This Is Beirut 2024-04-19 10:27 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The US has vetoed a move to grant Palestine UN membership, which was supported by 12 out of 15 security council members, as global anger at the Gaza war grows. The United States on Thursday spoiled a long-shot Palestinian bid for full United Nations membership, vetoing a Security Council measure despite growing international distress over the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-19 07:57 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Iran's state media reported explosions in the central province of Isfahan Friday, as US media quoted officials saying Israel had carried out retaliatory strikes on its arch-rival. Air defense systems over several Iranian cities were activated, state media reported, after the country's official broadcaster said explosions were heard near the city ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-18 21:41 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Birds sang and planes rumbled overhead as Abdeljabbar al-Arja dug the remains of his dead neighbors from the rubble in Gaza. An overnight Israeli strike hit the home where a displaced Palestinian family was sheltering in the southern city of Rafah, relatives and neighbors told AFP as they scraped at the soil with their hands. Al-Arja said the ...
Alissar Boulos 2024-04-18 21:37 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
On Saturday, April 13, just before midnight, Iran launched more than 300 drones and missiles towards Israel in a first-of-its-kind direct attack. The reasons and consequences of this attack have been extensively analyzed in newsrooms, on television sets, and in diplomatic and decision-making centers around the world. The barrage included 170 ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-18 20:53 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
On Thursday, an Israeli strike on a house in the southern village of Blida killed two people, including one Hezbollah fighter, and wounded two others. Hezbollah had already lost two of its fighters in a dawn raid the same day, on the village of Kfar Kila. The exchange of artillery fire between the pro-Iranian group and the Israeli army continued ...
Rayan Chami 2024-04-18 20:34 - 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 18th, 2024.
This Is Beirut 2024-04-18 19:29 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The United Kingdom and the United States have unveiled a wide range of sanctions against Iran, specifically targeting its drone program, automobile, and steel industries which provide support to Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps. The United States and Britain announced widespread sanctions against Iran's military drone program on Thursday, in ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-18 19:14 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A high-ranking Revolutionary Guards Official warned Israel on Thursday, that the Islamic Republic would target Israeli nuclear sites should it attack Iranian atomic sites. This statement comes ahead of anticipated Israeli retaliation for Tehran's drone and missile attack on April 13. A senior Revolutionary Guards general threatened on Thursday to ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-18 16:42 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The French weekly magazine “Le Point” released an extensive investigative series titled “Islamism, Terrorism, and Cocaine - The Billions of Hezbollah,” with a cover page photo depicting Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and Hezbollah’s Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah. The 20-page file, divided into five headlines, investigated ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-18 13:57 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A haunting image of a grieving Palestinian woman embracing her little niece, killed in an Israeli strike in war-torn Gaza, won the 2024 World Press Photo of the Year Award on Thursday. The picture taken by Reuters news agency's Mohammed Salem shows Inas Abu Maamar cradling the body of five-year-old Saly, who was killed with her mother and sister ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-18 13:11 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel escalated from Wednesday evening through Thursday morning. Two Hezbollah fighters, Mohammad Jamil al-Shami and Ali Ahmad Hmade, were killed in an Israeli strike on Kfar Kila at dawn. The residents of the villages of Marjayoun, particularly Khiam and Kfar Kila, faced a harrowing night. Between 8:00 PM on ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-18 12:45 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Netanyahu said on Wednesday that Israel has the right to defend itself following Iran's attack as allies mobilize to sanction Iran. According to Iranian foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, his country has "tried to tell the United States clearly" that Iran is "not looking for the expansion of tension in the region." Israel's Prime Minister ...