This is Beirut 2024-11-26 11:00 - Reading : less than a minute
Gaza's civil defense agency said Tuesday morning that 11 people were killed in nighttime Israeli air strikes and artillery shelling across the Palestinian territory. In the northern city of Jabalia, seven people were killed and several others wounded in an air strike on a residential building, civil defense spokesman Mahmud Bassal told ...
Ahmad Ayache 2024-11-26 08:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Lebanon’s 81st Independence Day passed without a president. For the third consecutive year, this key officeholder was absent from the celebrations, following the end of Michel Aoun’s term in late October 2022. This year, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri delivered the Independence Day address, stepping in for the president’s customary ...
Natasha Metni Torbey 2024-11-25 22:05 - Reading : 10 minute(s)
Will the long-awaited agreement between Lebanon and Israel be concluded? According to some sources and several American and Israeli media, the two sides have finally agreed on the terms of a ceasefire. Others, however, dismiss the possibility altogether. The reality is such that between diplomatic efforts to achieve a ceasefire in Lebanon and ...
This is Beirut 2024-11-25 22:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Syria Qusayr Hezbollah Lebanon Israel
Syrian state television reported Israeli strikes on several bridges in the Qusayr region near the Lebanese border on Monday, with the defense ministry reporting two people were killed and five were injured in the attacks. Israel's military has intensified its strikes on targets in Syria since its conflict with Iran-backed Hezbollah in neighboring ...
This is Beirut 2024-11-25 21:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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US Deputy Secretary of Defense Daniel B. Shapiro was due to meet senior Israeli officials, including Defense Minister Israel Katz, in Tel Aviv on Monday to discuss the agreement (for a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon) and, more specifically, the monitoring mechanism to be headed by the United States. Israeli and US officials believe that an ...
This is Beirut 2024-11-25 20:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Explosive weapons used in a densely populated area like the Gaza Strip will continue to pose risks to civilians even after peace is restored, warns a Danish NGO in a report published on Monday. "These remnants of war, which may not explode immediately or might have been left behind during fighting, are a long-term threat to civilians, often ...
This is Beirut 2024-11-25 18:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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In a press statement, UNIFIL said that it is “deeply concerned about the numerous strikes targeting the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) within Lebanese territory, despite the LAF's declared non-involvement in the ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel.” It considered that “such attacks on the Lebanese Armed Forces within Lebanese ...
Vanessa Kallas 2024-11-25 18:00 - Reading : less than a minute
Hezbollah Israel Bekaa South Lebanon
Israeli airstrikes across Lebanon on Monday, targeting Beirut's southern suburb, Tyre and the Beqaa region, left dozens dead and injured as Israel and Hezbollah approach a ceasefire deal.
This is Beirut 2024-11-25 17:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that a war crimes case against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the Gaza war was insufficient and that he deserved a "death sentence". In his first remarks since the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu last week, Khamenei told a Tehran ...
This is Beirut 2024-11-25 15:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Dahyeh Hezbollah South Lebanon Israel
Israeli airstrikes repeatedly hit the southern suburbs of Beirut Monday afternoon, while raids against South Lebanon continued relentlessly. Heavy airstrikes targeted Beirut’s southern suburbs, specifically the areas of Ghobeiri, Hadath and Haret Hreik, following evacuation warnings issued by Israeli army spokesperson Avichay Adraee. Plumes of ...
This is Beirut 2024-11-25 13:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Abdallah Bou Habib G7 Israel Hebollah Une Resolution 1701
Caretaker Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib stressed that “the balanced and full implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701 is the path to stability between Israel and Lebanon.” Lebanon’s “primary objective is to strengthen the legitimate national authority as the guarantor of security and peace,” Bou Habib said ...
This is Beirut 2024-11-25 13:05 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
West Bank Israel Palestinian Authority
The Palestinian Authority said two Palestinians, including a teenage boy, were killed during an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank village of Yabad. The official Palestinian news agency Wafa said Israeli forces entered the village on Sunday night, leading to clashes during which soldiers shot dead two Palestinians. The two dead were ...