This Is Beirut 2024-05-07 12:03 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
A merchant vessel passing through the Gulf of Aden, off Yemen, reported two explosions in "close proximity", British maritime security agency UKMTO said Tuesday. The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations said the "vessel and all crew are safe," adding that "authorities are investigating" the blasts south of Yemen's southern port city of ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-07 11:19 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Human Rights Watch (HRW) condemned the Israeli attack on an emergency and rescue center in the southern Lebanese town of Habariye on March 27 as “illegal.” The organization has urged the United States to “immediately suspend its arms sales and military aid to Israel.” HRW asserts that whether the attack was carried out “intentionally ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-07 09:27 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Israel took control of the Rafah crossing overnight Tuesday, ahead of an expected, and widely-condemned, invasion, as involved parties hope to agree a truce deal. Israeli forces took control of the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing in the southern Gaza Strip on the border with Egypt, Israel's Army Radio reported on Tuesday. The ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-06 21:52 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The United Nations defended freedom of the press on Monday as it commented on Israel's decision to shut down the Qatar-based news channel Al Jazeera, while the United States opposed Israel's closure of the channel, saying it should be allowed to operate despite any concerns about its coverage. "We think Al Jazeera ought to be able to operate in ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-06 20:42 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
US President Joe Biden "reiterated his clear position" to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday after Israel defied US warnings and told Palestinians to evacuate part of the southern Gaza city of Rafah, the White House said. Meanwhile, Netanyahu "agreed to ensure the Kerem Shalom crossing is open for humanitarian assistance for those in ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-06 20:26 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis said on Monday that they had exposed a "spy" network aiding the United States and Israel and arrested suspected members of it. The Houthi-run Saba news agency published footage of the detained men, describing them as "spies recruited to collect information and monitor sites operated by the Yemeni (Houthi) armed forces ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-06 20:06 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
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Following Hamas' response to the ceasefire proposal mediated by Egypt and Qatar, Israel decided to persist in its planned military operation in Rafah while simultaneously deciding to send a delegation of negotiators to Cairo for talks. Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh informed mediators Qatar and Egypt early on Monday evening that his Palestinian ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-06 13:37 - Reading : less than a minute
The number of Israeli soldiers killed in a rocket attack launched from the besieged Gaza Strip towards the Kerem Shalom border crossing has risen to four, the military announced Monday, updating an earlier figure. The military did not specify whether the soldier was among the 12 servicemen wounded in the attack on Sunday. The military said on ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-06 13:16 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A Hamas spokesman said Monday that the Palestinian militant group would continue negotiations towards a truce in Gaza, despite Israel's order to begin evacuating people from Rafah in the south. "We will continue the negotiations positively and with an open heart", Hamas spokesman Abdul Latif al-Qanou told AFP. He reiterated that an agreement was ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-06 10:56 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The Israeli army Monday called on Gazans living in eastern Rafah to head to an "expanded humanitarian area" in the Palestinian territory, ahead of an expected military operation in the southern Gaza city. "IDF (Israeli military) encourages the residents of eastern Rafah to advance towards expanded humanitarian area," the military said in a ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-06 10:56 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israeli warplanes launched an airstrike at around 1:30 a.m. on Monday on a factory in the town of Sefri, near Baalbeck, which led to the injury of three civilians. The raid also targeted an uninhabited building, the stones of which littered the neighboring Rayak-Baalbek International Road. The border area in the eastern sector of south Lebanon is ...
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 ...