This Is Beirut 2024-04-23 21:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
An Israeli battalion, which US media say Washington is likely to sanction over alleged rights violations against Palestinians, has a long history of transgressions and impunity, according to analysts and Israeli media. The military's Netzah Yehuda unit was founded in 1999 to encourage ultra-Orthodox Jewish men to enlist but has since accepted ...
Tylia El Helou 2024-04-23 21:50 - 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 23rd, 2024.
This Is Beirut 2024-04-23 20:39 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Two people were killed, Mariam Kachakech, widow of an Amal fighter, and her 10 year-old niece Sarah, and six others were wounded, three of them in serious condition, according to preliminary reports, in an Israeli raid on a house in the village of Hanine, in the Bint Jbeil caza, South Lebanon. By early evening, rescue workers were still working to ...
Rayan Chami 2024-04-23 20:18 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The Director of General Security, Elias Baissari, has been tasked by the government to initiate talks with the Syrian authorities on the repatriation of displaced Syrians and migrants serving prison terms in Lebanon. The decision was made during a ministerial, security and judicial meeting chaired by caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati at the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-23 17:29 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The Israel-Hamas war entered its 200th day on Tuesday, with fears mounting of an Israeli invasion in the overcrowded south of the besieged Gaza Strip amid calls for hostages to be freed. Shelling and loud explosions were heard in southwest Gaza and the city of Khan Younes in the south, while air strikes struck near the Bureij refugee camp and ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-23 17:07 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The southern Lebanese borders witnessed on Tuesday afternoon increased tensions after the killing of two Hezbollah officials, one killed by the Israeli Army on Monday night and the other on Tuesday morning. Hezbollah claimed responsibility of a drone attack on the headquarters of the Golani brigade and the Egoz (621) unit in the northern Israeli ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-23 16:49 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The UN is seeking an investigation on Tuesday into mass graves allegedly discovered at two Gaza hospitals, potentially signalling Israeli war crimes. The UN called on Tuesday for an international investigation into reports of mass graves at two Gaza hospitals destroyed in Israeli sieges, saying war crimes may have been committed. The United ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-23 11:21 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
An Israeli drone strike hit a car on the Abou el-Assouad road opposite Nabi Sari in the Tyre district on Tuesday morning, killing Hezbollah activist Hussein Ali Azkoul, code-named Abou Ali, an engineer with the group’s "air defense unit.” It was not until midday that the Shiite group announced the identity of the victim of the morning raid. ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-23 11:13 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Former French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna's independent investigation, published on Monday, into Israeli allegations that some UNRWA staff participated in October 7 found no evidence for these claims. Although the review did find some "neutrality-related issues." An independent review group on the UN agency for Palestinians found some ...
2024-04-23 08:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The Middle East is teetering on the edge of chaos, just like a dormant volcano ready to erupt at any time, threatening to wipe out entire nations and governments. International powers, especially Washington, are working tirelessly to quell the unrest, fearing the worst. Nonetheless, and despite Israel’s practices against the Palestinians, the ...
2024-04-23 00:01 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday said that Kyiv and Washington had started talks on a bilateral security cooperation deal and finalized plans to send more long-range missiles to Ukraine's armed forces. Kyiv has signed several 10-year security agreements with NATO countries that outline long-term Western support for Ukraine in the ...
This Is Beirut 2024-04-22 22:56 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Gaza's Civil Defense Agency said on Monday that health workers had uncovered around 200 bodies over the past three days of people killed and buried by Israeli forces at a hospital in Khan Younes. When asked to comment, the Israeli military said, "We will come back to you on the matter." Mahmud Bassal, spokesman for Gaza's Civil Defense, told AFP ...