Cultural experts ask UN to shield war-torn Lebanon’s heritage

Cultural experts ask UN to shield war-torn Lebanon’s heritage

Destruction to a hotel, walkway and shops from an Israeli airstrike the day before is seen in front of Baalbeks Unesco World Heritage site ancient ruins on November 7, 2024, in Baalbek, Lebanon. | Photo Credit: Getty Images Hundreds of cultural professionals, including archaeologists and academics, called on the United Nations to safeguard war-torn Lebanon’s […]

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Cultural experts ask UN to shield war-torn Lebanon’s heritage

Children brought from Gaza to heal in Lebanon caught in another war

Palestinian children who were brought to Lebanon from the Gaza Strip for treatment, at a summer camp in Beirut. | Photo Credit: AP When Zarifa Nawfal’s family arrived in Beirut for her wounded daughter’s surgery, one of the first things she wanted to do was go to the sea. The Mediterranean had been a constant […]

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Cultural experts ask UN to shield war-torn Lebanon’s heritage

Lebanon media claims Israeli strike hit apartment south of Beirut

Smoke rises from Israeli airstrikes on Dahiyeh, Beirut’s southern suburbs, Lebanon. File | Photo Credit: AP Lebanese State-run media reported an Israeli strike on an apartment south of the capital Beirut on Wednesday (November 13, 2024) that wounded an unspecified number of people. “Israeli warplanes launched a strike at dawn targeting a residential apartment in […]

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Cultural experts ask UN to shield war-torn Lebanon’s heritage

Israeli strikes kill 14 Palestinians in Gaza, medical officials say

Relatives mourn Palestinians killed in an Israeli strike on a cafe, at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, November 12, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Palestinian medical officials say two Israeli strikes in Gaza killed at least 14 people, including two children and a woman, most in an Israeli-declared humanitarian zone. […]

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Cultural experts ask UN to shield war-torn Lebanon’s heritage

Israeli ministers send mixed signals over Lebanon ceasefire

Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Saar. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Israeli leaders sent mixed signals on the possibility of a ceasefire with Lebanon on Monday (November 11, 2024), with Defence Minister Israel Katz seeming to contradict comments by Foreign Minister Gideon Saar. Mr. Saar, who replaced Mr. Katz at the foreign ministry this week, told […]

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Cultural experts ask UN to shield war-torn Lebanon’s heritage

Israeli strikes kill dozens in Lebanon and isolated northern Gaza, officials say

A man stares at the still smoking destruction at the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted a neighbourhood in Baalbeck in Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa valley on November 10, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP Israeli strikes killed dozens of people on Sunday (November 10, 2024) in Lebanon and the northern Gaza Strip, where the military […]

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Cultural experts ask UN to shield war-torn Lebanon’s heritage

Death toll in Lebanon crosses 3,000 in 13-month Israel-Hezbollah war, Health Ministry says

The 13-month war between Israel and Hezbollah has killed more than 3,000 people in Lebanon. File photo | Photo Credit: – The 13-month war between Israel and Hezbollah has killed more than 3,000 people in Lebanon, the country’s Health Ministry said on Monday, more than double the number of people killed since their last major […]

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Cultural experts ask UN to shield war-torn Lebanon’s heritage

Israel says top Hezbollah commander Abu Ali Rida killed in Lebanon strike

Smoke rises after a recent Israeli airstrike on Southern Lebanon. File | Photo Credit: Getty Images The Israeli military said on Monday (November 4, 2024) it had killed a top Hezbollah commander it accused of overseeing rocket and anti-tank missile attacks against Israeli forces in southern Lebanon. “Abu Ali Rida, the Hezbollah commander of the […]

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Cultural experts ask UN to shield war-torn Lebanon’s heritage

Lebanon says three killed in Israeli strike near Sidon city

People walk past a destroyed building hit in an Israeli airstrike, in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Sunday, Nov. 3, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Lebanon’s health ministry said three people were killed in an Israeli strike Sunday near the southern city of Sidon, as state media reported the recovery of five bodies from the flashpoint […]

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Cultural experts ask UN to shield war-torn Lebanon’s heritage

Israeli forces capture senior Hezbollah operative in north Lebanon, Israeli military official says

Smoke rises from an Israeli airstrike on Dahiyeh, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, early Friday, Nov. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) | Photo Credit: AP Israeli naval forces captured a senior Hezbollah operative in north Lebanon, an Israeli military official said Saturday, as the conflict between the Iran-backed group and Israel showed few […]

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