War Diary: Day 134
Tylia El Helou 2024-02-17 20:40 - Reading : less than a minute
This is Beirut brings you a daily recap of the situation in Gaza. Here are the main highlights for February 17th, 2024.
War in the Middle East
Hamas Warns of Negotiations Pullout Unless Gaza Aid Increased
This Is Beirut 2024-02-17 19:38 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Hamas issued a threat on Saturday, stating that they would halt ceasefire negotiations unless immediate aid was delivered to the northern region of the Gaza Strip. This area has been flagged by aid agencies for an imminent risk of famine. Hamas threatened Saturday to suspend ceasefire talks unless urgent aid was brought into the north of the Gaza ...
Blinken Highlights 'Extraordinary Opportunity' for Arab-Israeli Normalization
This Is Beirut 2024-02-17 19:26 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken observed on Saturday that Israel has a remarkable chance to break the cycle of violence in the upcoming months, considering that nearly every Arab nation is supportive of normalizing relations with it. Israel has an "extraordinary opportunity" to end a cycle of violence in the coming months, as almost every ...
Hamas Chief Insists on Gaza Ceasefire
This Is Beirut 2024-02-17 16:06 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh on Saturday reiterated the group's demand of a complete ceasefire in Gaza, a day after US President Joe Biden called for a "temporary truce" to secure the release of hostages. High-level negotiations to pause the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza were held this week in Cairo but their outcome is still unclear. In a statement ...
Southern Lebanon: Israel Continues Strikes While Hezbollah Retaliates
This Is Beirut 2024-02-17 11:12 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Exchanges of fire between Israel and Hezbollah resumed on the Lebanese-Israeli border on Saturday. Israeli artillery bombarded the Hamoul-Naqoura region, as well as the outskirts of Alma al-Shaab, Bayt Lif, Ramya, Aita al-Shaab, and Jabal Blat. Israeli raids also targeted Aita el-Shaab and the outskirts of Aitaroun, Bayt Lif, Ramya, and Maroun ...
Southern Lebanon: Conflict Unabated, More Amal and Hezbollah Fighters Killed
This Is Beirut 2024-02-16 22:35 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
The Lebanese southern border witnessed yet another day of violence on Friday. Israel bombarded the towns of Majdel Zoun, Labbouneh, Hamoul, Aita al-Shaab, Rachaya al-Foukhar, Kfar Hamam, and Hebbariyeh, as well as residential areas in Kfar Kila and the region between Yater and Bayt Lif. A missile fired by an Israeli fighter plane fell without ...
War Diary: Day 133
2024-02-16 20:55 - 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 February 16th, 2024.
Anti-Hamas Protests in Rafah
This Is Beirut 2024-02-16 19:52 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
In Rafah, south of Gaza, where over a million Palestinian refugees live in terror of an Israeli offensive, demonstrations were organized against Hamas and its leader, Yahya Sinwar. Anti-Hamas Protests in Rafahhttps://t.co/ymVaYxdPn9 pic.twitter.com/R0G0Cd0Yi2 — This is Beirut (@ThisIsBeirut_) Anti-Hamas Protests in Rafahhttps://t.co/ymVaYxdPn9 ...
Egypt Building 'Enclosure' for Potential Displaced Gazans in Sinai
This Is Beirut 2024-02-16 19:31 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
As Israel threatens a massive offensive on Rafah, Egypt prepares a secure camp to receive Palestinian refugees. Since the beginning of the war, Egypt has refused any forced displacement of Palestinians on its territory. Egypt is constructing a walled camp in the Sinai Peninsula to receive displaced Palestinian civilians from the Gaza Strip, a US ...
Nasrallah Vowing Escalation Against Israel: 'The Price of Blood Will be Blood'
This Is Beirut 2024-02-16 18:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
During his speech commemorating Hezbollah's "martyred fighters" on Friday, the group's Secretary General, Hassan Nasrallah, vowed to retaliate for Wednesday's deadly Israeli raids on Nabatiyeh and Sawaneh, in which more than 12 people were killed, including three Hezbollah fighters. "The enemy should understand that it went too far by targeting ...
Macron Signals Openness to Recognizing Palestinian State
This Is Beirut 2024-02-16 17:07 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Amidst the Gaza conflict, French President Macron stated that France isn't ruling out recognizing Palestine. He spoke in Paris with Jordan's King Abdullah II, following Netanyahu's rejection of a recognition plan. "The recognition of a Palestinian state is not a taboo for France," President Emmanuel Macron said at a joint press conference in ...
Two Dead in Shooting in Southern Israel
This Is Beirut 2024-02-16 16:54 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Two people were killed in Israel when a gunman opened fire on a crowded bus stop near the southern town of Kiryat Malakhi on Friday, according to sources from the hospital and the police. Two people who were brought to Kaplan Medical Center had been declared dead, a spokeswoman for the facility told AFP. Four others were wounded in the shooting, ...