This Is Beirut 2024-03-29 10:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
An Israeli drone targeted a car on the road between Bazourieh and Wadi Jilou on Friday morning. The attack resulted in the death of a senior Hezbollah official, Ali Abdel-Hassan Naim, referred to as "Abou Mehdi". Rescue workers from the Islamic Mission Scouts Association pulled the body from the vehicle while firefighters are working to ...
This Is Beirut 2024-03-28 22:59 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
While Israeli media reported on Thursday, citing an official, that Israel “will enter Lebanon after completing the Rafah operation,” Washington reiterated that “restoring calm to the Israeli-Lebanese border is a priority” for the United States. UNIFIL echoed similar concerns over the escalation on Lebanon’s southern front between ...
This Is Beirut 2024-03-28 22:23 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The ICJ has ordered Israel to "ensure urgent humanitarian assistance" after "famine has set in". This follows Monday's UN Security Council Resolution calling for an "immediate ceasefire." The world's top court on Thursday ordered Israel to "ensure urgent humanitarian assistance" in Gaza without delay, saying "famine has set in". The ...
This Is Beirut 2024-03-28 22:13 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Two people were injured on Thursday in an air strike on a residential building in a Damascus suburb, Syrian state media said, blaming the strike on Israel. "The Israeli enemy launched an aerial attack from the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting a residential building on the outskirts of Damascus," the Syrian state news agency SANA said, citing a ...
Tylia El Helou 2024-03-28 21:17 - 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 28th, 2024
This Is Beirut 2024-03-28 20:59 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Netanyahu's governing coalition is facing pressure over the longstanding issue of ultra-Orthodox Conscription, as he seeks a delay in instituting their compulsory miitary service. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked Israel's top court Thursday for a new delay on compulsory military service for ultra-Orthodox Jews, an issue that has put his ...
This Is Beirut 2024-03-28 19:51 - Reading : less than a minute
It has become clear that the Security Council’s decision regarding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza that will potentially lead into a permanent one was a decision in name only. Follow the entire interview with Maha Abu Al Kass, France 24 correspondent in Gaza.
2024-03-28 17:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Lebanese officials have received information suggesting that if efforts to secure the release of hostages between Israel and Hamas fail and if the Israeli army initiates an operation in Rafah, a comprehensive Israeli assault on Hezbollah in Lebanon could be imminent. Signs of this escalation include the widening scope of Israeli ...
This Is Beirut 2024-03-28 17:23 - Reading : less than a minute
While tensions are rising in the West Bank, the Israeli army has proceeded to encircle the city of Jericho in its entirety and launched operations in several other villages and neighboring refugee camps, according to Majed Said, the France 24 correspondent in Ramallah, West Bank.
This Is Beirut 2024-03-28 17:13 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday approved the new government presented by prime minister Mohammed Mustafa, who aims to see it play a role in post-war Gaza. Mustafa said the "top national priority" for the new government, whose members are set to take office on Sunday, would be the end of the war in Gaza. He added that ...
This Is Beirut 2024-03-28 14:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Amid the announcement of the adoption of a UN resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza three days ago, the hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel on the southern border in Lebanon seems to ablaze further. The Iran-backed group claimed several rocket and shell attacks on the Shlomi and Goren settlements and the new headquarters of the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-03-28 11:48 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Three Palestinians were killed and several others were arrested in an Israeli military operation in Jenin on Wednesday, while in Jericho, an assailant opened fire on vehicles on Thursday, wounding three people, including a teenager. Israeli forces on Wednesday killed three people in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, the Palestinian Health ...