This Is Beirut 28/08 18:34 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The United States announced on Wednesday new sanctions on Israeli settlers in the West Bank over violence against Palestinians, urging its ally Israel to bring greater accountability. The sanctions were announced on the same day that Israel launched a wide-scale attack on the West Bank that it said killed nine Palestinian fighters, despite ...
28/08 17:20 - Reading : less than a minute
An Israeli drone strike targeted a vehicle on Wednesday on the Damascus-Beirut road near the Zabadani Bridge, close to the Syrian-Lebanese border, resulting in the deaths of four individuals, including Firas Qassam, the head of operations for the Islamic Jihad movement. The deceased include three Palestinian members of the Islamic Jihad movement ...
Cian ward 28/08 13:30 - Reading : 9 minute(s)
Israel's attacks on Lebanon have left the border area a "scorched earth", as it targets the environment in the hope of creating an uninhabitable ‘security’ zone. “Everyone has left out of fear of the war, nobody can live under the bombing, there is no life here anymore,” says Michel , a farmer from the border village of Wazzani. Ten ...
This Is Beirut 28/08 11:04 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
At least 10 Palestinians were killed Wednesday in Israeli raids and strikes in the occupied West Bank, the Red Crescent said, in what the army described as a "counterterrorism operation". Two Palestinians were killed in the city of Jenin, four others in a nearby village, and four more in a refugee camp near the town of Tubas, Red Crescent ...
Rayan Chami 27/08 20:15 - 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 August 27, 2024.
This Is Beirut 27/08 18:48 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The Israeli military announced on Tuesday that it had rescued an Israeli hostage in Gaza, more than 10 months after his abduction during the Hamas attacks that triggered a devastating war. Kaid Farhan Alkadi, a 52-year-old Israeli Bedouin, was taken by Palestinian militants during the Hamas attack on October 7, the military said in a ...
27/08 18:21 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
In his speech on Sunday evening, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah stated that the "primary target of the operation" conducted by his group was "the Glilot base, the main Israeli military intelligence base." This facility, located 110 kilometers from the Lebanese border, is home to Unit 8200, the technological wing of the Israeli military. In ...
Joanne Naoum 27/08 16:45 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
In his latest speech, Hezbollah’s Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah called on the Lebanese to “rest” and “go back to their homes,” in southern Lebanon, announcing that revenge for the killing of top Hezbollah commander Fouad Shokr in an Israeli strike in Beirut’s Southern suburb had been “accomplished.” But incessant cross-border ...
This Is Beirut 27/08 15:41 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Iran's former foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, announced on Tuesday that he was returning to his post as vice president to Masoud Pezeshkian after submitting his resignation earlier this month. Pezeshkian named Zarif as his vice president for strategic affairs on August 1, but the former top diplomat resigned less than two weeks later, ...
Chelsea Al Arif 26/08 20:50 - 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 August 26, 2024.
This Is Beirut 26/08 17:52 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
After a relative calm in southern Lebanon, an Israeli drone attack on Monday morning targeted the vehicle of a Palestinian Hamas leader who had previously been targeted with two missiles between Haret Saida and the town of Abra. Initial reports suggest that Nidal Hleihel was the intended target and that he survived the attack. Annahar Newspaper ...
This Is Beirut 26/08 17:49 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A far-right Israeli minister sparked fresh outrage on Monday by saying he would build a synagogue at the flashpoint al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem if he could, once again challenging government policy. National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who has repeatedly ignored the government's long-standing ban on Jews praying at the site, told ...