par This Is Beirut, 17/04 14:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Settler violence in the West Bank is escalating, said the UN on Tuesday, with the tacit and explicit support of Israeli security forces. The UN voiced grave concern Tuesday over escalating violence in the West Bank, demanding that Israeli security forces "immediately" stop supporting settler attacks on Palestinians in the occupied ...
par This Is Beirut, 17/04 10:54 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The US is to impose new sanctions on Iran's missile and drone program, it said Tuesday, following its recent attack on Israel. The United States said Tuesday it would soon impose new sanctions on Iran's missile and drone program after its weekend attack on Israel, and that it expects its allies and partners to follow with parallel measures. US ...
par This Is Beirut, 16/04 23:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Tensions were high in the Middle East on Tuesday due to traded threats by Israel and its arch-foe Iran following Iran's attack on Israel days earlier. World leaders intensified diplomatic activity, while the EU began devising sanctions on the Islamic Republic in attempts to decrease hostilities in the region. Israel and Iran traded threats on ...
par This Is Beirut, 16/04 22:35 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israel launched a "diplomatic offensive" against Iran on Tuesday, calling on 32 countries to impose sanctions against the Revolutionary Guards and their missile program. Late on Saturday, Iran carried out an unprecedented direct attack on Israel, using more than 300 drones, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles, in retaliation for a deadly ...
par This Is Beirut, 16/04 22:35 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Tuesday that Brussels was starting work on expanding sanctions against Iran after Tehran's attack on Israel. Speaking after an emergency online meeting of EU foreign ministers, Borrell said that the bloc would look to toughen measures against Iran's supplies of weaponry – including drones – to ...
par This Is Beirut, 16/04 12:08 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The Gulf states fear that further escalation between Israel and Iran will scupper long-held plans for economic diversification, and risk them being dragged into regional conflict. Gulf states are grappling with the widening Middle East conflict as hostilities between Iran and Israel threaten their security and ambitious plans to reshape their ...
par This Is Beirut, 16/04 10:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The top Chinese diplomat spoke to the Iranian Foreign Minister on Tuesday, following Iran's first ever direct attack on Israel. China's Foreign Minister held phone discussions with his Iranian counterpart, Beijing state media said on Tuesday, reporting that Iran said that it was "willing to exercise restraint" after its first-ever attack on ...
par This Is Beirut, 15/04 23:07 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israel's Army Chief General Herzi Halevi, addressing troops on Monday at a military base hit in Iran's unprecedented strike, said Israel will respond. "This launch of so many (Iranian) missiles, cruise missiles, and UAVs into the territory of the state of Israel will be met with a response," Halevi said when he visited Nevatim base in the ...
15/04 18:13 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The southern front flared with artillery exchanges on Monday afternoon, after Hezbollah claimed that it had detonated "explosive devices" targeting Israeli soldiers who reportedly crossed into Lebanese territory. Hezbollah fighters "planted explosive devices in the Tal Ismail area" inside Lebanon, detonating them after Israeli soldiers "crossed ...
par This Is Beirut, 15/04 16:13 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Israel's opposition leader Yair Lapid on Monday accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government of leading to a "total loss of Israeli deterrence" in the wake of an unprecedented Iranian attack. In a scathing criticism, former premier Lapid also said that under Netanyahu, "Jewish terrorist violence" against Palestinians in the occupied ...
par This Is Beirut, 15/04 15:41 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Iran said on Monday that the Israel-linked ship it seized on the weekend had violated international maritime law and was undergoing "necessary investigations." Iranian authorities had previously offered little information about why the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps seized the ship MSC Aries ship near the Strait of Hormuz on ...
15/04 10:59 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
US forces shot down dozens of drones and missiles when Iran launched the attack on Saturday, in retaliation for the strike on its consulate in Damascus on April 1, making a significant contribution to the defense of Israeli territory. Iran's unprecedented attack on Israel with hundreds of drones and missiles marked the culmination of a tense two ...