This Is Beirut 2024-07-18 17:54 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
An Israeli parliament vote to oppose a Palestinian state as an "existential threat", just days ahead of a visit by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington, brought Palestinian and international criticism on Thursday. The 120-member Knesset, late on Wednesday, passed by 68 votes to nine a resolution that said a Palestinian state on land ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-18 17:51 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Amnesty International, on Thursday, called on Israel to end the indefinite detention of Gaza Palestinians and what it called "rampant torture" in its prisons. "Israeli authorities must end their indefinite incommunicado detention of Palestinians from the occupied Gaza Strip, without charge or trial ... (which is) in flagrant violation of ...
Rayan Chami 2024-07-17 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 17th, 2024.
Joanne Naoum 2024-07-17 11:19 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
After the July war in 2006, Hezbollah’s Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah flabbergasted the Lebanese by declaring a “divine victory” against Israel. Lebanon had paid a heavy cost for this so-called “victory” with countless human losses and massive destruction, from which it took years to recover. Once again, Nasrallah disregarded the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-17 10:18 - Reading : less than a minute
Following a violent night on the southern border, Hezbollah claimed responsibility on Wednesday morning for Katyusha missile attacks on the settlements of Saer and Gesher Haziv. On Tuesday night, Israel once again bombed Umm al-Tut, where three Syrian children died early in the evening in a raid. Night raids also targeted Bustan, Wadi el-Zarka ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-16 21:13 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Three Syrian children were killed and others wounded on Tuesday evening, in an Israeli airstrike that targeted the house they lived in with their family near a school in the Umm al-Tut town, Tyre district. Mohammad Jarkas, Jan Jarkas and Khalil Khalil's parents work in a watermelon field in Umm al-Tut. Rescue teams that arrived at the targeted ...
Rayan Chami 2024-07-16 20:20 - 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 16th, 2024.
This Is Beirut 2024-07-16 19:27 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The civil defense agency in the Gaza Strip said three air strikes killed more than 40 people within an hour across the war-stricken Palestinian territory. Israel confirmed carrying out two of the strikes that civil defense spokesman Mahmud Bassal said killed at least 44 people and left dozens more wounded. The Gaza Health Ministry stated that at ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-16 17:08 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israeli authorities charged on Tuesday one Israeli and detained two others for spying for Iran, the Shin Bet security service said. The agency said that Iran has sought, in recent months, to recruit Israelis to carry out missions in the country and that the person charged had been asked, but refused, to carry out a murder and set fire to a ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-16 16:18 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Two were killed in an Israeli drone attack, targeting a motorcycle on the Nabatieh-Khardali road on Tuesday. Eyewitnesses reported that two people were riding the motorcycle, and when a number of citizens tried to approach after the first hit, it was targeted again with a guided missile, which caused the death of the two drivers. Cross border ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-16 09:45 - Reading : less than a minute
As cross border clashes continue on into the early hours of the morning on Tuesday, fires flared in the forests adjacent to Litani River, near Marjayoun, resulting from intense Israeli phosphorous shelling. The Lebanese Civil Defense teams and “Al-Risalah” scouts worked on extinguishing the fires that raged throughout the night. Also at dawn ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-15 21:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
On Monday night, Israeli warplanes targeted a house in the southern town of Bint Jbeil in two waves, firing air-to-surface missiles. According to initial reports, three people from the Dagher family were killed in the raid on the house, which was located in the al-Awaini neighborhood to the west of the city. Pro-regime Syrian businessman Mohamad ...