This Is Beirut 2024-05-02 10:58 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
As a new ceasefire proposal sits on the table and the United States urges Hamas to accept it, pressure from the Israeli public against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remains intense. Protesters and relatives of hostages have blocked the main highway in Tel Aviv, chanting, "It's either the hostages or Rafah." Protesters are urging the Israeli ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-01 23:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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US top diplomat Antony Blinken urged Hamas on Wednesday to accept a Gaza truce plan, despite an Israeli warning that the army will keep fighting the Palestinian militant group after any ceasefire. "Hamas needs to say yes and needs to get this done," said Blinken, who was in Israel on his seventh Middle East crisis tour since the war broke out in ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-01 23:15 - Reading : less than a minute
Tensions persisted on Wednesday at the southern front, where exchanges of artillery fire between Hezbollah and Israel continued intermittently throughout the day. The Israeli army raided a house in Tayr Harfa, without causing any casualties, as well as the area between Blat and Marwahin in the western sector. Israel also bombed Tal al-Nahas. In ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-01 22:08 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Colombian President Gustavo Petro said Wednesday that his country will sever diplomatic ties with Israel, whose leader he described as "genocidal," over its war in Gaza. "Tomorrow (Thursday) diplomatic relations with the state of Israel will be severed... for having a genocidal president," Petro, a harsh critic of the devastating war against ...
Chelsea Al Arif 2024-05-01 21:53 - 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 1, 2024.
This Is Beirut 2024-05-01 20:19 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Gaza is filled with more debris and rubble than Ukraine, the United Nations said Wednesday, with the mammoth task of clearing it made all the more costly and dangerous by the sheer amount of asbestos and unexploded ordnance. Six months into the war between Israel and Hamas, the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) estimated the amount of ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-01 18:34 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Egypt's top diplomat Sameh Shoukry said in a meeting on Wednesday with his French counterpart that parties "must show the necessary flexibility" to achieve a truce in Gaza "that stops the bloodshed of Palestinians." In a "quick visit" by French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné in Cairo, the pair "exchanged assessments on the ongoing truce ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-01 13:29 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Clashes broke out on Wednesday at pro-Palestinian demonstrations on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles, as dozens of universities around the United States struggle to contain similar protests. CNN reported that the clashes erupted between rival pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli groups. "At the request of UCLA, due to multiple ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-01 11:29 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
A ground operation by Israeli troops in the southern Gaza city of Rafah would be a "tragedy beyond words", the UN's humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths said in a statement on Tuesday. "The simplest truth is that a ground operation in Rafah will be nothing short of a tragedy beyond words. No humanitarian plan can counter that," Griffiths said, ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-01 11:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken renewed calls for Hamas to accept a ceasefire deal Wednesday as he started talks with Israel's leadership. "Even in these very difficult times we are determined to get a ceasefire that brings the hostages home -- and to get it now. And the only reason that it wouldn't be achieved is because of Hamas," Blinken ...
Michel Touma 2024-05-01 11:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
"The dress does not make the monk.” This French idiom, which implies that appearances can be deceiving, certainly applies to the field of political maneuvering, and it is equally pertinent when dealing with mass manipulation. As such, political stances howled amidst the media frenzy often serve as a dense smoke cloud, inadequately veiling the ...
2024-04-30 23:51 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Fire exchange between Hezbollah and Israel intensified on Tuesday evening. A raid was carried out on the house of Abu Hussein Mehdi in Khiam, but no casualties were reported. Several raids were also carried out in Khiam targeting Wadi al-Assafir. The Israeli army also bombed Alma al-Shaab, Dhayra, Tayr Harfa, the outskirts of Kfar Hamam-Rachaya ...