This Is Beirut 2024-06-07 14:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The UK's Labour party leader, Sir Keir Starmer, is expected to include a pledge to recognize Palestine before the end of any peace process in its upcoming election manifesto, the Guardian reported on Friday. Labor's position has grown more critical of Israel's war in Gaza as the conflict drags on. Keir Starmer called for an "immediate ceasefire" ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-07 12:03 - Reading : less than a minute
Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas in Gaza, presented two conditions to mediators necessary for Hamas to agree to any proposal, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday . According to the Wall Street Journal, Sinwar said that Hamas would not agree to any agreement that did not contain Israeli commitments to a permanent ceasefire. He also set ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-07 01:36 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Yemen's Houthi have detained more than a dozen aid workers, including United Nations staff, in an apparently coordinated sweep, a diplomatic source and a Yemeni NGO said Friday. At least 18 aid workers were kidnapped in four rebel-held parts of the war-torn country, the Yemeni Mayyun Organization for Human Rights said, listing 10 workers from UN ...
Chelsea Al Arif 2024-06-06 21:30 - 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 June 6, 2024.
This Is Beirut 2024-06-06 21:07 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan said Thursday that US President Joe Biden's proposed Gaza ceasefire deal was "just words," and that the Palestinian militant group had not received any written commitments related to a truce. On the other hand, Egyptian State-linked al-Qahera News reported, citing a high-level source, that they have received ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-06 17:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN's Palestinian refugee agency, said on Thursday that Israel had bombed one of its Gaza schools "without prior warning" to thousands of displaced sheltering there. The military said it had killed several "terrorists" in a "precision strike on a Hamas compound embedded inside an UNRWA school" in the Nuseirat ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-06 15:07 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israel is sending mixed signals, alternating between its threats of a widening conflict with Hezbollah and its rejection of war with Lebanon. According to Israeli media, former Israeli Defense Minister and chief of the National Unity Party Benny Gantz called on Thursday morning for “the mayors of the North to prepare for the difficult days that ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-06 13:17 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Spain said on Thursday that it will join South Africa's case at the UN's top court in which Pretoria has accused Israel of "genocide" in the Gaza Strip. "Our sole goal is to put an end to the war and to advance on the road of applying the two-state solution", Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said at a press conference. His statement came a ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-06 11:58 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
An Israeli drone strike targeted a motorcyclist in Aitaroun on Thursday morning, killing one person and injuring another. The victim was reportedly a Hezbollah fighter, as the pro-Iranian group later announced the death of one of its fighters, Hussein Nehme Hourani, also known as Badr. For its part, the Israeli military announced that it had ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-06 09:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A hospital in central Gaza said Thursday at least 37 people were killed in Israeli bombardment overnight of a UN-run school which the Israeli military said housed a "Hamas compound". The military said it "eliminated" several "terrorists" after its jets "conducted a precise strike on a Hamas compound embedded inside an UNRWA school in the area of ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-05 23:07 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
One Israeli soldier was killed, and at least eleven others were wounded – two of them seriously – in a Hezbollah drone and missile strike on a military camp in Hurfeish, Upper Galilee. Hezb confirmed the attack, stating that it targeted a gathering of Israeli army in the Baram forest in retaliation for the Israeli raid on Tuesday in Naqoura. ...
This Is Beirut 2024-06-05 22:24 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The United States warned on Wednesday against an "escalation" in Lebanon, following Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's remarks about a potential operation, stating that such conflict would only harm Israeli security. "We don't want to see that escalation of the conflict, which would just lead to further loss of life from both Israelis ...