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☆ Crowds Watch Israeli Airstrikes from a Beirut Hillside
  + stars: | 2024-11-25 | by ( Christina Goldbaum | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
The crowds gather every evening on a scenic hillside on the outskirts of Beirut. Young men, old couples and local journalists, all drawn by the unobstructed view of the Dahiya, the cluster of neighborhoods south of Beirut that has been pummeled by Israeli airstrikes over the past two months. As dusk settles, people seated on motorcycles and atop cement barriers anxiously wait for the war to unfold in front of them. In peacetime, the area is a picnic spot, where old friends and young lovers smoke fruit-flavored tobacco through water pipes and watch a deep red sun melt into the Mediterranean Sea. These days, the hillside offers a window into the war that has decimated the enclave south of the city in the Dahiya.
Persons: Osama Assaf Locations: Beirut, Young, Israel, Baabda, Lebanon’s
☆ President Aoun leaves office as Lebanon's crisis worsens
  + stars: | 2022-10-30 | by ( Maya Gebeily | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
[1/2] A billboard depicting Lebanon's President Michel Aoun, whose term is expected to end on October 31, is placed in Jdeideh, Lebanon October 27, 2022. In his final week in the palace, he signed onto a U.S.-mediated deal delineating Lebanon's southern maritime border with Israel. "Aoun's was the strongest era in all of Lebanon's history,” said Lama Nohra, a 32-year-old supporter and mother of three young children. "He was by far the worst president in Lebanon’s history" said Michel Meouchi, a lawyer and father. In 2006, his Free Patriotic Movement formed an alliance with Hezbollah, which lent important Christian backing to the armed group.
☆ Israel, Lebanon finalise maritime demarcation deal without mutual recognition
  + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +1 min
Israeli and Lebanese leaders finalised a U.S-brokered maritime demarcation on Thursday, bringing a measure of accommodation between the enemy states as they eye offshore energy exploration. Leaders from Lebanon, Israel and the United States have all hailed the deal as "historic" but the possibility of a wider diplomatic breakthrough remains slim. Prime Minister Yair Lapid signed separately in Jerusalem, saying the deal was a "tremendous achievement" that had produced Lebanon's de facto recognition of Israel. But Aoun later said the deal was purely "technical" and would have "no political dimensions or impacts that contradict Lebanon's foreign policy". Lower-level delegations from each country headed to the United Nations' peacekeeping base at Naqoura along their contested land border, which has yet to be delineated.
☆ Lebanon signs maritime border deal, Israel expected to follow suit
  + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Maya Gebeily | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
BAABDA/JERUSALEM, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Lebanese President Michel Aoun on Thursday signed a letter approving a landmark U.S-brokered agreement laying out the country’s maritime boundary with Israel, Lebanon's top negotiator told reporters. Israel was set to follow suit in approving the deal, which marks a diplomatic departure from decades of hostility, later in the day. Hailed by all three parties as a historic achievement, the deal will be signed separately in Jerusalem by Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid following his cabinet's approval. "If one side violates the deal, both sides lose," Hochstein told reporters. An offshore energy discovery - while not enough on its own to resolve Lebanon's deep economic problems - would be a major boon, providing badly needed hard currency and possibly one day easing crippling blackouts.
☆ Lebanon's progress in implementing reforms remains very slow - IMF
  + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
Dalati Nohra/Handout via REUTERSBEIRUT, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Lebanon's progress in implementing reforms required to unlock relief funds from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) remains very slow, the IMF said in a statement on Wednesday. "Despite the urgency for action to address Lebanon's deep economic and social crisis, progress in implementing the reforms agreed under the April (staff-level agreement) remains very slow," the IMF said at the end of its delegation's visit to Beirut. The IMF said Lebanon's small depositors must be fully protected and recourse to public resources should be limited. After meeting the IMF delegation on Wednesday, Lebanon's President Michel Aoun said that "domestic actors" had slowed progress towards reform. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by Andrea Shalal, Mahmoud Mourad, Aidan Lewis and Maya Gebeily; Editing by Alex RichardsonOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
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