This Is Beirut 2024-04-05 20:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Two Hezbollah fighters and three others affiliated with its ally, the Amal Movement of Speaker Nabih Berri, were killed and two were injured in Israeli airstrikes on targets in South Lebanon on Friday evening. The raids hit a house in Aita al-Shaab and a center of the Amal movement in Jdeidet Marjayoun. Hezbollah and Amal announced the death of ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-05 19:33 - Reading : less than a minute
CIA Director Bill Burns will travel to the Egyptian capital Cairo this weekend for talks on freeing hostages held in Gaza, US media said on Friday. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby declined to say if Burns would be involved but told journalists that "the United States will be present for those talks." Burns will meet Mossad chief ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-05 19:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed serious concern on Friday over reports that Israel was using artificial intelligence to identify targets in Gaza. According to a report in the Israeli magazine +972, Israel used artificial intelligence to identify targets in Gaza, in some cases with as little as 20 seconds of human ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-05 19:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Thousands of people chanted against Israel and the United States at Friday's funeral for seven Iranian Revolutionary Guards, two of them generals, who were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Syria. Guards chief General Hossein Salami warned that Israel "cannot escape the consequences" of Monday's strike, which levelled the five-storey consular ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-05 14:48 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The Israeli Army claimed on Friday that it was targeting a "Hamas gunman" when it killed seven aid workers in Gaza, admitting that it had made a series of "serious mistakes," while Warsaw asked for a "criminal inquiry" into those events. Israel said on Friday that it was targeting a "Hamas gunman" when it killed in Gaza seven aid workers whose ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-05 12:12 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The UN Human Rights Council called on Friday for a halt to all arms sales to Israel in its war against Hamas in Gaza, in a resolution that evoked fears of genocide against Palestinians. The UN Human Rights Council demanded on Friday a halt in all arms sales to Israel, highlighting warnings of "genocide" in its war in Gaza, which has killed more ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-05 11:23 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Former US President Donald Trump said that Israel is "losing the PR war" in Gaza because of the images coming out of the territory and it must end the conflict quickly. "Every night, they're releasing tapes of a building falling down. They shouldn't be releasing tapes like that," Trump said in an interview broadcast on The Hugh Hewitt Show on ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-05 10:44 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Israel announced on Friday that it would allow a "temporary" delivery of aid to the besieged Gaza Strip, threatened by famine, via the port of Ashdod and the Erez crossing, a day after an unusual warning from its major American partner. Israel announced on Friday that it would allow "temporary" aid deliveries into famine-threatened northern Gaza, ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-04 21:38 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Over 600 lawyers urged the British government to halt arms exports to Israel after three Britons were killed in a strike, citing concerns over potential breaches of international law and the worsening situation in Gaza. A letter signed by more than 600 lawyers on Thursday placed more pressure on the UK government to suspend arms export licences ...
Lyne Sammouri 2024-04-04 21:21 - 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 April 4th, 2024.
This Is Beirut 2024-04-04 21:18 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
President Joe Biden spoke by phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Thursday amid growing domestic pressure to set conditions on US military support amid domestic outrage over the killing of seven aid workers in Gaza. In their first call since Monday's Israeli strike that killed the employees of the US-based World Central Kitchen ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-04 14:36 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The Israeli Security Agency, also known as Shin Bet, has hindered a plot authored by Arab Israelis and Palestinians to carry out terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank, abduct Israeli soldiers, and even kill National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir. A group of Arab Israelis and Palestinians working together to carry out terror acts in ...