par This Is Beirut, 2023-12-23 12:06 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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Israeli forces continue their offensive in Gaza, disregarding a UN Security Council resolution calling for immediate aid delivery. The latest strike on a house in Nuseirat refugee camp leaves 18 dead, while the international community demands urgent humanitarian access to the besieged Palestinian territory. Israel pressed its Gaza offensive ...
par Tylia El Helou, 2023-12-22 21:50 - Reading : less than a minute
This is Beirut brings you a daily recap of the situation in Gaza. Here are the main highlights for December 22, 2023.
par This Is Beirut, 2023-12-22 20:58 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The United Nations Security Council held a vote on Friday and passed a resolution demanding the "safe and unhindered delivery of humanitarian assistance at scale" in the Israel-Hamas conflict. The resolution also called for the creation of conditions for a sustainable cessation of hostilities, but did not call for an immediate end to ...
par This Is Beirut, 2023-12-22 19:54 - Reading : less than a minute
Later in the afternoon, Israeli strikes hit residential homes in Aita al-Shaab, while airstrikes targeted Kfar Kila. Meanwhile, Hezbollah reported that six rockets were launched from southern Lebanon towards Israeli positions in the Upper Galilee. The Israeli army confirmed the death of a soldier and the severe injury of another.
par Miroslava Salazar, 2023-12-22 16:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Ongoing hostilities between Israel and Hamas are dangerously pushing the Gaza Strip towards famine. The UN-backed Global Hunger Monitoring System indicates that the entire population of Gaza is at an “imminent risk of famine,” with over half a million people living in “catastrophic conditions.” UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths ...
par This Is Beirut, 2023-12-22 15:04 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah continued unabated on Friday morning, with Israeli air raids on Jabal el-Alam, the outskirts of Naqoura, and Labbouneh. Artillery bombardments also targeted Aita al-Shaab, Ramya, al-Qawzah, Bayt Lif, and Jabal Blat near Marwahin, as well as the outskirts of Tayr Harfa and the Hamoul area in the western ...
par This Is Beirut, 2023-12-21 22:07 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Cross-border clashes between Hezbollah and Israel continued on Thursday. An elderly woman was killed in Israeli airstrikes targeting residential areas in Maroun al-Ras in the morning, and her husband was injured and rushed to hospital. In the afternoon, Khiam, Kfar Kila and the Rachaya al-Foukhar forest were subjected to a series of airstrikes, ...
par This Is Beirut, 2023-12-21 21:37 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Israel bombed a newly reopened aid crossing point on Thursday, Hamas authorities said, hours before the United Nations Security Council was to make another attempt to pass a much-delayed resolution on pausing the Gaza fighting. Separate diplomatic efforts continued for a fresh truce and hostage release deal in the worst-ever Gaza war. The United ...
par Chelsea Al Arif, 2023-12-21 20:28 - Reading : less than a minute
This is Beirut brings you a daily recap of the situation in Gaza. Here are the main highlights for December 21, 2023.
par Ali A. Hamadé, 2023-12-21 19:28 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Since the outbreak of the war between Israel and Hamas on October 7, the possibility of conflict resolution in the near future remains remote. The proposition of a two-state solution, often presented as the ideal option in theory, encounters practical obstacles that make its attainment complex and uncertain. This theory was raised by US President ...
par This Is Beirut, 2023-12-21 19:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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French President Emmanuel Macron arrived Thursday in Jordan for talks with King Abdullah II on aid to war-battered Gaza, where Israel has been fighting Hamas militants since early October. Macron is then due to visit French troops stationed in the Middle Eastern country for a traditional Christmas meeting with forces deployed overseas. The ...
par This Is Beirut, 2023-12-21 13:17 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights is calling for Israel to open an investigation into “the possible commission of a war crime” by its armed forces in Gaza. The UN received “disturbing information” regarding the death of “11 unarmed Palestinian men” in the city of Gaza on Tuesday evening during an Israeli Army ...