This is Beirut, 2025-10-27 23:07 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Hamas handed over the remains of a deceased hostage on Monday as the Palestinian group came under increasing pressure to return its remaining deceased captives as promised under the Gaza ceasefire. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said Israeli forces had received a coffin containing what Hamas said was the sixteenth of 28 ...
Mario Chartouni, 2025-10-27 16:15 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
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Following a meeting in Cairo on Friday, the main Palestinian factions, including Hamas, announced that they had agreed to entrust the administration of the Gaza Strip to a temporary Palestinian committee composed of independent technocrats. According to a statement posted on Hamas’s website, the committee will oversee day-to-day affairs and ...
This is Beirut, 2025-10-27 15:25 - Reading : less than a minute
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Israel has lifted the state of emergency for areas near the border with Gaza for the first time since Hamas's October 2023 attack, Defence Minister Israel Katz announced on Monday. "I have decided to adopt the (Israeli military's) recommendation and to lift, for the first time since October 7, the special state on the home front," a statement ...
This is Beirut, 2025-10-27 13:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Elio Ernesto Abu Hanna, a young chemistry graduate, died on Sunday from injuries sustained after being shot by Palestinian gunmen at a checkpoint at the entrance of the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, an area where armed factions continue to operate outside the control of the Lebanese state. According to relatives and friends, Abu Hanna was ...
This is Beirut, 2025-10-27 12:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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The families of Israeli hostages on Monday demanded that the next steps in the US-brokered Gaza ceasefire be put on hold until Hamas returns the remaining bodies of dead captives. "Hamas knows exactly where every one of the deceased hostages is held. Two weeks have passed since the deadline set in the agreement for the return of all 48 hostages, ...
This is Beirut, 2025-10-24 10:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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As the first phase of US President Donald Trump’s proposed plan moves forward, discussions are intensifying over the possible deployment of an international security force in Gaza, intended to take over from Hamas. The initiative’s first step involves disarming the Islamist movement, a highly sensitive task amid a fragile ceasefire and mutual ...
Marc Saikali, 2025-10-23 08:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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More than half of Ici Beyrouth and This is Beirut’s audience lives between France, North America and Africa. Those of you reading from these far-off lands are lucky enough not to be, like us, lulled from dawn to dusk by the relentless hum of drones. Yes, they are back. And this time, they are flying even lower. Beirutis have gone all out, ...
This is Beirut, 2025-10-23 05:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday warned Israel against annexing the West Bank, saying steps taken by parliament and settler violence threatened a Gaza peace deal. Israeli lawmakers voted Wednesday to advance two bills on annexing the occupied West Bank, barely a week after President Donald Trump pushed through a deal aimed at ending ...
Paul Guillot, 2025-10-22 18:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Is the terrorist group Hamas still capable of inflicting damage on the state of Israel? An investigation by American outlet NBC suggests that it is. Despite being severely weakened after two years of open war, the Islamist movement is believed to still have around 20,000 fighters, hundreds of rockets – including some with long-range ...
This is Beirut, 2025-10-22 09:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Israel's army said Wednesday that the remains of two more hostages returned the day before from Gaza have been identified as those of Aryeh Zalmanovich and Master Sergeant Tamir Adar. Zalmanovich, 85 at the time of his death, was abducted from his home in kibbutz Nir Oz and killed in captivity on November 17, 2023, the Israeli military said in a ...
This is Beirut, 2025-10-21 09:29 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Israel said Tuesday that remains of a hostage held in Gaza, returned by Hamas a day earlier, had been identified as those of Tal Chaimi, a non-commissioned officer killed on October 7, 2023. "Following the completion of the identification process... representatives of (the army) informed the family of the hostage, Sergeant Major Tal Chaimi, ...
This is Beirut, 2025-10-21 09:02 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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US President Donald Trump threatened to "eradicate" Hamas if it breached its ceasefire deal with Israel, as Vice President JD Vance travelled to the region Tuesday to bolster the fragile Gaza truce. The Trump administration has redoubled its efforts to cement the fragile Gaza peace agreement it helped to broker, after Israel accused ...