Hala Abdallah 2024-09-01 22:07 - Reading : less than a minute
From Gaza to Lebanon, This is Beirut brings you a daily recap of the war between Hamas and Israel and its repercussions on the region. Here are the main highlights for September 1st, 2024.
This Is Beirut 2024-09-01 21:12 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Tensions resumed at the southern front on Sunday after a relatively cautious calm prevailed in the morning. In the afternoon, Israeli warplanes destroyed a house in the town of Bayt Lif in southern Lebanon, killing one person and injuring eight, according to a statement from the Public Health Emergency Operations Center of the Ministry of Public ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-01 17:42 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The head of Israel's powerful Histadrut trade union ordered a "complete strike" in support of Gaza hostages on Monday and urged a deal to secure their release after six more were announced dead. "We must stop the abandonment of the hostages... I have come to the conclusion that only our intervention can shake those who need to be shaken," ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-01 16:54 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Artillery exchanges resumed on Sunday on the southern front after a relatively calm morning. In the afternoon, four people were injured in an Israeli strike on Aita al-Shaab, according to a statement by the emergency operations center of the Ministry of Health. Israeli artillery fired two mortar shells towards shepherds on the outskirts of ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-01 12:28 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Sunday to "settle the score" with Hamas after the military had recovered the bodies of six hostages from a Gaza tunnel. "Those who kill hostages do not want an agreement" for a Gaza truce, Netanyahu said in a statement, telling Hamas leaders that "we will hunt you down, we will catch you and we ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-01 10:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Israel's medical emergency service announced the death of a third person in Sunday's shooting attack in the occupied West Bank. It said the death of a 50-year-old man had been confirmed at a hospital where he had been evacuated after being shot along with two others who had previously been declared dead in the attack near Tarkumiya crossing near ...
This Is Beirut 2024-09-01 10:14 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Israel's military announced on Sunday the discovery of six dead hostages in a Gaza tunnel, as medics in the Palestinian territory braced for pauses in fighting for a polio vaccination drive. The hostages' remains were recovered on Saturday "from an underground tunnel in the Rafah area" and formally identified in Israel, a military statement ...
Lyne Sammouri 2024-08-31 20:33 - Reading : less than a minute
From Gaza to Lebanon, This is Beirut brings you a daily recap of the war between Hamas and Israel and its repercussions on the region. Here are the main highlights for August 31, 2024.
This Is Beirut 2024-08-31 17:45 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Concrete slabs and sheet metal were piled high alongside streets in Jenin on Saturday, as residents assessed the damage from Israel's latest West Bank raid even as explosions persisted nearby. The scars of ongoing clashes in the occupied Palestinian territory, which began on Wednesday as part of what Israel has described as a "counter-terrorism ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-31 17:06 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A health official said that a polio vaccination campaign began in Gaza on Saturday after the war-torn territory recorded its first case of the disease in a quarter-century. Local health officials, along with the United Nations and NGOs, "are starting today the polio vaccination campaign in the central region," Moussa Abed, the director of primary ...
This Is Beirut 2024-08-31 10:52 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Israel pressed on with a large-scale military operation in the occupied West Bank for a fourth day on Saturday, as fierce fighting raged in the nearly 11-month Gaza war. As clashes and explosions persisted in the northern city of Jenin, the Israeli military said two Palestinians were killed while preparing to carry out bombings overnight in the ...
Vanessa Kallas 2024-08-30 21:13 - Reading : less than a minute
From Gaza to Lebanon, This is Beirut brings you a daily recap of the war between Hamas and Israel and its repercussions on the region. Here are the main highlights for August 30, 2024.