This Is Beirut, 08/04 15:53 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Iran's foreign minister once more leveled accusations against the United States, On Monday, alleging its endorsement of a lethal strike, attributed to Israel, which obliterated Tehran's consulate in Damascus last week. This statement came following the inauguration of a new consulate in the Syrian capital. Iran's foreign minister again accused the ...
This Is Beirut, 07/04 22:44 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Thousands of Israelis gathered outside the Knesset on Sunday to call for the release of the hostages kidnapped by Hamas militants in Gaza six months ago on October 7. This comes as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government are facing major popular scrutiny and disapproval for their lingering inaction towards reaching a ceasefire deal ...
This Is Beirut, 07/04 18:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Yemeni Houthi militants have claimed to have launched rockets and drones targeting a British ship and two Israeli vessels heading to Israeli ports, according to an Al Jazeera report. British maritime security firm Ambrey had said that two ships had been targeted off Yemen, raising the number of incidents reported to three in under 24 ...
This Is Beirut, 07/04 10:02 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Benjamin Netanyahu Palestine Hamas
The devastating war in the Gaza Strip entered its seventh month on Sunday. As negotiators meet in Cairo for the umpteenth attempt to reach a truce, Israel is piling up criticism from within its own camp. The war between Israel and Hamas entered its seventh month on Sunday as US and other negotiators were expected to join the protagonists in Cairo ...
This Is Beirut, 06/04 23:29 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Benjamin Netanyahu Palestine Hamas
Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza has escalated into a "betrayal of humanity," the United Nations' humanitarian chief said Saturday. In a statement on the eve of the six-month anniversary of the war, Martin Griffiths, the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, called for a "collective determination ...
This Is Beirut, 06/04 18:31 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Trucks filled with medicine provided by the UN entered for the first time on Saturday morning through the Erez-Beit Hanoun crossing point, according to images. The vehicles were then supposed to reach two hospitals located in the northern part of Gaza. Israel made the decision on Friday to temporarily open this border crossing located north of ...
This Is Beirut, 06/04 12:02 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Truce talks in Gaza are due to resume this weekend in Cairo, where Joe Biden has urged negotiators to convince Hamas, while Iran is preparing its retaliation to Israel's attack on its Damascus consulate. American and Israeli negotiators were expected in Cairo over the weekend for a renewed push to reach a ceasefire-hostage deal in a war that has ...
This Is Beirut, 05/04 19:33 - Reading : less than a minute
CIA Director Bill Burns will travel to the Egyptian capital Cairo this weekend for talks on freeing hostages held in Gaza, US media said on Friday. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby declined to say if Burns would be involved but told journalists that "the United States will be present for those talks." Burns will meet Mossad chief ...
This Is Beirut, 05/04 19:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed serious concern on Friday over reports that Israel was using artificial intelligence to identify targets in Gaza. According to a report in the Israeli magazine +972, Israel used artificial intelligence to identify targets in Gaza, in some cases with as little as 20 seconds of human ...
This Is Beirut, 05/04 14:48 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The Israeli Army claimed on Friday that it was targeting a "Hamas gunman" when it killed seven aid workers in Gaza, admitting that it had made a series of "serious mistakes," while Warsaw asked for a "criminal inquiry" into those events. Israel said on Friday that it was targeting a "Hamas gunman" when it killed in Gaza seven aid workers whose ...
This Is Beirut, 05/04 10:44 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Benjamin Netanyahu Palestine Hamas
Israel announced on Friday that it would allow a "temporary" delivery of aid to the besieged Gaza Strip, threatened by famine, via the port of Ashdod and the Erez crossing, a day after an unusual warning from its major American partner. Israel announced on Friday that it would allow "temporary" aid deliveries into famine-threatened northern Gaza, ...
This Is Beirut, 04/04 11:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The talks that Ismail Haniyeh, head of Hamas's political bureau, held with the Iranian leadership in Tehran recently exposed the depth of the discrepancies within the Islamist movement's leadership after the UN Security Council passed Resolution 2728 calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. The Iranian officials have reportedly stressed ...