par This Is Beirut, 23/04 19:09 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Spain’s High Court has reopened an investigation into the deployment of Israeli cyber-intelligence firm, NSO Group’s Pegasus software, to spy on Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and other Spanish politicians, according to a report released by Reuters. The investigators are slated to share information with France, where politicians and other ...
par This Is Beirut, 23/04 17:29 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The Israel-Hamas war entered its 200th day on Tuesday, with fears mounting of an Israeli invasion in the overcrowded south of the besieged Gaza Strip amid calls for hostages to be freed. Shelling and loud explosions were heard in southwest Gaza and the city of Khan Younes in the south, while air strikes struck near the Bureij refugee camp and ...
par This Is Beirut, 23/04 16:49 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The UN is seeking an investigation on Tuesday into mass graves allegedly discovered at two Gaza hospitals, potentially signalling Israeli war crimes. The UN called on Tuesday for an international investigation into reports of mass graves at two Gaza hospitals destroyed in Israeli sieges, saying war crimes may have been committed. The United ...
par This Is Beirut, 23/04 11:21 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
An Israeli drone strike hit a car on the Abou el-Assouad road opposite Nabi Sari in the Tyre district on Tuesday morning, killing Hezbollah activist Hussein Ali Azkoul, code-named Abou Ali, an engineer with the group’s "air defense unit.” It was not until midday that the Shiite group announced the identity of the victim of the morning raid. ...
par This Is Beirut, 23/04 11:13 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Former French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna's independent investigation, published on Monday, into Israeli allegations that some UNRWA staff participated in October 7 found no evidence for these claims. Although the review did find some "neutrality-related issues." An independent review group on the UN agency for Palestinians found some ...
par This Is Beirut, 22/04 22:56 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Gaza's Civil Defense Agency said on Monday that health workers had uncovered around 200 bodies over the past three days of people killed and buried by Israeli forces at a hospital in Khan Younes. When asked to comment, the Israeli military said, "We will come back to you on the matter." Mahmud Bassal, spokesman for Gaza's Civil Defense, told AFP ...
par This Is Beirut, 22/04 22:56 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
EU foreign ministers have reached an agreement to expand sanctions on Iran targeting its drone and missile programs, including their transfer to proxies. The sanctions will be imposed on individuals and entities involved in supplying Iranian missiles and drones to terrorist organizations supporting the regime, according to top EU diplomat Josep ...
22/04 22:40 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The airstrikes between Hezbollah and Israel intensified on Monday night along the southern border. The Israeli army conducted a raid on a residence in Srifa, where two people were injured. Media reports suggested that the strike was aimed at the home of Hezbollah leader Ali Najdi. Hezbollah reportedly surrounded the targeted house, while the ...
par This Is Beirut, 22/04 12:34 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israeli military aircraft attacked the Jabal Abou Rached area near Sarireh at dawn on Monday. The Israelis also carried out strikes against al-Mahmoudiyeh (Marjayoun). For its part, Hezbollah announced that it targeted a gathering of Israeli soldiers near the Dhayra and Hanita sites with missiles in the morning. An Israeli Air Force drone was ...
par This Is Beirut, 22/04 10:52 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Three civilians were injured in a car ramming attack in Jerusalem on Monday morning, the Israeli police said, adding that they were searching for suspected assailants who fled on foot. The incident occurred on Techelet Mordechai street in Jerusalem on a day when Israeli Jews marked the start of the Passover holidays. "A short time ago, a report ...
par Charles Chartouni, 22/04 09:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The Iranian tempestuous power projections in the larger Middle East, the militarization of national security, the repeated attempts at creating an international authoritarian counter-order, and the false sense of omnipotence and ubiquitousness are hardly tested with the derailment of the war objectives set after the October 7, 2023 attack in South ...
par This Is Beirut, 21/04 21:12 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Benjamin Netanyahu Palestine Hamas Israel
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel will increase "military pressure" on Palestinian militant group Hamas in a bid to secure the release of hostages held in Gaza. "In the coming days, we will increase the military and political pressure on Hamas because this is the only way to free our hostages," Netanyahu said in a video ...