This Is Beirut 2024-06-21 23:31 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
A senior European diplomat revealed on Friday, that "EU foreign ministers will discuss on Monday supporting Cyprus against looming threats," noting that "Cyprus is not afraid of Hezbollah but of the influx of refugees and migrants if the conflict in Lebanon expands." He stated that "the Cypriot Foreign Minister will inform his European ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-21 23:29 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation "Kan" reported on preparations for war in the north, but from a different front. According to their Arab affairs correspondent, Elior Levy, movements in the West Bank appear related to an assassination that took place today in Qalqilya. Levy mentioned that Palestinian security forces have noticed increased ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-21 22:37 - Reading : less than a minute
The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell Fontelles, said that he spoke with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cyprus, Constantinos Kombos, expressing his “concern for rising tensions across the Blue Line and the situation in the Middle East.” He highlighted that “the EU stands in ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-21 22:17 - Reading : less than a minute
UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron spoke with Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati to express his concern over the escalating tensions with Israel and the increased likelihood of miscalculation. In a statement on the official X (previously Twitter) account of the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, Cameron made it clear that “an ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-21 20:03 - Reading : less than a minute
The Maronite Patriarch, Bechara al-Rai, stated on Friday that "we have gone through more difficult circumstances than those we are experiencing today, but Lebanon remained and will not fall.” He considered that the Lebanese and the nation are at a crossroads. “Our Lebanon is ours; there is no compromise on its identity or its existence,” he ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-21 19:31 - Reading : less than a minute
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Friday that fighting between Israel and Hezbollah must not turn Lebanon into "another Gaza." Guterres cited increased "bellicose rhetoric" from both sides as they engage in nearly daily exchanges of fire in parallel with the war in the Gaza Strip, and he said they risk triggering a catastrophe ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-21 19:26 - Reading : less than a minute
Israel reportedly assassinated Major General Saeed Aibar (an Iranian advisor in Syria and a member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard) less than a month ago in an airstrike on Aleppo targeting his convoy just hours after his return from Iran. During his visit, he had assumed his duties as commander of the Revolutionary Guard front in Lebanon and ...
2024-06-21 16:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
What is the real story behind the events unfurling in the Damour and Naameh areas involving the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine–General Command (PFLP-GC)? Since the late 1970s and up to this day, armed members of this Palestinian organization, loyal to the Moumanaa or “Resistance” axis, have been present in the area. ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-21 15:56 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Clashes in southern Lebanon continued on Friday, but at a slower pace than on previous days. The Israeli air force carried out a drone attack on the locality of al-Wazzani, followed by a sweep with automatic weapons. The Israeli army also carried out artillery bombardments on the outskirts of Naqoura, setting fire to a house. Bombardments hit the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-21 11:46 - Reading : less than a minute
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken emphasized on Thursday the “importance of avoiding further escalation in Lebanon through a diplomatic solution that allows Israeli and Lebanese families, who were displaced due to the exchange of fire on the border, to return to their homes.” Blinken was meeting Israeli National Security Advisor Tzachi ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-21 11:31 - Reading : less than a minute
The Secretary-General of the Cooperation Council for Arab States of the Gulf, Jassem Al-Budaiwi, expressed on Thursday “deep alarm at the military escalation in Southern Lebanon.” In a statement, Al-Budaiwi called on the stakeholders “to practice maximum restraint to spare the region and its peoples the dangers of war and its ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-21 00:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Deputy Speaker Elias Bou Saab revealed, in an interview on MTV, that a Cypriot security envoy was in Beirut on Thursday, but did not specify the nature of his mission. The visit was related to the Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah's threats against Cyprus on Wednesday. According to Bou Saab the threats were in fact a message "that led ...