This Is Beirut 2023-12-28 15:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Australia said Thursday that it was investigating alleged links to Hezbollah of two nationals who were killed in Israeli airstrikes in South Lebanon earlier this week. Three members of the Bazzi family, including a Hezbollah fighter, were killed in Bint Jbeil late Tuesday night when their home was hit by Israeli raids. Ibrahim Bazzi had just ...
This Is Beirut 2023-12-28 13:31 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The head of Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards reaffirmed on Thursday that Tehran was not involved in the October 7 attacks. He made this statement in Tehran at the funeral of an official of the organization killed in Syria. His remarks contradicted those of the IRGC spokesman, who had said the opposite the previous day. The head of the Islamic ...
This Is Beirut 2023-12-28 11:18 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Clashes between residents of the southern village of Kfar Kila and a patrol of French soldiers occurred Thursday when the French peacekeepers tried to gain access to residential areas, which aroused the anger of the residents. The latter denounced the inaction of UNIFIL during the three months of clashes on the border between Lebanon and Israel ...
This Is Beirut 2023-12-28 10:51 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
An Israeli Embassy communications operation in South Korea quickly turned into a fiasco on Thursday, December 28. Involving a propaganda video imagining an attack on Seoul similar to that of October 7, the operation provoked the outrage of the South Korean government. The Israeli embassy in South Korea has removed a video showing an imaginary ...
This Is Beirut 2023-12-27 23:18 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The French shipping company CMA-CGM has resumed its partial transit through the Red Sea, following the recent announcement by the Danish group Maersk, which stated its intention to resume operations. This decision coincides with the establishment of a US-led naval coalition tasked with safeguarding the maritime route against potential attacks by ...
Tylia El Helou 2023-12-27 21:21 - Reading : less than a minute
This is Beirut brings you a daily recap of the situation in Gaza. Here are the main highlights for December 27, 2023.
This Is Beirut 2023-12-27 20:57 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
While the holiday season continues to cast its shadow over the country, there is no calm on the southern front as harsh Israeli bombardment persists. The Israeli army announced that they targeted infrastructure and military sites belonging to Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. Additionally, they launched flare bombs over the villages of the western ...
This Is Beirut 2023-12-27 18:56 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Wednesday, issued a warning to Israel, stating that either the Iranian military or its affiliated groups would take "direct" action in retaliation for the killing of senior commander Razi Moussavi. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned Israel on Wednesday that it or its allied groups would ...
Michel Touma 2023-12-27 16:13 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Unexpectedly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a strange jolt a few days ago. The leader of the Likud party found it necessary to publicly reassert his opposition to the Oslo Accords and spirit. The accords, the result of a bold and historic decision in 1993 by the Palestine Liberation Organization (under Yasser Arafat) and the ...
This Is Beirut 2023-12-27 14:27 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
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Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) spokesman said on Wednesday, December 27 that the Hamas attacks on Israel on October 7 were carried out in revenge for the US drone strike that killed General Qassem Soleimani, former head of the al-Quds Force, the IRGC's foreign operations arm, on January 3, 2020. "Al-Aqsa Flood was one of the acts ...
This Is Beirut 2023-12-27 12:53 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A woman and two men were killed late on Tuesday evening in an Israeli air strike in Bint Jbeil, a southern Lebanese border town where clashes are a daily occurrence between Israel and the pro-Iranian Hezbollah. The Israeli aircraft carried out a raid on a residential home in the center of Bint Jbeil, about two km from the ...
This Is Beirut 2023-12-27 10:15 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan met on Tuesday with Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer to discuss shifting “to a different phase” of the Israel-Hamas war, a White House official said. The meeting provided an opportunity to discuss steps to improve the humanitarian situation in war-torn Gaza and minimize harm to ...