This Is Beirut, 18/08 17:53 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israel's prime minister on Sunday accused Hamas of being an obstacle in negotiations for a Gaza ceasefire deal and called for more pressure on the Palestinian militants ahead of a new round of talks later this week. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's comments came with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken set to arrive in Israel later on Sunday ...
This Is Beirut, 17/08 11:32 - Reading : less than a minute
Gaza's civil defense agency said an Israeli air strike early Saturday killed 15 people from a Palestinian family, including nine children and three women. The strike hit the home of the Ajlah family in Al-Zawaida neighbourhood of central Gaza, civil defense spokesman Mahmoud Bassal told AFP. The Israeli military did not offer an immediate ...
This Is Beirut, 16/08 21:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
UN chief Antonio Guterres called on Friday for two seven-day breaks in the Gaza war to vaccinate more than 640,000 children against polio, which has been detected in the territory's wastewater. The UN health and children's agencies said they had detailed plans to reach children across the besieged Palestinian territory and could start this ...
Lyne Sammouri, 16/08 21:15 - Reading : less than a minute
From Gaza to Lebanon, This is Beirut brings you a daily recap of the war between Hamas and Israel and its repercussions on the region. Here are the main highlights for August 16, 2024.
This Is Beirut, 16/08 18:48 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Hamas said Friday the Palestinian group rejected "new conditions" in a Gaza ceasefire plan the United States presented after two days of talks with Israeli negotiators in Qatar. As international pressure mounted for a ceasefire after more than 10 months of war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, US President Joe Biden said: "We are closer ...
This Is Beirut, 16/08 11:42 - Reading : 7 minute(s)
Negotiators seeking a Gaza ceasefire were set to meet for a second day in Qatar on Friday, while top European diplomats were expected in Israel to stress the urgency of averting a wider war. The on-and-off truce talks reconvened in Qatar's capital on Thursday without Hamas, which has accused Israel of obstructing a deal and insists on the ...
Rayan Chami, 15/08 21:00 - Reading : less than a minute
From Gaza to Lebanon, This is Beirut brings you a daily recap of the war between Hamas and Israel and its repercussions on the region. Here are the main highlights for August 15, 2024.
This Is Beirut, 15/08 17:59 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told a special session of the Turkish parliament on Thursday that he would travel to Gaza. As he was speaking, Health Ministry officials in the Palestinian territory said the death toll from Israel's assault there had passed 40,000 people. "I have decided to go to Gaza with other brothers from the ...
This Is Beirut, 15/08 17:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Pressure is mounting for a Gaza ceasefire as talks resumed Thursday in Qatar, aiming to stop the spread of a war that the territory's Health Ministry said has killed 40,000. A source with knowledge of the talks confirmed to AFP that they had begun in the Qatari capital Doha. The source did not disclose whether Hamas had dispatched any delegates ...
This Is Beirut, 15/08 16:45 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Thursday said one of its colonels has died of wounds suffered in an air strike it blamed on the US-led coalition in Syria. Ahmadreza Afshari of the IRGC's "aerospace advisory forces" in Syria was "martyred because of injuries caused by aerial bombardment", Guards' chief Hossein Salami said in a ...
This Is Beirut, 14/08 18:21 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Gaza ceasefire talks will be held in the Qatari capital on Thursday, two sources close to the negotiations said, while it remains unclear if the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas will participate. Qatar has been engaged in behind-the-scenes efforts, with support from Egypt and the United States, to reach a deal for a Gaza truce and ...
This Is Beirut, 14/08 01:52 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
US President Joe Biden's administration on Tuesday approved more than $20 billion in new weapons sales to Israel, brushing aside pressure from rights activists to stop arms deliveries over the death toll in Gaza. The sale comes as Biden has pressed Israel and Hamas to reach a ceasefire after 10 months of bloodshed, although the weapons would take ...