This Is Beirut 2024-09-26 21:08 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israel's defense ministry said on Thursday it had secured an $8.7 billion aid package from the United States to support the country's ongoing military efforts, including upgrading air defense systems. The announcement came as Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas hit out at Washington in his address to the UN General Assembly in New York, accusing ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-26 20:50 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Despite international efforts to achieve a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, Tel Aviv remains determined to pursue its attacks against the pro-Iranian group, which fuels fears of a wider war, voiced by the United States and the European Union. A ceasefire agreement could be reached at any time, however, as the White House noted on Thursday, ...
2024-09-26 19:45 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
In recent days, Israel has intensified its airstrikes on Lebanon, targeting Hezbollah infrastructure. Concentrated mainly in the south and east, these bombings have killed over 800 people and left around a thousand injured, according to the latest reports from the Ministry of Health. The strikes have also displaced 90,000 civilians. As tensions ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-26 19:44 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Three ministers from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's governing coalition on Thursday rejected a US-led proposal for a Lebanon ceasefire and demanded that the fight against Hezbollah go on. The United States and allies issued a joint call for a 21-day halt in fighting in Lebanon after Israeli air strikes on Iran-backed Hezbollah killed ...
2024-09-26 19:25 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Calls for de-escalation have fallen on deaf ears. Hezbollah and Israel both rejected the proposal from Paris and Washington for a 21-day temporary ceasefire, aimed at paving the way for negotiations toward a lasting calm along the Lebanese-Israeli border. Consequently, the emergency United Nations Security Council meeting, convened on Wednesday at ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-26 19:11 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
A car was targeted by an Israeli drone on Thursday afternoon on the Kahaleh road (Aley district). The driver, Ali Hammoud, a Hezbollah fighter from Baalbek, was hit by a Hellfire AGM-114 missile, known as a Ninja Bomb, which severely injured his leg. The Hellfire AGM-114 is said to have no explosive charge. Equipped with six blades that deploy ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-26 19:00 - Reading : less than a minute
Several villages in Lebanon lie in ruins as relentless Israeli airstrikes have left a path of destruction. With the death toll climbing into the hundreds, families are left to mourn amid the rubble of what were once their homes.
This Is Beirut 2024-09-26 18:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Rafik Hariri Governmental Hospital has decided to bury 20 corpses that have been in its morgue since 2019 to make room for the bodies of victims of the Israeli attacks. Dr. Jihad Saade, the hospital's director-general, clarified that the majority of the corpses are those of foreigners, mainly domestic workers from Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt. ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-26 17:33 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
On Thursday, caretaker Education Minister Abbas Halabi requested that private schools delay the start of the school year in light of the security situation worsened by large-scale Israeli strikes. Halabi stated that there should be no haste to begin the school year “so that there is no significant difference between the start of the school year ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-26 15:17 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Hezbollah announced late Thursday night the death of its drone unit's commander, Mohammad Srour, in the Israeli airstrike on the southern suburbs of Beirut. On Thursday afternoon, the Israeli army announced it had conducted a "precise strike" in the area, near Al Qaim Mosque, targeting a senior Hezbollah commander known as "Abou Saleh," who is ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-26 14:31 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Caretaker Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi revealed that "the number of registered internally displaced people (IDP) is more than 70,100, distributed across 533 centers." In a press conference on Thursday, he declared that 13,500 Syrians returned to Syria, noting that this means that "Syrians are able to return to their country." "Our response ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-26 13:07 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati called on the UN Security Council for a “serious solution based on the cooperation of all member states, to put pressure on Israel for an immediate ceasefire on all fronts and a return to security and stability in our region.” At Wednesday's Security Council meeting in New York, Mikati welcomed the joint ...