Israel approved Trump's Gaza cease-fire plan: White House
The White House said Thursday that Israel had accepted U.S. President Donald Trump's proposal for a Gaza cease-fire, while discussions were "continuing" with Hamas. Hamas had earlier...
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First round of negotiations between Lebanon, IMF on Friday
A "first round of negotiations" between the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Lebanese government is expected to take place on Friday, according to a statement from the Finance...
29 May 2025
Israeli attacks kill municipal employee, civil defense member in southern Lebanon
A member of the civil defense and a municipal employee in Nabatieh were killed Thursday in two Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon, according to information from our correspondent in the region,...
L'Orient Today staff, 29 May 2025
Aoun during meeting with UN envoy: Syrian refugee issue is top priority for Lebanon
BEIRUT — President Joseph Aoun said that the issue of Syrian refugees is a top priority for Lebanon and that the country discussed their situation with the Syrian leadership, especially after...
29 May 2025
10% of elected municipal council members are women
The Lebanese Interior Ministry released on Thursday the percentage of women elected during municipal and mokhtar [mayor] elections, held in May. Among the elected members of the municipal...
29 May 2025
Hamas says studying 'Witkoff's new proposal' for Gaza deal
Hamas on Thursday said it was studying a new proposal from Steve Witkoff, after the U.S. envoy said he was optimistic about a possible Gaza cease-fire. "The leadership of the Hamas movement...
29 May 2025
'Since Assad's fall, all we've heard about is cuts': Syrians react to UNCHR's medical aid cutbacks
In her black dress and purple flowery headscarf, Dania Houri, a 46-year-old mother of five, says the recently announced United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) healthcare cuts are the...
Ghadir Hamadi, 29 May 2025
New support program for farmers launched in North Lebanon
BEIRUT — The Chamber of Commerce, Industry, and Agriculture of Tripoli and the North (CCIAT) and the Business Incubation Association in Tripoli (BIAT) launched on the Agri-Agro 360 project on...
L'Orient Today staff, 29 May 2025
Situation along the Blue Line is 'tense and unpredictable,' says head of UNIFIL
BEIRUT — The situation along the Blue Line, the U.N.-drawn demarcation between Israel and Lebanon, remains "tense and unpredictable," the commander of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon...
L'Orient Today staff, 29 May 2025
Gaza after 600 days of war
Six hundred days after the beginning of the war in Gaza, the human and material toll is staggering. Tens of thousands were killed, the majority of the population has been displaced yet again and...
Dany MOUDALLAL, 29 May 2025
Lebanese mountaineer Nelly Attar, first Arab woman to climb Kangchenjunga
Mountaineer Nelly Attar on Monday became the first Lebanese woman to reach the summit of Kangchenjunga (8,586 meters), the world’s third-highest mountain, located on the border between Nepal and...
Yara Sarkis, 29 May 2025
Abdel Hamid Karameh elected president of Tripoli's municipality
Abdel Hamid Karameh was elected president of Tripoli's municipality on Thursday with 13 votes, against 11 for his rival, Wael Zmorly, more than two weeks after the municipal and mokhtar...
29 May 2025
Anthropologist Pascale Feghali captures Anfeh's unknown depths
The Archaeological Museum of the American University of Beirut (AUB) will present on Wednesday, May 28, at 5:30 p.m. the 55-minute film " Hima Anfeh . " It was directed by sociologist,...
May MAKAREM, 29 May 2025
Israel kills municipal employee tending to south Lebanon town's water pump
BEIRUT — The Israeli army killed a municipal employee as he was on shift in his southern Lebanese village of Nabatieh Fawqa, tending to the town's water pumping system, in a drone strike on...
L'Orient Today staff, 29 May 2025
Touch signs new roaming agreement with Zain Omantel
BEIRUT — Lebanese mobile operator Touch announced in a statement on Monday that it signed a roaming agreement with Zain Omantel International (ZOI), a large telecom operator in the Middle East....
L'Orient Today staff, 29 May 2025
The Druze: two feet in the revolution
Gathered around a stove installed in a large tent, about fifty thuwar (revolutionaries) are closely following the conference of Wassef Harakeh, a lawyer and activist. Hanging on plastic sheeting...
Caroline HAYEK, 21 January 2020
From Facebook to Mossad: The story of a Lebanese man accused of collaborating with Israel
Facebook has become a gateway. WhatsApp, an operations room.As today’s wars extend far beyond the battlefield, social networks are proving fertile ground for intelligence work. Since the start of...
Nagham RABIH, 29 May 2025
Aley Municipality gives out $100 fines for littering
In a first for Lebanon, the municipality of Aley in Mount Lebanon decided in May to fine individuals caught littering in the streets. The penalty is set at $100. Speaking to L’Orient-Le Jour, Fady...
29 May 2025
End of questioning of former Economy Minister Amin Salam in embezzlement, illicit enrichment case
The Public Prosecutor at the Court of Cassation, Judge Jamal Hajjar, ended the interrogation of former Economy Minister Amin Salam on Thursday, letting him leave on bail and reinstating his travel...
L'Orient Today staff, 29 May 2025
Hezbollah's three disappointments
Little by little, the secrets related to the period from Oct. 7, 2023, to the signing of the Lebanon-Israel cease-fire agreement on Nov. 27, 2024, are beginning to emerge — at least within...
Scarlett HADDAD, 29 May 2025
Geagea: We did not ally with Hezbollah in Beirut
BEIRUT — Lebanese Forces (LF) leader Samir Geagea on Wednesday denied any alliance between his party and Hezbollah during the recent municipal elections in Beirut, despite both groups appearing on...
L'Orient Today staff, 29 May 2025
One critically injured after heavy machine gun fire, artillery shells fired from Syria towards Akkar
BEIRUT — Heavy machine gun fire and artillery shells were fired from Syria into northern Lebanon’s Akkar region on Thursday morning, critically injuring one person, according to L’Orient Today’s...
L'Orient Today staff, 29 May 2025
Who are the American mercenaries supposed to secure humanitarian aid in Gaza?
At least three dead and about 50 injured. This was the toll announced by Gazan authorities after the first aid distribution by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) in Rafah on Tuesday, May 27....
Georges SCHMITZ, 29 May 2025
When a Franco-Lebanese duo revives the fortress of Philip III
For decorators Joe Ashkar and Michel Charrière and the new owners, the choice of this monument was no coincidence. "Michel is originally from Auvergne. As a young boy, he visited the castle...
May MAKAREM, 29 May 2025
Israel using new laser-based interception systems in Gaza war
BEIRUT — The Israeli army announced on Wednesday that it had used new laser-based interception systems against dozens of targets during the war with Hamas, which started in October 2023. According...
L'Orient Today staff, 29 May 2025
“We will rock you”... but symphonic: The daring wager of a Lebanese maestro
Classical music and rock. Two genres that seem distant but cross paths more often than one might think. For maestro Harout Fazilian, the distinction was simple: “The world of music only includes...
Sissi BABA, 29 May 2025
Aoun, Salam, Hage meet Starlink manager
BEIRUT — Prime Minister Nawaf Salam received Sam Turner, Director of Licensing and Development for the Starlink internet service company, on Thursday, in the presence of the U.S. Ambassador to...
L'Orient Today staff, 29 May 2025
Government makes series of appointments, approves military aid
BEIRUT — During its session on Thursday, presided over by President Joseph Aoun, Cabinet appointed a director-general for the Ministry of Finance, secretary-general for the Council for Development...
L'Orient Today staff, 29 May 2025
Monopoly on weapons: What conditions has Hezbollah set for the president?
Five months after his election, President Joseph Aoun met with a Hezbollah delegation on Monday to discuss the issue of the state’s monopoly of weapons. The meeting was originally meant to be a...
Jeanine JALKH, 29 May 2025
WSJ: Israeli intel is helping Lebanon disarm Hezbollah in the South, Salam says 80% of objectives met so far
Israeli intelligence passed along to Lebanon by the U.S. has helped the Lebanese Army locate and dismantle Hezbollah’s remaining weapons stockpiles and military posts in the South, senior Arab...
L'Orient Today staff, 29 May 2025
'Explorob': From Africa to Syria, documenting the unspeakable
In his sports outfit, which was also somewhat his everyday outfit, ready to embark again on an adventure, Roberto Helou was brimming with energy. His sparkling gaze expressed a beautiful madness,...
Clara BUSIN, 29 May 2025
Far-right Israeli minister announces creation of 22 settlements in West Bank
JERUSALEM — Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced Thursday the creation in the occupied West Bank of 22 new Israeli settlements on Palestinian land, which are considered...
L'Orient Today staff, 29 May 2025
Spring Festival: 20 years later, Samir Kassir's voice is still heard
The 17th edition of the Beirut Spring Festival, organized by the Samir Kassir Foundation, offered two major highlights starting June 1, two major creations, "The Dream Manifesto" and...
L'Orient Today staff, 29 May 2025
Palestinians desperate for food break into UN warehouse as aid trickles into Gaza
CAIRO/JERUSALEM/UNITED NATIONS — A United Nations warehouse in war-torn Gaza was broken into by "hordes of hungry people" on Wednesday as aid trickles into the Palestinian enclave on the brink...
29 May 2025
From Aleppo, Ahmad al-Sharaa tries to rally a still unstable Syria
The rumor of his arrival had swelled since the afternoon. It grew louder in front of the significant security presence in place Tuesday at Aleppo's citadel, occupied by a line of snipers. Then,...
Amélie ZACCOUR, 29 May 2025
Israeli army steps up strikes in southern Lebanon, Israel accepts American plan for Gaza cease-fire | LIVE
22:12 Beirut Time We are closing our live coverage of events in the region for tonight. We will be back tomorrow with more news updates. 21:45 Beirut Time The...
L'Orient Today staff with Muntasser Abdallah in the South, 29 May 2025
Residents of Mar Mikhael face rationed power following sealing of generators
Since Monday, May 26, the phone of Moussa Estephan, head of generators supplying electricity to several residents, restaurants and public services in the neighborhoods of Mar Mikhael and Geitawi,...
Nemtala EDDÉ, 29 May 2025
Return of Syrian refugees from Lebanon: A future in the making
"I want to return, but it doesn't happen overnight," said Amina al-Moqdah from the Bekaa Valley on April 24, 12 years since she first fled to Lebanon from Baraghiti in the Idlib...
Emmanuel HADDAD, 29 May 2025
US says possible Gaza deal within days, Israel fires on south Lebanon villages, Syrian refugees see healthcare cuts: Everything you need to know this Thursday
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up.Catch up on yesterday's live coverage of news updates in the region.Thursday, May 29, 2025Compiled by Abbas Mahfouz.Some key things to...
Abbas Mahfouz, 29 May 2025
Lebanon's first rehabilitation center for minors opens its doors in Baabda
BEIRUT — More than 25 years after it was first launched, Lebanon’s first rehabilitation center for minors is set to open in Baabda, in Beirut's suburbs. The facility was inaugurated on...