Israel Strikes Beirut, Breaking a Ceasefire—Again
Breaking a year-long ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, Israel struck the suburbs of Beirut on Sunday, killing at least five people and wounding 28 others, according to the BBC and…
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Venice Documentary ‘Do You Love Me,’ a ‘Love Letter’ to Beirut, Picked Up by Light Dox as Clip Debuts (EXCLUSIVE)
Light Dox has acquired sales rights to Lana Daher‘s documentary “Do You Love Me,” which has its premiere in Venice Days, a sidebar to the Venice Film Festival. Variety debuts an exclusive…
Displaced Lebanese head for homes as fragile truce appears to hold
Early in the morning they grabbed what they could – bags with clothes, blankets, and mattresses – and headed south. Families who had been forced to flee because of the war did not wait to…
Celebrations and taking stock as cease-fire between Hezbollah and Israel takes hold
War is often less seen than heard, and as a cease-fire between Hezbollah and Israel came into effect on Wednesday morning, Ibrahim Najdi marveled at the absence of one particular sound:…
Beirut hit by massive strikes amid hope of imminent ceasefire
With expectations growing of an imminent ceasefire to stop the fighting in Lebanon, Israel has struck multiple targets in the Lebanese capital Beirut from the air, in particular targeting…
Israel intensifies strikes on Hezbollah as ceasefire deal seems close
Israeli strikes on Beirut's southern suburbs, a hotbed of the pro-Iranian Hezbollah movement, intensified on Monday afternoon, as a potential ceasefire deal between Israel and the…
Israel strikes Beirut again after 29 killed in multi-storey building
Israel's military once again bombed buildings near the Lebanese capital Beirut on Sunday, a day after one of its strikes on a densely populated area in central Beirut killed at least 29…
Hezbollah fires rocket barrages into Israel after deadly Beirut strikes
Israel's military says around 250 rockets have been fired by Hezbollah across the border from Lebanon, marking one of the heaviest bombardments of Israel since fighting intensified in…
Israel hits Beirut suburbs with more airstrikes
Israel's military has once again bombed buildings near the Lebanese capital Beirut, with a dpa reporter counting at least eight loud explosions. The airstrikes followed several evacuation…
Israel ramps up airstrikes on Beirut's southern suburbs
Israel on Friday unleashed a spate of airstrikes on Beirut's southern suburbs, an area seen as a hotbed of Lebanon's Iran-allied Hezbollah movement. In the evening, the Israeli military…
Israel Kills Hezbollah's Chief Spokesperson Hajj Mohammed Afif al-Nabulsi and Three Others in Airstrike on Building in Beirut
An Israeli airstrike has killed Hezbollah's chief spokesperson and three others in an attack on a building in Beirut. Hajj Mohammed Afif al-Nabulsi, who led Hezbollah's media relations,…
Renewed Israeli airstrikes on Beirut suburb
Israel on Saturday launched airstrikes on the Beirut suburb, the latest such bombardment on the area, a stronghold of the Lebanese Iran-backed Hezbollah militia. The strikes targeted Haret…
Israel pounds Beirut suburbs as minister vows no let-up for Hezbollah
Hezbollah strongholds in Beirut's southern suburbs were hit by multiple heavy airstrikes on Tuesday as Israel's newly appointed defence minister rejected any talk of a possible ceasefire.…
Domestic workers paying high price in Hezbollah war with Israel
Patricia, who came to Lebanon from Sierra Leone a few years ago to work as a domestic in a house in southern Lebanon, never imagined she would be stuck in a conflict in the Middle East. "I…
Baerbock warns of Lebanon destabilization as Germany pledges €60m aid
Germany is pledging an additional €60 million ($64.7 million) in humanitarian aid to Lebanon, as Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock warns that the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah…
Germany's Baerbock warns of 'complete destabilization' on Beirut trip
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on Wednesday warned the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah could lead to the "complete destabilization" of Lebanon, with dangerous consequences…
Video shows Beirut residential building leveled by Israeli airstrike
It took less than five seconds for the building in southern Beirut to be reduced to rubble. Residents heard the whoosh and watched as a missile slammed into the bottom of the multistory…
Israeli foreign minister says 'Beirut in flames' after latest attacks
Israeli attacks have left "Beirut in flames," the country's foreign minister said on Monday morning, after a major offensive targeting Hezbollah's financial assets. Foreign Minister Israel…
Beirut's southern suburbs a place of pitch darkness, piles of rubble
Following almost one week of no airstrikes on Beirut's southern suburbs, a hotbed of the Shiite Hezbollah militia, Israel resumed its heavy strikes over the weekend, hitting more buildings…
Renewed Israeli airstrikes on southern suburbs of Beirut
Israeli forces carried out at least two airstrikes on the southern Beirut suburb of Haret Hreik on Saturday, according to the Lebanese news agency NNA. An Israeli military spokesman had…
Israel to hit Hezbollah 'without mercy,' including in Beirut, PM says
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that Israel will continue strikes on Hezbollah in Lebanon "without mercy," a day after the Iran-backed militants launched a drone attack on an…
Hezbollah, Israel battle on border as Lebanon's army watches from sidelines
Hezbollah has more than 100,000 fighters, according to the militant group's late leader, Hassan Nasrallah | Photo: Shutterstock Since Israel launched its ground invasion of Lebanon,…
Lebanon: 60 killed, 168 injured in Israeli attacks in past 24 hours
Sixty people have been killed and 168 others injured in Israeli attacks in Lebanon over the past 24 hours, the Lebanese Ministry of Health reported on Friday evening. Since the start of…
Netanyahu warns Lebanon of 'destruction like Gaza'
Israel's prime minister has urged the Lebanese people to throw out Hezbollah and avoid "destruction and suffering like we see in Gaza". Benjamin Netanyahu's appeal on Tuesday came as…