This Is Beirut 2024-05-05 19:27 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Antony Blinken Benjamin Netanyahu
The Biden administration suspended a shipment of US-made munitions to Israel last week, two Israeli officials told the US media outlet Axios on Sunday, May 5. This is the first time Washington has blocked an arms shipment to Tel Aviv since the start of the conflict. A few days earlier, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken had told Netanyahu that ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-05 18:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Al Jazeera went off-air in Israel Sunday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government decided to shut it down following a long-running feud, a move the Qatar-based channel decried as "criminal". Netanyahu declared on X that the government had "unanimously decided: the incitement channel Al Jazeera will be closed in Israel". The ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-05 16:03 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Netanyahu and Haniyeh have traded accusations following an Israeli cabinet meeting on Sunday, in which Israeli's ban on Al Jazeera was announced. Meanwhile, protestors marched in Jerusalem calling for a Rafah invasion. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday, during a government cabinet meeting, that accepting Hamas's demand to end the war ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-04 22:43 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Benjamin Netanyahu Palestine Hamas
Talks resumed in Cairo on Saturday on ways to achieve a truce in the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, against a backdrop of mutual accusations by the warring parties of obstructing any agreement. Talks resumed in Egypt Saturday aimed at halting months of war in Gaza between Hamas and Israel that have triggered protests around the ...
2024-05-04 21:56 - 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 May 3rd, 2024.
This Is Beirut 2024-05-04 21:45 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Israeli Army said that troops killed five Palestinian fighters barricaded in a building during a 12-hour siege in the occupied West Bank on Saturday. An AFP photographer saw a heavy military deployment in the village of Deir al-Ghusun, near the northern town of Tulkarem. Troops deployed a bulldozer to flatten a building and carried at least ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-04 21:32 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The chief of the United Nations' food program has warned of a "full-blown famine" in northern Gaza and reiterated calls for a ceasefire in Israel's war against Hamas. "There is famine, full-blown famine in the north and it's moving its way south," Cindy McCain, executive director of the World Food Program (WFP), said in an interview excerpt ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-04 16:48 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Students at Ireland's prestigious Trinity College Dublin university manned an on-campus protest on Saturday against Israel's actions in Gaza, blocking the entrance to a library housing a world-famous medieval manuscript. Student activists described the protest, which began Friday, as a "solidarity encampment with Palestine", echoing similar ...
2024-05-04 14:51 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Despite the ongoing war between Hezbollah and Israel in southern Lebanon and the absence of a long-term solution, reports have emerged regarding preparations to implement security measures along the Lebanese-Israeli borders, notably by a British team, in order to build observation towers in the area. According to detailed information, the British ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-04 13:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Armed groups in Gaza, including one with presumed Hamas links, last month robbed the Bank of Palestine of some $70 million, French daily Le Monde reported Saturday. The funds were taken from the vaults of several branches of the bank, it said, citing a Bank of Palestine document sent to "certain international partners" detailing the ...
2024-05-03 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 May 3rd, 2024.
Alissar Boulos 2024-05-03 19:00 - Reading : less than a minute
Good evening and welcome to The Intelligent Recap. It is Friday May 3rd and the 210th day of the war in Gaza. In tonight’s episode: the situation in South Lebanon, France’s diplomatic efforts to calm tensions and a one-billion-euro EU package to Lebanon over Syrian presence. As well as a report on garbage scavengers in Beirut and other local ...