This Is Beirut 2024-06-03 20:51 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The newly appointed UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, called on Hezbollah and Israel to “recommit to implementing Security Council resolution 1701 to ensure their enduring mutual security.” In a statement issued on Monday, after she met with caretaker Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdallah Bou Habib, she expressed ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-03 17:23 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Slovenia's conservative opposition on Monday filed a motion that delays the country's recognition of a Palestinian state, a parliamentary spokeswoman said, following last month's recognition by three other European states. Slovenian lawmakers had been scheduled to vote on Tuesday on whether to recognize a Palestinian state, just days after Spain, ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-03 15:41 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Some 55 percent of all structures in the Gaza Strip have been destroyed, damaged, or possibly damaged since war erupted in the Palestinian territory eight months ago, according to preliminary satellite analysis by the UN. The analysis showed more than 137,000 buildings affected, UNOSAT, the United Nations satellite analysis agency, said on X, ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-03 15:38 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday praised Hamas' unprecedented October 7 attack against Israel and predicted the "destruction" of their common enemy. Khamenei, 85, was speaking at an event to mark 35 years since the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic. He said that the October 7 attack ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-03 13:07 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Three Hezbollah's fighters were killed in Israeli raids on Monday, as artillery exchanges between the group and the Israeli army in Southern surged in intensity, following a weekend marked by heightened violence. The Israeli army announced that it had eliminated a “senior member" of Hezbollah's technical unit in a strike in the Tyre region on ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-03 11:08 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The White House expects Israel to agree to Biden's ceasefire proposal, if Hamas also accepts, said the US national security spokesman on Sunday, as strikes continue across Gaza on Monday. Fresh strikes were reported across the Gaza Strip overnight into Monday, as mediators urged Israel and Hamas to agree to a truce and hostage release deal ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-03 11:03 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
At least 12 pro-regime fighters were killed in an overnight Israeli strike that targeted a factory near Aleppo in the north of Syria, an NGO reported early on Monday. “Twelve pro-Iranian fighters of Syrian and foreign nationalities were killed, according to an initial tally, in an Israeli air strike on a position in the town of Hayyan, north of ...
2024-06-03 09:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The tragic events of Rafah are quite illustrative of the interlocking impasses that characterize the ongoing war dynamics and their destructive fallouts. The dramatic turn, far from being incidental, reflects the in-built gridlocks of a conflict dynamic meant to perpetuate, feed on intentional victimization and lead to open-ended warfare. The ...
Tylia El Helou 2024-06-02 21:08 - 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 June 2nd, 2024.
This Is Beirut 2024-06-02 21:06 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Sunday that Israel was "assessing a governing alternative" to Hamas in the Gaza Strip after its war against the Palestinian militant group ends. Gallant had previously said he opposed Israeli military rule in Gaza, where Hamas seized power from the Palestinian Authority in 2007. "While we conduct our important ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-02 20:18 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
An alarming surge in fire exchanges between Hezbollah and the Israeli army was observed on Sunday, with violence continuing unabated. Late Sunday afternoon, Hezbollah announced that it had shelled the occupied Golan Heights for the second time in the space of a few hours. Hezbollah fighters “shelled (...) the headquarters of the 210th Golan ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-02 19:33 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Egypt hosted a meeting with Israeli and US officials in Cairo on Sunday, to discuss re-opening the Rafah border crossing, while the Israeli military pursued its strikes across the Gaza Strip. Egyptian, Israeli and US officials meeting in Cairo Sunday "ended" their discussions on reopening Gaza's Rafah crossing, state-linked Egyptian media said, ...