Marc Saikali 2024-11-15 11:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
That being said, if Larijani arrives bearing humanitarian aid and suitcases brimming with cash — let’s say at least $5 billion to start rebuilding the tens of thousands of homes destroyed due to his country's successive strategic blunders — then perhaps the 1.5 million internally displaced people, who have lost everything, might greet him ...
This is Beirut 2024-11-15 09:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Donald Trump United Nations USA Iran Elon Musk
Elon Musk, the tech billionaire closely allied with US President-elect Donald Trump, met Iran's ambassador to the United Nations in a bid to defuse tensions between Tehran and Washington, The New York Times reported Thursday. The newspaper quoted anonymous Iranian sources as describing the meeting between the world's richest person and Ambassador ...
This is Beirut 2024-11-15 09:39 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Israel Gaza United Nations Human Rights Watch
Israel's warfare in Gaza is consistent with the characteristics of genocide, a special UN committee said Thursday, as a Human Rights Watch report said Israel's displacement of Gazans amounts to a "crime against humanity". Israel said HRW's claims were "completely false", insisting its "efforts are directed solely at dismantling Hamas's terror ...
Chelsea Al Arif 2024-11-15 09:30 - Reading : less than a minute
This is Beirut brings you a daily recap of the war and its repercussions on the region. Here are the main highlights for November 14, 2024.
This is Beirut 2024-11-14 20:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Damascus Israel Mazzeh Neighborhood Syria
A war monitor said Israeli strikes in and around Damascus on Thursday killed 20 people including Palestinian militants and Iran-backed fighters, as attacks intensify during the Lebanon war. Israel has ramped up strikes on Syria recently, including in areas near the Lebanese border mainly targeting bastions of Hezbollah. Israel has been at war ...
Elie Valluy - Paris Correspondent 2024-11-14 19:50 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Lebanon's ambassador to UNESCO and Berlin, Moustapha Adib, spoke with This is Beirut about the upcoming special session organized by the UN on November 18 in Paris. The session will focus on enhancing protection for Lebanon's historic sites, which are being threatened by Israeli airstrikes. UNESCO announced on Thursday, November 7, that its ...
This is Beirut 2024-11-14 19:45 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Lebanese Army UNIFIL Southern Lebanon
The UN peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon (UNIFIL) came under fire on Thursday after noticing an arms cache on the roadside, according to a statement issued on its Telegram channel. “A UNIFIL patrol near Qallawiyah (in the Bint Jbeil district in southern Lebanon) noticed this morning a cache of ammunition near the roadway. After informing ...
Sana Richa Choucair 2024-11-14 19:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Hezbollah Israel Reconstruction
For nearly two months, Israel’s intensified offensive against Hezbollah has seen entire villages in southern Lebanon, neighborhoods in Beirut’s southern suburb, and towns in the Beqaa Valley nearly obliterated. The ongoing air raids have left huge mounds of rubble, though there is still no concrete estimate of the volume, given that Israeli ...
This is Beirut 2024-11-14 18:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
UN Security Council Lebanon Jean-Pierre Lacroix UNIFIL
On his third visit to Lebanon, UN Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix stressed that Security Council Resolution 1701 remains the framework to return to stability — and build on it. Concluding a three-day visit to Beirut, Lacroix underscored in meetings with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, Caretaker Prime Minister ...
This is Beirut 2024-11-14 17:55 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Baalbeck Hezbollah Israel South Lebanon Beirut's southern suburbs
The Civil Defense center in Doures in the vicinity of the ancient city of Baalbeck in east Lebanon, sustained a massive direct hit by Israeli warplanes on Thursday evening, causing many casualties among the 13 members who were at the center at the time of the strike. According to initial reports, at least eight members of the civil defense have ...
Lyne Sammouri 2024-11-14 15:15 - Reading : less than a minute
What does daily life look like in Tripoli, and how is the war affecting the economic and social situation?
Bouchra Al Wajeh 2024-11-14 13:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Under the pretext of a voice recording sent by journalist Nabil Mamlouk, a native of Tyre, to a WhatsApp news group he created after the war broke out to inform the city’s residents—many of whom had fled the bombing—he was assaulted and beaten in front of his father, a pharmacist, by youths with known political affiliations. The attack was ...