par This Is Beirut, 02/01 15:07 - Reading : less than a minute
France has supplied 15 tons of medical material to support the Lebanese Army over the past two months, with more medical cooperation projects to come, a source close to French Armed Forces Minister Sébastien Lecornu said on Tuesday. The medicines, including antibiotics and painkillers, were destined for the Military Hospital in Beirut. "A joint ...
par This Is Beirut, 02/03 17:19 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
American cargo planes air-dropped 38,000 meals into the besieged Gaza Strip on Saturday, part of a series of drops planned by Washington to help curb a growing humanitarian crisis in the war-racked territory. The United Nations has warned of famine in Gaza, and more than 100 people were left dead earlier this week in a frenzied scramble for food ...
par This Is Beirut, 08/03 19:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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A medic at Gaza's largest hospital said Friday a humanitarian airdrop in the north of the Palestinian territory killed five people and wounded ten. The casualties were taken to Gaza City's Al-Shifa hospital, the emergency room's head nurse, Mohammed al-Sheikh, told AFP. Sheikh said the deadly airdrop occurred north of the coastal Al-Shati ...
par This Is Beirut, 11/03 14:13 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Legion of Honor Society has once again extended its philanthropic arm to aid humanitarian and health institutions in Lebanon. The association provided financial assistance to Hotel Dieu Hospital to bolster its social fund, which aids homeless patients. Several figures attended the ceremony, including Prof. Salim Daccache, Chairman of the ...
par This Is Beirut, 15/03 12:22 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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The first aid vessel heading to the besieged Gaza Strip via a new maritime corridor was visible on Friday off the coast of the war-ravaged territory, an AFP journalist said. Images shot by the journalist showed the Open Arms towing a barge. The Spanish charity operating it says that it is carrying 200 tons of food for Gazans threatened with ...
par This Is Beirut, 18/03 10:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Oxfam claimed on Monday that Israel was defying the International Court of Justice by intentionally preventing the delivery of aid into Gaza. Anti-poverty charity Oxfam accused Israel on Monday of intentionally preventing the delivery of aid into Gaza during its war with Hamas, in violation of international humanitarian law. The non-governmental ...
par This Is Beirut, 26/03 22:29 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Aid Airdrop Gaza Hamas Humanitarian Aid Israel
The United States will continue dropping essential aid from the air into the Gaza Strip, the White House said Tuesday, after Palestinian militant group Hamas called for them to end following fatal drownings and stampedes. "Air drops are one of the many ways that we are helping to provide desperately needed aid to Palestinians in Gaza, and we will ...
par Natasha Metni Torbey, 10/05 18:09 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The European Union (EU) seems to be on the defensive, especially since the uproar caused by the announcement last Thursday of a one-billion-euro aid package to help Lebanon put up with the burden of Syrian migrants. In a second attempt (the first being yesterday, May 9, on the occasion of Europe Day) to justify the granting of this sum over a ...
par This Is Beirut, 13/06 09:17 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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G7 leaders were set to agree on a new $50-billion loan for Ukraine as they gathered Thursday for a summit in southern Italy, using the profits from frozen Russian assets. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will join US President Joe Biden and leaders from Italy, Britain, France, Germany, Canada and Japan for the talks at the luxury Borgo ...
par This Is Beirut, 04/08 21:53 - Reading : less than a minute
Caretaker Minister of Public Health, Dr. Firas al-Abyad, received an emergency aid shipment from the World Health Organization (WHO) on Sunday at Rafic Hariri International Airport. The shipment, which arrived by charter plane, weighs “32 tons and includes medical supplies and medicines intended to treat war injuries.” This aid comes at a ...
par This Is Beirut, 03/10 21:04 - Reading : less than a minute
The World Bank (WB) announced on Thursday the redirection of $250 million in aid to Lebanon, initially earmarked to promote the development of renewable energies, towards emergency aid for people displaced by Israeli bombardments in the south of the country. “The World Bank has activated its emergency response plan in order to be able to ...
