This Is Beirut 2023-12-12 17:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Dory Chamoun Fadi Masri Joseph Aoun
Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri received the President of the Beirut Bar Association, Fadi Masri, on Tuesday, along with the new members of the Bar Council. Berri and Masri stressed the need to urgently proceed with the election of a new head of state, which represents “an essential condition for the proper functioning of ...
This Is Beirut 2023-12-12 14:12 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The exchange of fire between Hezbollah and the Israeli Army resumed on Tuesday morning in southern Lebanon, after a tumultuous night. In a first such incident, interceptor missile fragments landed near the Yater public school (Bint Jbeil), terrifying the students who were in class. Fragments of the missile, which exploded above Yater, fell on the ...
2023-12-12 08:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
General François Hage was killed three months after leading the army to a resounding victory in its battle against Islamist terrorists in Nahr el-Bared in 2007. In 2007, during the one hundred and five days of the military operation led by General François Hage against the terrorist organization Fateh el-Islam, in the Palestinian camp of Nahr ...
2023-12-12 07:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Gebran Tueni, the prominent Lebanese journalist and politician, is fondly remembered on the 18th anniversary of his tragic passing. As the former editor-in-chief of the renowned Lebanese daily, An-Nahar, Tueni fearlessly reported on critical issues, challenging the status quo and advocating for democratic values. His life's journey, however, was ...
Rolla Beydoun 2023-12-11 22:25 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
General Joseph Aoun Lebanese Parliament
The delay in the retirement of the Army Commander-in-Chief, General Joseph Aoun, is almost a done deal. Instead of retiring next January 10, General Aoun would stay in office for another year, or at least six months, depending on the decision made by the MPs. This delay would come through the vote on a draft law on Thursday during the ...
This Is Beirut 2023-12-11 19:04 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The Saydet el-Jabal Gathering declared on Monday that “Lebanon’s salvation increasingly depends on the implementation of UN Security Council resolutions 1559, 1680 and 1701.” Resolution 1701 brought an end to the war between Israel and Lebanon in 2006. Resolutions 1559 and 1680, adopted in 2004 and 2006 respectively, call for “the ...
This Is Beirut 2023-12-10 16:43 - Reading : less than a minute
Gisèle Khoury Hervé Magro Human Rights Day Kurt Georg Stöckl-Stillfried
French Ambassador to Lebanon Hervé Magro and German Ambassador to Lebanon Kurt Georg Stöckl-Stillfried wrote simultaneously on their X (formerly Twitter) accounts that on Human Rights Day, “Our thoughts are with greatly missed journalist Gisèle Khoury to whom we are posthumously awarding the French—German Prize for Human Rights 2023, ...
This Is Beirut 2023-12-10 15:04 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Free Patriotic Movement leader Gebran Bassil started a tour of Tripoli in North Lebanon early on Sunday afternoon by meeting MPs Taha Naji and Faysal Karameh from the pro-Hezbollah National Consensus bloc. Discussions tackled Lebanon's general situation, the conditions in Tripoli and the North. [gallery link="none" size="full" ...
This Is Beirut 2023-12-10 14:09 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Greek Orthodox Metropolitan of Beirut, Bishop Elias Audi, wondered on Sunday “how can parliament, which does not convene, hold the government accountable when it is itself a mere reflection of the Executive?” He also asked how accountability can exist without a real separation of powers. “Hence, the necessity for electing a president as ...
This Is Beirut 2023-12-10 13:26 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The leader of the Lebanese Forces (LF), Samir Geagea, admonished one of the party’s bloc MPs from the Metn region for supporting a non-civilian candidate for the presidency. The LF party still seems committed, at least publicly, to the agreement between the anti-Hezbollah sovereign forces and the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM), around the ...
This Is Beirut 2023-12-09 16:36 - Reading : less than a minute
A crowd of Chouf residents gathered at Kamal Joumblatt's tomb in Moukhtara on Saturday, commemorating the day the founder of the Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) was born. In the presence of his wife, Diana Zaaiter, and his son Fouad, PSP leader and grandson of Kamal Joumblatt, Teymour Joumblatt, expressed the hope that this day of commemoration ...
Élie-Joe Kamel 2023-12-09 14:20 - Reading : less than a minute
Securing housing becomes a luxury for the displaced... Nonetheless, the real estate market is experiencing a decline. This Is Beirut met with three families who fled the border regions of south Lebanon in the aftermath of the Al-Aqsa Flood operation initiated on October 7, seeking refuge in more secure areas. These families decry a substantial ...