Israeli army killed 55 people in Lebanon on Monday
BEIRUT — Israeli strikes on Lebanon killed 55 people on Monday and injured at least 160 others, according to the latest figures from the Ministry of Health. Thirty people were killed in the South...
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Full text of the cease-fire agreement between Lebanon and Israel
L'Orient-Le Jour has obtained the full text of the cease-fire agreement between Israel and Lebanon, composed of 13 points. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented the proposal to the...
Mounir RABIH, 26 November 2024
In Beirut, chaos in the final hours before the cease-fire
"Until the last second, an unleashed war machine, a frantic race against time... an Israeli version of Apocalypse Now." This excerpt from an editorial by Najib Aoun, published the day after the...
Lyana ALAMEDDINE, 26 November 2024
Before the cease-fire in Lebanon, the latest advances of the Israeli army on the ground
On the side of a hill, a white house erupts in smoke after being struck by a missile — a scene that has become almost routine in southern Lebanon. Except this time, it is captured through the lens...
Gabriel BLONDEL, 26 November 2024
Israeli cabinet approves cease-fire plan 10-1
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced to the press on Tuesday evening that he would present the proposal for a cease-fire with Lebanon to the Israeli cabinet for a vote this same...
L'Orient Today staff, 26 November 2024
Public and private schools to close on Wednesday
Caretaker Minister of Education and Higher Education Abbas Halabi announced that all public and private schools, high schools, vocational and technical institutions, and private higher education...
26 November 2024
Cease-fire: Cabinet to meet Wednesday to formalize agreement
The Lebanese caretaker government is expected to formally endorse Lebanon’s agreement to a cease-fire with Israel, signaling an end to the ongoing war.The Cabinet is scheduled to meet Wednesday at...
Yara ABI AKL, 26 November 2024
Netanyahu’s ‘arrogance’ may have led to the Oct. 7 attack, accuses an Israeli Civilian Committee of Inquiry
An Israeli Civilian Committee of Inquiry established after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of undermining decision-making bodies by preventing any serious...
L'Orient Today staff, 26 November 2024
‘We don’t want a cease-fire; we want the war to end’
This morning, Nawal*, originally from Kfar Kila, went out to sell her daughter’s gold earrings to fill up her car with fuel. Tomorrow, she hopes to drive south. Even if a cease-fire is reached, she...
Stéphanie KHOURI, avec Lyana ALAMEDDINE, 26 November 2024
Economic news recap: Here's what happened last week in Lebanon
-“The damage inflicted on the agricultural sector due to the Israeli aggression against Lebanon is extremely significant,” Lebanese caretaker Agriculture Minister Abbas Hajj Hassan told the press....
Stephanie Bechara, 26 November 2024
After the ICC arrest warrant, Netanyahu faces internal embarrassment over ‘BibiLeaks’
For several days, Israel has been gripped by a slow trickle of revelations surrounding an internal scandal that could further weaken Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, already subject to an arrest...
Noura DOUKHI, 26 November 2024
Lebanon on brink of food security ‘catastrophe’ as Bekaa Valley pummeled by Israeli strikes
The Bekaa Valley, long regarded as Lebanon’s agricultural heartland, not only feeds the nation but also serves as the cornerstone of its economic stability and has been proclaimed by the Ministry...
Sobhiya Najjar, 26 November 2024
Why Israel wanted to exclude France from Lebanon’s cease-fire agreement
Despite France's crucial role, alongside the United States, in brokering a potential cease-fire agreement between Lebanon and Israel, the latter's recent move to exclude France from the monitoring...
Jeanine JALKH, 26 November 2024
In Tripoli, displaced communities are reviving the city’s struggling economy
TRIPOLI – It had been a few years since Akram Skaff, an engineer and former resident of Tripoli moved to Anfeh. His life had, however, remained rooted in the capital of Lebanon’s north. It would...
Stephanie Bechara, 26 November 2024
Syria at the heart of negotiations to complement Resolution 1701?
Syria is currently at the heart of international contacts, although it has yet to be made public. In the regional picture that is taking shape, amid the ongoing developments in Gaza and Lebanon,...
Scarlett HADDAD, 26 November 2024
Israeli army claims to have carried out raids 'in the Litani River region'
The Israeli army said on Tuesday that it had carried out raids “in the Litani River region,” the geographical boundary in Lebanon beyond which Israel says it wants to push back Hezbollah to protect...
26 November 2024
Lebanese security official reports Israeli strike on Beirut
A Lebanese security official reports an Israeli strike on Beirut. According to reports from the field, the strike on Beirut took place between the neighborhoods of Noueiri and Basta al-Fawqa. This...
26 November 2024
No Hezbollah members targeted in Choueifat on Monday, according to the party
An Israeli strike on Monday afternoon on Choueifat, which hit a residential complex in the Midane district near the Kamal Joumblatt hospital and the home of Lebanese Democratic Party leader Talal...
26 November 2024
'The Resistance is not closed to discussions on national sovereignty': Mohammad Raad
In an op-ed published this Tuesday morning in the al-Akhbar newspaper, Mohammad Raad, head of the Hezbollah-affiliated “Loyalty and Resistance” parliamentary bloc, reaffirmed his party's openness...
26 November 2024
UN calls for 'permanent cease-fire' in Lebanon, Israel and Gaza
On Tuesday, the U.N. reiterated its call for a “permanent cease-fire” in Lebanon, Israel and Gaza, while a truce could be announced between Israel and Hezbollah. “The only way to end the suffering...
26 November 2024
More than 7,000 families lost at least 1 member in Gaza: The enclave's Health Ministry
In a statement, Gaza's Health Ministry tallied the total number of Palestinian families who have lost several members to Israeli attacks in Gaza. According to this count, 1,410 families were...
26 November 2024
Israeli security cabinet meeting 'this afternoon': Israel Foreign Affairs Ministry
Israel's security cabinet is due to meet “this afternoon” to discuss the cease-fire agreement in Lebanon, where Israel is at war with Hezbollah, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel said...
26 November 2024
What about north of the Litani River?
The more the bombs rain down, the more the Lebanese perceive the prospect of a cease-fire agreement as far-fetched. The more Israel threatens to destroy the entire country, the more the Iranians...
Anthony SAMRANI, 26 November 2024
Israel will act 'forcefully' if Lebanon violates agreement: Israel Katz
Israel's Defense Minister, Israel Katz, said on Tuesday that his country would act “forcefully” in the event of a violation of the cease-fire agreement in Lebanon, announced as “close” by the...
26 November 2024
New simultaneous strikes on Beirut's southern suburbs
A series of simultaneous strikes targeted the southern suburbs. According to Al-Jadeed, at least five bombardments targeted Burj al-Barajneh and Tahwitat al-Ghadir in the span of a few minutes,...
26 November 2024
Gasoline, diesel prices rise again in Lebanon, domestic gas prices fall
Prices for petrol, diesel and heating oil rose again in Lebanon on Tuesday, according to the latest price list published by the Energy and Water Ministry. The price of gas cylinders, on the other...
26 November 2024
Civil Defense announces 11 deaths in night-time strikes, shootings
The Gaza Strip's Civil Defense announced on Tuesday morning that 11 people had been killed in night-time Israeli strikes and shootings in several parts of the Palestinian enclave. In the far...
26 November 2024
What do we know about the mysterious death of the Israeli-Moldovan rabbi in the UAE?
Three days after the announcement of his disappearance, the body of Israeli-Moldovan Rabbi Tzvi Kogan was discovered on Sunday. The owner of a kosher supermarket in Dubai, Kogan had been living in...
Clara HAGE, 26 November 2024
Man arrested after shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ during mass in Amarat Shalhoub, Metn
During Sunday Mass at Notre-Dame Church in Amarat Shalhoub (Metn district), a man disrupted the service by shouting “Allahu akbar” (God is Great) and reciting a verse from the Quran, causing panic...
26 November 2024
Letters to Lebanon: A letter to terrestrials and beyond
In 1974, humanity sent a message to space through the Arecibo observatory in Puerto Rico. A binary code strung together to carry the essentials of who we are: our counting system, the fundamental...
Iva KOVIC-CHAHINE, 26 November 2024
Lebanon files new UN complaint against Israeli attacks on its army
The Foreign Affairs Ministry has instructed Lebanon's Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York to submit a new complaint to the Security Council, in response to Israel's continued and...
26 November 2024
'No excuse' for Israel not to agree to cease-fire: Borrell
The European Union's foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, urged Israel on Tuesday to support a proposed cease-fire agreement in Lebanon that he said offered “all the necessary security guarantees...
26 November 2024
Beirut families, a Syrian caretaker, a bookseller: Victims of the Israeli strike on Basta
For two days following the Israeli strike on Basta al-Fawqa in Beirut, the death toll has remained provisional as rescue teams worked to uncover the victims of a strike that reduced an eight-story...
Raphael ABDELNOUR, 26 November 2024
New evacuation orders and strikes on Beirut and Lebanon-Syria border after cease-fire announcement: Day 417 of the Gaza and Lebanon wars
01:32 Beirut Time Caretaker Minister of Energy and Water Walid Fayad announced that "the process of distributing diesel to accommodation centers for displaced persons in all Lebanese...
Yara Malke, 26 November 2024
Lebanon cease-fire agreement may be 'hours away'; 5 rounds of strikes on Beirut's southern suburbs: Everything you need to know this Tuesday
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz. Some key things to watch today:• The Israeli cabinet's vote on the cease-fire...
Abbas Mahfouz, 26 November 2024
Is Israel responsible for ethnic cleansing in Gaza?
The latest report by the NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) has caused a stir. According to data collected by the human rights organization and published on Nov. 14, Israel’s actions in Gaza appear to...
