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2023 Israel–Lebanon Shellings
On 6 April 2023, dozens of rockets were fired from Lebanon into Israel, wounding 3 Israeli civilians. The Israel government alleged that the rockets were fired by Palestinian factions Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, with Hezbollah's approval. In the morning of 7 April, the Israeli Air Force struck targets in Tyre, Lebanon and in the Gaza Strip in retaliation. The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) described the situation as "extremely serious" and urged restraint. It said UNIFIL chief Aroldo Lazaro was in contact with authorities on both sides. The attacks were the largest escalation between Lebanon and Israel since the 2006 Lebanon War and until the 2023 Israel–Lebanon border clashes. Background Palestinian refugees have had a long presence in Southern Lebanon, with it being often used as a center to launch rockets into northern Israel. A state of heightened tension existed between Israel and Hamas following the 2023 Al-Aqsa clashes. Shellings On 6 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iran–Israel Proxy Conflict
The Iran–Israel proxy conflict, also known as the Iran–Israel proxy war or Iran–Israel Cold War, is an ongoing Proxy war, proxy conflict between Iran and Israel. In the Israeli–Lebanese conflict, Iran has supported Lebanese Shia militias, most notably Hezbollah. In the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Iran has backed Palestinian groups such as Hamas. Israel has supported Iranian rebels, such as the People's Mujahedin of Iran, conducted airstrikes Iran–Israel conflict during the Syrian civil war, against Iranian allies in Syria and Assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists, assassinated Iranian nuclear scientists. In 2018 Iran–Israel conflict during the Syrian civil war, Israeli forces directly attacked Iranian forces in Syria. Motivated by the Alliance of the periphery, periphery doctrine, Iran–Israel relations#Israeli independence to Iranian revolution (1947–1979), Imperial Iran and Israel had close relations, seeing Arab powers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 Israel–Lebanon Border Clashes
3 (three) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number. It has religious and cultural significance in many societies. Evolution of the Arabic digit The use of three lines to denote the number 3 occurred in many writing systems, including some (like Roman and Chinese numerals) that are still in use. That was also the original representation of 3 in the Brahmic (Indian) numerical notation, its earliest forms aligned vertically. However, during the Gupta Empire the sign was modified by the addition of a curve on each line. The Nāgarī script rotated the lines clockwise, so they appeared horizontally, and ended each line with a short downward stroke on the right. In cursive script, the three strokes were eventually connected to form a glyph resembling a with an additional stroke at the bottom: ३. The Indian digits spread to the Caliphate in the 9th c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Foreign Affairs (Greece)
The Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs () is a ministry (government department), government department of Greece, headed by the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Greece), Minister for Foreign Affairs. The ministry has its headquarters in Athens. The incumbent minister is Giorgos Gerapetritis in the Second Cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis. History The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is one of Greece’s oldest ministries. Theodoros Negris is regarded as its first minister, serving from 1822 to 1823. https://200years.mfa.gr/en/mfa-history-en/ The Ministry of Foreign Affairs during the Revolution and the early years of Independence] However, the ministry was dissolved in May 1823, as Greece had not yet gained official recognition from any state. It was re-established in 1827 as an independent entity under the name Secretariat of State for Foreign Affairs and Merchant Marine. In 1828, Greece was formally recognized as a state by the Treaty of London (1827), three protecting powers, le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry For Europe And Foreign Affairs (France)
The Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs (, MEAE) is the ministry of the Government of France that handles France's foreign relations. Since 1855, its headquarters have been located at 37 Quai d'Orsay, close to the National Assembly. The term Quai d'Orsay is often used as a metonym for the ministry. Its cabinet minister, the Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs () is responsible for the foreign relations of France. The current officeholder, Jean-Noël Barrot, was appointed in September 2024. (For a brief period in the 1980s from 1984 to 1986, the office was titled Minister for External Relations.) In 1547, royal secretaries became specialised, writing correspondence to foreign governments and negotiating peace treaties. The four French secretaries of state where foreign relations were divided by region, in 1589, became centralised with one becoming first secretary responsible for international relations. The Ancien Régime position of Secretary of State for Foreign Affa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Najib Mikati
Najib Azmi Mikati (born 24 November 1955) is a Lebanese politician and businessman who served as the 52nd prime minister of Lebanon from 2021 to 2025. He previously served in this post as the 48th and 45th prime minister from 2011 to 2014 and in 2005. He previously served as the Ministry of Public Works and Transport (Lebanon), Minister of Public Works and Transport from December 1998 to 2003. In 2005, he headed an First Cabinet of Najib Mikati, interim government that supervised the 2005 Lebanese general election, 2005 general election following the Cedar Revolution#Withdrawal of Syrian troops, withdrawal of Syrian troops. In 2011, he formed Second Cabinet of Najib Mikati, his second government, backed by the March 8 Alliance, March 8 alliance, before he resigned in 2013. He was a Parliament of Lebanon, member of parliament for Tripoli, Lebanon, Tripoli from 2000 to 2005 and was re-elected in 2009 and 2018. In July 2021, he was designated as prime minister and assumed office on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prime Minister Of Lebanon
The prime minister of Lebanon, officially the president of the Council of Ministers, is the head of government and the head of the Council of Ministers of Lebanon. The prime minister is appointed by the president of Lebanon, with the consent of the plurality of the members of the Parliament of Lebanon (after the Taif Agreement, 1990). By convention, the office holder is always a Sunni Muslim. The current prime minister is Nawaf Salam. He was tasked by President Joseph Aoun to form the new government after mandatory parliamentary consultations on 13 January 2025, having received 84 out of 128 votes. The prime minister designate does not assume office until both he and the president sign an official decree forming the government as per article 64 of the Lebanese constitution. On 8 February 2025, the new government was formed and Nawaf Salam officially assumed his duties as prime minister of Lebanon. The prime minister is assisted by the deputy prime minister of Lebanon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Nations Security Council
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN) and is charged with ensuring international peace and security, recommending the admission of new UN members to the General Assembly, and approving any changes to the UN Charter. Its powers as outlined in the United Nations Charter include establishing peacekeeping operations, enacting international sanctions, and authorizing military action. The UNSC is the only UN body with authority to issue resolutions that are binding on member states. Like the UN as a whole, the Security Council was created after World War II to address the failings of the League of Nations in maintaining world peace. It held its first session on 17 January 1946 but was largely paralysed in the following decades by the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union (and their allies). Nevertheless, it authorized military interventions in the Korean War and the Congo Crisis and peaceke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhai Jun
Zhai Jun (; born December 1954) is a Chinese diplomat, who has served as China's Special Envoy on the Middle Eastern Issue since 2019. As of 2022, he was the incumbent in the position. Previously, he served as Deputy Foreign Minister from 2009 to 2014, and was appointed Chinese ambassador to France in January 2014, replacing Kong Quan. Early life Born on 1954 in Qingyuan, Hebei, Zhai learned Arabic since childhood. After graduating from Beijing Foreign Language School in November 1972, he was sent by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to study in the Arabic Department of the Faculty of Literature at Cairo University in Egypt and graduated in 1975. Diplomatic career Upon his graduation, he returned to China and worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs where he worked in the translation office, the Department of West Asia and North Africa, and at Chinese embassies in South Yemen and Saudi Arabia. He later worked as a counsellor at the Chinese embassy in Saudi Arabia. In 1996, he se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Islamic Jihad Movement In Palestine
The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine (, ''Harakat al-Jihād al-Islāmi fi Filastīn''), commonly known simply as Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), is a Palestinians, Palestinian Islamism, Islamist paramilitary organization formed in 1981. PIJ formed as an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood and was influenced ideologically in its formation by the Iranian Revolution, Islamic Revolution in Iran. It is a member of the Alliance of Palestinian Forces, which rejects the Oslo Accords and whose objective is the establishment of a sovereign Islamic state, Islamic Palestinian statehood, Palestinian state.BBC Who are Islamic Jihad? 9 June 2003 It Calls for the destruction of Israel, calls for the military destruction of Israel and rejects a two-state solution. The organization's financial backing has historically come mainly fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betzet
Betzet () is a town in the Western Galilee in northern Israel. Located near Shlomi and Nahariya, it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Asher Regional Council. As of its population was . History Antiquity Betzet is known in historical records as one of several places along the route to Tyre where produce transported from the Land of Israel was often sold in the local marketplaces, mentioned as such in the Tosefta (''Shevi'it'' 4:8-ff.) and in the 3rd century Mosaic of Rehob. Betzet is listed in the Tosefta and the Jerusalem Talmud as subject to the laws of Shmita. State of Israel Moshav Betzet was founded in 1951 on land formerly belonging to the Palestinian village al-Bassa, which was depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. The founders were immigrants to Israel from the Balkan states, especially Yugoslavia and Romania. The community retains the name of the ancient village of Betzet, which is estimated to have existed nearby. On 12 August 1968, two Syrian MiG-1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shlomi, Israel
Shlomi () is a Local council (Israel), town in the Northern District (Israel), Northern District of Israel. In it had a population of . Etymology Shlomi (Hebrew name), Shlomi was named after a leader from the tribe of Asher, mentioned in the Hebrew Bible (). History Shlomi was founded as a Ma'abarot, Ma'abara in 1950 by Jewish immigrants from Tunisia and Morocco on the ruins of a Palestinian people, Palestinian village of al-Bassa, which had been destroyed during what the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and which Adolf Neubauer "proposed to identify... with the Batzet of the Talmud". The Palestinian Arab village was stormed by Haganah troops in May 1948 and almost completely razed. Its residents were either Present absentee, internally displaced or expelled to neighboring countries. Shlomi was the target of Hezbollah Katyusha rocket launcher, Katyusha rocket attacks on 11 May 2005, Israel's Yom Ha'atzma'ut, Independence Day, and again on Israel's Independence Day (Israel), Independe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Jazeera Media Network
Al Jazeera Media Network (AJMN; , ) is a private-media media conglomerate, conglomerate headquartered in Wadi Al Sail, Doha, funded in part by the government of Qatar. The network's flagship channels include Al Jazeera Arabic and Al Jazeera English, which provide coverage of regional and international news, along with analysis, documentaries, and talk shows. In addition to its television channels, Al Jazeera has expanded its digital presence with platforms such as AJ+, catering to younger audiences with formats and content tailored for online consumption. Al Jazeera broadcasts in over 150 countries and territories, and has a large global audience of over 430 million people. Originally conceived as a satellite TV channel delivering Arabic news and Current affairs (news format), current affairs, it has since evolved into a multifaceted media network encompassing various platforms such as online, specialized television channels in numerous languages, and more. The network's news ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
