2024-04-06 21:56 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Hezbollah announced in a statement on Saturday evening that it had shot down an armed Israeli army Elbit Hermes 450 drone over Lebanese territory. This information was confirmed later that evening by the Israeli army, which stated that the pro-Iranian formation had used a surface-to-air missile. Additionally, a civilian who was injured in a raid ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-06 18:31 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Trucks filled with medicine provided by the UN entered for the first time on Saturday morning through the Erez-Beit Hanoun crossing point, according to images. The vehicles were then supposed to reach two hospitals located in the northern part of Gaza. Israel made the decision on Friday to temporarily open this border crossing located north of ...
2024-04-06 15:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
According to diplomatic sources, tension along the Lebanese-Israeli front has markedly intensified, and the likelihood of further escalation in the war is now unmistakably real and no longer considered improbable. This follows the recent Israeli attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus, which resulted in the tragic loss of seven Iranian ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-06 12:02 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Truce talks in Gaza are due to resume this weekend in Cairo, where Joe Biden has urged negotiators to convince Hamas, while Iran is preparing its retaliation to Israel's attack on its Damascus consulate. American and Israeli negotiators were expected in Cairo over the weekend for a renewed push to reach a ceasefire-hostage deal in a war that has ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-06 11:39 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Israeli strikes on seven aid workers from World Central Kitchen in Gaza represent one tragedy apiece for the Biden administration, but the United States is unlikely to make any major policy changes towards its ally. President Joe Biden has stood firmly by Israel amid months of mounting domestic and international outcry over the humanitarian toll ...
Rayan Chami 2024-04-05 20:57 - 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 April 5th, 2024.
This Is Beirut 2024-04-05 20:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Two Hezbollah fighters and three others affiliated with its ally, the Amal Movement of Speaker Nabih Berri, were killed and two were injured in Israeli airstrikes on targets in South Lebanon on Friday evening. The raids hit a house in Aita al-Shaab and a center of the Amal movement in Jdeidet Marjayoun. Hezbollah and Amal announced the death of ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-05 19:33 - Reading : less than a minute
CIA Director Bill Burns will travel to the Egyptian capital Cairo this weekend for talks on freeing hostages held in Gaza, US media said on Friday. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby declined to say if Burns would be involved but told journalists that "the United States will be present for those talks." Burns will meet Mossad chief ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-05 19:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed serious concern on Friday over reports that Israel was using artificial intelligence to identify targets in Gaza. According to a report in the Israeli magazine +972, Israel used artificial intelligence to identify targets in Gaza, in some cases with as little as 20 seconds of human ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-05 19:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Thousands of people chanted against Israel and the United States at Friday's funeral for seven Iranian Revolutionary Guards, two of them generals, who were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Syria. Guards chief General Hossein Salami warned that Israel "cannot escape the consequences" of Monday's strike, which levelled the five-storey consular ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-05 14:48 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The Israeli Army claimed on Friday that it was targeting a "Hamas gunman" when it killed seven aid workers in Gaza, admitting that it had made a series of "serious mistakes," while Warsaw asked for a "criminal inquiry" into those events. Israel said on Friday that it was targeting a "Hamas gunman" when it killed in Gaza seven aid workers whose ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-05 12:12 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The UN Human Rights Council called on Friday for a halt to all arms sales to Israel in its war against Hamas in Gaza, in a resolution that evoked fears of genocide against Palestinians. The UN Human Rights Council demanded on Friday a halt in all arms sales to Israel, highlighting warnings of "genocide" in its war in Gaza, which has killed more ...