US warns Turkey against hosting Hamas leadership
The United States issued a warning Monday against countries hosting members of Hamas, singling out Turkey after recent reports indicated possible moves by the Palestinian Islamist group's...
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Suspicions of corruption, security risks: The challenge of aid distribution to displaced populations
Since the escalation of the war in Lebanon in September, the caretaker government has faced a daunting humanitarian task: supporting hundreds of thousands of displaced people in the country.With a...
Jeanine JALKH, 18 November 2024
Avichay Adraee claims he’s getting messages from Lebanese and redirects them to the Mossad
BEIRUT — As ground fighting between Israel and Hezbollah intensifies, the Israeli army’s Arabic-language spokesperson, Avichay Adraee once again urged people to contact the Israeli foreign...
L'Orient Today staff, 18 November 2024
Four people wounded in Tel Aviv from rocket shrapnel, ambulance service says
Four people were wounded on Monday after a main street of a Tel Aviv suburb was hit by falling shrapnel after a missile fired from Lebanon was intercepted by the Israeli military over central...
18 November 2024
Even with Lebanon truce deal, Israel will operate against Hezbollah: Netanyahu
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that Israel will continue to operate militarily against the Lebanese armed party Hezbollah even if a cease-fire deal is reached in Lebanon. "The...
18 November 2024
It’s a complicated return for public schools in war-torn Lebanon
Two weeks after public schools reopened in Lebanon amid the escalation of the war, more than 30,000 students out of the 300,000 expected are absent, according to figures provided by caretaker...
Anne-Marie El-HAGE, 18 November 2024
Mikati: 'positive' response to cease-fire talks, but some 'points still to be discussed'
Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister, Najib Mikati, told al-Araby TV on Monday that Lebanon’s response to a truce proposal delivered last week by the United States was “positive,” though he noted...
L'Orient Today staff, 18 November 2024
UNESCO places 34 Lebanese heritage sites under reinforced protection
BEIRUT — UNESCO announced on Monday that it was placing 34 cultural sites in Lebanon threatened by Israeli bombardments under "provisional reinforced protection" and granting emergency financial...
L'Orient Today staff, 18 November 2024
At least five killed in Israeli strike on Zoqaq al-Blat, central Beirut
An Israeli drone strike hit central Beirut on Monday evening, targeting a building near Husseiniyet al-Zahra area at the intersection of Zoqaq al-Blat and Salim Salam. The Lebanese Health Ministry...
18 November 2024
Lebanon to file UN complaint over Israeli attacks on its army
The Lebanese Foreign Affairs Ministry has instructed its Permanent Mission to the United Nations to file a formal complaint with the U.N. Security Council regarding "repeated Israeli attacks on the...
18 November 2024
Caretaker Health Minister launches emergency primary care program
BEIRUT — Caretaker Health Minister Firas Abiad announced a new program on Monday to cover emergency primary health care services for Lebanese citizens treated at the ministry’s expense and for...
18 November 2024
Israeli strikes hit Sour, killing two local officials and cutting water supply
Israeli airstrikes targeted the southern Lebanese city of Sour on Monday, destroying the city's Water Office, cutting off its water supply and killing two local officials, according to L'Orient...
L'Orient Today staff, 18 November 2024
Economic news recap: Here's what happened last week in Lebanon
-Airport passengers (arrivals, departures and transit) dropped to 5.1 million in the first 10 months of 2024 , down from 6.3 million over the same period in 2023, or a decrease of 19.1 percent ,...
Stephanie Bechara, 18 November 2024
‘Are you coming home for Christmas?’
It's been exactly two months since the Lebanon war started. Exactly two months since the sordid and surreal episode of beepers. No words can describe that day — the beginning of an ongoing deluge...
Gilles Khoury, 18 November 2024
Bilal Raad, Lebanese Civil Defense prominent figure, killed by Israel
He was no stranger to war. But this one was different: Far more violent, far more destructive. He despised it. He called it “barbaric” and “absurd.” Bilal Raad headed the General Directorate of...
Soulayma MARDAM BEY, 18 November 2024
Trumpian turmoil is coming to the Middle East
Donald Trump’s victory in last week’s U.S. presidential election has left many world leaders feeling dejected. European leaders fear that he will browbeat them on issues ranging from trade to...
Barak BARFI, 18 November 2024
With a little help from their friends: Syrian rockers Tanjaret Daghet’s 13 years in Lebanon
“Dany put it well last time we spoke. Living in Beirut as a Syrian, it’s like building sand castles.” Guitarist Tarek Khuluki slaps his palms together as if to brush off the sand. “Everything can...
Jim Quilty, 18 November 2024
Who will help the war-ravaged Shiite community?
The social and humanitarian consequences of the war with Israel, whose violence has escalated significantly, have been worsening since Oct. 8, 2023. The World Bank estimated the cost of the war at...
Mounir YOUNES, 18 November 2024
Yemen rebels warn German ships over Red Sea, Israeli ports
Yemen's Houthi rebels have threatened to hit vessels of German shipping firms passing near the Red Sea or using Israeli ports, the German shipowners' association VDR said Monday....
18 November 2024
‘The Egyptian regime thinks it can silence all opposition’: Leila Soueif
Sentenced in 2019 to five years in prison for “spreading false information,” Alaa Abdel Fattah should have been released at the end of September. However, the sentence of Egypt's most emblematic...
Émilien CASSARD, 18 November 2024
Anti-Hezbollah activist who accused minister of endangering Baalbeck temples faces lawsuit
A video titled, “Hezbollah is storing weapons in the Baalbeck fortress with the aim of making it a target” was posted on Youtube last Sunday, prompting a judicial inquiry against its author, Ahmad...
Claude Assaf, 18 November 2024
Lebanese response to US truce proposal positive but some points need to be discussed: Mikati
BEIRUT — Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati told Al Araby TV that Lebanon's response to the U.S. truce proposal was positive, but that some points still need to be discussed. After meeting with...
18 November 2024
Lebanon's fight at UNESCO to ‘ensure effective and comprehensive protection of cultural property’
What were the first measures taken by Lebanon's permanent delegation to UNESCO, under your leadership, following the first Israeli bombings?On Oct. 21, Lebanon submitted a draft resolution to...
Joséphine HOBEIKA, 18 November 2024
Travelers, travel agencies monitor situation in war-torn Lebanon as holidays approach
Jean Abboud, president of the Association of Travel and Tourist Agents in Lebanon, said Friday that the number of travelers arriving in Lebanon by air is “very limited” due to the ongoing war with...
Philippe HAGE BOUTROS, 18 November 2024
‘Greater Israel’ emblem surfaces on Israeli soldier uniforms
A controversial map outlining the “promised land of Israel” has emerged, encompassing a vast territory far beyond its current borders. The map includes the Gaza Strip, West Bank, all of Lebanon and...
Gabriel BLONDEL, 18 November 2024
Lebanese footballer Céline Haydar in critical condition following Israeli strike on Chiyah
Céline Haydar, a midfielder for the Lebanese women's national football team, was seriously injured by an Israeli strike on Saturday against Chiyah, in Beirut’s southern suburbs. A piece of stone...
Gabriel BLONDEL, 18 November 2024
Larijani delivers new Iranian message to Beirut: An agreement, but not without Hezbollah
After the visits of Iran’s foreign minister and parliament speaker, Ali Larijani, an advisor to Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei, arrived in Beirut on Friday. This move cannot go unnoticed at a...
Yara ABI AKL, 18 November 2024
Lebanon at a crossroads: Four (maybe five) scenarios that could shape its future
War drags on. Sometimes it’s all-consuming, other times deceptively distant. It can engulf everything in an instant, only to make us feel moments later that living ‘normally’ alongside it is...
Anthony SAMRANI, 18 November 2024
Amos Hochstein to visit Beirut on Tuesday
U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein will visit Beirut on Tuesday for discussions on a proposed cease-fire between Hezbollah and Israel, a Lebanese political source told Reuters on Monday. The Voice of...
18 November 2024
Over 8 paramedics killed by Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon
The state-run National News Agency reported that six rescuers were killed in Sunday's Israeli strike targeting the Islamic Health Authority center in Houmin al-Tahta (Nabatieh). Their names are...
18 November 2024
Deadly Israeli strike on Zoqaq al-Blat, central Beirut; Hochstein will leave Washington to Beirut shortly: Day 409 of the Lebanon and Gaza wars
01:17 Beirut Time Hezbollah claimed responsibility for a strike carried out with exploding drones and precision-guided "missiles" against the Tel Haim base, linked to the Israeli army's...
Muntasser Abdallah, Tasnim Chaaban, Marguerita Sejaan, Sarah Abdallah, Malek Jadah, 18 November 2024
Dozens killed, missing in Israeli strike on devastated north Gaza
Israeli strikes killed dozens of people in Gaza Sunday, civil defense rescuers said, most of them in northern Gaza where the U.N. and others have decried disastrous humanitarian conditions....
