2024-07-19 19:29 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
After nine hours and 2,000 km, the “Jaffa” drone, launched at dawn toward Tel Aviv in an attack claimed by the Yemeni Houthis, evaded interception. Was it luck or new military technology? It is 3:10 AM. An explosion occurred at Hayarkon, at the corner of Ben-Yehuda Avenue and Shalom-Aleichem Street, near the local branch of the US consulate, ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-19 18:40 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The ICJ has called Israel's occupation of the West Bank "illegal", Friday, in a non-binding advisory opinion. The UN's top court on Friday said Israel's decades-long occupation of Palestinian territory was "illegal" and needed to end as soon as possible. The advisory opinion of The Hague-based International Court of Justice (ICJ) is not binding, ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-19 13:56 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Britain announced on Friday the lifting of its January funding suspension for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) and committed to providing £21 million ($27 million) in new funds. “We are overturning the suspension of UNRWA funding,” British Foreign Secretary David Lammy told parliament, adding that the UN agency for Palestinian ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-19 09:21 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A drone claimed by Yemen's Houthi rebels slipped through Israel's vaunted air defence system on Friday to hit a Tel Aviv building near a US embassy annex, killing one person. The Houthis fired at Tel Aviv a "new drone called 'Yafa', which is capable of bypassing the enemy's interception systems," the Iran-backed Yemeni movement's spokesman, Yahya ...
2024-07-18 21:27 - 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 18th, 2024.
This Is Beirut 2024-07-18 20:17 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Tension between Hezbollah and Israel increased Thursday on the southern front. The commander of Hezbollah's elite Radwan force, Ali Jaafar Maatouk, also known as Habib Maatouk, was killed in an Israeli raid on Jmaïmeh. Hezbollah confirmed Maatouk's death in an official statement. Hezbollah had previously announced the death of another of its ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-18 19:33 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Spanish police reported "having arrested four suspects, three in Spain and one in Germany, as part of an investigation they conducted into the sale of drone parts to Hezbollah, supported by Iran." In a statement released on Thursday, the Spanish police explained that the investigation, which began in Spain, allowed the police "to identify ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-18 17:54 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
An Israeli parliament vote to oppose a Palestinian state as an "existential threat", just days ahead of a visit by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington, brought Palestinian and international criticism on Thursday. The 120-member Knesset, late on Wednesday, passed by 68 votes to nine a resolution that said a Palestinian state on land ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-18 17:51 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Amnesty International, on Thursday, called on Israel to end the indefinite detention of Gaza Palestinians and what it called "rampant torture" in its prisons. "Israeli authorities must end their indefinite incommunicado detention of Palestinians from the occupied Gaza Strip, without charge or trial ... (which is) in flagrant violation of ...
Rayan Chami 2024-07-17 20:57 - 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 17th, 2024.
Joanne Naoum 2024-07-17 11:19 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
After the July war in 2006, Hezbollah’s Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah flabbergasted the Lebanese by declaring a “divine victory” against Israel. Lebanon had paid a heavy cost for this so-called “victory” with countless human losses and massive destruction, from which it took years to recover. Once again, Nasrallah disregarded the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-17 10:18 - Reading : less than a minute
Following a violent night on the southern border, Hezbollah claimed responsibility on Wednesday morning for Katyusha missile attacks on the settlements of Saer and Gesher Haziv. On Tuesday night, Israel once again bombed Umm al-Tut, where three Syrian children died early in the evening in a raid. Night raids also targeted Bustan, Wadi el-Zarka ...