This Is Beirut 2024-07-28 18:33 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Middle East Airlines (MEA) announced on Sunday delays in the return of some flights to and from Beirut from the evening of July 28, 2024, to the morning of July 29, 2024, due to technical reasons related to the distribution of insurance risks for aircraft between Lebanon and other destinations. The updated schedule, with all departure times local ...
Marc Saikali 2024-07-28 18:32 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Well, there you have it: the dreaded miscalculation has finally happened. Then again, with so many missiles being fired, it was only a matter of time before one caused civilian casualties instead of just hitting the three useless antenna towers on the other side of the border. Misfire, missile misdirected by Israel's own defense… The ...
2024-07-28 13:58 - Reading : less than a minute
The Maronite Patriarch, Bechara Rai, hoped that “politicians who obstruct the election of a president will take the right decision to save the country”. In his Sunday homily, he called on the politicians “to assume, one by one, responsibility for the ruin of the country and its institutions”, while stressing that “by taking a courageous ...
gdeveloper 2024-07-28 11:47 - Reading : less than a minute
Israel's army Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi says a rocket that hit a football pitch in the town of Majdal Shams "is a Hezbollah rocket" in footage released by the military on Saturday. Israel's military says Hezbollah fired the rocket from Lebanon, killing 12 youngsters who were between 10 and 20 years old in Israeli-annexed Golan Heights. Hezbollah ...
2024-07-28 10:57 - Reading : less than a minute
Yara Germany 2024-07-28 09:57 - Reading : less than a minute
Nada Koussa was crowned Miss Lebanon 2024 saturday night. She competed against 14 other candidates during an evening themed around women's empowerment.
This Is Beirut 2024-07-27 23:57 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Former MP Walid Jumblatt received a phone call from US envoy to the Middle East Amos Hochstein who expressed his concern over the developments on the southern Lebanon front in light of the Majdal Shams incident. Jumblatt stressed “the need to immediately stop the Israeli aggression on Palestine and Lebanon.” He highlighted that there was ...
gdeveloper 2024-07-27 14:39 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Former Deputy Prime Minister, MP Ghassan Hasbani, denied claims from “Ain al-Tineh” that the Lebanese Forces (LF) are the only party opposing Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri. “Ain al-Tineh is trying to isolate the LF,” he said, adding that all opposition parties share the same positions. In an interview with "Voice of All Lebanon,” ...
2024-07-27 13:36 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Israeli army announced shooting down a drone coming from Lebanon over the Israeli maritime economic zone where oil and gas wells are located, notably the Karish field. Israel continues to extract gas and oil from this field despite the ongoing war in Gaza and southern Lebanon. According to the Israelis, the destruction of this drone was ...
Élie-Joe Kamel 2024-07-26 21:29 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Hezbollah’s air defense units “fired an anti-aircraft missile” at Israeli warplanes flying over south Lebanon”, forcing them “to retreat from the Lebanese airspace”, according to a communiqué published by Hezbollah on the night of Thursday to Friday. Is it a game changer or an incident that can be exploited politically by ...
Samar Kadi 2024-07-26 21:17 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
US Special Presidential Coordinator for Global Infrastructure and Energy Security, Amos Hochstein, announced on Friday President Joe Biden’s decision to provide some 11,500 eligible Lebanese nationals with a Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) allowing them to remain in the US regardless of their visa expiry and their status, and to eventually ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-26 13:40 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
UNIFIL spokesperson Andrea Tenenti sounded the alarm on Friday over the increasing intensity of cross-border fire exchange. He expressed concern over a “potential risk of a sudden, wider and uncontrollable conflict.” In an interview with Voice of Lebanon radio, Tenenti called on all parties to cease fire and return to full implementation of ...