This Is Beirut 2024-01-20 14:45 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Soaring tensions triggered by the Israel-Hamas war are being felt in Syria, which has been targeted by air raids and other attacks launched from several countries. On Saturday, Israel launched its second high-profile targeted assassination in the country in less than a month, killing the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' spy chief for Syria and three ...
This Is Beirut 2024-01-20 12:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
An Israeli strike on Damascus killed ten people in a building where "Iran-aligned leaders" were meeting on Saturday, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR). Among the dead are four members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, including the head of the info unit, according to sources close to Syria, as reported by Reuters. The ...
This Is Beirut 2024-01-20 11:02 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israel ratcheted up its attacks in the south of the Gaza Strip on Saturday, where at least 90 people were killed overnight, according to the health ministry in Gaza. Witnesses said the Israeli bombardment was again focused overnight on Khan Younes, the largest city in Gaza's south, although Palestinian media also reported intense fire around ...
This Is Beirut 2024-01-19 23:53 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
While the international community remains divided on the solution to the Gaza war, fierce fighting continues in the southern enclave. Under sustained bombardment from the Israeli air force, nearly 20,000 infants have been born 'in hell,' according to UNICEF spokesperson Tess Ingram. Negotiations persist between Israel and Hamas to achieve a new ...
This Is Beirut 2024-01-19 23:13 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Hezbollah would deliver a "real slap" to Israel if it extended its "aggression" at its northern border, threatened the deputy secretary-general of the pro-Iranian militia, Naim Kassem, on Friday. Restoring stability to the southern Lebanese border and "the region" relied on ending aggression in Gaza, insisted Kassem, in response to the threats ...
This Is Beirut 2024-01-19 21:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
EU foreign ministers will engage in a series of meetings on Monday with counterparts from Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and Arab nations. Ahead of the meeting on Friday, the EU added six individuals to an asset freeze and visa ban blacklist for financing Hamas. EU foreign ministers will hold a series of meetings Monday with counterparts from ...
This Is Beirut 2024-01-19 21:04 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Josep Borrell, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, said on Friday that Israel financed the creation of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas with the aim of weakening the Palestinian Authority. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has denied these accusations made by his opponents in Israel ...
Chelsea Al Arif 2024-01-19 20:56 - Reading : less than a minute
This Is Beirut brings you a daily recap of the situation in Gaza. Here are the main highlights for January 19, 2024.
This Is Beirut 2024-01-19 17:03 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Despite an apparent alliance, Washington and Tel Aviv are increasingly struggling to conceal their differences in public. While the Biden administration insists on de-escalating tensions on a regional level, the Netanyahu government prefers to forge ahead. President Joe Biden and his officials are becoming increasingly frustrated with Israeli ...
This Is Beirut 2024-01-19 16:21 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Since the Gaza war broke out more than three months ago, residents of southern Lebanon have been receiving "strange phone calls" from Lebanese numbers and from people speaking in Lebanese accents, according to Agence France Press (AFP). A security source told the agency that army intelligence and the police were investigating the calls, which ...
This Is Beirut 2024-01-19 15:11 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Continuous Israeli bombardment on Friday is rendering the life of South Lebanon residents increasingly difficult and forcing the displacement of more people as the scope of the attacks widens. According to the latest counts of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), more than 80,000 people have been forced ...
Michel Touma 2024-01-19 13:57 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
During his initial press briefing for the year 2024, French President Emmanuel Macron subtly addressed Lebanon, making a remark that went largely unnoticed. He urged a strict adherence to UN Security Council Resolution 1701, underscoring the importance of compliance “on both sides.” Since the adoption of Resolution 1701, which ended the armed ...