Palestine

War Diary: Day 332

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 September 2, 2024.

Partial Strike and Protests in Israel Over Gaza Hostages

A strike on Monday called by Israel's largest labor union shuttered parts of the country to pressure the government into reaching a Gaza deal to free hostages, though several sectors were unaffected. The Histadrut trade union called a nationwide strike beginning at 6:00 AM (0300 GMT), a day after mass demonstrations following the army's ...

War Diary: Day 331

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 September 1st, 2024.

Israel Union Chief Orders 'Complete Strike' Monday in Support of Hostages

The head of Israel's powerful Histadrut trade union ordered a "complete strike" in support of Gaza hostages on Monday and urged a deal to secure their release after six more were announced dead. "We must stop the abandonment of the hostages... I have come to the conclusion that only our intervention can shake those who need to be shaken," ...

Israel PM Vows ‘to Settle the Score’ With Hamas After Hostage Deaths

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 ...

War Diary: Day 330

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.

Polio Vaccine Campaign Begins in War-Torn Gaza

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 ...

War Diary: Day 329

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.

Israeli Strike Kills Four People Accompanying an NGO's Convoy

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 ...

Israel's Large-Scale West Bank Operation on Third Day

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 ...

Gaza: Israel Agrees to a Series of Humanitarian Pauses For Vaccinations

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 ...