This Is Beirut 2024-03-14 12:23 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Senior US officials informed Israel that Biden would support the targeting of high-value Hamas targets in Rafah – as long as it avoids a large-scale invasion. According to a Politico report published on Thursday, March 14, top US officials told Israel in private that they could support a plan more akin to precise counterterrorism operations, ...
This Is Beirut 2024-03-13 22:21 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah announced that Lebanon and the southern front would be the subject of a later speech during the month of Ramadan. Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah declared on Wednesday evening that “this year, Ramadan will be marked by Gaza, its people and the support fronts in Lebanon, Yemen and Iraq. These ...
This Is Beirut 2024-03-13 22:13 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Protecting and aiding civilians must be "job number one" for Israel in the war-battered Gaza Strip, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday. "Where there is a will, there is a way," Blinken told reporters after a virtual meeting with ministers on a new maritime corridor for aid into Gaza. "We look to the government of Israel to make ...
This Is Beirut 2024-03-13 21:54 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A second Gaza-bound aid ship would embark from the Cypriot port of Larnaca once a boat already sailing along the new maritime corridor completes its mission, Cyprus's foreign minister said Wednesday. The Israel-Hamas war, now in its sixth month, has created a severe humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip, where the United Nations has repeatedly ...
2024-03-13 21:10 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
In a conflict whose true nature continues to be ignored, material damage and casualties among fighters and civilians are multiplying on both sides. Wednesday morning, and in the recent context of Israeli strikes expanding into Lebanon, the city of Sour was, for the first time since the beginning of the war between Israel and Hamas, targeted in an ...
Tylia El Helou 2024-03-13 20:24 - Reading : less than a minute
This is Beirut brings you a daily recap of the situation in Gaza. Here are the main highlights for March 13th, 2024.
This Is Beirut 2024-03-13 17:37 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
An UNRWA warehouse was struck in Gaza on Wednesday, injuring many, with casualties including UNRWA staff. This comes amid worsening humanitarian conditions in Gaza due to ongoing conflict. The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees said one of its aid warehouses in the war-ravaged Gaza Strip was "hit" on Wednesday, wounding scores of ...
This Is Beirut 2024-03-12 23:12 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah on Lebanon's southern border intensified on Tuesday as the Israeli army bombed Berghoz and Dellafeh, in Hasbaya Caza, Houla, Markaba and Wadi Saluki. The Israeli army's Arabic-speaking spokesman, Avichay Adrae, declared in this respect that "warplanes attacked three missile launching platforms" which were ...
This Is Beirut 2024-03-12 23:05 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
A first ship carrying humanitarian aid was en route to Gaza from Cyprus on Tuesday, March 12, while Morocco sent relief supplies by land via Israel. A Spanish charity boat taking food to Gaza left Cyprus on Tuesday in hopes of opening a maritime corridor to carry sorely needed aid to the war-ravaged Palestinian territory. Philippe Lazzarini, ...
This Is Beirut 2024-03-12 22:16 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israeli security forces announced increased presence in Jerusalem's Old City on the first Friday of Ramadan, as tensions run high over the Gaza war. Israel's police force said it will deploy thousands of officers across Jerusalem's Old City for Ramadan's first Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa mosque, with tensions high amid the Gaza war. "We are ...
This Is Beirut 2024-03-12 21:32 - Reading : less than a minute
Hamas has reportedly accepted a new American initiative aimed at establishing a ceasefire with Israel in Gaza, according to a source within the organization quoted by Al Arabiya on Tuesday. "We have accepted a modified American initiative that provides for a ceasefire and the gradual return of displaced persons" inside the enclave, the source ...
This Is Beirut 2024-03-12 20:57 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Several American ships carrying equipment and soldiers left their home port on Tuesday, March 12, in order to build a humanitarian port in Gaza. Four US Army vessels departed a base in Virginia on Tuesday, carrying about 100 soldiers and equipment they will need to build a temporary port on Gaza's coast for urgently needed aid deliveries. The ...