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US Imposes Sanctions on Settlers over Attacks on Palestinians

par This Is Beirut, 01/02 19:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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The United States imposed sanctions on Thursday on a handful of extremist Jewish settlers over violence against Palestinian civilians in the West Bank, in a rare step against Israelis as war rages with Hamas, officials said. Israeli settler violence has reached "intolerable levels," President Joe Biden says. Joe Biden was also issuing an ...

Haniyeh Expected in Cairo Amid Ongoing Gaza Offensive

par This Is Beirut, 01/02 11:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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As violence persists in Gaza on the 118th day of the Israel-Hamas war, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh is due in Cairo on Thursday, February 1st, to discuss a proposed six-week truce. The leader of Hamas is due in Cairo on Thursday for talks on a proposed truce in Gaza as Israel keeps up its offensive in the besieged Palestinian territory. Hamas was ...

Israel’s Future Lies in Lebanon

par Fady Noun, 01/02 10:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

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President Charles Helou (1913-2001) titled one of his written works Liban, cette part de Dieu (Lebanon, This Part of God). He should have said, "Lebanon, this dream of God." Lebanon, defined by its historical calling, is a nation in the making, not a static entity. And it always will be. The ongoing struggle for Lebanon's soul will never stop, ...

Escalating Flames Engulf Southern Front as Day Ends

31/01 19:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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The exchange of fire between Israel and Hezbollah intensified late on Wednesday. One man was killed in the Israeli bombardment of the town of Beit Lif, and a team of first-aid workers from the Al Risala el-Islamiya (Hezbollah) scouts miraculously escaped when their ambulance was targeted in Blida. In the late afternoon, the Israeli army ...

Three-Stage Gaza Truce Plan Being Examined by Hamas

par This Is Beirut, 31/01 18:59 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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A source within the Palestinian militant group Hamas informed AFP on Wednesday that Hamas is currently reviewing plans for a three-stage truce with Israel. These plans envision a temporary halt to the Gaza war, to last several weeks. Hamas is reviewing plans for a three-stage truce with Israel, which foresee a weeks-long halt to the Gaza war, a ...

Tripartite Committee: Meetings in Naqoura Suspended Since September

par This Is Beirut, 31/01 18:48 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Since the start of the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas on October 7, the Lebanese-Israeli-UN tripartite committee temporarily suspended its regular monthly meetings at the headquarters of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) in Ras al-Naqoura, southern Lebanon. According to a well-informed source who spoke to This Is Beirut ...

Israel Strikes Syrian Army Targets

par This Is Beirut, 31/01 14:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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The Israeli military said on Wednesday that its warplanes struck Syrian army infrastructure overnight “in response” to rocket fire from the country. "Last night, a number of launches from Syria toward the southern Golan Heights were identified," the military said in a statement. "In response, the army fighter jets struck military ...

Israel Floods Hamas' Tunnels

par This Is Beirut, 31/01 11:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Fighting persists in Khan Younis on the 117th day of the Israel-Hamas war. As the Israeli army continues to flood Hamas' tunnel networks, international calls to save UNRWA are growing. Israel's army began flooding Hamas' network of tunnels as intense fighting rages in Gaza, with the UN warning of the potential "collapse of the humanitarian ...

Latest Updates at the Southern Border

par This Is Beirut, 30/01 23:23 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Unabating tensions persisted Tuesday on the southern border of Lebanon between Hezbollah and Israel, marked by Israeli airstrikes near Khiam's chalet area. Ambulances swiftly rushed to the raid site. The Israeli army announced that their aircraft raided a Hezbollah command headquarters and reconnaissance site in Khiam late afternoon.  It also ...

Israel Returns Dozens of Exhumed Bodies

par This Is Beirut, 30/01 22:01 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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In southern Gaza, Palestinians interred dozens of bodies in a mass grave on Tuesday after officials announced that Israel had returned remains it had previously exhumed from the territory. Gazans moved the bodies in blue plastic shrouds from a truck towards the newly dug mass grave east of Rafah, as witnessed by an AFP photographer. Health ...

UNSC Expresses Concern over Gaza's Deteriorating Humanitarian Conditions

par This Is Beirut, 30/01 21:57 - Reading : less than a minute

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The United Nations Security Council stated on Tuesday that it is concerned over the “dire” conditions in Gaza, urging all parties to the conflict to collaborate with the United Nations humanitarian coordinator for Gaza. In a statement, the body expressed concern over the “rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation” in Gaza, where Israel ...

Netanyahu Caught in a Crossfire

par This Is Beirut, 30/01 17:06 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared that the war in Gaza is not "a new round" with Hamas, and that Israel will not end the war without achieving its objectives. These, he said, were to eliminate Hamas, return the hostages and ensure that Gaza no longer posed a threat to Israel. With regard to reports of a possible hostage ...

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