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Nahar Net
21-05-2025
- Politics
- Nahar Net
Ortagus to visit Lebanon with list of US conditions for full ceasefire, report says
Ortagus to visit Lebanon with list of US conditions for full ceasefire, report says Deputy U.S. Envoy for the Middle East Morgan Ortagus who is due to visit Lebanon next month will carry with her a list of U.S. conditions for Israel's complete withdrawal from south Lebanon and a halt of its attacks on the country, pro-Hezbollah al-Akhbar newspaper reported. The daily said Wednesday that it has learned from prominent political sources that the U.S. has informed Lebanese officials that Ortagus will pressure Lebanon to consider joining peace accords with Israel as a pre-condition for a complete implementation of a ceasefire reached in late November. Despite the ceasefire, Israel continues to launch daily raids on Lebanon and is still occupying five hills in south Lebanon it deems "strategic." Israeli strikes on two different locations in south Lebanon killed two people Wednesday in Ain Baal and Yater. Ortagus said Tuesday that Lebanon still has "more" to do in disarming Hezbollah not just south of the Litani, while President Joseph Aoun said Monday during a visit to Egypt that Lebanon is working to secure peace and end war without engaging in "direct talks" with Israel. He said Hezbollah has the right to participate in Lebanese politics but not to keep its arms.
Nahar Net
21-05-2025
- Politics
- Nahar Net
Ortagus to visit Lebanon with list of US conditions for full ceasefire, report says
by Naharnet Newsdesk 21 May 2025, 13:31 Deputy U.S. Envoy for the Middle East Morgan Ortagus who is due to visit Lebanon next month will carry with her a list of U.S. conditions for Israel's complete withdrawal from south Lebanon and a halt of its attacks on the country, pro-Hezbollah al-Akhbar newspaper reported. The daily said Wednesday that it has learned from prominent political sources that the U.S. has informed Lebanese officials that Ortagus will pressure Lebanon to consider joining peace accords with Israel as a pre-condition for a complete implementation of a ceasefire reached in late November. Despite the ceasefire, Israel continues to launch daily raids on Lebanon and is still occupying five hills in south Lebanon it deems "strategic." Israeli strikes on two different locations in south Lebanon killed two people Wednesday in Ain Baal and Yater. Ortagus said Tuesday that Lebanon still has "more" to do in disarming Hezbollah not just south of the Litani, while President Joseph Aoun said Monday during a visit to Egypt that Lebanon is working to secure peace and end war without engaging in "direct talks" with Israel. He said Hezbollah has the right to participate in Lebanese politics but not to keep its arms.
Yahoo
21-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Egypt denies willingness to house Palestinians from Gaza
Egypt has denied claims that it is prepared to temporarily accept Palestinians from the neighbouring Gaza Strip. The pro-Iranian Lebanese newspaper al-Akhbar had reported that Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi informed Arab leaders of a plan to evacuate 500,000 Palestinians from Gaza to Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. Without naming the newspaper, Egypt's State Information Service (SIS) on Friday called the report "false" and categorically rejected the claim. "Egypt completely denies allegations circulated in some media that it is ready to temporarily transfer half a million Gaza residents to northern Sinai as part of Gaza's reconstruction," SIS was quoted as saying by the state-linked al-Qahera News TV. "These false claims contradict Egypt's firm and final rejection of any attempt to displace the Palestinian people, forcibly or voluntarily, particularly to Egypt," the statement added. Earlier this month, an emergency Arab summit in Cairo approved an Egyptian plan to rebuild Gaza without displacing its population. The plan was presented as an alternative to a previous US proposal under President Donald Trump to resettle Gazans elsewhere and turn the enclave into a Middle East "Riviera." Egypt, the first Arab country to sign a peace treaty with Israel in 1979, has long played a key role in mediating the conflict. In January, Cairo, alongside the US and Qatar, brokered a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Earlier this week, Egypt condemned renewed Israeli strikes on Gaza, calling them a "flagrant violation" of the ceasefire agreement.
Nahar Net
04-03-2025
- Politics
- Nahar Net
Reconstruction frozen, ISF bars illegal building as work begins in north Israel
by Naharnet Newsdesk 04 March 2025, 14:08 More than 100,000 residents of southern Lebanese border towns are still displaced, while Lebanese authorities have been informed that funds for reconstruction are currently frozen pending 'the demarcation of the land border with Israel, security stability and transparency in the distribution of aid,' a media report said. 'The international community will impose restrictions on the reconstruction aid if corruption continues or reconstruction gets politically exploited,' informed sources told al-Akhbar newspaper, quoting World Bank and EU officials. Internal Security Forces patrols meanwhile went to the southern towns of Mays al-Jabal, Kfar Kila and Shaqra to crack down on illegal construction operations, the daily said. ISF members 'inspected five construction sites in the western neighborhood' of Mays al-Jabal, issuing a fine against members of the Ashour family who were illegally building a small, 80-square-meters home on a land lot that they own, al-Akhbar added. According to the town's mayor Abdel Menhem Shqeir, the ISF acted following a report from its Intelligence Branch about the construction of an illegal structure. 'They demanded halting the construction works pending the acquirement of the necessary licenses,' Shqeir added. He noted that he gave the ISF documents proving that those behind the illegal construction works had their homes totally destroyed in the latest Israeli war on Lebanon and that are 'building a small house until the state begins dispensing compensations and launched the reconstruction process.' 'The same scene was repeated in the Houra area between Kfar Kila and Deir Mimas, where Ali H. began building a room, a kitchen and a bathroom next to his destroyed home, before security forces halted the construction works,' al-Akhbar added. Guarded by tanks and hundreds of soldiers, Israeli technical teams meanwhile started inspecting settlements in northern Israel near Lebanon's border, after local administrations decided to demolish hundreds of homes that are no longer inhabitable due to attacks during the latest war with Hezbollah, the newspaper said.
Nahar Net
06-02-2025
- Politics
- Nahar Net
Sharaa reportedly discussed Hezbollah weapons, refugees with Mikati in Damascus
by Naharnet Newsdesk 06 February 2025, 14:51 The toppling of former Syrian President Bashar Assad, who had strong ties to Iran and Hezbollah, has crippled Hezbollah's ability to bounce back by cutting off a vital weapons-smuggling route through Syria. Syria's new president and Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister met last month in Damascus and discussed the relations between the two countries. In the meeting, Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa vowed that Syria will no longer allow the smuggling of weapons and money to Hezbollah, a local media report said. The report, published Thursday in al-Akhbar, said al-Sharaa criticized Hezbollah and Iran for intervening in Syria's civil war. Hezbollah sent thousands of fighters to bolster Assad's forces when the civil war broke out in 2011. Assad had long played a strategic role in Iran's "axis of resistance", particularly in facilitating the supply of weapons to Hezbollah in neighboring Lebanon. Al-Sharaa told Lebanese PM Najib Mikati that Hezbollah and Iran must "reconsider their policies in the region," al-Akhbar said. Apart from the weapons-smuggling, Mikati and al-Sharaa discussed the land border demarcation between the two countries, the fate of thousands of missing Lebanese who disappeared at the hands of Assad's troops, and the repatriation of Syrian refugees in Lebanon to Syria. The new Syrian President demanded patience from Mikati for the demarcation and the repatriation of Syrians. He said all prisons have been emptied from prisoners and warned the Lebanese PM against "Islamic State group's attempts" to form cells in north Lebanon.
