This Is Beirut, 2023-12-18 14:49 - Reading : less than a minute
Ousama Hamdan, a leading Hamas official in Lebanon, declared on Monday that his movement "is prepared to wage war for many months to come," considering that the Israeli Defense Minister "is attempting a headlong rush." Hamdan also maintained Hamas's position that the Israeli aggression must end before any exchange of prisoners can take ...
This Is Beirut, 2023-12-18 14:00 - Reading : less than a minute
MP Mohammad Raad, head of Hezbollah's parliamentary bloc, revealed on Monday that over one hundred of his party's fighters have been killed since the confrontations in south Lebanon started on October 8, a day after the Gaza war erupted. Raad's own son, a fighter with the party, was killed on November 22 in an Israeli air raid that targeted a ...
This Is Beirut, 2023-12-18 13:37 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israel faced mounting international pressure on Monday over the rising civilian death toll and the destruction of hospitals in Gaza as it pressed on with its war against Hamas militants in the besieged Palestinian territory. The United Nations Security Council was set to vote on Monday on a new resolution calling for an 'urgent and sustainable ...
This Is Beirut, 2023-12-18 12:22 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
CONFLICT Gaza HRW Human Rights
Human Rights Watch on Monday accused the Israeli government of intentionally starving civilians in Gaza as part of its offensive in the besieged Palestinian territory. “The Israeli government is using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare in the occupied Gaza Strip, which is a war crime,” the group charged in a report. “Israeli ...
2023-12-18 09:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Political and military events are overlapping and questioning notions, dynamics and taxonomies. The Gaza war and its immediate bloody antecedents have elicited a set of political, strategic and ethical controversies that question notional equivocations, sequential linearity and clear-cut scenarios. The terror attack on South Israel is a blatant ...
This Is Beirut, 2023-12-17 22:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Catherine Colonna Gaza Gaza Tunnels Hamas
The war between Israel and Hamas entered its 72nd day on Friday, following the unprecedented and bloody attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement on October 7 on Israeli soil from the Gaza Strip, which triggered the conflict. According to Israel, about 1,140 people, mostly civilians, were killed in this attack, and around 250 were abducted and ...
This Is Beirut, 2023-12-17 21:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
One of the Israeli hostages mistakenly killed by the Israeli army in Gaza this week was buried north of Tel Aviv on Sunday, December 17. His brother accused the army of "abandoning and murdering" him. An Israeli hostage who was mistakenly killed by soldiers in the Gaza Strip this week was buried on Sunday, with his brother slamming the army for ...
Tylia El Helou, 2023-12-17 21:23 - Reading : less than a minute
This is Beirut brings you a daily recap of the situation in Gaza. Here are the main highlights for December 17, 2023.
This Is Beirut, 2023-12-17 20:07 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Humanitarian aid for Gaza began transiting through the Kerem Shalom crossing in Israel on Sunday, December 17. This second crossing, although "temporary" according to an Israeli official, will ease the transit through the Egyptian border crossing at Rafah. A humanitarian aid convoy crossed into war-torn Gaza through the Israeli Kerem Shalom ...
This Is Beirut, 2023-12-17 19:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The Israeli army announced that it discovered the largest network of tunnels dug under the Gaza Strip to date, according to a statement published on Sunday, December 17. This network is said to be fitted with extensive infrastructure, including rails along its main axes. The Israeli army said on Sunday it had uncovered the biggest Hamas tunnel in ...
This Is Beirut, 2023-12-17 11:12 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Al-Shifa Hospital CONFLICT Gaza Hamas
The emergency department at Al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza, severely affected by Israeli bombardments, has been labeled “a bloodbath” and is deemed “in need of resuscitation” the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Sunday. A team from the WHO and other United Nations agencies managed to deliver medical supplies to the hospital on ...
This Is Beirut, 2023-12-16 23:43 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Bab el-Mandeb Gaza Hamas Houthis
The war between Israel and Hamas entered its 70th day on Friday, since the bloody and unprecedented attack perpetrated by the Palestinian Islamist movement on Israeli soil from the Gaza Strip on October 7, which triggered it. According to Israel, 1,139 people, mostly civilians, were killed in the attack and around 250 kidnapped and taken to Gaza. ...