Challenges loom over US plan for temporary pier in Gaza
While the US plan to build a pier off the Gaza coast to increase aid deliveries is a technique tried and tested throughout military history, it presents logistical hurdles that may limit the...
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Sweden won't help citizens held in IS camps return
Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom said Wednesday that the country would not offer aid to return Swedes who had joined the Islamic State group and were currently held in camps in...
13 March 2024
ISF’s recent recruitment campaign
While civil servants’ salaries have yet to be adjusted following the national currency’s collapse, the Internal Security Forces (ISF) announced in early March a campaign to recruit 800 male and...
Anne MARIE EL-HAGE, 13 March 2024
Second aid boat for war-torn Gaza readied in Cyprus
A second Gaza-bound aid ship would embark from the Cypriot port of Larnaca once a boat already sailing along the new maritime corridor completes its mission, Cyprus's foreign minister said...
13 March 2024
Munchies House: Express pastries ‘made in Lebanon’
In the basement of a building in Hazmieh, on the outskirts of Beirut, Abbas Haidar runs the show as the sugar master. It’s a one-man operation, he said, as he handles everything for Munchies House...
Iva KOVIC-CHAHINE, 13 March 2024
UN agency says warehouse struck amid race for Gaza aid
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees said one of its warehouses in war-ravaged Gaza was hit Wednesday, amid mounting efforts to bring food to the besieged Palestinian territory....
13 March 2024
Beirut governor takes administrative measures targeting Syrian refugees
Beirut Governor Marwan Abboud on Wednesday ordered a series of measures targeting Syrian refugees living in the Lebanese capital, ordering them, notably, to register their residency papers at the...
13 March 2024
Outcry over same-sex parenting at Central College: Halabi urges 'no hasty accusations'
Commenting on the outcry sparked by an illustrated worksheet showing same-sex families at the Lebanese Monks' Central College in Jounieh, caretaker Education Minister Abbas Halabi called on...
13 March 2024
What we know about Israel's first strike on Sour
For the first time since the war between Israel and Hezbollah began in October, the major southern Lebanese coastal city of Sour was targeted, albeit on its outskirts, by the Israeli army. What...
13 March 2024
Recap of Netanyahu’s interview with Politico
Rafah offensive: “We’ll go there. We’re not going to leave them. You know, I have a red line. You know what the red line is? That Oct. 7 doesn’t happen again. Never happens again.” Many of...
Laure-Maïssa FARJALLAH, 13 March 2024
An evening in the life of Beirut Art Center
BEIRUT — A four-sided pyramid has loomed over the Beirut Art Center (BAC) library since October 2023. Standing 440 cm tall, the tetrahedron-shaped structure (the library floor and wall provide two...
Jim Quilty, 13 March 2024
Is Hezbollah trying to bury the hatchet with its Christian ally?
Two weeks following the contentious remarks by former President and Founder of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) Michel Aoun lambasting Hezbollah for its activities in southern Lebanon, the message...
Jeanine JALKH, 13 March 2024
Dozens of Palestinian orphans transferred from Rafah to Bethlehem
Sixty-eight orphaned children and eleven caregivers plus the caregivers' families were evacuated from an orphanage in the southern Gazan city of Rafah and taken to the West Bank on Monday,...
13 March 2024
Bou Habib announces another complaint filed with UN
BEIRUT — Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib instructed the relevant departments of the Ministry on Wednesday to lodge a complaint with the UN Security Council, through Lebanon's Permanent...
13 March 2024
Melhem Khalaf assaulted in front of Justice Palace
MP Melhem Khalaf, also the former president of the Beirut Bar Association (BBA), was knocked over and beaten on Tuesday during a sit-in held in front of the Justice Palace in support of three...
Claude ASSAF, 13 March 2024
Israel beats war drums in Lebanon, Hezbollah turns deaf ear
The ongoing clashes between Hezbollah and Israel are painting a grim picture of an undeclared war. Within Lebanon, concerns grow as rumors abound of a potential escalation by Israel, possibly...
Mounir RABIH, 13 March 2024
ISF launches recruitment campaign, with no word on salaries
BEIRUT — The Internal Security Forces (ISF) — also known as the Lebanese police — announced in early March that it was launching a recruitment campaign in an attempt to add 800 trainee sergeants...
13 March 2024
'Ramadan will be marked by Gaza' this year, Nasrallah says: Day 159 of the Gaza war
22:29 Beirut Time Nasrallah concluded his speech and, with that, our live coverage for today. Make sure to come back tomorrow for more live coverage of the war in Gaza. Goodnight!...
Malek Jadah, 13 March 2024
Israel strikes Bekaa, Nasrallah speaks, Beirut port plan to be revealed: Everything you need to know to start your Wednesday
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up. Catch up on yesterday’s LIVE coverage of Day 158 of the Gaza war here . An Israeli strike killed one and injured six on a Bekaa...
