This Is Beirut 2024-04-21 11:23 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Daily Israeli bombing continues on the southern front. On the ground, the neighborhood of Karkazan north of the town of Mays al-Jabal was subjected to intermittent artillery shelling on Sunday morning, while Aita al-Shaab was subjected to heavy machine gun fire. The Israeli Channel 12 reported that rockets fired from southern Lebanon fell in the ...
2024-04-21 10:11 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
In the coming days, Security Council Resolution 1701 will resurface once again through the conference organized by the Lebanese Forces. Multiple Lebanese parties, who firmly believe in the necessity of implementing this resolution, will be invited, as this remains the sole pathway to achieving enduring stability in the southern region of the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-20 23:05 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Iran and Israel appeared on Saturday to be moving away from escalation, after a week marked by the sharpest tensions in the Middle East since the start of the Gaza war. Iran has dismissed as akin to child's play Israel's reported retaliation for an unprecedented Iranian strike, as both sides appeared on Saturday to step back from the wider ...
Hala Abdallah 2024-04-20 20:28 - 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 20th, 2024.
This Is Beirut 2024-04-20 19:42 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Palestinian Authority will "reconsider" its relationship with the United States after Washington vetoed a Palestinian bid for full UN membership earlier this week, President Mahmoud Abbas said on Saturday. "The Palestinian leadership will reconsider bilateral relations with the United States to ensure the protection of our people's interests, ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-20 18:32 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on the Palestinians on Saturday to "unite" against Israel, at the end of his meeting with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Istanbul. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged Palestinians to unite amid Israel's war in Gaza following hours-long talks with Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in Istanbul on ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-20 18:21 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
French President Emmanuel Macron told Lebanese Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati that France would do "everything in its power" to stop violence from spiraling between Lebanon and Israel, his office said in a statement issued late Friday night. Macron told Mikati in Paris that he would "continue to act for Lebanon's stability" to protect it ...
2024-04-20 17:14 - Reading : less than a minute
This Is Beirut 2024-04-20 16:47 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The French Army Chief of Staff, General Thierry Burkhard, met on Friday with Commander-in-Chief of the Lebanese Army, General Joseph Aoun, and Italian Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone. "Following the military honors ceremony, a discussion took place on the regional tensions facing Lebanon," reads a joint statement issued by the three officials on ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-20 16:26 - Reading : less than a minute
The Israeli army said Saturday that its security forces killed 10 militants in an ongoing raid around Nur Shams, a refugee camp in the north of the occupied West Bank. "Security forces eliminated 10 terrorists during encounters" over more than 40 hours, the army said in a statement. The army said eight soldiers and a police officer had been ...
Michel Touma 2024-04-20 13:36 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The prevailing impression from the unfolding “vicissitudes” in Isfahan at the break of dawn on Friday was that Israelis and Iranians were almost ashamed of engaging in direct, face-to-face warfare… In their quest for moral justification, they deploy startling theatrics or unusual military-media acrobatics. Their objective: to minimize ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-20 13:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Germany said on Saturday that it will send a new frigate to the Red Sea in August to help secure maritime traffic, which has been disrupted for months due to attacks by Iran-backed Houthis. The 'Hamburg' will replace the 'Hessen', which left the zone on Saturday, Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said. The 'Hessen' had been deployed in the area ...