2024-01-30 14:04 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
The race is on between diplomatic initiatives and the big explosion. Messages and mediation efforts between countries that intend to prevent a catastrophic war abound. Hezbollah is being advised to excercise caution and de-escalate to spare Lebanon total destruction, one that Hezbollah alone would bear responsibility for. Israel, in turn, is being ...
This Is Beirut 2024-01-30 13:34 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
New Zealand halts funding to UNRWA on Tuesday, January 30, amid allegations of involvement with Hamas. Aid of around 1 million NZD is on hold. New Zealand announced on Tuesday that it was suspending funding to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), following accusations that some of its employees were involved in the Hamas attack on ...
This Is Beirut 2024-01-30 13:18 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
British Foreign Minister David Cameron said that the UK is considering, with its allies, recognizing a Palestinian state, according to remarks reported by the BBC. This would be done as part of a precise diplomatic approach, aimed at achieving "irreversible progress" towards a two-state solution. The head of British diplomacy, who is making his ...
This Is Beirut 2024-01-30 11:53 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
In the midst of the cross-border exchange on the Lebanese-Israeli border, the continuous war in Gaza and the anticipation of the US decision in retaliation to the targeting of its troops in Syria, an unprecedented development circulated in the media on Tuesday concerning the land border demarcation between Lebanon and Israel. According to ...
This Is Beirut 2024-01-30 11:52 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
According to US officials, the pro-Iranian drone strike that killed three people on the Syrian-Jordanian border on Sunday, January 29, was the result of a mix-up. The unmanned aircraft may have been mistaken for an American. US forces may have mistaken the drone that killed three of their soldiers and wounded around thirty others on Sunday for an ...
Badih Karhani 2024-01-30 11:20 - Reading : 8 minute(s)
The Yemeni Minister of Information, Mouammar al-Iryani, outlines to This is Beirut the Houthis' destabilizing conduct in the Red Sea and Bab el-Mandeb. For him, these actions have no connection to events in Gaza, but serve the Iranian agenda. What is the true objective behind the Houthi strikes against maritime traffic in the Red Sea? Is it true ...
This Is Beirut 2024-01-30 10:08 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Israeli army's special forces carried out an operation in a Jenin hospital on Tuesday, January 30. Dressed as doctors, the soldiers killed three Palestinians. Undercover Israeli troops raided a West Bank hospital and shot dead three Palestinians early on Tuesday, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry, while the Israeli army said that ...
Lyne Sammouri 2024-01-29 22:32 - 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 January 29, 2024.
Maureen Décor 2024-01-29 21:50 - Reading : less than a minute
For the first time since October 7, American soldiers have been shot down in a drone attack claimed by Iranian-backed combatant groups. Former General Khalil Helou gives us his analysis of this event, which could mark a turning point in the regional crisis.
This Is Beirut 2024-01-29 20:12 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Hezbollah claimed seven attacks on Monday against Israeli soldiers in the vicinity of Jal al-Alam, the Metat barracks, the Hounin castle, the Zraiyit and Samaka barracks and the Brannit barracks, which that was targeted twice. The weapons used were Burkan-type missiles and rocket weapons, in addition to other “appropriate weapons” that ...
This Is Beirut 2024-01-29 19:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israeli troops will "very soon go into action" near the country's northern border with Lebanon, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Monday, as tensions surge amid the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. Gallant told troops near the border with the besieged Gaza Strip that others were being deployed to Israel's north. "They will very soon go into action ... ...
Samar Kadi 2024-01-29 19:21 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The decision by six European countries to discontinue funding for the United Nations refugee agency for Palestinians (UNRWA) stirred deep concern among Palestinian refugees as well as their host countries, especially Lebanon, which is already reeling under severe economic, financial and political crises. For Palestinians, the move is being ...