This Is Beirut 2024-02-16 16:37 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
At the 60th Munich Security Conference in Germany, Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati condemned Israel's ongoing aggression against southern Lebanon. "While Lebanon emphasizes the need for stability in the region and calls on all parties to refrain from escalation, we find Israel continuing its aggression, which prompts us to ask: what steps ...
This Is Beirut 2024-02-16 16:32 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Russia has invited Hamas and other Palestinian factions, including Fatah, to Moscow for talks on the Israel-Hamas war and other issues in the Middle East. Moscow, which for years tried to court good relations with all major players in the region, has grown increasingly critical of Israel and its Western backers amid the ongoing war in Gaza. ...
2024-02-16 15:51 - Reading : 7 minute(s)
In a series of four articles, This is Beirut revisits three key elements of the Lebanese-Israeli border dispute and a fourth, which is now forgotten. The first focuses on the Ras el Naqoura tunnel, owned by the Lebanese State and registered under land registry number 28/Naqoura. However, following Israel’s occupation, it has been transformed ...
This Is Beirut 2024-02-16 14:09 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
At the request of caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati, the caretaker Minister of Foreign Affairs, Abdallah Bou Habib, instructed Lebanon's Permanent Representative to the United Nations to submit a complaint to the UN Security Council, dated Thursday, February 15, against Israel. This official complaint follows a series of deadly attacks by the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-02-16 13:47 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
There was growing concern on Friday over a key Gaza hospital a day after a raid by the Israeli Army, with the Hamas-run territory's Health Ministry saying several patients had died there due to a lack of oxygen. The ministry said the power was cut off and the generators stopped after the raid at the Nasser hospital in the southern city of Khan ...
This Is Beirut 2024-02-16 11:53 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Netanyahu once again affirmed his unwilligness to support the establisment of a Palestinian state at the end of the war. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said late Thursday that he rejected a plan for international recognition of a Palestinian state, saying such an initiative "would offer an enormous reward to terrorism". Netanyahu's ...
This Is Beirut 2024-02-16 11:25 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israeli warplanes launched a series of airstrikes shortly after midnight, targeting several towns in southern Lebanon. The attacks caused extensive damage to the targeted areas' homes, properties and crops. The towns of Naqoura, Jabal al-Labbouneh, Alma al-Shaab, Tayr Harfa and Yarine in the western sector were among those hit in the initial wave ...
This Is Beirut 2024-02-15 22:42 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Cross-border violence continued unabated on Thursday, following the grave developments in South Lebanon a day before, described as the deadliest since October 8. Israeli airstrikes targeted the village of Blida in the early evening. Initial reports said four people were wounded as a result of the attacks on a residential building and a civilian ...
2024-02-15 22:04 - Reading : less than a minute
This Is Beirut brings you a daily recap of the situation in southern Lebanon and Gaza. Here are the main highlights for February 15th, 2024.
This Is Beirut 2024-02-15 18:36 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon Joanna Wronecka resorted to her X account on Thursday to condemn the escalating hostilities in South Lebanon, which reached territory far from the Blue Line. She expressed “deep concern” about the increasing violence, particularly its devastating impact on civilian lives and property. Wronecka's ...
2024-02-15 17:41 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
In a televised appearance, Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah responded to French Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Séjourné regarding the French initiative and the implementation of Resolution 1701. The French were dissatisfied with Nasrallah’s answer and are now fully convinced they will not be able to achieve a thing when it ...
This Is Beirut 2024-02-15 16:26 - Reading : less than a minute
UNIFIL Spokesperson Andrea Tenenti expressed deep worry over the “alarming shift” in the escalating situation in South Lebanon, reaching areas “far from the Blue Line.” “The escalation of the conflict has claimed too many lives, including, tragically, the lives of children. It has also caused extensive damage to homes and public ...