This Is Beirut 2024-02-17 16:06 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh on Saturday reiterated the group's demand of a complete ceasefire in Gaza, a day after US President Joe Biden called for a "temporary truce" to secure the release of hostages. High-level negotiations to pause the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza were held this week in Cairo but their outcome is still unclear. In a statement ...
This Is Beirut 2024-02-17 11:12 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Exchanges of fire between Israel and Hezbollah resumed on the Lebanese-Israeli border on Saturday. Israeli artillery bombarded the Hamoul-Naqoura region, as well as the outskirts of Alma al-Shaab, Bayt Lif, Ramya, Aita al-Shaab, and Jabal Blat. Israeli raids also targeted Aita el-Shaab and the outskirts of Aitaroun, Bayt Lif, Ramya, and Maroun ...
This Is Beirut 2024-02-16 22:35 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Lebanese southern border witnessed yet another day of violence on Friday. Israel bombarded the towns of Majdel Zoun, Labbouneh, Hamoul, Aita al-Shaab, Rachaya al-Foukhar, Kfar Hamam, and Hebbariyeh, as well as residential areas in Kfar Kila and the region between Yater and Bayt Lif. A missile fired by an Israeli fighter plane fell without ...
2024-02-16 20:55 - Reading : less than a minute
This is Beirut brings you a daily recap of the situation in southern Lebanon and Gaza. Here are the main highlights for February 16th, 2024.
This Is Beirut 2024-02-16 19:52 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
In Rafah, south of Gaza, where over a million Palestinian refugees live in terror of an Israeli offensive, demonstrations were organized against Hamas and its leader, Yahya Sinwar. Anti-Hamas Protests in Rafahhttps://t.co/ymVaYxdPn9 pic.twitter.com/R0G0Cd0Yi2 — This is Beirut (@ThisIsBeirut_) Anti-Hamas Protests in Rafahhttps://t.co/ymVaYxdPn9 ...
This Is Beirut 2024-02-16 19:31 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
As Israel threatens a massive offensive on Rafah, Egypt prepares a secure camp to receive Palestinian refugees. Since the beginning of the war, Egypt has refused any forced displacement of Palestinians on its territory. Egypt is constructing a walled camp in the Sinai Peninsula to receive displaced Palestinian civilians from the Gaza Strip, a US ...
This Is Beirut 2024-02-16 18:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
During his speech commemorating Hezbollah's "martyred fighters" on Friday, the group's Secretary General, Hassan Nasrallah, vowed to retaliate for Wednesday's deadly Israeli raids on Nabatiyeh and Sawaneh, in which more than 12 people were killed, including three Hezbollah fighters. "The enemy should understand that it went too far by targeting ...
This Is Beirut 2024-02-16 17:07 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Amidst the Gaza conflict, French President Macron stated that France isn't ruling out recognizing Palestine. He spoke in Paris with Jordan's King Abdullah II, following Netanyahu's rejection of a recognition plan. "The recognition of a Palestinian state is not a taboo for France," President Emmanuel Macron said at a joint press conference in ...
This Is Beirut 2024-02-16 16:54 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Two people were killed in Israel when a gunman opened fire on a crowded bus stop near the southern town of Kiryat Malakhi on Friday, according to sources from the hospital and the police. Two people who were brought to Kaplan Medical Center had been declared dead, a spokeswoman for the facility told AFP. Four others were wounded in the shooting, ...
This Is Beirut 2024-02-16 16:37 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
At the 60th Munich Security Conference in Germany, Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati condemned Israel's ongoing aggression against southern Lebanon. "While Lebanon emphasizes the need for stability in the region and calls on all parties to refrain from escalation, we find Israel continuing its aggression, which prompts us to ask: what steps ...
This Is Beirut 2024-02-16 16:32 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Russia has invited Hamas and other Palestinian factions, including Fatah, to Moscow for talks on the Israel-Hamas war and other issues in the Middle East. Moscow, which for years tried to court good relations with all major players in the region, has grown increasingly critical of Israel and its Western backers amid the ongoing war in Gaza. ...
2024-02-16 15:51 - Reading : 7 minute(s)
In a series of four articles, This is Beirut revisits three key elements of the Lebanese-Israeli border dispute and a fourth, which is now forgotten. The first focuses on the Ras el Naqoura tunnel, owned by the Lebanese State and registered under land registry number 28/Naqoura. However, following Israel’s occupation, it has been transformed ...