2024-01-11 23:58 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
US envoy Amos Hochstein received no indication from Beirut that calm in southern Lebanon would be reinstated before a ceasefire in Gaza. Hochstein realized that his counterparts within the Lebanese government were nothing more than mere messengers for Hezbollah. The Shiite formation is adamant about pursuing its assaults against the Israeli army, ...
This Is Beirut 2024-01-11 22:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Escalation on the southern front continued throughout the day on Thursday despite diplomatic efforts to call for restraint in South Lebanon, notably by US envoy Amos Hochstein, who was on a short visit to Lebanon. In response to Israel’s earlier strike on the volunteer Civil Defense Center in Hanine, which resulted in the death of two rescue ...
This Is Beirut 2024-01-11 22:19 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Houthi leader Abdel Malek al-Houthi threatened to retaliate against any attack by the United States in the Red Sea on Thursday, January 11. The Iran-backed group continues to attack commercial vessels in the Red Sea, in a show of solidarity with Hamas in Gaza. The leader of Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis threatened the United States and Britain on ...
Lyne Sammouri 2024-01-11 20:44 - 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 11, 2024.
This Is Beirut 2024-01-11 20:18 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iraqi Kurdistan authorities announced that they had shot down two drones that attacked Erbil airport, home to coalition forces, on Thursday January 11. Since October 7, there have been more than a hundred such attacks against the coalition, according to Washington. Iraqi Kurdistan's counter-terrorism service said an "explosive drone" targeting ...
This Is Beirut 2024-01-11 19:44 - Reading : less than a minute
Caretaker Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib called for "the implementation of Security Council Resolution 1701 as the means to ensure lasting stability in South Lebanon." The Foreign Minister spoke after a meeting on Thursday with the ambassadors of the Netherlands, Belgium and Argentina. Speaking before the diplomats, Bou Habib also ...
This Is Beirut 2024-01-11 17:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken asserted that a closer relationship between Israel and the Arab states would bring about lasting isolation of Iran, during his visit to Cairo on Thursday January 11. Mr Blinken was speaking at the end of a tour of the Middle East aimed at calming tensions between Israel and Iran's allies. Closer ties between ...
2024-01-11 16:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
As the situation grows more dire in South Lebanon, with almost 80,000 residents displaced and over 20 citizen deaths, the entire country is worried about a repeat of the July 2006 war scenario. In the last two decades, Lebanon has repeatedly served as the backdrop for aggressions, bombings and wars. Lebanese people ought to ask themselves why ...
This Is Beirut 2024-01-11 15:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Amos Hochstein, US President Joe Biden's Special Advisor on Energy Affairs, left Lebanon Thursday evening, following inconclusive talks with Lebanese officials on de-escalating confrontations between Hezbollah and Israel in south Lebanon. According to information received by This is Beirut, Hochstein’s proposals for easing tensions in southern ...
This Is Beirut 2024-01-11 13:39 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The risk of escalation persists on Lebanon's southern border as US envoy Amos Hochstein arrives in Beirut on a new mission to prevent the war in Gaza from spreading to Lebanon and to relaunch discussions on the delimitation of the land border with the Hebrew state. Two civils from the Hezbollah-affiliated Islamic Health Association were killed on ...
This Is Beirut 2024-01-11 13:12 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Palestine International Court of Justice
South Africa on Thursday accused Israel of breaching the UN Genocide Convention, arguing that even the deadly October 7 Hamas attack could not justify such alleged actions, as it launched a landmark case at the top UN court. Pretoria has lodged an urgent appeal at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to force Israel to "immediately suspend" ...
This Is Beirut 2024-01-11 11:23 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israel bombarded the southern Gaza Strip overnight, as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken prepared to travel to Egypt on Thursday for more talks aimed at containing Israel's war against Hamas. The diplomat was set to meet Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi in Cairo, a day after talks with Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas, who ...