This Is Beirut, 2024-09-01 12:28 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Sunday to "settle the score" with Hamas after the military had recovered the bodies of six hostages from a Gaza tunnel. "Those who kill hostages do not want an agreement" for a Gaza truce, Netanyahu said in a statement, telling Hamas leaders that "we will hunt you down, we will catch you and we ...
Lyne Sammouri, 2024-08-31 20:33 - 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 31, 2024.
This Is Beirut, 2024-08-31 17:06 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A health official said that a polio vaccination campaign began in Gaza on Saturday after the war-torn territory recorded its first case of the disease in a quarter-century. Local health officials, along with the United Nations and NGOs, "are starting today the polio vaccination campaign in the central region," Moussa Abed, the director of primary ...
Vanessa Kallas, 2024-08-30 21:13 - 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 30, 2024.
This Is Beirut, 2024-08-30 20:43 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
American Near East Refugee Aid (Anera), a US-based aid group, said on Friday an Israeli air strike killed four people accompanying its convoy in Gaza the day before, while the Israeli military said it had struck armed assailants. "An Israeli air strike yesterday killed four Palestinians in the lead vehicle of an Anera aid convoy carrying food and ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-08-30 11:18 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israel said it killed three Hamas militants in an air strike in the occupied West Bank on Friday, taking the death toll from a large-scale military operation now in its third day to at least 19. A top UN aid official meanwhile questioned "what has become of our basic humanity", as the war raged on in Gaza and humanitarian operations struggle to ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-08-29 21:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israel has agreed to a series of three-day "humanitarian pauses" in Gaza to allow UN health officials to administer polio vaccinations in the territory, the World Health Organization said Thursday. "The way we discussed and agreed, the campaign will start on the first of September, in central Gaza, for three days, and there will be a humanitarian ...
Rayan Chami, 2024-08-29 18:43 - Reading : less than a minute
Amid the ongoing conflict, Beirut's seafront is alive with activity as families savor the end of summer, reflecting the resilience that defines Lebanese identity.
Tylia El Helou, 2024-08-28 20:42 - 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 28, 2024.
Rayan Chami, 2024-08-27 20:15 - 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 27, 2024.
This Is Beirut, 2024-08-27 18:48 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The Israeli military announced on Tuesday that it had rescued an Israeli hostage in Gaza, more than 10 months after his abduction during the Hamas attacks that triggered a devastating war. Kaid Farhan Alkadi, a 52-year-old Israeli Bedouin, was taken by Palestinian militants during the Hamas attack on October 7, the military said in a ...
2024-08-27 09:02 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Have the negotiations for a ceasefire in Gaza, currently taking place in Cairo, reached their final hurdle at the Philadelphi Corridor? This question arises as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu showed relative flexibility by accepting United States President Joe Biden's request for a partial withdrawal from the corridor during the ...