par This Is Beirut, 20/08 19:22 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Antony Blinken Palestine Israel
Top US diplomat Antony Blinken met Egypt's president Tuesday for talks about a Gaza ceasefire after saying Israel had accepted a US "bridging proposal" for a deal and urging Hamas to do the same. The Palestinian militant group, whose October 7 attack triggered the war, said it was "keen to reach a ceasefire" agreement but protested US ...
par This Is Beirut, 20/08 13:42 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Gaza's civil defense agency said an Israeli strike on a school-turned-shelter killed at least 12 people on Tuesday, while the Israeli military said it struck a Hamas command center. "Our crews retrieved 12 martyrs from the Mustafa Hafiz school, which was bombed by the Israeli occupation west of Gaza City," agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal told ...
par Philippe Abi-Akl, 20/08 09:04 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Antony Blinken Benjamin Netanyahu Palestine Israel
On his ninth visit to the region since the Al-Aqsa Flood operation and the subsequent war and massacres in Gaza, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Israel on Sunday to deliver a message from the American administration to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. US efforts to secure a ceasefire through the Doha and Cairo ...
par This Is Beirut, 19/08 21:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Antony Blinken Benjamin Netanyahu Palestine Hamas Israel
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu assured him of support for a US proposal to bridge gaps on reaching a Gaza ceasefire, and pressed Hamas to agree. Following three hours of talks with the prime minister in Jerusalem, Blinken said that Netanyahu promised Israel would send a team to ...
par This Is Beirut, 19/08 18:46 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A British diplomat based in Ireland resigned over arms sales to Israel, with his email—circulated online—stating that the UK's Foreign Office "may be complicit in war crimes," it emerged Monday. Images of his resignation email sent to colleagues were posted online, with Mark Smith, who was based in the British embassy in Dublin, writing there ...
par Rayan Chami, Yara Germany, 19/08 14:12 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Top US diplomat Antony Blinken on Monday urged Israel and Hamas not to derail negotiations that he said may be a "last opportunity" to secure a Gaza truce and hostage release deal. Blinken, on his ninth regional tour since Hamas's October 7 attack triggered the war, said he was back in Israel "to get this agreement to the line and ultimately over ...
par Charles Chartouni, 19/08 10:32 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The latest developments in the Near East are of bad omen and the chances of stabilization are improbable in spite of the active diplomatic mediations. As long as the Iranian regime is in control of the political landscape, the chances of serious political evolutions are of a limited scope, let alone uncertain. The uncanny neutralization of the ...
par Michel Touma, 19/08 10:27 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
In his famous work The Art of War, widely regarded as the oldest document on military strategy, the Chinese general Sun Tzu (6th century B.C.) explains that one can gain an upper hand over an enemy and win a battle without engaging in direct combat. This strategy involves tactics such as displays of force, deception, bluffing, or psychological ...
par This Is Beirut, 18/08 20:36 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
In a statement on Sunday afternoon, the Ministry of Public Health’s Public Health Emergency Operations Center stated that the Israeli army’s strike on a motorcycle in Shebaa killed one person and injured another, who is now in stable condition. The deceased individual was Fadi Kassem Kanaan, born in 1985 in Shebaa, whose death was mourned by ...
par This Is Beirut, 18/08 17:53 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israel's prime minister on Sunday accused Hamas of being an obstacle in negotiations for a Gaza ceasefire deal and called for more pressure on the Palestinian militants ahead of a new round of talks later this week. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's comments came with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken set to arrive in Israel later on Sunday ...
par This Is Beirut, 18/08 10:40 - Reading : less than a minute
Norway announced on Saturday that it is closing its office in the West Bank town of Al-Ram following Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz's decision to revoke the diplomatic status of eight of its employees who work with the Palestinian Authority. "This decision was made due to Norway's recognition of a Palestinian-Hamas state after the October 7 ...
par Vanessa Kallas, 17/08 21:11 - Reading : less than a minute
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 17, 2024.