This Is Beirut 2024-02-16 14:09 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
At the request of caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati, the caretaker Minister of Foreign Affairs, Abdallah Bou Habib, instructed Lebanon's Permanent Representative to the United Nations to submit a complaint to the UN Security Council, dated Thursday, February 15, against Israel. This official complaint follows a series of deadly attacks by the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-02-16 13:47 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
There was growing concern on Friday over a key Gaza hospital a day after a raid by the Israeli Army, with the Hamas-run territory's Health Ministry saying several patients had died there due to a lack of oxygen. The ministry said the power was cut off and the generators stopped after the raid at the Nasser hospital in the southern city of Khan ...
This Is Beirut 2024-02-16 11:53 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Netanyahu once again affirmed his unwilligness to support the establisment of a Palestinian state at the end of the war. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said late Thursday that he rejected a plan for international recognition of a Palestinian state, saying such an initiative "would offer an enormous reward to terrorism". Netanyahu's ...
This Is Beirut 2024-02-16 11:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israeli warplanes launched a series of airstrikes shortly after midnight, targeting several towns in southern Lebanon. The attacks caused extensive damage to the targeted areas' homes, properties and crops. The towns of Naqoura, Jabal al-Labbouneh, Alma al-Shaab, Tayr Harfa and Yarine in the western sector were among those hit in the initial wave ...
This Is Beirut 2024-02-15 22:42 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Cross-border violence continued unabated on Thursday, following the grave developments in South Lebanon a day before, described as the deadliest since October 8. Israeli airstrikes targeted the village of Blida in the early evening. Initial reports said four people were wounded as a result of the attacks on a residential building and a civilian ...
2024-02-15 22:04 - 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 15th, 2024.
This Is Beirut 2024-02-15 18:36 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon Joanna Wronecka resorted to her X account on Thursday to condemn the escalating hostilities in South Lebanon, which reached territory far from the Blue Line. She expressed “deep concern” about the increasing violence, particularly its devastating impact on civilian lives and property. Wronecka's ...
2024-02-15 17:41 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
In a televised appearance, Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah responded to French Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Séjourné regarding the French initiative and the implementation of Resolution 1701. The French were dissatisfied with Nasrallah’s answer and are now fully convinced they will not be able to achieve a thing when it ...
This Is Beirut 2024-02-15 16:26 - Reading : less than a minute
UNIFIL Spokesperson Andrea Tenenti expressed deep worry over the “alarming shift” in the escalating situation in South Lebanon, reaching areas “far from the Blue Line.” “The escalation of the conflict has claimed too many lives, including, tragically, the lives of children. It has also caused extensive damage to homes and public ...
This Is Beirut 2024-02-15 15:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
After firing a new wave of deadly strikes on southern Gaza on Thursday, Israel vowed to launch a "powerful" operation in Rafah, an overcrowded city in the southern Gaza Strip, despite growing international condemnation. After more than four months of a war that has flattened vast swathes of Gaza, displaced most of the territory's population, and ...
Maureen Décor 2024-02-15 14:14 - Reading : less than a minute
Wednesday, February 14, was the deadliest day in southern Lebanon since Israeli bombardments began, with at least 12 people killed, including 6 women and 3 children.
This Is Beirut 2024-02-14 22:52 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The United States on Wednesday announced a new batch of sanctions on several entities, including an Iranian Central Bank Subsidiary, an entity in Turkey, two others in the United Arab Emirates, and three individuals involved in the smuggling of US technology. The United States stated on Wednesday, that it had sanctioned an Iranian subsidiary of ...