par This Is Beirut, 01/08 05:37 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Many members of the UN Security Council expressed concern on Wednesday about the risk of escalation in the Middle East, citing a critical situation following the death in Tehran of the leader of Hamas in a strike blamed on Israel. A few hours after the death of Ismail Haniyeh, leader of the Palestinian movement, the Council held an emergency ...
par This Is Beirut, 31/07 23:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued an order on Wednesday, for a direct Iranian strike on Israel in response to the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, according to three anonymous Iranian officials briefed on the matter. Khamenei gave the order at an emergency meeting of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council ...
par This Is Beirut, 31/07 22:04 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Benjamin Netanyahu Palestine Hamas Hezbollah Israel
Israel "delivered crushing blows to all our enemies," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday, explicitly mentioning the killing of Hezbollah leader Fouad Shokr in south Beirut. Netanyahu's televised statement lasted for approximately five minutes and did not make any reference to the killing of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in ...
par This Is Beirut, 31/07 22:01 - Reading : less than a minute
The United States Department of State's Bureau of Consular Affairs has updated its travel advisory to Level 4, indicating an upgrade in the United States policy on travel bans to Lebanon. The Embassy strongly urged its citizens to avoid southern Lebanon and to depart the area, including all parts south of the city of Saida. The statement ...
par This Is Beirut, 31/07 21:18 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Two Al Jazeera journalists were killed on Wednesday in an Israeli strike in Gaza, the Qatar-based channel reported, as war rages in the Palestinian territory between Israel and Hamas. "Al Jazeera Arabic journalist Ismail al-Ghoul and his cameraman Rami al-Refee have been killed in an Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip," the network reported, adding ...
par Bassam Abou Zeid, 31/07 19:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Hezbollah Amos Hochstein Israel
All efforts to secure a ceasefire in Gaza and south Lebanon have unraveled following two recent Israeli attacks: one targeting Hezbollah in the southern suburbs, where they struck the party's military commander, Fouad Shokr, and another targeting Hamas with the assassination of the head of its political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, in ...
par This Is Beirut, 31/07 13:31 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Local reactions after the Israeli attack on Haret Hreik were numerous on Wednesday. The targeting resulted in the death of four and the wounding of around 79, according to the Health Ministry, with many still trapped under the rubble. A Hezbollah parliamentary delegation, headed by MP Ali Ammar, visited the scene of the attack in Haret Hreik. ...
par This Is Beirut, 31/07 04:07 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israel struck Hezbollah's stronghold in South Beirut on Tuesday in retaliation for rocket fire from Lebanon that killed 12 children over the weekend, saying it had killed the commander responsible for the attack. Israel's army said its jets had "eliminated" Fouad Shokr, a senior Hezbollah commander responsible for carrying out an attack on the ...
par This Is Beirut, 30/07 21:08 - Reading : less than a minute
Israeli media have revealed that the target of the assassination operation conducted in the southern suburbs of Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold, was Commander Fouad Shokr, also known as "Hajj Mohsen." According to Israeli authorities, Shokr was involved in military activities and had participated in the 1983 attack against the Marines in Beirut ...
par Tamer El Imad, 30/07 14:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened intervention against Israel, on Sunday, in a speech at a party meeting in his hometown of Rize. He said: “We must be very strong so that Israel can't do these ridiculous things to Palestine. Just like we entered Karabakh, just like we entered Libya, we might do the same to them." Past ...
par This Is Beirut, 30/07 12:57 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Druze leaders in the annexed Golan Heights have distanced themselves from Israeli threats to retaliate against Hezbollah for a deadly rocket strike on a Druze Arab town in the territory. Most of Majdal Shams's around 11,000 mainly Druze residents still identify as Syrian more than half a century after Israel seized the Golan Heights from Syria ...
par This Is Beirut, 29/07 21:25 - Reading : less than a minute
Regarding the expected Israeli strike on Lebanon, the United States State Department stated that "Israel striking Beirut is a hypothesis and we will not comment on that now," claiming that the rocket that fell on Majdal Shams was launched from an area controlled by Hezbollah. The US State Department announced that it is holding talks to ensure ...