War in the Middle East

War Diary: Day 241
War Diary: Day 241

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 June 3, 2024.

Iranian Adviser Killed in Israeli Strike on Syria
Iranian Adviser Killed in Israeli Strike on Syria

Iranian media said that an adviser was killed in an early Monday Israeli strike on Syria's northern city of Aleppo, which a war monitor said killed 16 members of pro-Iran groups. “During last night's attack by the Zionist regime on Aleppo, Saeed Abyar, one of the IRGC advisers in Syria, was martyred,” said Iran's Tasnim news agency, referring ...

UN Special Coordinator Puts Forward Resolution 1701 With Bou Habib
UN Special Coordinator Puts Forward Resolution 1701 With Bou Habib

The newly appointed UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, called on Hezbollah and Israel to “recommit to implementing Security Council resolution 1701 to ensure their enduring mutual security.” In a statement issued on Monday, after she met with caretaker Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdallah Bou Habib, she expressed ...

Slovenian Opposition Submits Motion to Delay Recognition of Palestinian State
Slovenian Opposition Submits Motion to Delay Recognition of Palestinian State

Slovenia's conservative opposition on Monday filed a motion that delays the country's recognition of a Palestinian state, a parliamentary spokeswoman said, following last month's recognition by three other European states. Slovenian lawmakers had been scheduled to vote on Tuesday on whether to recognize a Palestinian state, just days after Spain, ...

Half of Gaza's Buildings Destroyed or Damaged According to UN
Half of Gaza's Buildings Destroyed or Damaged According to UN

Some 55 percent of all structures in the Gaza Strip have been destroyed, damaged, or possibly damaged since war erupted in the Palestinian territory eight months ago, according to preliminary satellite analysis by the UN. The analysis showed more than 137,000 buildings affected, UNOSAT, the United Nations satellite analysis agency, said on X, ...

Iran's Khamenei Predicts the \
Iran's Khamenei Predicts the "Destruction" of Israel Over Gaza War

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday praised Hamas' unprecedented October 7 attack against Israel and predicted the "destruction" of their common enemy. Khamenei, 85, was speaking at an event to mark 35 years since the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic. He said that the October 7 attack ...

Southern Front: Three Hezbollah Fighters Killed in Israeli Raids
Southern Front: Three Hezbollah Fighters Killed in Israeli Raids

Three Hezbollah's fighters were killed in Israeli raids on Monday, as artillery exchanges between the group and the Israeli army in Southern surged in intensity, following a weekend marked by heightened violence. The Israeli army announced that it had eliminated a “senior member" of Hezbollah's technical unit in a strike in the Tyre region on ...

US 'Expects' Israel to Agree to Peace Deal, if Hamas Also Accept
US 'Expects' Israel to Agree to Peace Deal, if Hamas Also Accept

The White House expects Israel to agree to Biden's ceasefire proposal, if Hamas also accepts, said the US national security spokesman on Sunday, as strikes continue across Gaza on Monday. Fresh strikes were reported across the Gaza Strip overnight into Monday, as mediators urged Israel and Hamas to agree to a truce and hostage release deal ...

Israeli Airstrike Kills 12 Regime Fighters Near Aleppo, Syria
Israeli Airstrike Kills 12 Regime Fighters Near Aleppo, Syria

At least 12 pro-regime fighters were killed in an overnight Israeli strike that targeted a factory near Aleppo in the north of Syria, an NGO reported early on Monday. “Twelve pro-Iranian fighters of Syrian and foreign nationalities were killed, according to an initial tally, in an Israeli air strike on a position in the town of Hayyan, north of ...

The Interlocking Impasses and Cascading Tragedies
The Interlocking Impasses and Cascading Tragedies

The tragic events of Rafah are quite illustrative of the interlocking impasses that characterize the ongoing war dynamics and their destructive fallouts. The dramatic turn, far from being incidental, reflects the in-built gridlocks of a conflict dynamic meant to perpetuate, feed on intentional victimization and lead to open-ended warfare. The ...

War Diary: Day 240
War Diary: Day 240

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 June 2nd, 2024.

Gallant Says ‘Assessing Alternative’ to Hamas Rule in Gaza
Gallant Says ‘Assessing Alternative’ to Hamas Rule in Gaza

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Sunday that Israel was "assessing a governing alternative" to Hamas in the Gaza Strip after its war against the Palestinian militant group ends. Gallant had previously said he opposed Israeli military rule in Gaza, where Hamas seized power from the Palestinian Authority in 2007. "While we conduct our important ...