This Is Beirut 2024-09-02 19:53 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The United Kindgomd said Monday it would suspend some arms exports to Israel, citing a "clear risk" that they could be used in a serious breach of international humanitarian law. The announcement follows a review by the Foreign Office into the arms sales given concerns about Israel's conduct in its war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Foreign ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-02 19:52 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
US President Joe Biden on Monday said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was not doing enough to secure a deal for the release of hostages taken by Palestinian armed group Hamas. Asked by reporters at the White House -- where Biden was arriving for a meeting with US negotiators -- if he thought the Israeli leader was doing enough on the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-02 19:52 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
A strike on Monday called by Israel's largest labor union shuttered parts of the country to pressure the government into reaching a Gaza deal to free hostages, though several sectors were unaffected. The Histadrut trade union called a nationwide strike beginning at 6:00 AM (0300 GMT), a day after mass demonstrations following the army's ...
Malo Pinatel 2024-09-02 14:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
In the early hours of Wednesday, August 28, the Israeli military announced a major operation in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, targeting localities such as Jenin, Tubas, and Tulkarem. This operation is the largest in the area since October 7. Although this operation is more extensive than previous ones, it is part of a broader ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-02 11:21 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The Public Health Emergency Operations Center of the Ministry of Public Health confirmed that two people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a car in the town of Naqoura on Monday. Two people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a car in the town of #Naqoura. pic.twitter.com/Sl0rGEWjr9 — This is Beirut (@ThisIsBeirut_) Two people were ...
Hala Abdallah 2024-09-01 22:07 - 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 September 1st, 2024.
This Is Beirut 2024-09-01 21:12 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Tensions resumed at the southern front on Sunday after a relatively cautious calm prevailed in the morning. In the afternoon, Israeli warplanes destroyed a house in the town of Bayt Lif in southern Lebanon, killing one person and injuring eight, according to a statement from the Public Health Emergency Operations Center of the Ministry of Public ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-01 17:42 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The head of Israel's powerful Histadrut trade union ordered a "complete strike" in support of Gaza hostages on Monday and urged a deal to secure their release after six more were announced dead. "We must stop the abandonment of the hostages... I have come to the conclusion that only our intervention can shake those who need to be shaken," ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-01 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 2024-09-01 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 2024-09-01 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 2024-09-01 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 ...