Victoria C. Werling 18/07 21:27 - 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 July 18th, 2024.
This Is Beirut 18/07 20:17 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Tension between Hezbollah and Israel increased Thursday on the southern front. The commander of Hezbollah's elite Radwan force, Ali Jaafar Maatouk, also known as Habib Maatouk, was killed in an Israeli raid on Jmaïmeh. Hezbollah confirmed Maatouk's death in an official statement. Hezbollah had previously announced the death of another of its ...
This Is Beirut 18/07 19:33 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Spanish police reported "having arrested four suspects, three in Spain and one in Germany, as part of an investigation they conducted into the sale of drone parts to Hezbollah, supported by Iran." In a statement released on Thursday, the Spanish police explained that the investigation, which began in Spain, allowed the police "to identify ...
This Is Beirut 18/07 17:54 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Benjamin Netanyahu Hamas Israel
An Israeli parliament vote to oppose a Palestinian state as an "existential threat", just days ahead of a visit by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington, brought Palestinian and international criticism on Thursday. The 120-member Knesset, late on Wednesday, passed by 68 votes to nine a resolution that said a Palestinian state on land ...
This Is Beirut 18/07 17:51 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Amnesty International, on Thursday, called on Israel to end the indefinite detention of Gaza Palestinians and what it called "rampant torture" in its prisons. "Israeli authorities must end their indefinite incommunicado detention of Palestinians from the occupied Gaza Strip, without charge or trial ... (which is) in flagrant violation of ...
Rayan Chami 17/07 20:57 - 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 July 17th, 2024.
Joanne Naoum 17/07 11:19 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Palestine Hassan Nasrallah Hezbollah Israel
After the July war in 2006, Hezbollah’s Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah flabbergasted the Lebanese by declaring a “divine victory” against Israel. Lebanon had paid a heavy cost for this so-called “victory” with countless human losses and massive destruction, from which it took years to recover. Once again, Nasrallah disregarded the ...
This Is Beirut 17/07 10:18 - Reading : less than a minute
Following a violent night on the southern border, Hezbollah claimed responsibility on Wednesday morning for Katyusha missile attacks on the settlements of Saer and Gesher Haziv. On Tuesday night, Israel once again bombed Umm al-Tut, where three Syrian children died early in the evening in a raid. Night raids also targeted Bustan, Wadi el-Zarka ...
This Is Beirut 16/07 21:13 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Three Syrian children were killed and others wounded on Tuesday evening, in an Israeli airstrike that targeted the house they lived in with their family near a school in the Umm al-Tut town, Tyre district. Mohammad Jarkas, Jan Jarkas and Khalil Khalil's parents work in a watermelon field in Umm al-Tut. Rescue teams that arrived at the targeted ...
Rayan Chami 16/07 20:20 - 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 July 16th, 2024.
This Is Beirut 16/07 19:27 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The civil defense agency in the Gaza Strip said three air strikes killed more than 40 people within an hour across the war-stricken Palestinian territory. Israel confirmed carrying out two of the strikes that civil defense spokesman Mahmud Bassal said killed at least 44 people and left dozens more wounded. The Gaza Health Ministry stated that at ...
This Is Beirut 16/07 17:08 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israeli authorities charged on Tuesday one Israeli and detained two others for spying for Iran, the Shin Bet security service said. The agency said that Iran has sought, in recent months, to recruit Israelis to carry out missions in the country and that the person charged had been asked, but refused, to carry out a murder and set fire to a ...