South Lebanon: Two Fighters Killed in Hula
2024-07-21 19:30 - Reading : less than a minute
War in the Middle East
Israel's Strike on Yemen Will Embolden the Houthis
This Is Beirut 2024-07-21 18:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Israel's first attack on Yemen's Houthis, who have defied months of strikes by the United States and Britain, will likely only embolden them, analysts say. Saturday's strike on the port city of Hodeidah, which the Yemeni insurgents say killed six people and triggered a massive fire, will provide the Houthis with “political capital,” said ...
Israel Intercepts Houthi Missiles as Hodeidah Fire Rages On
This Is Beirut 2024-07-21 11:31 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The Israeli military said on Sunday that it intercepted a missile fired from Yemen towards the Red Sea resort town of Eilat, after Israel bombed a port held by the country's Houthi regime. “The projectile did not cross into Israeli territory. Rocket and missile sirens were sounded following the possibility of falling shrapnel,” a military ...
Netanyahu to Make Landmark Speech to US Congress
This Is Beirut 2024-07-21 11:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to deliver a landmark speech to the US Congress on Wednesday as he fights off intense pressure to quickly cut a Gaza war ceasefire deal with Hamas. Netanyahu, Israel's longest-serving premier, will become the first foreign leader to address a joint meeting of the two chambers four times – pulling ...
War Diary: Day 288
Chelsea Al Arif 2024-07-20 21:31 - 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 July 20th, 2024.
Israel Strike Houthi Military Targets in Yemen For First Time
This Is Beirut 2024-07-20 20:08 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Israeli warplanes killed three people in the Houthi-controlled Yemeni port of Hodeida, the Houthi's said Sunday after the group's deadly drone attack in Tel Aviv. The strikes on the vital port, which triggered a raging fire and plumes of black smoke, are the first claimed by Israel in the Arabian peninsula's poorest country, about 2,000 ...
Al-Qassam Brigades Target Shomera from South Lebanon
This Is Beirut 2024-07-20 17:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Saturday was marked by an attack by the Al-Qassam brigades on Shomera, in the Upper Galilee, carried out from Lebanese territory. In a statement published on Saturday, the armed wing of Hamas claimed responsibility for firing a salvo of rockets at the command of the 300 brigade command post. In addition, an Israeli raid targeted a building in the ...
No Subsiding of Confrontations in South Lebanon
This Is Beirut 2024-07-19 21:17 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Tensions increased on the southern front on Friday afternoon after a civil defense volunteer was injured and another was suffocated in an Israeli strike while putting down a fire resulting from an earlier raid on houses in Bir Al Muslabiyat and Al-Abbad Junction. Israeli artillery hit the center of Hula, and Wadi Al Bayad, before targeting ...
War Diary: Day 287
Rayan Chami 2024-07-19 20:01 - 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 July 19th, 2024.
Tel Aviv Attack: Luck or New Military Technology?
2024-07-19 19:29 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
After nine hours and 2,000 km, the “Jaffa” drone, launched at dawn toward Tel Aviv in an attack claimed by the Yemeni Houthis, evaded interception. Was it luck or new military technology? It is 3:10 AM. An explosion occurred at Hayarkon, at the corner of Ben-Yehuda Avenue and Shalom-Aleichem Street, near the local branch of the US consulate, ...
ICJ Says that Israel's Occupation of the West Bank is "Illegal"
This Is Beirut 2024-07-19 18:40 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The ICJ has called Israel's occupation of the West Bank "illegal", Friday, in a non-binding advisory opinion. The UN's top court on Friday said Israel's decades-long occupation of Palestinian territory was "illegal" and needed to end as soon as possible. The advisory opinion of The Hague-based International Court of Justice (ICJ) is not binding, ...
UK Foreign Secretary Lifts Block on UNRWA Funding
This Is Beirut 2024-07-19 13:56 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Britain announced on Friday the lifting of its January funding suspension for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) and committed to providing £21 million ($27 million) in new funds. “We are overturning the suspension of UNRWA funding,” British Foreign Secretary David Lammy told parliament, adding that the UN agency for Palestinian ...