This Is Beirut 2024-09-28 18:07 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
EU Recommends All Airlines Avoid Lebanese and Israeli Airspace Airlines should avoid Lebanese and Israeli airspace for the coming month, the European Union said Saturday, amid an escalation in air strikes and rocket fire between Israel and Hezbollah. The European Commission and European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) warned in a statement ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-28 17:51 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei has released a statement in response to the ongoing strikes across Lebanon and the Beirut suburb of Dahieh, saying that Lebanon will make Israel "regret their actions". On Friday, Israel launched a large airstrike on the neighborhood that reportedly killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. In the statement ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-28 17:45 - Reading : less than a minute
Israel's army chief vowed on Saturday to "reach" anyone who threatens Israeli citizens, after the military said strikes in Beirut the previous day had killed Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah. "This is not the end of our toolbox. The message is simple, anyone who threatens the citizens of Israel, we will know how to reach them," Lieutenant General ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-28 17:34 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Israeli military announced, on Saturday, that Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli strike on Beirut the previous night. "Hassan Nasrallah is dead," military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani announced on X. Captain David Avraham, another military spokesman, also confirmed to AFP that the Hezbollah chief had ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-28 17:04 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell voiced regret Friday that no power, including the United States, can "stop" Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying he appears determined to crush militants in Gaza and Lebanon. "What we do is put all diplomatic pressure on a ceasefire, but nobody seems to be able to stop Netanyahu, neither in Gaza ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-28 16:30 - Reading : less than a minute
A senior general in Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon alongside Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, state media reported Saturday. General Abbas Nilforoushan, deputy commander of Guards operations, "was killed in Israel's attack on Lebanon that assassinated the Hezbollah chief," said the official IRNA ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-28 15:55 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Following Hezbollah's announcement of the death of its leader Hassan Nasrallah, declarations multiplied around the world. Israel The Israeli military said on Saturday that the killing of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, one of its "greatest enemies," made the world safer, but that the group's remaining senior members would still be ...
2024-09-28 14:37 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Hezbollah on Saturday confirmed its leader Hassan Nasrallah had been killed, after Israel said it had "eliminated" him in an air strike a day earlier. "Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary General of Hezbollah, has joined his great, immortal martyr comrades whom he led for about 30 years," Hezbollah said in a statement. The statement confirmed he ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-28 13:08 - Reading : less than a minute
The Israeli media Haaretz reported that Israel hacked the control system in Beirut airport and warned an Iranian passenger plane not to land there. Moreover, Caretaker Minister of Public Works and Transport Ali Hamieh instructed Beirut-Rafic Hariri International Airport on Saturday to request the Iranian plane, which was headed to the airport, ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-28 12:47 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israeli strikes continued unabated in southern Lebanon, the Beqaa, and other regions on Saturday, following an extremely violent night. Five people were killed and four wounded in an Israeli raid on the village of Chmestar (Baalbeck caza). Four people were also killed in a raid on the village of Khodr (Baalbeck caza). In addition, the regions ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-28 12:31 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
A central figure in the Lebanese political landscape and Hezbollah's Secretary General since 1992, Hassan Nasrallah was born on August 31, 1960 in the Chrarchbouk district, near Quarantina. Born into a modest family hailing from the South Lebanese village of Bazouriyé, he was the eldest of nine siblings. After the outbreak of the Lebanese civil ...
Michel Touma 2024-09-28 12:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Speculations, some of them starkly explicit, have been circulating widely in the media and across social networks. Yet, few could have anticipated the staggering events that unfolded on the night of Friday, September 27, and into the early hours of Saturday. No one could have foreseen the brutal and devastating bombardment of Hezbollah’s central ...