UN Agencies: Hell on Earth Has Returned to Gaza

This Is Beirut 2023-12-01 15:42 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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The United Nations expressed profound regret over the resumption of hostilities in Gaza after the truce ended, raising concerns about the potential Israeli expansion of the military offensive in Palestinian territory. The United Nations said that it deeply regretted the resumption of deadly hostilities in the Gaza Strip on Friday following the ...

Three Questions For Milad Alam, Mayor of Rmeish

2023-12-01 15:22 - Reading : less than a minute

On the last day of the truce between Isreal and Hamas, This is Beirut spoke to Milad Alam, the Mayor of Rmeish. This village, situated on the southern Lebanese border, has been gravely affected by constant Israeli bombardments since October 7. Here is an overview of the consequences of these attacks and how the residents of Rmeish are trying to ...

Qatar Calls for Urgent Global Steps to Halt Gaza Violence

This Is Beirut 2023-12-01 12:01 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Qatar called for prompt international intervention on Friday to halt the violence in the Gaza Strip following renewed Israeli bombardment after a truce mediated by the Gulf emirate. Qatar urged swift international action on Friday to stop violence in the Gaza Strip after renewed Israeli bombardment of the territory at the end of a truce that the ...

Eleven Killed in Daesh-Linked Attack in Iraq

This Is Beirut 2023-12-01 11:28 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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An explosion and gunfire killed at least 11 civilians in eastern Iraq, blamed on the jihadist group Daesh (Islamic State). The attack came ahead of the December 18 elections for provincial councils in Iraq. A blast and gunfire killed at least 11 civilians in eastern Iraq, two security officials said on Friday, an attack that the provincial ...

Deadly Fighting Grips Gaza as Truce Ends

This Is Beirut 2023-12-01 10:18 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Fightning resumed in Gaza on Friday immediately after the expiration of a week-long truce between Israel and Hamas, with the first fatalities reported minutes later. Despite the resumption of fighting, ongoing talks between Qatari and Egyptian mediators are taking place. Fighting resumed in Gaza on Friday immediately after the expiry of a ...

Israel's Shin Bet Foil Hezbollah Assassination Attempt

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Shin Bet, Israel's internal intelligence agency, foiled an attempt by Hezbollah to assassinate a former senior Israeli security official using an explosive device, the security agency announces. The attack was intended to have been carried out in the coming days, according to the Shin Bet. Hezbollah was also responsible for a bombing in Tel ...

Iranian Ambassador, More than 1000 Across Lebanon Targeted in Pager Blasts

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At least a thousand operatives from Hezbollah were seriously wounded on Tuesday in Lebanon's south and the southern suburbs of Beirut and in Syria when pagers in their possession according to Reuters citing security sources. A Reuters journalist saw 10 Hezbollah members bleeding from wounds in the southern suburb of Beirut known as Dahiyeh, while ...

Pager Blasts Kill Seven and Wound Fourteen in Syria

1970-01-01 02:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

Seven people have died as a result of pager explosions in the Sayyida Zaynab Area in Damascus while fourteen were wounded, according to The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-affiliated Saberin News. Reports had initially surfaced wounded Hezbollah operatives arriving in hospitals in Damascus and its ...

US Says Still Seeking Israel-Palestinian Deal

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The United States said Thursday it was still working for a landmark normalization deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia, whose de facto ruler stood firm on creation of a Palestinian state. With four months left in President Joe Biden's term, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said Wednesday that Saudi Arabia will work "to establish an independent ...

US Touts 'Robust' Military Presence in Mideast as Crisis Grows

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The United States said Sunday that it had a strong military presence in the Middle East after deploying reinforcements amid Israel's widening of the war to include hundreds of targets in Lebanon. With Israel pressing on with a bombing campaign against Hezbollah and with its campaign in Gaza, White House national security spokesman John Kirby ...