This Is Beirut 2024-08-30 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 2024-08-29 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.
This Is Beirut 2024-08-29 21:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israel has agreed to a series of three-day "humanitarian pauses" in Gaza to allow UN health officials to administer polio vaccinations in the territory, the World Health Organization said Thursday. "The way we discussed and agreed, the campaign will start on the first of September, in central Gaza, for three days, and there will be a humanitarian ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-29 18:37 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The European Union on Thursday called for "immediate" humanitarian pauses to allow the polio vaccination of all children in the Gaza Strip, which last month recorded its first case of the disease in 25 years. The World Health Organization and UN children's fund UNICEF are planning two vaccination drives across the territory in coming weeks, ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-29 12:03 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The Israeli military said its forces killed five Palestinian militants in the occupied West Bank on Thursday in a second day of "counter-terrorism" operations that have killed 14 in total. "Following exchanges of fire, the forces eliminated five terrorists who had hidden inside a mosque" in Tulkarem on Thursday morning, the military said. Among ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-28 21:12 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the northern border with Lebanon on Wednesday and stated that the preemptive strike on Lebanon is not the end, emphasizing that efforts will continue to return Israeli residents back to their homes. “A few days ago, we thwarted a surprise attack by Hezbollah on the State of Israel. We destroyed ...
Tylia El Helou 2024-08-28 20:42 - 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 28, 2024.
2024-08-28 19:44 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The security situation in Lebanon deteriorated on Wednesday following a series of Israeli airstrikes that resulted in several deaths and injuries. An Israeli drone strike targeted a vehicle on Wednesday afternoon on the Syrian-Beirut border near the Zabadani Bridge. The attack resulted in the deaths of four individuals, including Firas Qassam, ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-28 18:34 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The United States announced on Wednesday new sanctions on Israeli settlers in the West Bank over violence against Palestinians, urging its ally Israel to bring greater accountability. The sanctions were announced on the same day that Israel launched a wide-scale attack on the West Bank that it said killed nine Palestinian fighters, despite ...
2024-08-28 17:20 - Reading : less than a minute
An Israeli drone strike targeted a vehicle on Wednesday on the Damascus-Beirut road near the Zabadani Bridge, close to the Syrian-Lebanese border, resulting in the deaths of four individuals, including Firas Qassam, the head of operations for the Islamic Jihad movement. The deceased include three Palestinian members of the Islamic Jihad movement ...
Cian ward 2024-08-28 13:30 - Reading : 9 minute(s)
Israel's attacks on Lebanon have left the border area a "scorched earth", as it targets the environment in the hope of creating an uninhabitable ‘security’ zone. “Everyone has left out of fear of the war, nobody can live under the bombing, there is no life here anymore,” says Michel , a farmer from the border village of Wazzani. Ten ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-28 11:04 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
At least 10 Palestinians were killed Wednesday in Israeli raids and strikes in the occupied West Bank, the Red Crescent said, in what the army described as a "counterterrorism operation". Two Palestinians were killed in the city of Jenin, four others in a nearby village, and four more in a refugee camp near the town of Tubas, Red Crescent ...