This is Beirut 14/05 05:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam United Nations Gaza Palestine
United Nations relief chief Tom Fletcher on Tuesday called on the UN Security Council to take action "to prevent genocide" in Gaza, delivering a scathing account of Israel's actions in the Palestinian territory. Fletcher, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, demanded that Israel lift its aid blockade on Gaza, where its ...
This is Beirut 13/05 22:35 - Reading : less than a minute
Nawaf Salam Yemen Houthi Movement
Yemen's Houthis said they attacked Israel's main airport on Friday, after the Israeli military said it had intercepted a missile fired from Yemen. Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said that the Iran-backed group targeted the Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv "using a hypersonic ballistic missile," while also claiming a drone ...
This is Beirut 13/05 16:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Benjamin Netanyahu Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the military would enter Gaza "with full force" in the coming days, a statement from his office said Tuesday. "In the very coming days, we are going in with full force to complete the operation. Completing the operation means defeating Hamas. It means destroying Hamas," Netanyahu ...
This is Beirut 12/05 22:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
An Israeli rights group denounced Monday a government decision to launch extensive land registration for parts of the occupied West Bank, saying it could help advance annexation of the Palestinian territory. "It is a tool for annexation," said Yonatan Mizrachi of the Settlement Watch project at Israeli nongovernmental organization Peace Now. The ...
Malo Pinatel 12/05 21:00 - Reading : 7 minute(s)
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On December 8, 2024, the Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) stated that the member states of the GCC “are committed to strengthening dialogue and diplomacy, ensuring that the Gulf region remains a hub for peace and cooperation amid growing global competition.” This was said during a roundtable on the future of cooperative ...
This is Beirut 12/05 20:46 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
The armed wing of Palestinian militant group Hamas handed over a US-Israeli hostage held in Gaza since October 2023 on Monday, ahead of a regional visit by US President Donald Trump. "The (Ezzedine) Al-Qassam Brigades have just released the Zionist soldier and American citizen Edan Alexander, following contacts with the US administration, as ...
Sana Richa Choucair 12/05 17:15 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Hamas Donald Trump Gaza Hostages
Edan Alexander, 21, is the only American national still held alive in Gaza. After moving from New Jersey to Israel in 2022, he joined an elite unit of the Israeli army and was taken by Hamas during the October 7, 2023 attack. In a statement released on Sunday, the spokesperson for Hamas’s military wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, said: “The ...
This is Beirut 12/05 17:10 - Reading : less than a minute
Nawaf Salam Gaza Hamas Benjamin Netanyahu
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he would send mediators to Qatar on Tuesday to discuss the release of hostages held in Gaza after Hamas announced the release of US-Israeli Edan Alexander. Following a meeting with US envoy Steve Witkoff and ambassador Mike Huckabee, "the Prime Minister instructed to send a negotiation ...
This is Beirut 10/05 23:40 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Hamas Gaza Hostages
Hamas's armed wing released a video on Saturday showing two Israeli hostages alive in the Gaza Strip, with one of the two men calling to end the 19-month-long war. The pair were identified by the Hostages and Missing Families Forum campaign group as Elkana Bohbot and Yosef Haim Ohana, who were kidnapped during Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack on ...
This is Beirut 09/05 18:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Hamas Houthi Palestine United States
Israel's military said it intercepted a missile launched from Yemen on Friday, with AFP journalists reporting explosions heard in the Jerusalem area. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the missile fire, which follows attacks by Yemen's Iran-backed Huthi rebels, including a strike on Sunday on Israel's main airport. The Israeli ...
This is Beirut 08/05 09:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Iran Israel Katz Hamas
Israel will do to Iran what it has done to Hamas in Gaza, Defense Minister Israel Katz warned Thursday, days after an attack on Ben Gurion Airport by Iran-backed Houthis. "I warn... Iranian leaders who finance, arm, and exploit the Houthi terrorist organization: the proxy system is terminated, and the axis of evil has collapsed," Katz said in a ...
This is Beirut 07/05 22:31 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Ahmed al-Sharaa Syria
President Ahmed al-Sharaa said Wednesday that Syria was holding "indirect talks" with Israel to calm tensions between the two countries, following Israeli strikes and threats against Syria since Bashar al-Assad's ouster. "There are indirect talks (with Israel) taking place through mediators to calm the situation and try to ...