par This Is Beirut, 07/03 15:24 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Former President of the Republic, Michel Aoun, received a delegation from Hezbollah’s parliamentary bloc in Rabieh on Thursday. The delegation was chaired by Mohammad Raad and included Ali Ammar and Hassan Fadlallah. The visit comes at a time of strained relations between the two parties due to criticism voiced by Michel Aoun and Free Patriotic ...
par This Is Beirut, 07/03 15:04 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The new US Ambassador to Lebanon, Lisa Johnson, met with the former President of the Republic, Michel Aoun, as part of her introductory visits. Discussing the current political context in Lebanon and developments in the region, Johnson reportedly told the former head of state, "Let your ally (i.e., Hezbollah) know that it is necessary to end ...
par This Is Beirut, 07/03 14:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The exchange of fire between Hezbollah and Israel persisted intermittently throughout the day and in the evening Thursday, with Israeli artillery targeting the Marjayoun plain and the outskirts of the village of Khiam. while Israeli aircraft raided the villages of Aita al-Shaab and Aitaroun. Israel also reported that its army bombed Hezbollah's ...
par This Is Beirut, 06/03 23:38 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Kataeb party leader Samy Gemayel said on Wednesday that the opposition had succeeded in preserving the Lebanese army by extending the term of office of the Army's Commander-in-Chief, General Joseph Aoun, and had prevented Hezbollah from imposing its presidential candidate. "The Lebanese state is powerless, and the war on the country's southern ...
par Michel Touma, 06/03 12:31 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The brief visit to Beirut earlier this week by US envoy Amos Hochstein did not yield the anticipated announcement of tangible decisions aimed at Hezbollah's withdrawal towards the Litani River, as mandated by UN Security Council Resolution 1701. Efforts to negotiate the withdrawal of the pro-Iranian militia have been ongoing for several weeks, ...
par This Is Beirut, 05/03 23:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Hezbollah Deputy Secretary General, Sheikh Naim Kassem is opposed to the Amal-Hezbollah tandem being seen as solely responsible for blocking the presidential election. In a televised interview with local channel LBCI on Tuesday evening, Sheikh Kassem said that the other parties would also have to make concessions, and expressed surprise at the ...
par This Is Beirut, 05/03 21:24 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Further escalation of violence on Tuesday evening on the southern front. Three members of the same family – a couple and their 25 year-old son – were killed in Hula, in the Marjayoun district, in an Israeli raid that targeted the house they were staying in. Hezbollah retaliated by firing several salvos of rockets against northern Israel. At ...
par This Is Beirut, 05/03 21:12 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The Kataeb party stressed that "any initiative that does not take into account Lebanon's sovereignty and the provisions of the Constitution will be opposed by all available means," referring to a possible settlement on the southern border, where artillery exchanges have continued between Israel and Hezbollah since October 8. In a statement issued ...
par This Is Beirut, 05/03 14:38 - Reading : less than a minute
The head of Hezbollah's 'Loyalty to the Resistance' Bloc, MP Mohammad Raad, declared on Tuesday that his Iran-backed party has not unveiled all of its weaponry and that “reserves for (a potential) open warfare are still in store.” During a memorial ceremony held in the southern town of Kfar Melki, Raad said that Hezbollah is still adhering to ...
05/03 10:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Amos Hochstein Ceasefire Palestine Hamas Hezbollah
A meeting was held on Sunday (March 3) in Cairo between officials from Hamas, Qatar and the United States to discuss the Gaza ceasefire agreement. If Israel agrees to the demands of the Palestinian movement and if Tel Aviv obtains – under its conditions – a comprehensive list of the names of surviving Israeli detainees, the ceasefire would ...
par This Is Beirut, 04/03 22:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
It is becoming increasingly difficult for the National Moderation parliamentary bloc, composed mainly of former Hariri supporters, to push through its initiative to break the deadlock in the presidential election. Kataeb practically rejected it. The Lebanese Forces, for whom "the devil is in the detail," are skeptical about its final outcome. And ...
04/03 22:01 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Hochstein left Lebanon realizing that he does not have a magic wand for a solution and that a sustainable solution may never exist because, for Hezbollah, the issue of its weapons is much more important than the Al-Aqsa Flood operation, as it amounts to a regional role exercised by Iran, and it is not yet time to curb it. Hochstein did not hear ...