This Is Beirut, 06/05 13:37 - Reading : less than a minute
The number of Israeli soldiers killed in a rocket attack launched from the besieged Gaza Strip towards the Kerem Shalom border crossing has risen to four, the military announced Monday, updating an earlier figure. The military did not specify whether the soldier was among the 12 servicemen wounded in the attack on Sunday. The military said on ...
This Is Beirut, 06/05 13:16 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A Hamas spokesman said Monday that the Palestinian militant group would continue negotiations towards a truce in Gaza, despite Israel's order to begin evacuating people from Rafah in the south. "We will continue the negotiations positively and with an open heart", Hamas spokesman Abdul Latif al-Qanou told AFP. He reiterated that an agreement was ...
06/05 09:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The ongoing negotiations shepherded by the US and Saudi Arabia offer a suitable platform to tackle the equivocations of a deliberately mounted conflict and its self defeating premises. This conflict is intractable by definition and was initially conceived to prevent the possibility of diplomatic intermediation. The offer of a 40-day truce ...
This Is Beirut, 05/05 21:21 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
A Hamas official said on Sunday that the group's delegation to the Gaza truce talks in Cairo was leaving for Qatar after disagreements with Israel over demands to end the war persisted. A meeting in Cairo on a proposed truce linked to the release of hostages in the Gaza Strip ended on Sunday without any concrete progress, while Israel and Hamas ...
Rayan Chami, 05/05 20:39 - Reading : less than a minute
From Gaza to Lebanon, This is Beirut brings you a daily recap of the war between Hamas and Israel and its repercussions on the region. Here are the main highlights for May 5th, 2024.
This Is Beirut, 04/05 22:43 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Talks resumed in Cairo on Saturday on ways to achieve a truce in the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, against a backdrop of mutual accusations by the warring parties of obstructing any agreement. Talks resumed in Egypt Saturday aimed at halting months of war in Gaza between Hamas and Israel that have triggered protests around the ...
This Is Beirut, 04/05 13:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Armed groups in Gaza, including one with presumed Hamas links, last month robbed the Bank of Palestine of some $70 million, French daily Le Monde reported Saturday. The funds were taken from the vaults of several branches of the bank, it said, citing a Bank of Palestine document sent to "certain international partners" detailing the ...
This Is Beirut, 03/05 15:23 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Police entered Paris' Sciences Po university on Friday to remove dozens of students staging a pro-Gaza sit-in in the entrance hall, AFP journalists saw, as protests fire political debate about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. One student told reporters "around 50 students were still inside the rue Saint-Guillaume site" when police ...
This Is Beirut, 03/05 10:53 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Ongoing disagreements are preventing the release of hostages, according to i24 News sources. Hamas continues to demand a complete halt to fighting. Despite an offer from Egypt, endorsed by Israel, Hamas seems reluctant to accept the proposed agreement, labeled "extremely generous" by Antony Blinken, said the Israeli media on Friday. Experts ...
This Is Beirut, 02/05 22:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
US President Joe Biden insisted on Thursday that "order must prevail" on college campuses after weeks of turmoil, clashes with police, and mass arrests involving student protests against Israel's war with Hamas in Gaza. Biden, who until now had remained tight-lipped on the student unrest, spoke just hours after hundreds of police moved in to ...
Chelsea Al Arif, 02/05 20:37 - Reading : less than a minute
From Gaza to Lebanon, This is Beirut brings you a daily recap of the war between Hamas and Israel and its repercussions on the region. Here are the main highlights for May 2nd, 2024.
This Is Beirut, 02/05 20:01 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
A UN agency stated on Thursday that rebuilding war-wracked Gaza will cost an estimated $30 billion to $40 billion and require an effort on a scale unseen since World War II. "The United Nations Development Programme's initial estimates for the reconstruction of... the Gaza Strip surpass $30 billion and could reach up to $40 billion," said UN ...