Malo Pinatel 2024-07-28 13:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
As the town of Majdal Shams, located on the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, is still recovering after the missile attack that killed twelve people, the Israeli army has reported that the projectile was likely an Iranian-made Falaq-1 rocket. We know it is a Falaq rocket with a 53 kg warhead," said Israeli Army Chief of Staff General Herzi Halevi. ...
Rayan Chami 2024-07-27 21:06 - 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 July 27, 2024.
This Is Beirut 2024-07-27 20:48 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israeli emergency services announced on Saturday that rocket fire from Lebanon into the Golan Heights in northern Israel had left 11 people dead and 34 injured, including seven children in critical condition, according to Magen David Adom, the Israeli equivalent of the Red Cross. The Israeli army, for its part, accused Hezbollah of firing a ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-27 19:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Artillery exchange between Hezbollah and the Israeli army carried on intermittently on Saturday. Late in the afternoon, Hezbollah announced the death of four of its fighters, Naim Ali Farhat, Mohammad Ali Moustafa Mreish, Ahmad Hikmat Moussa and Hassan Helal al-Saidi. Earlier, the Israeli Air Force conducted two raids on houses in Kfar Kila, ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-27 16:13 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The Health Ministry in Gaza said an Israeli strike Saturday on a school killed 30 people, after a days-long military operation further south left around 170 dead, according to the civil defense agency. Since July 6, at least eight schools – including the latest one – have been hit, leaving more than 100 people dead, based on a tally of tolls ...
2024-07-27 12:23 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Despite the prevailing impressions among most official, diplomatic, internal and external security entities that the confrontations on the southern border front with Israel could expand into a full-scale war, fears have grown that the reality on this front, which has effectively turned into a front of attrition, will be prolonged indefinitely. On ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-27 11:29 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Israeli military issued new evacuation orders for residents of southern Gaza's Khan Yunis city on Saturday, after retrieving the bodies of five Israelis and warning of new operations. The United Nations said more than 180,000 Palestinians have already fled fierce fighting in Khan Yunis since the military began an operation in the area last ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-26 23:13 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Egyptian, Qatari and US mediators are to meet with Israeli negotiators in the Italian capital Sunday in the latest push for a Gaza truce, Egyptian state-linked media said. "A four-way meeting between Egyptian officials and their American and Qatari counterparts, in the presence of Israel's intelligence chief, will be held in Rome on Sunday to ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-26 22:58 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
More than 180,000 Palestinians have fled fierce fighting around the southern Gaza city of Khan Younes in four days, the United Nations said Friday, after an Israeli operation to extract captives' bodies from the area. Recent "intensified hostilities" in the Khan Younes area, more than nine months into the Israel-Hamas war, have fueled "new waves ...
Rayan Chami 2024-07-26 20:57 - 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 July 26, 2024.
This Is Beirut 2024-07-26 19:06 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israel on Friday slammed a UN rights expert for "anti-Semitism" after she endorsed a social media post comparing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler. Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the rights situation in the Palestinian territories, has faced harsh criticism from Israel previously, especially ...
2024-07-26 19:02 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Israeli military is gearing up for a “decisive offensive” against Hezbollah, according to Major General Ori Gordin, the commanding officer in the country’s north. This comes after months of deadly exchanges across the border, which intensified following the October 7 attack by Hamas on southern Israel, sparking the ongoing war in the ...