This Is Beirut 2024-06-25 14:43 - Reading : less than a minute
The southern Lebanon border was relatively calm on Tuesday, only for it to be disrupted by the explosion of two Israeli suicide drones. The first drone exploded in the village square of Taybe, Marjayoun, and the second near the Ogero power station in the same region. Fortunately, there were no reported casualties. Additionally, Israeli forces ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-25 13:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israel's top court unanimously ruled Tuesday that the state must draft ultra-Orthodox Jewish men to military service, a decision that could upend Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ruling coalition. The High Court of Justice's decision on the politically volatile issue came amid growing calls that ultra-Orthodox men, who have historically been ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-25 11:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Gaza civil defence agency said an Israeli air strike early on Tuesday killed 10 members of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh's family, in an attack the Israeli military did not immediately confirm. The strike hit the Haniyeh family home in Al-Shati refugee camp, in the northern Gaza Strip, said Mahmud Basal, spokesman for the Hamas-ruled territory's ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-24 23:48 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
French President Emmanuel Macron and King Abdullah II of Jordan on Monday stressed the need to support efforts to restore calm to the border between Lebanon and Israel, and to bolster stability in the Land of the Cedars. Over lunch at the Élysée Palace, they warned against a "conflagration that would be catastrophic for the region" if the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-24 23:34 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Israel's defense minister on Monday vowed during a visit to Washington to work to bring back hostages from Gaza, and urged close cooperation with the United States after strains in the relationship. Defense Minister Yoav Gallant met with CIA chief Bill Burns, the key US point man in negotiations to free hostages from Hamas, and later met for ...
Rayan Chami 2024-06-24 21:17 - 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 24th, 2024.
This Is Beirut 2024-06-24 18:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Israeli artillery broke late in the afternoon, on Monday, the precarious calm that had prevailed during the day. Tel Aviv’s army targeted the outskirts of the towns of Rab al-Thalathine and Taybeh, in the Marjayoun caza. A drone strike was carried out on Taybeh, but the device was shot down by Hezbollah fighters, prompting the Israeli ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-24 16:00 - Reading : less than a minute
Sources close to Hezbollah acknowledge that the ceasefire in Gaza will inevitably lead to a halt in military operations on the Lebanese-Israeli border. Hezbollah would therefore be working to limit complaints and feelings of discontent within its community and among its ranks, which have suffered considerable human and material losses, estimated ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-24 14:27 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The Israeli army claimed on Monday to have killed Muhammad Salah, a senior official and weapons development expert of Al Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, while declaring that it was continuing its operations in Rafah. In a statement, the army said its air force had “eliminated terrorist Muhammad Salah, who was responsible for projects ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-24 12:29 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The alarmingly tense situation on the Lebanese southern border prompted on Monday several European foreign ministers to express serious concern about the Middle East, especially between Israel and Hezbollah. Statements were issued after a meeting of the EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg this morning, where the situation in the Middle East was ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-23 22:45 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that the Israeli military's heavy fighting against Hamas militants in the southern Gaza city of Rafah is nearly over. "The intense phase of the fighting against Hamas is about to end," he said in an interview with Israel's pro-Netanyahu Channel 14. "It doesn't mean that the war is about to ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-23 22:06 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israel's Defense Minister Yoav Gallant headed to Washington on Sunday for talks on the Gaza war raging since October 7 and surging cross-border tensions with Lebanon's Hezbollah movement. The visit, which Gallant said would include meetings that are "critical to this war," comes after a series of public statements by Israeli Prime Minister ...