This Is Beirut 2024-05-08 14:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
French police detained 86 people following an operation to remove students staging a pro-Palestinian occupation at the Sorbonne university in Paris, prosecutors said Wednesday. Those arrested in the police operation on Tuesday night were being held for a variety of public order offences, said the statement. They include wilful damage, rebellion, ...
Michel Touma 2024-05-08 13:07 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Hundreds of young people have recently occupied numerous campuses in the United States and some European countries, pitching tents in a similar scenario. This is a reminder of the 2006 occupation of downtown Beirut by Hezbollah and its local cohorts. Therefore, these young people are unwittingly the tree that hides the forest. On the surface, the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-08 12:59 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon highly escalated Wednesday, causing several casualties and extensive material damage. Three people were killed in a raid that targeted a three-story house in the village of Khiam, flattening it to the ground. Residential areas in Aïtaroun also came under intense Israeli artillery fire, while warplanes carried ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-08 12:01 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Qatar called on the international community on Wednesday to prevent a "genocide" in Rafah following Israel's seizure of the Gaza city's crossing with Egypt and threats of a wider assault. In a statement the Gulf state, which has been mediating between Israel and militant group Hamas, appealed "for urgent international action to prevent the city ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-08 11:51 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The US has paused bomb shipments to Israel on Wednesday, whilst Israelis launched airstrikes across Gaza, and Cairo negotiators rush to establish "last chance" ceasefire deal. Israel struck targets in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday after seizing the main border crossing with Egypt, where negotiators were working to make good on their "last chance" ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-08 10:29 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israel said it reopened the Kerem Shalom border crossing to humanitarian aid for Gaza Wednesday, four days after closing it in response to a rocket attack that killed four soldiers. "Trucks from Egypt carrying humanitarian aid, including food, water, shelter equipment, medicine and medical equipment donated by the international community are ...
gdeveloper 2024-05-07 23:42 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Student protests to demand that universities break ties with Israel over the Gaza war spread across Europe on Tuesday, with police breaking up demonstrations in the Netherlands, Germany, and France. Students at some elite European universities, inspired by ongoing demonstrations at US campuses, have been occupying university halls and facilities, ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-07 23:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Benjamin Netanyahu Palestine Hamas
Israel deployed tanks into Rafah on Tuesday, in southern Gaza, taking control of the border crossing with Egypt, an action that the United Nations stated obstructed access to the crucial humanitarian route. Israel sent tanks into Rafah in southern Gaza, seizing the border crossing with Egypt Tuesday, in an operation the United Nations said denied ...
Rayan Chami 2024-05-07 22:40 - 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 7th, 2024.
This Is Beirut 2024-05-07 21:16 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
United States President Joe Biden condemned a "ferocious surge" in anti-Semitism on Tuesday, in a Holocaust memorial speech that came at a fraught moment in Israel's war in Gaza and with protests roiling American universities. Biden, who has backed Israel since the start of the conflict, said too many people were forgetting that it was the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-07 21:09 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Lebanon's Hezbollah said it attacked northern Israel on Tuesday, including with "explosive-laden drones," a day after an assault claimed by the Iran-backed movement killed two soldiers there. At the same time, other drones "targeted one of the Iron Dome (air defense system) platforms south of the Ramot Naftali barracks," the Hezb added. The ...
This Is Beirut 2024-05-07 19:05 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Benjamin Netanyahu Palestine Hamas
The news director of Al Jazeera informed AFP in an interview that the TV network is determined to pursue every available legal action to contest Israel's ban of its operations within the country. Al Jazeera can still broadcast its live feed in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, as the shutdown does not apply to these territories. Al Jazeera will look ...