2024-05-06 09:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The ongoing negotiations shepherded by the US and Saudi Arabia offer a suitable platform to tackle the equivocations of a deliberately mounted conflict and its self defeating premises. This conflict is intractable by definition and was initially conceived to prevent the possibility of diplomatic intermediation. The offer of a 40-day truce ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-05 22:39 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Sunday denounced a "genocide" in Gaza, urging its 57 member countries to impose sanctions on Israel in a resolution adopted at the end of its Gambia summit. The organization called on its members to impose "sanctions on Israel, the occupying power, and halt the export of weapons and ammunition used ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-05 21:21 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
A Hamas official said on Sunday that the group's delegation to the Gaza truce talks in Cairo was leaving for Qatar after disagreements with Israel over demands to end the war persisted. A meeting in Cairo on a proposed truce linked to the release of hostages in the Gaza Strip ended on Sunday without any concrete progress, while Israel and Hamas ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-05 20:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Tension on the southern front escalated further on Sunday, with an intensification of exchanges of fire between Hezbollah and Israel following the morning raid on Mays al-Jabal, which left four civilians from the same family dead and several others wounded. A salvo of dozens of rockets was fired at Kiryat Shmona from southern Lebanon by Hezbollah ...
Rayan Chami 2024-05-05 20:39 - 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 5th, 2024.
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 ...