This is Beirut, 13/05 09:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The Israeli military said it struck a Gaza hospital housing Hamas militants in a raid Tuesday that, according to the Palestinian group, killed a journalist wounded in an Israeli attack last month. The strike, which Hamas said happened at dawn, ended a brief pause in fighting to allow the release of a US-Israeli hostage. The military said in a ...
Philippe Abi-Akl, 13/05 09:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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The border demarcation issue between Lebanon and its neighbors—Syria to the north and Israel to the south—is progressing, with France, Saudi Arabia and the US playing key mediating roles. The situation is now more favorable, as long-standing internal and external obstacles have largely dissipated, creating a better climate for finalizing ...
This is Beirut, 12/05 22:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Hezbollah’s deputy secretary-general, Naim Qassem, took advantage of the ninth commemoration of the death of Hezbollah commander Mustafa Badreddine in Syria to revisit political issues previously addressed in his public speeches. Qassem began with a eulogy recounting the "military feats" of what he described as "a true leader of the Islamic ...
This is Beirut, 12/05 22:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
An Israeli rights group denounced Monday a government decision to launch extensive land registration for parts of the occupied West Bank, saying it could help advance annexation of the Palestinian territory. "It is a tool for annexation," said Yonatan Mizrachi of the Settlement Watch project at Israeli nongovernmental organization Peace Now. The ...
This is Beirut, 12/05 21:05 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Al Jazeera's Ramallah bureau chief said on Monday the news channel could resume working in the Palestinian territories after President Mahmud Abbas lifted a ban in place since January. "Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has decided to lift the ban on the Al Jazeera network and allow its crews to resume work in the Palestinian ...
This is Beirut, 12/05 20:46 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
The armed wing of Palestinian militant group Hamas handed over a US-Israeli hostage held in Gaza since October 2023 on Monday, ahead of a regional visit by US President Donald Trump. "The (Ezzedine) Al-Qassam Brigades have just released the Zionist soldier and American citizen Edan Alexander, following contacts with the US administration, as ...
David Hale , 12/05 18:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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It is no surprise that President Trump's first major foreign trip (not counting the late Pope's funeral) since returning to office will be to the Arabian Peninsula. Saudi Arabia was also his first stop in 2017. It is only natural: the center of power in the Arab world rests in Riyadh and Abu Dhabi. And the Saudis, Qataris, and Emiratis are his ...
Sana Richa Choucair, 12/05 17:15 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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Edan Alexander, 21, is the only American national still held alive in Gaza. After moving from New Jersey to Israel in 2022, he joined an elite unit of the Israeli army and was taken by Hamas during the October 7, 2023 attack. In a statement released on Sunday, the spokesperson for Hamas’s military wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, said: “The ...
This is Beirut, 12/05 17:10 - Reading : less than a minute
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he would send mediators to Qatar on Tuesday to discuss the release of hostages held in Gaza after Hamas announced the release of US-Israeli Edan Alexander. Following a meeting with US envoy Steve Witkoff and ambassador Mike Huckabee, "the Prime Minister instructed to send a negotiation ...
This is Beirut, 12/05 15:15 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Israeli President Issac Herzog will visit Germany on Monday to mark 60 years of relations with the country that perpetrated the Holocaust, at a time when ties are complicated by the Gaza war. His German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier will then visit Israel with Herzog, to emphasise Germany's historic responsibility as one of its staunchest ...
This is Beirut, 12/05 12:09 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Hamas's armed wing said it would release on Monday a US-Israeli hostage held in Gaza since October 2023, even as Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned of an "intensification" of fighting in the war-ravaged territory. The Palestinian militant group on Sunday said it would release US-Israeli soldier Edan Alexander, ahead of a visit by ...
This is Beirut, 12/05 09:55 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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Pope Leo XIV launches his first full week as leader of the world's Catholics on Monday, with journalists, diplomats and top Vatican officials all set to meet the newly elected pontiff. Pomp and prayer marked the initial days of the pontificate of the former Robert Francis Prevost, the US pope first introduced to the world from the balcony of St ...