2024-08-01 12:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Estephanos Doueihi initiated a liturgical and cultural reform that reconnected with Antiochian roots while upholding allegiance to Rome, within a Syriac-Latin syncretism that confirmed his Chalcedonian and Catholic identity. He perceived the Maronite culture as a synthesis of Syriac poetic expression and Western positivist philosophy. A thousand ...
Salam Zaatari 2024-08-01 08:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The recent assassinations of Fouad Shokr in Beirut and Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran by Israeli operatives have escalated tensions in the region, risking igniting an all-out war between Iran’s proxies and Israel. The conflict has reached unprecedented levels, drawing global attention and overshadowing significant national moments. Amid this turmoil, ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-31 21:37 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
More than 24 hours after the Israeli strike on the southern suburbs of Beirut, Hezbollah officially announced the death of Fouad Shokr, Hezbollah's military leader and an influential adviser to Hassan Nasrallah. Following the Israeli strike, Hezbollah denied and then confirmed the presence of the military official in the targeted building. Also ...
2024-07-31 19:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
All efforts to secure a ceasefire in Gaza and south Lebanon have unraveled following two recent Israeli attacks: one targeting Hezbollah in the southern suburbs, where they struck the party's military commander, Fouad Shokr, and another targeting Hamas with the assassination of the head of its political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, in ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-31 15:08 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
In the wake of the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, the head of Hamas's political bureau, in Tehran, several condemnations poured in on Wednesday in Lebanon. Hezbollah In a statement, Hezbollah announced that “the martyrdom of Haniyeh will strengthen the determination and obstinacy of fighters on all resistance fronts in the face of the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-31 13:31 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Local reactions after the Israeli attack on Haret Hreik were numerous on Wednesday. The targeting resulted in the death of four and the wounding of around 79, according to the Health Ministry, with many still trapped under the rubble. A Hezbollah parliamentary delegation, headed by MP Ali Ammar, visited the scene of the attack in Haret Hreik. ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-31 12:22 - Reading : less than a minute
Hezbollah condemned Israel's killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on Wednesday, warning his death will only increase the resolve of Iran-backed "resistance" groups. Hamas said Haniyeh was killed in an Israeli strike in the Iranian capital, where he was attending the swearing-in of the country's new president, and vowed the act "will not go ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-31 10:15 - Reading : less than a minute
In an extraordinary Cabinet session, on Wednesday, Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati condemned the Israeli aggression on the southern suburb of Beirut, calling on the international community and peace mediators to “work for the sake of security and stability.” Mikati called for the immediate and full implementation of Resolution 1701 ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-31 08:59 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
In its first public statement hours after the Israeli air attack on its stronghold south of Beirut, Hezbollah did not confirm the death of Fouad Shokr, the top military commander whom Israel claimed to have killed, but did acknowledge that he was present in the targeted building. In a statement on Wednesday morning, the pro-Iranian group said the ...
2024-07-30 22:50 - Reading : less than a minute
An explosion ripped through Haret Hreik, in the heart of Beirut’s southern suburb, on Tuesday evening, caused by an Israeli drone attack that targeted a building housing Hezbollah’s Shura Council.
This Is Beirut 2024-07-30 22:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The Israeli air strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs propmted widespread reactions Tuesday evening. Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati condemned the “blatant attack.” Caretaker Foreign Affairs Minister Abdallah Bou Habib also condemned the attack, announcing that he was planning to lodge a complaint with the United Nations. Hezbollah ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-30 22:05 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Following several days of apprehension, Israel retaliated to the attack on Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights, by carrying out a drone attack Tuesday evening on Beirut’s southern suburb, a Hezbollah hotbed. Two persons were killed, including a woman, and at least 30 others wounded, among them six children, according to a preliminary casualty ...