This Is Beirut 2024-07-30 12:57 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Druze leaders in the annexed Golan Heights have distanced themselves from Israeli threats to retaliate against Hezbollah for a deadly rocket strike on a Druze Arab town in the territory. Most of Majdal Shams's around 11,000 mainly Druze residents still identify as Syrian more than half a century after Israel seized the Golan Heights from Syria ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-30 10:54 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israeli missiles struck two air defense bases in southern Syria overnight, a war monitor said Tuesday, as tensions surge on Israel's northern border after a deadly rocket strike on the annexed Golan Heights. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported no casualties in the overnight strikes in Daraa province, which abuts ...
2024-07-30 08:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Benjamin Netanyahu had not yet finished his official meetings in Washington when the situation escalated on the Lebanon front due to a “stray” shell hitting a playground in Majdal Shams in the occupied Golan Heights, resulting in the deaths of some 12 children. International efforts intensified to contain the situation and prevent the southern ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-29 21:22 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The United States is confident that a wider war between Israel and Hezbollah can be avoided, despite a deadly rocket attack in the annexed Golan Heights that killed 12 children, the White House said Monday. US and Israeli officials had conversations at "multiple levels" over the weekend following the attack, and the risk of a full-blown conflict ...
Chelsea Al Arif 2024-07-29 21:17 - 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 29, 2024.
This Is Beirut 2024-07-29 19:23 - Reading : less than a minute
As the funerals of the twelve young people killed in Majdal Shams on July 27 were taking place, the Israeli Prime Minister visited the site, provoking protests among the residents.
This Is Beirut 2024-07-29 18:11 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Italy's foreign minister told his Israeli and Lebanese counterparts Monday it was "possible to interrupt the spiral of violence" as he reiterated calls for a ceasefire, his office said. The Foreign Ministry said Antonio Tajani spoke with both Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz and Lebanon's Abdallah Bou Habib, two days after rocket fire from ...
2024-07-29 16:14 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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Caretaker Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib revealed that the Lebanese government has asked Hezbollah to withdraw beyond the Litani River in accordance with UN Resolution 1701. In response, Hezbollah has demanded the Israeli withdrawal from the Shebaa Farms and Kfarchouba hills as a precondition. In an interview with Al-Hadath TV on Sunday, Bou ...
This Is Beirut 2024-07-29 10:34 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israeli drones conducted two airstrikes early on Monday morning, targeting a car and a motorcycle on the road between Shaqra and Hula, South of Lebanon. The attacks killed two people and injured three others, including a toddler, according to reports from the Civil Defense in the South. A motorbike approached the targeted car while members of ...
Michel Touma 2024-07-29 10:07 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Another massacre, another senseless tragedy. This time, it’s the innocent lives of twelve children and teenagers that have been claimed by a missile strike in Majdal Shams, a Druze village in the Golan Heights under Israeli sovereignty. They were participating in, or merely watching, a soccer match. This horrific event underscores the ...
Tylia El Helou 2024-07-28 20:56 - 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 28, 2024.
This Is Beirut 2024-07-28 18:32 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The Golan Heights, a rocky plateau where 12 youths were killed Saturday amid clashes between Lebanon's Hezbollah and Israeli forces, is a strategic territory partially captured by Israel from Syria. Following the conquest of about two-thirds of the plateau during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, Israel in 1981 annexed the area in a move not recognized ...