This Is Beirut 2024-07-31 15:38 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that the United States was "not aware of or involved in" the killing of Hamas's political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran. "I can't tell you what this means. I can tell you that the imperative of getting a ceasefire, the importance that that has for everyone, remains," Blinken said in an interview ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-31 11:14 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Following Ismail Haniyeh's death on Wednesday, a fundamental question remains: Who will take over Hamas's leadership now? The leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, has been killed in an Israeli airstrike in Iran, on Wednesday morning. [readmore url="https://thisisbeirut.com.lb/israel-hamaswar/277344"] Following his death, Hamas’ future leader ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-31 07:52 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh, killed in Iran on Wednesday, had made a name for himself in 2006 when he became Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority following his movement's surprise victory in the legislative elections. He was a long-standing advocate of reconciling armed and political struggle within the group, and enjoyed good ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-31 06:48 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Hamas said Wednesday its political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, was killed in an Israeli strike in Iran, where he had been attending the inauguration of the country's new president. "Brother, leader, mujahid Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the movement, died in a Zionist strike on his headquarters in Tehran after he participated in the inauguration of the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-31 04:07 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israel struck Hezbollah's stronghold in South Beirut on Tuesday in retaliation for rocket fire from Lebanon that killed 12 children over the weekend, saying it had killed the commander responsible for the attack. Israel's army said its jets had "eliminated" Fouad Shokr, a senior Hezbollah commander responsible for carrying out an attack on the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-30 16:01 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Gaza's civil defense agency said Tuesday that an Israeli operation in and around the territory's second city of Khan Younes killed about 300 people since it began last week, while the army said it had "eliminated 150 terrorists." "Since the beginning of the Israeli ground invasion of the eastern part of Khan Younes province, the civil defense and ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-30 15:56 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Tensions remain high on the southern front as an Israeli raid targeted the Jebchit locality in the Nabatieh district early Tuesday afternoon, injuring three people. Ambulances were quickly dispatched to transport the wounded to nearby hospitals. Preliminary reports indicate that Hezbollah intercepted the Israeli planes using air defense systems. ...
Tamer El Imad 2024-07-30 14:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened intervention against Israel, on Sunday, in a speech at a party meeting in his hometown of Rize. He said: “We must be very strong so that Israel can't do these ridiculous things to Palestine. Just like we entered Karabakh, just like we entered Libya, we might do the same to them." Past ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-30 12:57 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Druze leaders in the annexed Golan Heights have distanced themselves from Israeli threats to retaliate against Hezbollah for a deadly rocket strike on a Druze Arab town in the territory. Most of Majdal Shams's around 11,000 mainly Druze residents still identify as Syrian more than half a century after Israel seized the Golan Heights from Syria ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-30 10:54 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israeli missiles struck two air defense bases in southern Syria overnight, a war monitor said Tuesday, as tensions surge on Israel's northern border after a deadly rocket strike on the annexed Golan Heights. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported no casualties in the overnight strikes in Daraa province, which abuts ...
2024-07-30 08:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Benjamin Netanyahu had not yet finished his official meetings in Washington when the situation escalated on the Lebanon front due to a “stray” shell hitting a playground in Majdal Shams in the occupied Golan Heights, resulting in the deaths of some 12 children. International efforts intensified to contain the situation and prevent the southern ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-29 21:22 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The United States is confident that a wider war between Israel and Hezbollah can be avoided, despite a deadly rocket attack in the annexed Golan Heights that killed 12 children, the White House said Monday. US and Israeli officials had conversations at "multiple levels" over the weekend following the attack, and the risk of a full-blown conflict ...