Agriculture, aid, ILO complaint: Mikati's meeting
Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati held a series of meetings Thursday, focusing mainly on issues related to the war between Israel and Hezbollah. In one of these meetings, held at the Grand...
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In Washington, Lebanon's Minister of the Economy meets Massaad Boulos
During his extended stay in Washington, where he attended the annual meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in late Oct., Lebanon’s caretaker Economy and Trade Minister, Amin...
14 November 2024
Israel moves closer to cease-fire agreement in Lebanon: several Israeli officials
BEIRUT — Israel is closer to reaching an arrangement over the fighting with Hezbollah than at any point since the start of the war, an Israeli security Cabinet minister said. However, he added that...
L'Orient Today staff, 14 November 2024
Series of strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, Israeli army says it hit 30 Hezbollah targets in 48 hours
Since the beginning of the week, airstrikes have intensified both day and night on the southern suburbs of Beirut. The Israeli army has reported hitting "about 30 Hezbollah targets in 48 hours."...
L’Orient Today staff, 14 November 2024
How are children separated from their families by the war cared for in Lebanon?
There are those who have been killed or injured by Israeli army bombings in Lebanon, those who have lost their homes, and those whose loved ones have been decimated by the ongoing conflict or from...
Layal DAGHER, 14 November 2024
Polar, co-founded by a Lebanese entrepreneur, raises $18 million
Polar, a startup co-founded by Lebanese Charbel Seif and French David Dokes, specializing in data analytics for online businesses, announced it has raised $18 million in a Series A round. The round...
F.G., 14 November 2024
Clashes between Hezbollah and Israeli army south of Bint Jbeil and Beit Lif
Clashes can be heard along various sectors of the Blue Line in southern Lebanon as firefights between Hezbollah and an Israeli force attempting to infiltrate the area continue, our correspondent in...
14 November 2024
Hezbollah strikes Israeli army HQ in Tel Aviv, Beirut’s southern suburbs shelled
Israeli strikes hit Beirut’s southern suburbs on Wednesday for the third time in 24 hours, while a separate overnight strike on Aramoun in the Aley district killed at least six people, according to...
L'Orient Today staff, 14 November 2024
A month after its ultimatum, the US maintains its military aid to Israel
The ultimatum issued by the United States to Israel a month ago has expired. While some observers believed that the U.S. could suspend at least part of its military assistance to its ally,...
Tatiana KROTOFF with AFP, 14 November 2024
4 killed in Israeli raid on Damascus neighborhood
At least four people were killed in Damascus in an Israeli raid that targeted a residential building in the Mazze district on Thursday, reported the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH). An...
14 November 2024
Clashes ongoing between Hezbollah and Israeli army south of Bint Jbeil and Beit Lif
BEIRUT — Clashes can be heard on different axes along the Blue Line, in southern Lebanon, as the exchange of fire between Hezbollah and an Israeli force trying to infiltrate into the towns...
L'Orient Today staff, 14 November 2024
Children's channel destroyed in Israeli strikes on southern suburbs on Thursday
On Thursday, Hezbollah denounced the destruction of a building housing the premises of a children's TV channel, Taha TV, which broadcasts religious content. The channel's affiliation with the party...
14 November 2024
The Israeli army says it hit 'around 30 targets' in Beirut's southern suburbs in 48 hours
The Israeli army said on Thursday that it had struck “around 30 terrorist targets” in the southern suburbs of Beirut over the past 48 hours. These strikes are aimed at “dismantling and weakening...
14 November 2024
Does your iPhone clock keep changing? Here's how to solve it
As an unexpected consequence of the jamming of geolocation systems in Lebanon, your iPhone may have been accidentally changing time in recent weeks. A situation that can have embarrassing...
14 November 2024
What does Hezbollah say about rumors of imminent agreement and on-ground situation?
Between Israeli announcements of expanding their ground offensive in Lebanon and reports from the U.S. suggesting a cease-fire is near, the Lebanese are left uncertain.Meanwhile, on the ground,...
Scarlett HADDAD, 14 November 2024
Borrell proposes suspending EU-Israel political dialogue
The head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, has proposed to the 27 member states that they suspend the “political dialogue” between the European Union and Israel, diplomatic sources said on...
14 November 2024
Journalist Soukaina Mansour Kawtharani killed in Tuesday's strike on Joun
Lebanese journalist Soukaina Mansour Kawtharani, her two children Reda and Sarah, and other family members were killed in an Israeli raid on a three-story residential building in Joun, Chouf....
14 November 2024
What would a Hezbollah ‘unconditional surrender’ mean?
For the war to end, Hezbollah must ‘surrender.’ Along these lines, Israel’s new Defense Minister Israel Katz made his statement during his first meeting with the chief of staff since taking office,...
Salah Hijazi, 14 November 2024
A van carrying weapons intercepted by local residents in Rashaya
Residents of the Druze village of Dahr al-Ahmar, in the Bekaa district of Rashaya, stopped a van carrying weapons on Wednesday evening, reports our correspondent in the region, Sarah Abdallah,...
14 November 2024
Trump appoints pro-Israel Steven Witkoff as special envoy to the Middle East
Tuesday evening, President-elect Donald Trump appointed Steven Witkoff as special envoy to the Middle East. However, this 67-year-old real estate investor and Trump’s golf partner has no diplomatic...
Yara Sarkis, 14 November 2024
Strikes on Ghobeiri and Choueifat after Israeli call to evacuate
Shortly after 9 a.m., three Israeli strikes targeted the Ghobeiri district in Beirut's southern suburbs and Choueifat Amroussieh, a locality to the south of the Lebanese capital, according to our...
14 November 2024
HRW: Israel commits 'war crime' of 'forcible transfer' of civilians
In a report published on Thursday, the NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) believes that the Israeli army's repeated evacuation orders in the Gaza Strip are leading to the forced displacement of the...
14 November 2024
Israeli strike on a civil defense center in Bekaa, at least one killed | Day 405 of the Gaza and Lebanon wars
00:18 Beirut Time Hezbollah announced in a statement it had targeted "for the first time," the ‘Tel Haim’ base located in the Tel Aviv region with a series of missiles. This base is...
Yara Malka, Marguerita Sejaan, Ghadir Hamadi, Muntasser Abdallah, 14 November 2024
Overnight strikes in Beirut's southern suburbs; Israel may 'gift' Trump a Lebanon cease-fire in January, official claims: Everything you need to know this Thursday
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch today:• 9 a.m.: Caretaker Public Health Minister Dr....
Abbas Mahfouz, 14 November 2024
Hochstein in Israel for Lebanon cease-fire talks; Hezbollah's leader refuses Israeli freedom to attack: Everything you need to know this Thursday
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch today:• Developments on the U.S.-proposed cease-fire...
Abbas Mahfouz, 21 November 2024
First 'terrorists,' now their families, could face deportation in Israel
It’s a war that doesn’t take place on the front line, but in the Parliament, it doesn't use weapons, but rather the law. Last Thursday, the Knesset passed a bill by a 61-41 vote, authorizing Israel...
