This Is Beirut, 2024-03-27 22:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Benjamin Netanyahu Palestine Hamas
Israel wants to reschedule talks in Washington to discuss a possible offensive in the Gaza city of Rafah, days after it canceled the trip in protest at a UN ceasefire resolution, a US official said Wednesday. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu angrily scrapped the visit on Monday after Israel's closest ally, the United States, abstained on the UN ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-03-27 21:13 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The Lebanese organization Jamaa Islamiya, which lost seven of its rescuers in an Israeli airstrike Tuesday night in Hebbariyeh, is closely linked to the Palestinian group Hamas. Together, they claim responsibility for launching attacks against Israel from southern Lebanon. "All the forces operating in southern Lebanon coordinate their actions," ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-03-27 11:34 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Benjamin Netanyahu Palestine Hamas
Israel bombed the southern Gaza Strip intensively on Tuesday night, while international pressure for an "immediate ceasefire" is growing on Netanyahu's government. The southern Gaza Strip came under intense Israeli bombardment overnight, despite international pressure for an immediate ceasefire in the Palestinian territory where famine is ...
Chelsea Al Arif, 2024-03-26 22:50 - Reading : less than a minute
This is Beirut brings you a daily recap of the situation in Gaza and southern Lebanon. Here are the main highlights for March 26, 2024.
This Is Beirut, 2024-03-26 22:29 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The United States will continue dropping essential aid from the air into the Gaza Strip, the White House said Tuesday, after Palestinian militant group Hamas called for them to end following fatal drownings and stampedes. "Air drops are one of the many ways that we are helping to provide desperately needed aid to Palestinians in Gaza, and we will ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-03-26 21:39 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israel recalled its negotiators from Qatar on Tuesday, after considering mediated talks on a Gaza truce "at a dead end" due to demands by Hamas, a senior Israeli official said on Tuesday. The official, who is close to the chief of the Mossad who is heading up the talks, accused Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar of sabotaging the diplomatic efforts "as ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-03-26 21:37 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Israeli army's spokesperson, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, officially confirmed in a press conference that Marwan Issa, the deputy commander of Hamas’ military wing, was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike carried out in the central Gaza Strip earlier this month. “We have checked all the intelligence,” Hagari said in a televised ...
2024-03-26 21:15 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
After nearly 6 months of war in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seems to be caught between internal dissent and international pressure as he fights for his survival. The war he is waging against Hamas has gradually lost its legitimacy in the eyes of the international community, as civilian casualties mount without significant ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-03-26 15:11 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Benjamin Netanyahu Palestine Hamas
Qatar said on Tuesday that negotiations for a truce in Gaza were continuing, although the warring parties were blaming each other for the lack of progress. Qatar said on Tuesday that talks between Hamas and Israel on a Gaza truce and hostage exchange are resuming, despite the warring parties trading blame over the lack of headway. Foreign ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-03-26 14:11 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Dozens of Israeli tanks and armored vehicles surrounded the Nasser Hospital in Gaza on Tuesday, where thousands of displaced people have sought refuge from the fighting, witnesses said. Witnesses told AFP that shots were being fired at the sprawling complex in the southern city of Khan Younes, but no raid was yet taking place. The Gaza Health ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-03-26 12:21 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh hailed Israel's "unprecedented political isolation" during a visit to Iran on Tuesday, the second since the start of the war. Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, on a visit to Iran on Tuesday, said Israel is experiencing "unprecedented political isolation," a day after the UN Security Council called for a ceasefire in the ...
Tylia El Helou, 2024-03-25 21:05 - Reading : less than a minute
This is Beirut brings you a daily recap of the situation in Gaza. Here are the main highlights for March 25th, 2024.