This is Beirut 2025-01-25 15:50 - Reading : less than a minute
Israel's prison service confirmed on Saturday that it had released 200 Palestinian prisoners as part of a hostage-prisoner swap on Saturday under the Gaza ceasefire deal.
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Nawaf Salam Hamas Hostages Truce
As part of the truce agreement, four Israeli female hostages were released on Saturday morning in exchange for Palestinian prisoners. This first phase of the truce calls for the gradual release of 33 Israeli hostages in exchange for nearly 1,900 Palestinian prisoners.
This is Beirut 2025-01-25 11:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Lebanon Ceasefire Lebanese Armed Forces South Lebanon
As the 60-day ceasefire agreement reaches its conclusion, the Israeli army has advanced in several areas of southern Lebanon, despite the agreement’s stipulation for a full withdrawal. Early reports indicate incursions in more than five locations, including Markaba-Tallouseh, Hula-Wadi slouki, and the heights of Kfarchouba. A reinforced ...
Élie-Joe Kamel 2025-01-25 10:15 - Reading : 7 minute(s)
Hezbollah Donald Trump Benjamin Netanyahu Fatah Gulf
With only two days remaining until the 60-day ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel expires, two questions arise: What is left of the arsenal of the pro-Iranian group, which was supposed to be dismantled during this period? And does Hezbollah still have the capacity to carry out operations against the Israeli Army? What is indisputable is that ...
Bassam Abou Zeid 2025-01-25 07:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam South Lebanon Benjamin Netanyahu United Nations Hezbollah
Tel Aviv announced on Friday that its army will not withdraw completely from the areas it occupies in southern Lebanon when the 60-day ceasefire agreement expires on Monday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the phased withdrawal process would continue after January 27, “in agreement with the United States.” According ...
This is Beirut 2025-01-25 06:05 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Palestine Benjamin Netanyahu Banks Hamas
On Saturday, Hamas is due to free four Israeli soldiers, held hostage in Gaza since 7 October 2023, in exchange for several dozen Palestinians detained in Israel, in the second exchange of this type under the truce agreement in the Gaza Strip. Nearly a week after the ceasefire came into force, which was generally respected, the Palestinian ...
This is Beirut 2025-01-25 02:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Hamas Palestine United Nations
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) must cease its operations in Jerusalem and vacate all the buildings it uses by 30 January, the Israeli ambassador to the UN wrote in a letter to the Secretary-General on Friday. ‘In accordance with applicable Israeli law (...), Unrwa must cease its operations in Jerusalem and evacuate all the ...
This is Beirut 2025-01-24 23:14 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Washington Ceasefire South Lebanon Donald Trump Benjamin Netanyahu
As the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Lebanon nears its expiration on Monday, January 27, Washington has called for an urgent extension, urging Lebanese authorities to consider a temporary and short-term prolongation. The call comes as Tel Aviv announced its intention to extend its military withdrawal from southern Lebanon beyond the ...
This is Beirut 2025-01-24 21:14 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Hamas’s military wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, has confirmed plans to release four Israeli female soldiers on Saturday, as part of the ongoing Gaza ceasefire agreement. The announcement came on Friday, with Israel quickly acknowledging the names of the hostages, all of whom are aged 19 to 20. The four women are identified as Karina Ariev, ...
This is Beirut 2025-01-24 15:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Lebanon war Hezbollah army ceasefire
Israel announced on Friday that the withdrawal of its forces from southern Lebanon would continue beyond the 60-day period stipulated in a November ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said that the ceasefire agreement had been drafted "with the understanding that the withdrawal process might extend ...
Natasha Metni Torbey 2025-01-24 13:37 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Hezbollah mines demining LMAC MAG
Haunted by thousands of landmines and unexploded ammunition, Lebanon faces a significant challenge: clearing a territory scarred by decades of conflict, the most recent being the 2024 war between Hezbollah and Israel. Triggered by Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack on Tel Aviv, the conflict spilled over into Lebanon under the banner of ...
This is Beirut 2025-01-24 09:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
West Bank Donald Trump Benjamin Netanyahu Hamas
A Palestinian official said hundreds of people began leaving their homes in a flashpoint area of the West Bank on Thursday as Israeli forces pressed a deadly operation there. The Israeli military this week launched a raid in the Jenin area, a hotbed of Palestinian militancy, days into a ceasefire in its war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Israeli ...