2024-09-17 19:49 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
According to French diplomatic sources, French presidential envoy Jean-Yves Le Drian will arrive in Beirut early next week for a visit of up to three days. This visit represents a renewed push to urge Lebanese leaders to elect a president before the United States elections on November 5. Furthermore, “Lebanon should not wait for the outcome of ...
2024-09-17 19:16 - Reading : less than a minute
Several hundred injured individuals have been admitted to AUBMC in Beirut and to various hospitals across the country following an unprecedented Israeli attack on Tuesday afternoon targeting pagers used by Hezbollah members.
2024-09-17 18:18 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The head of the Change Movement, lawyer Elie Mahfoud, and a group of lawyers filed a complaint with the Beirut Public Prosecutor's Office against former Hezbollah deputy Nawaf Moussaoui for his statements, on Friday, threatening any candidate for the presidency of the Republic who is hostile to his party's line The former MPs delivered those ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-17 17:36 - Reading : less than a minute
Hundreds of Hezbollah members were simultaneously injured on Tuesday in an unprecedented technological Israeli attack across Lebanon. For this reason, the Ministry of Public Health has called on all medical personnel to urgently go to their workplaces to help provide emergency care to the many affected people who are being transported to ...
2024-09-17 16:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Surveillance cameras captured the moment when the communication devices possessed by party members exploded. The Moment a #Hezbollah Member's Pager Explodes Surveillance cameras captured the moment when the communication devices possessed by party members exploded. pic.twitter.com/rYwZ9nOJju — This is Beirut (@ThisIsBeirut_) The Moment a ...
2024-09-17 16:46 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
In an unprecedented development, Israel sabotaged the pager network used by Hezbollah members, detonating the devices' batteries, simultaneously injuring over a thousand, including the Iranian Ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani. Three were also killed in the technological attack, including the son of Hezbollah MP Ali Ammar, a Hezbollah member ...
2024-09-17 16:39 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Various media outlets reported, on Tuesday afternoon, security incidents in the southern suburbs of Beirut, the Beqaa and southern Lebanon, where pagers (communication devices) carried by Hezbollah members have exploded. View this post on Instagram A post shared by This is Beirut (@thisisbeirutnews) ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-17 15:16 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A sit-in was held on Tuesday in front of the Lebanese General Directorate for Vocational Education in protest against the Lebanese government's decision to allow Syrians residing in Lebanon illegally to enroll in technical institutes and schools for the 2024-2025 academic year. The decision started a public outcry, with some politicians ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-17 14:19 - Reading : less than a minute
The Qatar Fund for Development announced on Tuesday its intention to provide a “$15 million donation to supply the army with fuel for a period of 3 months, a move aimed at strengthening its capacity to face growing security challenges in light of the economic difficulties Lebanon is experiencing.” The army's Commander-in-Chief, General Joseph ...
Vanessa Kallas 2024-09-17 11:39 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Lebanon’s ongoing economic crisis and the growing threat of war have resulted in a new phenomenon: fewer children in Lebanese households. Health professionals in particular have observed this trend firsthand. “Five years ago, I used to deliver 100 babies a year; now I deliver only 30,” Dr. Miled Rizk, a gynecologist at the Middle ...
Johnny Kortbawi 2024-09-17 10:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The issue of Syrian migrants has clearly become a major focal point, across the border – where the Assad regime capitalizes on the migrant crisis to lift sanctions and restore its status – and within Lebanon itself, where recurring demands for the expulsion of Syrians surface periodically, often tinged with varying degrees of racism ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-16 21:06 - Reading : less than a minute
Local TV channel MTV has revealed that French envoy Jean-Yves Le Drian will visit Lebanon next week, between September 24 and 25, and the Quintet (France, Saudi Arabia, United States, Egypt and Qatar) is awaiting the results of his visit to decide on the next steps. Information also noted that "there will be no meeting of the Quintet committee at ...