This Is Beirut 19/04 10:35 - Reading : less than a minute
In his message for the Easter holiday, Maronite Patriarch Bechara Rai called for an end to wars and advocated for comprehensive educational reform in Lebanon. The Patriarch made a heartfelt appeal for peace, stating, “Enough wars, arms manufacturing and weapons trade. The world needs bread, not guns. It is time to put an end to abortions and ...
This Is Beirut 19/04 10:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, Rosemary DiCarlo, concluded an official visit to Lebanon on Friday, during which she expressed clear support for the country’s reform agenda and state sovereignty. Her visit follows in the footsteps of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ trip to Lebanon last ...
This Is Beirut 19/04 09:45 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Morgan Ortagus, the US President’s Deputy Special Envoy for the Middle East, issued a sharp and minimalist response to the latest speech by Hezbollah’s Secretary General, Sheikh Naim Qassem, who once again declared the party’s categorical refusal to disarm. Reacting to a post quoting Qassem’s remarks, Ortagus replied with just one word: ...
This is Beirut 18/04 22:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Control operations and security monitoring enabled a unit of the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF), supported by a patrol from the Intelligence Directorate, to arrest “eight citizens” in the locality of Kfarzabad, in the Bekaa Valley, on Friday evening, accused of smuggling weapons from Syria. They are accused of having “formed a gang to smuggle ...
This is Beirut 18/04 21:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem declared Friday evening that any attempt to disarm the "resistance" is a direct service to Israel and will be firmly opposed. In his speech, Qassem said, “We will not allow anyone to strip Hezbollah or the resistance of its weapons. This idea should be removed from the Lebanese political ...
This is Beirut 18/04 17:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Hezbollah continues to reject any talks about disarmament, insisting that the issue is off the table until Israel fully withdraws from southern Lebanon. Wafiq Safa, a senior Hezbollah official, reiterated this stance on Friday, dismissing any suggestion of giving up the group’s weapons. “There will be no disarmament. In fact, the only people ...
This is Beirut 18/04 11:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
An official Lebanese delegation is heading to Washington, DC to participate in the IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings, carrying with it new promises and commitments aimed at pleasing these two international institutions. It seeks to convince them that Lebanon has indeed embarked on the path of reform and seeks to go even further by fulfilling all ...
Moncef Ait Kaci 18/04 10:30 - Reading : less than a minute
Flowers, hugs and smiling faces… Beirut’s Rafic Hariri International Airport is seeing a steady flow of passengers this spring. With Easter celebrations, school breaks and the May 1st holiday all falling within the same period, many are taking the opportunity to return to Lebanon. The atmosphere is one of emotion, attachment and long-awaited ...
This is Beirut 18/04 10:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The Israeli army announced on Friday that it had killed a Hezbollah official, Mohammad Jaafar Abdallah, in an airstrike that targeted a vehicle on the Ghazieh highway in the Saida region that morning. The vehicle, hit by a drone, immediately caught fire. Firefighters responded quickly and managed to control the blaze. The Public Health Emergency ...
Johnny Kortbawi 18/04 08:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Nothing is more powerful than the text Gibran Khalil Gibran wrote in The Storms, titled “Jesus the Crucified.” With striking clarity, Gibran conveys a spiritual depth that the world so often overlooks on Good Friday. Many settle for church rituals—the procession of Christ or the burial rite—or treat it merely as a time to fast until ...
Marilyne Jallad 17/04 21:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Ninety years after Disney’s pioneering animated version, Snow White is returning to the big screen in a live-action remake—screening in cinemas around the world, or almost. Lebanon and Kuwait have decided to outright ban this timeless tale intended for audiences young and old, from ages seven to 77. Due to the presence of an Israeli ...
This Is Beirut 17/04 20:45 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Tensions continue to escalate in southern Lebanon as Israeli drone strikes target locations associated with Hezbollah. On Thursday morning, an Israeli drone strike hit a motorcycle on the Naqaa road in the village of Aitaroun, killing the rider. According to the Israeli military’s Arabic-language spokesperson, the strike killed “Abdul Nabi ...