2024-07-27 12:23 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Despite the prevailing impressions among most official, diplomatic, internal and external security entities that the confrontations on the southern border front with Israel could expand into a full-scale war, fears have grown that the reality on this front, which has effectively turned into a front of attrition, will be prolonged indefinitely. On ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-27 11:29 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Israeli military issued new evacuation orders for residents of southern Gaza's Khan Yunis city on Saturday, after retrieving the bodies of five Israelis and warning of new operations. The United Nations said more than 180,000 Palestinians have already fled fierce fighting in Khan Yunis since the military began an operation in the area last ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-26 23:13 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Egyptian, Qatari and US mediators are to meet with Israeli negotiators in the Italian capital Sunday in the latest push for a Gaza truce, Egyptian state-linked media said. "A four-way meeting between Egyptian officials and their American and Qatari counterparts, in the presence of Israel's intelligence chief, will be held in Rome on Sunday to ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-26 22:58 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
More than 180,000 Palestinians have fled fierce fighting around the southern Gaza city of Khan Younes in four days, the United Nations said Friday, after an Israeli operation to extract captives' bodies from the area. Recent "intensified hostilities" in the Khan Younes area, more than nine months into the Israel-Hamas war, have fueled "new waves ...
Rayan Chami 2024-07-26 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 26, 2024.
This Is Beirut 2024-07-26 19:06 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israel on Friday slammed a UN rights expert for "anti-Semitism" after she endorsed a social media post comparing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler. Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the rights situation in the Palestinian territories, has faced harsh criticism from Israel previously, especially ...
2024-07-26 19:02 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Israeli military is gearing up for a “decisive offensive” against Hezbollah, according to Major General Ori Gordin, the commanding officer in the country’s north. This comes after months of deadly exchanges across the border, which intensified following the October 7 attack by Hamas on southern Israel, sparking the ongoing war in the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-26 15:46 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Border clashes between Hezbollah and Israel continued on Friday. Israeli warplanes destroyed one house and damaged three others in an attack on the outskirts of Markaba, killing two Hezbollah fighters. Both had apparently succumbed to wounds they had sustained. The pro-Iranian group first announced the death of one combatant, identified as ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-26 11:58 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Several rockets were launched on Thursday against a base hosting troops from the US-led coalition in Iraq, security officials said. "Four rockets fell in the vicinity" of Ain al-Assad base in Anbar province, an Iraqi security source said. Another security official said an attack occured with "a drone and three rockets" that fell close to the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-26 03:14 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Kamala Harris signaled a major shift on US Gaza policy Thursday, with the presidential hopeful telling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to seal a peace deal and insisting she would not be "silent" on the suffering in the Palestinian enclave. Ripping up outgoing President Joe Biden's playbook of mostly behind-the-scenes pressure on ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-25 23:11 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The United Arab Emirates called Thursday for a "temporary international mission" for post-war Gaza to restore order and address the humanitarian crisis in the devastated territory. This came after Arab heads of state called at a summit in May for the deployment of United Nations peacekeepers across the occupied Palestinian territories, an idea ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-25 21:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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President Joe Biden pushed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to quickly reach a Gaza ceasefire Thursday, with a friendly handshake masking tense ties and questions over the outgoing United States leader's relevance. The two leaders put on a good-humored show for the cameras as they met in the Oval Office at the White House, just four days ...