This Is Beirut 2024-06-06 15:07 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israel is sending mixed signals, alternating between its threats of a widening conflict with Hezbollah and its rejection of war with Lebanon. According to Israeli media, former Israeli Defense Minister and chief of the National Unity Party Benny Gantz called on Thursday morning for “the mayors of the North to prepare for the difficult days that ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-06 13:17 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Spain said on Thursday that it will join South Africa's case at the UN's top court in which Pretoria has accused Israel of "genocide" in the Gaza Strip. "Our sole goal is to put an end to the war and to advance on the road of applying the two-state solution", Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said at a press conference. His statement came a ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-06 11:58 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
An Israeli drone strike targeted a motorcyclist in Aitaroun on Thursday morning, killing one person and injuring another. The victim was reportedly a Hezbollah fighter, as the pro-Iranian group later announced the death of one of its fighters, Hussein Nehme Hourani, also known as Badr. For its part, the Israeli military announced that it had ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-06 09:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A hospital in central Gaza said Thursday at least 37 people were killed in Israeli bombardment overnight of a UN-run school which the Israeli military said housed a "Hamas compound". The military said it "eliminated" several "terrorists" after its jets "conducted a precise strike on a Hamas compound embedded inside an UNRWA school in the area of ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-05 23:07 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
One Israeli soldier was killed, and at least eleven others were wounded – two of them seriously – in a Hezbollah drone and missile strike on a military camp in Hurfeish, Upper Galilee. Hezb confirmed the attack, stating that it targeted a gathering of Israeli army in the Baram forest in retaliation for the Israeli raid on Tuesday in Naqoura. ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-05 22:24 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The United States warned on Wednesday against an "escalation" in Lebanon, following Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's remarks about a potential operation, stating that such conflict would only harm Israeli security. "We don't want to see that escalation of the conflict, which would just lead to further loss of life from both Israelis ...
Lyne Sammouri 2024-06-05 21:46 - 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 5, 2024.
This Is Beirut 2024-06-05 20:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Qatar's Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani and Egypt's intelligence chief Abbas Kamel met with Hamas members in Doha Wednesday for talks on a Gaza truce, a source with knowledge of negotiations told AFP. The lead mediators met with the Palestinian militant group to "discuss a deal for a truce in Gaza and the exchange of hostages and ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-05 13:54 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Dozens of Jewish youth who arrived in Jerusalem on Wednesday fought with Palestinians in the Old City, ahead of the controversial annual Jerusalem Day march. Haaretz reports that the police broke up the clashes with no casulties. Hundred of Jewish nationalists, including development minister Yitzhak Wasserlauf, reportedly entered the Al-Aqsa ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-05 12:17 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Senior US officials are expected in the Middle East on Wednesday to push Biden's ceasefire deal, as nine Israeli soldiers were injured in base explosion. The head of the CIA and a White House special adviser are expected in the Middle East on Wednesday to rally support for the latest ceasefire proposal between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-05 11:09 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The US House of Representatives voted Tuesday to advance a largely symbolic bill calling for sanctions on the International Criminal Court after its prosecutor applied for an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Hague-based court's prosecutor has said Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant should be arrested ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-04 23:39 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Slovenia's parliament on Tuesday passed a decree recognizing a Palestinian state, pushing ahead with a vote in defiance of an opposition motion to derail it. Fifty-two members of the 90-member parliament voted in favor of the government-sponsored decree to recognize a Palestinian state. The vote followed a similar move by three other European ...