This Is Beirut 2024-06-04 16:33 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The UN rights chief demanded Tuesday an end to surging violence in the occupied West Bank, saying it was "unfathomable" that more than 500 Palestinians had been killed there since October 7. Volker Turk said at least 505 Palestinians had been killed in the West Bank by the Israeli military and West Bank settlers since the war in nearby Gaza ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-04 11:05 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Nations are falling short of the goal agreed at UN climate talks to triple renewable energy capacity by 2030 as part of efforts to curb global warming, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday. An IEA analysis of policies, plans and estimates from nearly 150 countries found that they could reach 8,000 gigawatts of renewable power capacity in ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-03 23:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The Israeli army on Monday announced the deaths of four hostages in the Gaza Strip, following their abduction by Hamas during the militants' attack on October 7. "(Israeli army) representatives have informed the families of Chaim Perry, Yoram Metzger, Amiram Cooper and Nadav Popplewell, who were brutally abducted to the Gaza Strip on October 7, ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-03 22:58 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Egypt and Jordan issued a joint statement on Monday expressing support for United States President Joe Biden’s latest effort to secure a hostage-ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas. The aforementioned foreign ministers of the five countries held a virtual meeting ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-03 22:33 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Israel has shown willingness to agree to a ceasefire and hostage release deal set out by US President Joe Biden, and it is up to Hamas to make a move, a top White House official said on Monday. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan's comments came despite growing doubts over the plan, which Biden described as an Israeli initiative, but has seen ...
Chelsea Al Arif 2024-06-03 21:51 - 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 3, 2024.
This Is Beirut 2024-06-03 21:14 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iranian media said that an adviser was killed in an early Monday Israeli strike on Syria's northern city of Aleppo, which a war monitor said killed 16 members of pro-Iran groups. “During last night's attack by the Zionist regime on Aleppo, Saeed Abyar, one of the IRGC advisers in Syria, was martyred,” said Iran's Tasnim news agency, referring ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-03 20:51 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The newly appointed UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, called on Hezbollah and Israel to “recommit to implementing Security Council resolution 1701 to ensure their enduring mutual security.” In a statement issued on Monday, after she met with caretaker Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdallah Bou Habib, she expressed ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-03 17:23 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Slovenia's conservative opposition on Monday filed a motion that delays the country's recognition of a Palestinian state, a parliamentary spokeswoman said, following last month's recognition by three other European states. Slovenian lawmakers had been scheduled to vote on Tuesday on whether to recognize a Palestinian state, just days after Spain, ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-03 15:41 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Some 55 percent of all structures in the Gaza Strip have been destroyed, damaged, or possibly damaged since war erupted in the Palestinian territory eight months ago, according to preliminary satellite analysis by the UN. The analysis showed more than 137,000 buildings affected, UNOSAT, the United Nations satellite analysis agency, said on X, ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-03 15:38 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday praised Hamas' unprecedented October 7 attack against Israel and predicted the "destruction" of their common enemy. Khamenei, 85, was speaking at an event to mark 35 years since the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic. He said that the October 7 attack ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-03 13:07 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Three Hezbollah's fighters were killed in Israeli raids on Monday, as artillery exchanges between the group and the Israeli army in Southern surged in intensity, following a weekend marked by heightened violence. The Israeli army announced that it had eliminated a “senior member" of Hezbollah's technical unit in a strike in the Tyre region on ...