This Is Beirut 2024-05-09 18:06 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Caretaker Minister of Foreign Affairs, Abdallah Bou Habib, asked Qatar on Thursday for help in evacuating Lebanese women and their children held in Rafah since the outbreak of war in Gaza on October 7. At the end of a meeting with the Qatari ambassador to Lebanon, Sheikh Saoud ben Abdel Rahman ben Fayçal Al-Thani, Bou Habib explained that ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-09 12:21 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israeli strikes on Syria early Thursday targeted facilities belonging to Iraq's Al-Nujaba armed movement, a war monitor and the pro-Iran group said, with Damascus saying an unidentified building was attacked. Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes in Syria since the outbreak of the civil war in its northern neighbor in 2011, mainly against ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-09 11:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, expressed disappointment on Thursday regarding US President Joe Biden's threat to stop certain arms supplies to Israel if it invades the crowded Gaza city of Rafah. "This is a difficult and very disappointing statement to hear from a president to whom we have been grateful since the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-08 22:48 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The damage caused by Israeli bombardments in southern Lebanon, after seven months of fire exchange between Hezbollah and Israel, amounts to around $1.5 billion, the head of the Southern Council, Hashem Haidar, told AFP on Wednesday. According to Haidar, Israeli bombardments and raids have caused considerable damage to infrastructure, estimated at ...
Chelsea Al Arif 2024-05-08 21:27 - 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 May 8th, 2024.
This Is Beirut 2024-05-08 21:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Police forcibly cleared an encampment of pro-Palestinian protesters at George Washington University in the United States capital on Wednesday, arresting dozens in the latest clash with students demonstrating over the Israeli offensive in Gaza. Republicans in Congress had pressured local authorities to act on the encampment, summoning Washington's ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-08 20:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Benjamin Netanyahu Palestine Hamas
An Israeli official said visiting CIA Director Bill Burns and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed Wednesday "the possibility" of suspending military operations in Gaza's Rafah in exchange for Hamas freeing hostages. Netanyahu and the US spy chief, who has been involved in mediation efforts in the Israel-Hamas war, met in Jerusalem as part ...
2024-05-08 20:29 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Benjamin Netanyahu Palestine Hamas
Could there possibly be two versions of a ceasefire proposal for Gaza? Could there have been a modified version unbeknownst to Israeli authorities? According to Israeli statements, the Egyptian-Qatari proposal for a ceasefire in the enclave, approved by Hamas on Monday, differs from the one previously endorsed by Tel Aviv. However, there appears ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-08 19:43 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon highly escalated Wednesday. Five people were killed in two Israeli raids. The first one targeted a three-storey house in Khiam, destroying it, and killing three members of the Al-Qods brigade, the military branch of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The second one targeted a structure in Odaisseh where two members ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-08 18:49 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Hospitals in the southern Gaza Strip have only three days of fuel left, the head of the World Health Organization said on Wednesday, due to closed border crossings. Despite international objections, Israel sent tanks into the overcrowded southern city of Rafah on Tuesday and seized the nearby crossing into Egypt which is the main conduit for aid ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-08 18:48 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant warned Israeli soldiers deployed near the border with Lebanon that their mission there "is not completed" and that "there could be a heated summer" ahead. Gallant, who made the comments during a tour of north Israel, nonetheless reaffirmed that Tel Aviv does not want a war with Lebanon. In a conversation ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-08 14:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
French police detained 86 people following an operation to remove students staging a pro-Palestinian occupation at the Sorbonne university in Paris, prosecutors said Wednesday. Those arrested in the police operation on Tuesday night were being held for a variety of public order offences, said the statement. They include wilful damage, rebellion, ...