This Is Beirut 2023-12-18 12:45 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
France's top diplomat is due to arrive in Beirut on Monday for talks on de-escalating near-daily exchanges of fire on the border with Israel, which have triggered fears of an all-out conflict. Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna is expected to call for responsibility and restraint in her meetings with Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati and ...
This Is Beirut 2023-12-18 12:22 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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Human Rights Watch on Monday accused the Israeli government of intentionally starving civilians in Gaza as part of its offensive in the besieged Palestinian territory. “The Israeli government is using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare in the occupied Gaza Strip, which is a war crime,” the group charged in a report. “Israeli ...
This Is Beirut 2023-12-18 11:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Israeli bombardments intensified in southern Lebanon on Monday. Around midday, an Israeli raid targeted the Aita al-Shaab area and a shell fell just a few meters from the place where the funeral of Hassan Maan Srour, a Hezbollah fighter killed on Sunday, was taking place. The ceremony continued despite the ...
2023-12-18 09:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Political and military events are overlapping and questioning notions, dynamics and taxonomies. The Gaza war and its immediate bloody antecedents have elicited a set of political, strategic and ethical controversies that question notional equivocations, sequential linearity and clear-cut scenarios. The terror attack on South Israel is a blatant ...
This Is Beirut 2023-12-17 22:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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The war between Israel and Hamas entered its 72nd day on Friday, following the unprecedented and bloody attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement on October 7 on Israeli soil from the Gaza Strip, which triggered the conflict. According to Israel, about 1,140 people, mostly civilians, were killed in this attack, and around 250 were abducted and ...
This Is Beirut 2023-12-17 21:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
One of the Israeli hostages mistakenly killed by the Israeli army in Gaza this week was buried north of Tel Aviv on Sunday, December 17. His brother accused the army of "abandoning and murdering" him. An Israeli hostage who was mistakenly killed by soldiers in the Gaza Strip this week was buried on Sunday, with his brother slamming the army for ...
Tylia El Helou 2023-12-17 21:23 - 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 17, 2023.
This Is Beirut 2023-12-17 20:07 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Humanitarian aid for Gaza began transiting through the Kerem Shalom crossing in Israel on Sunday, December 17. This second crossing, although "temporary" according to an Israeli official, will ease the transit through the Egyptian border crossing at Rafah. A humanitarian aid convoy crossed into war-torn Gaza through the Israeli Kerem Shalom ...
This Is Beirut 2023-12-17 19:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The Israeli army announced that it discovered the largest network of tunnels dug under the Gaza Strip to date, according to a statement published on Sunday, December 17. This network is said to be fitted with extensive infrastructure, including rails along its main axes. The Israeli army said on Sunday it had uncovered the biggest Hamas tunnel in ...
This Is Beirut 2023-12-17 16:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The exchange of fire between Hezbollah and Israel resumed on Sunday along Lebanon's southern border, where four people were killed, including two Hezbollah fighters, in an Israeli air raid on the village of Aita el-Shaab. Hezbollah announced the death of its two combatants in a communique. It said one of them, codenamed 'jihad', hailed from the ...
This Is Beirut 2023-12-17 14:51 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna called for an “immediate and durable” truce in the Gaza war during her visit to Israel on Sunday, December 17, with her counterpart Eli Cohen, who acknowledged that France could play a positive role in preventing a war with Lebanon. French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna pressed for an “immediate ...
This Is Beirut 2023-12-17 11:12 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Al-Shifa Hospital CONFLICT Gaza Hamas
The emergency department at Al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza, severely affected by Israeli bombardments, has been labeled “a bloodbath” and is deemed “in need of resuscitation” the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Sunday. A team from the WHO and other United Nations agencies managed to deliver medical supplies to the hospital on ...