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Netanyahu Vows to Act With 'Force, Determination' Against Yemen's Houthis

This is Beirut, 2024-12-22 20:48 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Nawaf Salam Benjamin Netanyahu Yemen Houthi Movement

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday vowed to retaliate against Yemen's Houthi rebels after they fired a missile at Tel Aviv, warning that Israel would target what he described as the last remaining arm of "Iran's axis of evil". The Houthis struck Israel's commercial hub on Saturday with what they claimed was ...

Syrian Leader Vows State Monopoly Over Weapons

This is Beirut, 2024-12-22 20:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Nawaf Salam Syria Ahmad al-Sharaa

Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa said Sunday all weapons would come under state control during a press conference with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, who urged the lifting of sanctions on Syria. Sharaa said that after upcoming consultations with defense and military officials on a new structure for the military, armed "factions will ...

Israel Hands Over Seven Lebanese to Red Cross via UNIFIL

This is Beirut, 2024-12-22 18:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Nawaf Salam Hezbollah UNIFIL

The Israeli army transferred on Sunday seven Lebanese detainees to the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) at the Ras al-Naqoura crossing point. These individuals were arrested in the southern villages of Wazzani and Tayr Harfa following the ceasefire implementation on November 27. The detainees – Ahmed Haidar, Jaafar Haidar, ...

Gaza Rescuers Say Israeli Strikes Kill 28

This is Beirut, 2024-12-22 14:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Nawaf Salam Hamas Palestine Gaza war

Gaza's civil defense agency said Israeli strikes overnight and early Sunday killed at least 28 Palestinians, including at one family's home and at a school building the Israeli military said was used by Hamas. On the ground in Gaza, civil agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal said that at least 13 people were killed in an air strike on a house in ...

Pope Again Condemns 'Cruelty' of Israeli Strikes on Gaza

This is Beirut, 2024-12-22 14:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

Nawaf Salam Palestine Pope Francis war Gaza

Pope Francis doubled down Sunday on his condemnation of Israel's strikes on the Gaza Strip, denouncing their "cruelty" for the second time in as many days. "And with pain I think of Gaza, of so much cruelty, of the children being machine-gunned, of the bombings of schools and hospitals. What cruelty," the pope said after his weekly Angelus ...

Khamenei Says Iran Does not Have or Need Regional Proxy Forces

This is Beirut, 2024-12-22 13:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Nawaf Salam Hamas Hezbollah Iran

Iran's supreme leader denied Sunday that militant groups around the region functioned as Tehran's proxies, warning that if his country chose to "take action", it would not need them anyway. The remarks came after a year in which Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza suffered heavy losses in wars with Israel, and two weeks after the ...

Al-Sharaa met Joumblatt, vows country will not negatively interfere in Lebanon

This is Beirut, 2024-12-22 13:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Nawaf Salam Lebanon Damascus Walid Jumblatt Ahmad al-Sharaa

Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa told Lebanese Druze leaders on Sunday that his country would not negatively interfere in Lebanon and would respect its neighbour's sovereignty. Syria will no longer exert "negative interference in Lebanon at all -- it respects Lebanon's sovereignty, the unity of its territories, the ...

Hamas, Two Other Palestinian Groups Declare Gaza Ceasefire Deal 'Closer Than Ever'

This is Beirut, 2024-12-21 21:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Nawaf Salam Hamas Gaza

Hamas and two other Palestinian militant groups said on Saturday that a Gaza ceasefire deal with Israel is "closer than ever", provided Israel does not impose new conditions. Last week, indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas mediated by Qatar, Egypt, and the United States were held in Doha, rekindling hope of an agreement. "The ...

Addressing Ceasefire Violations and Israeli Withdrawals: Efforts Underway in the Coming Days

Bassam Abou Zeid, 2024-12-21 15:42 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Nawaf Salam Amos Hochstein Ceasefire Hezbollah

According to sources close to Speaker Berri, Hochstein is expected to chair the next meeting of the monitoring committee after the Christmas and New Year holidays, as he promised to Berri. A Western diplomatic source following the committee's work noted that an assessment of the situation in the south after the November 27 ceasefire reveals ...

Lebanese Army Takes Control of PFLP General Command Site in Western Bekaa

This is Beirut, 2024-12-21 13:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

Nawaf Salam Lebanese Army Israël ceasefire PFLP

The Lebanese Army announced on Saturday that it had "taken control of the General Command site of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) at Jabal Sultan Yacoub in Western Bekaa." "We entered the headquarters' tunnel and deployed our units around the site," the statement added. Additionally, the Lebanese Army is working to take ...

16 Injured After Israel Hit by 'Projectile' Launched From Yemen

This is Beirut, 2024-12-21 10:31 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Nawaf Salam Houthi strike

Israel's military said Saturday it had failed to intercept a "projectile" launched from Yemen that landed in Tel Aviv, with the national medical service reporting that 16 people were lightly injured. A projectile fired from Yemen struck Israel's commercial hub of Tel Aviv early Saturday, wounding 16 people, the military and ...

Jean-Marc Ayoubi: A Leading Figure in Reproductive Medicine

Elie Valluy – Paris Correspondent, 2024-12-21 09:55 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

Nawaf Salam Hezbollah Middle East medical

March 31, 2019, is a landmark date in French medical history. On that day, Professor Jean-Marc Ayoubi led a pioneering surgical team to carry out the country’s first uterus transplant. The recipient, a 34-year-old woman born without a uterus due to MRKH syndrome, received the organ from a living donor — her own mother. Reflecting on the ...

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