northern city of Jenin, the Israeli military said two Palestinians were killed while preparing to carry out bombings overnight in the ...
Vanessa Kallas 30/08 21:13 - 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 30, 2024.
This Is Beirut 30/08 20:43 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
American Near East Refugee Aid (Anera), a US-based aid group, said on Friday an Israeli air strike killed four people accompanying its convoy in Gaza the day before, while the Israeli military said it had struck armed assailants. "An Israeli air strike yesterday killed four Palestinians in the lead vehicle of an Anera aid convoy carrying food and ...
This Is Beirut 30/08 11:18 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israel said it killed three Hamas militants in an air strike in the occupied West Bank on Friday, taking the death toll from a large-scale military operation now in its third day to at least 19. A top UN aid official meanwhile questioned "what has become of our basic humanity", as the war raged on in Gaza and humanitarian operations struggle to ...
Vanessa Kallas 29/08 21:30 - 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 29, 2024.