This Is Beirut 2024-10-01 15:16 - Reading : less than a minute
The United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, issued a grave statement on Tuesday regarding the ongoing violence across Lebanon. "What we feared has materialized," she remarked, highlighting strikes across Lebanon, including in central Beirut, and incursions across the Blue Line. "The escalating violence ...
Malo Pinatel 2024-10-01 15:01 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Since Monday, the Israeli military has significantly intensified its strikes across Lebanon, killing over a thousand Lebanese civilians in the process. A key objective of this campaign is to counter the main threat Hezbollah poses to Israel: its arsenal of rockets and precision-guided missiles. This concern is echoed by the Israeli government's ...
This Is Beirut 2024-10-01 13:27 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The command of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) issued a statement on Tuesday emphasizing that any crossing into Lebanon constitutes a violation of Lebanese sovereignty and territorial integrity, as well as a breach of Resolution 1701. The statement stressed, "We urge all parties to refrain from these acts of escalation, which ...
This Is Beirut 2024-10-01 13:13 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israel has "no intention of invading Lebanon" or staying there "for months," according to its ambassador to France. Israel has "no intention of invading Lebanon" or staying there "for months," declared its ambassador to France on Tuesday, following the Israeli Army's announcement overnight that ground troops had crossed the border to combat ...
This Is Beirut 2024-10-01 12:55 - Reading : less than a minute
The road leading towards Cola, near the Arab University, was blocked on Tuesday after an unexploded missile was discovered in a building that was targeted by the Israeli Army during Sunday night’s airstrikes. Authorities are currently working to remove the missile safely and proceed with a controlled detonation. Traffic remains redirected as ...
This Is Beirut 2024-10-01 12:03 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati urged the United Nations on Tuesday for “additional support to provide basic assistance to displaced Lebanese civilians.” He made the plea during a meeting with UN organizations and ambassadors from donor countries as part of the Lebanese government's response plan to address the displacement crisis ...
2024-10-01 09:21 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu handled the joint United States-French ceasefire initiative in Lebanon much as he did US President Joe Biden’s earlier call for a truce in Gaza. Although the statement was coordinated with Netanyahu and supported by several Western and Arab nations, he later withdrew his backing and omitted any mention ...
Johnny Kortbawi 2024-10-01 08:47 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri now bears the burden of the crisis alone. In the absence of a president, and with a non-executive government that is not meeting due to the absence of ministers from the Free Patriotic Movement, the international community has no one to negotiate with except for Berri. Although Caretaker Prime Minister Najib ...
This Is Beirut 2024-10-01 08:21 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Lebanese Forces (LF) leader Samir Geagea has instructed party MPs, officials and cadres not to make any statements and to avoid discussing or commenting on current events. They are to wait for clarity on the currently ambiguous situation so that a clear path can emerge. LF officials have refrained from commenting on ongoing events and have ...
This Is Beirut 2024-10-01 02:43 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Israel has begun ground incursions into southern Lebanon, as confirmed by the Israeli Army in an official announcement in the early hours of Tuesday morning. “The Army began a few hours ago a targeted and demarcated ground operation in southern Lebanon,” according to a statement by the Israeli Army spokesperson Daniel Hagari. An artillery ...
2024-09-30 23:24 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Shortly after Israel served a warning to residents of the southern suburb of Beirut to evacuate, the area was rocked by a spate of violent airstrikes which resounded across the city and its surroundings. Israeli warplanes carried out at least four rounds of airstrikes which reportedly levelled several buildings to the ground. There was no ...
2024-09-30 23:12 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
United Nations peacekeepers in Lebanon have been unable to conduct patrols because of the intensity of Israeli strikes and Hezbollah's rockets targeting Israel, a UN spokesman said Monday. With more than 10,000 personnel, the peacekeeping force has been stationed in Lebanon since 1978, with its role strengthened after a 33-day conflict between ...