This Is Beirut 2024-05-28 11:43 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Spain, Ireland and Norway will formally recognize a Palestinian state on Tuesday. The three European countries believe that their initiative has strong symbolic impact, which will likely encourage others to follow suit. They also point to Norway and Spain's historic role in advancing Israel-Palestinian peace efforts: in 1991, the two sides sat ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-28 11:39 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
EU foreign ministers have a "significant" discussion about sanctioning Israel if it continues to flout international humanitarian law, said Irish Foreign Minister Michael Martin on Monday. “There was a very clear consensus about the need to uphold the international humanitarian legal institutions,” Martin told reporters following the Foreign ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-28 09:42 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The UN Security Council is set to convene an emergency meeting on Tuesday over an Israeli strike that killed dozens in a displaced persons camp in Rafah on Sunday. The Israeli army targeted two senior Hamas members on Sunday. 45 people were killed, according to Gaza health officials. Meanwhile, AFP journalists on the ground early on Tuesday ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-27 22:38 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Egypt's military said Monday a border guard was killed in a shooting in the Rafah border area with Gaza, where Israeli forces are deployed, adding that a probe had been launched. "The Egyptian armed forces, through the competent authorities, are investigating a shooting incident in the Rafah border area which led to the martyrdom of a guard," a ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-27 22:17 - Reading : less than a minute
Two people were killed on Monday in an Israeli drone strike that targeted an Islamic Jihad fighter near the Salah Ghandour hospital in Bint Jbeil. The Islamic Jihad fighter, riding his motorcycle, was killed in the strike, while a hospital guard, severely wounded, succumbed later. In retaliation to this attack, Hezbollah claimed responsibility ...
Lyne Sammouri 2024-05-27 21:40 - 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 May 27, 2024.
This Is Beirut 2024-05-27 20:39 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
EU foreign ministers agreed Monday to call a meeting with Israel to get it to explain its actions in its Rafah offensive despite a UN court ruling, the bloc's top diplomat said. "We got the necessary unanimity to call for an association council with Israel to discuss the situation in Gaza," EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said. Israel has ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-27 16:32 - Reading : less than a minute
An Egyptian soldier was killed in a shootout with the Israeli army at the Rafah crossing on Monday, according to a report by Israeli website Walla. Earlier, the Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv reported that an Egyptian soldier was killed during an exchange of gunfire with the Israeli army at the crossing. Several others were injured in the exchange ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-27 12:13 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Monday that a UN court ruling telling Israel to stop its offensive in Gaza's Rafah must be implemented, as European ministers met Arab counterparts in Brussels. Israel has continued to strike Rafah as its government has dismissed Friday's ruling from the International Court of Justice. Hamas and the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-27 12:07 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israel's foreign ministry said on Monday that it had told the Spanish consulate in Jerusalem to stop offering consular services to Palestinians from June 1 over Madrid's recognition of a Palestinian state. The ministry said that Spain's consulate in Jerusalem is "authorized to provide consular services to residents of the consular district of ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-27 12:02 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Israeli airstrikes on a centre for displaced people in Rafah have killed dozens on Sunday evening, according to Gaza's health ministry, drawing condemnation from human rights groups. Hamas and the Palestinian Authority said Israeli strikes on a centre for displaced people killed dozens near the southern city of Rafah on Sunday, while the Israeli ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-27 11:29 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Palestine International Criminal Court
Amnesty International on Monday urged the International Criminal Court to investigate as war crimes the three recent Israeli strikes that killed 44 Palestinian civilians, including 32 children. Last week, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, applied for arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ...