This is Beirut, 2024-12-25 20:05 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Hamas and Israel traded accusations on Wednesday over delays in finalising a ceasefire and hostage release deal, after both had reported progress in the latest round of Gaza truce talks. Indirect negotiations mediated by Qatar, Egypt and the United States have taken place in Doha in recent days, rekindling hope for an agreement between the two ...
This is Beirut, 2024-12-25 14:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Pope Francis called Wednesday for "arms to be silenced" around the world in his Christmas address, appealing for peace in the Middle East, Ukraine and Sudan as he denounced the "extremely grave" humanitarian situation in Gaza. He used his traditional "Urbi et Orbi" ("to the city and the world") message to the world's 1.4 billion Catholics to call ...
This is Beirut, 2024-12-25 09:40 - Reading : less than a minute
For the first time since the Israeli-Hezbollah ceasefire agreement took effect, Israeli warplanes struck deep into Lebanese territory, without causing casualties. The airstrike, which took place at around 2:30 AM on Wednesday, targeted a two-story house in the Taraya Plain in the Bekaa, west of Baalbeck. It was the first such attack since the ...
This is Beirut, 2024-12-24 19:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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The Houthis claimed responsibility on Tuesday for launching a "ballistic missile" targeting central Israel, while the Israeli military earlier stated that it had intercepted a "projectile." The operation, carried out with a "hypersonic ballistic missile Palestine 2," targeted a "military enemy position in the ...
This is Beirut, 2024-12-24 17:35 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati chaired a meeting on Tuesday with Army Commander-in-Chief General Joseph Aoun and the ceasefire monitoring committee, where he pledged for an end to Israeli violations of ceasefire. As a reminder, the committee included US General Jasper Jeffers, French General Guillaume Buchanan, Commander of the Army's ...
This is Beirut, 2024-12-24 14:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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The Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has lodged a complaint with the UN Security Council, expressing strong protest at Israel's repeated violations of “the announcement of cessation of hostilities” as well as “the commitments relating to enhanced security measures concerning the implementation of Security Council Resolution 1701 (known ...
Philippe Abi-Akl, 2024-12-24 09:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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The key issue Walid Joumblatt brought back from Paris, coupled with the information shared with Nabih Berri about Joseph Aoun’s rising presidential prospects – stemming from his leadership of a key institution and his role in ensuring stability – has revitalized the stagnant presidential process. This development has prompted candidates to ...
This is Beirut, 2024-12-24 03:05 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday ‘cautiously’ referred to ‘progress’ towards an agreement on the hostages held in the Gaza Strip since the Palestinian Hamas attack in October 2023, one of the conditions for a ceasefire. Indirect negotiations last week in Qatar between Israel and Hamas, mediated by Doha and Egypt, ...
This is Beirut, 2024-12-23 22:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz acknowledged that Tel Aviv had killed former Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran earlier this year, as he warned the military would "decapitate" the leadership of Yemen's Huthi rebels. "We will strike hard at the Huthis... and decapitate their leadership -- just as we did with Haniyeh, ...
This is Beirut, 2024-12-23 19:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Two people were killed and one was injured, on Monday, in an Israeli drone attack targeting a group of youths near the public school in the town of Taybeh, caza of Marjeyoun. Furthermore, Israeli soldiers kidnapped a shepherd, Mahmoud Moussa, in the outskirts of Ain Ebel, while others blew up an entire neighborhood in the heart of Kfar ...
This is Beirut, 2024-12-23 19:01 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told lawmakers Monday that Israel's war in Gaza had offered opportunities to sign new peace accords with Arab nations and "dramatically change the face of" the Middle East. "Moderate Arab countries view Israel as a regional power and a potential ally. I intend to seize this ...
This is Beirut, 2024-12-23 17:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) on Monday urged the Israeli military to speed up its withdrawal from the area, nearly a month after a ceasefire came into effect. “UNIFIL strongly urges accelerated progress in the Israeli army withdrawal from and the Lebanese Army deployment in south Lebanon,” the force said in a ...