This is Beirut, 13/10 23:05 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The bodies of four hostages held in Gaza and handed over to the Red Cross by Hamas on Monday were brought back to Israel, the army said. The remains in four coffins arrived on Monday night at the National Institute for Forensic Medicine in Tel Aviv, an AFP journalist reported. There, "identification procedures will be carried out," the ...
This is Beirut, 13/10 22:14 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Dozens of top officials from Middle Eastern and European nations huddled Monday with leading global financial institutions for talks in the UK on rebuilding the devastated Gaza Strip. Far from a high-profile Gaza summit in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, the UK's foreign ministry quietly brought together Middle East and European ...
Seth J. Frantzman , 13/10 20:00 - Reading : 7 minute(s)
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U.S. President Donald Trump’s push for a peace deal to end the Gaza war has proven to be initially successful. He was able to bring together delegations from Qatar, Egypt, Turkey, Israel, and Hamas in Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh in mid-October. In the wake of the deal, Trump flew to Israel and Egypt and chaired a peace summit ...
This is Beirut, 13/10 18:08 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Donald Trump arrived in Egypt on Monday to co-chair a Gaza summit, following his address in Jerusalem, where he proclaimed an end to a “long nightmare” for Israelis and Palestinians on the day the last 20 living hostages were released in exchange for Palestinian prisoners. The U.S. president, who initiated the plan that established a ...
This is Beirut, 13/10 17:20 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
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“The historic dawn of a new Middle East and the end of the era of terrorism.” These words could summarize the speech delivered on Monday afternoon by US President Donald Trump at the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament. Described by observers as “historic,” this address provided an opportunity for the US president to call on Israel and the ...
This is Beirut, 13/10 16:35 - Reading : less than a minute
In Gaza, displaced families return to find their homes destroyed after two years of bombardment. With no shelter, water or electricity, they have to start over from nothing.
This is Beirut, 13/10 15:10 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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This Monday, Israel finds itself caught between celebration and unease. The joy of hostages returning home is tempered by a bitter reality: to secure the release of citizens still held in Gaza, the Israeli government is freeing nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners, including several convicted of violent crimes. The deal, brokered under US President ...
Charles Chartouni, 13/10 09:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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President Trump has proven to be a tough dealmaker and a skillful negotiator who knows how to leverage whatever resources are at hand to promote and sustain peace processes against all odds. His diplomatic approach is based on the common sense of a businessman turned politician at the helm of an “imperial republic.” His hard-nosed realism ...
Michel Touma, 13/10 08:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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The cloth doesn’t make the cleric… The old saying fits neatly when it comes to Hamas and the latest turn in the war it launched on October 7, 2023, with its massive and deadly offensive against Israel from Gaza. Two years into a conflict that has plunged the Palestinian population into a nightmare, the Islamist movement has just endorsed, ...
This is Beirut, 12/10 17:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
A Gaza ceasefire was holding for a third day on Sunday, ahead of a proposed hostage-prisoner exchange and a summit aimed at charting a path to peace after two years of war. US President Donald Trump is among the leaders expected in Egypt's Red Sea resort town of Sharm El-Sheikh on Monday for the Gaza peace summit co-hosted by his Egyptian ...
This is Beirut, 12/10 17:24 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel was ready to receive all hostages held in Gaza, ahead of their exchange on Monday for Palestinian prisoners under a ceasefire agreement with Hamas. "Israel is prepared and ready for the immediate reception of all our hostages," Netanyahu said in a statement issued on Sunday. Israel will not ...
This is Beirut, 12/10 12:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israel plans to destroy what remains of Hamas's network of tunnels under Gaza, working with US approval after its hostages are freed, it said Sunday. Defense Minister Israel Katz said the operation would be conducted under an "international mechanism" led by the United States, sponsor of the three-day-old Gaza ceasefire. "Israel's great ...