par This Is Beirut, 29/05 23:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said an Israeli strike on central Syria on Wednesday killed three Syrian fighters working with Hezbollah. "Three Syrian fighters working with the Lebanese Hezbollah group were killed in an Israeli strike targeting a military site... in the eastern countryside of Homs," said the ...
par This Is Beirut, 29/05 22:37 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Israeli Army said on Wednesday that it had gained "operational control" over the strategic Philadelphi corridor along the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. "We have established operational control" over the 14-kilometer (8.5-mile) corridor, a military official told reporters on condition of anonymity. The seizure of the Philadelphi ...
par This Is Beirut, 29/05 21:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Conflict continued in southern Lebanon on Wednesday evening. Hezbollah announced targeting the Raheb, Ramia, and Shatula sites of the Israeli Army. The faction also announced that it launched "a sequential composite attack on the Baghdad site, starting with targeting the site and its defenders and the spread of its soldiers with rocket-propelled ...
par This Is Beirut, 29/05 21:13 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
France's foreign minister accused on Wednesday fellow EU members Spain and Ireland of having recognized Palestinian statehood as part of "political positioning," instead of seeking a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Spain, Ireland, and Norway on Tuesday officially recognized the State of Palestine, sparking a furious response from ...
par This Is Beirut, 29/05 17:56 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Brazil recalled its ambassador to Israel and will not immediately appoint a replacement, a diplomatic source told AFP on Wednesday, ratcheting up tensions between the two countries over Israel's war in Gaza. Relations between Brazil and Israel have soured over the conflict, with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva accusing the Israeli ...
par This Is Beirut, 29/05 11:16 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Tensions are escalating on the southern front as a Lebanese army base at Alma al-Shaab was the target of Israeli machine gun fire, on Wednesday, with no injuries reported. Hezbollah, in a statement, announced having “targeted the spy equipment at the Raheb site.” At the same time, sirens sounded in Shtula in the Upper Galilee at the ...
par This Is Beirut, 28/05 23:28 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The US military has suspended aid deliveries into the Gaza Strip by sea, the Pentagon said on Tuesday, after its temporary pier was damaged by bad weather. Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh told reporters, high seas and a North African weather system had caused a section of the pier to come away on Tuesday morning. "The rebuilding ...
par This Is Beirut, 28/05 22:33 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The cross-fire exchange between Hezbollah and the Israeli army continued on Tuesday with the same intensity. Israeli warplanes flew at low altitudes over Tyre and its surroundings. These planes have been conducting mock raids since 4:45 PM over the entire South, particularly over Saida. Simultaneously, at around 5:30 PM today, Israeli warplanes ...
par This Is Beirut, 28/05 18:03 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Israel's war in Gaza since the October 7 attack has revived a global push for Palestinians to be given a state of their own. Norway, Spain, and Ireland on Tuesday became the latest countries to recognize a State of Palestine, breaking with the long-held view of Western powers that Palestinians can only gain statehood as part of a negotiated peace ...
par This Is Beirut, 28/05 17:43 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Desperately needed medical evacuations from Gaza -- already very limited -- came to a full stop when Israel launched its military offensive on Rafah three weeks ago, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday. The United Nations health agency has long been pleading for Israeli permission to evacuate more critically ill and severely wounded ...
par This Is Beirut, 28/05 11:39 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
EU foreign ministers have a "significant" discussion about sanctioning Israel if it continues to flout international humanitarian law, said Irish Foreign Minister Michael Martin on Monday. “There was a very clear consensus about the need to uphold the international humanitarian legal institutions,” Martin told reporters following the Foreign ...
par This Is Beirut, 28/05 10:49 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Tensions between Israel and Hezbollah continued in the South on Tuesday. The latest development on the ground includes artillery shelling targeting farmers in the Marjayoun plain and gunshots on Jabal al-Labbouneh and Jabal al-Alam in the morning. During the night, the Israeli army targeted with heavy artillery shells the outskirts of the towns ...